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4 4 1 I fo) .uv IK By FRANK JENKINS THERE are two straws In tho world peace (or maybe war) news today one hopeful, tho 1 other on tho pessimistic aide, S T-IIE hopeful straw floats In the ' China winds, whero General Chou En-luli head of the com !J iniinlnt delegation to the Chinese S "nll-Durtv iHilltk'nl consultative council" that l trying to got to gether to talk peace In China, toll reporters! "A hull to civil warfare Is China's first need! peaceful na tional reconstruction Is her sec ond." , Ho adds: "In n word. THERE IS civil war. Wo will DEMAND cos- mi I Ion of hostilities. This Is In conformity with tho desires of the Chlncso people." THAT sounds almost too good to bo truo, So keep your fingers crossed. We're learning by experience that When ono side in any of thoso International dickers makes a concession It DEMANDS A PRICE. It Isn't yet apparent what Chou En-liil's price may be. But at least ANY reasonable tii Ik of peace tinkles pleasantly . In tho car these days. ;E Wcstorn Americans are osncclnllv interostdl in peace In China, which COULD be standing at tho door of a long period of great development that 'could result In immense trade With the United Suites. Don't forget that the original Impulse for the settlement of tho Pacific Coast came from be lief In tho possibilities of vast and profitable trado with the ORIENT. Because the Orient has remained undeveloped, this dream of the Western ploncors has not yet como true. It CAN como true If the Chi nese quit fighting among them elves and gut down to work.. BECAUSE of the NAME, we are instinctively suspicious of the Chineso communists. We ' shall be wise If we keep an open : mind. Thoso Chinese reds seem i to be a peculiar breed. They MIGHT turn out to be all right For tho present, let's give thera tho benefit of the doubt. , fVliZ not-so-hopeful news comes iJA from Iran, whose premier (Ibrahim Hakltnl) tolls the Iran- Inn parliament today mat lie nas "decided to take strong measures gainst the INSURGENT group which has seized Azerbaijan province" . He adds: "All true Iranians wish to maintain the Integrity and great ness of their native land, and opposo tho acts and treacherous propaganda curried out by band of adventurers." THE trouhle is that these "ad venturers" in Azerbaijan ap pear to bo backed by Russia, - who seems Intent upon building up around herself a ring of friendly governments even If (as in Azerbaijan) she has to fomont revolts against adjacent governments (such as Iran) In order to accomplish her purpose. That smacks of tho onclont princlplo of the "cordon sonl talro" and tho "buffer state" . which, history tells us plainly, NEVER VET haB brought poaco. CHARLES LINDBERGH, in his first public address since 1041, says In Washington last night (at on anniversary celebra tion of the Wright Brothers' first flight): ''Man's sclcnco has brought me to a cholco of whether I will live in an organized world or in constant insecurity. Aircraft and the atom bomb have mntio it no longer a question of wheth er or not we should have world organization but of WHAT FOHM it should lake." Ho adds: "I havo advocated tonight a world organization backed by military power . . . But I must confess to you that I am FEAR FUL of the use of power. I plead for strong (International) military forces only because I bolicve tho ALTERNATIVE Is worse." HTHE alternative suggested but not named by Lindbergh is OVERNIGHT conquest of the world by some ambitious Hitler who will use the atom bomb to accomplish his purpose. It is an alternative that can't be wholly laughed off. Reefer Cars Due This Afternoon The first refrigerator cars, re routed from eastern points to the Klamath basin to relieve a ' serious shortage In potato ship ping facilities, were expected to arrive this afternoon, Southern Pacific officials reported, While tho number of reefers will not be known until tholr arrival, it will be definitely moro than : has- been routed I through tho basin In past , months and Is expected to In i crease daily, they said. Passenger business Is heavy this week and expected to con tinue during tne holiday rush, mo raurona reported. Mall, ex press and freight facilities are running at near-capacity rate, it was said. PRICE FIVE CENTS '.o , . . . "kLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 18, If Humbw 1087 Telephone Bill MM TELLS 'WS&MBet Stalin Back In Moscow After Rest Foreign Ministers Of Big Three Tackle Hard Problems Br EDDY GILMOHE MOSCOW, Dec. 18 MO Gen eralissimo Stalin, rested by long vacation, was back at his desk today as the foreign min isters of Soviet Russia, Great Britain and the United states prepared for their third formal session on world problems with a fcellns of reserved optimism. Stalin roturncd from his 68- day holiday yesterday, Just four days before' his 80th birthday, and plunged immediately Into his duties as president of the council of people's commissars. His long absence from the Kremlin had given rise to ru mors abroad that he was 111, but these reports had been de nied both by Soviet officials and by U. S. Ambassador W. Aver ell Harrlman. who visited him at his Black sea retreat near Sochi. .Good Health Harrlman reported on his re turn that he had found Stalin in excellent health and enjoying his holiday. - Similar assurances as to the generalissimo's health were given only two days ago to U, S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and British Forolgn Socrutary Ernest Bavin by high Soviet officials.. .. Stalin's roturn-was announced by a brief statement published in all Moscow newspapers, say ing: ''Yesterday, December 17, the president of the council of "peo ple! commissars, USSR, Com rade Stalin, roturncd from his vacation to Moscow and entered upon the fulfillment of his du ties." The announcement came as the "big three' foreign min isters, meeting here since Sun day, finished their preliminary talks and prepared to get down to discussion of some of the basic issues of world peace and prosperity which were believed to be on their agenda. End Of China Strife Sought CHUNGKING, Dee. 18 (IP) The head of the Chlncso com munist peace delegation declared today that a halt to civil warfare was China's first need, and peaceful national reconstruction was her second. For that reason, Gen. Chou En lal told newsmen, he would seek a cessation of hostilities before tho all-party political consulta tive council convokes its peace session. Date for the session has not been set. Failing that, Chou said, he would insist that this be the first item on the council's agen da. He said the communists had their own plans for stopping civil strife but declined to disclose them. He also announced that the communists would demand an open general election for the na tional assembly, which he said was selected before the war with Japan and no longer was representative. Death For His Pet Dog & SjuHD. . . ' L.I Hflnnnnnn'nni F. G. Bauer. 79-yeaz-old semi-Invalid, signs a death warrant tor his pet dog. Buster,- after a Los Angeles municipal Judge promised suspension of Bauer's jail term if the dog were de stroyed. Bauer drew a 90-day sentence for harboring a vicious animal after witnesses told of being bitten by Buster. Bauer fainted as officers went out to shoot the dog. (AP wlrephoto). 'Death March" Prejudice Withdraw From Tribunal YOKOHAMA, Dec. 18 (IP) A member of the U. S. military commission set up to try small fry Japanese war criminal sus pects withdrew today after the defense argued his ordeal in the Bataan death march might have left him prejudiced. Col. John H Ball of Williams- Lindy Urges Armed Might WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (IP) Charles A. Lindbergh says man's science has brought him to a choice of whether he will live "in an organized world or . in constant insecurity." . Aircraft and the atomic bomb, the one-time non-interventionist declared at an Aero club dinner, have made it "no longer a ques tion of whether or not we should have world organization, but of what form it should take.'! - Lindbergh chose a celebra tion of the 42nd anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight for his ' first public .. address since 1941.. At that time he resigned his colonel's commission in the air force reserve during a dis pute with President . Roosevelt over foreign policy. "I have advocated tonight a world organization backed' by military power, organization led by western peoples who devel oped modern science with its aviation and its atomic bomb," Lindbergh-said last night. "But I must confess to you that I am fearful of the use of power. I plead for strong mili tary forces only because I be lieve the alternative is worse." 80 Indonesian Rebels Die In Hand-To-Hand Fighting BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 18 (IP) At least ' 80 Indonesians were killed yesterday In bitter hand-to-hand fighting at Buitenzorg with a British Indian column which suffered 32 casualties, the newspaper of the 23rd Indian di vision reported today. Three Indians were killed. A British officer and 28 Indians wore wounded when the column encountered a road block 80 miles south of Bntavla, the news paper "Fighting Cock'' said. The Indonesians were estimated to total 300. ' An official British press state ment issued earlier minimized the action and did not list the Indonesian casualties, asserting that two British troops were killed and flvo were wounded. The Indonesians were armed with machineguns and rifles. Two hundred and fifty Euro peans and Eurasians were evacu ated from Bandoeng. Some of the evacuees said that Indone sians seized 32 persons there December 9, and that nothing had been heard from them since. Indonesians were reported to havo occupied Ambarawa, which was evacuated recently by the British. An RAF Thunderbolt was shot down yesterday near Soerabaja, but the pilot was reported to havo balled out successfully. - A RAF spokesman said that In donesian anti-aircraft ..gunners were inflicting heavier' propor tional losses than the Japanese were able to do in Burma. Group Capt. W. D. Davis, sen ior staff officer of the allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies, told reporters that the British had lost 13 or 14 planes in Java, and that four, or five of this number were ihot down. town, Pa., , who survived that march of honor, stepped down in the interests of fair play shortly before the opening- of first trial of a Japanese in his homeland on war crimes charges. . The dubious distinction of being the first defendant was given Tatsuto Tsuchiya or ''Lit tle Glass Eye," who pleaded in nocent. The prosecution announced it would ; seek the ' death - penalty for the former prison guard, charged . with - "brutally and atrociously" , beating to death PFC Robert Gordon Teas with knotted ropes. Tsuchiya is the first of some 400 'Japanese underlings who will be brought to trial for war crimes. Tsuchiya stood blinking be fore the tribunal of be-ribboned colonels in a small chamber of the courthouse. After he plead ed innocent, the prosecution said it would prove that Tsuch iya a guard at the Mltsushlma prison camp participated in tho brutal murder of Teas and was guilty of other war crimes. MaJ. Louis Geffen, the prose cutor, said "Little Glass Eye" took an "Inhuman delight in the atrocities." The defense argued against Ball's participation in the trial shortly before Tsuchiya's ar raignment. Ball said, however, that nothing that had happened to him as a prisoner would af fect his judgment unless it were connected directly with his per sonal experiences. - The colonel said he lost 90 pounds - during his imprison ment. . - Dismissal Of Woolley Sought SALEM, Dec. 18 (P)l Dis missal of M. D. Woolley. sdirr- lntendent of the State Trainifu School at Woodburn. was d,'." manded today by 38 women whT. HMoanliul nnllltnn. ,a Ik. -I . . ' nnnrrl nf .nnnirnl . The women members of Wj: First Christian church here, asked the board to . dismiss Woolley because of the policy of whipping boys at the institu tion, i ' . Wdolley announced last Sat urday that whippings would be discontinued immediately. The women condemned the whippings as "barbaric." . . WEATHER December IB, 1945 ' Max.. (Dec. 17)....32 Min.....l8 Precipitation last 24 hrs...Trace Stream year to date... 4.77 Normal ....3.73 Last year 3.66 Forecast: Cloudy Wednesday. Wednesday Shooting H o u r s t Klamath-Tulelake Open 7:19 a. m. Close 4i27 p. m. Cruiser Was Not Ordered To Zigzag Navy Captain Asserts Visibility Made It Unnecessary WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (IP) Capt. Charles B. McVay, third, testified at his court-martial to day that he did not order the Indianapolis to maintain a zigzag course the night the heavy cruiser was lost because he con sidered visibility conditions made it unnecessary. Captain McVay is being tried on charges of negligence and in efficiency in the loss of the war- snip lost July 30 while en route from Guam to Leyte. The navy has attributed the ship's loss to an enemy submarine. The accused officer took the stand today at his own reouest. He said visibility was poor that nignt ana mere was no moon, hence he did not order the zigzag course maintained. . Dramatically recounting the story of his actions in the 19 minutes which elansed between the explosions and the ship's smiting, uapt. jucvay said he was asleep in ' his emergency cabin when the -explosions oc curred, tie naa retired, be said, about 11' p. m. .' His first ' impression when awakened was that the ship had been struck by 'a' suicide clans. Then, he .satd. M:ialied they were out of the area where a suicide attack might occur, -and ne reanzea n musi nave oeen mines or torpedoes. - . - Distress Metsaee He went out on deck, he said. and was informed that all com munications were out. that the damage control officer had gone below to determine ' the situa tion, and that efforts to signal the engine room to stop engines had been fruitless.' He said he sent word immediately to the radio shack to get out a distress message. ' : He said he was unable to see anything from the bridge to in dicate the extent of damage, but me snip men was maintaining a fairly even keel. . The damage control officer re ported snoruy thereafter that his examination indicated the ship was badly damaged and asked the captain if he wanted. to order the ship abandoned. McVay said he replied, "no.1 that he thought the damage could be controlled and ordered the officer to go below again and recnecK. Man Identifies Cline Picture MACON, Ga Dec. 18 (IP) Solicitor General Charles Gar rett said today that a mortuary employe had identified a picture of Alfred Leonard Cline of San Francisco, as the man who made arrangements for the cremation here of the body of Mrs. Alma Willa Carter. Signatures of an F. A. Klein and of Mrs. Carter were found yesterday by detectives on , a Macon hotel register of February 17, 1944. - The signatures will be compared with handwriting specimens of Alfred Leonard Cline and with a Mrs. Alice W. Carpenter. Mrs. Carpenter was reported by St. Petersburg, Fla., police to have left that city with unne on ieDruary 14, : iv4. They said Mrs. Carpenter told friends Cline had proposed mar riage. . i . n Shopping Marks Shattered Here : Pre-war year shopping records were shattered in Klamath Falls Saturday and Monday as mer chants reported the biggest days in the history of Main street business. One of the large chain stores said Saturday was the big gest day in business volume since the store opened here, and anoth er aovisea $uuu over any pre war holiday snopping Saturday. Although stocks were dwhv dllng and wanted, merchandise was pinched, Christmas gifts were still available. Week days were proving better than Satur days as shoppers apparently at tempted to. avoid tne crowds. Several new Klamath Falls stores said they could not make a comparison but that business was more than satisfactory. Hello There, Santa Claus! f ' s 4 t' h Wide-eved Norma Jean Jones is a bit flustered by Santa Claus who picked her up as she was shopping in Wards toyland today. Norma Jean is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Jones. 136 Michigan, and was just one of hundreds of children who told .their wants to Santa as he lent a sympathetic ear to Christmas morning demands. Klamath Kids Given Right To Sled On 3 City Streets ' The right to use three city streets lor uninterrupted sled ding was given to local children this morning, as a special com mittee appointed by the city council ruled that Worden street, Portland from Pacific Terrace to the railroad, tracks, and 2nd frqpv.'Qrant to California were to -be. used- asicoasting spots. . - The committee which includ ed the city council, the city Foreseen Here 'Building permits totalling $70,000 and evidencing that Klamath Falls is in for a post war construction boom were okayed last night by the city council. , The biggest permit was for the proposed new Coca-Cola Bottling company structure to be erected on the corner of Spring and Main, costing $40, 000. ' Another permit for re modeling the Sears and Roe buck building on 9th and Klam ath called for an expenditure of $20,000. ; - Fred Lekberg is the architect for' Coca-Cola and Howard R. Perrin for Sears.. A permit calling for $6000 remodeling on Sugarman's cor ner of 6th and Main,; was. ap proved for. James W. Pinniger, who also will make $300 worth of alterations at the chamber of commerce building. . A new propane gas distribu tion plant is to be erected on Main across the Link river bridge, costing $3000.- That per mit went to Gordon Schimburg. The council also approved an addition to a dwelling at 218 Martin at $400 by Jack Brosnan and a new roof at 610 Klamath, $300, to C. L. Huggins. i Motoroiai. Loses Life In Tiny Cab Judge, the chief of police, the city attorney and the recreation director, said the areas will be protected by traffic signs to warn motorists, and that traffic supervisors will be on hand to enforce safety precautions for both sledders and motorists. No Parking 5 vi Residents of "the -three areas arr requested hot -to-parlr their cars on me streets in oroer to give the kids a chance for smooth sledding. : Designation of the streets as official coasting areas came as the result of requests on the part of many parents that protected areas be set- up for the chil dren. - . '. ...y . Motorists are requested to watch for the signs, and to fol low directions of the traffic su pervisors. . -,- -. ; ... E. E. Hambrick, city recrea tion director, pointed out that sledding in any other areas out side of the official spots is haz ardous both to children and au tomobile drivers, and urged that only the official areas be used. KF Stores Free Of Shoplifters One factor of the usual Christ mas shopping rush is missing this year, according to Police Chief Orville Hamilton, and that is shoplifting. Not a single case has been reported this season. Hamilton said there were two possible explanations either the local merchants are so busy they haven't noticed anything missing, or the sticky-fingered clientele of former years has enough money this season to ac- Suire their Christmas presents in le conventional manner. Klamath Falls merchants never have been plagued with organized rings of shoplifters as many cities have, Hamilton said, with most of the local pilfering done by kids from 10-cent store counters. Subway Smashes Into Center Span Of Lift Bridge NEWARK, N. J Dec. 18 VP) A Hudson and Manhattan tuba train, carrying . n e a r 1 y 1000 home-bound commuters, from New York, crashed last night into the raised center span of a lift bridge over the Passala river only 100 feet from It Newark destination killing the motorman and injuring at least 69 passengers. Eugene Dubois, public rela tions executive of the Pennsyl vania railroad, of which the H. & M. is an affiliate, said the 7-car train apparently passed stop signals . and the "smash board," which gives extra warn ing that the span is closed to train traffic. Dubois set the time of the accident at 6:37 p. m., adding that the signals were in proper working order at the time. . Police Chief Philip Slebold of Newark said the left section of the bridge was four feet short of - closing, after being raised for passage of ship, when the head car of the train jumped into the opening. The first car buckled in the middl and the second car partially tele scoped It. Motorman Dies The motorman, Michael J. Mullin,' 36, of New York, was crushed in his tiny motorman'f cab, Dubois said. Detective Lieutenant Arthur Ford of the Harrison police said an autopsy would be performed today on Mullln's body to deter mine whether the motorman died before the accident oc curred. If the tube train had arrived at the bridge a few minutes earlier, Ford said, if would have plunged through the open span and carried its 1000 passengers info the icy river. ' . Emergency crews and rescue workers struggled for more than three hours cutting away , twist ed steel with acetylene torches before finally freeing two men and a woman trapped in the lead car. Thev vweraJdentif ied . as Roberty Kelly, 48, conductor.. of new torn; Chester Middle ton, conductor, and Alice Moro wirth,' of Newark, whose con dition, is critical. Union Rejects Ford Offer Of 75-Cent Wage Increase By The Associated Press The Ford Motor company to day offered the CIO United Auto Workers a salary increase of 12 Va per cent or 15 cents an hour and the union rejected it. The company had proposed the increase without requesting a boost in the ceiling prices of automobiles but Richard T. Leonard, Ford director for the UAW-CIO, described it as "com pletely unacceptable to the union." v The company combined Its offer with a "company securi ty" demand involving fines up to $5000 for "illegitimate strikes'." The offer, the company said, would becomo effective when production reaches 80,000 units a month and would represent an expense to the company of $33,000,000 and "a gamble." Twice Rejected The union twice has rejected an offer increase of 13 M cents an hour or 10 per cent from General Motors, in settlement of its demands for' a 30 per cent wage rate boost. ' John S. Bugas, Ford labor re lations director, said - the pro- 4 posed salary rates would con tinue for two years from the date they become effective. He added: s "Theoretically we could ' ask the government to raise ceiling prices enough to cover a wage increase. We do not think it wise to go on that road at this time,- because present govern ment policy is based on the be lief that only adherence to OPA ceiling prices would prevent in flation. "That put' the ' problem squarely up to the Ford Motor company and Its employes. Un less we give up the problem as Insoluble, we have no alterna tive but to take a gamble." . In the General Motors strike, where 175,000 employes re mained idle, pickets prevented employes from entering the Flint, Mich., plant of the cor poration's AC sparkplug divi sion. Police broke through the picket line yesterday, clearing a path . for 10,000 non-striking employes,, and Police . Chief James T. Byars said the union had assured him workers would not be prevented from entering today. Winter Grips Entire Nation Old Man . Winter sat tight to day and kept the mercury 'way below freezing and holiday shoppers shivered in a noon hour 20 degrees above zero. Minimum this morning was 18. It looked like a white Christ mas for Klamath Falls with lit tle . relief in sight, here or throughout the nation from the existing cold spell . which has held a wide portion of the coun try, in a bitter grip for several days. . . : '. i Residents of the Klamath basin were fortunate, in com parison to other sections of the country. Folks with relatives in Buffalo, N. Y., learned that that city experienced blizzard condi tions and even the schools were closed. Coldest Reading .' : As winter tightened its clutch on Oregon today, the weather bureau reported a low of 17 degrees below zero at the Baker airport. This was the coldest reading officially record ed in the state. The highway commission thermometer, how ever, recorded 24 below at Meacham, and it was 4 degrees above at Lakeview. Portland's mercury sank to 28 and other minimum temperatures : were Bend, 23; Burns, 8; Eugene, 33; Medford, 22; Pendleton, 6; Rose burg, 38, and Salem, 23. The Dalles-California high way has been plowed and sand ed and is in good winter condi tion but chains are advised. Fog was reported at Odell lake and a total snow depth of 74 inches. Medford reported roads in that (Continued on foge 3, Colama 1) Arriving In United States By Associated Press Ralph D. Shoulders, T4, Klamath Falls arrived on Bernard Carter due in Boston December 18. John M. Emmons, 8Sgt., Klamath Falls, . arrived on Fltzhugh Lee due in New York December 15. Cristian P. Ellington, T4, McCloud, - arrived on Kota Agoeng due in Los Angeles December 13. A rt h u r J. Huntingdon, lilLt., Mount Shasta, arrived on Payne Wingate due in New York December 16. Lto J. Brennan Jr., T3, Klamath Falls, arrived on Samuel Ashe due in New York December 13. Franklin R. Hall, TS, Bly, arrived on James J. Hill due in New York December 12. ,
