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r 1 0 III t IMj JV fo)fg) jar A-IMl PRICE FIVE CENTS Telenkon KLAMATH FA' .flOl. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, IMS a- WEATHER NEWS December 8, 1945 Max. (Dec 7) 36 Min. 28 Precipitation last 24 hours Trace . ,' Foraoaiti Ctaar tonight and Sunday. Sunday Shooting Houns Klamath-Tulelaka, Opn 7:11 a. m. Close 4: 28 p. m, Monday) Open 7:12 a. m. Close 4:28 p. m. Number 10888 H.Thf.....M...... m. PnlKV IFUVIUd EORKIGN, secretaries or trie 1 United Stotes, Britain and RukhIu (U. S. Byrnes, British Uuvln ond Russian Mololov) vlll iciest In Moscow beginning Do-A-unbor 15. . ' Eddie ailmort, AP corre pondunt In MoscoWi cable thl morning thut "members of tho Moscow forolgn colony hull the announcement u tho beat plcco of dlplomutlc nowsjn month." TT could bo. fi Tho mealing or lorcign mm Inters In London In early October wound up In a snarl, with noth ing CONSTRUCTIVE accom plished. (Tho London meeting, a nonrly as can bo leurncd from heavily censored accounts, was a dog fight.) . , Mnybo this upcoming Moscow meeting can soothe tempers thut wero ruffled In London. GILMORE say It has been learned that nrcnurutlons for tho Moscow conforonco have been under woy for somo tlmo and that an "uuanua ' (profession- al diplomatic big word for pro gram) has been sot lorm in DEFINITE dotal). He adds that the breakdown In London ha been attributed by many to a LACK of prepara tion. That Is to say. the forolgn minister came to London with out any clear Idea of what they were to do. Note that thl tlmo only the U. S., Britain and uuiuim win ba rontescnlod. France and China took port in tho London session, which was a five-power affair. Apparently that didn't work too well, and this time the run three, who hold the power, will jo It alone. wt I. M..li11v Vin cahtiot: LY announced bv our state department that an "exchange of view on tho subject of con trol of ATOMIC ENERGY defin itely will be hold." , It is added that strtfo In Iran, ALLIED controls for Japan, unirlpntlon of China. getting European peaco plan back on the track, etc., "may" bo dls- riimnd. (Use of tho word "may1 Hlnlnmntlo double-talk. You may be quite certain they WILL be, ulthouKh tno reporters muy nnt hltftr Of it.) We may assume that atomic energy will be tho HOT subject around which an mo rem win revolvo. , , , LET'S pause a moment at thl point to review somo grue some findings revealed to tno senate-houRO atomic commlttco by Dr. Philip Morrison, who helped ussomblo tho atom bombs wo used against Japan. Most persons within a mile of the bombs that ion on mrosnimo nnd Naaasakl. ho said, died quickly from heat or blast. But many who escaped blast or burn died LATER "from rodlum-llkc ray omitted In great number from tho bomb at the instant of exDloslon. ' yhose ray, he added, "affect the blood-forming tissues In tho bone marrow, and tho WHOLE FUNCTION of tho blood Is inv paired . . , Tho blood docs not consulate, but oozes In many spots through tho unbroken skin and Internally seeps into tho cavities of tho body ... The white corpuscles (which FIGHT INFECTION) disappear, and tho (uontinnta on mgo , toiumn ii Klamath $52,000 ' Short Of Quota Noon today found Klamath county with Just $$2,000 to go in order to make Its E bond quota. To dote $080,006.25 in E 1. ...... Lnni. anA iiitft. 41.n IUUUVIO nuvw DVIU, VV.VI. V 1 1 V drive ending at midnight to night. A last-mlnuto rush at Bond . Headquarters, 1011 Main, gave the bond committee reason for optimism in its hope for reach ing its goal. -l Standings In tho Victory Queen contest were changing rapidly thlB afternoon. People interested in the progress of tho contestants may call Bond Headquarters until 8 p. m. to day for up-to-tho-minuto infor mation, however, nothing will bo given out after 6 o'clock. f inal tabulation of tno ballots will be completed tonight with tho Bond Headquarters staff working until midnight. Tho queen will bo publically pre sented at 8:30 Monday night at tho Pelican theatre. Chlloquln led tho list of schools which have exceeded their quota, by going 'over, its goal 135 per cent. Othor coun ty schools making their quotas include Kcno, Malin, Summers, Shovlln, Spraguo River, Alta mont elementary, Altomont jun ior high, Bonanza, Morrill, and the offices and shops of the county schools. NEGOTIATION S mwm Bra district fail Union Rejects GM Wage Offer DETROIT, Dec. 8 (P) Tho General Motors council of the CIO United Auto Workers union today rejected the offer of General Motors corporation of a 10 per cent wage increase to end the nationwide strike at GM plants. Tho council's action wsb taken at a special meeting of the representatives of GM's 175,000 strikers who were convened for tho primary purposo of replying to President Truman's appeal for an end to the strike. Vice President Wultcr P. Rcuther of tho UAW-CIO, in an nounclng rejection of tho GM offer, said agreement already had been reuched on Mr. Truman's request but that formal action would await a reassembly of tho council this afternoon. Reuthcr would not disclose the nature of tho agreement. As its national GM council convened amid strong Indications that tho answer to the president Declares War Walter P. Reuthar, t!c pres ident of the Unitod Auto Work ers (CIO)' tells a mass meeting oi the Buffalo, N. Y area Gen eral Motors strikers that the UAW-CIO "is dattrmlnod to fight total war in its stiuggl with the company over a 30 par cent wage increase de mand." (AP wirephoto). Marines Fire Into Village TIENTSIN, Dec. 8 (fl Amer ican marines fired 24 60-milH-meter mortar sholls into a Chi nese village near Anshan on De cember 4 after one marine had been killed and others seriously wounded by Chinese gunmen, Marino Maj. Gen. Keller Hockey, third amphibious, corps com mander, said today. Firing into the village was ordered, he said, after tho two gunmen who shot the marines "In cold blood" had not boon sur rendered to tho Americans.. A marine corporal and a pri vate first class had been hunting rabbits, Rockcy's formal state ment said, and Chinese gunmen shot them down "in cold blood." Tho prlvato was killed. The corporal, wounded, feigned death and survived, although tho Chinese fired another shot which struck his leg. - Their names wero not an nounced. Both were from the fourth platoon, B company, first battalion, 29th marine regiment. would be "no," the striking CIO United Auto Workers union set in motion a huge motorized Slcket line ordered to roll up to M's major plants of. the city. Tho motorcar caravans, formed by unionists of the UAW-CIO's Ford local 800 which claims 51,000 members, were organized In what union heads said would be a demon stration of support to tho Gen eral Motors strikers. Police alerted all precinct stations on the route from sub urban Dearborn, headquarters of local 800, and arranged to divert traffic in Detroit if ihe need arose. Police Superintendent Edwin Morgan said he anticipated no trouble except for possible traf fic lams. Tho union plan was to concentrate it rolling picket line at the General Motors ad ministration building about noon. 400 Pickets Approximately 400 pickets marched afoot at the Cadillac plant of-GM, a much larger number than this appeared there previously during the 18-day-old strike which had idled a total of 213,000 workers throughout the country. The auto union's GM council mot to set on President Tru man's request and to review the negotiations with General Mo tors over the demand for a 30 per cent wage rate Increase within GM's present price struc ture. .V As delegates reached the meeting hall, several told re porters they believed President Truman's appeal would be turned down. The union's lead ers already had denounced Mr, Truman's proposal. Nip To Testify In McVay Trial TOKYO. Dec. 8 (P) Kvodo News agency said today that Commander Ike Hashimoto, cap tain of tho submarine I. I. 58, left by plane yesterday for Wash ington to testify in the court martial trial of Cant. Charles B. McVay, skipper of the cruiser Indianapolis which was sunk, Kyodo sold, by Hoshlmoto's sub. American authorities request ed Hashimoto's attendance as a wltness,: Kyodo -reported. Bulletin DETROIT, Dec. 8 () The General Motors council of the CIO United Auto Workers to day recommended rejection of President Truman's request that General Motors strikers return to work. Japs Were Expected To Bomb Seattle, San biego By J. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 () Tho U. S. high command ex pected tho Japanese to bomb airplane factories in Seattle, and San Diego, Calif., rather than Pearl Harbor, in 1041, Gen. Gcorgo C. Marshall disclosed today. Questioned by tho joint con gressional Pearl Harbor investi gating committee, tho wartime chief of staff testified that he and othor officers thought this way early in December, 1041: "I assumed Guam would be taken, probably Wake, though taking Wako island would be more difficult. There was a pos sibility that an effort would be made to strike at the Panama Canal, our air plants in Seattle and San Diego." Marshall said ho thought "the most Improbable" form of tho Japanese assault would be what actually happened a blow at Hawaii. ' At that time the aircraft in dustry on the west coast was starting to reach high production although quantity output Jiad not yot reached the armed forces. Marshall told of his pre-war views under questioning of Rep. Gearhart (R-Calif.) Gearhart re peatedly asked why Marshall did not take more notice of Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short's message that he had placed the Hawaiian gar. rlson on only a "sabotage" alert November 28, 1941. Short gave this information In replying to a message on November 27 that hostile action was possible. "That was my opportunity to Intcrveno and I didn't take it," Marshall replied frankly. "Just why, I don't know." Veteran Too Young To Marry Louise Floras, 18, and Coxswain Robert Burrows, IS, look disconsolately at wedding cake and all the trimmings which thay ware not able to use aftar being zefused marriage license at Los Angeles. Burrows who wears star for six major battles, was told he wis too young for marriage without mama's permission NEA Telapboto. , 5 Aid Maliii Park Program Malin community today launched a drive to complete its widely publicized public park program, with a special Christmas potato gift box proj ect started as a new feature of the effort. The committee in charge an nounced it is ready to take or ders from anyone for attractive gift boxes of Malin potatoes- to be shipped to any address in the Clues To Lost Planes Seen MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 8 (P) A low fog hid reported clues today to the fate of possible survivors among 27 missing naval airmen as scores of planes hovered over the area between Orlando and Melbourne where flares and fires were seen last night. Land search parties in jeeps, "weasel" marsh buggies and am phibious alligators were rushing to the scene in the desolate marshlands in northern central Florida, the navy in Miami re ported. "We don't want to get any hopes up too high, but we are moving everything up there i to find those men if they are alive," Commodore H. J. Benson of 7th naval district headquarters told The Associated Press in an ex clusive interview. . Lumber Ban Off Until January 1 . PORTLAND, Dec. 8 () The "hot lumber" ban, which the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers used to Implement their strike, will be called off in the Willamette valley until January 1, a union spokesman said today. William O. Kelsay of the AFL Willamette Valley District Council said at Eugene that the mills where the strike has been settled would , need several weeks to resume full scale pro duction. Until then, Kelsay said, the AFL will not attempt to stop Willamette valley builders from using non-union or CIO lumber. "After January 1," he added, "we are going to. insist that only fair lumber be used." Tho official position of the AFL strike policy committee has been that the "hot lumber" ban' would continue until the pine belt strike ends. Who'll Be Queen? Virginia Lee Benoist ....6174 Agness Winters ....5883 Marie Dorlaquo ....5438 Betty Stcinman ., 4406 United States . for the sum of $5. Orders should be sent im mediately to Malin Park Gift Boxes, Malin, Ore., in -order that delivery may be made be fore Christmas. Gift purchasers should indicate on their order what name they wish placed on the greeting card to be enclosed. : Malin has the site, and . has formed a park district, for de veloping an outstanding : com munity park. At tho end of last year's drive for funds, $80,000 had been ' collected, i It is felt that $50,000 more is needed to complete the park., building. landscaping and swimming tank. An effort will be made to raise the money 1 in the next three weeks. . with ' the potato gift boxes only part of the pro gram. . Women of the community have been given leadership of tne drive, witn Mrs. w. c ual ton as chairman. A complete list of residents of the commu nity, has been made and it is planned to have everyone ap proached for a contribution. Outside contributions have been made in a number of instances, and these are acceptable. A plaque or other suitable recog nition of founder contributors is planned. There will probably be a veterans memorial feature. Value To Community The park district board hopes to start construction on April 1. Architectural plans have been made by Sheldon Brumbaugh of Klamath Falls. Board mem bers point out that the park will not only be a scenic proj ect, but of cultural, physical, educational and social value to the community. Here are names of the solicit ing committee: Mrs. Dalton, Mrs. Louis Lyons, Mrs. Godfrey Blohm, Mrs. Edwin Stastny, Mrs. James Ottoman, Mrs. Ger ald West, Mrs. Wilford Dixon, Mrs. Vaclav Kalina, Mrs. Anton Steyskal, Mrs. John Reber, Mrs. Hubert Morelock, Mrs. P. G. Wilson, Mrs. Jerry Rajnus, Mrs. A, J. King, Mrs. Frank Paygr, Mrs. . Ted DeMerritt, Mrs. Dick Henzel, Laddie Rajnus, W. C. Dalton, Emll Tofell, Dick Hen zel, Ted DeMerritt, M. M. Stast ny and A. Kalina. Minor Occident Delays Cascade The southbound Cascade Lim ited arrived in -Klamath Falls one hour and 30 minutes late this morning due to a minor de railment near crescent lane. The train's engine, -baggage car, and front trucks of one coach slid from the rails, but re mained upright, Np one was in lured. ' The train which was sched uled to arrive in Klamath Falls at 2:50 a. m,, did not get here until f.zu. Strike Goes On Here As Confab Ends Negotiations between Klamath basin AFL unionists and lumber operator representatives, previ ously advertised as a test of strike ; settlement possibilities, were concluded here today with out an agreement being reached. Reports from the Pine Indus trial Relations committee con ference room, where negotiators for the two sides met Friday afternoon and Saturday morn ing, indicated that both sides had rejected offers made by the other, and' that the AFL strike situation remains at status quo. The negotiators adjourned at the call of either side through Louie Ziman, U. S. conciliation service agent at Eugene, Second Offer The union made a second com promise offer to operators at this session. It agreed: 1. To a 15 cents per hour wage increase effective at resumption of operation, and (2) to join with operators in seeking price relief, with a view to eliminating of wage differentials between pine and fir. . Present sawmill wage mini mums are 87 i cents. The union has been asking for $1.05, the minimum on which the strike in fir was settled. -.The Klamath basin operators have offered $1. Under the -new union offer, the union -would accept $1,021 temporarily, permitting the mat ter of the other 2i cents the pine -fir wage differential to await further negotiation; Competition Cited The PIRC, which is the nego tiating representative for the operators, rejected the new of fer asserting it would place the operators at a disadvantage with "our pine competitors, many of whom have reached settlements with CIO and AFL unions for 124 cents across the board in- (Contlnoed on Paie 8, Column S) Navy Gives Up Hellcat Hunt The . navy Friday officially abandoned the search for a Hell cat plane and the pilot, missing since Monday noon over the Seven-Mile area of Klamath county. Planes which came down at the Klamath naval air station en route in a flight from the Pasco. Wash., naval air station to Red Bluff, Calif., left here Friday for Red Bluff. The navy may continue the search from some other field, but this was not cer tain. In the meantime the Klamath Indian Agency patrol plane, a Cub, took to the air this morn ing and for three hours flew over the Fort Klamath-Seven Mile section, searching in vain for the Hellcat. The plane was to con tinue the search this afternoon, according to Superintendent B. G. Courtright. . Pilot of the plane reported the weather clear in the vicin ity where the navy plane was last reported, and flying condi tions around crater lake .and for some distance west, were said good. The name of the missing pilot has not been divulged by the navy. Ybo Tops Dim Landing) BILLINGS, Mont., Dec. 8 CP) Sixtaan army man, several of them under discharge orders, and two Northwest Alxlints pilots were killed early today during a snow storm whan their west bound plana, a C-47. crashad and burnad one mile west ol Billings in a fiald. The Northwest Airlines office announced the pilot was George D. Miller and the co-pilot, Vernon W. Piannkuck, both of Minne apolis. Names of the army dead were withheld pending notifica tion of next-of-kin. Army personnel aboard were veterans of overseas service who were being taken from Newark, N, J., to Seattle for discharge or reassignment. Eight men were taken to a Billings hospital, where two of them, the plane's pilot and co- . pilot, died shortly aiterwards. Several hours later another sol dier died, raising the toll to 18. Hospital attendants said the five injured were in critical condi tion. . - The pilot was found pinned beneath the motor when police arrived at the scene at 2:15 a. m. (MST). The crash occurred about 2:10 a. m., when the army . plane, approaching the Billings muni cipal airport from the south for a landing, apparently came in too low, caught a wing in the tops of trees bordering a boule vard and nose-dived into the field. . . - Bodies Charred Six bodies, charred beyond recognition, were extricated from the smoldering, twisted wreckage by city and coqnty officials, highway patrolmen and army and Northwest. Air lines representatives. - An investigation of circum stances surrounding the crash will be made immediately upon the arrival of air corps officers from Cincinnati, O., headquar ters of an army ferrying divi sion, Major C V. Prossers said. The accident will - also be in vestigated by Northwest Air lines officials, who are expected to arrive from St. Paul, Minn., Howard Donaldson, Billings station manager, said. GOP Discusses 1948 Ticket CHICAGO, Dec. 9 '(JP) The names of Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota -and John W. Bricker of 1 Ohio popped up most fre quently in lobby conversations about a 1948 GOP ticket as fhe republican national , committee prepared to act today on a con gressional declaration of party nolicv. ". A resolutions committee head ed bv Veteran ReD. Carroll Reece of Tennessee scheduled a meeting to consider the interim platform, amid indications party leaders are set to squelch any possible criticism or additions. Clarence ' Budlngton Kelland, Arizona member, told reporters he wants the national committee to supplement what the sena tors and representatives had to say. But the betting odds were long that he would be unsuc cessful in this effort. - Vets Hospital Here Definite This week's announcement from the veterans administra tion that it would' establish a veterans hospital at Klamath Falls means Klamath. Falls, ac cording to a telegram received here today from Congressman Lowell Stockman. After the announcement, Con gressman Harris Ellsworth was quoted in a Medford dispatch as saying that the veterans ad ministration meant the "vicinity of Klamath Falls" and indicated that might be Medford, 75 miles away. Stockman's wire on this point said: "I have again contacted vet erans administration and'am ad vised hospital will be located in or near Klamath Falls. They inform me their general policy is to give preference to sites within three to five miles of the center of the city designated. Klamath Falls was selected be cause of its superior advantages over other communities in region hospitals is to serve." Mansfeldt Acquittal Will Mean Mental Treatment SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 (JP) Acquittal for Annie Irene Mans feldt, charged with murdering Mrs. Vada Martin here last Oct. 4, would mean voluntary men tal treatment at a private hos pital or her commitment to a sanitarium, her chief defense counsel said here yesterday. Vincent Halliman, who is di recting her defense, told inter viewers, "I have deep concern for the future of ; the three Mansfeldt - children. If Mrs. Mansfeldt declines to go' vol untarily into a hospital for psy chiatric care -I shall be forced to have her committed to an institution." The 45-year-old defendant, facing trial for the slaying of the woman she believed to be a rival for the love of the late Dr. John H. Mansfeldt, hysteri cally denied any knowledge of Hallinan's decision, but , said, "I will do whatever is for the best interests of my children.": Mrs. Mansfeldt was described yesterday by Dr. Joseph Cotton, defense alienist, as a person "frustrated at every turn" and a wife whose marriage was "not consummated", during its first three years. ; - Mrs. Marie Moore, 42, a key defense witness, was taken to an emergency hospital where Dr. J. V. Deinlnger said she was suffering from a . caustic poisoning. Talk Almost Gave Away Code Secret By TOM REEDY WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (JF) The hottest secret of the war that the U. S. had cracked th. Japanese code was cocktail bar gossip in Washington and Tokyo never got wise. . Army officers spoke "careless ly" of it. One man employed aa a code cracker tried to sell it. Fliers in the Pacific theater de duced it. ' Slttinz on ton nt thf nnwHor keg was General George C. Marshall, chief of staff, getting; grayer by the minute. Marshall told Pearl Harbor in vestigators In congress how one -thing after another turned up give mm uie military creeps. Dewey Silent : It came out vesterrtav; when he was explaining how he heard Governor Thomas E. Dewey knew the' secret and feared it might become public during th presidential campaign. Dewey kept silent at Marshall's urgent plea. The general said he didn't know how the Information sot to Dewey. But . Reports came to Marshall that army officers were "talking; carelessly" in hotels and . cluba about it,- - - The original code cracking staff of several hundred had grown . to' 16,000 a lot of chances for leaks. Talk drifted back' from the Pacific . after army, fliers shot . down Admiral' Yamamoto (who once said he would dictate the peace in the White House.) They had to be told where to go and when, and could deduce that the Japanese communications were tapped. , FBI Called This "whispering" about how Yamamoto was caught was the most' "dangerous" of all. Marshall indicated. He got so concerned he asked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to trail some army officers "so we could make an example of them." - Hoover was - "hesitant," Marshall said, contending . it would make a "gestapo" out of his force. So it wasn't done. Marshall, related how one of , a group of 26 code-crackers working at an army station at Fort Washington, Va., was caught trying to "sell" the secret in Boston.' The general didn't say what happened to that in dividual. . Indian May Have Been Stabbed Lee J. - Hutchinson, 21-year-old Indian cowboy, who is in Klamath Valley hospital with severe cuts and bruises, may have been stabbed by his Indian girl friend, Arlene Riddle, .reser vation authorities believe. , s Hutchinson, when he was ad mitted to the - hospital Thurs day night, said he had jumped from a moving car and landed on a rock pile, but his mother, Mrs. Ora Hutchinson, -said he had been stabbed. Miss Riddle had not been lo cated by authorities today. The incident apparently oc curred at, the Riddle home in Beatty early Thursday evening. Arriving In United States By Associated Press v Lloyd L. Haskins, Sgt., Klamath Falls, arrived on Robert Owens due in New port News December 8. Max L. Ruga, T4, 1605 Siskiyou, Klamath Falls, ar rived on Bandera due in San Francisco December 8, Robert M. Barlow, PFC, Dunsmuir, Calif,, arrived on Sea Cat due in New York De cember 3. . Edward B. Knoll, Sgt., Box 102, Tulelake, arrived on Gen eral Meigs due in New York December 3., ; Alfred E. Meissner, T4, 1111 Can drive,' Tulelake, ar rived on General Meigs due in New York December 3. A 1 1 1 1 1 1 Landona, PFC, Weed, arrived on General Meigs duo in New York De :ember 3. 1
