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fo) C3 Ml Auichigcom WEATHER NEWS (October II) Max. (Octobtr 17) 58 Min .32 Precipitation last 24 hours Trace Stream year to data .12 Normal , .54 Last year 22 Forecast! Scattered clouds Friday. Friday Shooting Hours, Klamath-Tulelak Telephone Mil Optn 5:48 a. m. Close 5:27 p. m. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALL8, ' HURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1845 Number 10847 7b Era ran (n. Only - A.' '. JtifS ,oy ln TT fr.ft mvawwwiiih wimiwim Bay's News By FRANK JENKINS GENERAL MARSHALL tolls the Hoimto military uffulrs commlttoo today Unit tills coun- ; try can no longer depend on "coffeo cup" liilulllgciico work but must Imvo world-wide espionage system. Ho explained that beforo the wnr thin country depended largo, ly for It knowledge o( wlmt , other niitlonw wore dolnit on "In formation that could bo obtained by military attaches over the coffeo cups at somo dinner," while In the mcnntlmo other countrlu. equipped with com plete esplonuxo staffs, wcro find ing out In detail everything we were doing. , He added: "Henceforth this country muiit put Its Intelligence work on a uuHlness basis. We must KNOW THE FACTS for our own defense." AS wo become a world 'power, you sec, our responsibilities grow by leaps and bounds, Half a dozen years ago, we would have scoffed loudly at such a proposal, We're begin ning to learn Hint with our na tional SAFETY at stake wo can no longer afford to scoff, GENERAL MARSHALL con tinued: "This country must have a constant powerful armed force to Impress the political leaders and the professional soldiers of other nntlons, both friendly and ' unfriendly, that no act of ag gression, nowover sudden, could succeed, . A, ,1-1 , , . U , J,,..,,, VWI... .,. sense, me consequences 01 de feat in modern war are so TER RIBLE that henceforth we - mustn't take ANY chanco, how over slight, of military defeat. GENERAL MARSHALL urged also unified DEPART MENT OF WAU instead of our present split-responsibility, split leadership war and navy depart ments. . . .- .That also sounds reasonable. A boxer has two lists right nd left. . Ho uses first one nd then the other, as occasion . and opportunity demand. BOTH arc controlled and directed by the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE of his brain. He'd bo licked in no tlmo at all it ho couldn't CO ORDINATE them, Instantly and completely. A unified department of war would1 bo a central Intelligence controlling and directing, in stantly and t'ompfctoly, ALL the weapons with which wo fight. TN tho happy days when the oceans surrounding us were adequate defenses, wo could af ford military inefficiency. In these days, when distances are being annihilated and destruc tion dealt by atomic bombs can be complete and almost In stantaneous, we can no longer fford incfflccney in ANY form. GENERAL ARNOLD tells other senators at a science hearing In Washington this morn ing that ntomlc bombs, turned into OUIDED missiles with wings and a television head; can make PRESENT anti-aircraft do fenso utterly helpless. . Ho added that in any NEXT use of tho atomic bomb it will probably bo launched by aircraft OUTSIDE anti-aircraft , rango. That seems to do away with the idea of shooting the bombs down before they got to us. SENATOR MAGNUSON asked Arnold: "Is thoro ANY do fenso against the atomic bomb as such?" General Arnold answered: "At tho PRESENT stage of do (Continued on Pago Two) Pelicans Made Underdogs For Annual Medford Game By HALE SCARBROUGH Tomorrow night's reopening of tho 23-year-old gridiron rival ry between Klamath Falls and Medford that town on tho other sido of tho mountain will bo just like pouring salt in an open cut for Pelican rooters, if ndvanco billing and past records have anything to do with tha outcome. i In 22 years, beginning way back In 1023, tho Pcarplckors havo romped over tho local lads 16 times, boon tripped up on four occasions and two contests have ended in draws, During that period Medford ran up 418 points, to tho Pelicans' 131. Our last victories came In 1942 and 1043 when the K-men took the count of the Dark Cloud by 32-0 and 40-7 scores. Then last year the Tornadoes re versed things and set us down 21 to 0 and wont on to cop the itate championship. Now this yenr, with practical ly the same toam playing, the Jap Nation Beleaguer Red Cross At Java By RALPH MORTON ' BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 18 (H) A British convoy arrived to night off tho Java port of Scmarung currying Indian troops who will bo sent after dawn to rescue Red Cross and relief personnel beleaguered by Japanese nutionuls. Lt. Col. J, A. Mclnop announced tho arrival at allied head quarters and said more British troops were embarking in Malaya for Sumatra, another rich Dutch inland, where there may be "violent disturbances." Mohumod Hutta, vlco president of tho nationalist Indonesian council, suld the organization hod rejected tho Dutch proposal for partnership In ruling tho Netherlands East Indies. Ho as serted that many years of bloodshed would result should the Dutch Impose armed rule in tho colony, Ghurka troops took over the Indies summer capital of San domg from the Japanese last night, Col. Melsop said. Moving ' ' - from Batavla, which remained T 8v WASHINGTON, Oct, 18 !') President Truman today faced a major fight and a probablo de feat In the houso over his insist ence that United States Employ. ment Service offices bo kept un- dor federal control. Even Mr. Truman's most ar dent suoDortcrs conceded pri vately that they could not defeat an appropriations committee proposal to turn tho USES over to tlio states as quicxiy as possi ble. But thev nlanned to make an Issuo over tho proposal nonethe less, prospects are tor a snow down; vota tomorrow. , v Buoport Amendment A number Of southern .demo crat who often In tho past have joined with republicans In over- riding Whlto ng Whlto House wisnes Dis closed that they would support tli irl the - appropriation! . committee amendment. And Rcnubllcan Loader Jo- soph W. Martin of Massachusetts said he believes his forces will bnck it almost to a man. Tho USES now is under Juris- diction of the labor deportment It formerly was operated by the states in conjunction with the unemployment compensation pro gram but was placed under fed eral control early in the war In an effort to routo more man power into war plants. In recommending that the em ployment offices bo returned to state control, the appropriations commlttco called tor a au,uuu, 000 grant to the states to handle (Continued on rage two) - ' Obsieirieian Does His Duty MIAMI, FU., Oct. 18 VP) A Miami obstairldan broke his ltq In an automobile acci dent while racing the stork to a local hospital last night, but arrived In time to dellvar an . tight-pound girl. The physician. Dr. Manning J. Roinickvwai Injured whan his car overiurnad In avoiding collision. An ambulance sped htm tha rest of the way to the hospital, Standing on his good lag. Dr. Rosnlck assisted with the delivery. Then another doctor sat tha broken lag, treated his euts and bruises and sent him to bad, Black Tornado has been sondlng advance notice of intention to do tho samo thing, and maybe worse, hero In our own back yard. Medford has boon ffolna through thoir competition like a marine patrol through Jap linos mis year, stomping Albany ea-u, Marshfleld 40-0, Eugene 52-7 and Klamath has been hitting almost every snag in tho creek. They lost to Grant high, 20-7, beat Sa lem 38-7, beat Ashland 13-6, and fell before Grant's Pass last week. 13-12. v With figures liko those, tho Tornado has a right to gloat and glower before the gamo. . But games aren't won on past statistics, and as Coach Paul Angstead says, the Pelicans have never gone into a battle 40 points behind yot. Tho Torna does will havo 11 men on the field, and we'll hovo 11. From then on it's anybody's ball game, Here's hoping It's oursl RUIN FACES i OR BATTLE quiet, tho troops encountered numerous rond blocks, some manned by the nationalists. All wcro removed. The colonel said tho Japanese cooperated "per fectly" in passing control to the British, charged with occupa tion of tho colony for the allies as a result of the Japanese sur render. Situation Difficult Parts of Sumatra always have been difficult for Dutch rulers. Tho Dutch fought battles with natives In North Sumatra until as lata as 1804. . Hatta held a press conference In tho residence of the Indones ian nationalist president, Sock arno a day alter a fresh scries of outbreaks in scattered local ities had resulted in the death of 15 Netherlander and Christ ian Indonesians. "The Dutch should not re main under the Illusion that they can thwart the Indonesian desire to remain Independent," Hatta said, "Tho reported 40,. 000 Dutch troops to be used in Indonesia to spread love for the Dutch with sword and fire will definitely not succeed In thoir efforts. , ' ' ""'"Ko" Colonial Status "Not for a moment will In doncsia countenance any form of colonial status, whatever new garb it assumes or whatever fancy name is given it. War and revolution raging fiercely for years will bo the only re sult' . : Hatta restated five demands he said had been made upon (Continued on Page Two) BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 18 ffl Nation-wide strike by 500,000 members of the general confed eration of workers who support ed Col. Juan Peron, former vice president, in a new surge to power, today brought nearly to a stop Argentina's industrial and commercial activity. At the samo time a high source said the Argentine high seas fleet had moved out of its base at Puerto Belgrano, 500 miles south of Buenos Aires. Destination of tho fleet was unknown, but Adm. Hector Vernengo Lima, a leader of the movement which ousted Peron on October 9, was In turn thrown out as navy minister yestcrdoy in tho political upheaval which saw Peron returned to a position of dominance. Peron himself, after forcing the formation of a cabinet of his friends, hailed the strike as cele brating "a day of glory for the workers." ' Street Demonstration Thousands of idle workers took to tho streets in Buenos Aires today and conducted dem onstrations on Pcron's behalf. The railroad union said train traffic .was stopped throughout tho nation, Buenos Aires trans portation facilities were de scribed as "coniplotoly par alyzed." ' ... Street cars, ' subways and busses and taxis were stopped (Continued on Page Two) ; And They Would Row, Row, Row! SPOKANE, Oct, 18 (P) Detective Capt. Adolph Wind malser brought back this whopper from a fishing trip to Gold Beach, Ore. . " , Ho said he and his party wcro out on the Rogue river amidst about 10 other boats when one carrying a woman and two men suddenly sped ocean-ward at great speed, When tho three sighted what was dragging them along ono of tho men cut the line but quick. The woman. Wind malser explained, had hooked a sea Hon. ' -' 0'-' g Cor. Earl Warien of California, (right center) shakes hands with Adm. William Halsey (left), and welcomes him to San Francisco just after tha governor has baan "piped" aboard tha battle ship South Dakota in San Francisco ,bay. (AP wlraphoto). T WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (P) The senate military committee called on the chief of naval per sonnel today to answer com plaints about the tempo of the navy's demobilization program. Committee members said they had many Questions to ask Ad miral . Louis ..tjDenf eld, . , based mainly on contentions-that.'the navy discharge system 4s slower and less liberal, than tha war department's. . ! ip;v Meanwhile the navy " made public an assurance from Secre tary Forrestal that withdrawal of warships from the Pacific to celebrate Navy Day in this coun try October 27 would not slack en the homeward flow of troops. ! No Vessel Held "No vessel which could carry men is being held in port mere ly to celebrate Navy; Day," he said. ,.-: .','-" Acting Chairman Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.) of the military committee told a reporter he hoped Denfeld could supply some "good news to match that we got from the army yester day." The good news from the army came in this testimony by Brig. Gen. R. W. Berry, deputy per sonnel chief: s . 1. Voluntary . enlistments to taled more than 1000 a day for the last two weeks; all potential replacements for high point men. 2. Discharges now are at the rate of 40,000 a day, should total more than 1,100,000 in October, and are expected to continue-at (Continued on Page Two) -Your Name, Please?' MM.t.yll,l'l!iiillliilMI.IIIII.I.L I min i .1.. I . . jii,.,.M.k.,., ijjrKsfjy-is, L'i 1$JLdr Wsff b jeH i A When pretty Genevievs Brlcco, discharge clerk at tha separa tion center at the Portland army air base, aiked this dischargee his name she did so without looking, up from a certificate of discharge in her typewriter. "Tha same as yours," answered tha corporal at her side. It was her husband, Cpl. Kenneth C. Brlcco of Fort Klamath. The two happily filled out the required infor mation and both look forward to leaving the army together. Brlcco plans to return to Fort Klamath to take over his father's restaurant and meat ir.stkfU . , . i Governor Warren Greets Admiral Klamath Falls Man Finds Nipponese Treasure Trove Discovery of 8000 karats in diamonds when American searchers found fortunes in precious metals and jewels in the Tokyo area, was mad by Special Agent Wesley D. McNee, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McNee of 1923 Auburn. i ' Young McNee, member of the couirter-tntelligepca corps, U. S. i WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 OT Gen. Omar N. Bradley, vet erans administrator, today an nounced presidential, approval of a 1 146-bed addition to the neuropsychiatric ; .hospital ; at Roseburg, Ore. . " ' ' The Rosebure project ; was among approvals for locations of 19 new veterans hospitals and additions to 15 hospital and four soldiers' homes. The new hospitals and addi tions will provide 15,276 addi tional beds. Funds for construc tion will be requested. for the .current fiscal year ending June i The remainder of a 29,100 bed construction program ap proved by' the president Aug. 4 will be deferred until the next fiscal year- beginning July 1,. 1946.. Sites for the remain ing, new construction will be announced later. Halsey army, was checking records of one place where precious metals were found and came upon a ref erence to jewels. Ha asked the Japanese ' custodian, who pro duced a loosely wrapped pack age t from a - safe. Diamonds rolled in a glittering cascade on to a table. "I asked tha Japanese why he hadn't .said anything about tha diamonds,"' McNee said. "Hi only reply was that no one. .had asked mm.' ... TOKYO, Oct. 18 VP) Huge, hidden Japanese fortunes in dia monds and precious metals were scooped up -today by American Occupation forces, who moved at the same time to stamp out one of Japan's great sources of wealth the illicit narcotics in dustry. i'i i-.. Atiied headquarters froze nar cotics stocks In Japan and Korea and banned production of narcotics-yielding plants, estimating by that one, move to have cut off more than 90 per cent of the world's illicit narcotics traffic. As a precautionary measure possibly in view of the winter of cold and hunger facing the Japa nese American troops in a four- day house to house search confis cated more than 20 truckloads of hidden Japanese arms and am munitions. , ; V; - Palace Based Another occupation - force check, made by Brig; Gen. Elliot jk. tnorpe, cniet counter intern- eence agency, disclosed that bm- peror Hirohito's palace had been practically destroyed during the war, but not by lire-bombini Superfortresses as was reported Thorpe said the palace was razed by fire blown in from buildings burning ouisiae me imperial comnound. " - " i More than- $30,000i000 worth (Continued on Page Two Price Of Butter Hiked By OP A WASHINGTON. Oct. 18 OP) A jump, of five to six cents a pound in the retail cost of but ter starting November 8 was an nounced today , by the . govern ment.; : - - Stabilization Director John C. Collet said this will result from cancellation on Oct. 31 of -a government subsidy of five cents a pound which has been paid to processors, r In a statement issued jointly with Collet's, Price Administra tor Chester Bowles said the in crease for butter will not boost the over-all cost of living. So Dess Ka Blow Me Down! TOKYO, Oct. 18 (iP) A myoptic little Japanese offi cial forgot his key today, and he was promptly sent home to get it. '. For want of the key, Amer ican ..authorities waited two hours before a safety deposit box in the Mitsui Trust com pany to seize $30,000,000 worth of diamonds. But when the vault was finally opened, the spectacle brought a variety of exclam ations from Americans and 'mutterings of "so dess kal" the Nipponese way Of saying "blow me downl" :Hitf So IFcDir: DETROIT, Oct. 18 (JP) Electrical power workers struck over a wide area of industrial Michigan today but tha current waa kept flowing into the homes, offices and factories of the mora than 2000 affected communities. Emergency crews of supervisory employes manned tha planta of the Consumers Power company after 2250 operating employes affiliated with the CIO's State Utility Workers council had walked out at 8 a. m. (EST) in a wage dispute. Michigan's 8000 itate troops and 400 State police were placed on the alert by Got. Harry F. Kelly but no disorder was reported. "We are operating normally," an official company state, ment said. There was no sura sign of an early settlement, but Garland Sanders, chairman of the Utility Workers council, said Philip Weiss, head of the state labor mediation board had asked for a meeting possibly to discuss an end of tha strike." , Gov. Kelly said state trooos would not be moved onto the strike scene unless there was disorder. Service Maintained "The state is in a position to maintain law and order," Kelly said at the capitol in Lansing. rne question is whether serv ice can be maintained, and man agement says it will do its best."' Key said the strike present ed "a peculiar situation." He said he was "still trying to find out who authorized this strike," Omo Knowles, member of the board of the Utility Workers council, said earlier the strike had hinged on a majority of the union's locals. He said a major ity had favored the walkout. Emergency crews handled the Zilwaukee turbines and boilers. There was some doubt as to how long regular power output could be maintained. - C M. Matson, superintendent, said op eration would be continued "as best we can. - William Wenzel, a union local president at Grand Rapids, said he doubted the continuing ef fectiveness of use of a limited number of workers. He said service could not be kept up properly without full help.. Muskegon Hit - The company - said only the Muskegon area, where a popu lation of 150,000 is served,; was hard hit when strikers pulled iwer switches .but power, was stored less tliaitan our-latori - Cities affected by. the walk out, in which a special media tion panel named by Gov. Kelly failed to achieve - a settlement, included Grand Rap'ids, Lansing, Flint, Bay City, Battle Creek, Muskegon, and Saginaw. The union promised to main tain service to hospitals, police . (Continued on Page Two). TO PROJECT HERE Rep. Lowell Stockman of Ore gon today advised The Herald and News that President Tru man has submitted a budget estimate including the recom mendation of $1,000,000 for the Klamath project, U.S. bureau of reclamation. Washington sources said that the president recommended con struction of two big land-reclamation projects in the second Oregon congressional district, totaling $2,000,000. One of these is for the Klamath project, the other' for Deschutes project, both for $1,000,000. If the project is granted the appropriation of funds allocated will be used to reclaim another 19,000 acres in the Tulelake sump, including Coppeck bay area, USBR officials said today. The work will include streng thening dikes, improvement of Lost river channel ' through Langell and Poe valleys, en largement of Lost river diver sion channel and building ad ditional storage dams on Lost river above the present diver sion dam. - - Jap Segregation Center At Tulelake To Be Closed 1 "The war relocation authority (WRA) program for people of Japanese descent at the Tulelake center in northern California will be terminated by February 1, 1946." - This was the statement Issued from Washington today by Sec retary of the Interior Harold L. With this step, WRA will com plete its schedule of liquidating operations in the last of 10 cen ters which were established in 1942 to accommodate people of Japanese ancestry, evacuated by military order from the Pacific Two of the centers, Jerome, Ark., and Grenada, Colo., al ready have closed. AH others, with the exception of Tulelake, will be closed by December 15, as already announced. Continue Relocation: v During the two months that operations will go ahead at Tule lake, the WRA will continue the relocation of those residents who aro eligible to leave. Those who are not eligible to leave C01ITTEE VDTESTO GUT WASHINGTON. Oct. 18 Pl The senate finance committee) voted today to cut Individual In come taxes $2,085,000,800 a year and remove an estimated 12,000,. 000 low-income persons from tha. tax rolls. , - . The senators also aareed to repeal the excess profits tax on. corporations next January 1, -accounting for another slash of $2,555,000,800 in revenue. - Thus, before acting on pro; posed excise tax reductions and other odds and ends, the com mittee in a two-hour session rei duced the prospective federal in come by a. total of $4,640,000, 000. Further Action Due - With further action due later in the day, the senate group had made several significant changes in me pattern oi tne tax cutting legislation approved by that house last week. N . ; ,1 The house voted to reduce the effective rate of the excess pro fits tax from- 85-5 per cent to. 80. per cent next year but not to r IeaMf Untir "1947 ' V - The senate committee refused to follow" the lead of the house in voting to reduce the combined normal and surtax on corpora tions from 40 to 36 per cent. : In leaving the rate at 40, however. Chairman George (D-Ga.) said there was "a distinct reserva tion" that preferential treatment for corporations with less than $100,000 business a year would come up for consideration later. The finance committee's action on the individual rates varied somewhat , from the - separated plans proposed by the house and by Secretary of the Treasury Fred M.- Vinson. . George said, however,' that the result was tha same as would have been effect, ed by Vinson's recommendation. Retain Normal Tax The senators voted to retain the 3 per cent "normal" tax on lnaiviauai incomes, uui iu uppiy the same . exemptions to the (Continued on Page Two) ; . Marine General Expected Here Maj. - Gen. Julian C. Smith, United States marine corps, is expected here tonight from San Francisco to spend the weekend at the Marine Barracks and to do a little hunting on the side. Gen. Smith will be accompanied by Mrs. Smith and they will ba guests of Col, and Mrs. Charles T. Brooks. ; ' , C. A. Dunn, Klamath '.Falls contractor, has arranged a duck hunting trip for the visitor; ' ' ': Also here for the hunting are Lt. Col. C. C. Gill, U. S. marina corps, and Commodore Paul S. Theiss, U. S. navy. Accompanied by Mrs. Gill they are guests at the Marine Barracks. because they are under deten tion orders of the department of justice, will remain in custody of that department pending final disposition of their coses, Tule lake officials said today, - i The two months, officials ex plained, refers to the period in which the-people who will relo cate must complete their plans. -It is expected that relocation planning will be completed by December 15, and all eligible people will leave after that date. ... Some 600 persons of Japanese ancestry left the center during the month of September and ap proximately 300 left In early October. More would have left the camp if transportation facili ties had been made available, of ficials said. ' There are about 4300 person held under department of justice orders at the Tulelake center at this time, it was reported Thurs day. The department has not a yet announced any policy as re garding disposition of those now under detention order. 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