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Yank POV's Broke Their Arms To Avoid Working In Japanese Coal Mines YOKAHAMA, Jan. 30 Of) Testimony that American pris oners of war dreaded Japanese coal mines so much that they "purposely broke their arms to Ret out of work" was introduced today at the war crimes trial of Capt. Isao Fukuhara, former commandant of Omuta prison camp. A deposition by PFC. Clar ence E. Coffclt of Oklahoma City said the prisoners were afraid of being killed or disabled in the Families May Join Soldiers WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (P) The war department announced today that families soon may join soldiers in all overseas thea ters, provided adequate housing, subsistence and medical care is available. The travel of the soldiers' de pendents to Europe will com mence sometime after April 1 and movements to the Philip pines, Japan, Korea and the Ryukyus will begin after May 1. The war department said that when overseas commanders indi cate they are prepared to receive dependents, their travel to over seas areas will start without delay. No expenditures of war de partment funds is contemplated for, construction of housing for dependents in occupied areas. Transportation at government expense is authorized by law for dependents of officers, enlisted men of the first three grades. (master, or first, technical and staff sergeants) and certain civ ilian employes. Bunny Fur MITTENS Heg. 3.9S 1.99 LEONS Mitsui mines and purposely in jured themselves. Fukuhara is charged with re sponsibilty for the death of Cpl. Walter R. Johnson of MePher son, Kas. Affidavit was piled on affidavit against the defendant, including one by Cpl. Lester Lee Mote of Quanah, Tex., who said: " Prisoners Beaten "It was Fukuhara's custom to beat American prisoners when ever he felt like exercising." In an adjoining courtroom, Hiroji Honda denied charges that he mistreated prisoners at the Sendal prison camps, of which he was commandant. Honda said he gave orders that prisoners must be "well cared for" and treated equally with Japanese workers. PhM Floyd C. Parr, Long view, Wash., was among a num ber of service men filing affida vits corroborating the testimony in the Fukuhara trial. Pvt. Ward F. Redshaw, 813 Island Rd., Victoria, B. C, testi fied that both legs of an Aus tralian, David Runge, had to be amputated below the knees be cause of long kneeling punish ment. Lie Will Accept UNO Appointment LONDON, Jan. 30 () The United Nations secretariat an nounced today that Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie had advised it that he would accept appointment as secretary-general, a post which pays $20,000 a year in salary and $20,000 for expenses. He was' nominated yesterday by the security coun cil. - A joint UNO and League of Nations committee recommend, ed transfer of all the league's ma terial assets to the new world organzation by about Aug. 1 1946. It has not yet been deter mined whether the -league's buildings in Geneva, Switzer land, will be kept or sold. Named if VST . Chest Colds WICKS VVapoRub To Relieve Misery Rub en Tested SO GOOD FOR YOO aommw mesa Godfrey C, Blohm. for six yean Klamath Falls managtr of the United States National bank and for the past year en gaged in farming near Malin, will take over duties as mana ger of the Eugene branch of the U. S. National on Febru ary 1. Blohm To Run Eugene Bank Godfrey C. Blohm, for six years manager of the Klamath Falls branch of the United States National bank prior to 1945 when he retired to enter farm ing, will assume the manager ship of the Eugene branch on February 1, it was announced today. Blohm operated two ranches in the Malin area after leaving banking in Klamath Falls. He will retain the ranch property, leasing one and operating the other under management. Mrs. Blohm and son Phil will leave, Blohm is now in Portland. During his residence here, Blohm was active in civic af fairs. He replaces W. B. Gard, since 1935 manager of the Eu gene branch. Gard now goes to U. S. National in Portland. Nicy Ruling Asked By VA WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (JP) The veterans administration moved today for a clear-cut defi nition of national policy regard ing future medical care and hos pitalization of veterans with non service connected disabilities. Gen. Omar N. Bradley. VA ad ministrator, drafted a letter to President Truman outlining the critical situation he said has arisen in handling such cases, aue io me snoriage ot doctors nurses and hospital space. The point might, be reached. Bradley noted, where no more veterans with non-service dis abilities could be accomodated. Under existing policy many veterans with non-service con nected disabilities have been re ceiving free government medical care. VA officials said this has resulted in the following situa tion: 1. Approximately 70 per cent of currently hospitalized veter ans rrom ail previous wars have disabilities in no way connected with their military service. z. world war n veterans with non-service disabilities alreadv slightly exceed those with serv ice connected disabilities, and their number is increasing. ; REPLACEMENT BEGUN YAMHILL. Jan. 30 (Pi Re placement of .a sawmill de stroyed in a $40,000 fire last November has. begun here, Wil liam bhaw, owner, announced Moral Values Emphasized By Durant In Speech Here TWICE .MA NY... TWICE. GOOD rani B L X E S 10 forUt J fer 19 "DUIribated ,r Wer Tobcc C u by All lira itmlttt." S t o r e will be CLOSED until 2:30 P. M. THURSDAY January 3 I st for Inventory. Progress of science can become the suicide of man, Dr. Will Du rant, world-fumed philosopher and historian, warned in an ad dress to one of the largest Klam ath dinner audiences in years at the Knife and Fork club meeting at the Willard Inst night. "We need something more than scientific progress," he said. "Possibly the reinvigoration of Christianity will do it. Maybe a new religion is the answer. Maybe a knowledge of man by man will enable man to re-make man as he has re-made the world." The noted philosopher spoke boldly for moral regeneration and the sustention of a strong moral code. - "The greatest problem of our time is what will happen if the moral code breaks down," he de clared. He described a process of disintegration which he said will come if religion that sup ports the moral code loses its hold, discipline becomes lax, fun damcntnl human values are for gotten, the birth rate goes down. The lesson of history plainly points to these factors in the de cline ot a civilization, inc speaic er said. Dr. Durant emphasized the im portance of a check and control on human instincts, through the family, education, ana religion Religion, he said, is a sanction and support for a moral code that is "utterly alien to our im pulses," yet is the disciplinary process that raises man above the Jungle. The ten command ments. he" said, were unnatural but in their acceptance as a di vinely-dictated moral code "dis cipline was born and the Jews became a great people. Large Audience An audience of approximately 275 listened intently for two hours to the epigram-studded ad dress by the philosopher, wnose topic was: "What Are the Les sons of History?" Competition, the speaker said, is not just the life of trade it is the trade of life. "Ford makes a good car be cause of Chevrolet, he said. Co operation exists, but as a tool of competition. Durant declared that there has never been any economic system but the profit system, because it is based on man's fundamental instincts. Love parental affec tion provides me strongest stimulus to economic production, hp asserted. Dr. Durant declared that it was the profit motive that devel oped the economic production in Russia that "with our aid" won the war. He said that the Rus sians were forced to accept the Drofit' motive and that privately owned agriculture is now respon sible for 30 per cent of Russia's farm production. , "Communism will come farther toward our system than we will go toward communism," he said. When Russia gets security, he averred, its people will hunger for liberty, and democratic proc esses will prevail. Dr. JHurant- rejected the theory that American civilization is a part of the European civilization and presently subject to deca dence that is in evidence in Eu rope. "We are in an early stage of racial mixture," he said, adding that it will be 100 years or more before this mixture produces the mature American civilization. In discussing geographical as pects, the speaker emphasized the importance of the air age and said that it has spelled the end of sea powers. Seaports have Up Nazis Set lynch Law' NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 30 Iff) Nazi leaders sponsored a "lynch law" for downed Amer ican and British fliers in mur derous reprisal for losing the air war in 1944, according to cap tured documents presented in evidence before the international military tribunal today. The French prosecution intro duced a sheaf of German army records naming Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Wil helm Keitel, Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl and Ernst Kaltenbrunner all defendants in the trial here as participating in a decision to allow German mobs to hang or security police to shoot Brit ish and American airmen. Klamath Jeweler Named Director Arthur A. Rickbeil, Klamath Falls jeweler, was named one of the directors of the Oregon State Jewelers association at in elec tion held today in Portland. Joseph F. Gilray, Portland, was reelected president of the association for the fifth time. Carpenter Hurt In Fall From Scaffold Knute Bjorklund, 59, carpen ter employed by the Austin com pany on construction of the West-Hitchcock building at 677 S. 7th, suffered serious injuries to the head at 9 a. m. today when he fell eight feet from a scaffold. Bjorklund was moved to Hill side hospital for treatment. His condition is said to be' critical. The carpenter resides at 4240 bhasta way. Public Utilities Group Will Meet An important meeting of the public utilities commission has been scheduled for 10 a. m. Thursday in the council cham pers ot tne city nan. George H. Flags, commission er, -will be here, from Salem to conduct an informal discussion of local heating problems. All users ot city steam neat are in vited to be present and air their individual problems at this open meeting. - seen their day, he suid, and the "future belongs to inland cities." As for political systems, he saiit, history shows that any sys tem can be good or bud. In the United Slates, he suid, democ racy has been good bectuisu of a continent of great resources that demanded man be freu to keep his gains mid indulge his enter prising spirit, But, he suid, more discipline and order are necessary as a democratic nation grows older, and if the democratic system is to survive, it remoulds itself along those lines. Dr. Durant disclosed himself as a great admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He asserted the record of the first few years of the Roosevelt administration in establishing new domestic poli cies was one of the outstanding feats in .history. He u raised Roosevelt's great courage in tho nice ot uiuicuil odds in the war period. Dr. Durant said he is often asked: No Eternal Peace "Was tho lust war the last war?" His answer was in the negative, for competitive forces will most certainly generate new struggles. "We shall never know eternal peace. he remarked, adding: "After all, that is a mot to tor a cemetery. The speaker was optimistic, however, in his look at the long iuiure ot the human race. "Man is tough." ho said. "Civilizations do not die but in some measure are preserved in" the younger flesh of new so cieties. Man survives tho catas trophe, and goes on. Invincibly to his destiny. Somewhere, somcnow, ne win uuiid again. Dr. Durant was introduced bv Phil Hitchcock. Representatives of the lumber Industry in the community received special rec ognition at the dinner from John Houston, president of the club. Dr. Durant came here by auto mobile from Medford. and left Wednesday morning by train. Chief Pushes British Loan WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 fP) President Truman today asked congress to vote $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain, saying it would lead to expanded "production, consumption . and employment and rising standards - of living everywhere." Urging prompt action on the agreement, which also includes an additional credit of $650, 000,000 settling lend lease obli gations, Mr. Truman said the loan will permit this nation and Britain to "move side by side" toward the goal of expanded world trade. Within a few minutes after the president's message reached the house Chairman Spence (D Ky.) of the banking committee introduced legislation calling for approval of the loan. He said in a statement the committee would hold "fair and full" hear ings to "bring out all the facts." "From what I have heard of th sentiment of the house re publican as well as democratic we are going to consider this question with open minds," Spence added. In the senate, however. Demo cratic Leader Barkley of Ken tucky, was balked In his attempt to introduce similar legislation. Bulletin LONDON. Jan. 30 (AP) The United Nations Security council, with Russian agreement, voted unanimously toniqht to turn the Russian-Iranian dispute over to direct negotiation between Mos cow and Tehran while retaining the right to request information on progress of the negotiations! at any time. Gibson Girl Points Out Earl Heuvel v (Continued from Pago One) they would do anything he asked to "get out of this mesa." Both suid they would, lleuvel then asked, Virginia Gibson's testimony stales, "If I told you to go swim Klamath lake, would you do It?" Until girls suid they would try. Heuvol's next question, still ac cording to the testimony, was "If I told you to go ' up on Main street and stuntl on your bond, would you do it?" Both again suid they'd try. Unbutton Blouses lleuvel then asked them to un button their blouses, the girl tes tified, breaking Into lours. The court recessed whilo she re gained her composure, Soon after that point In tho hnppcnlngs In the chief's office Virginia Gibson suid she was sent out of tho room to sit in an other room whilo fiernlco Huff remained wllh lleuvel in the of fice. Doth girls spent the rest of that night in tho cell. Next morning, November 10, Miss Gibson related, both she and Bernice wore brought back to Ileuvel's office. He told Bernice to sit In the adjoining room and locked the door, At that time the alleged of fense agninst her took place, the fiirl continued. A few minutes liter both girls were taken be fore the police Judge and, on Ileuvel's recommendutlon, were told to leave town and not re turn for 1)0 days. Afraid to Talk Miss Gibson said she didn't tell the police Judge of the af fair in the office because she was still In custody and was afraid to say anything. Before they were taken to the bus station, lleuvel again warned them not to say anything about their experiences in Klamath Falls, she testified, or he "would make it plenty bud" for them. The girls were taken to the bus station and put on a bus for The Dalles. Miss Gibson said she told her mother of the occurrence here as soon as she got back to The Dalles, and later told tho story to John Stnpleton, an attorney Wednesday. Jan. 10. 1949 HERALD AND NIW9 TWO -Doors Open 6:411 Ends Tonite! Plus! "African Holiday" Big Hits! Plus) Starts Thursday! 2 ALL STAR CAST! In , "The Black Doll" Rails' thorc. On cross examination she denied going to Stauleton to ask about piefurrlng a damage, suit HKII'MSl mo vuy pi IMIIIIlHlll ruin. Croit Examines Herbert P. Welch of Lake view, one of Heuvel's attorneys, conducted the cross examina tion, but added little Information except that Virginia Gibson hud been in Jail in Boise, Idaho, and Yakima, Wash., as a material witness against her husband, Jumes Uitllcy. Her former hus band, u curd dealer and gambler, was then being tried for bnnk robbery, Uernlce Evelyn Huff next took the stand for (he prosecution, and corroborated Virginia Gib son's story statement for shite ment except on a few points. One discrepancy was In who mild the girls' hotel bill. Hern lee said they hud money wllh them lu pny It, Ball Issue Another point of conflict con. corned tho offer of bull inudo by two nullum the night of tho nr. rest, unit still another wns whether Orvlllo Hamilton, then assistant police chief, or lleuvel, suggested tho girls should bo locked up the first night. Welch wus not allowed yes-; terduy to enter evidence of Bor-1 nice Huff's past pollre record ; wnen judge Arne walker held that sho was not named In the indictment. Klmmel Upheld Again this morning, Welch and Karl Bernard sought to bring that evidence before the Jury, but Walker upheld Prose cutor Rex Klminel's contention that In luw It Is "olementul Unit you eim't substitute a trial of iV witness fur trial of defendant.'1 Frank Uluekmcr and Tony Nolms. policemen who wr on duty the night the girls were picked up, were placed on the stand this morning to testify ai to booking (he girls. Willie Mne Collins, the minor girl named lM an Indictment against lleuvel for contributing to the delinquency of minor, mid her sister, Mnrgaret, arrived In town totluy. Tho delinquency charge Is slated to be aired in circuit court starling Friday, or ns soon us tho present trial li finished. 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