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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1946)
la as 3)W fill A rrPlY? Davste Bf FRANK JENKINS 'T'HK news from China on I tlnues hopeful. General Marshall moots today with doners! Chou En-lal, ropro touting tho Chlneso communists, and General Chung Chun, repre senting the Chungking govern- 4n TAT. If liVrV Tim meeting lasts throo hours, and at Its conclusion, iiiungxing ais patches report, Marshull, Chou and Clinnu "omeruo smiling." snd all niirce that "progress has been msuo." The- conference will bt ra mmed tomorrow. BEFORE the mooting, Chou, the communist loudor. had predicted that a truce hultlng the civil war will bo mado effective boforo Thursday of this week, when China's all-iarty confer ence, at which It Is hoped to stop the fighting and work out a program of peace and unity, will begin. rVTATIONAL (Chungking) A troops begin to murch Into Mukden, In all-lmporliint Man . churls, this morning's dispatches report, and General Wedemoyer, U. 8. commander In China, an nounces tliat within ten duys American navy ships will begin to move. 20,000 Chungking troons into Mane lurla by sua. A spokesman for China's Democratic Lennue says today that the proposed truce will not apply to Munchurla, as It Is NOT rcuuracci as a wnc ut riua TILITIES. "Observers" In Chungking Interpret this as pos sibly Indicating that the Chineso communists are reconciled io control nf Manchuria by tho Chlana Kai-shek Kovernment, If so. It must mean that they have given up hope that Russia win neip mem mere. yHE Russian policy of mystery Is preserved by a dispatch from Tientsin which reports that "Russians in Muxaen are reaay to welcome Chinese national (Chungking) forces into the city IF THEY COME UNARMED. WE'VE learned by this time that we can't afford to jump to rosy conclusions as to what is GOING TO HAPPEN lo China, but at least developments there seem to be more promising than at any time In the recent , past. - i .. .. That is interesting, because united, peaceful, DEVELOPING . China would moan a lot to us In Die way of sound, mutually profitable foreign commerce in tne postwar worm. . STATE SECRETARY BYRNES leaves today for London to attend the United Nations as- scmb v which brains this week In London hb will tackle world problems that were left unsolved at Moscow. These problems will Include Inn and the DARDANELLES. . Both are expected to be TOUGH. In Iran, Russia Is ob- , vlously reaching for moro tor- . ritory In her program of setting .up "f r I e n d 1 y" governments around her borders. It has been ' known from the beginning that ' she t going to have a lot to say about final disposal of the Dardanelles strait, which Is the outlet from the Russlan-bordored Black Sea to Uio waters of the Mediterranean. So far, this long-expected Issue has not come out Into the open. It will have to be settled sooner or later. It looks ns If the fire works may begin In London. TTHE Turks are looking for trouble. "Well Informed" diplomats aid in Istanbul the othor day that the Turkish foreign min ister, lias been Instructed to re ject any demands on Turkish ter ritory and to tell British and - American representatives that , his nation would rather FALL , IN WAR than to take a diplo matic defeat. Britain is an ally of Turkey, . and we and tho British have more or less strung along to gether in European diplomacy. The Turks aro putting it up to the two of us to look out for their interests AGAINST RUS SIAN DEMANDS, ' VOU may think you are not much interested in all these foreign affairs. If so, you are mistaken. . In the new world that began for us at Pearl Harbor, foreign relations win Da as important to auu Americans as tne deiibera tions of the city council. Knife Slayer Awaits Action Wlllard Williams, 29-yoar-old Klamath Indian who admitted ly fatally stabbed Egbert Hugo Smith at Bcatty New Year's Day, is still held In the county jail awaiting action by federal authorities. Since both' Williams and Smith aro Klamath Indians and the fray occurred on the resor- . vation. tho case will go into federal hands. Smith died of hemorrhage following the cut ting. . Ho was stabbed in the throat j by a small pockotknife and the ( blade severed his jugular vein. ? Williams, an ex-convict, has1 al ready spent seven years behind bars for a previous Indian killing. 1 tmm mm ; - '; , PRICE riVE CENTS '.o Telephone . WEATHER NEWS January 7, 1946 Max. (Jan. 6) 35 Mln .....27 Precipitation last 24 hours .. ,07 Stream year to data 8.13 Normal 4.99 Last year 4.30 . Forecasts Showers or snow flurries. KLAMATH FAL" .V JN. MONDAY. JANUARY 7. lMt Number 10712 moll Giiir I Kidnaped.'Dri Windy-City CHICAGO, Jon. 7 (AP) Golden-haired Suzanne Degnon, 6, wos kidnaped for $20,000 ransom today and her father. a $7500 a year government employe, appealed by radio for her safo return, promising I II give you the money." James Degnan, 36, Chicago OPA executive, made the special appeal within a few hours aft6r the Chicago city news bureau reported the kidnaper had telephoned the fam ily to repeat tho ransom demand made in a note left near c I..J i.. . "If you have any sympathy or understanding In your heart, you will return the child to the family," Degnan soid in a local broadcast over WMAy, an NBC outlet. '"Please let me know what I con do, how I con con. tact you. I'll give you the money. I'll do anything to get my cnna dock, ir you norm ner, txd will repay you. Please, please do not harm her." Suzanne, blue-eyed ond possessing a face a former neigh bor described os the "most cheerful little face I ever saw," wos abducted apparently by someone misled by the size of tne uegnan home into believing her o child of weolth. The Degnans share a North Side residence ot 5943 Ken more avenue with an attorney ond his wife and their daugh ter and son-in-law. 'Suzanne was missed from her bed at 7:30 a.- m.. when ner father went to call her for State Highway Equipment Out To Clear Snow All state highway equipment was working overtime In the mountain area surrounding Klamath falls as a heavy snow fall blanketed this section of soutnern uregon today. ' Sanding trucks were dis patched to the various summits on Quartz mountain, Haydcn and Sun mountains, but tho heavy snowfall which continued throughout the morning held up me operation, highway men said hero today. Two inches of new snow fell on Quartz mountain on the Lnkevicw highway to tho east, fivo Inches of new snow on Hay dcn mountain of tho Green springs to tho valley, and Sun mountain to tho north on The Dallcs-Cullfornia highway, re ported six Inches of new snow bringing the total on that stretch to 105 Indies, this morning's re port advised. Nino Above The stata highway also said that Quartz mountain reported a minimum tomporaturo of 9. de grees above zero this morning. The Willamette pass is now open to one-way traffic as the 180-foot washout had been par tially filled to permit movement over tho highway. At the Marine Barracks, Col. Charles T. Brooks said a heavy snow was falling throughout the morning and at least six Inches of snow covered the post at noon today. Tho road lending to the barracks was slick but sanding was in operation with all post equipment busy clearing roads. MURDER GOAL NUERNBERG, Jan. 7 W Waffon SS. Lt. Gen. Erich von Dcm Back-Zclewskl told the in ternational military tribunal to day that the nazls attacked Rus sia with a goal of wiping out 30,000,000 Slavs.' school. The city news bureau said tho kidnaper telephoned at 10 a. m. to reiterate the ran som demand to Degnan who earlier had told newsmen: "I have no money and I know of no reason why I should be a target for a kidnaping for ransom. - Tho news bureau said the telephone call was made by a man. Police traced the call to a number in lho Rogers Park dis trict. The section in -which the Degnans live Is known as Edge-. water and adjoins tne Rogers i-aric district on the south. A ransom note found in the girl's room stressed that the family not notify the police or tno newspapers or tne child would be harmed. . Thraata Rapoatad The threats were repeated over the telephone, the news bureau said, and the caller in sisted on the ransom, saying he wouia can later. - Shortly after .11 a. m. Dctcc-. tlvo Chief Walter Storms hur ried from the scene of the kid' naping at 5943 Kcnmore ave nue, a two-story duplex house. to tne Summerdale police sta tion, collected six squads of po licemen and raced west with them. Three FBI agents conferred with Degnan as did Sheriff Michael Mulcahy of Cook coun ty (unicago). a friend. Police Commissioner John C. Prender- gast, who took office only sev en days ago, assumed personal cnarge oi me case. North Sid. Tho Degnan home is on the corner of Kcnmore and Thorn' dale avenues, in a middle class neighborhood ' on Chicago's North Side, The residence is a large brick house set well back from the street and surrounded by shrubbery. . .. The owner of the house. At torney A. Louis Flynn, lives on the second floor, the Degnans on tne first. Suzanne ' was sleeping alone in the back bedroom. A sister. Betty, 10, was asleep in, another room. The windows of Su zanne's room were unlocked. 'Wilbur' Has New Mistress tt V. TV. H z. i DOE Wilbur, tha woobegone waif whom nobody wanted, has a new mistress, 3-year-old Judith Payne (above). Her mother was tha first of SO applicants who sounht tha dud after a itorv of tha pup's plight was published In Los Angeles. Only Wilbur's name isn't Wilbur now It'a Qladyil (AP wlrsphoto). 500 MiUEG ELESS IN WAKE OF TEXAS GALES Texas Tornado Victim in Wreckage Of Home 0 I Ed Sullivan fhmldlad wiAtr wraelraaat Is ana af ihm nut Intura.4 In tha 4nra.ilA wl.l-v struck Nacogdoches, Toxas. Six parsons war killed In Nacogdochas and at least 85 injured. Tha man siancung u not laanuiioo. AS wuapnotoj, FoiiHeeh Oil Coin Withdrawal From Fact-Finding Hearings WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (P) Fourteen oil companies served notice on government fact-finders today that they preferred direct negotiations with the CIO Oil Workers union over wage demands . to continuation of fact-finding hearings. - Only wo companies appeared as participants when the" fact finding panel reconvened after a 16-day recess, ' and one Socony-vacuum oil company of New York promptly - declared Basin Mills To Start 7ork All but five or. six small operations have been cleared for a return to work after the AFL strike in the Klamath basin . dis trict area, it was reported today by Hugh Haddock,, business agent for the union. . Haddock reported that the. As sociated Jumper and Box com pany at Dorris and the American Box company at Sprague River, and Lakcvlew. were now in. line for operation under the 15-cent increase agreement reached re cently between negotiators for the union and management. Others newly lined, up for work Include the Swede Basin Lumber company . at Grants Pass and Southern Oregon Sugar Pine company at Central Point. -In connection with the Swede Basin settlement, workers are going back without settlement of a uniuii snup uemuuu which wtia part of the original strike -de mand. The Fruitgrowers Supply com pany plant at Hilt is cleared for action under a separate settle ment. This provides for a 15 cent sawmill increase, and a Hi cent increase for the lower bracket in the box factory. The latter scale eliminates the differ ential in the low wage rate in the box factory .and mill, but the 174 cents does not nopiy to the skilled brackets in the box fac tory. They get 15 cents.., Arriving In United States By Associated Press Nathaniel F. Visrs. Cpl., Klamath Falls, arrived on SS Gerry due in Newport News January 6. Lane Brooks, PFC. Klam ath Falls, arrived on Colusa due in San Francisco January 5. Nad N. Legault, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived ' on Monticello due in New York January 1. William G. Simpson, T4, Klamath Falls, arrived on Monticello due In New York January 1. . it would continue only on its own terms. Fourteen other companies telegraphed the panel that they were continuing negotiations with the union and, in general, saw no need for coming to Washington. ' t However, O. A. Knight, union president,- declared in a statement that the direct nego tiations over the 30 per cent wage increase demand were be ins hamoered by company - in troduction of "extraneous is sues." ' In a telegram to Dr. Frank P. Graham, chairman of the oil panel. President B. Brewster. Jennings of Socony-Vacuum ob jected to government considera tion of ability to pay in study ing ; wage questions, declaring this indicated a trend toward "rigid government , control . of Industry." I ;; ,' " OM Quits ' . Injection of the ability to pay issue recently resulted in with drawal of the .General Motors corporation' from government fact-finding proceedings in -the General Motors strike case.!- . Referring to the same issue, Richard H. Lowe, - counsel for Socony, told reporters his firm would continue in the oil fact finding hearings but would pre sent only such- evidence as to its earnings and ability to pay as is normally published. -, Jennings' telegram said So cony was "unwilling to encour age a trend in the direction of a regimented economy." "Any tie between wages and earnings." Jennings asserted. "would lead inevitably and rap idly to a rigid government con trol over Industry, "Such control would of neces sity be. almost - identical with the so-called fascist economies which were developed in- Ger many and Italy during the 1930s." - The other company repre- Portland Lumber Head Stricken Frank H. Ransom, well known lumberman and president of the Eastern and Western Lumber comrjanv. Portland, was stricken with a heart attack Sunday after noon and rushed to Hillside hos pital where his condition was said to be critical today. : Two of Ransom's sons. Major Frank Ransom of Portland .and Richard Ransom of San Mateo, Calif., are at their father's bed side. , They are at the Winema hotel. Major Ransom was fish ing in Puget Sound when word of his' father's illness reached him. He flew south Sunday. The elder Ransom was here on business when he became ill. sen ted at the- hearing was the Atlantic Refining company. ' Knight's . statement pointed out that the oil fact-finders had recssed before the Christmas holidays hoping that oil refin ing, companies would .negotiate settlement of the wage dispute. . .However, he reported, only two refineries belonging to two different companies had reach ed an agreement. Agreement was. reached for an-18.per cent wage increase for the .Texas company's West Tulsa refinery, which .matched- the. agreement by Sinclair Refining company for all . of its operations. , Dog Poisoner Reward Growing , : The reward fund started by a group of Klamath- dog-lovers for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the dog poison er who has killed several family pets' in the past two weeks, is growing daily. " - Totaling $65 in Individual con tributions, the fund has mounted rapidly since its beginning last Saturday. C. i L. "BarkdolV who recently lost his dog and believes the animal was poisoned, started the fund,-and-since then, 10 Jocal people have sent contributions. They are A. J. Kroenert, Wally Moss, Mrs. R. B. Blackman, Paul Winters, Dr. Herrick A -Wheeler, Rex Hiatt, Ira Brewer, J. James, L. J. Brink, and Tom Dunn. Others who wish to contribute to the fund are asked to contact Barkdoll at his home, telephone 8951, or at Barkdoll's' Radio service, telephone 6816. . . Leave Over 300 Injured 29 Persons Reported To Have Perished In Storms . NACOGDOCHES, Texas, Jan. 7 (ff) A Red Cross disaster team from St. Louis joined local offi cials and relief agencies today in caring for. the 500 families made homeless and more than 300 persons injured by the tor nadoes which tore across five east Texas counties Friday night. Meanwhile with four addition al deaths yesterday the total of fatalities reached 29. Robert Edson, Red Cross di rector of the midwest district, who arrived yesterday from St Louis to make a survey, estimat ed property damage at $2,600, 000. This figure is likely to be revised upward when a survey of the damage to the pine forests of the counties is completed. Storm Effects , . . Edson presented this addition al picture of the effects of the storm: - . , - . . 300 persons injured..; . -, 122 still hospitalized: .' - - - -18 hemes destroyed.-.- CJ , 200 homes damaged. . 410 other buildings destroyed, ' 317 other buildings damaged. Two Red Cross emergency dis- Eensing stations nave Deen set up ere and another at Palestine to issue clothing, food and bedding to destitute families. Nine emer gency shelters have been set up by local - chapters in the five counties. National headquarters of the Red Cross announced in Wash ington yesterday that it had ob tained priorities for 1,750,000 board feet of lumber which it es timated as sufficient for immedi ate emergency construction re quirements. . .- Oregon Flood Threat Lessens PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 7 VP) The ' Willamette river . held a flood threat over the weekend. but the weather bureau said to day the banks would not be topped. ' . , Colder weather halted the rise at Eugene and the level, was dropping there. Crest was reached at Albany at 8 a. m. to day and it failed by half-a-foot to touch flood stage.- Renewal of the high water, after last, week's costly inunda tion of the Valley, followed heavy rains and melting snow. . . The peak at Salem is expected to be 16.5 feet late this after noon. Flood stage, there is 20 feet. .-, .; -., . , .:: ," ., NEGRO SURRENDERS . PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. '7 OP) A 27-year-old negro sought in connection with the Christmas Day slaying of a Vancouver, Wash, butcher has surrendered in Philadelphia as an army de serter, Joseph E. Thornton',' in charge of the Portland FBI of fice, said today. Pepper Favors Broadcast Of Congressional Debate WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (P) Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) thinks congressional debate should be broadcast, just like a soap opera or Jack Benny. But a couple of republicans said today they aren't sold on a proposal that would make a. mi crophone available to any con gressman who could work his way up to it. In separate interviews, Reps. Walt Horan and Clarence Brown came up with their ideas on how congress might, be put - on. the radio. Horan, big apple and pear man from Wenatchee, Wash., isn't so much, opposed to putting micro phones on the house and senate floors, as Pepper has suggested. It's just that he' believes a much, better plan would be to broadcast the activities of the committees "Where the real work is done." In committees. Horan says, congressmen usual ly are more interested in getting the views of experts than they are in expressing their own. . - Brown, newspaper publisher from Blanchester, Ohio, has this thought: t j On every controversy, let the republicans and democrats each name a team. Then a radio de bate could be held, with rules of congressional procedure apply ing. That way, he says, the pub lic could get the tumult and the shouting In sizes that could be handled. - ' Brown thinks the -Pepper plan is silly." "Fifty per cent of the talking In congress is done by five per cent of the members," says Brown. "CanH you just imagine what it would be like in congress if they knew the country was lis tening in? I can see Pepper now, with a death grasp on a microphone." Yanks Boo Statement Of General 12,000 Soldiers Call For Congressional . Investigation - By JOHN CROVER MAMlf.A .Tan t Dr. A A . A 12,000 American soldiers jammed into the shell-battered ruins of the Philippines Hall of ConBrefM tnnloht r.. a u..a orderly mass protest to the da- 1l 11 aiuwuown and thundered approval of a resolu- tlnn Tallinn 4n. i , investigation. ' coos rang through the hall as an enlisted man, acting as chair man. rOtlll O a-a-Aman. t A , -- AAUIil i-,V. Gen. W. D. Styer, commanding " w ireaiern pa cific, explaining, the delay in home-bound trips. Earlier, thousands of milling enlisted men had marched to Stver' hanflniiniA.. i l a committee of five, which was y " s general mat tha ' changing International situa tion" prevented sending all eli gible men home at once. : mm uatnor . Tjinti utnTA A n m 1 , v. ... Bc. vita men began gathering and climb ing the twisted masonry fronting the great flight of ruined steps to the capitol entrance, where a make-shift stage had been set up with a wheezing loudspeaker. By the time TR Harold Schif- man. called the meeting to order the triangular lot in front of the legislative hall was packed with ujuuMuua ui soiaiers. They cheered as one by one enlisted mim tnnlr fh .t... Bn spoke their mind. ine speakers exhorted their listeners to write their congress men. flnH Hu-ln-ovl -V.A .. j partment was changing the rules , uralt Flayad . One unlriipf nrnti. aA-j that "the only thine thev fth war department) ever managed w ivui uj, wuiae was ine uraxt. Annthfi- cai ,ua, . ' ; .1 ;- ..." duin ' ilia last regulations were promulgat or UJ 'ne army naa his release day figured down to the last Inlniltn nn) . I " wu liuff uiv wur department 'slowdown' leaves everybody up in the air." t Scbiffrin read Styer's ' state- ffieni.?(frtm'tnat amy in the Philippines : was doing its best to get men home, .hinnlnor ,318 high-point soldiers to the 549.: States m'nre tho . ' Bear in mind," the statement said.'it took us 30 months to build pur strength in. the West ern PnpifltT Vft i ha- W- auced(in four months by two- Repats Fight: To Stay Here ' More than 3000 evacuees at the Tulelake WRA center want to stay in tha United State, ri. spit their renunciation ' of American citizenship. ' - This - was disclosed today when the department of justice opened hearings at the renter for renunciants who have indi cated their unwillingness to . go to Japan. , Each of the more than 3000 who amlied for hearin will be given an individual, appear ance before a special board. These people signed an appli cation., form including; the fol lowing statement: "1- do not wish to return to Japan. I request that I be giv en a hearing and the opportu nity to show cause why I should not be removed to Japan." Renunciants who have not signed this statement are re garded as voluntarily willing to accept . repatriation and presu mably will be removed , to Japan. ' It is understood the more than 3000 renunciants asking ' hearings include a large num ber who are involved in an ac tion in federal court in which they seek to abrogate previous citizenship renunciation, chiefly on the grounds thev renounced citizenship under duress or mis understanding. The two situa tions are not connected, how ever. Hearings, on the federal court action are scheduled in San Francisco January 10. . No Trace Found Of Jail-Breakers " MEDFORD. Jan. 7 (At The sheriff's office reported today no trace of two men who es caped from the county jail here -Saturday, v ) , . Calvin L... Burtis and Bobby J.' Nelson, both 19, were under 18-month sentence for car theft. They sawed bars from the win dow, to escape. Two other pris oners who left at the same time were caught a few hours later.; VISITORS' BUREAU ' CORVALLIS. Jan. 7 (P) The Oregon State . College Al umni association has set up a visitors' bilreau in the Memori al Union, officials said today. Visitors can leave messages, write letters, and use typewrit er or telephone at the bureau.
