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fUl Mara Vh7 fall THf 0 1111 PRICE riVE CENTS KLAMt FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 WEATHER NEWS December 13, 1(45 Mix. (Dee. 12) 11 Min. ..14 Precipitation last 24 hours............... 00 Stream year to date ..... 4.50 Normal 3.43 Lilt year 3.6 Foracasti Claar tonight and Fridayj Shooting Hours) Xlamath-Tulalaka Open 7il8 a. m. ClOM 4:26 p. m. 1945 Number 10692 Bay'sfa i By FRANK JENKINS CHIANO KAI-SHEK appears Inrtnv In Pnlnlnff fPuklnifl. ancient Chinese cunitul. which In NEAR tha Munchurlon border. Mis Nationalist uovornmcnt Iroopi appear io bo rolling swifU ly ovor mo waucnurian plains, encountering little organized munlntD who, on tho face of tho heavily censored (and therefore t"T not too reliable) news, teem to have been dciorted by commun ist Hussln. All tills suggests that we and the Russians have agreed that ChlniiK la the fulr-halrcd boy to unite China. YOU may not Ilka tuch de velopment, BUT If we ond the Russians can get together on China, it may be that wo can come to a friendly agreement on OTHER dynamlte laden world problemi. That would be progreoi In I NECESSARY direction. STATE SECRETARY BYRNES and hi party, en route to the momentouH foreign ministers conference, have been delayed in transit by weather. A dispatch from Moscow (where the confer ence la to be held) says this morning: "Great public Interest in Russia centers on this forth coming conference of Byrnes (U. S.) Bevln (Britain) and Moio tov (Russia.)" Informed , Interest EVERY--WHERE is centered on it. What haonena at this conference in Moscow can influence tremen dously the world your cnuaren nd your grandchildren will live ... . nrMXRE'S an interesting llttlt I itorv In tlia new today.,. Our navy is now running planes successfully by remote control so successfully that it plans to use them as targets for gunnery practice under actual combat conditions. These target planes can be released from mother shins In the air, and maneuvered either from the mother ship or from the ground. TMAGINE such planes, CARRY. 1NG ATOM BOMBS, re leased from "mother" planes high In tho stratosphere and guided down to exact targets which win do WHULt inita. That will give you a faint idea of what war In tho future will bo like, THIS thought is blossoming in Intnlllffnnt mlnris? If somo sort of world govern ment, with tho power to control atomic warfare, isn't formed by VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT, it may be brought about by some ambitious Hitler who will get tho iumn and cunuuek the rest of the world almost over- n u it. If you are even half normal, you fear and dread world gov ernment and so RESIST the idea. This is the soberer second thought: World government by volun tary agreement is LESS FEAR' FUL than world government forced hy some ambitious ' Hitler or Napoleon or Genghis H.nan. ANOTHER weird story comes today from Germany, where a preserved human head and lampshades made of tanned hu man skin aro presented as atro city evldonco at the Nuernberg trial. The head, shrunk to the size of a baseball in tho South Sea savage manner, is that of a Pole wno was cnugnt "fraternizing' with a German girl. The human skin, tanned to parchment and made into lampshades for the apartment of a nnzl bigwig, camo from Buchonwald victims who were selected because of their "artistic" tattooing. MONSTERS? ' Woll, ye-e-e-e-s. But that's what can happen when men sit ting m the scats of demotic gov- ernment get UNRESTRAINED POWER. History tells us plainly that unrestrained power warps human minds, Uncontrolled atomic warfare CAN put unrestrained power into me nanas oi unprincipled men,' rrHISE are gloomy thoughts I and forebodings. But for tho first time In hu man history it is becoming possi ble for unprincipled men to get the jump on everybody elso and conquer tho world ALMOST OVERNIGHT. If men of good will don't take these new and unprecedented possibilities in hand, unprlncl . pled men will be likely to. ' NEVER was the need for men of good will so imperative. Truman Act May Hasten GM Trace Lengthy Wag Scrap Continues With No ' End In Sight By The Associattd Press Tho long and bitter wage dis pute between the CIO United Auto Workers union and the au tomotive industry's "big three" continued today without any In dication of immediate settle ment. There was some hope, how ever, that intervention of Presi dent Truman in the 23-day-old strike at General Motors might hasten efforts of tha union and the company to reach an agree ment. Union officials have expressed the belief a settlement with either 1 Coneral . Motors, Ford Motor company or Chrysler cor poration would set a pattern which would aid In solving dis putes with the others. Today's negotiations by the union were with General Motors. Other union officials, their de mand for a 30 per cent wage rate Increase rejected by Ford yes terday, mapped further plans for discussions at tomorrow s confer ence. Today's unlon-GM session was to be confined largely to discus sion of the company's charge of "Illegal picketing" at some of the more than 70 strike-bound plants where 213,000 workers have been idle since November 21. President Truman's appoint ment of a fact-finding board in the General Motors' dispute brought prompt pledge of co operation from union lcadors. al though the union earlier had op posed government. .Intervention in tne 'srrmei- Comment was withheld by General Motor. . The Ford company, in reject ing the union's woge demands, said that on the basis of OPA price ceilings and with no In creases In wages It would lose about $35,000,000 next year. 2 Airmen Die After Stop Here Two army airmen were killed in tho crash of their twin-en gined advanced trainer plane near Mora Tuesday, Gelger field authorities reported today from Spokane. The plane was en route from Klamath Falls to Pasco on a routine flight. An army search unit found the bodies of Lt. Chester W. Cloflln, 23, Worcester, Mass., and Sgt. Ralph E. Busier, 25, Chicago, thrown cloar of tha wreckage about 50 feot. ; The plane had struck the rugged top oi a nui ana ourneo. The Klamath naval air ln tion reported that the plane had stopped here briefly en route from the army air field at Le- moore, uiu. Mrs. Devny To Stand Trial In Wiiecorver Cos J.Lj Mrs. Eleanor Deveny (right), 24, mother of two children, sits In Los Angeles court jrlth her husband. Cpl. John Deveny" awaiting start of her pre imlnary hearing on charges of contributing to delinquency of Ellsworth (Sonny) Wlsecerv.r (bit). 17, wlth whom she recently eloped. (AP wirephoto). : - ' ' Methods Of Selecting Homesteaders For 88-Unit Tulelake Land Opening Talked r Methods of selecting home steaders who will remain on the land as earnest farmers, were discussed at length at a confer ence held at tha reclamation bureau offices last night in con nection with the forthcoming opening of 88 additional home stead units on Tulelake. Tulelake people at the meet- Patton Stands 'Good Chance' HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. 13 &) The commanding officer of tho U. S. army hospital where Gen. George S. Patton Jr., is under treatment for paralysis said tonight there was "a good chance" that the American com mander might be on his feet again. The fracture of the vertebrae In Patton's neck was reduced, he said, but it is still impossible to determine how much damage was done to the spinal cord. Doctors In attendance said the general had spent a good night and that his general con dition remained satisfactory, with no complications. The hospital commandant, Col. Lawrence C. Ball of Har lan, Ky., 'said there was general confidence among the doctors that the Injured commander of the U. S. 15th army would pull through, although it might take "a few days, a few weeks or several months." He said there was also "al ways the possibility that Patton might never be able to walk again." Preserved Human Head And Lamp Shades Made Of Skin Evidence In German Trial By NOLAND NORGAARD NUERNBERG, Dec. 13 (if) A preserved human head and lamp shades made of human skin were presented as evidence of atrocities in nazl concentra tion camps at the war crimes trial of 21 top German war lead ers today. Tho grisly exhibits were add ed to the Germans' own records of murder and brutality placed before tho four-power Interna tional military tribunal by allied prosecutors charging the once powerful nazi warlords with "crimes against humanity." Relating the already-revealed horrors of the notorious concen tration camps at Mathausen and Buchenwald, U. S. Assistant Prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd de clared that "we feel no argu ment is necessary to support our statement that the nazi conspira tors used these concentration camps a9 places of terror." The preserved human head, shrunk to the size of a baseball and resembling tho war trophy of an aboriginal head hunter, was that of a Pole who had been caught fraternizing with a Ger man girl. "Artistic" The three- pieces of human skin tanned Into parchment for lampshades for tho wife of SS Stnndnrten Fuehrer Koch came from victims at Buchenwald se lected because of their "artistic" tattooing, according to an affi davit by a former inmate of the concentration camp. "In 1939 all prisoners with tattooing on them were ordered to report to the dispensary," the affidavit said. "No one knew what the purpose was. But after the tattooed prisoners were ex amined, the ones with the best and most artistic specimens were kept in tho dispensary and then killed by injections." Telling of the shrunken heads, the former Inmate was quoted in the affidavit as saying: "I al so saw tho shrunken heads of two young Poles who had been hanged for having had relations with Jewish girls. The heads were the size of a fist and the hair and marks of the rope were still there." Jew-baiter Julius Stretcher, alone of all the defendants, re mained unmoved. The others averted their eyes but from time to time stole glances at the bar baric trophies. The "death ledgers" of the Mauthausen camp recorded the deaths of more thanV35,000 in mates from 1939 to 1945; On March 19, 1945, 203 persons died in 12 hours, tho records showed. Mauthausen 'was the camp where Joseph Morton, Associated Press war correspondent, ac cording to available evidence, was executed last winter on the signed order of Secret Police Chief Ernst Kaltenbrunrier, one of the 21 defendants. An Amer ican army investigator declared that the camp "was conducted with tho solo purpose in mind of exterminating any. so-called prisoner who entered within its walls." Ing, In particular, spoke in fa vor of financial and farming experience qualifications 'for their potential neighbors,' both for protection of the public in terest and of veterans seeking homesteads. " . The conference was called by Layton Stephens, reclamation superintendent, and was attend ed by . representatives of the Tulelake American Legion, the Tulolako grange, Tulelake Growers, - American, Legion- at Klamath Falls;. vetHttJs'jdmUh istration, agricultural advisory committee, . salecttv k service, Klamath irrigation district, ex tension service, Production Credit association, and the press,' ' ' . ' v - . Hear Suggestions' ' ' Purpose of the meeting' was to get suggestions from those present on methods of selection of he successful applicants for the. 88 homesteads, and to hear comment on the selective pro cess used on the occasion Of previous openings. The recla mation officials said that there lc no assurance that any changes will be made in the previous regulations, but in view of the fact that there is now a new set of veterans from World War II, and other circumstances may No Takers On ' Newspaper Offer The Herald' and News as yet had no takers today on Its offer to match-10 contributions of the price of a bottle of whiskey to the community fund. . Yesterday, the newspaper: sug gested tnai liquor permit uum ers show their good will to the Boy Scouts, Camp' Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, . USO,' Salvation Army, etc by mailing the price of a good bottle of whiskey to the Community Fund, 323 Main, street ' ' . It offered to match the total contributions of the first 10 who rtnnnrled to the suggestion, add ing that to $500 already contrib uted to tne community iuna py the newspaper. Those who want to help-put The Herald and News on the spot for the additional contribu tion should notify the newspaper by mall or telephone that they are sending in their whiskey price check to the community fund, 1 . '. , Crumpacker Gets Life Sentence Raymond Arthur Crumpack er, 37, today was seniencea to spend the rest of his natural life in the Oregon state penitentiary. Crumoacker waived grand jury action on a charge of as sault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. He held up the Frazier market on Smith sixth on November 5. - The Dorris man told the court he had no money to hire a law yer and waived the privilege of accepting legal neip appuiiucu by .the court. , "I want to get it over with rloht now." said Crumoacker. . Crumpacker in court admit ted staging the robbery, stealing the car used in tne roDoery, ann xinsiflnff L. L. Brownell. jailer, in an attempt to get out of the county jail last Sunday night. Judge David R. Vandenberg im nosed the sentence, commenting upon previous off enses . commit ted oy urumpacKer.' . be changed, consideration of possible revision is in order. -. Reclamation officials present indicated their belief that the number of applicants for' the 88 homesteads will run into thousands, probably exceeding any previous interest in Tule- (C.ntlaa.l Pas i Cll 4) - rf Limited Hits TroopTrairi GALLUP. N. M.. Dee. 13 () Eight or more stretcher cases were among, the injured re moved from a Santa Fe passen ger train on arrival here "today from the scene of a rear-end collision of a troop train and the Grand Canyon Liimiiea miles west of here. Brought here for a delayed breakfast, 810 troops and an un disclosed number of passengers were chilled after nine hours exposure in one of the coldest niehts of the winter. The low temtjeraturo In ' Gallup was 4 below zero. i Seaman 1c Clayton G. Daily. 39, of Denver, Colo. one of those slightly injured,. reported the wife of a sailor gave birth to a baby immediately after the wreck. She was attended by an army doctor. Her name was not immediately available. . ' George W. Gardner, of Wins- low Ariz., 35-year-old fireman aboard, the troop train and an other of those not oadiy nurt, said the military train was mov ing about 15 miles an hour through heavy foe when it was struck by the faster passenger train. Dally estimated tne lim ited' speed at about 20 miles an. hour. - i , Amputee Snows Skeptical Mates .RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 13 (It) Ward-mates registered a "show me" 'attitude when Larry Tos- cano, '21, of Lyndhurst, IX. J., an. amputee at McGuire General hospital here, vowed that he could run the 100-yard dash, in 12 seconds on his artificial leg. He showed them in 13 seconds. ; The exhibition was the result of a scheduled appearance, later cancelled, of former Lt. Bert Shepherd,' who pitched for the Washington Senators last season. A war department announce ment heralded a 12-second 100- yard run by Shepherd, a below' the-knee ammitee. ' "I sot good and mad," said Toscano, former semi-professional baseball and . football player in Jersey City, "when my buddies said it couldn't be done. Indonesians Reject Truce BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 13 (P) Indonesian leaders from Sumatra today rejected Dutch offers of dominion status and declared that they would support the un recognized Indonesian republic in its fight for full independence. , Their position was stated by Acting Governor Amir of the Sumatran Indonesian "govern ment" after a conference with Premier Sutan Sjahrlr and other leaders of the "reDublic." Amir and three members of his staff were flown here from Padang in a British plane. ' ; Army G.T. Blisters Brass Hats Private Testifies On Universal Military Training Plan By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 UP) While a score of generals and colonels listened attentively, an army GI opposed to universal military training blistered "army brass hats" today at a house com mittee hearing. He was Pvt. George L. Mark, Cleveland, , O., who received from the army an extension of his leave in order that he might testify before the house military committee. To enable the 37-year-old GI to get Out of town in time in reach Camp Atterbury, Ind., to morrow ior aiscnarge, tne com mittee heard him schedule. Actine Chairman Thomason (D-Tex.). interrupting uib iwo-oay testimony ot lour major generals and requesting them to "take a back seat for a wruie. - . '. Asks Protection Before attacking what hr called "the Pentagon Boy Scout," "bemedaled fourfl ush ers" and "aristocratic phoneys of the Pentagon castle," Private Mark asked the committee if it would protect him from any pos- ioie omciai repercussions from his testimony. . He was assured by Thomason that "the committee will protect you; this is still a free country." : Mark, who said he has -three children, two ..of whom are in military school, and is eligible ior aiscnarge by- reason of His age and fatherhood, explained that he didn't want to jeopardize the honorable discharge await ing mm at uamp Atterbury. ; -t . . ... , . . La Grande Girl Queen PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13 UP) Two pretty and talented Oregon girls, named Victory queens of eastern and western Oregon from candidates in a statewide bond selling campaign, leave here tomorrow for Hollywood and a chance at a screen career. . Miss Betty Sullins, pert Port land blonde dancer, and Miss Mary Ann Smith, La Grande, were chosen last night as Miss Western Oregon and Miss East ern Oregon. . '- Both girls leave . tomorrow aboard the Cascade, At the film land capital they will meet screen stars and be guests with seven otner girls from four west ern states at a round of enter tainment planned in their honor, All of the Victory queens will be given screen tests and one awarded a year's contract with a major Hollywood studio. Elton Thompson, chairman of the Klamath bond drive, report ed tnis morning that the Klam ath Victory Queen, Agnes Win ters, was tied with the La Grande queen for first place re garding beauty, charm, poise, and "queenly qualities" in the eastern division. The deciding factor, however, was in bond representation.' Miss Smith rep resented union county which ex ceeded its quota 139' per cent, while Klamath county went over its goal 105 per cent. ' Marshall ave IFu Warrdleir WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (AP) Cen. Ceorge C. Marshall flushing with anger, asserted today the army commander in Hawaii was given a "definite" alert order before tho JaDanes attacked December 7, 1941, and that he felt he could expect it would be carried out. Marshall testified before the senate-house committee ln vestigating the attack. Previously the investigators had learned that Lt. Cen. Walter C. Short, the Hawaiian com mander, established only an anti-sabotage alert In response to a warning message November 27 from Washington. The former army chief of staff flared up under persistent questioning about information given to overseas commanders in the last few days before the Pearl Harbor attack plunged this nation into war. "General Short was given definite direction," Marshall said, ne was given an alerts order. I still feel that when you give a command to a high offi cer you expect it to be carried out." This assertion followed up Marshall's statement yesterday that he Marshall was respon sible for actions of the general staff and that he had "full re sponsibility" for any failure in Washington to see that snort went on a full war alert. His testimony at that time came in response to a question from. Rep. Keefe (R-Wis.) whether Marshall, as chief of staff, should net have investi gated upon receiving Short's re ply about the sabotage alert. Marshall observed that it was "opportunity to intervene. ' . Responsible "Opportunity?" It was your responsibility, was it not?" Keefe asked. "You can put it that way," Marshall replied, then he add ed: "An Immense number of pa pers came over my desk. I am not passing the responsibility to the secretary of war. I was responsible for the actions of the general staff throughout. I was responsible for this. A very tragic thing occurred. I am not attempting to evade that at all." - Marshall said today, that Shnrt'n reaction to the. warning message, might have been; dif ferent if the Hawaiian comman der had received information, interceDted from- Tokyo, that the - Japanese were displaying great . interest in U. S. ship movements around Hawaii. Rep. Gearhart (R-Calif.) want ed to know why" Marshall didn't send that information to the Pearl Harbor commanders, Short and Adm. Husband E. Kimmel. Marshall replied he did not think the Japanese intercepts showed anything especially sig nificant, that Jatranese interest in ship movements was a long time, continuing uung. Tofcyp Rose's Sister Clamors For Beer Permit LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 (JP) Echoes of Tokyo Rose's cajoling broadcasts to American soldiers are floating all tle way across the Pacific. ' Before the state board of equalization Is the request of June Toguri whose sister, Iva, is under military arrest in Tokyo for trying to coax Amer ican troops to quit for a li cense to sell wine and beer. A board investigator has recom mended denial on the ground that the family grocery store is in Iva s name. But June says Iva was the only American-born member of the family of age when it was purchased with combined sav ings of all the Toguris. "Just because Iva is under suspicion is no reason why I should be legislated against," she cried. "1 am an American citizen and every member of my family has been law-abiding until iva's situation arose." Klamath Thermometers Drop Another Notch To Hit New Seasonal Low Of 14 Degrees Klamath basin thermometers dropped another notch Wednes day night as a seasonal low of 14 degrees was officially record ed, and the reading on several unofficial thermometers was as low as 9 degrees. The weather man said more of the same could be expected tonight and Friday. The cold wave was general throughout the state with below freezing temperatures being marked .up in coastal cities as well as inland points. Astoria reported 26 degrees; Portland shivered at 24: Eugene and Med- ford's low was 22, while Grants Pass recorded 24. ''. . The coldest spot in the state was at Meacham. on the Old Oregon Trail in the Blue moun tains, where the mercury plum meted to 9 degrees above zero. Navy Decries Baring Of Jap Code Secret WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 UP) Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal today called it a "ter rible tragedy" that the secrets of breaking the Japanese code have been made public. The cabinet member mad this statement before the senata: military committee while urging a navy department plan for post war reorganization or tne armed forces. This plan counters tha war department proposal for merging the armed forces into single organization. "it was very unfortunate," Forrestal said of the code break ing disclosures. -We were playing the Pacific war poker game with a mirror behind another man's hand," ha said, referring to the value of tha code secret during hostilities. Forrestal mentioned tha cracking of Jap codes as he urged a single postwar intelli gence agency for all government agencies. This is one feature of the navy's reorganization proposal.-: y Senator i-Maybdnk (D-S." C asked how such things as tha code secret's disclosure could b avoided in the future. " "It is one of the penalties I should say one of the corrolaries of a democratic system of gov ernment," replied Forrestal. House Price Control Hit WASHINGTON, Dec. IS VP) Administration-endorsed legisla tion to fix price ceilings on new and existing houses ran -into stiff opposition today. The most outspoken criticism of the proposed control program approved by President Truman came from real estate circles. On Capitol Hill, a spot check of the house banking committee considering the price-fixing leg islation disclosed that a number of members believe Mr. ' Tru man already has sufficient au thority to deal with the housing: problem. '-- '... This sentiment was echoed by the National Association of Home Builders, which said the imminent restoration . of build ing materials to a priorities sys tem made price ceilings un necessary. ' . Frank W. Cortwright, execu tive vice president of the asso ciation, said his organization would continue to oppose ceil ings "as unrealistic and unwork able, and as a stumbling block to solving the housing prob lem.'' . Tice Acquitted ; Of Manslaughter MEDFORD, Dec. 13 (JP) A federal court jury found Ralph William Tice, 34-year-old In dian, innocent of a manslaugh ter charge yesterday. - i Tice testified that he shot Eu gene Mecum, also Indian, in self defense near Chiloquin Aug. 13. The state highway, commis sion reported packed snow on the Willamette Pass at Odell lake, where the temperature was 3 degrees with a neavy over cast. There was 72 inches of snow on the ground. Packed snow on The Dalles California highway, between Klamath Falls and Bend was also reported, and chains were advised on all mountain and snow-covered roads. The eastern part of the United States was recovering from its first cold snap of the year, with heavy snowfall ranging general ly through the Mississippi val ley and moving east. . Local forecasters could offer little relief, however, with con tinued clear and cold weather the prospect for several day. - Arriving In ' United States By Associated Press George H. Campbell, Cpl., 934 Addison, Klamath Falls, arrived on General Mitchell due in San Francisco Decem ber 11.. : -., ! Hilbert O. Her tog, Sgt Klamath Falls, arrived on General Mitchell due in San Francisco December 11. James W. Overturf, Tee 4, Klamath Falls, arriving on J. C. McAndrew due in New York December 14. j Rodney Shaw, Tec 5, Klam ath Falls, arriving on J. C. McAndrew due in New York December 14, - Albert E. Glynn, PFC, Klamath Falls, arriving- on J. C. McAndrew -due in New York December 14.
