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itq iyj iyj iy u u w u ' " ' '. : : . ; C,; TO JVL in By FRANK JENKINS THE cluttering fingers of the teletype carry to us this morning the statement that In Lhe lour day from rrifluy mm night to Tuosduy midnight roverlng the Wow Year holiday with Hi Monday frlnuo there were 528 violent deaths In the United States. The total of B28 Includes 247 traffic fatalities and 2111 umorted major casualties reaultlng from iram ana pinno crusncs, snout' inns, stabblnui. fires, drownings, explosions, exposures, falls on Icy streets and falls sustained In nomes (supping in mo oatntuo etc., , . , AT first glance, It Is a SHOCK ING revelation, conjuring up Visions of the whole American population GONE UTTERLY MAD and dashing hither and yon In oomplolo and reckless dlS' regurd of the consequences as reckoned In terms of lives and limbs. From that. It Is only an easy (and woozy) step to picturing ourselves as a nation of addled , people held In the grip of the war psychosis and hellbent for destruction. TVAIT a minute. " Count to at least TEN before lolna off the aeon end. Better yet, get out your pencil lid do a uitio iiguring. fSNE per cent Is one out of a ; hundred. That la to say, if ! one per cent of tho people of the ' United States had died violent dentlis over the long New Yoar weekend, it would still have meant that your cnance ot es caping alive would have been 1UIMO-1. A hundred to one Isn't a bed b . . . ;. ttVT don't stop there, ' "Go on and figure out that one per cent it one out oi hundred, ten out of a thousand - and ten thousand out of a mil- , : lion. Recall then that the best ; nresent estlmnto of the' doduIb i lion of the United States is 140 MILLION. Therefore ONE PER CENT of the pop ulation of ' the United States would amount to 1,400,000 per- ' tuna. . . , :- . yXT, in tha four days of this exceptionally long New Year j weekend holiday, tha collected . 'total of violent death amounts I this is written to only dm. V If you are really good at fig urss. you might try reducing that to decimal fraction. (This . writer hurt good enough, and so won't make tho attompt.) But even tho effort of thinking about it will prove to you that 628 violent deaths out of total population of 140 millions is a V&RY. SMALL percentage, - VOUR next logical step will be to wonder how many Amer icans NORMALLY die violent deaths over a four-day period 1 If we hnd the normal total, fully authenticated, wo might find that 828 Isn't anything partlcu larly out of the ordinary. - i Yet It, scares the pants off us when the figure is thrown at us as the cost in lives ot a iour-aay new Year weekend holiday. The point Is that a little com' mon-sense thinking takes tho SCARE out of It. ..:- THE headlines these days are full of scares. Whon we DON'T STOP TO THINK, we sec our nation grip ped by strikes at tho moment when we need terribly to get back into full production in or der to escape the monster of in- nation. . We hear of reckless spending such as the headlined state ment that a certain diamond' studded New York night club got away with a MINIMUM charge of $75 per couple and aio a nuge Business. And so on. . . . WfHAT we don't stop to think T about is the fabulously greater number of people who are going about their dally tasks much as usual, doing their best to wukr. weir way out of the troubles that always follow in the wake of great wars, and SAVING their money instead of throwing it away with both hands in glittering night spots whose purpose is to give as little and KEEP AS MUCH as pos- Bioie. , . . . Tt PAYS to stop and turn the revealing light of common sense on these things from time to time. If youlll try - it occasionally. you'll be greatly rcassurod as to the luture. Man, In Hospital Ufier Car Wreck ; i' Harry A, Coleman, Bonanza truck driver, Is in Klamath Val ! ( ley hospital suffering from mul ! vtlple injuries including a frac j tured thigh said received in an Automobile accident early Sun pay morning near Bonanza, ' lA'ii. Police said they understood f,;Coleman was traveling 'on a county rond when he struck a ' "'county. owned steam roller i parked off the main highway. FordsHiidson Chrysler Go Back On Job GM Assembly Lints Remain Closed Due To Strike Bv DAVID J. WILKIE DETROIT, Jan. 2 W) Limit- ed production of 1840 model pas senger, cars was resumed in about half the nation's autpmo bile factories today, Remalnlnii closed were tha strikebound Genoral Motors as sembly lines which normally aiucmblo approxlmutoly 50 por cent oi an cars and trucKR made; Ford, Chrysler and Hudson, which closed last Friday night, woro among tho plants returning to production. Supplementing their output woro Studebakcr and Willys-Overland, enabled to reopen anor many weoKs ioi low ing settlement of labor difficul ties In the plant of a major parts supplier. In nearby Windsor, Ont, the Ford Motor company of Canada, Ltd., brought back 10,000 pro duction woricers, xonowing a day wago and union security dls pule which has bcon submitted to negotiation and arbitration. Vital Parts Most of the plants reopening today obtain vital parts like fuel K umps, spark plugs and wiring arnesscs from General Motors. They cannot count on accelerat' Ing their production volume un til the GM strike is settled. Packard, which has been nlan. nlng a 200,000 units a year pro gram, did not reopen today, be cause of parts shortages. The production capacity. re stored today could account for about 100,000 vehicles during Jonuary, barring further parts curtailment. In January, 1041, the Industry assembled more than 418,000 vehicles, The motor vehicle makers who last October talked about build ing 5,000,000 or more units In 1048 now are discussing the pos sibility of turning out 3,500,000 during the coming 12 months. Shipments Beaua At South Bend, Ind., Stude bakcr today began shipments of ?assenger automobiles for tha Irst time since January, 1042. It had planned to begin production last October 1, but was forced to delay assemblies because of a' shortage of transmissions ob tained 'rom'' outside suppliers,: First car off the line were of the - low priced -, 'Champion" scries, i In Toledo, Willys-Overland went back Into production of its peacetime "Jeep," suspended for several weeks because of labor troubles in the plant of a parts supplier. Charles E. Sorensen, president, announced tho com pany ' is planning . production, among other vehicles, of a new, low cost, small passenger car, which- he said, embodied "fea tures and basic improvements nover before offered in a car In this class.'' Stark Denies Pre-VarTip " Br JACK BELL ' WASHINGTON, Jart. 2 () Admiral Harold n. starK said today that an intercepted Tokyo message containing a prewar tip- off on the possibility of an aerial attack , on Pearl Harbor was never called to his attention at the time, as far as he can recol lect. .- Stark also told a senate-house Inquiry committee that so far as he can recollect, no one In the army or navy here interpreted the messago for what they now see it was a step In laying out bombing plans. : .. The, message was picked up. .decoded and translated Oct, .9, 1841. It instructed Japanese agents In Honolulu to divide up Pearl Harbor into districts and report the positions of ships within the harbor. i- The former chief of naval op erations told a senate-house com mittee he would not have, been surprised by the appearance of Japanese submarines off of San Francisco, but he was "not ex pecting an air attack on Hawaii at that time." Tele' v PRICE FIVE CENTS . KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, ' A jY. JANUARY 2. 1MB Numbs 1 0701 l v . : ; Egbert- Smith Cnived During Drunken Fight- Oregon's first killing of the new year come just on hour and a half after 1946 was ushered in and climaxed an Indian New Year's Eve celebration at Beatty. Egbert Hugo Smith, 18-year-old Klamath Indlon was stabbed to death in a drunk en auarrel and Willard Williomi, 29, also a member of the Klamath tribe, Is held in the county jail here for federal authorities on a murder charae. ' The stabbing occurred at 1 :30 a. m. yesterday ot the Hazel Hecocta house in Beatty and Smith was deod when Willis Pankey, special Indian officer, reached tne scene.. . Willlomsiwos still in the house and was arrested. He ad' mltted jabbing Smith In the neck with a pocket knife, Pankey t J . '. l : .U. ri.Af "Cmitk rnA SOiu, giving us nis reuun iwr ma vuituiy mwi r st""". , been picklng on him." Officers learned of the cutting when an Indian came to Pankey s house in Beatty and told him that Smitn had Deen hurt at a party at Hazel Hecocta's house and "wasn't doing very well." When Pankey arrived he found Smith' lying on the doorstep, dead. . , " , '' The officer said that there had been considerable heavy ftdrlnkine: at the party and the two men had apparently quar- Held For Murder Hirohito Raps Divinity Myth TOKYO, Jan. t m Em peror Hirohito, In a surprise re nunciation of the myth that he is divine, staged the new year with a bold samble to hold, his position before anticipate fresh. international awacKs. His unprecedented New Year's Day rescript aiso irownea upun "radical tendencies" in an evi dent play for the people's sup port against Japanese commun ists, who .advocated his over throw. ''-. r . Further, the document stung the government lightly but de finitely for dllatorlness in 'solv ing problems of livelihood.- In that, it indicated 'the emperor's continued interest in political affairs. : General MacArthur promptly applauded the streanflined and unusually straightforward re script. He said it propelled Hiro hito into a leading pari, in uic democratization of his people." This timing indicates that oc cupation authorities knew in advance the general outlines of the rescript and were ready witn unusually swift comment. How ever, it Is understood that court officials undertook the renun ciation without allied prompt ing. . '7 ' , Dog Poisoning Clouds New Year For Little Boy It Isn't a happy new year for Ronnie Buchanan, The little 6-year-old boy was grieving today over the loss of his dog, the victim of a poison er. Ronnie received the dog as a . birthday present. The two were bosom pals for a year. 'WhenMie called the dog on New Year's day, there Was no response. He found the body, lying in a neighbor's yard, and a veterinarian found strych nine in the dog's stomach. Ronnie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buchanan, ?151 Vine street. , Two Skeletolfe Found In I Grove By Klamath River Possibility that an old-time tragedy may be uncovered was raised tms morning wnen u. w. Batman, route 3. camo to the sheriff's office and reported that he had found two sKeietons in a shallow grave on the bank of the Klamath river. The skeletons are ' of two grown persons, appearing ' to have been burled together at least 12 years ago and the grave reopened probably sometime last summer, Batman said, He came across tne miriai piace while on a hunting trip last Sun day. The grave, not more than two feet deep, is on tho right bank of tho Klamath river about a mile west ot the Weyerhaeuser mill.' - : ' . Batman said that It must, have been reopened several "months ago because of the loose earth and advanced the idea that the skeletons were dug up by some one who knew they were there. ' He took the two skulls, neith er of which shows any evidences of (V bullet wound or bone erst iking blow, to his home on Kefio road, then showed them to Deputy Sheriff Jack Franey this morning. The other bones are still lying on the river bank and grass is growing over dirt scoop ed out of the grave when It was last opened, he reported. The theory was also advanced that they might be Indian skele tons, although the secretive bur-: ial of two bodies In the shallow grave seems suspicious. There were no remnants of clothing or anything else in the grave, Bat man said. relied over some trivial matter. The knife wound in Smith's throat was very small, the blade of the pocketknife having been pushed straight in, severing nis iucular vein. . Smith apparently died of hemorrhage following the cut, An autopsy is to be held ' this afternoon at Ward's funeral home. ' 1 1 Second Killing 'This is the second Indian killing - in which Williams has been iinvolvedi Hevwas, convict ed of manslaughter by a federal court in 1934 for killing Charlie Cowan,- 17-year-old -Modoc, and was sentenced to seven years in a federal penitentiary. That also nappened at ueatty when wu liams was 19 years old. . -r Since this latest killing hap pened on i the - reservation, the case will be handed over to fed eral authorities. Williams -lives on the reservation- and owns few cattle. . - Smith is the son - of Lolana Cram - and Hugh Elden Smith; both of whom live at. Beatty and are divorced. He is the third son of the couple to die violently in the past two years. One, Irvln Smith,-23, an MP wnti tne army in France, was killed at Marseilles last Octo ber, and Lee Otto Smith, 15, died as a result- of accidental gunshot wounds In July, 1944. Red Troops To Defend Jehol ' CHUNGKING, Jam a -W ' Communists will put up a fight tor tne inner mongolian prov ince of Jehol.' into which ' na. tionalist government troops are pouring, a communist party spoKesman saia tooay. , His declaration came as the nation awaited the communist reply to the government's truce counter proposals calling for an immediate end of China's civil war. . "Communist troops will resist any attack on them- in Jehol," the -spokesman ., said., 'This ; is civil war.'! A few hours earlier P. H. Chang, government cabinet spokesman, said the central gov ernment was taking over Jehol as "a matter of course." - He said administrative per sonnel were being sent into the northern province behind col umns of troops swinging into Jehol from Manchuria, , Three Persons Killed In Blast ' . MALVERN. Ark.. Jan. 2 UP) Three men were reported dead, two critically burned and an other unaccounted for when an explosion rocked a storage tank of the Malvern waterworks sys tem while they were finishing up a tank repair job today.. The men were employed by the Dixie Bridge and Tank com. Eany of Memphis and were sent ere for the repair work; Officials of the city water de partment said - the. men were spraying the 'inside of the tank with paint when the explosion occurred. The cause of the blast was not determined. 4 Two men working, on top of a ladder were blown from the tank, which was enveloped in flame and dense smoke. ' - fff & hi T$v .s. .' "Is. v Willard Williams, 29-y.M-old Klamath Indian and ex-convict, is held in the county jail here for federal authorities after: the fatal . stabbing of another In dian. 1 8-year-old Egbert Hugo Smith, during New Year's Eve party at Beatty. Williams has admitted to . Indian Officer Willis Pankey that be stabbed smitn in tne tnroat witn a pock, etknife. ' '". . ' ' " . f-i ; ; Mac Quoted As Against Merge WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (rl Cbngresslonal opponents of an army-navy merger quoted lien. Douglas MacArthur today - ai seeing- "potential possibilities of disaster in the unification.-pro- v They ' went i bacit nearly 14 years to get the quotes,- - but Chairman' Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) of the bouse naval committee in sisted the reasoning behind Mac- Arthurs stand then remains the same today. - MacArthur has since reversed his stand. On November. 1, the senate military, committee made public his statement to a special army-navy committee tnat ex periences of World War U liad "absolutely convinced" him the fighting- forces should be con- sonaaiea. ruruiermore, ne said then, there should be -only one uniform for all services. i Vinson is one of the leading opponents to- President Tru man's proposal '. to consolidate the ' army' and the navy into a single department of national de fense.. General MacArthur may testify, either in person or by letter, in behalf of , the merger when the house expenditures committee- starts hearings late this montjh.. ' Vinson told a reporter he as sumed MacArthur would .follow the lead of "the higher echelon" in supporting the merger, despite the opposite position the general took in the past. a ... Two Hurt When Auto Overturns Mr. ; and Mrs. John ' Gueele. route 3 box 460. Klamath Falls. suffered injuries which . sent them to Klamath Valley hospital early this morning when .their car,' operated by Mrs. Guggie, skidded on the icy pavement one mile south of Midland on high way -97, and overturned in; the ditch. .-. . - - ; r State police. " called , to the scene; at 8 a. m., said Mrs. Guggie apparently lost' control of the machine which- was traveling south. The car slid back and forth across the highway several times, officers said, and ' after taking out a guard post ran off tne graoe and roueo over into the-ditch.1 Guaeie has a badly lacerated left hand and is suffer ing from shock and Mrs. Guggie has back injuries. M. E. Noblin and Harry Totton, both of route 3 box 993, witnessed the accident and cave ' aid. The Klamath merchants police ambulance was caned. .,- Motorists Told To Get Licenses : Got yours yet? ; , "; ' ' : ) Tuesday. January 1, was.-the deadline for 1946 licenses and stickers, according to the state law and motor vehicle operators were given . a last warning to get their licenses and get them quick. ,. .' v - :, xne . penalty, aiso according to law. goes info effect the first day of . the new year, and those hailed into court will probably get the $5.50 fine in addition' to I an order' to- pay. the .1946. feci and quick. ' - Flood Takes Nine Lives; Rivers Drop Oregon Communities In Midst Of Costly Clean-Up Chore By The Associated Pr Western Oregon communities were in tne midst of a costly clean-up chore today (Wednes day) as flooded rivers which took a toll of nine lives receded to tneir banks. The Willamette river, which wrought the heaviest damage, was falling raDidlv -after its murky crest flowed into the Co lumbia river without passing flood stage at the river mouth. Last reported victims , of the inundation were Joe Jones, 10, whose body was recovered near - . - -i i i Pounds, lineman who tumbled into the McKenzie river while stretching an electric wire across the stream. , . Earlier believed victims though not all the bodies have been recovered were a retired minister and his employe at Coos Bay ; a war veteran; and a fam ily of four whose car struck a washout en route to California. . Damage Reports ' . . Authorities benan compiling damage reports and reestablish ing families evacuated irom tne lowlands.' 'The National. Red Cross established a central relief office it. f.-vrtn,! field, center ,.jf. the greatest loss. ,v;; iu; The Red Cross estimated ; 75 families in Marion county would need rehabilitation and relief, and nearly 1000 in Lane county. Applications for help were begin ning to pile up as residents re turned in growing numbers to inspect damage.' ... .- , Nearly 90 per' cent iof West Springfield homes were de stroyed or damaged, the Red Cross said. Grace Jackson, gen eral field representative from the San Francisco office, arrived on special disaster duty for the Red .Cross.;. ' ;...'-.,'-v ;-:..' ? Flood Costly Damage to farm homes, barns. and. livestock will run into hun dreds -of thousands of dollars, agriculture spokesmen estimat ed. Hop yards in the lower val ley were , reported hard hit. Scores of poultry flocks . are gone; many, sheep lost, and cat tle strayed.. Damaee to farm machinery may seriously cripple crop pro duction or delay larm worK tms year, county agents reported as they' began checking : farmers' losses." ': Highway crews were busy re pairing bridges or erecting tem porary spans. Power companies said all lines would be restored within. a day or two. WEATHER (January 2) ., Max. (Jan. 1) 51 . Min ......37. Precipitation last 24 hours . .02. Stream year to date ' 7.27. Normal 4.20 Last year -. 4.66. . Forecast: Occasional rain. ' In Triangle Shooting V Capt Archie B. Miller, 25, of Ballevue, Tex., (left), was ar rested on charges of felonious assault alter shooting and fatally wounding Capt. Eugene Dale, 27. of Enid, Okla., in the apart ment of Mrs. Fay Hancock Miller, 24, attractive ex-Powers model (right). Miller broke into his wife's apartment where Mrs. Millar and her sister were talking with Dal and Arthur Oorm ly. Miller shot three times before he was disarmed. (NEA ttl photo). . T. , ; . ", Somber Noie To Nation's Holiday Celebration Seen As 530 Die Violent Deaths - By The Associated Press A more somber note to. the nation's New Years holiday celebration was recorded today as the number of deaths from violent causes.- passed the 500 mark. ' t. A survey across the; country showed that at least 530 persons suffered violent deaths from 6 p. m., last Friday to midnight Tuesday. The tabulations listed 24S killed in traffic accidents. The National Safety Council had estimated between 375 and 400 motor- fatalities over the holi day period. ; , : -The other 262 violent- deaths resulted from a variety of causes plane and train crashes; shootings, stabbing, - fires, drownings, explosions, exposure, falls on icy streets and accidents in the home. Two deaths result ing from ; alcoholism wer,.re-.ported.-- sjH':!- - ; Six states, Delaware, Mississ ippi, Rhode Island, North and South Dakota and. Vermont, re ported no violent deaths during the four-day period-: One fatality was listed in Wyoming. -. States leadine- in the toll were Pennsylvania" with 46; Texas and New York each with 41 and Illinois 39. Of the Illinois total. 31 were in Chicago and suburbs. The violent death toll by states, listing traffic and miscel laneous: ' Alabama 2-6: Arizona. 4-1: Ar kansas 5-6; California . 20-11; Colorado 4-2; Connecticut 1-19; Florida 2-1; Georgia 5-0; Idaho 3-2; Illinois 19-20; Indiana 12-5; 2 New Years Day Babies Born Here Two New Year's day babies and one born just 15 minutes be fore the old year ended, were re ported by Klamath Falls hospi tals today. . -.. . Both New Year's day infants were born at- Klamath Valley hospital. It was a girl for Mr. and Mrs. Acie Godsey of 2520 S. 6th, and a boy for Mr. and Mrs.-Ethel J. Meador, Sprague River.. The Godsey girl tinned scales at 8 pounds 12 ounces, out weighing her fellow - nursery mate who weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces. The New Year's eve babv ar rived at Hillside hospital at 11:45 p. m., December 31, a girl for Mr. and Mrs. William J. Burnett of route 1, Bonanza. Yank 'Trouble-Maker' Put To Death By Jap Guards By DUANE HENNESSY YOKOHAMA. Jan. 2 (PI A Japanese interpreter testified to day at the war crimes trial of JLt. Kel Yuri that the. former com mander of Omuta prison camp decreed "James Pavlokos shall die" and he did after being starved and tortured. . Pavlokas was a U. S. marine corporal from Chicago; ' The interpreter, liaraklchl Oi. also pointed to the defendant as the commandant who ordered a score of assembled guards to bayonet to death Pvt. Near C. Heard of Salinas, Calif. but he said Yuri strictly forebade beat ing Of prisoners. Depositions of two American officers also said Yuri, ordered Heard's execution, and tney told of secretly witness ing it.- - . Oi said pavlokos was a con sistent trouble-maker "who acted like a tyrant. Nine or 12 Ameri can prisoners wrote us notes some on cigarette packages, some on toilet tissue asking that Pavlokos be transferred to another camp. It is a shame to say it, but it is true that at least two of them said, 'please kill him.' " the interpreter testified that: Pavlokos was . confined two days upon the report , of a navy lieutenant and an American ser geant that he had stolen food. Pavlokos was put to work in a coal mine but caused, trouble and was sentenced to five more days in the guardhouse. ;. When he was assigned to kitchen duty so that Japanese could watch him, other, prisoners protested; The interpreter said he heard Yuri ask Lieutenant. Murab, the camp doctor, if he knew of any injection that would leave, no symptoms of poison. The doctor replied he knew of one.; - Then, said Oi, Yuri declared "James Pavlokos shall die." The depositions, taken from Army Lts. Owen W. Romaine of Fort Thomas, Ky., and John H. Allen of St. Paul, Minn., were radioed from the United States. They told how American prison ers secreted- themselves in an empty building and watched as Japanese bayonets ripped repeat edly into Heard's abdomen, back and throat until his cries were stilled. Oi, who saw Heard's execu tion, testified that at least 20 guards took part. He said that a Colonel Sugasawa, Japanese army area commander, became angry when he learned of the execution. Iowa 8-5; Kansas 1-4; Kentucky Louisiana 2-5; Maine 3-0; Maryland 6-2; Massachusetts 7-7; Michigan 18-11; Minnesota 7-1; Missouri 7-1; Montana. 1-0; Nebraska-1-8; Nevada 0-2; New Hampshire 3-0; New Jersey 5-8; New Mexico 1-4; New York 16. 25; North Carolina 3-0. V ;. Ohio 7-16; Oklahoma 4-6; Ore gon 2-16; Pennsylvania 29-17; South Carolina 5-3; Tennessee 4-9; Texas 14-27; Utah 8-4; Vir ginia 1-7; Washington 6-0; West Virginia 2-4; Wisconsin 2-9; Wyo ming 0-1; District of Columbia 1-2. - Nationwide Pec!unrj!:ouse Strfce Called CHICAGO, Jan. 2 (JP) A na tionwide strike of approximate ly 200,000 members of the CIO United Packinghouse' Workers of America has been called for January 16, Lewis J. ' Clark, union president, announced to day He said that not only, the large packers Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy but also "most smaller, independent' packing plants" would be af fected and the strike would in volve 147 plants across the na tion. -.(j-.i.Ti : .-.;"' The strike Is ; beta called, Clark told a news conference in support of the union's demand for a 25 cents an hour wage in crease. Clark said, however, the . union' would be willing to so cept an increase of 17 cents an hour immediately with, an agreement to negotiate the re-' maining 7H cents. He said the overall average hourly wage in the industry now is 87 cents an hour. , - - : y A spokesman for. the' Ameri can Meat Institute, which fre quently speaks for the Industry on trade matters, said , the in stitute would; not comment on the strike call because its poli cy prohibited intervention in matters concerning relationship ; between packing companies and their employes. '"J. E. Wilson; general Super intendent of Swift and com-. pany meat packing plants, is sued this -statement: "We regret that the officials -s of the UPWA-CIO have seen fit to announce that -the union will go on strike beginning January , 16. The immediate effect ; of such a strike would be a cur tailment of meat supplies to consumers and the armed forces. This would also sharp ly curtail our purchases of livestock-. Swift and company has -been negotiating with officials ., of the union : for some weeks and we hope that negotiations will continue without interrup tion to- -the ; company's opera tions." . y ' ..'. Fire Destroys WRA Auditorium TULELAKE, Jan. 2 A fire of .undetermined origin de stroyed the high school audi torium at the WRA center here ; at 4 p. m. Monday but work of fire "crews prevented the flames from, spreading to adjacent build- -ings. Although the loss had not been surveyed today, the school plant was constructed at a cost of approximately 5J64.000. The structure was a total loss, i The school at Newell had ; been closed for some time, offi cials said. There were no occu- , pants in the building and no records were housed in the au ditorium. I
