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Newspaper Page Text?fl(n) fi?iHfnllllM(?f? JUILU LUJ Lts Lxl IUJ LLU u vJ li7 ) : : , nn La fo) ) PRICE FIVE CENTS n The Bay's Kens ieWWwVe3 By FRANK JENKINS RE A It ADMIRAL PURNELL, testifying before senate mil itary mid commerce committees In Wimhtnuton today, suys thnt America crtil 1 holds a number of "trade secrets" of atomic enorify and predict that no other coun try can mnks an atomic bomb "in quito a stretch of time." llu adds that tho fuse used In exploding utimilo oncrny li a "trade secret" thnt hus never been rolcused even to ait ally and aviya? thnt only one com pany In tho Unltccf Statci pOS SCSSeS It. LET'S kocp It thnt way AS LONG AS WE CAN. Possession of a weapon such at the atomic bomb In a frightful temptation to world conquest. Since wo hnve no designs of thnt anrt, tho world will bo anfer If the secret remain In our sole posm-sslon as long as possible. What Is more to tho point, WE WILL BE SAFER. "THERE'S a achool of fuzzy In 1 ternntlonnl thoimht In this country to the general effect that we should think of others' first and ourselves last. That Is pure tommyrot. We must be tolerant of the rlRhts of others, but our Inh Is to look out for ourselves IRST. REAR ADMIRAL PURNELL, continuing hli testimony, says he knows of no defense (to far) agninst the atomic bomb. Well, history tells us there WILL bo a defenso, sooner or later. Throughout tho long centuries In which human beings have beon warring against each other, every startling new of fensive weapon has been fol lowed In time by an adequate do. fenso against it. Common sense indicates that this will be true In the case of the atomic bomb. Our job la to FIND THE DC FENSE FIRST. We must spare no effort along that line. . IN Tokyo today some 800 mem bers of new Nippon Working Masses party, Just freed from fear of the dreaded "thought police" distribute handblljs call ing for tho mass sulcldo of the former ruling classes of Jnpnn. The Jan mind still remains an Incomprcncnslve mystery. It Is beyond our western compre hcnslon that anyone could even THINK of a (former) ruling class thnt 'would obligingly dis pose of Itself by mass sulcldo, Ono guesses tho authors of the handbill don't really expect any such thing to coma to pass. They are probably Just "putting the bee" on the former Jap ruling classes. TLflUCH more understandable It A tholr request thnt General MacArthur tell tho Jap govern ment to glvo them MORE BREAD. Thnt sounds like some thing still within this world. WfHAT Is going on behind the " scraeu of censored secrecy In Argentina Is still beyond us, but tho real root of tho trouble down thcro lies in tho fnct that the top ten per cent gets the cream whllo the bottom 00 per cent has to bo content with very thin skim milk. As long as that condition ex (Continued on Pago Four) Ike Says Election Would Not Back Communist Party WASHINGTON. Oct. 18 (IP)- General Elsenhower said today "Informal reports Indicate a fair and impartially supervised clec tlon in Berlin would not sup port tho present communist pnrty dominance" of the city's government Tho general put into his sec ond monthly report on military government in tho American zone of occupation a critique on politics in Germany Including those In tho Russian zone. Elsenhower declared that one of the political dovlccs fostered by the communists In Berlin a bloo of parties would hnve no wclcomo in tho Amoricnn zone, Horo Is what ho had to say about Borlln, where tho allied control authority has its head quarters and where tho four al lied powers hnvo four zones: "Four organized parties exist there. They woro granted per mission by the soviet" military authorities to organize and so woro functioning when United States forces occupied tho U, S, sector of Berlin, Tho four pnr tics are the communist party, the social democratic party, the Christian-Democratic union, and tho llbornl domocrntio pnrty, "Tho first two nro well organ ized, nctlvo and have a basis of formor mombers on which to build. Tho latter two groups are now pnrtlos, though drawing lupport from middle- class, con R1GGS FAVORS T CENTER III MILS Recommends Starting Fund Campaign At Once A recommendation that a "Y" center, with a program for young men, young women, boys and girls, be established In Klam ath Falls, was made last night by Dr. Lawrence Rlggi. Willamette, university. In renortlna his re cent Investigation of recreation facilities In Klamath Falls. Dr. Rlggs recommended that a campaign be pressed Immedi ately to raise funds toward a building and establishing the "Y" program. No further action was taken at a meeting held at tho chamber of commerce, under call of the local YMCA committee headed by Glenn Kent, but the group will make an Immediate study of the Rlggs report and Its consld' (Continued on Page Two) TALK SKY FREEDOMS By JAMES J. STREBIG MONTREAL. Oct. 16 (IP) Commercial air freedoms, stumbling block for world nmce mont nt Chicago a year ago, held the attention of two tnlcrnatron al aviation groups at their first postarganlzatlon meetings to day. The problem Is one for contin uous consideration oy the provi sional civil aviation organization (PICAO), which is trying to work out during Its three-year 11 to solutions to tho difficulties oucountcred when 84 nations met at Chicago. If PICAO can (Continued on Page Four) Medford-KUHS Battle Sellout Here's the dope on the ticket situation for the Klnm-ath-Mcdford game Friday night. All reserve scat ducats have been sold long ago and the only chance that there might be any avalloblo later Is the remote possibility thnt somo already bought will be turned in. In that eventuality the chamber of commerce has on hand a waiting list far bigger than their widest hopes for tickets turned in. General admission tickets, however, will be sold at tho ?:ate before gamo time on a, Irst-come, first-served basis. servative bourgeois elements formerly associated with the cen trum, tho German democratic party, and tho German people's party. Thoy ore less well organ ized and less active than the Marxist parties. This is especi ally true of the liberal demo cratic party. "The communist pnrty of Ger many holds a majority of the strategic posts in the Berlin mag istrate and in the administrations of tho Berlin municipalities. In formal reports Indicate thnt a fair and impartially supervised election in Berlin would not support tho present communist party dominance of posts but would reveal rolntlvcly strong support going to tho social dem ocrats and the Chrlstinn-Demo-cratlo union, in that order. Father Was A Confederate But He Wore A Union Suit Flense rattle around in the closet and see if you have one of the following items: 1. Ono Union suit. (Not the longte type, but the kind worn by northern gentlemen In the War Between tho States). 2. One Confederate suit. 3. One Uncle Sam costumo. ' These three articles are badly needed for tho half-tlmo show tit the Klamnth-Medford gamo next Friday night. Please call the principal's office at KUHS, 3414, and report In If you do locate tho Union suit, the Confederate suit, or Uncle Sam's cos tume, . Telephone Mil $ $ XLAMATH FALLS. OREGOri.t- GRANTS PASS l MEDFORD VZZZ'i - n ii autu PAlie. qijs i tut rui i rc l$r-H?lf$3 ' Vi.JV-, , h A -BEND y?-'J U. Abov are pictures of several major roadsigns in the Klamath Falls area, which illustrate . the contention of The Herald and News that official signs on highway No. 87 south of Chemult are inadequate. ' Although, as the roughly sketched map shows, there are alternative routes north of Chemult, none of the northbound signs in this area show that the road can be taken to Eugene, Salem or Portland. The newspaper agrees that the signs are all right so far as ther go, but that they axe seriously deficient because they completely ignore the western alternative route above Chemult Location of the above-pictured signs: Upper left Weed. Greeniprlngs Junction west of townj Upper right Sixth and Main: Lower left Ninth and Prospect- Lower right Ninth and Main. NIPS FLOOD CHINA By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Print ing presses backed by Japanese bayonets deluged China with now-worthless currency adding up to about 64,000,000,000 U. S. dollars in face value, the Tokyo newspaper Asahl said today. Tho figure was the first to be published indicating the de gree of financial plundering of Japanese-occupied territories by Nipponese militarists. It was disclosed by the newspaper In Its . demands on the imperial government to curb inflation. Notes totaling 4,000,000,000, 000 yuan were Issued by the central reserve bank of China, financial agency backed by the Japanese militarists, the news paper said. This sum, at the official rate of five yuan to ono yen, equal led 800,000,000,000 yen, or nearly 20 times the war-time homeland note output of the Bank of Japan, which contribut ed much to inflation in Nippon. The current rate is, 15 yen to one U. S. dollar, American authorities, study ing the records of the central reserve bank of China and other Japanese Institutions used to exploit the empire's con quests, hnve ' declined to an nounce figures until their sur vey Is completed. Surplus Spuds To Make Alcohol WASHINGTON. Oct. 16 (P) Surplus potatoes will be used for tho manufacture of ethyl alcohol, motor fuel and anti freeze solutions, the agriculture department announced today. A large plant in Philadelphia, the department said, now is re ceiving potatoes at the rate of 35 cars a day to make butyl alcohol, an ingredient of paints and lncqucrs and a source of synthetic rubber. Ethyl alcohol plants at Oma- It. .T... 1 lri.i,ln. Tn iia, iiiru., nun muavniiuu) in., will utilize surplus potatoes for tho production of motor fuel and anti-frecze solutions. - ESDAY, OCTOBER IS. 194S Roadsign Additions 105 73 60 (9 BEND , 146 LAKEVIEW ' I01 CRATER LAKE 166 KLAMATH FALLS 3 0REG0Ni kP!fA . i - A MexicaiitU Jobs To Work In Harvest A new problem in the local labor situation developed today when it was disclosed that Mex ican nationals are deserting both contract farm Jobs and contract railroad Jobs to work independ ently for cash in . the potato harvest. i Robert McCambridgc," assist ant county, agent, said that there have been numerous instances where Mexican laborers, brought here under contract by tho Potato Growers association, have refused to work under regular contract procedure, and YREKA, Calif. (Special) Michael Ncives, 21, son of Mrs. Lorralno Kubli of Weed, died of head Injuries received in an auto mobile accident on the Mcuioucl road off Highway 99, late Satur day night. The youth had been overseas in the navy for the past two years and was on leave, en route to see his mother. Nelves died two hours after the accident in the McCloud hos pital. Passengers in his car were Naomi Fitzgerald, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clem ent J. Fitzgerald, and Shirley Walker, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Walker, all of Yreka. Naomi suffered severe brain con cussion and remained in the Mc Cloud hospital. Shirley was treated for brain concussion, severe facial cuts and other hurts, but was able to return home. Car Overturns Shortly after the accident a car driven by LaVerne Kegg, 19, also of Weed and a member of tho U. S. navy on leave, ar rived at the scene and Kegg drove back to Mt. Shasta to ob tain tho ambulance.. Ho then returned to-the Nleves car and en route overturned on a grav- ; (Continued on Page Two) Halsey Stresses Military Peace SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16 (P) Admiral Halsey. warmly wel comed home from tho wars, said today the penco must be a mili tary ono if it Is to Inst. "This is , whnt we Have dreamed of, hoped for, fought for and prayed for to return home again, knowing that our enemies have been vanquished," the admiral said in a broadcast after the shins of his 3rd fleet hnd dropped anchor In Snn Frnnclsco bay yosterdny. "But lot us not forgot thnt to be n lasting pence, it must be a mllltnry peace," .' ; WEATHER NEWS (October 16) Stream yea to date ..............04 Normal .....48 Last yaar 22 Foracutt Scattered thundershowers Wednesday. Wednesday Shooting Hours Klamath Tulalaka. Opan Si44 a. m. Cloia 6:30 p. m. Suggested Here 5?J SAN FRANCISCO fr WEED n MEDFORD I. 37 J P ; ASHLAND : joss. ,!4LBEND then have gotten Jobs for cosh wages in the potato fields. ' He explained that the Potato Growers association has obli gated itself to pay $1.29 a day for board for the Mexicans, and is also required in its con tract to deduct 10 per cent of wages to be sent to Mexico for savings for the individual work ers. When Mexicans refuse to work for the contract growers, there is no money from which to deduct the board or the savings. Ho said that farmers who hire Mexicans independently in this manner are working a hardship and injustice on the Growers association and in the long run damage the interests of the industry. Have Contract J. J. Doyle, Southern Pacific yardmaster, said that the South-, cm Pdcific likewise has con tracted with the Mexican gov ernment for labor, agreeing to deduct 10 per cent of earnings to be held for the individuals as savings. Recently, ' he : said, farmers have been hiring Mexicans who have gone off their contract Jobs for the railroads, creating a serious labor shortage at a time when the S.P. must "make hay while the sun -shines" in track maintenance ' and conditioning here. - -.. -'.' . "We are losing labor at a time when it is . most, needed," he said. "Weather conditions, and - the- prospect, of a labor shortage next winter, make it absolutely necessary that we do all possible track conditioning work now." - Grand Jury Raps Lane County Jail EUGENE, Oct. 16 OP) A Lane county grand Jury reported the county jail "the most deplor able, the dirtiest and most un sanitary place it has been our displeasure to Inspect." Criticism centered In the main Jail block room, The group noted, however, the Jail kitchen was sanitary and the upstairs and offices were clean. Arriving In United States , By The Associated Press Lloyd E. Steele, SSgt,, Yreka, arrived on Taos Vic tory due in Now York Oc tober 13. Fred H. Biihop, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on Taos Victory due in New York October -13. Otto J. Krallcek. PFC, Lakevlew, arrived on-NYU Vlotory due in New York October 13. . - j , , 3 Numbar 1064S - : THE DALIES : : BEND 5, i : CRATER UKtsji wmvm . m ........ . .... 4 UM DALLK ' sty E By LAURANCE F. STUNTZ BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 16 VP) War Minister Gen. Eduardo Avalos, , leader of . t h e , army movement which overthrew the military rule of Col. Juan Peron, disavowed: the role of strong man today, asserting he merely was carrying out army orders in the revision of Ar gentina's government. ' In an interview with the As sociated Press Avalos called the overthrow of Peron, vice presi dent, war . minister and ; labor minister under President Gen. Edelmiro Farrell, a "revolu tion." Losers Routed Losers in the political upset continued to be routed out of government posts as civilian leaders weighed offers to enter a government still headed by a military president. The offers were made by a civilian, Gen eral Prosecutor Juan Alvarez, named interior minister by Far rell and given a free hand to form a "cabinet of notables. Alvarez was said to have agreed to take the ministry only if he could approve appointments to tne cabinet vacancies. Bluff, bulky Avalos, ' who gives the impression of being a warm personality with a direct (uontmuea on rage Two) Red Cross Head Killed In Wreck PARIS, Oct. 16 P) Fred A. Carroll, American Red Cross commissioner and president of tne trust division of the Ameri can Bankers association, was killed today in an automobile accident 30 miles north of Paris, the Red Cross announced. Merle E. Sclecman of New York, assistant commissioner and secretary of the Bankers as sociation, was injured seriously. Both were en route to Luxem bourg to witness a distribution of Red Cross supplies. . Carroll, 56, was from Water town, Mass. He was vice presi dent and trust officer of the National .Shawmut bank of Boston. Captain Lowell Coggeshall Awarded 1945 Gorgas Medal WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (P) Captain Lowell T. Coggeshall, of the Naval Medical Corps Reserve, now stationed at Klamath Falls, Oregon, has been awarded the 1945 "Gorgas Medal" of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Coggeshall was named, an association spokesman said, because of "distinguished service to our military forces" in the manage ment of patients suffering from The medal will be presented (Continued on Union Brands Lav As Device To Aid Rich WASHINGTON. Oct. 16 F) The CIO denounced the house, approved tax-cutting bill today as a device for providing "huge windfalls to the richest corporations and wealthiest individuals." It suggested to the senate finance committee a substitute pro gram designed to benefit primarily lower bracket income tan payers and small businesses. The program was outlined by Clifford McAvoy, legislative representative of CIO's United Electrical. Radio and Machine workers. - Previously Senator Taft (R-Ohio) came out unexpectedly In favor of the treasury's tax-cutting proposals in place of those voted by the house. The treasury wanted the excess oroflts tax andad Iinnm 1. nn.. wnf 1 -J i . i UUUBC UJU WUU1U ICUUC6 tax now and end it Jan. 1. 1947. The treasury also proposed re peal of the normal income tax on individuals. The house scaled it down instead in such a way that some congress mem bers complained it mainly aid ed those, with big incomes. . Favor Program McAvoy said the CIO fav ored a three-point program for relief of smaller wage earners: 1. "Repeal the grossly unfair three per cent 'normal', tax." He said about four-fifths of this relief would go to families earn ing less than $5,000 a year.. 2. Increase exemptions for single persons from $500 to $1,000 and for married couples from $1,000 to $2,000 while re taining the SoOO credit for each child or other dependent. 3. Permit individuals to "carry-back and carry-forward" for two years any portion of their personal exemptions and credits not used in a current tax year. Thus if a taxpayer with exemptions totaling, $3,000 made only $2,500 in a tax year, he could apply the $500 unused (Continued on Page Two) FIGHTS FOR LIFE LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 16 (P) Weeping Irma Grese, de scribed as the most brutal of SS woman guards, testified for her life in the Belsea war crimes trials today after lier British counsel compared beatings in German, concentration camps-,to those in Worth Carolina.- "The United States of America cannot be disputed as a leader of civilization," Maj. L. S. W. Cran- field said. He then read a de scription from a book of flog gings in a North Carolina con vict camp. ' ' Judged Crimes "These events were judged as crimes," Cranfield said. "My argument is that (condemning of) corporal punishment in ' a prison camp is not a proper course for a judicial body to take. The court must consider what was reasonable conduct of the persons involved these are not unknown horrors." Cranfield - represented the -- ti t -v- xt;i Lobauer and Joseph Klippel four of the 44 Kuards on trial with Josef Kramer, whom in mates of the Oswieclm and Bel- sen camps called the "Beast of Belsen." The Briton declared accusations against them were "grossly exaggerated and any evidence is totally unreliable. Internees Diseased "The Belsen internees were riddled with disease and the Grese woman was only too anx ious to keep her hands off them,' he asserted. The 21-year-old blonde, an SS (Continued on Page Two) Japs Thought Pearl Harbor Attack Was Training Drill By HAMILTON FARON TOKYO, Oct. 16 (JP) A Jap anese navy captain disclosed to day that crews of six Japanese aircraft carriers which struck the war-breeding blow at Pearl Harbor thought they were on a training mission until the day before the assault. Capt. Mitsue Fuchlda, "su preme commander" of the car riers' flight groups, said in an interview that all six had been sunk since the December 7, 1941, strike, and that "I believe 1 am the only one left" of the sneak attack group, "but there might be some others I've lost track of." Six Carriers . The carriers were the Akagi, Kanga, Soryu and Hlryu, sunk in the battle of Midway June 4-6, 1942; the Skokaku, sunk in the battle of the West Marianas, and the Zuikaku, destroyed in the second battle of the Philippines. Fuchlda said the Pearl Harbor attack force also included two the effects of malaria and filar-1 at a dinner, in Washington OA Page Two) , - CIO WORKMEN FORCE PICKETS FROM 2 PLANTS PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 18 m CIO . workmen forced . AFL pickets from two Coos Bay lum ber mills today and reported three plants closed by the AFL- in ns live-state strixe. Grasping pickets by the arm. the CIO workers escorted them, off the mill grounds. No blows were struck. Stumped tempor arily by a few girl pickets, the CIO summoned girl cedar mill employes. Feminine workers clasped feminine pickets and led' them away. Lines were removed from Coos Bay Lumber company and Port" Orford Cedar mill. At the thlroV mill closed for a week by pickets, Coos Bay Logging company, workmen walked through a still standing picket line. Mills Reopened The mills, employing a total of 375 workers, reopened but full scale operations were disturbed by the fact that the key in-' spectors are AFL. Inspectors re fused to cross the one still- standing picket line, and some in spectors in the ouier two mill' said they considered an "imag inary picket line" still operat-" ing and declined to work. ' The largest ; mill.. Coos Bay Lumber, was unable to operat -,. (Continued on Page Two) Truman Proposes Off ering Choice To Puerto Rico WASHINGTON. Oct. 16 (ff)4' President Truman recommend ed to congress today that it take steps to ascertain whether - the people of Puerto itico desire lull independence. i In a message to congress he proposed legislation giving Puer to Rico the choice of:. 1 ". 1 The election of their own governor with a wider measure of local government; ' 2 State hood; - 3 Complete independ ence; 4 A dominion form of government. ' : '-' At the same time, the presi dent declared congress should not submit any proposals to the Puerto Ricans which it "is not prepared to enact finally Into law." ! "We should be prepared to carry into effect whatever op tions are placed before the peo ple of Puerto Rico, once the Puerto Ricans have expressed their preference," he said, ' battleships, three cruisers, four destroyer flotillas of four ships each and eight tankers. ; This fleet, Fuchida related, sailed from the Chi Shlma is lands November 26, 1941, with most men aboard believing they were on a training operation. Then, "the bows were heading east and the men began - to wonder and speculate," he said. .. On December 3, the fleet person nel was told that Japan might enter the war and "the men be came kind of excited," but they "calmed down when given the order to attack." Commence Attack ' "We took off from the car riers from 200 miles off Pearl Harbor," he said. The first flight consisted of 50 planes as signed to horizontal bombing, 40 torpedo planes, 50 divebomb ers and 40 fighters, or a total of 180. " ; "We flew over the northern peninsula and commenced tho attack two hours after taking off. "The remaining planes were divided Into three groups to at tack Hickam, Ford Island and Schof Icld airfields." Fuchlda said the harbor at tack lasted 45 minutes, and that American acka'ck fire downed nine planes of the main group. The attacks on the airfields, by 170 planes, also lasted 45 min utes, he related, and 20 of these) planes were shot down. ' -.- Fuchlda said "we found nine) American battleships, sank fou? and damaged four, and esti mated there were 900 planes ort the island and believed we wrecked about half of them."