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Nine Killed, Many Hurt In Rioting ; In Jerusalem And Tel Aviv; British Tommies Enforce Rigid Curfew Order JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (JP) Hclmctcd British Tommies en forced a tight curfew In muni rinnl and Jewish residential quarters of this uneasy city to day while investigations began of bombings and gunfire which last night killed at least nine persons and injured 11. Business was almost at a Standstill. Thousands of persons in the curfew area were con fined to their homes. Local tele phone communications went out after e a. m., ana some morning newspapers did not appear. Early in the day truckloads of civilians were seen rumbling up to detention barracks for questioning in connection wim the bombings which destroyed the criminal investigation ae partment headquarters. Only British forces and gov. ernment officials were exempt from the curfew, and ponce trucks, radio cars and military vehicles patrolled the streets to enforce it. Both here and in Tel Aviv, where the whole city is under curfew, parachute troop ers armed with . machine- , guns stood guard, some in con cealed rooftop positions. Seven Dead Bauads ' of workmen dug through piles of rubble at the headquarters in Jerusalem, where seven persons were offi cially reported killed and 11 in jured either by gunfire or in a series of heavy explosions which damaged a three-block area in the heart of the city. Eye witnesses were quoted as aayinz that six young men gome carrying pistols, some bomb-filled haversacks shot their way to the gates of the po lice building, where they placed explosives which turned tne place into a shambles. Attempt Raid At the same time, terrorists attacked district police head quarters in Tel Aviv, scene of riots last month in which nine Jews were killed, and attempted a raid on the Royal Engineers Arms store at an exhibition grounds north of the city a com munique said. An- Arab tele phone operator was killed in the attack on the district headquar ters, the announcement said, ana a British soldier was killed in the attempted strike at the arms, store. Killed in the explosions in Jerusalem. ' the communique said, were a British assistant po lice superintendent, two British constables and four Basutoland (South African) military police men. The superintendent of polioe was among those serlous- ly Injured. Curfew Decreed An 11 p. m. curfew was de creed for a large part of Jeru salem as the military command er attempted to forestall a re currence of riots between Arabs and Jews. The first explosion in Jeru salem occurred at 7:23 p. m., and initial reports said that bombs were believed to have been thrown from an automobile. The heaviest blast was at the police building housing the criminal investigation depart ment, which borders on Jaffa road, the main street in the modern part of the city. New Appliance Branch Opens East Side Electric announced the opening Saturday of a new appliance department in space formerly occupied by the Pritchard company adjoining the firm's present location at 625 Klamath avenue, according to Ray Bigger, owner. Kay Lambert, who has been with the firm for a number of years, will be merchandising manager of the retail appliance department. She extended an invitation for all to attend the opening Saturday and see the appliance floor samples from the Gibson, Westinghouse . and fcasy lines. : Marines Slate Atom BOWl At Nagasaki NAGASAKI, Dec; 28 (JP)- AnH nnur tt'a 4ha "ifnm T3rM..T On a gridiron cleared of the scorched rubble from the atomic uumu, me worms lirst Atom Hnirl" finthaU XT... 1- , " . wu,,Ma game .icw x cai ft Day will match two American on vile icauis. Marine Lt. Angelo Bertelli of Notre Dame and Navy Lt. Bill Osmanski, former Holy Cross and Chicago Bears star, will can- fain t Vl o turn nlounnr Ua second marine division which is on occupation auty in the Kyu shu Island City where the sec ond atomic bomb was dropped. Arrangements are completed by Marine Cpl. Paul G. Donat of New York City, who has signed up Japanese girl cheer leaders and a marine band. LAND OF PLENTY CHICAGO, Dec. 28- VP) Corp. Rufus Ready, 21, of Prichard, Ala., left Vancouver Barracks, Wash., with one dog, but he's got seven now. When the troop train carry, ing Ready to Camp Shelby, Miss., passed through Chicago yesterday he was busy caring for the six puppies born to Pat, the cocker spaniel be purchased in Brisbane, Australia. Family Reunion EM 3c Stanley L. Dawson, USNR, who has served on the USS Gilbert Island, an escort carrier, in the South Pacific for the past eight months visited here recently with his -sisters, Mrs. Robert Faus, 721 Mt. Whitney, Mrs. Uel Dillard of Mt. Laki and a brother, L. B. Dawson of this city. All spent the Christmas holidays with their mother, Mrs. L. C. Regnier of Sweethome. There were 19 present at the family gathering. Dawson has returned to San Diego where he reports to his ship December 27. Arrives In USA Cpl. Norton O. Taylor, son of Mrs. May Tay lor, 510 N. 7th, called his moth er by telephone Thursday night from New York shortly after his arrival in the States from the European theater of opera tions where he has served since a year ago last August. Cpl. Taylor was with the 12th army group under General Omar Bradley. His last duty was in Germany. Taylor plans to con tinue directly to Astoria to join his wife, Dorothy, and Mrs. Taylor expects to leave soon for the north to visit her son. Reynolds Family Gathers - Members of the Earl C. Rey nolds family are together on their farm home here for the holi days. CM 2e Earl Reynolds Jr., USNR, is back from service in the Pacific. He was with the navy in the Solomons and on Okinawa. Earl Reynolds Sr., is assistant manager of the western division of the United States chamber of commerce, with headquarters in San Francisco. In TO . (Continued from Page One) Byrnes took a licking and Russia won a, great victory at Moscow. We mustn't be too hasty, how ever, in drawing conclusions. We don't know the PRESSURE Byrnes may have been up against. In winning what seems to be a victory clear across the board, Russia might even have gone so far as to threaten un limited atomic warfare, with all its terrible consequences to all the people in the world, if her demands were not complied with. These are grave days, and we shall be wise if we withhold our final judgment until in the slow course of time we get the full story of what happened at Mos cow. .- WTTE can begin to see, however, " why everybody there was talking with so much relief about the "cordiality" that final ly prevailed. As remarked here yesterday, the cat that has eaten the canary is always cordial about it. Bing Crosby Still Top Man HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 VP) Bing Crosby and box office ap peal are practically synonymous, a year-end poll of exhibitors showed today. The ballot, conducted by the Motion Picture Herald, ranked the crooner as the nation's No. 1 drawing power for the second straight year. The Herald said Crosby, in the top 10 in six of the 14 na tional polls, already had grossed $8,000,000 with "Going My Way." . . Runners up, in order, were Van Johnson, Greer Garson, Betty Grable, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper (tied for sixth), Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Roy Rogers, Abbott and Costello, Betty Hutton, In grid Bergman, Bette Davis, Alan Ladd, Dane Clark, Joseph Cot ten, Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, Fred MacMurray, Danny Kaye, Gregory Peck, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne and Mickey Rooney. Truman To Speak On January 3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (JP) President Truman's radio report to the nation will be made be tween 7 and 7:30 p. m. (PST) Thursday, January 3. The White House made this announcement today and said the speech will be carried on all networks from the first floor Oval room of the White House. "As the president announced in Independence, it will be sort of a report to the people on his overall program," said Charles G. Ross, press secretary. "It is not to be confused, of course, with the state of nation message to congress some time after January 14," Ross said, mentioning the date congress is to reconvene. It has yet to be decided defin itely whether Mr. Truman will deliver the message to congress in person. Move Hera Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Howard have moved to Klamath Falls from Old Lyme, Conn. Mrs. Howard is a sister of G. C. Tatman, local business man. The Howards visited Klamath Falls a few weeks ago It was the first time Tatman and Mrs. Howard had seen each ottv er for 36 years. After the short stay here, the Howards decided they wanted to make tnis tneir permanent home. Promotion Mrs, Clifford Clayton has received word from her husband stationed on Leyte, of his promotion from second to first lieutenant. Lt. Clayton is a pilot on a C-46 in the troop car rier group ot tne uin airtorce. He hopes to return to his home. 4680 Boardman, soon. His par ents are Mr. and Mrs, Guy Bran nan, 4629 Thompson. Ramsey Visits Frank Ram sey, former Klamath Union high scnooi lootDaii coach, was a visitor in town today, a guest at the home of Harry Mesner. Ramsey showed a film of pro fessional football pictures at the Elks lodge last night. The ex- Klamath coach played with the uucago liears last tail. Returns James Beckham, Flc, USNR, has returned to his home at 2028 Siskiyou after re ceiving his discharge from the unitea states navy at camp sneiton, va. tfecKnam served zu months with the forces. He was here for Christmas with his family. Returns from Tacoma Flor ence McConahey, local Girl Scout executive secretary, re turned Thursday from a holiday trip to Tacoma, Wash., where she spent a few days with relatives. Returns Mrs. Aletha Shan non of the Klamath Union high scnooi faculty returned Mon day from Albany, Calif., where she was the weekend guest of her brother and sister-in-law, uapt. ana Mrs. C M. uray. Christmas Hostess Mrs. R. E. Wattenburg entertained Decem ber 25th with a turkey dinner for Orean Wattenburg, Mr. and Mrs. M. Stuart Blden and Ben jamin Lefler. Pyihlans Winema Pythian sisters will meet tonight Friday. in the library club rooms at 8 o'clock. Members are asked to be present for the last meeting ot ine year. Navy Enlistees Maurice J Ott of Tulelake has re-enlisted in the U. S. navy after serving three years on the battleship USS Wyoming. He is in Portland with Jack Smith -of Lakeview and Thomas Edward Moe of Ma lta, both new navy enlistees. Vacation Joyce Marie Bran nan of Salem came to spend her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Brannan, 4629 Thompson avenue and became ill after she arrived. Homi Aftar HalMiv Lettie Stansbie returned to her nome in Medford Thursday af ter spending Christmas with rel atives in this city. Flashes Of Life OLD FAITHFUL SHAWNEE, Okla., Dec. 28 (JP) For 35 years "Old Bob" served W. H. Merritt well. Finally Merritt sold the horse, sorrowiuny returned nome. A short time later "Old Bob loped up. He'd kicked the side out of his new barn. Merritt took him back, but maae no guarantees. SURE THING TACOMA. Wash.. Dec. 28 (JPi Cabbie Thomas Leggett made certain of getting police help in jig time. ' He drove his taxi directly into a couple of patrol cars parked at a police station aoor. The crash brought all help needed to handle a passenger wno, said leggett, nad threat ened him. Merrill Library Club Will Meet MERRILL The Merrill Li brary club will meet Thursday afternoon, January 3, in the Odd Fellows hall for election of offi cers held over from the Decem ber meeting. Mrs. E. E. Kil- patrick. Mrs. R. L. Dalton and Mrs. Roy McNeill are on the nominating committee. Hostesses for the meeting will be the present executive commit tee. Mrs. Riley DeLan. Dresi- dent, Mrs. O. M. Castleman, Mrs. T. O. Wheeler, Mrs. Kenneth Colwell, Mrs. E. A. McCollum and Mrs. Scott McKendrce. The meeting will be called at i O ClOCK. A Navajo Indian's saddle and other personal effects are set out side the door of his hut when his iquaw decides to divorce him. Happy Ending i 5 - J Pvt. William Sykuckl of Chicago aiktd a clerk to hide hts engagement ring in a box of candy. When his girl friend, Mildred Operman of Philadelphia, opened the box (.hrlstmas ., there was no ring. Aghast. Sykuckl phoned the candy shop, learned the clerk found his ring on the floor after he left the shop and had made radio, newspaper appeals in Philadelphia to find him. Convinced it wasn't a joke. Miss Operman accepted his proposal. (AP wirephoto). Slide Closes Oregon Coast Highway Route SALEM, Dec. 28' (JP) The Oregon coast highway was closed today by a slide two miles south of Seaside at Peterson Point, and highway crews were working hard in hopes they might get the road opened by to night. The slide covers the entire road, and is 100 feet long. Hard coastal rains also played havoc with other roads, a slide closing the Coos Bay-Roseburg highway 25 miles east of Co quille, high water closing the Powers secondary highway in Coos county, and causing one way traffic in other places. The coast highway was flood ed for a distance of 1000 feet two miles north of Tillamook, but traffic was still going this morn ing through the foot-deep water. There still was one-way traffic on the coast - highway north of Manzanita junction, where the road settled two weeks ago. Small Slides Rain in the Columbia gorge caused many small slides on the Columbia river highway, but crews were keeping the road open this morning. It also was raining hard In the mountain passes, but there it helped, taking most of the snow off the highways. The daily road report also said: Government Camp Raining hard, packed snow, ice and slush on Wapinitia from Milepost 4 to Milepost 23 on the Mt. Hood highway. Total snow 34 inches. Santiam Junction Raining hard, road entirely free of snow. 66 inches of snow at summit. Odell Lake Raining hard, heavy south wind. Road bare ex cept for few spots of slush. 82 inches of snow at summit. Medford Raining hard In Siskiyous, on the Green Springs highway and in Medford. Meacham Old Oregon Trail free of snow. Klamath Falls Raining hard, all roads in good shape. Slushy and rough on Sun mountain, but tew more hours of rain would leave pavement bare. Burns Overcast, some slush and ice on roads. Austin Raining hard, pave ment slick and chains advised at higher elevations. French Clash With Annamese SAIGON, Dec. 28 (JP) Sharp fighting ' was reported in pro gress north of Saigon today be tween French troops and An namese nationalist forces which, the French said, have been re inforced recently by irregulars retreating from southern Co-chin-China. Although scattered figh'ting was reported still in progress in some sections of southern Cochin-Chlna, the French de clared their armor and infantry were systematically uprooting guerrilla strongholds there. Bend Man Drives Into Grocery Store , PORTLAND, Dec. 28 (JP) Thomas A. Bott, 29, Bend, drove into a grocery early today after colliding with another car, smashing tables and racks of merchandise, police reported. Damage was estimated at $5000. Bott's sister, WinnU:, and his cousin, Bob Wilson of Port land, were taken to a hospital "to be treated for cuts and bruises. The other driver, Dr. Joseph L. Ringo, 63, Portland, suffered lacerations. Scientists seem sgreed that the atomic age means "one world or none." We'll take the "one, thank you! Holders of flying licenses may be required at any time to un dergo re-examination. Wreck Damages Truman's Car KANSAS CITY, Dec. 28 VP) A secret serviceman, driving the White House limousine back to Independence after President Truman's departure for Wash ington today, slid on icy streets and hit an oil truck. The front of the president's car was dam aged slightly, but no one was injured. The limousine, built origi nally for President Roosevelt and sent here for Truman's use during his Christmas visit at In dependence, was traveling over the same route tuken by the president earlier today in his trip to the airport. Streets here have been snow and ice covered for two weeks. KF Boy Faces Hit-Run Rap A 17-year-old Klamath Falls boy is awaiting action by the juvenile court on a charge of hit and run driving growing out of an accident at 6th and Oak Christmas eve. The boy, driving a 1930 Ford coach, allegedly crashed into a car driven by Claude Hibbert of the Tower drive-in shortly after midnight Christmas eve, then sped away. Hibbert pursued the car for several blocks when lt stopped before an apartment house and the driver fled. He reported the incident to the police who took charge of the abandoned car. The next day the boy came into the police station and re ported that his car had been stolen, giving an estimated time of theft which was before the crash occurred. Under question ing he admitted the stolen car report was a hoax and he had been driving. The juvenile officer said that another youth was also in the automobile at the time of the accident, but is not implicated in the hit-and-run charges, and that the two boys had several bottles of beer in the car and have admitted that they drank some. Purchase of the beer Is also being investigated. Until 49 years ago Princeton university was called the College of New Jersey. Awaits Grandfather I L Ml . . i : If Christmas Seal Sales At $7500 Reports from thu Klamath County Health Association inul cam thut $7500 in Christmas tuberculosis scuts huve boon sold to date in this county. Five $11)0 uonnuons were given including tne h-vsterson number company and the tiling son Lumber company In Klam ath Fulls, Mrs. Dick iluiizol mid uie liunzul Brothers of Mulln, and thu Chllouuin Lumber com pany In Chiloqutn. There, were 143 contributions of $5 or more, In iiiiswoi- to a loiter written to thu health association by Dr. J. M. Oclcll, superintendent ot the Eastern Orciion State Tuber culosis hospital, n Christmas gut pacKagc was sent to the nine Klamath county patients there. Budjnckcts (or the women, va- JH. ...... . ...V 1V, OtHVIWIll.. . soap and stumps wero included in the gift, On tho shopping com mittee wero Mrs. e. Lniou step hens and Mrs. Ross Stamolev. On display In thu window of the First Federal Savings and Loan association Is the Christmas seal collection of Bert C. Thom as, who has collected the Ameri can seals of each year along with some from other countries. The Health association wishes to remind Klamath people thut annougn t is alter unristmns, contributions are still welcome and that they may be sent to the tuamatn county iieuiih associa tion in the courthouse. Out-Size Cuts Draw OPA Ire PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 28 (JP) The OPA charged today that some northwest lumber mills were deliberately cutting out sized, rather than standard, lum ber in order to charge extra high prices. Louis Gervals, western repre sentative of the OPA lumber branch, said the practice, giving operators heavy profits, was reaching "alarming propor tions." He thrcntcned prosecu tion unless it Is halted. Out-sized lumber bears pre mium prices. Portland lumber men admitted somo outsize were being sold whore lower- Erlced standard sizes would do, ut said they did not know how extensive the practice was. Many customers pay the high prices because of the great de mand for lumber, Gervals said. He warned he might recommend that mills be required to prove an actual need for "specialty lumber" before they can sell It. Fourteen - year old Richard Mason. Pekln, in., boy, brought cat and a baking powder can containing $1500 of his grand father's money to see Chicago, sits in a Chicago police station with Hookle. Grandfather Henry Glelck - said . he would come to the city for the boy, (AP wirephoto). Typo Strike May End Soon SEATTLE. Dec. 28 (JP) A prediction that Scuttle's news papers would be publishing Mon day after more than a month of idleness due to a typographical union strike came last night from Mayor William Dcvin after an all-day meeting with pub lishers and printers. The members of the AFL local left their jobs Nov. 18, demand ing a wage increase of $2.05 daily. The mayor sold the leaders of the opposing factions reached an agreement on terms to be placed before the union membership Sunday for a vote. No indication was given as to what the terns might be. British To Get Indonesian Aid In Stormy Java DATAVIi To,.. Da. 9D ISA - WW TBI, " ... , The unrecognized Indonesian government agreed today to co operate with the British in re storing order in Java, on the con dition that no more Dutch troops be brought into the strife-torn island. The Indonesian position was set forth in a statement after the cabinet had considered a request by Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Chrlstlson, allied commander In the East Indies, that units of the peace preservation corps (TKR) be assigned to assist the British. "We are prepared to cooperate on the basis of justice, the statement said, "to speed the ac complishment of tasks assigned to British forces by the United Nations, and to maintain peace," Rogue River Reported Rising GRANTS PASS, Dec. 28 VP) With Rogue river rising about six Inches every hour, rains continued to swell the crest here today. At 1 p. m. today the gauge at the city water pumping plant registered . 14.33 feet of water in thu river. This is about 13.75 feet, above summer low and it was .73 of a foot higher than the 13.6 feet registered earlier today. At Copco's station at Prospect it was reported raining hard at 10 a m. today and the river there was rising. The . warm rains and warm winds from the coast were reported melting snows in the mountains to in crease the flow. 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