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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
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placard telling hli aide of the
representative picketing Peccl'a
P
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. -.
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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
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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
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