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Proprietor Pickets Picket n 0) T defuses To Telenhono Hill rtP' KLAMS J? OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1948 , V- PRICE FIVE CENTS Number 10665 American Prisoners Of War Ashes ma r id: t i ... i r I !!l(JF,Mlil s SJ W If ' d M YaikWaioj3 REDS Eli I iMnrrr 'h? I ,,p4 I J u' , I 1 a M'mwMX I ' I II' 'l.illltf.. iW,"'fi' Hip. ' (. u'-tfii . ' j Colombo Paccl, (right), carrlta ilory ai he walki boilde a union leiiaurant in new xork. (Af wirepnoto). By FRANK JENKINS THE ChlncKo communists do. A nuind today that General Wedemcyer (commanding U. S. forces In China) apologize (or and that COMPENSATION DE PAID KOH American "Interior dice" in China. 'THE Chinese reds are obvloua- ly on the prod. We naturally wonder WHY. On tho surface, it look ai If they're trying to drag the United Stitten In on the Chungking aide In the hope of bringing Russia In on THEIR aide. If that ahould happen, another flrst-closs world war would be well on the way to getting tarted. pvONT dismiss as utterly ab- turd theae rumorj that both Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek are now or may havo been In the United States. It ll inconcoivubte In the nrescnt stale of the world that we and the Ruwlans ahould not be making a sincere effort to work out a aoliitlon of thh ChlncKo civil war buslneas. - - If all-out civil war gets started In China, with u lined up on ono dido and Russia on the other, our hope of a peaceful world will go glimmering. , REMEMBER that over all of u hanga tho grim threat of the atom bomb whoso secret lor a brief moment In history WE ALONE dosscss. The possibil ities of atomic warfare are so fantastically terrible thnt thoy might even Induce Stalin to come to America to talk things over. WE get a glimpse of atomic " warfare a weird potential itlca today In a dl.match from Alamagordo, New Mexico, which reports that cattle changed color and a rancher's beard beenme streaked with gray after the first atom bomb test last July. The report quotes Now Mexico's livestock inspector as having neon this with his own eyes. Ranch hands assert that their black cut turned half whlto after the bomb test. (All this Is ai lcgcd to have happened some 30 miles from tho site of the explosion.) Turning the hair of men and nnlmnls white (they were nnnar. cntly uninjured otherwise) Is In Itself no development in warfare to shako tho world to its founcla Hons. It merely SUGGESTS the eerie consequences or unlimited, atomic war. Evon fitnlln might bo Im pressed by these possibilities. "THE ruckus In tho Dutch East Indies appears to be ncnrlng the showdown point. British General Manscreh (ap parently operating under tho or. dcrs of tho allied commander) is reported today to linvo served orders on Indonesian leaders at Soorabaja (Java) that ho Is bring ing in a sufficient number of troops to disarm all Indonesians thorn except an agreed-upon numbor of police. He is reported to havo de clared that "Socrabajn is oc cupied by lootors and rioters and uncontrolled masses" and that It Is his Intention to DISARM theso elements and restore normal con ditions at an early date. 'TWERE Is another now flare-up In Italy's former colonics In North Africa between Arabs and Jows. Moro thnn 100 Jews nre said to havo boon killed In Trlpolltonla, and a British com munln.ua snys todny that "on sev eral occasions troops havo been forced to open fire." TN Bucharest (Romania) troops fire with machlno guns on a crowd demonstrating before the royiil palace in honor of King Mlhal's birthday. Six persons wore killed or wounded. King Mlhnl has been cross wise with the RUSSIAN-SPONSORED Romnnlan government. It isn't flatly so stated, but pre sumably tho troops that fired on (Continued on Page Two) placard telling hli aide of the representative picketing Peccl'a P E By The Associated Pron The fight by ClO-Unllcd Auto mobile Workers to obtain 30 per cant wage Increases for the na tlon's auto workers appeared headed for a showdown today as the last group of employes in motor s "Big Three" voted In fa. vor of a work stoppage to sup. port the union's demands. The union yesterdoy flatly re jected a compromise wage ad justment Drouram offeror! hv General Motors corporation at mo renewal or negotiations In Detroit. Earlier GM had (nr. mally turned down as "exces sive" the union's demand for a an per cent woge rate hike in tne motor industry. - Meanwhile, earlv returnn from yesterday's national lobor rela tions board election among BO, 000 Ford company workers dis cl6s"tr -Beavy , majority p- proven a worn stoppage to sup port the union's wage proposal. i-rcviousiy employes at ucncral Motors and Chrysler corporation sanctioned the possible strike action. Newest Flaraup The newest flareup In the motor Industry labor flaht came as the United States Steel cor poration declined Secretary of iBDor scnwoncnnacn s proposal to reopen wage negotiations with ciu btcclworkers under a spe cial conciliator. CIO President Philip Murray earlier hod accepted the labor secretary's suggestion that tho collective bamalnlna conference be resumed ''in tho spirit" of President Truman's recent wage- price speccn. The union haa asked a $2 a day wage Increase. A strike vote among some 600, (Continued on Page Two) Marine Corps To Be Honored Special recognition will be given the U. S. marine corps Saturday at the football Jam boree on Modoc field, on event of tho program celebrating the lYiitn anniversary of the corps, Tho band from the Marine Barracks will march in tho inm boree parade at 1 p. m. and will also appear at tho Jamboree at Modoc Hold, scheduled at 2 o'clock, Col. Charles T. Brooks, Barracks commanding officer, will make a short speech at the jamooroe, in response to a local irimito to tno corps. The Marino Barracks will havo open houso all day with a pnraao anci presentation of clta Hons schcdulod at 10:30 a. m Tho public is especially invited to this ovent and 80 guides will take visitors through the big post on tne mil. COMPANY EMPLOYES VOTE WORKSTDPPAG Movie Thriller Ordeal Of Submarine Crewman Told Experiences of Riley H, Key sor, torpedoman third class, held prisoner of the Japa nese since members of the sub marine Grenadier crew were captured off Panang, would make a rip-snorting movla of the class A-thrlllcr typo. Koysor, son of Mr. and Mrs, O. S, Kcysor of Williamson Riv er, is now in a Camp White hos pital at Mcdford, admitted there two weeks ago for treatment, Keysor's parents said the 28-ycar-old navy mon is suffering from malnutrition. They visited him last week. Tho sub crewman was aboard the Grenadier in April, 1043, vhen thoy spotted Jan tankers. They gave pursuit but in the meantime Jap planes bombed tho submarine which craBh- dived only after it hod been struck. Tho sub remained . lh APOLOGY FROM 0. S. GENERAL By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Nov. 8 (fil Chinese communists demanded today that Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wodemcyer, U. S. commander In China, apologlzo and that compensation bo paid for al leged American "Interference" in China's Internal struggle. The reds also demanded that Chincso government troops withdraw from all red-dominated areas, as the price for pvaco, but usscrtcd that the gov ernment, instead, was planning an all-out offensive for which 00 divisions already were be ing massed in the north. Tho demand for Wcdcmeyer'a apology was contained in ono of four protesting letters sent to the American commander by tho communists' Yenon head quarters. "CompUt. Lie" Spokesmen at the communist headquarters at Yenan called "a complete lie," government claims that the nationalists have been and would remain strictly on the defensive. More than 70 government divisions have massed around "liberated areas" of Honan province, and Hopeh province Is surrounded by more than 20 government divisions, the communist asserted. Chou En-lal, Yennan nego tiator1 here and No. 2 Chinese communist, announced the Ye nan answer to Kuomintang peaco proposals shortly . after reports that the Russians had withdrawn from the Mimchur ian ports' of Hulutao and Ying kow (NcwchwnngV leaving the Chinese red8l4,i command, heightened the' already tense atmosphere. -' , . . i Chou said the communists de manded that the Kuomintang withdraw to positions outside the "liberated" areas before the civil fighting began and order all nationalist troops to cease firing. Tho worried looking commun ist representative told newsmen of tho Yenon reply to Chiang Kai-shek's offer and sold he would deliver, it to nationalist (Continued on Pago Two) Auto-Train t Inquesi Set An Inquest into the car-train crash at Hagcr Saturday night which resulted in the death of three persons will be held at Ward's chapel at 8 o'clock this afternoon. The Inquest was called at the request of the district attorney's office. Dewey F. Tuttlc. Mrs Lucille Pollock Bishop and Velma Fran ces Seavcll, oil transient work ers employed on the Clark broth ers' ranch near Malln.i were killed instantly when the car in which they were driving crashed into tho left front cowcatcher of a freight engine just as the lo comotive entered the : Hager crossing. ' The car was driven by Donald Robert Greene, resident of Fay ette, Mich., who has been work ing at Merrill. Greene was only slightly injured. The impact of the smash was so great the whole right side of the automobile was sheared away. - Members of tho coronor's Jury hearing tho inquost'are P. D. Rcoder, Bill Owons, Wyatt Pad gett, John D. Merrltt, Wait Chil ton and O. D. Matthews. 208 feet of water from 8:30 p. m. until 11:30 a. m. the next day when the aub finally sur faced, but too crippled to get In motion. Tho crew took to the water with life belts and were picked up by the Japs 38 miles off the coast of Panang. Keysor said all members of the crew were saved but a number died in Jap camps. The mon wore first moved to lukuoki camp No. 3, later shipped to Nagasaki whero they worked in the steel mills.' The B-29 raids ended their endeav ors there and the prisoners were moved out a very short time before tho atomic bomb devas tated Nagasaki., ! Keysor was first ' reported missing and for eight months his parents heard nothing to the contrary until he was listed as a prisoner of war of the Japs, Two military policemen, left to right, PFC William Richardson, Lexington, Ky.. and Cpl. Paul Wardaale, Chicago, 111., stand guard over 40 boxes containing ashes of American prisoners of war, including those of three Doolittle raid fliera executed by the Japs in Shanghai. These ashes are in a Shanghai funeral home operated by Americans before the war. (AP wirephoto). - . Glass Slick Highways Cause Injuries , And Auto Collisions In Past 24 Hours Glass slick highways, thinly coated with ice, caused a num ber of injuries and numerous collisions the past 24 hours. Three persons were hospital ized as the .result of accidents which occurred in this area. Lt. Comdr. S. A. Congdon, USNR. and Lt. J., F. Hughes. USN, were passengers ith-a-.car crashed into a Great Northern freight train at the Altamont LUMBERWALKOUT PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 8 OP) The AFL lumber strike marked time today, with a union spokes man saying no negotiation meet ings were scheduled for the rest of the week. A pledge from the national general president of the AFL Carpenters union that its finan cial resources would be used to support the AFL Lumber Work ers demand for $1.10 was the only development in the six-week-old dispute. Frank Chapman, AFL Carpen ters' representative and member of the strike policy committee, declared last night the Carpen ters would tighten the hold on construction throughout the na tion. He quoted William L. Hutche (Continucd on Page Two) 108-Year-Old Indian Passes Yank Lobert, full blood Klam ath whose family declared he was 108 years i old and probably the oldest member of the Klam ath tribe, died at 7:35 p. m. Wed nesday at his home on Agency lake. . Yank Lobert was a young man during the Modoc war in the early 1870's and remembered Well the soldiers stationed at Fort Klamath. In 1907 he told his son, Billet, that he was 70 years old' and produced papers to prove his statement, the fom Uy said. The Klamath Agency records show Lobert a resident of the reservation in 1856 and list this as his birthdate, how ever birth records wcro not cor rlod at that time officials said. Tho tribal rolo carries Yank Lo bert as 80 years of age. Mrs. Lobert died a number of years ogo. : Holiday Closing Will Be Talked , Paul Skccn, president of the Klamath Merchants association, today called a meeting of tho association for Friday At 10:30 a. m. at the chamber of com merce, for a full discussion of matters of holiday closing and other policies. Skecn said that a question has arisen as to whether the retailors want to follow general policies established by associa tion committees. The matter requires full discussion, he said, and attendance of all. the mem bers Is needed, if Mi ft ki ' l crossing at about 4:30 o'clock this morning. Both men were treated at the Klamath naval air station dispensary but Hughes was moved to the Marine Barracks for medical treatment. He suffered a frac tured left knee cap. Congdon was dismissed following treat-meni-fur- facial - abrasions- and lnJtir?"-to-the leit wrist The men were en route to Klamath Falls to join Commo-I i i. m c-t i ' - i . : . I uure , puiwiu s iiuuuug party when they approached the crossing. Congdon saw the train but when he applied his brakes, the snow packed road bed sent the machine skidding into the freight.' Neither the freight nor car was traveling at a high rate of speed. Engineer of the GN freight was John Arten. The conductor was Al bert E. Winegar.- Fractured Shoulder D. F. Shipp. 41, resident of Woodland, Calif., is in Klamath Valley hospital with a fractured shoulder and suffering from shock as the result of an acci dent on 'the Sun Mountain stretch of The Dalles-California highway early Wednesday eve ning. Mr. and Mrs. Shipp were en route from Woodland to Se attle at the time.' Their car struck an icy portion of the Labor Unrest Problem Eyed WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (VP) Speaker Rayburn predicted to day the house will "get some where pretty soon" on the so called full employment bill a "must" on President Truman's legislative program. The Texas democrat made the forecast to newsmen at the White House following a con ference with President Truman and other congressional leaders. He did . not go into details but expressed belief the legis lation would be reported by the house expenditures committee this week or early next week. Two-Way Approach Committee work on the full employment measure is part of a two-way approach by the house to the problem of easing labor unrest. On one hand, the rules com mittee is set to action anti strike legislation approved by the military committee. A rules committee vote was postponed today, however, because of lack of a quorum, An expenditures subcommit tee began planning a compro mise "full employment" bill. The bill committee yesterday wound up six weeks of hear ings on the measure, which al ready has passed tho senate in modified form. Most of the military group argued that the best way to halt labor strike is to provide stricter regulation of unions. WEATHER - (November 8) Max. (Nov. 7) .33 in 25 Precipitation last 24 hours ....06 Stream year to date 1.13 Normal ...1.40 Last year ....2.03 Forecaati Increasing cloudiness, Friday Shooting Hours Klamath-Tulelake Open Bi30 a. m. Cloae 4:49 p. m. highway and overturned. Pass ing motorists brought the two back to Klamath Falls. Mrs. Shipp was uninjured. Shipp was admitted to the hospital at 7:30 p. m. He is employed at the Del: Monte cafe, in Woodland. John J. Pinson of. " Pasco. Wash., collided -with; Frances Eckatrom, Portland, - about - 40 miles north of town on highway VI about noon yesterday. . uoui (Continued on Page Two) E E BUCHAREST, Romania, Nov. 8 VP) Troops fired on a crowd demonstrating before the royal palace today in honor of King Mihai's birthday and killed or wounded six.. Troops blocking the entrances of the royal square before the palace opened machinegun fire into .small crowds at one of the entries. , . The casualties were left lying on the street as this dispatch was written at 3:55 p. m. (6:55 a. m., PST). : , . . King Mihal and the Soviet sponsored government of Pre mier Petru Groza have been at loggerheads for months. The young monarch has refused to sign decrees of Groza, which would give his edicts the force of law. King Mihal last summer ap pealed to the United States and Britain to help in the establish ment in Romania of a govern ment which would be recognized by all the big powers. The Groza government has Russian recognition, but not that of the United States and Britain. Missing Three Boy May Be SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 (fl3) California police searched today for two men whom a San Francisco housewife said forced their way into her home and abducted a waif resembling missing Dickie turn Suden, 3, San Francisco authorities said, however, they are inclined to discount her story. Inspectors said several dis crepancies have been found in the account of tHe incident given by Mrs. Mildred Beer of 3 Pinto Ave., Park Merced. She is the wife of a navy com mander serving with a destroy er in the Pacific. An all-points state bulletin was broadcast by Inspector Joseph Doncgan soon after Mrs. Beer called the police. Done gan said she told him she heard a noise around midnight outside her home in a southwest San Francisco residential distrlot. When she opened the door she found a blond, three or four-year-old boy, resembling the turn Suden child, standing out side. She said she brought in the tired, dirty, disheveled young ster, fed him some milk and By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (AP) President Truman's labor-' management conference toiled through a bulging agenda today, but United States Steel corporation held the capital't attention with a sharp rebuff to Mr. Truman's wage-pric' policy. Through its president, Benjamin F. Fairless, the corpora tion notified Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach It would not resume wage talks with the CIO steel workers until it had the government's answer on steel price increases. Fairless dashed cold water, also on Mr. Truman's pro posal that employers grant wage increases now, then wait six months before seeking a price ceiling adjustment from OPA if profits dwindled too sharply. v ! Fairless said if wages are boosted, additional steel pric increases Deyona tnose already penaing win be needed and the corporation, he added, will insist on assurances from OPA that they would be granted "si multaneously" with any wage hike. Philip Murray, president of the CIO and of the United Steel Workers, had accepted Schwel lenbach's proposal that collec tive bargaining be resumed in what Murray said was the spirit of Mr. Trussan's wage price speech last Tuesday un der a special conciliator. The labor secretary's office said Schwellenbach had re ceived both Fairless' and Mur ray's letters, was "considering" them, and might issue a state ment today. The letters were made public. New Road-Block This new road-block in the administration's drive for labor peace loomed just as a minor but irritating snag was cleared away the 30-hour tie-up of all bus and streetcar . service in Washington. Delegates could again ride the trolleys to the labor-management conference, if they chose, under a 14-day truce arranged between striking AT L. traction workers and the Capital Transit company. Full service was scheduled. today while wage de mands are negotiated.---T'-' y The 36 management-labor del eates. "in. corridor ' conversa- tions,;nmd'-Trpe-tepl(f In-jlast night's clash between umj wuei Murray and president jra Mosher of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers. The is sue was whether to bring wage discussions onto the conference floor. - ; Wage Resolution ' Murray'' succeeded in getting a wage resolution before the powerful executive committee, the first step. But Mosher issued (Continued on Page Two) 8 Killed In B-25 Crash CAIRO, Nov. 8 WV-Jack Nichols, vice president in charge of international operations of Transcontinental and Western Airlines, and seven other persons were killed at Asmara, Eritrea, in a plane crash Wednesday, the U. S. army announced tonight. The other dead were two TWA officials, A. J. Nay lor and Milo H. Campbell, and the army crew of five. Names of the army crewmen were withheld pending the no tification of relatives. The plane, a B-25 bomber, crashed at 6:30 a. m. Wednesday as it was taking off for the Ethio pian capital, Addis Ababa. The cause of the crash was still un determined. Nichols, a former Oklahoma congressman, had been in Cairo several months making prepara tions for TWA's passenger serv ice to the Middle East. -Year-Old Snatch Victim phoned the police department. When the squad car officers reached her home she told them that during the interval be tween her call and their arrival two men had come to her door, claimed they were plain clothes men and pushed their way in side. She asserted one struck her on the forehead and held her while the other grabbed the boy and carried him to a car parked outside. His com panion ran from the house and the two drove away with the child. Inspector Alfred Arnaud, who investigated, said that Mrs. Beer is partly blind and under ques tioning gave conflicting ac counts of the time that elapsed between her discovery of the child and her call to the police. Tho turn Suden boy, scion of a wealthy San Francisco bay area mining family, has been missing since November 1 when he disappeared from the yard of his parents' home at Good year Bar, a mining community in , the High Sierras. An inten sive search in that mountainous country was cancelled Tuesday night after no trace of the boy had been found. -. - I WASHINGTON, Nov. B OP) A senate-house committee today denied to Senator Brewster (R Maine) the right to look 'into navy department files in search; of what Brewster said is a miss ing message bearing on the Pearl Harbor disaster. Brewster's motion that he b given authority to look through the files was defeated on a five to five tie vote, Chairman Bark-: ley (D-Ky.) told reporters after closed meeting of the investigat ing committee, .j Barkley said the committee also rejected, six to four, on J strict party division, a motion, by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.)' to postpone the start of publio hearings from November 15 to November 23. i Supports Plea . ! ' Senator George . of Georgia: was the only democrat to supy port Brewster's plea to examine! navy files. ' . In connection with Brewster's proposal, Barkley said it was the feeling of the six democratic members that if one senator is granted permission to search government files, others would want the same authority. , The committee's action cam shortly after President Truman had ordered that the committee must be supplied with any in formation it desires. His memorandum, to federal departments and agencies, - as well as to the joint chiefs of staff, authorizes all employes under them to give the committee "any information of which they may have knowledge." The White House said thai president sent out the memo randum last night. Report Information In it he also requested the de partment heads to authorize em ployes, even if they aren't ques tioned by the committee, to come forward voluntarily" and report any information which they may believe has not been, disclosed previously to the con gressional investigators. . "This directive," the president said, "is applicable to all persons (Continued on Page Two) ; Bulletins NEW YORK. Not. 8 UPuL British Maj. Gen. E. C. Manaergh waa reported by the Netherlands news agency Aneia today to have aerved notice on Indoneilan leadera at Soerabaja, Java naval base, that he waa bringing in auf ficient troopa to diaarm all In doneaiana there except an agreed upon number of police. CAIRO. NaT. ft iba M. than 100 Jewa have been killed in rioting in Trlpolltanla and on 'aeveral occasions iroona Vinw been forced to open Hre' a Brit iah communioue aaid today. The omiemsni saia Tripoli is now quiet. (: Arriving In United States By The Aaaoclatad Praia 4 Lloyd H. Smith, Cpl., Ma- lln, arrived on General Breckenrldge due in Boston November 4. Charles R. Rlabling, TS,. Klamath Falls, arrived on Benjamin William due in New York November 5. Arion R v 1 a, 2nd Lt Klamath Falls, arrived on Chapel Hill Victory due In, New York November 8. Ray E. Chrtalenaon, PFC, 3405 Anderson, Klamath Falls, arrived on Cape Clcare due in Tacoma November 4, Or ville McCariy, Sgt.,' Dunsmulr, arrived on Gener al Brewster duo in San Fran cisco from Manila, November 3 ' Corinne E. D'Alblnl, 1st Lt., Medford, arrived on Hermi tage due in New York No vember 6. SENATOR NO PERMITTEDTO CHECK FLES i
