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Newspaper Page TextMl 0l LnJ mn Ira rnn JV Hernia Telephone Mil WEATHER NEWS November 28, I94S Max: (Nor. 27) 48 Min. 38 Precipitation lait 24 hours ........... .04 Stream year to data .......3.55 Normal 2.87 Lait year ...... 3. 19 Foracasti Showaia tonight and Thursday. Thursday Shooting Hourn Klamath-Tula-lakai Opan 7 a. m. Clot 4.29 p. m. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEP Number 10680 Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS "pHE llurloy business Is a meat, us expected. Ho tells tho Washington Eve. Iilng Star, a nun-aonautloiuil icwupapur, that ho lias In liia ' possesion a Illo of iiicimiiko ui Ittiicdly sent to tho Chlncsu cow inunldts by unt o( "those whom lio coiwldorcd communist iym . putlilzors In tho U. S, state do Dtirlmont." (Ho charged yesterday that whllo ho win bucklnu uo the Chungking action In 'China loma of tho "professionals" In tho utato uepurimcm were telling mo uni , ne.io communist to nay no lit tent Ion to him. us ho ''DID NOT represent tho policy o( tho united suites.) KJIEANW111LE Representative Do I.acoy (Now Dealer from Washington) mnki'S a siooch in tho house in which ho charges: "Stop by step, Ambassador Hurley s reversal of tho Hooso. veil policies in unina novo muao tho Dreoent civil war unavold nblo. Ho (Hurley) and General Wodomeyor liavo now com' mltted us to armed Interven TF a foreign policy Is to bo any Hood nt oil, It must COM MAND RESPECT, How can any foreign policy command respect when factions In our own state department back OPPOSING factions In some country wo are dealing with? Tho only possible result of such a situation is to muko the United Stutcs ridiculous In the eyes of tho world. INCIDENTALLY, General Marshall Is to be sent to China lo repiaco nuricy. ucncrni Marshall commands a great deal of re.sDcct. (Ho would command MORE respect If, now that he has retired as army chief of staff, ho would como clean with tho real story of what happened t Pearl jiaroor, ana wny.j TUST another word about this J foreign policy business. By diplomatic tradition, a foreign policy Is higher brass stuff reserved for the profes sionals. The common taxpaying public Is supposed to heed the Kttp uut signs on me cmoassy doors. History tells us this: FOREIGN POLICY Is the most prolific causo of war. when war comes, it Is the common tax paying public that docs the bulk of tho suffering Jind tho dying. FOR THE HIGHER BRASS, war Is apt to bo an exciting and thrilling adventure For the common taxpaying public, It Is uiooa and tears. In tho lower echelons of tho populace, the idea is slowly tak ing root that foreign policy Is something that common, ordi nary people ought to bo consult ed about. OYRON PRICE, a newspaper - man on leave from tho As sociated Press, has been study ing conditions In Germany. . In a report In which he recommends "re-cxaminatlon of the entire basic structure of military gov ernment In Gormany," he says: "Wo must decide whothor we are going to permit STARVA TION, with attendant epidemics , and disorders. In tho American i zone or ship the food to provent IV. That sltuntlon lias been starlna us In the face sinco early last summer, Every competent ob server who has seen Germany at first hand has reported that star vation and freezing are Inevit able unless feeding on a vast scale Is carried on. Price merely repeats what everyone else has boon saying. Since he Is an ABLE man, his repetition adds weignt. Yet, with every competent ob. server agreeing as to what must be done or clso, tho job hasn't yet been tackled on an adequate scale. TT seems to this writer, who is getting n little radical In some of his views (especially In regard to tho professional BRASS), that if our state department would concern itself moro with funda mental realities of life, such as feeding people who will other wise starve or freezo. and LESS witli some of tho traditional aspects of diplomacy America could como nearer to fulfilling its mission In the world. Light Globe Thief Shows Better Self PORTLAND, Nov, 28 (P) Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bustron were annoyed two weeks ago when someono carried off the light globe fropi tholr front porch, Today they wero just as Biirprlscd. At the front door they found a note, "To repay you for the globe we took from your porch." In tho note was a dime. (Grass-!! m Farored Alain, Klamath Would Be Made l-Way Streets A cross-town traffic plan to make Main and Klamuth one-way streets was strongly favored by u representative gathering called today to hear Slulc Highway Engineer R. II. Baldock discuss alternative cross-town truffle possibilities. Baldock has been making a survey .for the state highway com mission on routes which will connect Rivcrsida on the south and Esplanade on tho north to carry traffic through the city. The favorablo action taken by the group toduy wus advisory and tho matter will be presented for further consideration to the city planning commission and city council. Tho favored plon designated as plan No. 1, would move southbound traffic on Main and northbound on Klamath. Traffic would merged tho Pinc-Esplunadc-Muin corner on the north and at Main and Center on tho south. Two short sections would bo built to connect Klomoth avenue wlth Main at cither end. One Probe Bares Destruction Of US Codes By J. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (P) Former Ambassador Joseph C. Grow testified today that some codes used by tho American embassy In Tokyo were de stroyed before war broke out December 7, 1041. ' And some were not destroyed until, after the Japanese at tacked 'Teort Harbor on that date, lie told the senate-house committee Investigating the dis aster. Tho Inquiry also brought these developments today: ' 1. Moves within the commit tee to hear General George C. Marshall before the former chief of taf I leaves for China as President Truman's special envoy. . 2. A brief flurry over a sug gestion by Senator Brewster (R-Maine) that committee coun-i-el be permitted to go through Grcw's personul diary in search of items that perhaps should be studied. ' 'Grew told of-the destruction of the codes after Senator Fer guson (R-Mlch.) asked him: - "Do you remember when you got word to destroy codes In the embassy at Tokyo?' "Wo destroyed some of our codes a few days beforo Pearl Harbor," Grew replied. "We kept certain others until the last moment; we destroyed thorn after we had learned that war had begun." Ferguson wanted to know (Caallnuta an rata t, Column ) would swing between the Safe way storo and the Shopping Guide building. The other would roploco Center street as tho Klamath-Main connection on the south end. Baldock said this plan is the best of thrco schemes he out lined, bSth from the standpoints of facilitating traffic movement and costs. Three Plans Here are the three plans: No. 1. South on Klamath, north on Main. Estimated cost, $43,000. No. 2. South on Klamath, north on Walnut. Estimated cost, $162,000. No. 3. South on Pine, north on Klamath. Estimated cost, $214,000. Baldock rated plan No. l as best, Not 3 as second best, and. No. 2 js least favorable, ' - -Any of the three cross-traffic plans contemplates connection with the new north entrance of the city to be constructed along the cast side of the Southern Pacific tracks, and coming into Esplanade just cast of the canal bridge. This new link will cost $200,000, and is definitely on the highway commission pro gram. Traffic from the north will come into Klamath Falls on this route, , and into town by way of the Esplanade bridge and underpass. Morning Moating The meeting tills morning, held at the chamber of com merce, was attended by repre sentatives of tho chamber, the city planning commission, the Klamath Merchants association and the highway department, Baldock said that after care ful study, it ' had been deter mined by the engineers that the needs of both local and through traffic would be best served by establishing one-way streets to carry the cross-town travel.- He said experience has shown that businesses located on one-way (Cantlnata an Pat Calamn S Japanese Homeward Bound R-i. .'.4i- MMAtM . Sro Highway Engineer Talks Cross-City Traffic I" XT', i i ? 7 -v , ' s ( PIMi.r. iiun B. H. BaldoeV. itata hlahwaf actinear. (cantar) explaining a cross-cur traltic map to Stat Highway Commissioner Arthur Schaupp. left and Tom Watters, highway chair man of the chamber of commerce, right. It was taken at tha start of a meeting this morning at which a plan for one-way traffic on Klamath and Main was strongly favored. : . -. - House Demands Invesiiqatiqn Qf U. $. 4 - Foreign Policy. Afienr Hurley Charges WASHINGTON," Nov. 28 m Demands .for, investigation . of America's foreign policy and its foreign service personnel were raised in the house today as the country prepared to swap am bassadors to Chungking. . There were these . develop ments: . Gen. George C. Marshall, These elderly Japanese, former California farmers, were among 1300 repatriates who boarded the transport General Randall at Seattle to return to Japan.' Left to riahtt Yacuda Tomegusu, 62; Eltaro Namamo, 75, and Paul Takl, 67. Tha beard- county has had in previous cam- wu iiu cuiun n oeiongings in a posse, (Af wirepnoio;. paigns, Pelting Rain Strikes Basin A pelting rain drenched the Klamath basin Wednesday- and the entire area was in for con tinued rain during the' next 24 hours -according- to the U. S. weatherman." At an early hour this morning .04 of an inch had fallen but later figures were not obtain able: ' ' ' Storms which have pounded the Oregon coast intermittent ly for two days subsided .Wed nesday moraine, leaving shat tered windows, unroofed beach cottaces, " and a broken water supply at Coos Bay. . Motorists were advised that the Santlam river had over flowed its banks at Jefferson- on the Pacific, highway, scattering log supplies and causing other damage. The water reached the highway but did not cover It, state highway men reported and the roadway will not be closed unless the water covers it to a depth of 18 inches. Heavy rains continued in the mountains of this area last night, feeding melted snow to already swollen rivers. Beity Sieinman Leads Contest With the contest's closing date less than two'week.s away, the race for the title 6f Klamath Victory Queen is running into the home stretch. Betty Steinman, the Sorop tlmist and Venture club candi date, has moved Into the lead with 1112 votes. Marie Dorla que, sponsored by Southern Pa cific, has 825 votes to her cred it. Agness Winters, with North western Theatres as her sponsor, is credited with 779 votes, and the Junior chamber of com merce entry, Virginia Lee Bcn oist, has 687. All four contestants will ap pear at the Kiwanis club meet ing Thursday and at the Rotary club meeting on Friday. Both organizations are planning rally meetings to stimulate Victory Bond buying. Klamath county is still low in the state in the Victorv Loan drive, and the bond drive com mittee urges that Klamath cit izens buy more bonds to main tain the standing that Klamath called f rdm "his ' Wcent reflre-.ment-as army . chief , of . staff to become President Truman's spe cial ambassador to China, con ferred with the : president . and Secretary of State -Byrnes at the White House, preparatory to an early departure for' the Tar East. . , . . .. MaJ. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, who resigned .the ambassador ship yesterday, reiterated in a speech at the National Press club his contention that some American "career . diplomats" had sought' to nullify announced American foreign - policy : in the Orient. Secretary Byrnes told a news conference he had expected Hur ley to return to Chungking, to day and that he had -been given assurances that as- long .as he was ambassador there, any sub-, ordinate who interfered.- with him would be removed.. ' .' File of Message ' The Washington Evening Star said Hurley had in' his. posses sion a file of messages alleged ly sent-, to- the .Chinese.com munists by "some of those .."he considered communist , sympa thizers in the state department." . On the house floor, the de mands for investigation of for eign policy and personnel came from, . both' .democratic and ; re publican sources. v Two republican -members of Arriving In United States By Associated Praia Lloyd D. Baker. SSgf., 2135 Garden avenue, Klam ath Falls, arrived on Admiral Coontz due in Sattle Novem ber 25. Folk V. Orllng Jr., T4, 1302 Lookout, Klamath Falls, arrived on Admiral Coontz due in Seattle November 25. Kenneth L. Thompson,' T5, Klamath Falls, arrived on Ad miral Coontz due in Seattle November 25. Delbert G. Olson, PFC 2123 Arthur, Klamath Falls, arrived on Admiral Coontz due in Seattle November 25. Eldon L. Boggs, PFC, Shasta way, Klamath Falls, arrived on Sea Tiger due in New York November 26. Jass E. Coughlin, Cpl., 515 Upham, Klamath Falls, ar rived on Admiral Hugh Rod man due in San Francisco No vember 27. Marvin F. Thompson, Sgt., Beatty, arrived on Admiral Coontz due in Seattle Novem ber 25. . Edgar D. Fein, PFC, Chilo quin, arrived on Admiral Coontz due in Seattle Novem ber 25. Stewart F. White, T5, Weed, arrived on General Stewart due in New -York No vember 24. the liouse foreign affairs com mitteeEdith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts and Vorys of Ohio suggested Hurley be called by the committee "to give the facts" in .the charges he made. Vorys asked that further congressional action on more funds for UNRRA be held up until Hurley is heard. Steel Workers Vote On Strike WASHINGTON. Nov. 26 .' m One .government agency sought ways to settle the big -General Motors labor dispute today while another undertook, the biggest strike poll on record, among 700,000 steel workers. . . - - The U.' S'. Conciliation service arranged a conference - with Walter P. Reuther, vice presi dent of the ClO-Auto Workers, and associates to discuss the union's position in the General Motors corporation. walkout. The Auto Workers struck a week, ago to back up their de mand a 30 per cent wage in crease. Their objective is to off set loss in take home pay caused by the changeover from a 48 to 40-hour week. . . . ClO-Steel Workers laid -the groundwork for similar action under the Smith-Connally war labor disputes act with a strike poll at more than 750 steel, iron and aluminum companies. They want $2 a day more. . . The National Labor Relations board must handle ballots of more than twice as many em ployes as were polled in the United Mine Workers' vote last March the largest until today. Miners eligible to vote number ed 311,000. American Flag Flies Over Truk MOEN ISLAND, Truk Atoll, Nov. 25 (Delayed) (P) The Stars and Stripes were raised formally over this once-mighty Japanese naval base today. " Marine : Brig. ' Gen. Robert Blake of Berkeley, Calif., com manding the central Carolines occupation forces, and naval of ficers and marines stood at at tention as a U. S. naval, color guard hoisted the flag. A dele gation of natives plus 1000 Jap anese prisoners looked on. Marine Lt. Col. C. E. Emrich of Casey, 111., operations officer for Blake's command, read a proclamation from Admiral Nim itz declaring that this territory henceforth would be under American rule and promising all natives full civil and religious liberties. 12.5 Cents Wage Offer -Er6m Tree IFod- 2 Pcays COOS BAY Ore Nov. 28 (AP) Five men one dangllnej from his porachute 150 feet high In a tree who parachuted from a crashing army plane Monday were reported alive today. The state police reported that four survivors had straggled in last night and this morning into Dimmick logging camp, a telephoneless settlement about 30 miles northeast of here. Exhausted from nights in the pounding rain and miles of hiking through rugged mountain country, the fliers told log gers that 12 men hod been In the wrecked plane. , Information, filtering slowly throUah to state rutllr frnrvt ,1 1 1 J , t u ' ure wiiu, i-uiiiiiiuijicHuon-oaiTen? terrain, indicated that these men were accounted for: . Flight Officer Ralph Foster. Flight Officer Waddell. A man identified only as Hartsook. . . A major, name unknown. ' Flight Officer Dave Reed. Reed was- dangling from a tree, his parachute entangled in the limbs but still conscious after nearly two days. Loggers went to the forest site where be was trapped and began working with block and tackle to release him. The extent of his injuries was not known. The other four men walked into the logging camp and log gers, truagmg 11 miles to the nearest telephone, advised state police. The first notice of the plane at first thought to have crashed at sea was brought last night by Hartsook and the unidentified major, who walked into Dimmick logging camp, . Loggers immediately set out for telephones. The first two they reached were down be cause of the wild- gale that pounded this region Monday and Tuesday. They finally reached a workable phone at an isolated farm near the tiny community of Allegany. A rescue party deputy sher iff, state policemen, and Coos Bay pnysician immediately set out tor tne scene. They reached the logging camp this morning, after- being taken across) the swollen Coos river-in aH'ffmy tug. - - Inaccessible Region v Another, rescue party of coast guardsmen headed toward the rugged - mountain area one of the most inaccessible regions of Oregon today. Flight Officer - Waddell, one of the .last to reach the logging camp, said he walked until dark, covered himself with his parachute against the battering rain at night. - The major, whose name was not known, was quoted by log gers as saying he was the 11th man to bail out of the plane. Shortly afterwards the . plane exploded in the air. It was not known whether Capt. Hugh B. McMullen, Kansas City, Kan., the pilot, and the last man to leave the ship, was able to para chute down. : ; n Schools Show Enrollment Gain Klamath Falls school children were bringing home their report cards this afternoon as the sec ond six weeks period ended- in me elementary scnoois. School enrollment as of today in both city and county schools showed an increase of 620 stu dents over last year. The great est increase was in the county schools where 427 more boys and girls were enrolled than at this time a year ago. The 1944 45 figure was 3552 as compared to this year's total of 3979. . In the city schools last year's figure was 2063 as compared to the 1945-46 enrollment of 2139, or an increase of 76. At Klam ath Union high school there was a decrease of 117 students. Last year's attendance at this time was 1212, as compared to today's enrollment of 1095. Reiterated Operators through the Pine In. dustrial Relations committee to day reiterated their 121 cent an hour increase offer to striking AFL lumber workers In this area, while progress was report ed elsewhere in settlement of the strike on a 15 cent wage boost basis. ,-'.- AFL negotiators here - have once rejected the 121-cent pro posal, but the PIRC said that it would reiterate the offer "so there would be no misunder standing" and emphasizing that the proposal "still stands." AFL men made no comment except to say they had received the reiter ated offer. At Portland, the AFL union announced, that a 15-cent pay boost had been arranged by un ion bargainers and the M and M Woodworking company, with plants at Portland, Longview and Albany. ; Resume Work On the basis of the same com promise, the Coast Remitting company at Aberdeen, Wash., re sumed, work. Jpday,-,. , w "John Christenson, AFLstrik policy committee chairman, said in Portland that meetings are being held in the Puget Sound area, Vancouver and Coos Bay on. the basis of the 15 cent' com promise, and formal negotiations would start with Willamette valley operators next week. He described the compromise as a pattern for settlement of the work stoppage, which has affect ed numerous operations in this area, the largest in Klamath Falls being the Big Lakes mill. ' The compromise is 8 cents under the original demand of the union. . .- - Grants Pass Woman Hurt GRANTS PASS, Nov. 28 (JF) Mrs: Peeev Dotv. 57. of Grants Pass, was seriously Injured at . the Sixth street railroad crossing this morning when the car she was driving struck the south bound Southern Pacific passen ger train just as it slowed for the stop at the depot here. Mrs. Doty was taken to the Josephine General hospital where extent of her injurios had not been , an nounced by noon today. Mrs. Doty stated that she had made the required highway stop before attempting to cross the tracks, but did not see the train. The car was badly smashed on the right side by the impact, which turned the automobile completely around. There is no crossing signal light where Sixth street crosses the tracks. Husband Of Slain Woman Weeps On Witness Stand ' SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.. 28 () Navy Warrant Officer Wil bur L. Martin wept today as he Identified on the witness stand a large picture of his wife, Mrs. Vada Martin, 36-year-old nurse who was shot to death by Annie Irene Mansfeldt . on trial for murder. The husky, handsome officer from Baltimore, ' Md. was un able to speak for more than a minute when, as the prosecu tion's first witness in the trial, he was confronted with a great ly enlarged and smiling picture of the dead woman. . Finally he blurted: "That's my wife. It's a picture she sent me." He was on duty in the Pacific then. ' Superior Judge Edward P. Murphy ruled that the jury "does not need to see, that photo graph." Two letters to Martin, one of them mailed on Oct. 4, the day Mrs. Martin was slain, were in troduced by the prosecution to support its contention that there was no affair between the nurse . . . . . v . . r 1.1 Jl and tne late ur. jonn mansieiuu prominent physician, who killed himself shortly after his wife had slain the nurse. ' Two letters were not imme diately read to the Jury. -v Martin under questioning tes tified that he had last seen hie wife in Dec, 1944, but that he had received a letter from her almost every day, "until the day she was murdered. The judge immediately or. dered the . comment stricken from the record. The witness then described re turning the body of his wife a former childhood sweetheart whom he married in 1935, back to Baltimore. Martin testified his sole pur pose in returning from the east for the trial was "to defend my wife In whatever phase that may. be." . , ' . Martin denied seeking; re venge. Then he added vehement ly: "If they free her (Mrs. Mans feldt), I'll be a very disappointed man. My God that was the woman I loved."