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i fUtlcM Day's fas niiiir .trnitinh 'A S aft lnlellluent readers of the new have known from the tart, tlio Immensely Important mooting of tlio American, British and Russian foreign ministers must be Judtiod by what l done IOHOW1HK U JfllllUl HIMII UJ VVttut, net In md to re nu wu SAID for publication moscow. hj H mri'na I ting under way quickly, end gonorai u is cHcouriiKiin. TVITH1N 48 houre after the " conference endi, rcprescn tatives oi tne u. o., num Britain leovo for Bucharest carry out the agreements In guru w iwiiiaiit". " . . . thorlzcd to consult with King Mllinl on "oroaauiinig mo eni iiuninnniii Muvriufc hnlfllnit FREE elections. In accordance with agree. monts reached at Moscow, llus i I- ..I..I..I.... Ilt.lfln tn in elude In 1U "Futhorlund" cabinet two meinoers oi poiuicui yumi- n,.t .t-,imi,t.l. If thlfl 1 UUfc IIMIT ,............. done, It Is expected, the present - ti..l......l.i.. inimrninillll UMll Oft recognized by the United Stale mid urtuiin wnitu nvu u " boon hoiaintf dock . iiwnl1 A MD In llinACIll fat not jireutty concerned with itonH, but RUSSIA JS. Tho Bl t - na miiitli n till rt OI Hlld la's sphere of influence as the western iieniupuoio w "r T 11 turn !... - . the wuy will be opened for tho fotiiomeiiv ok omci ihuuivihu. uli.il in wnnl nlinvn overv- thing else, Is lo get the world back onto an urt.nniiu .i. cMimni nf ih Balkan disagreements will help In that airccuon. rnnM T.nnrinn comes a algnlfl " cant statement that a five power meeting of military lead ers Is expected to take place in JANUARY to discuss establish ment of the International PEACE PRESERVATION FORCE contemplated by the 1 1 1 ) 1.1 - 1 1 . nknrlitp THl UnilCU nillUIMl United Nations cliartor, formed t Ban rrancisco, nas noon si . In mntllhl If there is to be international eo-oprmuon to prevent war, ik .. k an Internationa police force of some sortfor Human nature u nm i""' enough to be. good without po lice) pressure. That was recog nized clearly at San Francisco. Apparently the machinery to provide it la BEGINNING TO MOVE. So, you see, the hopes that were stirred at San Francisco re not dead. GENERAL WEDEMEYER U. S. commander in China aavs todav: "Plans for moving more Chinese government armies into MnnnlnirTn nnrlnr r-nnMirlnra- tlon, Additional American troops onayDe auuu to vvu win ue needed to transport and supply them. , Such a development ...n.it.1 V an ImnlAmnniatlnn nf America's new policy of helping fl.inno'tf ifnvurnmi.nt." That sounds like the green light for unifying uiuna ana get- ling ncr puck iu wuin, THE speed with which these dcvalopmcnts are beginning to get under way suggest thai tho whole program of reorganiz ing tho world was held up by jock oi OBrtrcinuiii hiiiuuk me unuca amies, oriiuin una nun .l nrA thnt 1.111.1. Annv.R. MENT was finally reached at Moscow. THE world Is moving forward In JAPAN, where tho "New Japan Women's Party" has just 1 . I T . t- 11 1 1U11I1UU. lb IB S1I1U1I 111 llUiU UOril, but cxpcct9 to have somo candidates lit tho forthcoming Japancso elections. The new Social Democratic party of Japan has just como out lor equal rignis lor women. TN Portland, soma 4500 Japan- ese men, women and children sail for Japan aboard an Amer ican ship. Most of them had re quested repatriation (return of tneir jap cmzonsnip.; a icw were being deported. A considerable number of them, tho dispatches tell us, "sailed in tho FIRM belief that they arc going back to a VIC TORIOUS homeland." One of the repatriates, a Jap from Stockton, told the reporters: "The majority of these people really think Japan WON THE WAR. They think what they read in the papers is just propa- fanaa ana mac japan is actually ORCING the United States to return us as a part of tho peace conditions." That's what .propaganda can 00. 01 Brides Due To Arrive Soon LONDON, Dec. 20 (VP) U. S. army base headquarters an nounced tonight that plans for iransporung u. oriacs to the been notified to bo renrlv to trnv. cl "on very short notice." Tho announcement followed closely President Truman's sig nature of legislation to speed up the entry into the United States ol brides of American soldiers. V v .Ci PRICE riVE CENTS ..o Stiff Telephone till ALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29. IMS Number 10701 1000 EVACUEES LEFT IN WE OF VALLEY FLOOD Families Fiee From Rogue Rise High Water Begins To Recede Rapidly At Grants Pass GRANTS PASS, Dec. 29 (P) man water mat ciosea nignwaya and moved families from their homes reached its peak here at 3 a. m. today than began receding rapidly. Sunshine from clearing skies greeted Grants Pan this morning as reports from tho state high way department indicated that nighways might soon be re opened to traffic. Several families along Rogue river had to move from their homes during the night as the river continued its rapid rise of Friday until it reached a top of icci inis morning. Boats Manned In the Illinois valley loggers manned boate to rescue several families In tho low areas west of Kerby and south of Cave Junc tion. The sheriff's office here was asked to stand by with more boots in case additional families became endangered. Tho Pacific highway south, at Savage Rapids dam and at Rogue View auto camp near Rogue river, was closed during the night and the highway depart ment still had a flagman turning drivers onto detours this morn ing. The Redwood highway was still closed this morning one mile norm or Kerby and also at Pat rick's creek. Flood stage on the Rogue is considered as 20 feet and the high mark last night was be lieved the highest since 1B27 wncn u weni to Z7 leet. Usherette Hit By Young Boy Two juvenile offenders. 14. and 15-year-old boys, are wait ing court action on a chane of assault and battery on the per son oi a lo-year-oia usnerctte employed by Pino Tree theatre. Tho boys have admitted caus ing the disturbance in the thea tre last Wednesday when one of tho youths hit the girl In tho face and knocked her down, ac cording to juvenile officials. The complaint against them, charging assault and battery, was -filed- by tho girl's mother and the boys identified bv the juvenile office and the usher ette. Both boys have been pre viously known by the Juvenile office, The boys were creating a dis turbance in the theatre, the girl told tho juvcnllo officer, and she asked them to quiet down or leave. Instead of obeying they began cursing her and one of the boys struck her. . Japanese Line Up For Trip To Japan Young mothers, their younger children slung on their backs, wait patiently to board transport In Portland on which they will be returned to Japan. (AP wirephoto). 4500 Nips; Many Confident Japan Won War, Slated To Leave Today For Homeland PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 29 (P) Some 4500 Japanese many con fident Japan won the war; others eaitcr to escape racial prejudice were scheduled to leave on the General W. H. Gordon today for their homeland, Several Nisei youth, showing mixed emotions at leaving America, .were more talkative than their stoic elders. Kazuhiro Yoshlda, 22, Stockton, Calif., was his family SDOkesman. rne majority oi tnese people really think Japan won the war," he declared. "Tncy think what they read in the papers is just propaganda and that Japan Is actually forcing the United States to return us as part of the peace conditions." The xosniaa family live in all knows better, he said, they've had letters from Japan since the war s end. Some Japanese oldsters, sure Japan had won the war, were "pretty arrogant," reported im migration officials who accom panied officials from internment centers in New Mexico, uaiuor nia, and North Dakota. In con trast, many younger children were plainly unhappy. They want to return and be Amer icans again when they grow ud. they said. A young Fresno, Calif, farmer, Maso Watarlda, said "Japanese haven't got an equal chance with Caucasions" because of race prejudice in America. "I know KFLW Signs With ABC; i fig Slated In March Openl KFLW is sold American! Bud Chandler, manaser nf the still-building Herald and News radio station, announced today that contracts hove been ainnnri with tho American Broadcasting company to bring outstanding network programs to the Klam- ain area. i Formerly known as the NBC Blue network, American is the fastest-growing of the four major networks, Chandler said. KFLW will be the only ABC station be tween station KEX in Portland. and KGO In San Francisco. Chandler also announced that the opening date for the new sta tion has lienn tnntnlivnlv not lor early in March. Local rjro- grams will be consistently1 fea tured on AifXiW, he said. Noting that ABC features such latlonally-known programs as Quiz Kids." ''nnnuhnntM-s "Lum and Abner." and "The Ford Sunday Evening Hour," Chandler assured KFLW shows to appeal to every listener. Morning favorites of house wives from coast to coast are "Tho Breakfast Cluh." wllh T5nn McNeil, and Tom Brennaman's 'Breakfast in Hollywood." ABC news analysts and com mentators include Walter Win chell on "The Jergcn's Journal." John B. Kennedy, Raymond Gram Swing, James Abbe, Wil liam Baukage, Sam Hayes and others. - The Metropolitan opera is pre sented exclusively on ABU each week, and outstanding sym phony orchestras will be heard regularly, Chandler said. ABC's children's programs In clude such favorites as "Dick Tracy.V'Tcrry and the Pirates," and "Jack Armstrong." Sport fans hear championship rizo fight;v from Madison quaro GardeSi only on ABC, Chandler said, and , a full pro gram of sports broadcasts, both national and local, is nlanncd for KFLW. Outstanding dramatic presen tations on American include "The Theater Guild of tho Air" each week with a cast of noted screen stars. "Hymns of All Churches". Is another daily feature heard only on ABC, Chandler said. KFLW -will be heard on 1450 kilocycles with a power of 250 watts, - - - .1 it's going to be tough," he de clared. "But I think in the long run we'll be better off in Japan. A Nisei woman with a baby strapped to her back was more flippant. Arriving in the States only in 1940, she said she was glad to go back , to Japan. Asked if she knew . conditions were bad there, she , scoffed, . that s wnat i near." Most of the repatriates would n't tell why they wished to re turn, "we woman t know, they saia wun a smile. . Parley Action Gets Underway MOSCOW, Dec . 29 (P) Steps already were underway today to implement agreements reached at the conference of "Big Three" foreign ministers which ended Thursday. Infornfed Quarters reported the following developments wiinm 4H nours after the con clusion of the meeting: . 1. Departure of representa tives of the United States, Soviet Russia and - Great . Britain for Bucharest to carry out the agree ment pertaining to Romania. 2. Transmission of advance to Bulgaria by the Soviet govern ment on proposed cabinet changes. 3. Dispatch of orders to Amer ican and Russian commanders in Korea to set up their joint com mission in conformity with the three-power decisions. 4. Transmission of official doc uments on the atomic agreement to the United Nations organiza tion. The three-man commission on Romania Deputy Foreign Com missar Andrei J. . Vishinskv. British Ambassador Archibald Ulark Kerr and U. s. Ambassa dor W. Averell Harrlman was authorized to consult with King Mihai on broadenine the nresent Romanian government and hold ing freo elections. Bulgaria, in accordance ' with terms of the three-power agree ment, was advised by Russia to include in the fatherland front cabinet two members of parties not now represented. If this is done, it was said here, recogni tion by the United States and Britain will be forthcoming shortly afterwards. Eugene Area 36 KILLED PUEBLO. Mex.. Dec. 29 JP) Thirty-six persons were killed ana 2 yere injured yesterday in the head-on collision of two pas senger buses. i The accident occurred when the two buses, traveling in op- loslte directions, collided, over timed and rolled down a steep embankment Into a eoree about six miles west, of hero. . .. . Crowded By Homeless Oregon Roads Closed By Slides And Floodwater EUGENE, Dec. 29 (P) The Willamette river flood, outdo ing Its 1942 predecessor, spewed angrily over valley areas today leaving more than luuu evac uees in its wake. . Hundreds moved, from low- lying Glenwood and West Springfield districts crowded in to the Eugene armory, Red Cross workers found cots and blankets requisitioned from Camp Adair and Vancouver barracks wouldn't go around. Army engineers tried frantical ly to obtain more. Major highways throughout western Oregon were closed by slides and floodwaters. Officials expressed fear that U. S. high way 99 West, only main link still open to Eugene, would be inundated by noon. Portland to California travel was being routed by the eastward Wapl- nitia ana uanes-caiiiornia routes. . .- rVNo hlgTiway fs safe," report ed R. H. Baldock, Oregon state highway engineer. He urged travelers to stay nut until con ditions improve. Reach Crast . The Willamette river reached a crest of 18.4 here today 1.7 feet above the peak of the dis astrous flood three years ago. The torrent of water began re ceding rapidly here, and mov ing down through the Willam ette valley. C-itles further along the river's course began pre paring for the flood crest. At Lebanon, a dike was washed out by the raging San- tiam river, and others were weakening. Water poured -four feet deep into the ' uavis and McDonald sawmill and endan gered several thousand feet of sawed lumber and machinery. Two 10,000-gallon underground storage tanks were torn out of the flooded General Petroleum plant at Lebanon. Fifteen fami lies were moved irom homes where water washed through living rooms. ' The Santiam crested at Jef ferson, where six families were marooned at 5 this morning, and began to fall. Rising waters, fed by heavy rain and melting snow, washed away barns and small structures In the low country near river banks. Here and there only the top of a . parked car showed above the water. A man here tossed tiling into his newly- built cabin to weight It down and prevent its floating away, The coast guard sent power surf boats to the flood area and held an airplane ready to drop supplies or life rafts if neeaea. Army engineers' boats were pa trolling the river at Newberg, Lambert slough, Wheatland, In dependence, Salem and Buena Vista, Veterans' organizations pitched in to help care for evac uees. . ' Lowell Isolated Lbwell. tiny community on tho upper Willamette, was iso lated last night when the road to Fallbrook was washed out and a bridge approach was un der water for half a mile. Sev eral families were moved to homes of other valley residents. Temporary quarters for refu gees, were set up in the Spring field high school gymnasium and the Albany USO club. Three men nearly drowned near Foster when their boat up set as they tried to rescue sheep stranded on an island. . In southern Oregon, Kerby and Cave Junction families) were evacuated as the. Illinois river rose. IS-Centf Dncirecase Dn Wo ges Agreed Atf Sessnoim IHI2i?v Negotiators for operators and AFL lumber worker unionists of the Klamath basin area today announced an agreement for a 15-cent -across-the-board wage increase which Is ex pected to break the 3-month-old strike in th is section of the pine belt. Tho nnUAMAnt uill Vm ra--tmmanArl In n mlr in tfl .w.: I f J , . . . .v ..... vs. ibbuiiim u&u iu ivwwo v ir urciuiiuiis una i t companies, in volving about 2500 men. It was reached in sessions between union representatives and th Pine Industrial Relations committee, which is the largest operator representative organiza tion in the pine belt. The 15-cent increase provides a sawmill minimum of $1.02'z an hour and retains th area differential of 2Vz cents between pine and fir, as well as remanufacturing differen tials within the area. Original union demand was for $1.10, and the operators had been holding out for $1. The settlement reached here was stated to be in full satisfaction of all past and present unsarisuea union general wage aemanas, witn tne understanding that some or all em ployers may now or in the future reduce the work week to 40 hours. -Negotiators said it wot their intention that the settlement would take . care of the wage problems for 1946 unless there ore substantial changes in marketing or operating conditionsrof, employers. The union agreed to cooperate in increasing work force ef f iciency. It was also agreed that any increase in price ceilings granted by the OPA to compensate employers for this wage increase would not be considered a reason for initiating wage discussions. The strike began at 12:01 a. m.. September 24. It was estimated that approximately 3500 men were out at one time in the AFL strike) ln the Klamath basin district 1 WEATHER (December 29) Max. (Dec. 28) ....55 Min. ....40 Precipitation last 24 hours 05 Stream year to date 7.11 Normal ..4.38 Last year . 4.08 Forecast: Light rain Sunday with snow in mountains. Sunday Shooting Hours Klamath-Tulelak' Open 7:23 a. m. Close 4:34 p. m. Nixon Charges US Pampering Nazi Tycoons By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN BERLIN, Dec. 29 Rus sell A. Nixon, deputy director of the division, of. Investigation of cartels and external assets of the American military gov ernment, asserted, today that military authorities . in the American zone were "pamper ing" German industrialists. ' Nixon, former instructor in the economics department at Harvard university and later CIO Washington representative for the United. Electrical Work ers, declared in an interview that German industries were not being destroyed and that industrialists were not being ar rested aa he believed they would under a directive of the joint chiefs of staff. vv .' , iVPrasiure", .' . "' He alio declared, that "pres sure" forced his- division to re lease from jdil a number of leaders of the I. G. Farben in dustry, gigantic German chemi cal trust, after they, had been interrogated. - Lt. Gen. Lucian D. Clay, dep uty military governor of Ger many, said, "I found out about the release of these Farben leaders only the other day. If any pressure was brought, for their . release, it certainly did not come from this office. We still have 10 in custody,, how ever." - - . Col. E. S. Pillsbury, control officer for the - Farben indus tries, informed Nixon that "if and when this office obtains in- (Conllnatd n P-ve C, Col. 6) the council area, but some have al ready returned to work under individual agreements and sev eral other plants were not In volved in today's settlement. Employes of the Big Lakes Box company, biggest Klamath Falls plant involved, were called to meet Sunday to con sider ratification of the agree ment, and work resumption at tms plant will probably take place next week. Other operations involved in the settlement include the Med ford corporation at Medford, the Kalpine Plywood company here, the Lakeview Sawmill company, the American Box corporation at Lakeview and Sprague River, - the . . Ralph L. Smith Lumber company opera tions at Klamath Falls, Canby and Alturas, the - Associated Lumber and Box and Dorris Lumber and Moulding company at Dorris, the Long Bell" opera tions at Weed (excluding -the plywood and sash and door plants), the Southern Oregon Sugar Pine company at Central Point, the Swede Basin .Lumber company .at virants f ass, ana the J. F. Sharp Lurnber con- pany at ireisa. . - l-. . Agreement Signed The agreement was signed by C. L, Irving for the PIRC and K. A. -Gordon and Hugh Had dock for the union. In connection with the Long Bell situation at Weed, it was Dointed out that the PIRC was not authorized to represent tne company in matters pertaining to the sash and door and ply wood operations there. Union ists said there was a possibility the local union at Weed might not accept the plan to go back to work until the situation with respect to the sash, door -and plywood plants is ironed out. In general, however, it was expected the locals will accept (ircnunnen on rogo o, i.oi. a, Theodore Dreiser, Famed Novelist, Taken By Death HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 29 CP) Theodore Dreiser, one of Amer- lca s leading modern novelists, is dead. A heart attack last night claimed the 74-year-old writer, an outstanding realist who came in with the present century and rose to literary eminence through critical derision after abandoning a newspaper career, which he claimed was "too brutal." Physicians said the writer. whose novel, "An American Tragedy," published 20 years ago, was one of his greatest lit erary works, appeared to rally after the first attack early yes terday, but succumbed to the second, 15 hours later. At his bedside was his second wife, Helen. His first wife, the former Sarah Osborne White of St. Louis, died in 1942 at the age of 63. There were no chil dren. Born at Terre Haute, Ind., in 1871, the son of a German cou ple, John and Sarah Dreiser, Theodore began early to brood over the "brutalities" of every day life a despair that soon etched itself early in his writ ings, which consistently ran to tragedies. Journalistic career Beginning in Chicago about 1890 a journalistic career he once said he hoped would "crys- talize my vague dreammgs and imaginings," he worked on newspapers and magazines in St. Louis and New York before he wrote "Sister Carrie," a tragedy of a village maiden. Suppressed by publishers at first, it later became one of his greatest works.' .Later he turned out dozens of volumes of stories, long and short; plays and essays. Reflect ing his obsession with the "brit tle cruelty " of life, many were met by a public chorus of ad verse criticism. Others of his works included Jennie Gerhardt." "The Gen ius," "A Hoosier Holiday," "A Book About Myself," "Moods, Cadenced and Declaimed "Dreiser Looks At Russia" and "A Gallery of Women." Since he established his home here 10 years ago, Dreiser re mained in semi-seclusion, - but recently completed two more novels, 'The Bulwark, ' and "The Stoic," which are not yet off tne press. Three years ago he openly criticized Great Britain's war effort and for a while was barred from making speeches in Canada because of his . utter ances. Later he branded as a misquotation, . a declaration credited to him that he would rather see the Germans, instead of English aristocracy, in Brit ain. A brother, Edward, and a niece, Vera Dreiser, both of New York City, are among his survivors. Dreiser's late brother. Paul Dresser, was the composer of many song hits around the turn of the century, "My Gal Sal," un the Banks of the Wa bash," among them. THEODORE DREISER Slide; High Yftter Halt Train Service Klamath-Falls was without train service today and all rail operations were being routed through the valley due to a huge slide at the bridge just n t rt h of , Dunsmuir, Calif., Southern Pacific officials an nounced this afternoon. Lines from Portland to Cali fornia were operating on a cur tailed basis. Train No. 16 from the south due in here Friday at 10:50 p. m., was the first Southern Pacific northbound held up by the slide which covered th track area in the canyon sec tion late- yesterday. Local resi dents expecting passengers here this morning, drove to Duns muir to pick ' up friends and relatives as No. 18, due here at 7:40 a. m. Saturday, was held ' Southern Pacific officials said high -water in the valley to the north nrevents train service from. Klamath Falls to Portland by way of Springfield. James A. Ormandy, general passenger agent at Portland, said pilings were out . of ' one approach, forced out of line by the flood's force. , - Shuttle' Service ; A " shuttle service was being! employed at Dunsmuir today as passengers were: moved from the tram to Black Butte by bus and there placed on trains routed - through Ashland and Medford. The Cascade, due out of Portland tonight at 5:20, and the Oregonian, No. 17, due out at 10 p. m., will leave for the south on time, SP reported, but both trains will be . routed through the valley and not through Klamath Falls.' The West Coast, No. 15, due out of rortiana at i p. m., win De neia up .temporarily. The Klamath Falls ticket of fice reported as busy a day as they'd had in a long time as hundreds ..of telephone calls be- seiged the company clerks and tickets. -were being refunded which had been sold in the past two weeks for this weekend's holiday travel. , v Byrnes Returns From Moscow WASHINGTON. Dec. 29 OP) Secretary of State Byrnes ar rived from Moscow shortly after noon today at Washington Na tional airport. The four-motored transrjort Diane bringing Byrnes and his party home from the 11-day con ference of Big Three foreign' : ministers in the Soviet capital landed safely after battling winds and rain which prevented it from making a scheduled stop at Portland, Me. The plane came in at 12:09 m. Byrnes took off from the snow-covered airport at Moscow Thursday morning. A large crowd., including Un dersecretary of State Dean Ache son and the Earl of Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, applauded the secretary as he stepped from the plane, wearing the same lightweight grey topcoat and hat in which he arrived at Moscow in a snow storm Dec. 15. i 1 We had good luck and are glad to be home," he, said. ; Arriving In United Staies Br Associated Press Joieph A. R i g 8 1, PFC, Klamath Falls, arriving on Hampton Sydney Victory due in New York December 30.
