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Pearl Harbor Probers Skirt Secret
Of How U. S. Broke Japanese Code
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 (If)
Pearl Harbor investigators to
day skirted one of the wart top
military secrets now we otokb
the Japanese coae in weir sen
tlnv of event Dreceding the Pa
, pific bastion attack almost four
years ago.
i In a painstaking Inquiry Into
nneration "manic" as the war
department called the code
breaking project, the senate-
house committee ordered up the
work sheets of cryptographers
who pieced out the meaning of
Japanese military and diplomat
ic messages.
Committee counsel set about
assembling the sheets as the
committee took a holiday until
Monday.
EeD. Cooner (D-Tenn.) and
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) said
the objective was to find out
how much time was consumed
In Washington reducing the mes
sages to English and getting the
information into the hands of
the president, chief of staff, sec
retary ol war ana otners.
Thev said thev wanted to
know whether the job might
, have been speeded and the field
commanders provided with more
information.
But William D. Mitchell and
Gerhard Gesell, committee coun
sel, made it plain the army and
navy don't want to yield the se
cret of how the job was done.
Cooper and Ferguson told re-
porters they don t want tnai in
formation bared, either.
Cooper raised the point in yes
terday's hearing that there was
nothing in copies of Japanese
messages furnished the commit
tee to indicate when they were
received in wasningion. lie
noted that more than three
weeks' elapsed between the date
one message was sent by the
Japanese and its final decoding
and translation in the capital.
, He pointed out that a lengthy
message sent Nov. 24, 1941 by
a Japanese agent in Honolulu to
Tokyo about the activity of the
American fleet in Pearl Harbor
was not translated until Dec. 16.
Declining to discuss how the
final text was obtained by the
cryptographers, he told the com
mittee that it was a tough job.
As an example, he said that Jap
anese telegraphic expressions
themselves were "a language
Within a language."
Under questioning by com
mittee, counsel and members,
Miles declared that no specific
warnings were needed other
than the general war warnings
which were sent to iieia com
mandersof an attack on Pearl
Harbor.
He said the Hawaiian estab
lishment had been built solely
as a defense against any Japan
ese move. After two messages
were sent from Washington to
Hawaii Nov. 27 advising that ne
gotiations with Japan seemed
ended and hostile action might
follow, "I had no douDt," Miies
said, that an immediate and
complete alert" had been effected
At one point when he was be
ing questioned on this view,
Miles paused briefly and then
observed:
"You gentlemen of congress
appropriated millions of dollars
ior ma i loriress. Agaui&b wuuiu
were you building it?"
Nazi General
Pays Penalty
A VERSA, Italy, Dec. 1 (If)
German General Anton Dostler
was shot to death by a firing
squad today for ordering the
execution of 15 American sol
diers captured behind the Ger
man lines in Italy in March,
1944.
Dostler, first German general
to die for war crime participa
tion in western Europe, was
convicted in October by a U.
S. court martial, which disre
garded his defense plea that in
ordering the executions he was
carrying out the commands of
higher officers.
Women Seeking
Price Control
SEATTLE, Dec. 1 OT Fifty
women, organized by the aux
iliary to the Building Service
Employes union, today started
circulating petitions her in
what they announced they
hotted would become a nation-
wide movement of housewives
for the retention of federal price
controls.
The women cited what they
termed "the recent unhappy ex
perience of seeing orange prices
soar within a lew nours alter
price controls were lifted," and
urged the public to act immed
iately to retain controls.
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2 Parked Cars
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Two parked cars were dam
aged today as a result of the
alleged reckless driving of
Richard L. Becken, a soldier
from ilwace, wash. He was
fined S2S in police court this
morning.
The 1940 Ford driven by
BecKen nit tne leit iront lender
of one car, owned by James H.
Wilson of Bly, and the left rear
fender of another driven by Ed
ward G. Glover, 427 N. River
side, Medford. Both cars were
parked on North 4th.
Also appearing in police court
this morning were seven drunks,
one drunk and disorderly, two
vagrancy, one Indian possessing
intoxicating liquor, one charge
of selling Intoxicating liquor to
Indians, and one disorderly con
duct. Two traffic arrests were
made and six parking tickets
issued.
Price Controls
On Billiards Off
PORTLAND, Dec. 1 (If)
race controls nave Deen sus
pended on bowling, billiards and
pool, the district OPA an
nounced today.
Officials said a decline of cus
tomers in once crowded war
areas probably would conteract
the tendency toward boosting of
poolhall and billiard parlor
prices.
San Rafael Has
Rash Of Fires
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec. 1
(If) Twelve fires, which fire of
ficials attributed to incendiar
ists throwing oil-soaked flaming
rags, broke out in downtown
San Rafael last night in less
than three hours.
All were extinguished after
minor damage.
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and lockouts, should be the final
word In disputes arising under
fcXlSTlWCx in Dor contracts."
THE real accomplishment is to
be found in the fact that the
conference didn't break up in a
row. If labor and management
learn by experience that they
can get together and talk things
over without a fight, it will be
evident that we are making
progress toward common sense
handling oi uus toucny prou
lem.
THERE is much TALK about
collective barsalninff.
Collective bargaining won't be
a success until it results In con
tracts, arrived at bv negotiation
and reasonably fair to BOTH par
ties, backed oy lull iinanciai re
sponsibility on botn sides ann
enforceable in the courts, the
same as any other business con
tract
BUSINESS generally' has
LONG accepted the courts
as arbiters of business contracts,
Business also long since accept
ed the principle tnat we ru
LICE WOULD INTERFERE if
during the ordinary negotiation
of a business contract one party
tried by force to shut up the
other's esiamisnmeni.
After all collective bargain
lng is a PLAIN BUSINESS
TRANSACTION, and until we
heein to look uoon it as sucn and
reuse ta look noon it a9 a costly
but inevitable form of guerrilla
warfare we won't got very far
in the way of a solution.
SUSPENSION FAVORED
WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 1
Potato observers in Washington
this week stated tnat general
sentiment among OPA and
USDA officials favors extension
of the suspension of potato price
ceilings, at least until the early
southern potato crops are about
ready to move.
The present suspension of the
potato ceilings ends December
S unless OPA acta to extend tne
suspension order.
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OPA Restricts
Lard Shipment
WASHINGTON. Dee. I (If)
The OPA today fixed quota re
strictions on shipments of lard
into California, Washington and
Oregon.
The action, OPA said, is to
prevent diversion of lard sun-
piles to the west coast as a re
sult of lower freight rates auth
orized oy tne interstate com
merce commission.
Shipments into the area are
restricted to amounts not in ex
cess of those in corresponding
periods of the preceding yoar.
For the balance of this year,
shipments will be limited to
amounts delivered during De-
ccnioer,
Beginning January t, the limi
tation will operate on a quarter
ly basis, with not more than 40
per cent of the quarterly total to
be shipped during any one month
of the January-March quarter.
War Leaders To
Stay In Diet
TOKYO, Dec. 1 (If) The
Japanese house of representa
tives overrode today a demand
that wartime leaders of the diet
resign, and Premier Baron Kl
Juro Shidchara urged "calm
ness" in the government's own
investigation of war responsi
bility. Shunting aside a liberal party
resolution calling upon diet
members who helped bring on
hostilities to resign without de
lay, the house gave overwhelm
ing approval, Kyodo news
agency said, to a progressive
parts resolution blasting all who
joined "militarists and bureau
crats" in promoting the war. Of
diet members, however, the
resolution asked only that they
"silently reflect upon their past
deeds."
Plane Engines
Hidden By Japs
KYOTO, Doc. 1 (If) Brig.
Gen. Kenneth F. Kramer of the
24th division, motoring past a
Japaneso temple, spotted a piece
of machinery through a break
In the wall. The general inves
tigated and discovered 20 new
aircraft engines.
Similar instances of conceal
ment of military materiol have
been renorted. including discov
ery of large quantities of air-
cran tools and parts for fabri
cating wings and fuselages, and
many nearly completed wing
sections hidden behind boxes ill
a cotton mill at Imbarl.
Naked Bodies
Hint Atrocity
BEKASSI, Java, Dec. 1 (If)
Naked bodies, believed to bo
those of 18 Indian soldiers and
four Englishmen, were found In
a shallow grave In this vlllago
12 miles west of Batavla today.
The Dutch News agency Aneta
said the bodies were those of the
crew and passengers of a trans
port piano which crashed in
Batuvfa's outskirts last Friday.
An Indonesian woman, who
had been held prisoner In tho
barracks whero the mon were
confined, led a British unit to
the burial spot, about 00 yards
from the prison. She said four
white men and 18 Indians were
brought here naked in trucks
last Saturday evening. They
were beaten that night, she said,
and Sunday they were led to
the nearby river bank, one by
one, with their hands tied be
hind them. There they were In
dividually assaulted by yelling
men with "anything that would
cut," the woman said.
FIRE ALARM
The city fire department was
called Friday to the navy nous-
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HERALD AND NEWS TWO
Fort Klamath
FORT KLAMATH PFC
Richard Du Lany and wlfo ar
rived hero last weekend to visit
at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Gray. Mrs. Du
Luny is the former Barbura
Gray and served in the wac
until her discharge some time
ugo. Her husband has been at
Hoff General hospital at Santa
Barbara, Cullf., and left a few
days ago for a new locution
near Riverside, Calif. His wife
will remain here with her pur
ents until suitable living ac
commodations may be obtained
noar tho camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Wllford Don
nelly and daughter Gwendolyn
Jane spent the Thanksgiving va
cation visiting at Prlnevllle with
relatives.
William Bell arrived here
Monday following his discharge
from the United States army at
Fort Lewis, Wash. Ho Is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zunv
brun of Fort Klamuth, and was
Joined here at their home by
his wlfo and small daughter,
Cheryl Ann, whom he had not
previously seen.- Bell has seen
considerable active service in
the European theater of war
with the United Stutes slgnul
corps in the army.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brlcco
spent Tuesday evening and
Wednesday in Klamath Falls,
returning here Wednesday eve
ning. Mrs. Roy Taylor left Thurs
day for Wisconsin, whore she
will visit at the home of her
sister for the next two months.
Sevoral hundred head of cut
tle moved here a short time
lng project, 2002 Eberlein,
where an overheated oil stove
threatened a dwelling. There
was no damage.
ago from the Bar-Y ranch on
Klamath Mursh for lata fall
feuding liavu been shipped out
to California owing to the pre
maturely heavy snow full, Buck
Williams, owner of tho feeder
cows and calves, was forced
to move tho stock sooner than
he had expected, owing to the
unexpectedly early winter. How
over, this is nothing unusual
in Woud It Ivor valley, ullhougli
for (he past three years late
full feuding hits been possible
huru buiuru shipping the cattle
to California points for whiter
puNluro.
Cpl. Jumvs II. Orth, U. S.
army, is rocolving treatment at
Matllgun General hospital in 're
count. Wash., following medical
examinations at Fort Lewis,
Wash, Cnl. Orth spont 10 days
horo visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. lloiiry Orth, before
reporting to Fort Lewis for ex
amination, and expects to be In
Fort Klamath to spend Christ
mas with his parents. He was
a prisoner of tho Japanese since
tho fall or corregmur, at Hoimi
prisoner of war camp in Man-
chukuo.
Marines Permit
2-Year Hitches
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 W1)
For the first time in 25 years
the marine corps opened Its
ranks today to youths who want
to limit their imcn to two years.
M..., IT In 9fl vituri nln will
be accepted without prior mili
tary service. Thoso 20 to 31
who have been In tho forces
within a year may re-cnlhtt. If
they sign up utter 00 or fewer
days as clvllluns they will re
celvo their old runk, the murine
corps announced last night.
Enlistments ulso will bo ac
cepted for tho three and four
year terms whlrh have boon the
rulo since 1020.
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