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Newspaper Page TextM Uvll m M M LTU U ZS LTQ U WW ni o , By FRANK JENKINS THERE If faintly hopeful limit In tlio world news to ' day. , The Chlneie communliU ac copt General Murihnll as a medi. tor, and promise to "discuss favorably every nuwio.itlon" lor ending the elvll wur tliot pre vail! In northorn China, Chungking and communist ' 'delegates meet In Chungking to oe If they can find common ground for ogrcoltjg to a truce. "THE dispatches make It V reasonably clear that In north China armed forces of both side are still maneuvering for position and that there Is con sldoruble fighting.) WE Amorlcans ore Intereited ,7 In peaco In Europe chiefly Jccauso we are fud up with war. JWe are Interested In peace In J"Asla both because we are fed T ud with, war and because we are ceruiin wo can w waii. with the countries across the Pacific If tnoy quu Hunting KOI 10 worn uuvciinima mi"- solves and raising their stand, i .. , iiiHn Europe In general sells what we have lor snie ana ouy wi we want to buy. The Aslat c miniriin hnrdorlnu the Pacific I, nun for sale what we want to hnv and are heavy buyers of what we have forsole. ON the home front, citrus prices go back under OPA control eflor a short and some what rtlaturoing experience on i free market. When the controls were re moved, prices ZOOMED. DONT Jump to the wrong con clusion that the economic law of supply and demand is out-of-date. anT therefore due for the scrap heap. . . The law of supply and domand can function efficiently only in NORMAL, limes. AIW ILf'wu " - - " cldont Is that times art not yet normal. ; .... ' f ANOTHER question looms on ii.. knlnn, Knur lnnff will mresent war-born prices for farm ' products continue? , ' ' The bureau of agricultural H ltsir(ml.t nf agriculture essay?' n anfwer to- ball and y that "form prices . iu-. Uliili nitlnl Iffl ?t 35 years will ahow little change in the NEAT rtw niuninp. rrl.-t la nKulnnalv Indefinite J I IK V , ww.-j -- , i i m ..ffni-l in . h mnre nnu in w T specific tho bureau adds that prices depend on markets and "markets for food and farm pro- Ml ulln Mil htArn- like levels at least until 1948 crops become AVAILjAUIiE in Europe and Asia." T'HE I bureau's prognoatlcators 1 rnroanlie that thll is Still Mltr ,i.nna mn ihmv ftvnlaln: "Markots for food and farm products will depend consider ably on EXPORTS. Export which during the war have been about threo times the 1938-1939 level ore HKeiy to oe main tained at or near the war-time i..i-lnif lli 'nrxt few months' PROVIDED means for FINANCING them., are maae available." t ( ... fHAT raises this further que Hon: "wnat win oe me means for financing continuing exports of U. S. food and farm products?" , , , U. S. loans to provide foreign ..MlHln n.llh im mnriev with which to buy our food and form nroducia are nri iu ws iw answer. . IT Is probably a waste of time to add, in this period of more or less cockeyed political think Inir. (hat loanlnK people the Mn,Mir ,llh urMnh In dn nn buv- lng what you have to sell AT H1UH FKllta amiHiiiin nmicijr to PUTTING OFF TROUBLE. Boy Accidentally Slays Mother MANVILLE, N. J., Jan. S (() A five-year-old boy "playing soldier" with his father's hunt ing rifle accidentally shot his mother to death at tho supper table last night, Police Chief John J. J. Jaslnski said today. The mother, Mrs. Margaret Xukacs, ZD, naa remonstratea with her son, Michael, and the father, Stove, got up from his supper chair to take the rifle ' away, from the child, the chief aid. i In doing so, the gun went off, the bullet soverlng the mother's Jugular vein, jaslnsKi aaaca, Bulletin WASHINGTON. Jan. S (AP) A congressional inquiry commit tee heard today that Adm. Hus- Dana fc. Kimmii ana it. uen. Walter C. Short vetoed unity of command in Hawaii in 1941 and argued about which should con trol outlying islands. This Information came to light in a report of an investi gation of the Pearl Harbor dis aster made by Adm, H. K. He .' Witt and iifrned over to the committee by the senate naval eommlttes. Walkout In Electrical Firm Starts Employes Of Wtstern Electric Demand Wage Boost NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (P) A walkout by employes at the Koarny, N. J., and some Now York City plants of Western Kloctrle company, which union officials said would involve 17, 400 workors, began today at 11 a. m. (EST) over a wage disputo that may act as a sprlngbourd for a nation wldo Telephone Workers' strike, - ' Frank J. Hummel, labor rela tions manager of Western Elec tee's Koarny Works, which con sists of 21 plants In New York City and northern New Jersey, said the company had agreed in effect to a union request that tho wage dispute be turned over to a federal fact-finding board. The union made its proposal last night at an unsuccessful con ference to settle a 30 per cent wage Increase demand. Thousands Quit Henry Mayer, counsel for the Independent western Electric Employes association, the strik ing union, suid he had received word at 11:15 a. m. that "work ers are pouring out by the thou sands" from the Kearny plant. Joseph A. Beirne, president of the National Federation of Tele phone Workers, said 48 member unions, representing employes In operating companies of the American Telephone and Tele- f rnpli company, had been asked o authorize a national sympathy strike. The Western Electric Employes association Is one of six western Electric independent unions afflllted with the Tele phone Workers' federation. Mayer said he would leave New York by plane today to con sult with other Western Electric Unions In San Francisco, Haw thorne, III., Baltimore and Hav erhill, Mass., "in order , to get their support." "It will not be today, but in a matter of days we expect sym- sthy strikes in other Western lectrle plants,", Mayer said. Mystery Veils Yonian's Hurts . TULELAKJ Mrs. Rdby Bci sonette, about 40, was found at her home on Nor t h. Modoe street last night in a sorlous condition, victim of an unex plained attack. ''-' ; Chief of Police Frank Rhodes, called, at 1 a. m. to the family residence, . this afternoon ad vanced theory of - robbery. Mrs. Bessonette was moved at 3 a. m. to Hillside hospital in Klamath Falls suffering from a compound fracture of the right arm and multiple lacera tions, v . The woman's husband,- Earl Bessonette, independent drag line operator, told Chief Rhodes he returned home about mid night and found his wife on her bed clad only In a red blouse. Her fur coat, soaked with water and the lining cov ered with blood, was found on the living room floor. The woman's slacks were torn at the knees and Chief Rhodes said they appeared as If Mrs. Bes sonette had been dragged a con siderable distance. Mystery surrounded the cause of the woman's injuries and Chief Rhodes said that she would not advance any infor mation. The chief said today that Mrs. Bessonette was thought to have had around $300 in a billfold when she was seen at the Duchess lounge earlier. The billfold has not been located, Chief Rhodes said, leading to his theory of possible robbery. The Klamath merchants po lice ambulance was called and moved Mrs. Bessonette to Hill side hospital. Chief Rhodes said he was continuing his investigation. Bill PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGOP J1 A." iY. JANUARY 3. 1S1B & .... '. a:- Number 10709 And the UBO here turned out full force to provide entertainment and refreshments to some 100 service men and women, stranded here this morning while two southbound Southern Pa cific trains were held up by slides near Dunimuir. Betty Webber of the USO staff is handing out hot gingerbread to, left to right, Ethel Kessler, Bay City, Mich.; Betty Gisewhite, Maadville, Ps.i Jean Harper. Oil City, Pa.) Theresa Sitterraan, Palisades, N. J., all of the WAC: Marlin R. Ream Jr., Big Fork, Mont., sailor, and George Korpondinos, North Dakota paratrooper. Sandal Found Near Nude, Headless, Handless Body SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Jan. 3 (I1) Discovery of a woman's sandal about a mile from where the decapitated, handless, nude body of a woman was found in a mountain canyon yesterday, spurred officers today In their scorch for clews lead ing to her identity. i They olanned to determine whether, tho sandal fits the foot of the woman, who apparently. had been thrown from an auto. mobile at the first turnout on the highway: leading from San Bernardino to fashionable Lake Arrowhead. . N . '.' . . '. f Sheriff E; I., Shay- expressed tho- - belief - tnnt - tne viaycr-, alarmed by the possibility of' mishap, in a thick i fog which blanketed the road yesterday, moy havo availed himself of his first .opportunity to rid nimseu of his gruesome companion. Whether the woman was slain In the rugged San Bernardino mountains or In this city. Cor oner R. E. Williams said the body was found soon after the killing, since it had not yet be come rigid. The sheriff was deluged today with scores of reports of missing women, many of which were dis carded because of discrepancies In descriptions as compared to the slayed victim's body. It had been mutilated and stripped, Williams reported, in what was undoubtedly an at tempt to prevent identification. Death, he added, was caused by gunshot wounds, one in the left Man, 4 Children. Shot To Death f PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3 (JF) A man about 60 years old and four children were found shot to death today .in their second floor apartment. : Police Lt. James Kelly' said the man was tentatively , identi fied as Emil Schuetz and said it Is believed he formerly lived somewhere In New England. All five had been shot in the head or upper part of the body, Kelly said. Unopened-mall de livered New Year s eve indicated the five died somotlme Tuesday, Kelly said. The lieutenant said Schuetz' body was found lit an arm chair near a Christmas tree with a gunshot wound of the head. A riflo lay nearby.- - : 82nd Airborne Division, K Arrives On British Liner NEW YORK, Jan. 3 () The British liner Queen Mary, bear ing 8800 veterans of the re nowned 82nd airborne division, arrived today at the head of a spectacular parade of troopships bringing home the greatest number of servicemen of any day since V-J Day. me yueen Mary was the flagship of 11 transports, carry ing a total of 30,837 troops, scheduled to dock here during the day. The number of service men was exceeded only once for World War II on July 20 when 31,458 set foot on their native soil again. ' -' Today's arrivals would, have set a new record had the car rier Wasp, with 5830. army of ficers and men, been able to ar rive on schedule. The Wasp was held up by Atlantic storms and will not reach port until Satur day or Sunday, navy officials said- The Queen Mary, mot bv New York's new ' mayor,' Wil liam O. Dwyer.j and MaJ.- Gen. James M. Gavin, commander of the 82nd, docked 30 minutes late because of strong tides and a brisk wind which pushed the huge vessel half a mile past its Hudson river pier. -' , With' .the1 aid of seven tugs she turned slowly and eased her way into her , berth with shouting, waving .. servicemen crowding the rails despite the stinging cold winds of a gray winter day. , ,. Despite the size of the 82nd contingent, which' will carry through a battlefield "dream" by parading up Fifth avenue on January 12, only about 700 to 800 were members of . the orig inal unit, the remainder being replacements, an officer' said. He said the famous division, an "all-American" outfit made up of rnen from all parts of the United States and which saw action In Sicily, Italy, France and Tho Netherlands, suffered 13,000 casualties, 3000 of whom were killed, breast, the other beneath" the left arm, inflicted at close range Hi, . 9ft allhnp nlstnl. . An examination disclosed, the coroner said, that the woman was about 30, probably brunette, with well cared-for smooth skin. He estimated that she had been dead only about eight hours when found, and susKested that from the nature of tho decaplta' tlon, lt may have been done by someone Vtth . surgical know-. ledge. LordHaw Haw, Dies By Rope ! LONDON. Jan. 3 ' Iff) Wil liam - Joyce,.- notorious "Lord Haw Haw" of the, German air waves, died a traitors death this morning on the gallows of Wandsworth prison. -The - 40-year-old - American- born Joyce, who sold his voice to Adolf Hitler as a radio pro pagandist . at the outset of the war, was executed shortly after 9 a. m. (4 a. m EST) on high treason charges of which he was convicted by a British court last Sept. 19. He died on the same scaffold where John Amery, 33-year-old son of a former British cabinet member, was hanged on Dec. 19 on treason charges growing out of similar radio activities. . Only a small group of prison officials saw Joyce ' plunge through the trap. Under English law no spectators may witness an execution. Execution of the death sen tence was announced in two typewritten sheets which were posted outside the prison gates shortly after the hanging. , . Prison officials said , Joyce walked to the gallows from his death cell, his arms pinioned be hind him with the broad -black strap used in countless execu tions. The trap was sprung by I. Pierrepolnt, nephew of Albert Plerrepoint, . famed hangman who executed Amery. Joyce's death under leaden skies in the stone-walled prison courtyard ended a fantastic ca reer which led him from fascist street fights in England to an infamous place as Hitler s num ber one English language broad caster. - . Nazi Propaganda Minister Jo seph Goebbels paid Joyce $60 a week for his radio work, which consisted of four daily broadcasts. Myrna Loy Weds Former Producer SAN PEDRO, Calif., Jan-3 (ff) Smiling radiantly before the altar of a tiny naval chapel, Myrna Loy today became the bride of Commodore Gene Mar key, former film producer, with Admiral William F. Halsey as best man. . A navy chaplain. Cant. Morris M. Leonard, read the brief Pres byterian marriage rites, whicn were witnessed by' about 30 of the couple's film and navy friends. .. Before the war the chapel, now a non denominational church at Roosevelt navy base, was a kindergarten for children of Japanese-American fisher It was the third marrlaee for both the slender, honey-haired star and the greying, slightly balding Markey. The.-, brldc- ?:room was an. intelligence of icor with Halsey when the Utter commanded ine-tmrd fleet, - USO Assists Service Folk Nearly 100 servicemen and women faced the plight of spend ing several hours in a strange town this morning. when south bound trains were detained in Klamath Falls because of slides near Dunsmuir.' . ; In, only a matter of moments the stranded service people were playing ping pong, listening to records, dancing, playing the piano- and generally making themselves at home in the USD clubrooms. When Betty Webber - of the USO- Staff . Eot WOrrf .that.'ihs train -were here, siwi -started, a texl service U vahtf 'from the Southern Pacific depot bringing M airivuis w we C1UD. , Despite the fact that the shack bar was somewhat depleted due to the holiday rush ore food,, the vuiunieer cooKing sian turned out gingerbread and whipped cream, sandwiches, milk and cof- ice tor tneir guests. At 1 p.. m. today the servi men and women were still in Klamath Falls with no idea when they would be able to go on their way. but they were making the most of the- hospitality offered by the USO. One of the group of Wacs remarked that she had never had so friendly a welcome ny uau ciuo, even in large cities. ... , .. ...... . . Nylon Rush Stills Phones WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (ff) Telephone service in the na tion's capital was disrupted for nearly an hour last night by a buyers' rush for nylons. - A radio station said that a chain of shoe stores naa iuuu pairs of nylon stock ings and. that the first 1000 persons who called thu ctn' number could get them. He add ed v that they could not h bought otherwise than h immediate telephone reserva tion. : , So: many ; calls were made that mechanical equipment in most of the residential nr. telephone exchanges became overloaded and it was -impossible to get a dial tone. - The radio station subsequent ly made repeated appeals to its listeners to s t o p calling the number, explaining that -telephone service had been disrupt ed and that all the nylons had been sold anyway. ... It was Washington's second disruption of telephone service in three, weeks. The first was caused by a rush of government workers to make Christmas va cation train reservations. . Man Hit By Car; Refuses Help A 79-vear-old man whn eaw his name as James O'Neil was hit and knocked down early last night on Main by a car driven bv John1 D. Allen.'.-, laundry worker living on route 3. , Alien reported to police the old man was hit as he was cross ing Main near the Payne. street intersection, and that he stopped and wanted to take him to a doc tor but O'Neil refused to go. He left the scene, i WEATHER (January 3) Max. (Jan. 2) 44 Mln. : 29. Precipitation last 24 hours .....01. Stream year to date ....7.37. Normal ....4.73 Last year ... 4.20. " Forecast: - - Clearing tonight, showers Friday afternoon. Telegraph Strike May Be Stopped Western Union Work Stoppage Slated For Monday ' wail, v l J . i. Mandelbaum,. U. S. conciliation commissioner, said today he had K..jn infnrmnA kv William Alton president of the Commerciai Telegraphers union (AFL) that mere was "a very good chance ' the proposed - strike of 50,000 Western Union telegraph opera tors outside New York City. scheduled for next Monday, woum De caiieo on. Mandelbaum said a n v non- strike decision by the AFL would not anect the status, of. 7000 memoers of tne (JiO American Communications association, al so employed by Western Union in New York City, who have scheduled a strike for Tuesday. The commissioner said he was informed of the possibility of a settlement durinir a telenhone conversation with Allen, now in nasningion. He said Allen tolrf him nffl. cials of the AFL union and the company had agreed to a joint mMitlno- nf "Inn Mitit,n 1 ... .n - w,. .A.bu..vva. . Washington at 2 p. m Monday. "I'm expecting -to hear by phone any minute that the union has decided to call off the strike," Mandelbaum said. The reported agreement by the union and the company to re store negotiations followed a rul ing last Monday by the now de funct national war labor . board which increased wage awards made last October 17 to Western Union operators outside New York City. The company was prepared to put into effect the higher wages oraereo. Dy. tne wm. fires Leave 500 Homeless BATA VIA, Java, Jan. S (ff) Fires which swept two native sectors of a Batavia suburb leaving; S00 homeless were ex tinguished today by an Indone sian lire Drigade. . - 'Chinese who lived in the de stroyed areas, said Dutch resi dents set the fires in retaliation for the wounding of a Dutch woman and her companion in the southeastern suburb of Mees- ter corneas. . Dutch and Amboinese police said the fires were started short. ly after an Indonesian mob made an unsuccessful attack on a po lice station. . . Meanwhile, British authori ties luted a military cordon which they had thrown around Batavia last week to try to keep terrorists irom. -entering the capital. They announced that the search of the area, which had been in progress for several aays, naa been completed.. Hedls Ag ire With IPloim ff Choaimgj By SPENCER MOOSA . ' ' ' CHUNGKING, Jan. 3 (tP) Chinese communists accepted to day Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's offer to call in Gen. George C. Marshall as a mediator in China's civil strife. Communist authorities here announced that they agreed la general with Chiang's plan to halt hostilities, but they were lay. ing down specific conditions. The formal communist reply from Yenan, the party's north China headquarters, was handed to government delegates at formal peace meeting. r t : . (Yenan dispatches a few ; hours earlier said the communists had replied formally to the government's New Year's peace plan, welcoming Gen. George C. Marshall as mediator and prom ising to "discuss favorably every suggestion"). The meeting was the third formal union between the two delegations since December 27. Gen. Chou En-lai, leader of the communist delegation, attended after conferring a half-hour with General Marshall. He also had conferred with the U. S. envoy on New Year's Day, shortly after the national government'! counter proposal for a truce had been announced. . Reports of fighting meanwhile thickened. A Chinese national government dispatch countered Chinese communist reports of virtually unopposed Kuomintang - troop movements in northern China with the assertion that commu nist forces were advancing at several points. The national statement said the communists were within five miles of Tangshan, coal mining center on the Peiping Mukden railroad , 60 miles northeast of Tientsin and were repulsed in an attempt to seize the Tangshan airfield. . Another government dispatch said Chiang Kai-shek's troops are moving toward Changwu in the Manchurian province . of Liaoning, 60 miles northwest of Mukden, and are making ar rangements to take over garri son duties there from the Rus sians.' . . Reds To Resist -? It added that General Tu Li ming, commander of national forces in Manchuria, Intended to Inspect his troops, positions in the province of Jehol where the communists were avowedly ready to resist any advance on the capital city of Chengteh. t A communist dispatch here said Chinese red forces had captured the coastal highway town of Poerh 40 miles south west of the Shantung seaport of Tsingtao on December 27. taken fhi-f TiMrftv . villatfp-i-7kiUff 500 puppets and taken the same number prisoner.. .'. -' - The Chinese press said Gen. Ho Ying-chin, . commander in chief of the Chinese army, -will leave - for London tomorrow to participate in a Big Five"mili tary conference. - Jury Indicts Former Governor NEW ORLEANS, Jan.- 3 (ff) The federal court grand jury here today indicted former Gov ernor James A. Noe and three others, charging conspiracy to obstruct justice- in the income tax trials of wealthy William T. Burton, Lake Charles,- La., oil operator. Both trials ended in mistrials. Those indicted were Noe, one time state senator and staunch supporter of the late Senator Huey P. Long; Burton, himself: former Staff Senator Joe T. Caw- thorn, Young Mansfield, La., at torney and a political protege of Noe, and Marcel F. Labranche of New Orleans, a juror in one of the two Burton trials. One Of The Lucky Ones. 1 After having a Ions desolate wait in line before the tax office window in the courthouse this morning, Shirley Cunti, 24S0 White, finally managed to get her 1946 temporary auto stickers. With the time when police will get the go-ahead signal to start making arrests on delinquent motorists drawing near, the line forms early. The office Is now doing booming business, putting out about . 4S0 licenses a day, ; . . Stark Says Jap Attack Mot 'Invited' WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (ff) . Adm. Harold R. Stark said to day that so far as' he knew, there was no advance informa tion in Washington that the Jap anese would attack Pearl Har bor Dec. 7, 1941. ' The 1941 chief of naval oper ations ' made the statement in concurring with an assertion by Senator Lucas (D-H1.) at a joint congressional hearing that re ports of such advance knowl edge were "utterly without foundation in fact." . Stark testified before the senate-house committee . inves tigating the Pearl Harbor disas ter that: 1. He knew of no one in any official position who knew in advance the precise hour or place Of attack. ; -.; ,'.,.:.... Wanted Peace " 2. He knew- of no man or group of men who maneuvered the 1841 Japanese . situation to invite attack. "On the contrary we were trying to maintain peace,"uhe said.-, - ; -;.-S, He knew of no one who, as.. Lucas put it, "trapped or lied' -the-Japanese into attack "so as to make it easier for con gress to give a declaration of war." - .- - , . -. . "Then," said Lucas after em phasizing Stark's 'close connec tions with President Roosevelt and' cabinet members, "all ru mors and speculation and news paper articles about men high in the government knew the precise time and place of attack are utterly without foundation, in -fact?" ; . "That is my opinion," said th white-haired admiral. . Stark also said it never oc-' curred to him, to telephone Adm. Husband E. Khnmel, Pacific I fleet commander, - about fresh information indicating that war was imminent before the Jap anese attacked Dec. , 1941. (Sea also page 11). 25 Dead After Political Riot LEON, Mexl, Jim. 3 (ff) The Red Cross reported today. that it had recovered 25 bodies and had-administered treatment to more, than 300 persons involved in last night's political clash. The Red Cross made thla statement, ," as . federal troops guarded the city and as officials began tabulating the total num. ber of casualties. Business and industrial estab lishments in; the city of 78,000 were closed in protest against the-occurrences. , The clashes occurred when troops , sought to . disperse a crowd demonstrating against in. stallation of the PRM candidate as mayor. , ; ... Arriving In United States 7 By Associated Press William H. Christy, 1st. Lt., Klamath Agency,- arrived on Norway Victory due in New port News December 29. ' Russell M. Gooley, Cp!., Dunsmuir, arrived on USS General Mann due in Tacoma December 27. Frank E. Nlles. SSgt., 1841 . Esplanade, Klamath Falls, arrived on USS Gener al Mann due in Tacoma De cember 27. Herbert C. Cook, PFC, 628 K street, Lakeview, arrived on USS General Mann due in Tacoma December 27. - William C. Sexton. PFC, Klamath Falls, arriving on Queen Mary due in New York January 3. ' Lawrence R. Sandifoid, 2nd. Lt., Mt; Shasta, arrived on John Harvard due In New port News December 28.