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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
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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.