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Newspaper Page Textmm M1 fo) 7 Telephone Mill price rive CENTS .V KLAMATH FALLS, OREQC pVtY. DECEMBER 80, 15 WEATHER NEWS Dicimbit 20, 1945 Mix. (Dee. 19) 20 Mill. ....12 Precipitation last 24 houri ........ .00 Stream year to data 4.77 Normal 3.9S Last year 3.80 Forecast: Light rain tonight and Friday. Friday Shooting Houri: Klamath-Tulelakei Open 7s21 a. m. Close 4:29 p. m. Number 10699 lnJTfce " i Ipfli By TRANK JENKINS OTHER than that SUIIn ii on ,v the Job and taking an active Ititorcat in the Droceccllniiii. there d la no new.' ' locluy from the critically Important forolgn mill' istors conference in Moscow, TON'T expect much newi until tho conference ENDS. We'll tliiTi nut an official statement, tell I iik in what the big people think we llltlo people ought to be allowed to know. Thnt Is tho traditional rule of diplomacy. nUSSIAN newspapers (which v prln only what the Soviet government want thorn to pi . publish today a 4000-word Tc from two Georgian republic (part of the USSR) leader who demand that Turkey GIVE UP AREAS near the Turkish-Rui-uluii frontier. Watch it. It looks like a further development of Russia's iciea or creating a ring or "iriena Iy" states around her borderi. "THAT Ii Interesting, becaune It Indicates thnt Russia's think ing on the Rtibject of national ncurlty ii following the OLD linen rather than the NEW. ANY alant on Russia's think tng In tliee day is important. GENERAL MARSHALL ar rlvwm In Rhiintfhiil. Am htm ilane landa, the Chinese com- r UNCONDITIONAL cessation of TI tnunlsU k the Chungking tmment for an IMMEDIA tioitllltlea. A Chinese commun ist party spokesman In Man churia expresses "sincere hopes vf reaching compromise with Vie juiominutng tumingKing Chlanc Kai-shek) oarty." ' Ha adds thnt "there have been many American diplomats and ..ttOjy officer who., have been rjT txtremely fair In' their deal ng -with the (Chinese) communists and by their Impartial reports Mve made invaluable contri butions toward the growth of Chinese-American friendship." fHK Chi nose reds, who were ' eusslng us up on side and down the other a few woeks ago. are now going out of their way to speak softly and conclllatlngly to us. There mud be a reason for tills chance of attitude. The CYNICAL guess that naturally occurs to us Is that .they have been doserted by Rus sia (in whatever Chungking- Hufi.ilii-U. S. deal may have been completed) and now find It ex pedient to make friends with us. Z mm IT'S unfortunate that we have . to do all this guessing about the foreign policies our sons ana grandsons may have to die for. A truly MODERN Amorlcan foreign policy would explain IN ADVANCE what the American Dconle are being committed to. It- Is regrcttnblo Dial diplo macy Isn I modern. COR the present, let's give these . Chinese communists the bene fit of the doubt and HOPE they mean what they soy that they want to get civil war stopped and get to work building a new China thnt will be a TREMEND OUS customer of tho United States. m L ARRIS TYGHE, Tokyo cor rnannnrlnnt nf , 1. n AmirlMin Broadcasting company (formerly the Blue notwork), reports today what looks like a showdown with the Russians over Japan. Ho Quotes MncArthur as hav ing refused to permit them to bring in an ARMY, limiting them instead to a DIVISION. They then insisted thnt they be allowed to occupy Hokkaido, 'northernmost Jnp Island, ana again MncArthur said NO that they could occupy only Kyushu, the southernmost island, where there would be American forces to the NORTH of them. (The -implication is that If they got into inr-nortn Hokkaido they'd NEVER GET OUT.) Tho missions refused to ac cept occupation of Kyushu, Tygho says, whereupon Mac Arthur said to them in effect: "All right, don't send an oc cupation force. We don't need It, anyway." Tyghe adds that MncArthur has reportedly told our state de partment that If he Isn't backed up In this policy lie will resign. TF this story turns out to be accurate, it Is immensely In teresting. This writer's snap Judgment (for whatever it Is worth) is that we'd better keep the Russians out of Japan, We're having trouble enough with JOINT occupation of Germany. We have a bear by the tail in Japan, but we'd better hang on and handle the job alone, COME 300,000 Jap school teach era (who must have been reading tho American papers) have filed a petition asking the (Contlnntd on Jt 3. Column f) Union Rejects Ford's Offer As Inadequate By The Associated Press The CIO United Auto Workers union said today It had rejected the Ford Motor company's offer of a 12.4 per cent wage rate Increase on the ground It was Inadequate to offset higher living eosts. The union. In formally rejecting the offer, listed four major contentions. They werei 1. That the raise would not be a blanket Increase and that "a great many workers might get little or nothing." 3. That Instead of standing to lose $35,000,000 on the basis of no raise boosts, the company "will have one of Its most profitable years because for the first time In many years the company is assured of capacity operation and a market for all It can possibly produce." 3. That the company's condition the wage boost be withheld until production reaches 10.000 units monthly would delay an t increase "for an indefinite period." 4. That the company's propos al for "company security" would Solons Split Over Plan To Merge Forces WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 P) Opposing congressional lines in the battle of the merger showed no signs of cracking today de spite President Truman's re quest that army, navy and air forces be unified under a single civilian secretary.' First members of the home and senate military committees to comment were for the plan, as they have been - all along. Members of the naval commit tees were still against It. Only committee member devi ating from this lineup was Chnlrmnn May (D-Ky.) of the house military group. He al ready had joined with Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) of the house naval committee in proposing a separate air force with cabinet representation Instead of a mer ger of the services. Chairman Elbert Thomas (D Utah) of the senate military com mittee told a reporter "we will have a good bill to carry out the B resident's ideas shortly after le holidays." No Differences Senator Hill (D-Ala.), a mili tary committee member -and au thor of one unification bill, de clared "J favor closing hearings at once and starting to work on legislation. There are no mater ial differences between tiro pres ident's basic' plan and the bills on which, we have held hear ings." Senator Edwin G. Johnson (D Colo.), who also has a merger bill In the legislative mill, com mented jubilantly that Mr. Tru man's plan "could not have been better If I had written it my self." Tire Ration To End January J . WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (IP) Tire rationing will -and at 12:01 a. m., on January 1, Price Administrator Chester Bowles announced today, He said the rationing pro gram can be terminated then "because production of tires, particularly passenger tires, the shortage of which has been most acute, has increased steadily during the past two months, reaching an output for this quarter of about 11,000,.' 000." Bowles said OPA and the civilian production adminis tration had .agreed that ra tioning could be lifted when production reached this level. free the company from accepting any responsibility itself for pro voking "wildcat strikes. On the company security is sue, the unions original pian would have made the company and lis supervisors liable for fines if shown to have provoked work stoppages. President Truman's first fact finding boards, studying wage disputes in the oil and automo bile industries, faced crucial tests today as they prepared de cisions on the question Involving consideration of profits and prices in recommending a pos sible pay increase. The panel in the General Motors case planned Its first pub lic hearings today, but Chairman Lloyd K. Garrison said after yes terday's preliminary meeting with the company and the CIO United Auto workers union that it would recess until' Saturday to rule on whether to accept tes timony on profits and possible price boosts. 1 - He said General Motors - had refused to show its books to. an swer the union's claim that it could absorb a 30 per cent wage hike. Garrison also said that GM said prices are a matter to be discussed with the office of price administration and are of no concern to the union or the fact-finding board. Midwest Porkers Arrive In KF There will be an ample supply of fresh sausage for Christmas morning breakfast and ham and bacon hungry folks are assured of plenty of those two products shortly after the first of the year with importation of midwest pork here this week. . Johnson-Pecking company ad vised this morning that double deck carloads of porkers, corn fed and fresh from mid-west hog ranches have arrived here to re lieve the pork shortage. One load arrived last week, another this morning. There are ' 130 head in each shipment and the 200 hogs should go around at least for a time. Some of the pork has reached the market and supplies should be plentiful within a week. X Curing of hams and bacon has already started and should be I table-ward right after the first ui. mic yem, tiumison siHica. TROOP CARRIERS SEATTLE, Dec. 20 (IP) Army authorities said the two giant aerial troop carriers being used in today's effort to speed mid western veterans home for Christmas would land at Boeing field at 5:30 p. m. (PST), load 100 men each and hop off for Chicago and the Fort Sheridan separation center . Socialite Annie Mansfeldi Convicted Of Manslaughter SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 (IP) Socialite Annie Irene Mnnsfeldt, charged with the slaying of nurse Vndn Martin, supposed love rival, was convicted of man slaughter lost night by a super ior court jury which deliberated 4 hour and 38 minutes. Next Wednesday the same jury of six men and six women, who sat through the three and a half week court battle, will ngnln convene to determine if the 45-ycar-old San Francisco . matron was sane when she shot the pret ty, 36-year-old Baltimore nurse last October 4. Mrs. Mnnsfeldt, widow of wealthy Dr. John H. Mnnsfeldt, who committed suicide a few hours after the tragedy, pleaded innocent nnd innocent by reason of insanity. Under Cnlifornla Inw she now must stand trinl on the second half of tho plen. If found snnc. she nutnmnllrnl- ly will be sentenced to one to 10 years on tho manslaughter con viction. It found Insane she will be committed to an institution. Chief Defense Counsel Vincent Hallinan said Inst night he plans two courses of action. He will appeal the manslaughter verdict on grounds that a wrong alter nate juror was chosen when one of the talesmen become ill, and he will move to obtain Mrs. Mansfeldt's release, if sh'o is found innocent of the crime by reason of insanity, on the con tention she has recovered her sanity since the shooting. Apparently stunned by Inst night's verdict, the nervous, pnle defendnnt appeared near col lapse as she wns led from tho courtroom. Later , in her county jail cell she said her chief concern was for her three children. "I hnven't any sense of guilt, but if I hnve a debt to society I nm willing to pay It In the right spirit," she said. . . i Homecoming Troops Jam Port W? "w m MM Back In the United States and hopeful of getting home for Christmas, these combat veterans of the Pacific war wait at the harbor in Los Angeles, for rail transportation. Arrival of many troopships congested available facilities far beyond capacity, and many are being kept aboard ship for several days waiting to be moved out. (AP wirephoto). . . . 725.000 Stranded Pacific Vets Slated To Begin Heading East By Rail Today SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 (P) About 125,000 restless Pa cific veterans, stranded at west coast ports for lack of sufficient transportation, are scheduled to begin heading eastward by rati today at the rate of 25,000 a day. -v.--:.' ... ; t. ?. -H. ''New arrivals, however, will replenish the backlog and some 80,000 men win nave to spena Christmas day at the ports, Four Persons Die In Fires SEATTLE, Dec. 20 (IP) Four persons were known to have per ished In fires in a rooming house here and at a farm house east of Kent early today and two others were missing and believed victims in the farmhouse ruins, bringing to either 10 or 12 the number of such Pacific north west fire deaths the past 48 hours. The dead in the rooming house blaze were tentatively identi fied as: Mrs. Myrtle Kaeier, landlady, Fred ; Winters and a woman whose name was not Im mediately known. The 1 a. m., fire eight miles east of Kent destroyed a two story farmhouse, Fire' Chief Charles Bridges of Kent report ed. The body of Mrs. Amanda Manty, 56, was found in the ruins. Her husband, Tom, 55, and a boarder, John Foote, 45, both lumber camp employes, were missing and their automo biles were in the yard. . .-. ' Firemen called at 5:03 a. m., to the First Hill district near the Swedish hospital found . a wovden , rooming house In flames. ' . - . , Two men and a woman were taken to King County hospital. Joseph Dempsey and Charles Rlngman were reported in a fair condition' and the condition of Alice Samlson was good, attend ants said.' Crippled Boy's Bike Stolen Another claimant for the "Meanest Man in the World" title appeared in Klamath Falls today when Western Union re ported that someone had stolen a crippled messenger boy's bi cycle from in front "of their of fice December 12. The boy is now attempting to deliver his messages on foot, , as he needs the money. Police search for the bike has been to no avail. It was a World bicycle, painted red, and carried city license No. 639. Anyone who sees this bicycle is asked to call Western Union. . PATTON WORSE HEIDELBERG, Germany,' Dec. 20 (IP) Gen. George S. Patton Jr., took a . slight turn for the worse todny when . he contracted a respiratory infec tion which wns reported delay ing his recovery from paralysis and a broken neck sustained in an automobile accident. The midday medical bulletin had reported an uncomfortable uiglit, . . ,., - . , .... I army ' and navy- officials ex-plained.- : Twelfth naval district head quarters said a new and sub stantially increased allotment of railway-equipment will give about 40 per cents of the travel space td. San rancisco ,35 per cent to the Portland-Seattle area and 25 per cent to the Los Angeles-San Diego area. ' ; San Francisco yesterday had 50,243 . service men awaiting transportation, and insufficient housing for them. Camp Knight at Oakland,' and Camp Kohler at Sacramento took 5000 men each to ease the load of two nearby stagina areas which or dinarily house returning vet erans. Post exchanges, guide- serv ices, telegraph offices and a bus tour were established at piers for the "barrack" ships. In the first hour after the transport Santa Monica docked, the men aboard had consumed 240 pints of milk and sent 400 telegrams. Between 20,000 and 30,000 soldiers are expected by army officials to be stranded here on Christmas day. In the Seattle and Portland areas the backlog numbered 44,384. At Tacoma ' men were held aboard ship for lack of space ashore. A case of smallpox aboard the Gruney, due to dock today at Portland, will delay unloading of 1861 men. Port officials said all personnel on the vessel would be vaccinated if they have not, already been. Denver, key transportation point for rail movements east ward,' reported the transport system further jammed by fam ilies going westward to join the returning men. At Los Angeles, a new stag- Merrill Man Killed In Crash MERRILL. Dec. 20 . Word has been received here o the death of Albert Spencer, 25, for mer Merrill resident, on Samar island, in the Philippines, on Oc tober 25. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Spencer, long-time residents of Merrill now living in Redmond. He enlisted in. the. navy soon after war was de clared and participated in sever al major battles. The message sent to Mr. and Mrs. Murray Howard, stated he was spraying DDT from a plane when it crashed. No other de tails were learned. His father was employed by the reclamation service during the time he lived here. Several brothers and sisters besides his parents, survive. Camp Adair Said Surplus WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A) Camp Adair, near Corvallis, Ore., has been declared surplus, the war department notified Sen ators Cordon and Morse of Ore gon today. Morse's ' assistants snid they were informed that all of the buildings at the camp would be sold. The land will be resold to the former owners if -they wish to buy it. Ing area was being opened today at Santa Ana air base to accom modate 5000 veterans. Brig. Gen. J. K. Herbert nort commander, said this move would get all men off ships by Christmas. A total of 17-,000're- tuniees Jwill be - jammed into two other-: staging areas by Christmas. . . Sixteen ships bearing 7900 men arrived today, bringing Los Angeles' backlog to more than 15,000. Mac Threatens To Quit Post SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 20 (IP) American Broadcasting Com pany Correspondent Larry Tighe reported today from Tokyo that General MacArthur and the Rus sians had disagreed over which of the Japanese home Islands Soviet forces would occupy, and that as a result Russians will not participate in the occupation at all. - Furthermore, Tighe said, Mac Arthur reportedly told the U. S. state department yesterday that if he were not let alone, and if Russia were allowed any further participation in occupation af- iairs, ne would resign. . ' Mac Says No "First the Russians wanted to bring an army over here," the correspondent asserted. "Mac Arthur said no. He would per mit them to bring one division. But they insisted that they be al lowed to occupy Hokkaido; northernmost of the mam is lands. MacArthur again said no, with the implication that if the Russians ever got into Hokkaido they'd never be dislodged. "MacArthur offered instead to let the Russians into southern most Kyushu, which would put American troops between the (Russian) homeland and the oc cupying force. Then the Rus sians said no. - MacArthur's an swer to that amounted to 'AH right, don't send an occupation force; we don't need it any way. . . . hoopers Disregard Dcy IBIosd-s Lata holiday shoppers milled through Klamath stores to day and appeared oblivious to the below freezing weather which was general throughout this area. A minimum of 1 1 degrees above zero at 9:30 o'clock last night was reported by CAA and from that point on the. mercury rose until at noon a high of 28 was chalked up by the weatherman. .--. The Associated Press wire was filled with weather news, none of it good. Winter appeared ready to continue holding the climatic spotlight for the next few months and the federal weather bureau reported a temporary break in the prolonged cold wave which has gripped a wide section of the country for the past several days. Forecasters, as forecasters often do, failed to agree entire ly on what was ahead for the-r- nation. A few said a new mass of cold air was moving in from central Canada and would hit the Dakotas and Minnesota to night. A blanket of snow ex tended from the. Rockies east ward into New England and in to the south, with the heaviest falls in the eastern section. Falls ranging to a depth of more than five feet were re ported in some sections of New York state. The extended cold snap, which has crippled transporta tion throughout the east and middle west, disrupted commu nications, forced schools to close and curtailed production in many industries, also was re sponsible for at least 62 deaths, the Associated Press said. . Freezing Rain - Getting back to Oregon, a freezing rain fell in sections of the western -part of the state, icing streets and roads and causing ' countless traffic mis baps. Towing business . was going great guns in Klamath Falls and two 24-hour operators said they had been hauling cars into garages steadily since the cold speU here. At least 60 per cent of the calls received by one ga rage are coming from the north ern section of the county where lixv hinhwavi have sent many a car into the. dltchi. There is a lot of battery trouDie anq Bat teries are scarce.: Any number of cars have experienced frozen gas lines and there is no anti freeze available although there is some alcohol. Relief from the anti-f reere situation was in sight, one operator said. He ex pects a shipment next week. The state highway depart ment said - there was a light snow falling oh Sun mountain on The Dalles-California high way and that means the stretch at that point is slippery and caution is urged. Sanding is go ing on in all areas where new snow has fallen. All snow equip ment continues in operation. Roads Dangerous Highway conditions, holiday motorists were loath to learn, were generally worse through out Oregon today with slick, roads In the mountain sections. Freezing rain last night made travel hazardous. Highways from Portland south to Albany were covered with a solid sheet of ice but the commission said it expected it to melt during the day. Temperatures throughout the state: Baker, 1 below; Bend, 23; Burns, 20; Eugene, 28; Lake view, 11; Meacham, 15; Med ford, 31; Pendleton, 15; Port land, 29; Roseburg, 36; Salem, 26.. , - - All long distance telephone circuits down the Pacific coast and a main artery east were re stored to normal operation dur ing the night, the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company reported today. Service has been disrupted by fog and frost on the wires near Klamath Falls. The American Telephone and Telegraph company long lines department said at New York last night calls to Washington and Oregon were being delayed as much as four hours. - Fake Attack Ignited Spark i That Set Off World War II By DANIEL DE LUCE NUERNBERG, Dec. 20 (IP) The first full story of the spark that set off World War II a fake attack on a German radio station staged by gestapo agents dressed in Polish army . uniforms was unfolded today before the international military tribun al. . As the war crimes trial was recessed for the Christmas holi days, American prosecutors sub mitted a gestapo official's story of the raid, naming the assassin ated hangman, Rcinhard Hey drich, as the man who engineer ed the coup which Hitler used as the excuse for the Polish in vasion crying to the world that Germany had been attacked first. The story was told in the af fidavit of Alfred Naujocks who said he led a company of gestapo agents dressed in Polish uni forms in a raid on the German radio station at Gleiwitz on Aug 31. 1939. the day before the in vasion. The raiders broadcast incendiary remarks in Polish and then left behind the bullet riddled bodies of drugged Ger man concentration camp pris oners, also dressed in Polish uniforms, as "evidence," Nau jocks said. The affidavit was presented near the end of the session, when the tribunal recessed the trial until Jan. 2 over the pro test of Justice Robert H. Jack son, chief U. S. prosecutor, who said another week will Be need ed after the holiday to complete the American case against the 22 nazi leaders and six organi zations on triaL Naujocks, in his affidavit, said the fake attack with a company of disguised gestapo men "should make it appear that polish sol diers were attacking German troops." Jury Urges 'Policy' On Gaming Here The county grand jury In a report today advised authorities to keep in mind the "character and needs" of Klamath county - including topography, Indus- try and inhabitants in enforc ing the gambling laws. No further explanation of the meaning of its advice was given in the jury's report read in Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg's court this afternoon after 'he iurors closed a session which began last Monday. The jurors also urged the city to take steps to eliminate spouting steam as a traffic hazard on certain streets, praised local ef forts to stop juvenile delinquen cy, and commended various agencies for competent war, work. .'' : ... 1 ; r Gambling Discussed 4 On the gambling' question, the jurors' report commended the rdistriet-attorney'-and the ' state . police for their vigilance (ConUnacd mu Fga S. ColBma S) . . - British Pound Trouble Spots BATAVIA. Java, Dec. .20 OP) British artillery pounded trou ble spots in northwestern- Ban doeng for an hour today, as fighting which has already cost British and Indian troops almost 1200 casualties continued in In donesia. - Meanwhile, ' a Netherlands navy . communique announced the first naval action in the Java disturbances the capture of what was described as a 60 ton metorship. The communique said the ship was seized Decem ber 14 after she fired on a Dutch landing party , from the destroyer Kortenaer. ' The Dutch government infor mation service said .British troops . made a three-pronged advance following their shelling of Bandoeng, in a virtually un opposed search for weapons. A British announcement yesterday said "many arms," including; blunderbusses, were seized when the northern "sector of Bandoeng was occupied without casualties. Boy Breaks Leg While Coasting First coasting accident of the season was reported here this week when 13-year-old Bobby Keesee, son of Mr. and Mrs, William Keesee, 4767 S. 6th, suffered a broken leg as the re sult of a mishap last Sunday. Bobby was coasting with a group when a sled ran over his leg. Companions moved him home on a sled arid his injury was at first thought to be a bad ly sprained ankle. Tuesday morn ing the attending physician called in found one bone in the leg to be broken. . x ;. Arriving In United States By Associated Press Robert M. Roid, SSgt, Dunsmuir, arrived on Europa due in New York December 17. J. W. George, PFC, Klam ath. Falls, arrived on Logan due in San Francisco Decem ber 16. Clyde Crapser,- T5, Bonan za, arrived on Sengteller due in Los Angeles December 16. Howard L. Wade., Pvt. Klamath Falls, arriving with units of 36th division in New port News today or tomorrow. Melvin L, 'Crumpacker, T5, Klamath Falls, arriving with units of 36th division in Newport News today or to morrow. ;