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r- r Accuied Of 'Negligence CO i ' f ' . J ' ,.v i'- n Capt. Charles B. McVay. III. who U charged with responsibility o( Ion of 880 mon In linking ol Cruiatr Indlanapolla, through "ntnllmnct" and "Intfllcltncy" at court-martial held In Waih- "negllganct" and Ington, D. C. (NEA T.l.photo), Day's to By FRANK JENKINS ERE are aomo straws In foreign news winds today. The Huiu una REFUSE. In a ccoiid nolo to the Iran govern ment, to permit ontruncc of adtli tionni Irntilan troops Into the "troubled" province of Azerbai jan. They any It "might provoke additional bloodshed." LET'S Kt thla business straight. Azerbaijan Ii an IRANIAN irovlnce bordering on Russia. It las about tho aume relation to Russia that our stale of Washing ton haa to Canadu. Suppose Con adu backed a ruckus up In Wash ington und then told our federal govornmont we mustn't aend in American troops to quell It. Such a situation would be quite similar to that which exist in Azerbaijan. .- rpHE conclusion la inevitable that Russia haa designs of some sort on this Azerbaijan cor tier of Iran. What her deslgna re, and WHY, are ao far con cealed in the fogs of diplomatic censorship. If we wait long enough, we'll probably find out. , - - . npHE situation In Chin SEEMS i to be clearing. The Chinese national (Chiang Kai-shek) government la trans ferring It scat slowly from Chungking to Nanking. IU offi cial are returning to Chang chun, capital of Manchuria, to renew NEARLY - COMPLETED negotiations with Russia for the airborne transfer of additional thousands of Chinese nationalist troops into Manchuria (to "hon dlo" the communists there.) , Chlneso nationalist troops are reported only 30 miles from Mukden (In Manchuria) after what Is described as a practical ly unchallenged drive in that direction. ' . AGAIN we must put two and two togother for, oCcourse, following the ancient diplomatic precedent of secrecy, nobody In authority in Washington will TELL us anything. It LOOKS as if Russia Is go ing along with the program to crush communist opposition and unite China under the Chiang Kai-shek government. Which would mean, If true, that a three- cornered deal among us, me Russians and the Chungking Chinese has been completed. (Judging by ' Hurley's dis closures, thero seems to have been some sort'' of squabble in our own state department over whom wo shall bock In China the communist or the unung. king notionalists. The -pro. Chungking faction among our silk-hatted, striped pants war riors appears tohavo won.) AN the troubled home front, " Truman' plans to minimize strike disorders appear to do run- !ilng Into a solid wall of opposl ion from the country's top-rank-ng union leaders AFC Green, CIO Murrov and UMW Lewis.- In a speech described by the reporters as "biting," Murray soy the. ..Truman plan is "de- sinned to weaken and ultimately destroy labor union organiza tions." . ' ' J. (IT ISN'T, of course, No ad ministration could survive such an attempt in these day. But there Is a rising tide of public displeasure with what is happen ing. That is why Truman fs be ginning to move. He FEARS this rising tide.) t : : ' TRUMAN'S plan hasn't yet emerged very definitely. It Include a "fact-finding board", to dig up the facts about pro posed strikes.. What will happen after the facts are found hasn't (Continued on r t. Column ) Four Persons Left Dead In Wake Of Gale SEATTLE, Dec. 8 W A wild gale raged on Into the north today after leaving at least four dead In the Pacific northwest last night, toppling trees and power poles and un roofing buildings In Oregon and Washington and menacing the ships crowding down Pugct Sound with returning service men and freight. Two men wore killer) hv fnll, ing trees in somowhat similar accident, at Eugene, Ore., a tree cruahed Clifford Mather In the cab of a logging truck and Theodore Dukes. 40. wni klllnri at Vancouver, Wash., barracks when a tree fell on the cab of a putldoter. John Muzzv. 80. was killed in Seattle when he toucned fallen wires which had sc. lire to his house. At Shelton. Goome L. Cun nlngham, a public power district lineman working atop a pole on a bank, was killed when the bank gave way and the pole fell. Another 'workman on the poie woi unmjured. .(' In California an army troln. in clone nlloted bv Pilot. nr. fleer John Lanzetto wa report ed missing. Lanzctt had stop ped at Red Bluff, Calif., for luei on a xugnt irom McChord field, Wash., to Hamilton field. Pilot Homer Hoyt of Longvlew, Wash., was lost for a time in his seaplane, but returned to report he had brought tho craft down on the Columbia river and ridden out the storm. - The 13th naval district said a number of ships in Puget Sound were damaged in collisions with each other and the shore, but damage was not extensive and there were no report of casual. tics. ... . Arriving In United States By Associated Press Clifford E. Morris, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on Texarkana Victory due in Now York December 5. Raymond D. Cottrell, Sgt Klamath Falls, . arrived on Mexico Victory due in New York Pecember 5. . '. Hitler Aimed uest Mass Conq NUERNBERG. Dee. 5 IJP German air force records placed before the International mili tary tribunal today disclosed that Hitler had made definite plans by 1838 to conaucr at least seven neighboring coun tries, including roiand and zecnoMovomn. British prosecutors ' at the trial of 20 top nazl leaders ac cused of war crimes introduced a German air force document on plans for establishment of air bases in Poland, Czechoslo vakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Lat via, Estonia and Austria. The document was dated May 2, 1938 more than a yea before World War II actually began. The threat that brought un willing Czechoslovakia into the rclch In 1939 waa Hermann Goerlng' ultimatum that "half of Prague would lie In ruins from aerial bombardment with in two hours" if there was re silience, according to other evi dence laid before the four power , tribunal, (Sco- also page m rin JU PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS i, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 8, IMS H umber 10686 SHIPS Ijfet H0WB-TtP . ! Submarine Lay In Wait For Cruiser WASHINGTON, Dee. 8 OP) The night watch aboard the cruiser Indianapolis In the hours before she was sunk between Guam and Leyte last July was described before a navul court martial today, ' Tho witness, Lt. Cmdr. Rich. uiu a, i.i viiiiuyuc u. w, v wivv., Mass., engineering officer, told tho court that officers standing the 8 p. m. to midnight watch had been notified that a search was in progress for a reported submarine in an area the Indian. spoils waa due to pas about 8 a. m. The court Is trying Cant. Charles B. McVay 3rd, skipper of the cruiser, on charge of negligence and Inefficiency in the loss of the vessel. Redmoyne, who was supervis ing the watch, sold that at about 9:30 p. m. the ship's navigator came on the bridge and inform ed watch officers that a patrol bomber and a destroyer escort were conducting the search for a submarine in waters ahead of the Ind anODOlls. Ho said he himself was not worried by the report and no other officer present appeared to show concern. . , Straight Course Throughout his watch the In diananolis. was steering straight course, he said. He add. ri Hint ti ri rt nnt fllxmiL-0 .W1CH the officer of the deck the ad-l visaDiiiiy oi returning id a w zac course because it did not appear to him that such a step was necessary. Redmoyne testified he left the bridge around midnight and was preparing for bed when the fatal explosions shook the ship. Cnmmnnder Lewis L. Haynes of Manistee, Mich., chief medi cal, officer aboard the Indian apoll. testified that he was awakened by tho first explosion and wa on deck wnen we sec ond explosion shook the ship. "Mv room was filled with fire," Haynes said. "There wos fire every woy i lurneo. He sold that at no time did he hear a call to abandon snip. Asked by the Judge advocate If he had any reason to believe that the ship was passing through waters through which enemy submarines were likely to be encountered, Haynes said that at the evening ' meal the navlcntor "lokincly" remarked that tho ship would pass an en emy submarine during tne nigni. Many Hurt In Istanbul Riot ISTANBUL, Dec. 5 () More than 20,000 persons surged through Istanbul in a wild dem onstration yesterday, smashing newsoaner plants and book stores, and crying "Kill the com munists!" Tho demonstration appeared to dcveloD suddenly in old Istan bul. It spread to the new city. across the uolden riorn oeiore police and soldiers restored order and threw a heavy guard around the Russian embassy. Many persons were injured chiefly from falling glass. The modern publishing plants of the newspapers Tan and La ruquie were uesir demonstrators led by estroyed as the by Istanbul university and high school stu dents plunged through the shops, smashing all equipment. Hammer Murder The hammer-slaying ft Violet Surhire Fudetani, 3Vi-year-old child of Japanese descent, wai discovered at the Tulelake WRA center this afternoon, The child wai killed by hammer blow as the lay in her bed, and her 11 month old sister, Kazuye, suffered a skull fracture, evidently by blows from the same hammer.. WRA authorities said the father, Yothio Fudetani, 35, was eating ot a mess hall at the time of the slaying. The mother, Shagono Fudetani,: wai evidently at home, but was found In a state of collapse and has been unable to give a coherent story. Authorities said they did not know whether she was there when the children were attacked, or came in and found them. District Attorney Charles Lederer of Modoc county was on his way to Tulelake this afternoon to investigate. ' ' Four Klamath Lovelies Seek Queen Title I ' , ) v , '4 t; 1 M h 7 1' -1 '-w j i Virginia Lee Benolat Batty; Steimnaa Agneu Winter Midway Battle Wrecked Japs By RUSSELL BRINES . TOKYO. Dec. 8 WV-Amer ican pilot who turned back the powerful Japanese fleet in the "David and Goliath" victory at Midway in June. 1942, wrecked Tokyo'a plan to win a compro mise peace oy noiding tne ra cific in a stranglehold of out lying bases.. This-was disclosed today by Caot. Toshikazu Cbmae. former chief of the naval' operations vAntin a (h.'n,W mitllfrV. Ill .wlthfljreveallng detail of what Japan tonaiuors olio ui uiv invwvut.s naval battle of the war. Japan tent 11 battleship and 78 other combat vessels against the tiny sandspit Island, which was defended by a relative hand ful of American planes and 23 warshira. The. heaviest U. S. fleet element were five cruisers under . Admiral tiaymona a. Spruance. The objective wa to occupy Midway witn aouu marine ana army Infantrymen, who. were carried aboard 16 transports. The fleet, Chmae said, had no intention of attempting a Hawai ian landing. Midway was con sidered the key to a vast co ordinated naval, offensive de signed to secure advanced aer ial observation bases from the Aleutians to New Hebrides. It was timed to coincide with the capture of Klska. But divebombers and fighter nlanes smashed the Midway throst In the first fiery day- June 4, 1942, they sank four carriers and destroyed the Japa nese air strensth. The late Ad miral Isoruku Yamamoto, who directed the assault, abandoned the campaign' without attempt ins tn send his overwhelming superior surface forces against the defenders. . Theft Suspects Nabbed In Reno TULELAKE Allan S. Bailey, whom Chief of Police. Frank Rhodes said entered the home of his father, Ed Bailey, and with two companions made off with a quantity of clothing and other articles, was apprehended late Tuesday night in Reno. Bailey and his two friends, a soldier and sailor, are held there as violators of the Dyer act, and also as AWOL from the armed forces. They are in the hands of the FBI, Rhodes was advised. Chief Rhodes said that two diamond rings valued at $700 and thought stolen by the three, were found pinned in the collar of an overcoat and hidden In the closet. The rings were said by the Baileys to have been moved from their original -hiding place. Names of young Baileys two companions were not learned to day, Chief Rhodes said. , A Buick cor, which the three were using, was listed by Oregon authorities as stolen from Portland Sunday night. . The alleged theft herVoc curred Monday afternoon, -, ' : WEATHER (December 5)' Max. (Dec. 4) ....40. Mln. ... 31. Precipitation last 24 houra..Trac Stream year to date 4.07. Normal ....2.96 Last year ... 3.66. r orecaixt uoiaer tomgni. Thursday Shooting Hours Klamath-Tulelake Open 7.08 a.m. Close 4:26 p. m. Hi' , Dozlaqna. ' -Keniieli-Ellis In E Bonds : Klamath county passed ' the half-way mark in the purchase of E bonds in the Victory Loan but unless $328,000 is invested in this series by midnight Sat urday, this county will fall far short of its quota. To date, $442,800 In E's has been reported by bond head quarters, 1011 Main.; In an effort to stimulate sale of E's, the treasure hunt was in stituted and is causing much in terest, bond workers said today. Two additional ' Klamath firms joined in the treasure hunt arid windows at Sears and Montgom ery Ward will also include Item for the searchers. On Friday, Pearl Harbor Day, all theatres in the city are co operating to boost bond sales. Anyone purchasing a bond at the theatres on that day will be ad mitted free. Those not buying may attend with the usual ad mission, however. At the Marine Barracks to- nignt, Wednesday, where Bob Crosby's famous dance band is piaying, civilians may attend by purchasing a S100 Victory bond. Colonel Charles T. Brooks, com manding officer of the posl, said bonds could be purchased at the barracks. Bond headquarters will also remain open until 7 o ciocx lonignt. Abolishment Of Car Pool Favored Abolishment of the national refrigerator car pool, which is blamed in part for 'reefer short ages in the Klamath basin, was proposed in action taken today by directors of the chamber of commerce. Lloyd Stitt. district agent of the Southern Pacific, stated at the meeting that the car pool, established by the ICC during the war is working to the dis advantage of western shippers, holding cars on eastern lines that ought to be moved west. It was brought out that or ders for cars for shipment of Klamath potatoes are more than double the available cars, and that competition for cars is so great among growers that It has caused ill feeling. Cars are needed particularly for movement of seed potatoes from this area to California po tato districts where planting is now starting. Unless these seed potatoes move in the next three weeks, it will be too late. Grid Banquet Slated Friday f ; ... ' Bill Abbey, Klamath boy who called signal tor the University of Oregon Webfoota during the football eason just completed, and Jake Leicht, sparkling half back, of , the Ducks, may be in town for the Lions club KUHS gridiron banquet Friday night, Paul Angstead, Pelican coach, announced today. Tex Oliver, Oregon mentor. Is to be tne guest speaker of the evening-and be has been asked to bring" hi two backfield stars Abbey is an 18-year-old, play ing first-string quarterback for the Webfoota as a freshman. He wa graduated from KUHS last year but various injuries kept him off the Pelican squad most of his high, school career. Leicht, a returned war vet eran, is a sophomore. His sensa tional running for the Ducks tins .season has brought him mention as a possible all-Amer-ican. Ticket for the grid banquet are now on sale at the Willard hotel, chamber of commerce of fice and the Klamath Military supply store on Main. Deadline for reservations is noon tomor row,. ... - .- The banquet will be held in the Willard dining haU starting at 6:30 p. m. Friday. ... Hoodlums Riddle 72 Mail Boxes A gang of youthful hoodlums, believed to have been returning from a . hunting trip in the vi cinity of the Spring lake sump, riddled a dozen mail boxes on the Spring lake road last Satur day night by firing point-blank at them with shotguns. - ' Some of the shots were fired almost directly toward houses along the road, Sheriff .Lloyd L,. Low reported. Two farmers In the vicinity told the sheriff of hearing the shooter tell his companion to "drive a little faster" and the voice sounded like that of young person, they said.' The vandal were driving- an old .model Ford. Anyone with information as to the identity of the shooters is asked to contact the sheriff s office. evemi jVuile The navy, army and forest service teamed together today in the search for a missing Hellcat, unreported since Monday noon when it dropped out of a flight of seven navy planes fly ing over the Seven Mile area north of Klamath Falls. Fog, low clouds and high winds forced 12 navy Hellcat to return to the Klamath naval air station ot noon yesterday after they had flown over the northern section of the county for several hours in the morning. Until 2 o'clock this after noon, weather conditions grounded all planes at the station. At 2 p. m., two Hellcats left the ground and were to radio weather information over the Seven Mile section where the navy is concentrating its search, A half hour later two mora planes left the station, and others were standing by. In the meantime, word came from Medford state police that a fire wos seen burning on Mt. Boldy, 10 or 15 miles south of Medford. The army and forest service advised thj navy here that all resources possible would be at their com mand. ......... : . . , t . At 8 o'clock this morning two Hellcats were warming up and their pilots stood by In flight gear, ready to take to th air in an enort to locate ine- missmg plane and pilot. The plane was one of 52 en route from Pasco, Wash., naval air station to Red Bluff, Calif. Over the Seven Mile area the planes flew through the clouds as they hit storm conditions, but only six planes came out on top. No trace has been found since. Despite bad weather condi tions yesterday, a Cub piloted by Ray Royse, veteran fighter pilot of this war, attempted to fly to Rayenouf field at Klam ath Agency and to use that place as its base in order to as sist in the search. The plane was forced to return to the air port almost immediately as it met with impossible flying con ditions. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. S (IP) Ground and air patrols searched the storm battered Pacific north west and Alaska today for sur vivors of six airplanes missing in the past 10 days. Fate of 20 fliers, one civilian mail pilot and 19 servicemen, was still cloaked in the anow bound Cascade and the rugged coastal ranges between northern California and Nome. - Two other, planes that disap peared November 1 boosted the tntal air mishaDs to eightForty- one men were involved in all of the plane accidents, ien are known to have survived, six are known dead and authorities di recting the search expressed doubts today many of the others still unaccounted for would be found alive. Rescue crews were searching for wreckage of a navy Ventura plane that crashed a week ago near Mount St. Helens.- Four navy airmen are missing. . One (Cnttad PI1 S. Clum 1) Uncle Sam Loses Ears WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Ph Uncle Sam lose his ear today. At noon the foreign broad cast Intelligence service 1bi) nf th federal communications commission, ceases operation af ter having monitored foreign radio broadcasts 24 hours a day since 1941. . the commission said "the sus pension of service was ordered after th house reduced the com mission's national defense funds by $65,000 Monday." Pnmmentine on this. FBIS Di rector Russell M. Shephard said in an interview that "every nrinpirwil nnwer in the world except the United States will have an extensive monitoring service. During the war they all had more elaborate services than we did, "The German monitoring ser vice had 2000 employes and the Russians about as many.. The British now have 500 in London alone and the French a total of 1500. Argentina andMew Zea land recently set up sucn ser vices." Veteran Of 2 War Theaters - Hurt By Plummeting Goose Edward M. Brown, 33-year- old Beverly Hills, Calif., hunter was seriously injured Monday when a honker goose shot by one of his companions, plunged from the sky and struck him in the chest. Brown is recovering at Hillside hospital. Brown, with Scotty William son and Irvin Cooksey of Med ford and Glenn A. Diem of Bev erly Hills, left for the Upper Klamath lake marsh early Mon day to spend the day hunting. They were on the firing line when a flight came over. Brown said he raised up to shoot and had a bead on a fine goose and the next thing he knew he was prone on the ground, lying on his back. ' . The hunter's companions real ized the man's Injury was se rious and started immediately for Klamath Falls. Brown col' lapsed several times en route to the car. Today his physician said that Brown's condition was improved but that-the force of the blow would keep the man in bed for from 30 to 45 days. There -was considerable damage to the heart, it was explained. Brown is a veteran of service in both the Pacific, and Euro pean theaters and as a- member of the United States coast guard saw considerable action without injury of any kind. He said to day that the hunting trip had long been anticipated during his years of service. He was re cently discharged . Only Four Days Left To Buy Your Victory E Bond ACT NOW! Two l(r Boys Admit Theft Of Firearms Two 15-year-old boys were la custody of juvenile officials to day after admitting the break and entry theft of an assort ment of firearms and other mer chandise . from Matt Finnigan' sporting goods store on Main street Sunday morning. The boys, both of whom have previous records as iuvenile of. fenders here, were picked up. last nignt Dy city pquce anf the juvenile officer. One wa$ rested on the stre. and, ( other at his home.) ','' Under questlfwllng- they j mitted having (aided Mat :' nigan's and bot were surpf at even being inspected of burglary. .1 . j. ( ' Police recovered th. t Luger pistol stoles from store in the attic of the fionie of one of the boys. It was fully -loaded. . ..... - " ' Articles Hidden - ' the other merchandise three 7.65mm Lugers, one 7.65mm Spanish-make automatic pistol, three standard ammunition clips, eight 9mm clips, one pair of binoculars and three cigar-: ette lighters were found hid den beneath the porch of the 1 other boy's house. . . The Lugers are of German make and one of them is a pre World War I weapon, Finnigan said. They were displayed in the store for sale. Displayed near the stolen pistols were American 22-cal. pistols with telescopic sights . which ; were more valuable than the firearm taken. Combined total value of the property stolen was set at $440 by Finnigan. . . The two boys told the juve nile officer they had planned the. burglary for two months and thought they had a plan worked out so they would never be caught. They had spotted the merchandise to be stolen before hand. - - Only one of the boys entered the store, they said. One of the pair was slender enough' to squeeze through the bars over the back window after the glass had been taped and broken out. The other waited in front of the store as lookout for the boy inside. -. ' Both the boys are in custody now awaiting action by the juve nile court. .;. ' Canvass Set For Community Fund Klamath ' Falls women will make a house-to-house canvass starting next Monday morning in an effort to complete the Com munity Chest fund, ' ! A representative group met Tuesday night at the chamber of commerce with W. E. Lamm, chairman of the drive, Elton Thompson and Robert Lamott. Rose M. Poole is chairman of the women's division. The town will be zoned and all residents con tacted whether they have made their donations to the chest fund or not. . ... , OVER THE TOP PORTLAND, Dec. 5 (P) Ore gon's war bond drive on sales to individuals went over the top today. ; -, ' " Sales climbed to $41,630,000 105.4 per. cent of the goal. E bond sales, .however, were drag ging just beyond the halfway mark, with $12,700,000. " Who'll Be Queen? U Virginia Lee Benolst ......8697 Marie Dorlaque 3320 Agness Winters ............2435 Betty Steinman ....1829
