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Newspaper Page Textfo) M yi fo)fpK( 7N ui By FRANK JENKINS r Frankfurt tit otlior Goncrnl McNamcy, com' finiulrr of U. S. forces in Europe, innounrcd thnt no mora mass monalratloua b y Amorican Dldlura will be permitted with Hit tin expreaa authority ot mil iary commanders. T U noccssury nillltnry order. I you can't have soldtora oruiiiilz- nil protest dumountratlona like I bunch of civilians on tba lioinu lout. ESPECIALLY In un urmy tf occupation In a conquered lorclgn country. Afttir only a illlla of tliul. tho conquered rooplea will lot respect for their toiiquerors. Lous of respect will be fol lowed by Ions of FKAlt, and hen a coiHiuvred pcoplu loses ear of lta conqueror Ant 1'HINO can happen. ' OUT what a pity It In thnt Amer 4 " lean troons abroad wero per j.nlllfcl to get into the frame of mind, that has resulted In these tlemonatriitlona. A little moro frankness on the Dart of our gov. emment as. to thu commitment our country has entered Into throughout the world would have PREVENTED It. THESE man are CITIZEN anldlera. No one who bus talked much with them can doubt that they arc GOOD cit izen. They are peeved, of course, Who wouldn't be, under the clr. cunurtancea? So fur na they have been permitted to know, their Job la done, nie encmiea 01 their country are beaten. On the homo front they ace a wild acramble for tho almighty dollar. Everybody la drubbing to get hla while tha grabbing la flood. They know that tha onger they aro kept away from homo the scarcer the good thlnga will be when they get back. Naturally, they want to get In on the grabbing befora tha prlzea are an gone. IF they were told, frankly and honestly and fully, tho whole tory of their country'a obliga tions at thla uneasy moment In history, they would accept their ahare of the Job and go through with It a they accepted the Job of whipping their country's enemies. Tha troubla la they haven't been told. a THERE is o' much suspicion throughout the world. Na' Vtlona auspect other nations. The people who aro ruled suspect tha people who rulo them. Those who work for wages auspect thoso who employ. Ono. eco nomic level suspects other eco nomic levels. Those who want to buy suspect thoso who want to sell. And ao on. Tha list la almost endless. THERE arc two prime cures for suspicion: 1. Complete frankness as to the facts. 2. Fair dealing In meeting the Situations that arise. Until frankness and fnir deal Ing become more common throughout the world, there will bo a lot of bod trouble that could have been avoided. fUR progress In science Is amazing In the case of the atom bomb it Is more or less ter rifvlnK. Our progress In dealing with tho problems or human k& LATIONSHIPS Is disappointing, ly slow. Two Killed In Train Wreck PENDLETON. Ore.. Jan. 21 p. UP) Union Pacific officials were investigating today the cause of passenger train derailment which killed tho engineer and fireman and Injured another cm ulove Saturday nluht. The westbound Pacific Lim ited a engine plunged over a 10' foot embankment about 30 miles east of here. Five mail, baggage nnd express cars and one coach wero derailed, but remained up- rignt. Railroad officials, who sent company doctors from here, said no passengers were injured. Tho dead aro Clarence R. Rider, en- ginccr, and Guy Bourn, fireman, oth of La Grande. William Pid cock, Baker, an engineer making a road trip, was injured. Tho wreck delayed trains nine hours. Tho tracks were cleared by noon yesterday. Woman Seeks Unknown Pilot An unknown B-21) pilot, who nrrlved home In Klomnth Falls last September IB from Saipan Is being sought by Mrs. M. L. Goer of Cottago Grove who is trying to get some Information about her husband, Marvel L. Goer, also a 13-29 pilot who was listed as missing In action from Saipan on April 20, 1043. Anyone knowing tho where . obouls of the Saipan flyer may X contact Mrs. Goer at the res ' x idenco of Miss Doris Amest, apartment IS jf Evans' apart ments, or call 4434, sometime this week. Telephone 9111 WEATHER NEWS January 21. 1946 Max. (Jan. 20) 40 Mln 22 Precipitation last 24 hours Trace Stream year to data 8.41 Normal 5.90 Last year 4.84 Forecaati Clear except morning iog. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OBEC . DAY. JANUARY 21. 194S N unbar 10724 MacArthur Seizes Jap War Plants Many Factories To Go To Allied Nations As Reparations By MURLIN SPENCER TOKYO, Jan. 21 (I'J War filanta which equipped Japan's using bid for conquest were seized and placed under guard today by General MacArthur, who Indicated many of the fac tories would go to allied na tions as reparations. The allied command took over 304 Japanese aircraft plants, army and navy arsenals and war laboratories. Among theae were 2(15 aircraft and parta plants listed by tha allied reparations commission aa "first priority material" for removal to other nations. MacArthur ordered cancella tion of any previous permits to the designated Installations for conversion to peacetime produc tion, unless the installatlona were "Immediately and abso I u t e 1 y essential to the civil economy." Commanders given custody of the Installations were told to consider the "probability that these plants will be taken aa reparations and consequently should not be allowed to ac quire Importance In the Japa nese economy." The dlrectlvo disclosed that in some Instances the Japanese had removed machinery from plants and that equipment val ued at millions of dollars had been allowed to deteriorate. The Japanese government was ordered to ccaso removals Im mediately and place guards around tho buildings. Atomic Energy Control OK'd LONDON, Jan. 21 (P) Cre ation of a special commission to devise controls for atomic energy was approved by the political security committee of the United Nations assembly today, after only 30 minute discussion. The action was taken after Senator Tom Connally (D-Tcx.), of tho American delegation said the commission will not have power to make any country give up any atomic secrets or take any other action. The commis sion will be able to make recom mendations, he explained. Forty-six voles were cast for tho resolution approving creation of the commission, Chairman Dmitri Muniulsky of the Ukraine delegation said the the action was unanimous. However, the delegate from the Philippines, Tomas Gabili, abstained after ho .had protested against what ho called an effort to "railroad" tho resolution through tho com mittee. Andrei Gromyko, Soviet dele gate. Ernest Bcvln, British foreign secretary, and Connally urged tho committee to act im mediately, and Bevin repeatedly arose to demand an approving vote. Blasts Industry CIO President Phillip Mur ray, who declared that tha ataal atrlka would continue until the ataal Induatry "accepta tha de cision of the president of tha United States." "Snowy" Gives Up Grid Post Arthur "Snowy" Gustafson, Pelican football coach who went Into tho army a few months be fore the outbreak of the war, to day relinquished his claim to the KUHS post and cleared to some extent the muddled gridiron situation at the high school. At present Gustafson is still In the army, a lieutenant colonel, and is committed to serve at least until June 30, 1047. In letters to the high school and also to The Herald and News he announced that ho was re signing the coaching job now to give the school amplo time to hire another coach for the 1946 season. Frank Ramsey, 1042-43 Pel ican coach, still has an opportun ity to return to me joe u no wants it. Ramsey has signed to play professional football for the Chicago Bears next season but last week asked Arnold Gralapp, superintendent of schools, to keep him posted on Gustafson's intentions. Ramsey was In Corvallis last week and his communication with Gralapp may mean that he is still interested in coming back to Klamath Falls. Like Gustaf son he also left here to go into tho service. Gralapp said today thnt Gust afson's resignation would be pre sented to the board of education next Monday night and Ramsey would be informed of the open ing. The job is his if he decides to give up his playing career. If not then the board is free to rehire Paul Angstcad, who coached the Pels last year, or hire another coach. During Snowy Gustafson's four yeors here his teams won 23, lost six and tied seven games and were respected as one of the football powers of Oregon and northern California. STORM WARNINGS SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (P) Southeast 'storm warnings to day replaced small craft warn ings on the Washington coast and inlnnd woters. In the upper Columbia river area strong south to southeast winds were forecast until tomorrow morning. 'We're Going To Stay Out 'Til We Get That Raise' Says Steel Strike Leader By NORMAN WALKER HOMESTEAD, Pa., Jan. 21 (P) "We'ro going to stay out 'til wo get that raise . , ." In tlioso words a steel strike captain summed his view as we stood together in a raging snow storm early today outside the darkened Homscstcad works of Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation. A dozen men slowly trudged a long oval pattern In the snow, picketing the plont entrance. Some wore boots and hunting clothes as protection against the wet and cold. Ono bv ono thev took turns toasting hands and feet at a flam ing coal fire built In on cmnty oil drum, a "salamander." Tho strike contain. Bnmcv Shields, was enthusiastic. "We have about n thousand men picketing 1 guess," be said. "We have about 8000 members In all here, including about 800 women, and every ono will get a postcard telling when and where to report for strike duty. "Each will Dicket ono dav a week. On that day he'll picket two hours, go off two hours, then picket two hours more. "A man has eot to have a good excuse, a very good one, not to report for picket work. If he falls to show up ho gets fined $5. If ho refuses to show up he gets fined $10 and ho won't be able to hold any union office for two years. I don't think we'll have any refusals or any failures." Some pickets carried large printed placards saying: "USA CIO Local 1397 Steel Workers are on strike." Others wore smaller cards stuck In their hat bands. Tho captains had satin armbands lettered "Strike Cap tain." Shields is the local's record ing secretary and assistant chair man of its picket committee. He and another strike captain, 54 year old John Sharp, said they had worked out a deal with a lunch counter down the street to furnish coffee and doughnuts to pickets at all hours. Pickets get tickets entitling them to the cuts paid for by tho union. "But thats only temporary," Shields explained. "Our merch ants here have been .very help ful. "A hardware store man gave us a big steel urn for making coffee. Others have given us all kinds of equipment and utensils. We'ro going to open up our own feeding set-up in union head quarters and . the women will serve." MflEU RANK S DF IDLE Industry Flayed By CIO Leader Steel Production Cut To Trickle By Vast Strike By The Aaaoclated Praia Production of steel backbone of America's Industry was cut to a trickle by a nationwide strike of 750.000 steclworkcrs to day which CIO President Philip Murray declared would continue until the steel industry "accepts the decision of the president o the United States." Referring to President Tru man's proposal for an 181 cents hourly wage increase, which the Steclworkcrs union accepted and the U. S. Steel corporation re jected, Murray told newsmen at a press conference in Pittsburgh: "If reconversion has been hin dered and thousands of people have been thrown out of work. . . If disaster overtakes our nation, it is because industry has said 'no' to the president of the Unit ed States." ." ' Board Called ... . ...;. President Truman, at the some time, conferred with con gressional leaders on the strike situation and called on his steel fact-finding board, but White House Press Secretory Charles G. Ross said no immediate gov ernment action was contemplat ed. However, one high administra tion official said he could not see how government seizure of strike-bound meat packing plants could be avoided and added he was recommending that step. Although concurrence In this view was expressed by some other White House advisers, who also could not be named, they added there was little likelihood of seizure of the steel industry at least until the strike had been underway a few days. In a message to congress, President Truman called for higher pay and lower prices and said a long continuation of strikes could apply a "heavy brake" to reconversion. He renewed his request for legislation to ban strikes while fact-finding boards investigated labor-management disputes. Alaska Statehood Asked By Truman WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (JP) President Truman today asked that Alaska be admitted as a state as soon as it is certain the people there desire it. In his message to the nation's lawmakers, the chief executive asked also for immediate con gressional action to make Ha waii the 49th state of the union. Mr. Truman said the people of the Virgin islands should be given an increasing measure of self-government, and lie called for legislation to speed the eco nomic rehabilitation of tho Phil ippines. Towns Feud Over Direction Signs SALEM, Jan. 21 (JP) The state highway commission set tled another phase of the North Bend-Coos Bay feud, the quat rcl this time being over charges by the North Bend chamber of commerce that North Bend has been slighted in the highway commission's policy of erecting direction signs. The North Bend chamber ac cused the commission of having moro signs pointing to Coos Bay than to North Bend, and even of taking down some of the North Bend signs and put ting Coos Boy signs in their places. State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock, in a letter to the chamber, said it's natural that more signs should point to Coos Bay, inasmuch as Coos Bay is the larger city, but he dented that any North Bend signs have been removed. i Official KPCA Family For Coming Year ' M k V . . " 0 William Kittredge wat raalactad president of the Klamath Production Credit association Sat urday at lha 12th annual aetaion of the organization. Seated, left to right. E. M. Hammond. Tica praaidant and director; Kittredge, and Otto Allgaier, treasurer of the Production Credit cor poration. Spokane. Standing, Lea Holliday, Kt R. Campbell and E. A. Geary, directors, and Lea '8.' McMulleo, aecretary-treaaurer. " "V"''' ---- - . - r-:,w , ,, Iran Premier Resigns Post TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (fl3) Pre mier Ibrahim Hakimi resigned last night after asserting his ef forts to negotiate with the Rus sians over Azerbaijan had failed. Hakimi's fall was foreshad owed last week when he told parliament that his foreign pol icy had failed. He said efforts to negotiate with the Russians were unavailing and that he pro- Gosed to present the case to the nited Nations organization. Today Hakimi said he had told the shah he had "succeeded in B lacing Iran's case before the nited Nations organization and I am now ready to step down." Many observers expressed the opinion that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi would ask- Hakimi to form a new government. However, three other men have been mentioned as his pos sible successors.- They are for mer Premier Qavan Ahmad Sultaneh; AH Khan Mansur, gov ernor of Kohrassan, and former Premier Pirnea. Square Deal Asked For Nisei HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Jan. 21 (P) American war vet erans of Japanese descent today have a champion in the general who commanded most of them in the Pacific fighting. Maj. Gen. C. A. Willoughby, who said he was disturbed by reports of discrimination against Nisei returning to civilian life, as chief of intelligence for Gen e r a 1 MacArthur commanded more than 2000 Japanese-Americans. He arrived here by plane last night from Japan and con- t i n u e d after a snort stop to Washington, D. C. He plans to go to Bronxville, N. Y., for his first visit with relatives since 1939: Vanport City's Fires Continue PORTLAND.Ore Jan. 21 (JP) Vanport City' llicendiary fires are sum continuing aitnougn a boy who police said confessed to setting several of the blazes is in jail. Deputy sheriffs reported a $3000 Incendiary in two housing project apartments Saturday nleht. Vincent W. Hunt. 17. Vanport City, was In jail at the time. A small boy of about 11 was seen running from the site of Saturday's blaze shortly before the flames were discovered. Over-Production Warned Against At KPCA Session Warning against over-production of agriculture in what he termed the machine age and urg ing careful marketing and plan ning of crops, Otto Allgaier, treasurer of the Production Credit corporation of Spokane, Wash., spoke before what was probably the largest gathering of Klamath basin farmers in the history of this section, at the 12th annual meeting of the Klamath Production Credit as sociation held Saturday at the Marine Barracks. Officers of KPCA were re elected for the 1946 term. Wil liam Kittredge will continue as president, E. M. Hammond, vice president; Lee S. McMullen, secretary-treasurer; Ray Michels, assistant secretary-treasurer. A. R. Campbell and E. M. Hammond, were reelected as di rectors of KPCA, and hold-over directors are Lee Holliday, E. A. Geary, and Kittredge. Campbell and Hammond will serve a three year term. CONFESSES CRIME SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (P) De tective Capt. Richard Mahoney announced late Saturday after noon that a soldier had confessed to Friday night's slaying of comely Mrs. Marjorie Johnson, 30. The soldier, found at his mother's home, told detectives he could give no reason for the crime. His identity was not im mediately revealed. Jap Strategy Great Mistake WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (fP) Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim mel testified today the Japanese made their "greatest mistake" by attacking the American fleet at Pearl Harbor and failing to put the base itself out of Commission. In his sixth day before a senate-house inquiry committee, the former Pacific fleet commander said it was probable no attack would have been attempted if the American ships had been sent back to the west coast. Kep. Gearhart (R-Calif.) noted that Kimmel's predecessor, - Ad miral J. O. Richardson, had sought unsuccessfully to take his ships back to the west coast to prepare them for war but was told by Washington officials that the fleet was to be kept in Ha waii as a deterrent to Japanese aggressive moves. Casanova Owed It All To Baths LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (JP) Stop worrying, fellows, if the gal friend says you're no Casanova. Howard S. Grove, cosmetician, chemist and student of perfum ery history, reports: "Casanova was not a great lover at all. He just discovered the art of cleanliness, took a bath, perfumed himself and thus made himself attractive to women. He was . just clean, that's all." Truman's.Talk Criticized By GOP Congress Members WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (JP) Republican members of congress generally criticized President Truman's message today and re action of democrats was mixed as members studied the record 25,000-word document. A quick check of numerous legislators failed to disclose a single member who said he was in favor of all 25 points in the president's domestic legislative program. Many already, had made up their minds one way or another about 21 previous recommenda tions which the president repeat ed, including such subjects as universal military training and establishment of a fair employ ment practices commission. Southern democrats continued their senate filibuster against the FEPC. There was general approval of Mr. Truman's announcement that he is cutting the budget back to $35,000,000,000, with the prospect that the public debt will be reduced during the year. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) took issue with the president's figures. however, terming them "some what misleading. He said "It is not true that the public debt will be reduced during the year." Taft also said that he believed congress should make substan tial cuts in the amounts Mr. Tru man recommended for running the government in the next fis cal year. Senator Brewster (R-Me.) told a reporter that the message "im plies a complete breakdown of party responsioimy Detween tne White House and the congress" since he said many of the mea sures the president suggested are being held up in congress by ac tion oi tne aemocrats. "The American people may well consider suggesting to the democratic party tnat it put up or shut ud.' " he said. "The par alysis of the administration is re flected in the economic picture ot tne country." Chief Asks Support Of Lawmakers President Expresses Optimism Over Job Potentialities By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 P) . President Truman asked congress today to get behind a sweeping program he said will promote greater output of lower cost goods by higher paid workers. And he cautioned that "voices of disunity" which "are begin ning to cry aloud again must not prevail." In a 23,000-word document combining for tho first time both lawmaking and budget recommendations, the chief ex ecutive mixed expressions of optimism over business and job potentialities with fresh warn ings against inflation and con cern over "major strikes." In hia budget, Mr. Truman pegged government expendi tures during the fiscal year be ginning next July 1 at $35,860, 000,000 only $4,347,000,000 above anticipated income. And, by drawing on the treas ury's cash balance, he said that national debt actually can be re duced for the first time in 17 years from an expected $275, 000,000,000 next July to $271, 000,000,000 a year later. He added, however, that he can recommend 'no further tax cuts at this time. Serious Difficulty In the "state of the union" portion of his message, Mr. Tru man termed establishment of a "fair wage structure" the "most serious difficulty" in the path of reconversion and expansion, adding: "The ability of labor and management to work together, and the wage and price policies which they develop, are social and economic issues of first im portance." He said labor and manage ment must establish "better hu man relationships," and appar ently mindful of his recent fruit less efforts to avert the nation wide steel strike declared: "No government policy can make : men understand each, other, agree, and. get along un less 'they conduct themselves in a way to foster mutual respect and good will., "The government can, how ever, help to develop machinery which, with the backirTg of pub lic opinion, will assist labor and management to resolve their dis agreements in a peaceful man ner and reduce the number and duration of strikes." Mr. Truman said most indus tries and most companies "have adequate leeway within which to grant substantial wage in creases." . Elaborating on his higher wage theory, he said: Good Business "Good wages means good markets. Good business means more jobs and better wages. Sub stantial wage increases are good business for business because they assure a large market for their products; substantial wage increases are good business for labor because they increase la bor's standard of living; sub stantial wage increases are good business for the country because capacity production means an active, healthy, friendly citizen ry enjoying the benefits of dem ocracy under our free enterprise system." Mr. Truman said further on this point: "If we manage our economy properly, the future will see us on a level of production half again as high as anything we have ' ever accomplished in . peacetime. Business can in the future pay higher wages and sell for lower prices than ever before. This is not true now for all companies, nor will it ever be true for all, but for business generally it is true." In promoting an increase in supplies at low unit prices, he said resources and enterprises must be developed all over the country, particularly in unde veloped areas of the west and south. He said he was asking the secretaries of agriculture, commerce and labor to explore jointly methods for stimulating new industries-, in areas with surplus farm labor. Strike Issue Speaking again of the strike situation, a headliner for con gressional debate, the chief ex ecutive asserted: "Within the framework of the wage-price policy there has been definite success, and it is ex pected that this success will con tinue in a vast majority of the cases arising in the months ahead. "However, everyone who real izes the extreme need for a swift and orderly reconversion must feel a deep concern about the number of major strikes now ia progress. If long continued, these strikes could put a heavy brake on our program." The president called anew for action on his entire domestic program, including his proposal that strikes be held in abeyance while fact-finding boards inves tigate labor -management dis I putes.