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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1946)
WW. mm fo) III AT UM KTfc Br FRANK JENKINS SHOOTINO cease In Chin after n apparently pc, Ocular mooting last night be tween Chiang Kjil-shck and Qon tral MnriihuTl. (At litis moot Ing, Chtung announces crypti cally, "seemingly unaurmount abl obstacles wort a'Ciod way.) ... t h a shooting finally topped, evonti mov iwlIU Chiang thl morning openi the long-pending Chlnoso political consultation conference, and an nounce that Uio government . (hia government) will: V 1. Grant the pcoplo freedom Of apoech, conscience, poraon, publication (froo press) and as sociation (free assembly) and will aafoguard them against illegal arrest and trial. 2. Thut ALL political parties J will hnreaftor bo equal before . the law and may hereafter oper- ate openly within tlio law. . 3. That local self-government will bo actively promoted in all ? luces and that free popular dec lona will bo held. ' . 4. That political prisoner, ex cept traitors and those commit ting definitely Injurious acts against tho government, will be released. GENERAL CHOU EN-LAI, tha No. 2 communist loader, ap prove these four point and aays they are basic for achieving constitutional government. Experience bus taught us to keep our fingers crossed, but It really begins to look aa If China might bo getting started on a program of peace and reconstruc tion. That would ba definitely BIO development from our standpoint. ... WHAT of Russia1 part In th Chinese settlement? Well, a few straws are begin ning to appear In tha winds. It was announced Inconspicuously a few days ago that Outer Mon golia (which borders Russian Siberia) la to become an inde pendent people' republic (prob ably with Russia' blessing.) Thl morning' dispatches ay ft Is "believed" that at last night' meeting witli Ccnoral . 1 11 rU.f 1 .... 1 I. .fl.lt J1IMI BIIMII, V,lIWg to "modify hi prevlou insist ence tnat me nationalist limine,. king government) should occupy certain specified STRATEGIC provinces of Chnhar and Jehol." YOUR map will make It clear to you that Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, IF under Russian influence, will provide . for Russia on the east tho same kind of PROTECTIVE BAND of friondly government she teems to bo determined to build up clear around her borders. 'ANOTHER straw: Th riisnntclie state today that U. S. Ambassador Lane has informed tho Polish provisional government that he will oppose the grunting of ANY U. S. funds to Poland as long as "present conditions" prevail there. Tho "present condition" to which he objects seems to bo a Polish decree NATIONALIZING all basic Polish industries em ploying more than SO persons per shift. (Nationalizing means taking over by the government.) Tho Polish government Is un dor Russia's thumb. . ' STILL another straw: Five American correspond ents were permitted recently to visit tho Russian-occupied zono of Germany. They reported cautiously upon their return that a "PLANNED ECONOMY for Industry and business nnd wide spread revision of land owner, ship aro the basis of tho Soviet program In Russian-occupied finrmanv " That Is to say, all of eastern Germany la to bo added to the ring of "friendly" governments by which Russia Is surrounding herself. TT is bocomlng slowly apparent that in the new world that is being carpentered together two basically opposed systems of gov ernment will face each other throughout a great part of the world the Russian system in which the STATE IS EVERY THING and the Anglo-American (Continued n Pas 8, Column S) Telephone Tie-Up Near In Oregon Phone Workers Vote To Respecr Union Picket- Lines PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10 (P) A tlc-up of long distance calls from Portland and many west ern Oregon cities loomed today after phone worker voted to respect picketing scheduled to morrow by striking equipment technicians. Members of the 3000 United Telupliono Employes of Oregon voted lust nlglit to stay away from offices of the Pacific Tele phono and Telegraph company throughout the statu If pickets apneur. Workers of the independent Association of Communication Equipment Workers, who instull and maintain Weatorn Electric equipment of the company, loft their Jobs yesterday morning. Their pickets were expected to appear shortly after midnight tonight. Company officials reported dial phone service here would contlnuo unless disrupted by equipment failure. Supervisory workers will handle emergency long distance calls and attempt to mulntain leased wiro service to newspaper and radio sta tion. F. D. Tellwright, general man ager of tho company'a Oregon system, yesterday asked all phono employes to continue working. Pickets wcra expected to ap pear at Portland exchange of fices shortly after midnight Thursday. SEATTLE. Jon. 10 (P) Dis ruption of the state's telephone service tomorrow appeared Im minent with announcement to day of plans by tho striking Association of Communication Equipment Workers to place picket before most exchanges before the main day shift ar rives for work. Fred A. Fedden, secretary treasurer here of tho ACEW local, said that provided no lost mlnulo ' settlement is readied today in the east In the strike against Western Electric, the piciteis wnt appear irortv o:au .m. on in front or most ex chunaea here, at Snokane. Ta. coma, Bellingham, Yakima , and perhaps Lcwlston, Ida. Truce Reached In China War CHUNGKING, Jan. 10 OP) Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced today, shortly after a truce nad Drought an immedi ate end to China's civil war, that tha government had decid ed to legalize all political parties,. Ho said tha government would free all purely political prisoners, grant tho people irecaom or speccn ana promote meat sen government. Chiang, opening the nolltlcal consultation conference almost simultaneously with the conclu sion of tho ceaso fire agree ment, announced the govern mcnt had decided to: 1. Grant the people freedom of person, conscience, speech, publication, and association and to safeguard them against il legal arrest and trial. 2. All political parties shall bo equal before the law and may operate openly within the law. 3. Local self-government will activoly be promoted in all places and popular elections will be held. 4. Political prisoners, except traitors' and those found to have committed definite acts injuri ous to the republic, would be released . Gen. Chou En-Ial. No. 2 conv munist leader, approved the four points and said they wero Dasic lor acnicving conatitu tlonnl government. Gen. George Marshall, spe cial u. s. envoy to China, broke the deadlock In Chinese negoti ations for a truce last night by visiting Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. . Clothes Of Missing Kelso Man Found; 2 Men Quizzed ALBANY. Ore.. Jan. 10 m Two men who Sheriff Mike Southard said confessed to tak ing a Kelso, Wash., logger for a fatal ride December 16 were be ing questioned today about still another missing: Kelso man. Clothes belonging to Frank Anderson, a vanished Kelso log dna camD cook, wero found in suitcase carried by tho pair now in Jail here. , - Tha tw.o S. D. McClaln, 67, and Jack Mann, 27 confessed last month, tho sheriff said, that they dumped tho body of Ernest Bowman, 45-yoor-old Kelso log ger, into a, stream after he was shot by McClaln. Bowman's body hag not been found. , . McClaln refused, Ilia ahcrllt said, to give any Information about Anderson, . who disap peared from Kelso Nov. IB while carrying $5000 in cash and $3500 in Donas, Doputy Sheriff B. D. Jacobs, who came here yesterday from Kelso, identified clothing and a watch found in a suitcase in Mann's home as belonging to Anacrson. xne suitcase also con tained some of Bowman's ef fects, ho said. McClaln stated he' had given tho sultcaso to Mann, Sheriff Southard said. Ha was quoted as saying that ho and Mann drove from Kelso to Portland in An derson's car Nov. 19 tha date of Anderson's disappearance, and that the suitcase was in the car. Wtm 0 phone Mill PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, f .'HUHBDAY, JANUARY 10, 1946 Number 10715 - fO Scene Of Chicago Kidnopin t$s& 1" Degnan Ransom Note U lJ I dpvAn AVJ lj 1 1 LIJ y l 1 "If1 , utl II JJ ....... '.' U J ' 1 1 ' elmdale av o 5 S I . , pTn. J . y y snv ii irinnri 1 1 " 11 V m" i " n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -ta Map locates (1) north side Chicago home from which (-year-old Susanna Dagnan was kidnaped, (2) catch basin in araaway of apartment building whin child's hand was recovered, (3) an other catch basin whin loft lag was found. (4) third catch basin whin right lag was found in brown shopping bag and (S) sawar whin torso, minus arms .and legs was recovered. (AP Wlnphoto Map). Hare an both sides of th ransom note lift In th bedroom of Susanna Dagnan, 6-yiar-old daughter of an OPA official whoti dismembered body was found In Chicago naax bar home. Th oll-stalnad paper bora this legend: (lift) cat 120.000 raddy and waita for word. Do NOT notify FBI or police bills in 5'a and 10's; (right) burn this for har safety. Similarity to th Lind bergh crime baa bun noted In th cas. (AP wirephoto). Gl Demonstrations Overseas Protesting Discharge Delay Branded "Near Mutiny WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (P) Son. Edwin C. Johnson (D Colo.) who has declared condi tions in the army to be "near mutiny." was named chairman of a special senate military sub committee today to explore tho whole demobilization situation. Chairman Elbert Thomas (D- Utah) of the senate military af fairs committee, also named Senators Briggs (D-Mo.) and Itovercomb group, W. Va.) to the Johnson said BrigKs was out of the city, but he got in touch with KevercomD ana arranged for expedited action. He wrote Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief of staff, and Acting Secretary of War Ken neth C. Royall asking them to appear before the subcommittee at their earliest convenience "to explain the whole situation." "Our hope Is that we can stabilize the situation and clar ify it," Johnson told a reporter. "We want to do it as fast as we can. Congress must determine the military policy of this coun try." Johason earlier called GI dem onstrations overseas in connec tion with the demobilization slowdown "near mutiny" and "distressing and humiliating to all Americans." Johnson formally called upon the senate military committee to Bowles Fights Price Boosts By MARVIN L. ARHOWSMITH WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (fl OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, flatly opposed to food Drlce increases recommended by Secretary of Agriculture Ander son, nas appealed lor a slower removal of government sub sidies. Officials who know his views say the price boss has written to Stabilization Director John C. Collet asking that food subsidies be continued beyond dates tenta tively set In, a program drafted in November. At that time Collet announced the government hoped to end by next June 30 virtually all such food payments. Purpose of the $1,785,000,000 a year war-born program, is to keep retail prices from rising. . Bowles took up the fight for extended subsidies against a background of blunt OPA oppo sition to Anderson's recommen dation for an 18-cent-a-pound butter price increase by next spring. OPA also has fought auietly Anderson's proposal for higher meat prices. Officials who asked that tliev not be named said Bowles takes the Dosition that since food prices have not declined as ex pected and actually nave risen in some instances, subsidies pro vide the only way to prevent a general increase in the cost of Weather (January 10) Max. (Jan. 9) ... 29 Min 21. Precipitation last 24 hours 00. Stream yar to date 8.38. Normal ....5.18. Last year ....4.35. Foracasti Overcast. I summon Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower "at the earliest possible moment" for a full investigation. Johnson, a member of the committee, asked congress to t:ikc a hand in the situation after the war department dis closed It was undertaking to re cast its entire demobilization program. - Pressure The Increnslng pressure from disgruntled Gl's demonstrating overseas obviously was a factor affecting both the congressional and army approach to the prob lem: Eisenhower, army chief of staff, authorized theater com manders, pending issuance of the new demobilization program, to return home all surplus per sonnel regardless of their point scores. In a letter to Chairman Thom as of the senate military commit tee, Johnson declared that "no American army t must ever be oermitted bv congress to degen- Lerate,Uftto airibb. What must our . neighbor natlonarthlnkr of such an outrageous display of Ir responsibility? Johnson also asserted that the war department was repudiating "solemn pledges aDOUt aemuui 'Overseas Nerves' Blamed By 'Pappy' For Endearing Terms Of Letters To Lucy By JAMES S. LINDSLEY HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10 W) Rugged, stocky "Pappy" Boy ington was honeymooning today with blonde former Frances Baker, after a fast-breaking ro mance which left his attractive bride "happier than I can tell" and "stunned" the brunette who asserts he jilted her. Pappy, otherwise Lt. Col. Gregory Boyington, marine corps air ace who spent 20 months as a prisoner of the Japanese, said the affectionate terms of a series of telegrams and letters he had sent Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson were the re sult of "overseas nerves." "Remember, I'd been out of the country a long, long time," he remarked, a little sheepish ly. The colonel, at a press con ference, gave his version of the romantic mixup which in the past few days may have made him wish he was back fighting the Japanese over Rabaul, where he was shot down Janu ary 3, 1944, and subsequently taken captive. He said he met Mrs. Mal colmson about June, 1942, on the SS Brazil as he was return ing to the states from Bombay. In December, 1942, before he returned to combat, he con tinued, he entered into a legal trusteeship which made her guardian of his children by a previous marriage, Gregory Jr., 10, Janet Sue. 8, and Gloria, 6. They are now with his parents in Brewster, Wash. The flier said he went to Reno New Year's Eve to dis cuss dissolving the trusteeship, under which, he declared, she had received between $16,000 and $18,000 in salary and allot ments while he was overseas. But he wound up giving her a "sort of engagement ring. However,- he added, he told her there would be no marriage be tween them. "Mrs. Malcolmson had no reason to announce we would be married," he declared. In Reno, Mrs. Malcolmson her divorce suit from Stewart Malcolmson, Australian produc tion manager for General Mo tors, marked "off calendar" went into seclusion. Her attor ney said she told him she would return some of Boylngton's per sonal effects and quoted her: "I am so stunned I have noth ing more to say. I have no rea son to see him further." Board Favors 19.5 Cents An Hour Wage Hike For GM WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (P) A presidential fact-finding board recommended today a general wage increase of 19 H ' cents an hour for General Motors production workers. . President Truman mad public a summary of the board' report shortly after lt was presented to the Whit House. He called it "thorough and reasoned" and said it "will com mend itself to tha good judgement of th American public." Mr. Truman expressed hop that tha corporation and th CIO United Automobile Workers, who have been on strike for 50 days in a demand for a 30 per cent wage boost, will follow the recommendations and speedily end "thl most costly conflict." Lloyd Garrison, chairman of th fact-finding board, esti mated the 19 H -cent hourly raise recommended would b around 17 !4 per cant as compared with th 30 per cent de manded by the workers. ' Tho company had offered slightly over 10 per cant or about 13 cents an hour. Th board recommended th strike be called off and that ' the employes be permitted to return to work without dis crimination. The summary said that a large part of the 19 M cent hourly recommended wage increase is for cost of living ad- justment to the workers, who have received no general in crease sine 1942. The balance, it said, is to compensate for loss of earnings as result of shortr work wek and other factors. lizatlon made to congress last September by Gen. George C. Marshall, then chief of staff. However. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of army ground forces, contended in a speech that public clamor for bringing I he hnv back immediately is "jeopardizing our security and wrecking: the. morale.- of men needed to maintain the peace, ,.The announcement ' that 'the army was redrafting Its, demo bilization program came less than a week after the war de partment ordered its demobiliza tion slow-down which touched off the series of GI demonstra tions, in the Pacific and Europe. : First Chang r This slow-down order was the first drastic change in demobili zation policy since the . broad general program was announced after V-E Day. There was no hint what lines the new demobilization program would follow, but the army promised that the revised plan would be forthcoming "shortly." Despite Eisenhower's order and the promise of a new demo bilization program, increasing dissatisfaction with the entire situation was voiced on Capitol Hill by some lawmakers return ing for the opening session of congress next week. Iran Seethes With Unrest TEHRAN, Jan. 10 (Jf) A gov ernment announcement said to- in 4t.nl flcKtino Vinrl hrnken out in two Russian occupied prov inces in northern Iran. A ministry of Interior official said the outbreaks occurred in Chalus, on the Caspian sea in Mazandaran province, and at Kazvin. killed and two others wounded at Kazvin, in rvazvin province, where the government said "groups of immigrants and strangers" fired upon voters dur ing a provincial election. The ministry said the attacks occurred Tuesday after "at lAmnh to intimidate the voters" failed. Kazvin, 90 miles northwest of Tehran, is the southernmost out. nit iho Riicainn 7nne nt in fluence in Iran and may be en tered only wun me permissiou of the Russian commandant. , Dorris Pioneer Taken By Death Herbert Lang, for more than 40 years a prominent resident of the Dorris, Calif., community, died at the family home in Dor ris Tuesday following a brief ill ness. Mr. Lang, 73 at the time of his passing, at one time oper ated the Dorris Mercantile com pany. He owned considerable property in that neighborhood and was a director in the Butte Valley State bank at his death. ' Mrs. Jennie Lang survives her husband. Final rites will be held from the chapel of the Whitlock Funeral home Friday at 1:30 p. m., with commitment and in terment in the family plot at the Picard cemetery, Dorris. - . Police Seek Two AAen.DrD ECidn aping CHICAGO, Jan. 10 (P) A man once employed at a nursery ituatad within two block of the horn of Susann Dagnan, , kidnap-killing victim, was th object of a police search today. Mrs. Margaret Perry, operator of th nursery horn, told th police this man was discharged because of "questionable habits." Investigators also learned he formerly was a mental patient at Manteno stati hospital but had bun discharged as curid. Thiy laid hi formerly was a practicing North Sid dentist. Inquiry into th identity and background of former employe of the nursery cam about when Mrs. Parry Identified a ladder found in an allay at th rear of th Degnan home as on which had been left at th nursery two years ago by roofing company employes. . Th police believe th fiendish kidnap-klller used th ladder to enter little Susanna's bedroom early Monday when he took her from her bed, left a 120,000 ransom not, killed her and dismembered her body. Th child's father, James E. Degnan, Chicago OPA official, told reporters, however, he had seen the ladder in th same location in th alley th day before th crime. Another man (ought, th police disclosed, was an ax-convict with a record of sex of fans (gainst young girls. Intensive search for the arm of Susann' body continued, ; all other -parts of the body hav- llf ing been 'ound in four sewer Aniee warns Fate Of Yorld In UNO Hands By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER LONDON, Jan. 10 JP) Tha United Nations assembly, carry-f irig forward the world's hopes for prevention of an atomic age war, came, into being in battle-scarred London today and heard a bald warning that it holds in its hands the choice of "life or death" for mankind. The warning came from Brit ain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee after Dr. Eduardo Zuleta of Colombia had called the dele gates of the 51 United Nations to order at 4:03 p. m. (8:03 a. m. PST.) "It is for the peoples of the world, through their representa tives, to make their choice be tween life and death,". Attlee declared in his blunt speech. Dr. Zuleta, temporary presi dent of the assembly, told the delegates in the cream and gold central hall of Westmins ter palace on Parliament Square tnat all must give their unquali fied and unhesitating . support from the scourge of war." The American delegation took seats long before the last of the delegates had entered the hall. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sat on the left of Senator Connally (D-Tex.). Secretary of . State James F. Byrnes sat on Con nally's right. They chatted and laughed during the last min utes before the two raps from Dr. Zuleta' gavel threw open the session. The galleries overflowed and many persons stood in the cor ridors, unable to get in. Curious citizens began gathering early in the streets outside, under the rainbow of the 51 flags of the nations assembled within. By noon a crowd of 100 had lined up for admittance to the public gallery. Dx. Paul Henri Spaak, social ist foreign minister of Belgium, who was supported by Britain, was elected president of the assembly for the London meet ing. Trygve Lie, Norwegian for eign minister, was the only candidate nominated from the floor. Lie's name was offered by Russia, who with the United States, supported him. On a secret - ballot, the tally was Spaak 28, Lie 23. Porff and Lumber Head Dies Here Frank H. Ransom. 75. Port land lumberman who suffered a heart attack while visiting here several days ago, died today in riillside Hospital. Ransom recently resigned the presidency of the Eastern and Western Lumber company, Port land, to become chairman of its board He was' president of the Pacific lumber inspection bureau last year. Born in ' San Francisco, he came to Oregon in 1899. The widow, two sons, a stepson, a daughter and two sisters survive. catch basins Monday night. Policemen carrying ladder looked on garage roof and every other conceivable spot in the neighborhood where th killer might have tossed tha arms. Although several clues, pre viously regarded as important, collapsed during the last 24 hours, police still held for ques tioning today two janitors and hunted for a third party they Two janitors. Hector Vr burg, 65, and Desire Smet, 35, held for 48 hour for question- '' Ing about th kidnap-killine dismimbermint of Susanna ' Dagnan, 6, war released to day under habeas corpus -writ. wanted to Interrogate In con nection with, the kidnaping and killing-dismemberment of tha child. Under ruling by a criminal court judge at a habeas corpus hearing yesterday, the two jan itors, both of whom underwent so-called "lie detector'? testa last night, will be released at 4 p. m. today unless they ara charged with an offense. Chief Justice Harold G. Ward ordered the men retained by p o 1 i c e for another 24 hour after Police Sergeant Jack Han, rahan. and ..state's attorney ' of- ficials pleaded for more time to question the two janitors. Both are employed in apartment buildings near the Degnan home in the Edgewater Beach district on the North Side. Cas Hotter : "The case is getting hotter and hotter all the time," Han rahan told Judge Ward. "In 24 hours we will know the an. . swer. ' The Immediate releaaa nf tha two janitors, . Hector Verburgh, 65, and Desere Smet, 35, and Verburgh's .wife, Mary, 64, had been asked by their attorney, James A. Ricker. Meanwhile, as notice nrpsanil for a break in solution of tha crime which has been described by officials as "shocking to tha nation," an additional $10,000 reward for arrest and convic tion of the killer was posted. The Chicago Tribune an nounced it would pay $10,000 for information leading to tha apprehension and conviction of the slayer. This brought to $21,. 000 the total rewards offered. Henley Woman Severely Burned Mrs. Fid (Ruby) Ralston. 28- year-old Henley farm wife, suf- lerea second and mira degree burns this morning when a wood stove she was polishing explod ed covering Mrs. Ralston with flames. The voune woman received severe burns to both hands and arms and lesser burns on tha legs. ' Her clothing was also burned. Mrs. Ralston attempt ed to pull a burning overstuffed chair out of doors in an effort ' to prevent the house from being destroyed and in so doing added to the hurts on her hands. Men working in a nearby potato cel lar responded to her calls and . aided in extinguishing the flames. Mrs. Ralston was admitted to Klamath Valley hospital at 10:30 a. m. and her condition late this afternoon was said fair. Loyalty Hearings At Tule Delay Nisei Court Action cjnmiiwriscn .inn. 1 n tJPi Because loyalty hearings are be ing conauciea hi me a uiemivtr relocation center, a continuance to February 11 was asked and arnnforl In foHornl pnurt tndav for about 1000 Nisei who re nounced tneir American citizen ship but now wish to regain it and avoid deportation to Japan. Judge A. F. St. Sure granted the continuance asked by Wayne Collins, American Civil Liber- 4Iao unlnn nHnrnav rpnrpspnt.ini- the second generation Japanese Americans, aner l.uuius ex plained that "mitigation" hear ings at Tulelake are. in progress and many are resulting In re moval of disloyalty charges. The Nisei petitions filed last November 13 contended that in dividuals had renounced Amer ican citizenship under strong pressure from "fanatically pro Japanese" in the relocation camps, who often administered beatings and other violence to those who opposed them. They asked habeas corpus writs to halt deportation and in separate suits for a cancellation of their citizen ship renunciations. Deportations of those who asked for return to Japan al ready are underway.
