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'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.
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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"
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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
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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.