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Newspaper Page TextAlia (n mm $wa An fuifinririn rvt n t - r "t Day's Rews By FRANK JENKINS' , SENATOR CORDON, back In Washington after a month in hi homo iitiito, tolli a reporter; till) 1'UClflC Nortliwoiit tiro working out thulr own problems mid wunt con groas only to legislate within its constitutional limits and luuve IIim i-mmI In thnm." (A. in tho L'rrut MAJORITY of our Pacific Cooat people, thut In undoubtedly trim. Wo have our FRINGE, 08 elsewhere, Unit thlnkii congress ahould legislate everybody "chj THE mimitor ny "congress kids ltlf Into thinking 11 re ceives lot more attention from tho people of thin country thun It doe'f und odds thut aonatora and ropreaonlatlvca ahould be MADE to go home l leuat twice u viur. , That, ho thlnkit, would (let ' Ihem out of Washington's "Kim mo" ulinniiphorc nnd It group pleasure luetic Into the purer air of tlio wider open apoccs, ulmrc. ho ativa. there Is a "flno mm Illy of sanity nnd straight thlnklnu thut Inn I nlwuyii no prevalent In tlio nation's cup Itul." . . . THAT'S one rcuaon why wc need to bring more of our government buck to tho court house und the atuluhouav. Screw bulla tend to SHOAL UP In na tiiinul cupltula. Out in the country people WORK for a living becuusc they hnve a sound working know Iodise Hint wealth la produced ONLY by tho uppllcullon of lubor to ruw mnterlula. In the cities, whore tho big shot go to do their SPLURGE upending and their allowing off, that isn't ao clearly apparent. WE newapnper people and our side-kicks, tho radio tribe, have an iinforlunnto fondncas for screwball dolnga. which LIVEN UP the ncwa nnd make it more readable. Still, If you'll assay almoat ony newspaper (particularly ony country news paper) you'll find thut the solid, constructive part of it outweighs the fluff at least three to one. , LONG this general line, In cidental v. an Interesting de velopment appears to be emerg ing from llio news. Strikes and other disturbances teem to bo more muncrous and . mnrn costlv in DIGGER UNITS i' nv iNnuSTRY. Men and man- gement aro CLOSER to each other in the sinnllcr units, and o find it easier to gci aiong 'A WEIRD story, based on cap- turcd German records, shows up in tlio war criminal trials at Nuernberg todny. According to those records, nm..r lunched a funtustic scheme to crciilo a nntion of 230,000.000 Uermun-a)cukliig people wllliin the relntlvcly short period of a century, ana in furtnerunce ot this niudmun project ho not on y .mrioH kllllnu off everybody who didn't fit his pattern but Issued orders to bring In half a million young females from the Russian Ukruino to servo us breeding slock for lis now race of supermen. Thut shows whnt can happen when screwbiills In national cap itals get TOO IVHJUlt i-uwlii, THERE is a touch of Jitters In x China news this morning, "nocnnnslble sources" (which vnn will remember, is a device lor quoting men who know what Is going on Wlinoui puuing uium on the hot spot) suy thut Russia has asked for new concessions In MANCHURIA. Including wldo- unronri riuliis to commercial air flolils nnd iolnt munugcmeilt of as much u HALF of Munchuriu's heavy industry. Thot. If true. Indicates thut Russia Is demanding a big finger I in tho Chinese pic.( UNLESS we are intelligent enough to apply the HIS TORICAL PERSPECTIVE, news such as this will upset us and moko us unduly SUSPICIOUS of ' Russia. , , , ,, , History tells us plainly that ncwly-cmnncipnted peoples ore filled with world-conquering vim. The ragged French, after tho revolution that freed them . from practical serfdom, surged all over Europe. Tho tread of their marching feet struck terror to EVERY THKUNE. After OUR revolution, we sprond swiftly from tho Atlantic (Continued on FfO , Column ) Meat Cutters t Slash Demands CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (P) The AFT. Amalgamated Meat Cutters nnd Butcher workmen, one of the two unions involved in the nationwide packing house strike, today reduced its wngo demands to a ID cents an nour increase. Orlalnallv the union had ask- ed tho equivalent of the CIO demand of 25 cents an hour, but calculated on the basis of $38 for a 40-hour week. In a statement issued over the signature of President Earl Jim' crson, the AFL union, announc ing it had accepted an invita tion to confer in Washington to morrow with Secretary of Labor Schwcllcnbach, said that If the companies accepted tho 15-cont demand, normal operations couia pe restored by Monday. Iran Issue Will Test UNO Powers Dispute With Russia Forms Critical Situation By JOHN M. HKJHTOWER LONDON, Jan. 16 (P) Nos rulltih Entezam, Iron delegate to the United Nations assembly, said today his country planned to appeal Immediately to the new world security council to resolve Its dlsputo with Russia and prevent tho movement of further red army reinforcements into Iran. Tho dclegato, formor Iran for eign milliliter, said tho Issue would be tukon to tho security council us soon as it is in oper ation, The 11-natlon council, of which Russia is one of the five powers with a veto capablo of preventing council action on any Issue, ia scheduled to hold its first meeting tomorrow and the appeal threatened to confront the new peaco organization with the first test of Its powers. Tho controversy springs from the Russian occupation of Azer baijan, northwestern province of Iran where a government haa been set up wltii self-proclaimed autonomous powers. New Instructions Soycd Hassan Taaulzudch. Irunlun ambussador to London, aald ho had rocelved now In structions from Tehran last night after his speech beforo the general assembly, In which he declared the issuo would not be placed before the UNO at pres ent. Another member of the Iron Ian delegation, former Foreign Alnlster Nasrullah Entezam. said tho new instructions called for an immediate appeal to the security council, which holds Its first session tomorrow. Exactly what approach will be made has not yet been work ed out, Entezam said. Cases may be takon to the security council by direct petition or through the secretary-general of tho UNO who has not yet been selected. Tho Irnnlun developments Imping up u a critical test case for the peaco agency, over shadowed all other UNO activ ities and confronted Andrei Vi ahinsky, soviet vice commissar of foreign affairs and chief Rus sian delegate, with a difficult situation to tackle upon his ex pected arrival tomorrow. Telephone f ,o 16. IMS PRICE FIVE CENT8 KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY & Number 10720 X in Leave Asked For Sailor To Visit , 21 -Year-Old Pet DETROIT, Jan. 16 (P) Navy officials were deciding last night whether to grant emergency leave to Signalman 2c Harry E. Bennett, 22, to visit his 21-year-old pet Boston terrier "Honey Girl" which is dying at the fam ily home here. Bennett is now at Bremerton, Wash., waiting to ship out with occupation forces within a week, but his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Klrkwood, have asked the navy for special leave so their son can see "Honey Girl" beforo he leaves. Already nearly blind, the dog has been given less than two weeks to live and a veterinarian has advised putting her to sleep. The terrier Is believed to be one of tho oldest in the nation. Fire Rages At Refinery Plant FINDLAY, O., Jan 16 (VP) A fire raged out of control at the Midwest Refineries, Inc., plant today after an explosion caused the death of two employes and Ignited fuel tanks. Four tanks of asphalt first blew up, and the spreading flames later exploded - three other petroleum tanks. All of this city's fire-fighting equipment was being used in a desperate battle to keep the fire from reaching other tanks con taining high-octane gasoline. Tho wind was spreading the fire toward tho gasoline tanks, which contain 50,000 gallons up. :l tells A .o DEATH THREATS AFTER BLOW Eagles Greet National Leader Here If l Y J -,: McNarney Halts Troop Protests FRANKFURT. Germany. Jan. 16 IP) Gen. Joseph T. McNarney announced today that no more mass demonstra tions by American soldiers would be permitted in the European theater without the express authority of military -commanders. "The mats meetings of sol diers permitted without inter ference because of confuiion and apparent misunderstand ing in the minds of many men regarding the problems of re deployment have served their purpose." the theater commander-in-chief . said in in structions issued to all major officers. Mystery Veils Torch Murder Poss Stresses Yets' Future '7 This picture was taken at the Pelican cafe dinner given last night by the local Eagles aerie in honor of Edward Pota, grand worthy president of the order, who visited Klamath Falls on a coast tour. Seated, left to right Mrs. Poas, Poss, Mra. A. C. Frieten and A. C. Friesen. presi. dent of the atate association. Standing. President Ed Burkholder of the Klamath aerie, and Mrs. Burkbolder. - : r ' i: ' C Of C Backs Bus Fare Cut Klamath' chamber of .com merce directors today voted to support Pacific Greyhound com pany in its application for a re duced rate on Its, bus schedules through here, which will be be fore the state public utilities commissioner at a hearing in Portland January 12. The bus company has pro posed a basic rate of 1.5 cents a mile, as compared with a pre vious rate ot 1.8 cents. The new rate, which makes the fare from here to Portland $4.25, was put In effect Jan. 1, and was upheld by tho PUC pending the forth coming hearing. Protestants had asked Hint the rate bo sus pended. Company officials told the chamber that 'the company wants to make 1.5 cents a mile its basic rate throughout the state, and already has that rate on its Pacific highway sched ules. The chamber rntes com mittee, headed by George Davis, said the committee recommend ed suDDort of the Greyhound application, and the directors so voted. Paul Taylor, manager of the Klamath tromc Bureau, may attend the hearing in Portland. Davis said that there had been reports that Pacific Trailways, which orjcratcs a competing stage lino between here and Portland (Greyhound goes by the Willamette highway. Trail- ways by Bend) would oppose the Greyhound application. He said he conferred by telephone with Trailways officials at Bona, ana they said they were opposed on principlo to the Greyhound pro posal, out migm not laxe iornuu onnosltlon action. Greyhound officials said that tho new rate, where applied, had resulted in notable Increase in business. Cine Indicted For Grand Theft, 9 Forgery Counts SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16 (P) Alfred Leonard Cllne, 56-ycar-old former convict of mysterious connections with elderly wid ows, today faced an Indictment of nine counts of forgery and one of grand theft. The San Fronclsco county grand jury Indictment came last night. Cllne, also charged with murder in Dallas and on four counts for forgery in St. Peters burg, Fin., is held in jnll here, with boil set at $100,000. Assist ant District Attorney Norman Elkington said eight of the for gery counts here involved stock certificates originally issued to tho late Mrs. Eva Dclora Krebs Cliuc, wealthy Chicago widow. The Dallas charge accuses Cline of murder in the death of a woman cremated under the name of Mrs. Alice W. Carpen ter, but police here say they ore sure the woman actually was Mrs. Krebs Cline. Elkington said the ninth for gery charge accuses Cline of forging deeds to lots owned by the late Elizabeth Hunt Lewis of nonrby Richmond. She died In 1043. Clino Is accused of grand theft In the disposal of Mrs. Lewis properly. Police of four states investi gating deaths of several other elderly women have questioned untie, a former cnoir singer. By RICHARD A. O "REGAN FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan. 16 iP) The 10-duy-old investiga tion into the mysterious torch murder of three U. S. military government officers at Possau has been classified as "top secret." A high officer closely associat ed with tlje case said he was un able to exnlain why reports on the slaying flowing into theater headquarters nnd been given ine U. S. army's highest security classification. Rumors circulated that an ar rest had been made, but high of ficers refused to comment. In stead, the secrecy surrounding tlie case was intensified. One officer unofficially volun teered the statement that he be lieved the case might be an In tra-army scandal." A report said an American officer was under suspicion. Army investigators who have wrapped the entire case in such secrecy that so far not even the names ana Hometowns of tne vic tims have been announced offi cially. However, they have been unofficially identified as Maj. Everett S. Cofrun of Washington D. C, Capt. Adrian I. Wesseler of New Rochelle. N. Y., and Lt. Stanley Rosewatcr of Omaha, NCD. Arriving In United States By Associated Preis Alexander Luft, T5, 422 N. 3rd, Klamath Falls, arrived on Savo Island due in Seattle -January 14. Klamath Foils, arrived on Emma Willard duo in New York January 14. , A caDacity crowd jammed the Eagles hall last night to hear Edward Poss. Toledo, O.. grand worthy president of the order, who emphasized veterans' re habilitation in a hard-hitting ad dress. . . He said that legislators must be named who will follow through with a program that of fers more' than pencil and apple selling to the returning veteran. Poss also spoke at length about the outstandine job being done by Eagles at Portland, who are conducting an aggressive youth program widely praised as a first class job in preventing juvenile delinquency. Eagles from Lakeview, Bend, Roscburg, Medford, Yakima and other points were on hand for the event. A class of 67 from Klamath Falls and five from Bend was initiated, with the Medford degree team handling the ritual. Poss, accompanied by Mrs. Poss, came here by car from Roseburg. Chief Recruiter A. C. Friesen of the navy, Klamath Falls man who is state president of the Eagles, greeted Poss at Eugene. A dinner in honor of the dis tinguished visitors was held at the Pelican cafe Tuesday eve ning. District Director Jack Henry and President Ed Burk holder of Klamath ' aerie ar ranged the dinner. Poss left early today for Sacramento. USO Building Changes Hands Another important business property transfer transaction was disclosed here today, when the USO building at S. 11th and Walnut streets changed hands. This large brick structure, familiarly known for many years as the Arcade garage, was pur chased by Ben H. Trippett of the Commercial Maintenance com pany from Christ and Frances Blanas. The Drice was not "made pub lic but is understood to be be tween $60,000 and S70.000. There will be no immediate change in the USO set-up in the lower floor of the building, Trlppett's plan being to use the second floor for his business. The structure was erected in 1928. A. B. Epperson handled tho transaction. Warnings Came Daily To Admiral Letters Received By Naval Officer In 1942 WASHINGTON. Jan. 16 (Pi- Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, Pacific fleet commander when the Japanese struck Pearl Har bor, disclosed today he had re ceived letters threatening his life after he returned to this country. ' Telling his story of the dis aster at the first public hearing he has been afforded, Kimmel gave a senate-house investigat ing committee correspondence in which he related that such letters reached him daily early in 1942. He felt then, that his "crucifixion before - the public has about reached the limit." He also told the committee: 1 The army and navy in Ha waii corporated to a "higher de gree" than in many other areas. 2 But, he didn't know that the army . had alerted only against sabotage just before the December 7, 1941, attack.. . 3 -He -futilely " opposed the prewar transfer of a battleship division from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and carried to Presi dent Roosevelt a protest against the proposed shifting of a sec ond division. 4 The navy recommended throwing the Japanese spies in HawaU "in the jug" but the army objected. "One Kind of Alert" Kimmel told the committee he thought that Lt. Gen. Walter Short, army chief in -Hawaii, had only "one kind of an alert." "What kind did you think he had?" asked Committee Counsel Seth Richardson. "To put his people on the alert," Kimmel replied shortly. He explained that on Novem ber 27, 1941, after Short had re ceived a war warning message from Washington, he had been tola tne army haa gone on the alert. Prior to November 5, he said, the army simply had an "alert on non-alert status." "When they said they were on the alert, I thought they knew their business," he added. "I had every reason to believe so." On November 28, he contin ued, he and Short discussed "the possibility of an air attack on Pearl Harbor." He said he un derstood then that Short had or dered an alert against sabotage Vamong other things" but could not recall details. Unions Will Conifer With Lea bor Chief By The Associated Press A nationwide atrike atartad today in the meat packing in duatry but leaders of the 268,000 union workers involved agreed to confer in Waahington tomorrow with Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach in government efforts to halt the walkout. Schwellenbach coupled hia invitation to a conference with an eleventh hour plea for poatponement oi the walkout last night. However, leaders of the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen aald the request came too late to call off the strike but agreed to attend the conference. Similar aceentanca came today from leaders of the CIO United Packinghouse Work era. The strike, which threatened to put moat of the nation on a meatless diet within a week and seriously deplete feed stocks on ' wnere uveiiocic already la lattened for market, was called one minute after midnight in plants across the nation to aupport union demands for a pay increase. At 11 a. m. (EST) today, the CIO said the strike was in full xorce, wun an lis iaj.uuu mem-t- oers out in 140 plants across WEATHER (January 16) Max. (Jan. 15) 44 Min. .'. 15 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to date ..8.38 Normal....5.57 Last year....4.67 Forecast:. Probable showers. 500 To Attend KPCA Meeting Plans are being completed for the entertainment of at least 500 persons who will gather Satur day at the Marine Barracks to attend the annual stockholders meeting of the Klamath Produc tion Credit association. The meeting is called for 11 a. m., with lunch to be served at the mess hall. The meeting win conclude at 6 p. m. the nation. Some 75.000 AFL meat workers are involved, 45, 000 scheduled to quit work to day and 30,000 others later. Another 60,000 AFL members in the retail trade were not involved. Armour and company esti mated 35,000 of its workers were out by mid-morning; Cudahy, 10,000; Wilson and company, 9400, and Swift and company, 15,000 to 16,000. Receipts Down A survey across the nation showed meat supplies on band were sufficient to last from about one to seven days. Re ceipts at principal livestock markets have been down sharp ly for the last several days. decree Dressier, secretary ot the National Retail Meat Deal ers association, said if the strike continued for a - week or 10 days it would "make the for mer black markets of the war period look like a Sunday school picnic." A report of violence came from Swift and company's Kan sas City, Kas., plant where an independent - union is not on strike. E. E. Phelps, general manager, charged he was hauled from his car by 25 or 30 pickets, beaten and forced to . get a i permit to enter the plant. - ( . . -, . i Winnie Vants Yanks Abroad MIAMI BEACH. Fla..- Jan. 16 (P) Winston Churchill, Brit ain s wartime prime minister, said in an interview soon after arriving here today he hopes United States troops "are not all going home because we are not numerous enough to handle postwar Europe alone." "The armies have to be kept in the field in order that all the work we. have done to achieve victory will not be destroyed," said Churchill, his voice clear and firm. Ht declared he always has been in favor of the partition of Germany "but that has not oc curred except by the rough and ready lines of military occupa tion." Commenting on American la bor troubles, he observed: "I do not look for an increase in labor disputes in Great Brit ain because having voted over whelmingly for labor, the peo ple will take what they get." Louis-Conn Tiff Slated June 19 NEW YORK, Jan. 16 WV--Promoter Mike Jacobs said today that the heavyweight title fight between Champion Joe Louis and Billy Conn would be held In New York s xanuee staaium on Wednesday nieht. June 19. Ending speculation over the site for the first heavyweight title fight in four years, Jacobs said President Larry MacPhail of the New York Yankees told him construction work now underway at the stadium would make it possible to seat more than 100,000 there. Hitler Dreamed Of Vast German-Speaking Nation Harry Calls Wage Talks On Steel WASHINGTON. .Tan 1R tan President Truman today ap pealed to CIO President Philip Murray and Benjamin F. Fair less, president of the U. S. Steel corporation to reach agreement u, ,ucu .-whi; uiapuie. . .The president called the two, who had- been discussing their controversy in the cabinet room of the White House, into his of fice. He told them it was "vital to the Interest of the country that ' an. agreement be reached' and that he looked to them to make a settlement. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said that Fairless and Mur ray went into Mr. Truman's of fice "soon after" their arrival at the White House. . Ross told reporters: " " "Soon after the conferees as sembled in the cabinet roonv all of them went into the office of the president where he spoke to Mr. Murray and Mr. Fair less. . rie torn tnem.lt was vital to the interesf of the country that ther reach an affreempnt in lh pending controversy. They then went back to their conference." Mr. Truman aDDarentlv nlaced no time limit for reaching an agreement, although an industry wide strike of ClO-Steel Work ers is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a. m. next Monday. Fairless. Dresident nf th TT S. Steel corporation, arrived at the east wing entrance to the White House, by automobile just as Murray, president of the CIO and : ,of the 800,000 -member Steelworkers' ' union, walked over from his nearby hotel. - Atier -tne- two met here last Saturday, the steel strike was postponed one week at the presi- Fairless told reporters he "did not know" how long today's con ference would last. The conferees had nothlntf further to say as they went into the cabinet room in the west wing. Drews Purchase The Gun Store . Sale of one of Klamath Falls pioneer establishments, The Gun store at 714 Main, was announc ed this week when Prentice Puckett disposed of his interest to N. B. Drew and his four sons, Greer, Frank, Cecil and Lloyd. The Gun Store was establish ed 35- years ago by Barney Chambers. Seven years ago Puckett, O. K. Puckett and Fred Houston bought the business and four years later O. K. Puck ett and Houston sold their in terests to Prentice Puckett who has operated the store as sola owner for the past three years. Frank and Cecil Drew will operate the store. The original name will be retained. Drew's Manstore will be under the im mediate supervision .of Greer and Lloyd Drew. The father of the four, N. B. Drew, will re main in both businesses in a less active capacity. NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 16 (P) The international mili tary ' tribunal heard today that Hitler dreamed of creating a na tion of 250,000,000 German speaking people within 100 years and ordered 500,000 young female domestics brought from the Ukraine as a step toward the goal. The court, trying 22 top nazis as war criminals, received this evidence in the record of a se cret meeting of Fritz Sauckel with officials of the ministry for occupied eastern territories and the nazi labor front September 4, 1942. Sauckel, who was in chorge of foreign labor, was In the prison ers' box as the report was read in prosecution of Martin Bor mann, Hitler's aide who is being tried in absentia although many f believed he died in the battle of Berlin. The record showed that Hitler wanted the imported women to be from 15 to 35 years old and of appearances suitable for their assimilation by the Germans. To further the scheme, Hitler ordered the suspension of a de cree forbidding tne "illegal bringing of female housekeepers into the reich by members of the armed forces. Lt. Henry V. Atherton of Bos ton, an American prosecutor, ac cused another defendant, bespec tacled Arthur Seyss-Inquart, for mer commissioner for Austria and later for the Netherlands, of deporting at least 117,000 Jews from Holland, most of them to nazi murder camps. He was accused, moreover, of sending 431,500 Dutch to slave labor in uermany, KFLW Official Wins State Honor SEATTLE, Jan. 16 (P) Glenn McCormick, general manager of KSLM, Salem, Ore., was reelect, ed president of the Oregon group and Tom Olsen, owner-manager of KGY, Olympia, president o the Washington division' as all officers were reelected by the Oregon-Washington Broadcasters association at the conclusion of a two-day convention yesterday. Others named were: Oregon Marshall Pengra, KRNR, Rose burg, secretary-treasurer. Wash ington O. A. Runchey, business manager of KOL Seattle, vlco president; and Robert E. Priebe, manager of KRSC, Seattle, secretary-treasurer.- ' Pengra Is operations director of KRNR at Roseburg and KFLW, the new Herald and .News station at Klamath Falls.