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By FRANK JENKINS
nrllE Bonk for International
Settlement, located In Switz
erland, announces today that III
muniiy cost of World Wiir II was
roughly 000 , BILLION DOL-
Tlilii figure, It adds, ropreaonts
DIRECT costs only, an borne by
the various troasuriua of the
world, and doosn't take Into ac
count audi things as capitalized
valuo of humnn liro, property
lomies, loan of production, coat
of war relief and losses by
neutralf,
T OOKINO back over tho post
ij alx yoara of blood und terror
and alzlng up the RESULTS aa
o fur apparent, moat of us will
be ready to any unhesitatingly
that aa a method of aattllnif world
problem WAIl Isn't worth what
It costa,
A world endowed with even
roaaonublo meuauro of com
mon acnao, tolnrnnce and fair
mindedness could aettlo ltd prob
lems much moro chcnnlv and
MUCH MORE SATISFACTOR
ILY. LET'S come a little closer home,
Tho UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA la now torn by atrlkea
and Industrial dlsturbancea of
various aorta. Strlkea and In
dustrial dlalurbonccs, aa at pres
ent conducted, are a modern
form of domestic war.
Let's rink a prediction:
When It's all over, and We
Title down to production again,
moat of us will be ready to agree
that It wnsn't worth what it
coat, and that with a reasonable
mcasuro of common sense, fair-mindedness-
and tolerance for the
right of others these Industrial
disturbances arising out of the
roshlfts that follow In the wake
of war could have been settled
much moro cheaply and so far
as the American people as a
whole are concerned much more
satisfactorily.
.
YOU will doubtless admit that
If we could find the magic
formula peaceful settlement of
our troubles would be hotter
than WARLIKE settlement of
them.
"But," you may - Inquire,
"where 'shall we find such
formula?"
THE answer Is simple and eloao
at hand.
. It Is to be found In the teach
ings of Jesus, as embodied In
the CJohlcn Rule: "Do ye unto
other as ye would that others
shall do unto you," ,-
t TNFORTUNATELY; there Is a
cynical notion abroad that
the principle of the Oolden Rule
Is idealistic and impractical, -.
That Isn't trim.
Hard-headed business men are
slowly learning BY EXPER
IENCE that a contract that is
fair to both sides is almost cer
tain to be MORE PROFITABLE
in the long run than a contract
I that Is wholly one sided.
That goes even for the party
on the LONG END of the bone-fits.
yHE ancient, cynical rule of
business is "let tno miyer
BEWARE." If he gets stuck,
It's his own fault.
That is akin to the even older
nationalistic rule that If you
can't get what you wont by
peaceful means GO TO WAR
AND TAKE IT BY FORCE.
In a modern world, BOTH
rules are ' out-dated. Business
men are finding out that a little
decency and consideration for
the rights of others PAYS DIV
IDENDS over the long pull.
When nations find that out, we
shall be nearer to a decent
world.
But not until then.
ONEER at It If you will. Call It
" feather-headed Idealism If
you are so minded.
It Is still TRUE.
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Number 10718
Czech Tefc Of
Nazi Grimes At
Dachau Camp
By GEORGE TUCKER
NUERNBERG, Germany, Jun. 11 (It A Czech victim of the
Dachau concentration camp tcstiflod today that five of the 22
top nazl defendants on triul as war criminals visited the Dachau
compound at a timo when many of the most horrifying experi
ments on human beings were in progress.
The witness, Dr, Frunz Blaha, pointed directly Into the prison
ers' box and Identified Wllhelm Frlck, former minister of In
terior; Alfred Rosenberg, nazi party' philosopher; Walthcr Funk,
former rclchsbunk president, , and Fritz Sauckel, who was in
charge of slave labor, as four of tho visitors. Ho looked for the
fifth man he accused, Ernst Kaltunbrunncr, but that one-time
security police chief still was absent because of a cranial hem
orrhage. 1 Blaha said many high government and military figures fre
quently visited the extcrmina-
Reds Attack
Vote System
AtUNOMeet
LONDON, Jan. 11 (P) Rus
sia launched an attack within the
United Nations assembly today
on the secret ballot system under
which her candidate for assem
bly president was defeated at the
first saaalon yesterday.
Sentiment was reported devel
oping within the American dele
gation, too, for abandonment of
the rule under which Paul Henri
Spaak, foreign minister of Bel
glum, was chosen assembly presi
dent, ;wth the backJilfi of Brit
ain, ana irygvo l,ic, Norwegian
foreign minister, defeated de
spite his support by Russia and
the United States. One reason
advanced was that secrecy is un
democratic. Dmitri Manullsky, foreign
minister of tho Ukraine, one of
the thrco USSR delegations,
moved that hereafter all persons
voted on for UNO office be nom
inated and discussed from the
floor. Spaak was elected with
out his name being mentioned
on the floor. Delegates wrote
his name on secret ballots.
Action Blocked
Action on the Soviet motion
was blocked, however, when
Cuban and other proposals came
up and Spaak observed that the
assembly was trying to discuss
three things at once. He pro
posed that tho question be sent
to the legal committee, leaving
the temporary rules in force,
and Manullsky accepted the sug
gestion. The Cuban delegate, Guy
Perez Clsncros,' raised the. issue
of the predominance of the big
powers In tho osscmbly In de
manding a sweeping change In
the proposod general or steering
committee Tno commutes as
rejected by tho preparatory com
mission would have 14 mem
bers, five of them big cowers.
Perez Clsncros argued either for
a 51-natlon steering committee
or a limitation on its authority
and a rule against re-election of
its members so as to restrict big
power membership.
X
Pearl Probers
Adm. Kimmel
Wdr Orders
WASHINGTON. Jan. 11 (Pi
Adm. Husband E, Kimmel gave
"war orders ' to Adm. William f.
Halsey when the latter sailed
with a" task forco from Pearl
Harbor several days before the
1941 Japanese attack.
Under those orders, Halsey
"armed everything and told
them to sink cvory Japanese ship
that thoy found." ,
Those statements by Kimmel
were made available today to
members of the congressional
Pearl Harbor commltteo In a vol
ume of testimony glvon by the
63-year-old former commander
of the Pacific fleet before three
previous locked-door investiga
tions. Thoy were conducted by
the Roberts commission and by
army and navy inquiry boards.
Kimmel, who will glvo his
first public testimony in the four
year old military disaster next
Tuesday, was disclosed in the
bulky record to have made theso
assertions:
That while Pearl Harbor
could not have been defended
successfully, he would have
given the Japanese "quite a
party" if he had received addi
tional warnings.
If he had had the Information
available In Washington, he
would have sent tho fleet to sea
Informed
Gave Halsey
Before Attack
1 . . '' ' ' ' .'V. ' ;
and been ready for any eventual
ity. - .
If the army had Informed him
of tho radar plot made on Japa
nese planes retiring from the at
tack, navy searching units might
have found the Japanese car
riers. He "accepted the situation" of
keeping the fleet in Pearl Har
bor, knowing that he had the al
ternative of quitting as its com
mandcr. Tho Roberts commission
charge that he was derelict in his
duty was made on the "mistaken
belief" that ho had access to in
tercepted Japanese messages,
when he did not.
He did not get the "proper an
swer" In evaluating a message
from Washington that the Japa
nese consuls had been ordered
to burn their codes.
Hn nntftri 4hnf n nni-Hni- tnvnt
'out of Pearl Harbor under Hal
sey was proceeding under war
conditions at Klmmel's order, A
court member asked whether
Halsey was under war conditions
"In all respects."
Kimmel said ho was, and add
ed that Halsey later told him
that "he nrmed everything and
told them to sink every Jananose
ship that thoy found."
tlon camp ncur Munich. His ap
pearance In the witness box
produced a kind of emotional
shock among the defendants.
Many of them bolted upright,
with their hands clinching the
rails before them.
Under the questioning of U.
S. Assistant Prosecutor Thomas
J. Dodd, Blaha described how
some murder victims were se
lected because of their perfect
teeth and smooth skins.
Dangerous
"Orders frequently were re
ceived at Dachau for skulls,"
Blaha said. "Teeth counted a
great deal. When these orders
came, the camp commandant
would remark on the necessity
of finding men with perfect
teeth. It was-dungcrous to have
a soft fine skin or good teeth
at Dachau." ,.
He added that soft human
skin was so prized for leather
and bindings that victims
would bo shot in the back of
the neck or knocked in- the
head so the- surface would be
unmarrcd. .
Blaha was arrested for assist
ing Czechoslovakia at the time
of the. Sudcntcnland crisis. As
part of his punishment, his
wrist tendons were cut so he
could no longer follow his ca
reer as surgeon.
Rail Strike
Vote Called
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 11
UP) A strike vote will be tak
en among about 1000 workers
on the Union Pacific railroad
from Salt .Lake City westward,
the chairmen of three operating
brotherhoods announced today.
Railroad officials declined
Immediate comment on the ac
tion taken by a group of broth
erhood officials meeting here
yesterday. One of the brother
hood officials, H. W. Corbett
of Pocatello, Ida., said the chair
men had authority to take the
vote under the railway read
justment act.
However, should the men
vote in favor of the strike, au
thorization of the national
brotherhoods would be neces
sary for a walkout, Corbett add
ed. The area under the Jurisdic
tion of tho three brotherhoods
includes the Salt Lake. City to
Los Angeles division and the
Salt Lake City to the Pacific
northwest division.
In a telegram to the nation
al brotherhoods, the chairmen
declared the action was taken
"to correct the vicious practices
indulged in oy me management
in' administering discipline and
persistent violations of the sev
eral working agreements."
Represented were the Order
of Railroad Conductors, the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers and the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and En
glnemen. GM, Union Study
Board Proposal
By The Associated Praia
In the country's largest cur
rent work stoppage involving
some 200,000 CIO workers aW
ucneral Motors plants union
and company officials studied a
fact-finding board's proposal to
day that the corporation grant
a 17 W per cent wage increase
and end the 51-day walkout.
The panel's recommendations
will be reviewed at a meeting
In Detroit Sunday by officials
of tho CIO United Auto Work
ers. The union struck in sup
port of demands for a 30 per
cent wage hike. Officials of
General Motors did not 'com
ment pending study of the
board's report.
Released
l.vuT7
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Hector Verburgh, 65. Chicago
apartment building janitor, who
was questioned and released in
the kidnaping, murder and dis
memberment of 8-year-old Su
sanna Degnan, daughter of an
OPA official.
Olalde Denies
Rape Charge
Felipe Olalde. young Mexican
national on trial in circuit court
for atatutory rape, denied this
morning that he nod ever had re
lations with tho 14-year-old Mex
ican girl who Is the complaining
witness against him.
Speaking through an inter
preter, the slight harvest worker
said that he had been in this
country on a work contract since
March. 1044. end had been a
boarder at the home of the girl's
mother, Mrs".' Juanita Lidesma,
at Midland for a year.
' On the stand yesterday the girl
said that Olalde had been in
timate with her "10 or 12 times"
since June of last year. The
specific act for which he was in
dieted allegedly -occurred Aug'
ust 25.
She and her family set the
date as the day an irrigation.
pump near we nouse prone
down, but Olalde says that hap-
Eenea in July and on mat day
e came home from work and
spent the rest of the evening in
his room writing a letter.
He cannot read, write or speak
English. The interpreter, Jacob
Gallagos, relays the questions
and answers.
. Olalde is being defended by
U. S. Balcntine. The case may
go to the jury late this after
noon. Green Blasts
Fact-Rnders
' WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (fP)
William Green said today that
"ultimately" the recommenda
tion for a 101 cent an hour wage
increase for General Motors pro
duction workers "must be ac
cepted.", He coupled this with a state
ment that he had again told
President Truman he was op
posed, to fact-finding procedure.
". The president of the American
Federation of Labor, talking to
reporters at the White House
after seeing the president, re
ferred to what he called "govern
ment entry into-the fixing of
wages" and said, of "the fact
finding panel in the General
Motors dispute: :
"The board has gone farther
than fact-finding. That's what
happens in any fact-finding
policy."
Cline Bail Set
$150,000 Cash
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. ; 11
(VP) One of the highest bond
demands ever made in San
Francisco was set today for Al
fred Leonard Cline, elderly mys
tery man who has been ques
tioned by police of four states
as they investigate the deaths
of several elderly women. '
Three new charges were filed
against Cline today two counts
of forgery and one of grand
theft and the total bail set
was $300,000 bond or $150,000
cash. - -
Cline had been charged in
Dallas with murder; and here as
a fugitive from Texas. He orig
inally was arrested .here on a
charge of suspicion of forgery,
on complaint of an attorney
representing tho estate of Mrs. j
Eva Delora Krebs, wealthy Chi
cago widow who married Cline. I
SLOTS SEEK CLUES
at degman mmm.
Fiend May
Gloat At
Last Rites
Picked Police Search
For New Leads To
Trap Killer
CHICAGO, Jan. 11 UP) De
tectives mingled with mourners
today at the funeral of Suzanne
Degnan, 6, on the chance they
might find some clue to the
madman who kidnaped, killed
and dismembered the little girl
Monday.
The plainclothesmen,' unsuc
cessful after nearly five days of
Chicago's greatest manhunt, did
not overlook the possibility
that the perverted mind which
carried out the fiendish 'crime
might lead the killer to gloat
at the last rites in St. Ger
trude's Catholic church, or even
at the grave in Ail Saints ceme
tery. The, Rev. George Kearney,
parish' priest who gently in
formed (Suzanne's parents, Mr.
and Mr James Degnan, of her
death and the manner of it.
celebrated the ; "Mass of the
Angels," reserved for children
under seven. In the final rites.
LjTour,,;boys. schoolmates of Su-I :
fzanne, weft pallbearers," carry-1-"
Ing me simple, wnite, seaiea
casket.
Clues Collapse
The collapse of one clue' after
another, many of which had
been regarded as important,
brought no let-down in the po
lice investigation as a picked
squad of officers searched for
new leads which would trap
the kldnap-killer.
- Police said they had not un
covered any new clues definite
ly linking any one person as' a
top suspect.
Two janitors who work in
the Edgewater district on the
North Side, . where the Degnan
family lives, were released from
police custody yesterday ; on
writs of habeas corpus. :
. Questioned
One of the janitors, Hector
Verburgh, 65, had been in cus
tody for 48 hours for question
ing after police said the Degnan
girl's body had been hacked to
pieces in the basement of an
apartment building he tended.
But the state's attorney's of
fice told Chief Justice Harold
G. Ward of the criminal court
the state had no evidence to
warrant filing charges, against
either Verburgh or Desere
Smet, 35, i who also tends apart
ment buildings near the Deg
nan home,, or Verburgh's wife,
Mary, 64.
Lucy Keeps Fruitless Vigil
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Military planes flylnu orer the borne of Mrs.- Lucy KalcoUn-
son at Reno, NaT., cause her to scan the skies f on Cb!.Gregory
"Pappy" Boyington, marine ace, whom' she said shtr bad planned
to wed. But "Pappy" .married Miss. Frances Baker of Los Angeles..
Local Labor Sympathizers
Bawl Out Phone Operators
Apparently the result of mis
understanding ol what it is all
about, a number ; of supposed
local labor sympathizers have
called Klamath Falls telephone
operators to "bawl them out"
for staying on the job during a
strike of . Western Electric
equipment operators, it was
learned .today. i .
' No crews of the striking As
sociation of Communication
Equipment Workers are operat
ing in this area. Members of
the United Telephone Employes
of Oregon, who have voted to
respect the equipment workers
picket lines where they exist,
were -not obliged to do that
here because there were no
pickets. ' , . ".'
Local telephone service was
operating here as usual today,
but long ; distance calls from
this point were, hampered to
some extent by the equipment
workers' strike activities else
where. . ,
It was possible to get calls
Gl's, Congressmen Alike
Call For Statement From
Ike On Discharge Delay
By The Associated Press
Demands for a direct state
ment . on demobilization from
Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower,
army chief of staff,, arose today
at home and abroad.
In Washington, congressmen
talked of holding a joint senate
house session, possibly next
Tuesday, to hear him.
Across the Atlantic at Frank
furt, Germany, soldiers gath
ered at another "I wanna go
home" meeting ' and yelled
"We want Ike." Mixed with
these cries were boos for Gen.
Joseph T. McNarney, Eisen
hower's successor as comman
der of U. S. forces in Europe.
High command concern over
soldier demonstrations which
Senator Edwin , C. Johnson
(D-Colo.) has called "near mu
tiny," was reflected by Under
Secretary of War Royall in an
address at Roanoke, Va. He de
plored "hysteria to get the boys
home" and expressed fear lest
it will wreck "our whole occu
pation policy."
The uproar started over a
war department order for a
slowdown in redeployment be
cause, It said, there weren t
enough replacements 'for sol
diers leaving occupied areas.
Since then, Eisenhower has or
dered overseas commanders to
pare their needs to the bone
and send . h o m e . all men not
needed.
While, soldiers kept on grip
ing, the demonstrations dwind
led in size. About 2500, instead
of an anticipated 12,000 turned
out for a protest meeting at
Schoefield barracks in Hawaii.
The Frankfurt meeting drew
only 1000, far fewer than the
one a day earlier. A third was
planned tonight, however.
Secretary of War Patterson,
whose name has been booed by
the soldiers, kept silent on the
protests. But he did say in
Tokyo, one of his stops on a
Pacific inspection trip, ' that
forces in that area will be re
duced to 400,000 in May. This
is 25,000 higher than the even
tual size fixed by Eisenhower.
Demonstrations by marines
In the Pacific were banned. Lt.
Gen. Roy S. Geiger, issuing the
order to company commanders,
said that marines traditionally
take their troubles to their su
perior officers and there was
no "occasion for meetings
which are not a military forma
tion that can be controlled."
The order cancelled one ma
rine meeting which , had been
set for last night.
through to Portland, Salem, Eu
gene and other .'Oregon points
.north,, but not to Seattle. Long
distance calls also were going
through to nearby points south,
as well as to Redding and Duns
muir, but w e r e blocked . off
from Sacramento and San Fran-
Phone Walkout
Hits Portland
PORTLAND, Jan. 11 UP) .
Long distance calls bogged
down here today, as operators
declined to- pass picket . lines
thrown around the main tele
phone exchange.' ' v
The Association of Communi
cation Equipment Workers es
tablished picketing at 6 a. 'm.,
and the telephone tie-up inten
sified as night crews completed
their shifts. . . . '
Attempted calls to ; out-of-state
and most upstate points
were answered by "Sorry, only
emergency and priority calls
are accepted.".
The Association of Communi
cations Equipment Workers,
who picketed the main and two
district exchanges here, report
ed that no other .Oregon towns
were picketed.
Long distance calls between
upstate Oregon cities were not
affected, but all which go
through the Portland exchange
were tied up. Local dial tele
phSne calls here continued as
usual. -
The Communications Equip
ment Workers union said pick
eting would continue around
the clock. Operators, arriving
for morning shifts, halted at the
doors.
Arriving In
United States
: By Associated Press
Waland C, Moore, PFC.
Alturas, arrived 1 on USS
Croatan due : in New York
January 9. '
Chester Nardi, PFC, Klam
ath Falls, arrived on- USS
Croatan due in New York
January 9.
Floyd Holden, TS. Weed,
arrived on Arthur Penn due
in San Francisco 'January 7.
James Columbero, 1st Sgt.,
McCloud, , arrived on Vul
canla due in New York Jan-'
uary 8. 1 v . ;..,
In 3 Areas
City Enters 55th Day
Without Local
Newspapers
SEATTLE, Jan. 11 0P) Down,
town streets were jammed with
private automobiles, businesses
and stores opened with reduced
forces, and telephone service waa
cut off in three large areas to
day as a city-wide bus strike and
telephone walkout began. The
city also went Into its 55th day
without newspapers. . -,
Thousands walked or tried to
hitch-hike or ride with neigh
bors to work and the jam from
the hundreds of extra automo
biles turned First avenue,
main cross-city funnel from the
north to the south ends, into a
continuous lane of traffic. ,
Pickets supporting the West
ern Electric Installation Work
ers strike appeared before all
telephone exchange buildings
and other union members ap
peared to be observing the picket
line "100 per cent," a telephone
company spokesman said. Serv
ice in three non-dial exchanges
serving the Ballard and King
county area north of the city
and another covering an area to
the south was cut off altogether
and only the "busy" signal was
given to calls.
Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company spokesmen went
on the radio with appeals for
people to restrict calls to emer
gency ones. Pickets also ap
peared before exchanges in most
Washington cities.
Thumb. Rides
Army and navy buses carried
military and civilian personnel
to work. Private automobile
drivers, inbound . to town,
stopped to pick up strangera
"thumbing" rides and two jail
ors, ' thumbing" a ride at Third
and Pike, main downtown Inter,
section, were quickly picked up.
The absence from the big city
buses on the streets may have
speeded up movement of traffic.
News and radio wires were
not expected to be affic'nl be
cause telephone company super
visors and department heads
wett' maintaining emergency
service.' ' - " v
. Only two pickets of the strik
ing AFL-Street Car Men's union :
appeared before the transit eom
mission offices In the. south end...
but the-yad was jammed with
idle buses. A few drivers and
maintenance men - appeared i in
the cafe and cafeteria. ;
Crush Develops '
: .A "crush developed at the port
of embarkation entrance on Alas
ka way with the arrival of hun
dreds of employes in army and
navy buses.
Frederick & Nelson, a leading;
department store, said "more
than half" of its hundreds -i of
employes were expected to get
to work.- .. - -' . .
"'Superintendent of Schools
Samuel E. Fleming said an early
check indicated an attendance
drop of about 10 per cent, mostly
in the high and junior high
schools, where students use
buses. Grade schools were not
affected as much and letters
were sent home to parents last
night that they would be open
as usual.
Cres-Dell Lodge;
Burned To Ground
Word has been received here
of the fire destruction of Cres
Dell lodge, roadside inn and
stopping place on the - Willa
mette highway 13 miles north
of Chemult junction in northern
Klamath county. ;
Cause of the fire is not known
here. It occurred late Wednes
day, and the lodge proper was
burned to the ground. Cabins
on the property were saved, i
Cres-Dell was a stopping place
for Greyhound stages. The near
est stop will how be at the High
way cafe in Chemult.
Cres-Dell was previously
owned and operated by Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. C. Wardwell, but was
recently sold to William J.
Nolan. rf.
10 Below Zero
At Sun Mountain
A seasonal low of 10 degrees
below zero, was reported at 8
o ciock tms morning to tne state
highway department from the
ratrol at Sun Mountain on The
Dalles-California highway.' !
. A second suo-zero temperature
reading came in from Quartz
mountain on the Lakeview high
way when the minimum reached
4 below early this morning.
Five degrees above zero was the
minimum for Hayden mountain
on the Green Springs highway.
. Reports here from UAA ad
Vised a minimum of 13 above .
zero, warmer than yesterday, but
the highway shop at Altamont
reported 12 above.
Roads were in good winter
driving condition and all have
been sanded, the hignway de-
Sartment advised. ' No new snow
ad fallen in the mountain area.
; SEVEN KILLED
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 11 UP)
The Meridional news agency re
ported today that seven u. S.
army personnel had been killed
in the crash of a B-17 Fly ins;
Fortress, at Touros, near Natal.
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