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Newspaper Page TextWl r InMW Telephone 8111 rjfjyECENTB KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. TUESDAY. MARCH 19. 1946 Number 10772 eds Deny Port Entry fjjfj ' FHANK JENKINS nilawa (Canauu'i cupllnl) mlcr MucKcnzIo King op c .hi. morning boforo a house of narlla . ...!...( mm nrtmivntinlut ? ...nrm-n. and delivers l . . . , Inula speech HlPl com linn i. of food fur serious rlVK' nmfiila seized in tlx: L. (siivlnil) inquiry and r"'-. '.r. ir ...m,..,. ....... -ltd oy mo iv;iv.VA,,o.Ri:. Cut im 01 UI1UUUB1I11. frilENTldTY disclose among u ImKC to secure III Lion oil mutters of VERY CiT and GRAVE concern I-. United Stutcs and also mt uritnin. Information concerned comlo cunruv. It was be ught, I.o adds, in 1043 and i bv missions, wnu wue our nines. kviNG made that disclosure, khMc iirnvlty cannot be ttlninli'd, King proceeds to ; i distinction between tlio b:in ononis wno din me spy- In Canada and blaun oi n ho sneaks with carefully hired kindliness. bit lie knows of Stalin or learned of him from those killed with him during the he says, "causes me to be ne would not countenance Itn of this kind on the part bii country." then adds: believe that when these arc known to him (Stalin) lo others in position of full koiuiblllty wo shall find that .-jngc will come that win e i vast dlffcrcnco indeed. wM what we know of Ru bia's governmental system, it funiculi indeed lor us believe that anything of this could ko on WITHOUT MJN'S KNOWLEDGE. we may assume that Pre- King's words aro carefully ptn in order to Drovlde avlng outlet for Russia In event that the shone of pis to come should make such outlet acceptable to her. pt must remember that face- it can be cxtrcmclv im- tat in the conduct of inter pal affairs. Nations ore not it small boys, who often uiemselves into a nosltlon fie they have to fight when P dun L Ton v unnt to UN. r they can find a way to their faeps. In noplclnif In ft Russia into UNO, we must "reiui not to HUMILIATE ' She mittht lhpn hnvn in f in save licr luce.) Is a timn fnr nfrnlaht nmKitiB. So wo might as SK ourselvrs nnur this quest on: Flat COULD Involve us in I win wussia now?" Is the realistic answer: Brim Pnn,lnlln r.i n,t 'that WR NKVttR PAM Dot hi ...nu . , : .r" rr 'wi nussia nna that wo d r come to grips with her Cr'tat Jf wo wait too long "U IUU liATJS. F "le moment. Trnn la (hp World's l.nH.nl i n..i IJ NLY A TOKEN. . retar n g our slnnd as kiln , . alJ alv insisting lliHi Fa shall submit her differ- KLV' ,ran t0 the United fonj Orcanlzmlnn w ooKIp. I'? Isn't important enough Ki " mvoivea is lm- Si. i bc8innlng to look is the time for a show- h n. , we can ' Bn along rksla ,nside th0 framc" fan - w iinu it UUU '1 can inii k 4i i1cardtslmC r l00kl"g Bt EASf THE HOLE IS u 1 wnicn, so led outsider has been per. Ill i knowi wo alone possess 'use m HEADY ilLlH8,113 w alono possess IC? b0nb, ready for im .f use, no nation will dare unn. .n un. I on, aPPnrcntly, wo have to tlm I .Ul Kussia,. now is lo do it. . . King Gives Details Of Spy Plot Canadian Government Gravely Concerned Over Espionage OTTAWA. March 19 (VP) Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzIc King told parliament last night that his government was gravely concerned over Russian espion age activities which he said had extended through the dominion Into the U. S. and Britain, but he frowned on the Idea of on "pen break between Canada and Russia. Voicing his belief that Gen eralissimo Stalin was ignorant of the espionage activities, King emphasized Canada's desire for "only the best of relations with the USSR." Ttns House A tense house heard the 90 minute address In which the prime minister reviewed tho course of his government's in vestigation Into an alleged Rus sian spy plot, the first inkling of which was given by King himself last Feb. 13 in a public state ment that caused a sensation in Britain and the United States as well as Canada. lie told parliament that docu ments seized in the espionage inquiry and accepted by the gov ernment as being of undoubted authenticity, "disclose among other things that Canada was being made a base to secure in formation on matters of very great and grave concern to the United States and also to Great Britain." ' Utmost Concarn Tho prime . minister said fur ther that these documents showed "that information was being sought through agents here with respect to many matters that were of the utmost concern to Canada, the United States and tho United Kingdom." He did not elaborate except to repeat pre vious . official announcements that troop movements and scien tific data were sought. Winnie Spouts Of Alliance NEW YORK, March 19 (VP) Winston Churchill held out the prospect today of America and Great Britain rendering unpre cedented services to humanity "at this juncture" by "walking forward together with no aims of conquest, subjugation ... or advancement of the sordid in terests." The former British prime minister, after being awarded an honorary degree of doctor of laws at Columbia university yesterday, also emphasized the importance of English and his tory, and added: "Even our communist friends should study this. They should study the admirable modern works on tho life and soul of tho white ant. That will show not only a great deal about their past but will give a very fair indication of their future." Churchill did not expand up on his allusion. I First Clue In Tavern Murder Comes To Light Authorities of thrt north-' rn California counties wr working on what thty con-. sldored thair first clue in the EI Hancho Tule murder and $10,000 robbory last March 4, but Sheriff Ben Richard son said today in Klamath Falls that he did not consider the load sufficiently "hot" to file a chargo against a sus pect held at Willows, Calif. Under arrest at Willows is Earl Willard Russow, alias Willard E. Dykes, escapee from the Carson City, Nev.. penitentiary. Sheriff Richard son said this afternoon that he went to Redding to check on Ruisow's activities and that of his brother, William Russow who has not been seen since March 3. "We are checking on every lead in connection with the murder of Charles Twigg at the tavern but no one in Tule lake seems to be able to iden tify pictures of the Russow men as having been around this part of the country," Richardson said. CIO Ratifies GM Agreement By The Associated Press The CIO United Auto Workers union today announced a major ity of its 175,000 strikers had ratified terms for ending the General Motors strike on a na tional basis. UAW Vice President Walter P. Reuther advised Harry W. An derson, GM vice president, that sufficient votes already had been cast approving the national agreement to assure overwhelm ing acceptance. Reuther also discussed the sub ject of locol issues which have caused continuation of the strike in at least 18 plants but did not make public this portion of his letter to Anderson. In Washington,- meanwhile, John L. Lewis reiterated his de mands for improved working conditions in the nation's coal mines and asked the soft coal operators whether they wanted "peace" or "war" on this issue. Spokesmen for the operators have disputed Lewis' claims on casualties in the mines, assert ing the United Mine Workers chief did not reveal advances in the mine safety made in the last 14 years. ' Mediation sessions were re sumed in New York between the Westinghouse Electric corpora tion and the CIO United Electri cal Workers in an effort to settle a 63-day-old strike of 75,000 employes of 52 plants in 14 states. $77100 In Gold Dust Goes Down ANCHORAGE Alaska, March 19 (p) Eleven thousand dollars in gold dust went down in the wreck of the steamship Yukon last month, it was revealed here today by Charles Awe of the Awe Mining company. He said he owned $9000 of it and that his pokes were insured. Physicist Held On Charges Of Revealing Atom Secrets LONDON, March 19 (P)Dr. Alan Hunn May. 34-ycar-old British physicist who worked on nuclear research In the' wartime pursuit of atomic energy, was held for trial todny on charges of violating the official secrets act by giving atomic informa tion to an undisclosed person. May was refused bail by Mag istrate Harold McKenna of Bow street court, who said the defen dant's release might be "against public policy." May pleaded Innocent to vio lation of tho secrets act, which provides a maximum penalty of seven years in prison for per . nr,iari nf clvinff infor- mation "prejudicial to the safe ty and interests of the state. Gerald Gardner, attorney for May, demanded to know who -viii i..m.bfnn "an enemy' at the time, -late last year, that May was accused or uwm;i,ii6 .. information. Prosecutor Anthony Hawke won. . a. ruling from . tho magis trate that the state involved "might be any potential enemy." The report of a British intel ligence officer was submitted, but not read. Hawke said it con tained tho accusation that May gave a document of nuclear physics research and some sam ples of materials to an unidenti fied person. Hawke said, specifi cally that one paragraph was not to be read aloud because of the information it contained.; . The scientist worked in Can ada on atomic experiments from January, 1943, until September, 1945, when he returned to Eng land. The only time any nation was mentioned during the proceed ings was when Gardner asked a witness: "In February of last year, Russia, was a' gallant ally, was it not?" ! The witness, Sir Wallace Akers, director of research for Imperial Chemical industries and a director of Nuclear Phys ics research for Great Britain duringMhe war,, did not answer;. Chinese Kept Out Of Dairen Access to Manchurian City Refused By ' Russians CHUNGKING, March 19 (TP) A new attempt to secure Chi nese access to the Manchurian port of Dairen designated a free port by the Sino-Sovlet treaty has been rebuffed by tne itussians, a uninese dispatch reported today. The dispatch said the ranking Chinese officer at Changchun naa raised the question of un loading relief supplies for Man churia at Dairen but was told by the chief of staff for the Rus sian commander. Marshal Ro- dion Y. Malinovsky, that this question should be submitted to Moscow. Reds Balk Earlier the Russians had re fused to permit Chinese govern ment occupation troops to land at Dairen following Japan's col lapse, forcing them to fight their way through the great wall, in many cases against Chinese com munist obstruction. Chinese communists have broken through government de fenses at. the rail junction town of Szepingkai, 100 miles north of Mukden, and street fighting is occurring, the Central Daily News reported. A semi-official dispatch from Changchun reported the chief of Staff to Marshal Rodion Y. Ma linovsky, Russian commander in Manchuria, had told the Chinese that Soviet forces would be re sponsible for protecting Chinese government officials only in areas . garrisoned by the Rus sians. The Chinese commander had requested protection for those assigned to administer Manchuria. . . The Daily News said the com munists penetrated into Szep ingkai after "ferocious attacks" against the small government garrison there. . It charged the weak government position was due to Russian withdrawal Sat urday without notice. (Associated Press Correspon dent Olen W. Clements radioed from Tientsin that marines there expected their planes would be utilized to fly more Chinese gov ernment troops to Manchuria soon. There was no official an' nounccment. Lt. Gen. Albert C Wedemeyer, U. S. commander in China, was expected in Tient sin today. Searchlight On State Department ' WASHINGTON, March 19 (TP) A second congressional commit tee has turned its searchlight on the state department. Members of the house com mittee on un-American activities disclosed today that for the past two months they have been quietly investigating reports that pirtpns 'Ot un-American tend encies are holding high position ih the state department." f -Their inquiry,, they said, does not overlap a current inquiry 1 . i . , i : a 1 1 1 gence operations being made by the house military committee. Disclosure that the un-Ameri can activities group has moved into the state department picture came from Rep. Mundt (R-S.D.) and was confirmed by Rep. Ran kin (D-Miss.), ranking majority member. Hoover Arrives On Food Mission PARIS, March 19 (VP) Her- bert Hoover arrived by plane at 5 p. m today, to begin his fact-finding study of European food needs. The former United States president, who helped feed Eu rope alter tne nrst woria war, was met at the airport by Am bassador Jefferson Ceffrey; Maj. Gen. John M. Lewis, com manding the western base sec tion; and Herve Alphand, direc tor-general oi tne Jb'rencn lor eign office. His plane left the Azores this morning. WEATHER March 19 Max. (March 18) 39 Min 34 Precipitation last 24 hours.. . .02 Stream year to date 10.98 Normal 8.77 Last year....7.45 : -Forecast: Continuod showers. Help Send The Thermometer Up! " it I.-TVTe 9 I " ii ' - ' : I The huge thermometer at 6th and Main which will gauge the Klamath chapter activities in the Red Cross drive was being painted a bright red xms morning by H. R. Huddart of the Great Northern, who donated the thermometer. Center. Bob Thompson, campaign chairman, and Frank Sexton of the Great Northern. , Senators Hail Baruch Choice WASHINGTON, March 19 (A) Pleased senators today forecast speedy approval of President Truman's appointment of Ber nard M. Baruch an old friend who . has their confidence as American representative on the United Nations, atomic, energy commission. At thi; same time the president was reported to have sent word that interested legislators are going to be kept fully informed of progress in the attempt to set up international atomic controls; This question has been worry ing some senators, who have in sisted that the United States, must not share the atomic, bomb secret until air-tight methods are found to prevent its secret manufacture by a potential aggressor. Chairman Connally (D-Tex.) said the foreign relations com mittee will act tomorrow on the nomination by Baruch, "who he said will take "no predisposed views" into his new job. - Baruch, 75-year-old park bench statesman, announced in New York yesterday, "I will accept." Extension Of Draft Backed WASHINGTON, March 19 (VP) Extension of the draft law for an indefinite period, with ser vice of inductees limited to 18 months, was recommended to day to the house military com mittee by selective service. The recomm e n d a t i o n was made in a letter to Chairman May (D-Ky.) from Maj., Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective ser vice director. Immediately after' its receipt, the committee voted to start hearings Thursday on legislation to extend the draft law.. Army officials wilL be theCfirst wit nesses at the hearings," which' will not be open to the public. : . Selective service officials- said Hershe'yrie'commehded that the extension.- should -be for; an in definite period; , subject to can cellation by the president or. by congress at any time. - ; Hershey also was reported to have recommended leaving un-, changed the present age group subject to selective service xo to 45 years with an executive order limiting actual inductions to those under 27 . Some committee members, in cluding May, have proposed a flat -six-months extension with the age limits between 21 and 30, both inclusive. . . Jury Says Twigg Beaten To Death TULELAKE, Calif .,. March 19 A coroner's jury, in session at the city hall here Monday in vestigating the death of Charles Twigg, El Rancho Tule. janitor, murdered the night of March 4, 1946, reached a verdict that "Twigg met, his death from skull fracture caused by re peated blows probably from a blunt instrument in the hands of a person or persons un known." Witnesses called were Eno kenty "Nick" Domskoy, dish washer employed- at the tav ern; Clarence Shelato,' one of the owners; Delbert Flshleigh, night police officer at Tulelake; Chief of Police Frank Rhodes and Gerald C. Wilson, Califor nia state patrolman, Tho inouest was conducted by District Attorney Charles Johnson of Yreka, Siskiyou county, and C. A. Turner, coun ty coroner.. . , Two Klamath Youths Held For Attempted Stick-Up Two Klamath Falls youths are held in the Yreka, Calif., jail charged with attempted robbery at Dorris Saturday night, and parents of the two filed com plaints against a Dorris tavern keeper ioi selling liquor to minors. In the Siskiyou county jail are Melburn Bates, 20, 2546 Shasta way, and Harley Allen Johnson, 18, 3320 Bristol. Dorris officials, said the two Nimitz Warns Of .Budget Cut . i WASHINGTON, March 19 (VP) Adm.' Chester W. Nimitz told a house committee today it would take a ''minimum of six months" to bring the navy back to its 1945: fighting' strength if an emergency arose. Nimitz, chief of naval opera tions, told the naval committee that a proposed $2,100,000,000 cut in navy funds would "jeopar dize, the influence of our nation in world affairs and the defense of our homeland." "If ,the nature of the emer gency were such, that demobil ization could be stopped," he said, "I would estimate that a minimum of six months would be required" to rebuild the navy to its strength of last fall. The admiral said that under its original budget request of $6,325,000,000 for the fiscal year starting July 1 the navy had planned a fleet of 500,000 men and 1079 fighting ships, in cluding 319 vessels on active status, 73 held in reserve with 3D per cent crews, and boi in active. Transit Tie-Up Ends In Tacoma ""TACOMA,"' March 19 (iP) Ta coma's three - day - old transit strike ended at-1:30 p. m. today and U. S. Conciliator Harry H. Lewis said he understood bus service would .be resumed to night', as - soon as' the company could get its drivers on the job. : ' Terms of the settlement will not be made public until the Tacoma local of the Motor Coach Employes union . (AFL) has an opportunity to vote on them, Lewis said. A four-hour concilia tion meeting began at 9:30 a. m. today and continued in session witnout recess. ' youths drove to the northern California town about 6 p. m. Saturday and entered the Dorris Cafe and Bar. operated by Bob Davidson, about 70. One of the two had a .38 cali bre pistol which he is said to have stuck in Davidson's ribs. while the other is a 1 1 e g e d to have walked around the counter towards the till. Davidson said he had served drinks. to the two and there was no one in the. tav ern at the time. . Davidson told officers that when the youth pressed the gun against him, he told him he "had lived long enough anyway" and that he "was too old to turn over any money" :x" . "Juit. Playing" . . . .At.this point ,Otis- Bond, who operates the Cozy Inn next door to Davidson's bar, entered the place and one of the boys is said to have turned to - him and placed the pistol at his side say ing, "This is a hold-up." Bond told, officers he stared the youth down-and the boy removed the pistol and broke out the cylinder saying in a. laughing tone, "We are just playing." Bond then left the bar and re turned with four officers.: Two, Deputy Sheriff Walter Gravier who is also the constable, and Sgt. E. E. Doyle of the highway patrol, going to tne rear en. trance, and City Marshal Cy Ma. ther and Capt. George Daley, of the highway patrol, guarding the front door. ' Both Jailed The Johnson boy ' is said to have been apprehended when he tried to - leave the ' building through the washroom window, and Bates was stopped at the front door. Both were lodged in the Dorris city jail and arraigned Monday before Justice of the Peaces C. . E. Motschenbacher. Bail was set at $1000 each, and both -were moved to Yreka Mon day evening where they are awaitine preliminary hearing. Mrs. Nina Johnson, - mo ther of the 18-year-oldj and Amos Bates, father of- Melburn. '.Monday aft ernoon filed complaints against Davidson for selling liquor to minors. He was fined $25 in jus tice court and - his license re voked for 10 days following his aDDearance." '-- Officers said young Johnson was on parole from Woodburn, Ore., state training school and that he was to nave oeen mauct ed : into the army ' Wednesday, March 20. Bates is also said to have told 'officers that he "had been in trouble before" and local juvenile authorities said it was in Elko, Nev., according to their records. Boost In Cigaret Prices Seen Strong Possibility NEW YORK, March 19 P) A rise in cigaret prices soon was seen today by OPA and industry as "a strong possibility." The office of price administra tion may lift the cigaret ceiling within the next two or three weeks to offset increasing costs of raw materials, Geoffrey Baker, deputy price administra tor, said. Removal of price con trols on cigars may follow with in a few months. Industry sources said cigaret price increases Were expected to range from 25 to 50 cents a 1000. Baker told the eastern conven tion of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors yester day that price controls will be removed within two weeks from 200 food items in the luxury class, as recommended by the New York State Food Merchants association. -. . Also slated for re lease from ceilings are some cap ital goods such as some textile machinery and machine tools, he said. The deputy administrator branded as "irresponsible and false" published accusations by the National Association of Man ufacturers that industry is hin dered by "rising costs and frozen Drices" under OPA control. Baker said OPA had. granted hundreds of requests for price relief and in 200 cases had gone beyond the minimum required by law, to encourage production. Tobacco industry sources said if OPA granted a 25 cents a 1000 increase it would be difficult to pass it on to the consumer and wholesalers and retailers would have to absorb it. A 50 cent hike could be passed on, at one cent a pack, but OPA had given no indication wnetner tne in dustry would be allowed to raise prices to tne consumer. Russ Said Violating Agreement Message Delivered To UNO Secretary In Washington , WASHINGTON, March 19 (AP) Iran today for mally charged Russia with maintaining troops on Iran ian toil in violation of an international agreement, and with interfering . in Iranian affairs "through the medium of Soviet agents, officials and armed forces." The charees wppa morio the Iranian government in ap pealing to the United Nationg security council for an "imme diate and just solution" nf t.h dispute with the Soviet Union. continuance of the dispute, Iran said, "is likelv to enfl the maintenance of internation al peace and security." Appeal Circulated The appeal to the council wai presented to Seeretarv nenpral Trygve Lie, on behalf of Iran ian Ambassador Hussein Ala last night and was circulated by Lie today to member natiom of the security council before he released it for publication. ii is me tirst case slated for the security council durine its meeting in the United States, beginning next Monday in New-York. Hussein Ala stated in a letter of transmission that he was bringing ur the case on "telee. raphic instructions" from hl government. There was immedi-. ate speculation- among diplo mats here whether the regime of Premier Qavam es Sultaneh might' be endangered by its de- uaiuu bu iuicc um issue. Two Counts Ala's letter contained two counts: ' "The USSR," he stated, "i maintaining Soviet troops in Iranian territory after March 2. 1940, contrary to tne express provisions of article 5 of the tripartite treaty of alliance of January 29, 1942." (This Anglo-Russian-Iranian agreement pro vided, for withdrawal of all for eign troops from .Iran, six months after the : end of the war. a deadline which turned out to be March 2). "Furthermore," the second al legation made by Ala said, "The USSR is continuing to interfere in the. internal affairs of Iran through the medium1 of Soviet agents, - officials and : armed forces." '. ;' Plane Rams Into Side Of Mountain SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 19 (P) Three highway maintenance men reported today they saw an airplane crasn into the side of a mountain two miles from Hobart Mills about noon. Searchers were attempting to. make their way to the mountain, but it was snowing and -there , was three feet of snow on the : level. . The area is in the moun tain country near the Nevada line. ' t. Army air force spokesmen said the plane could not have been a B-29 missing on a flight from Hawaii to San Francisco bay, and officials of air lines in San Francisco said none of their ships , was in the area. . FAIRFIELD, Calif.,' March 19 (fl)pianes flew an aerial search of the San Francisco bay region today in quest of a B-29 bomber, missing on a flight from Hickam Field, Honolulu. - One of a flight of five, it de veloped engine trouble as it neared the mainland, lt report ed over the Farallon - islands about 30 miles off the Golden Gate, and finally, that it was over the: bay. Lt. Bynon To Be Buried Tomorrow 1st Lt. Allan A. Bynon Jr., of Portland, veteran army para trooper who died in Washing ton, D. C, at Walter Reed hos pital Saturday from Injuries re ceived earlier in the day in an automobile accident, will be buried with full military honors Wednesday afternoon at Arling ton National cemetery, accord ing to word received here by : the young officer's aunt, Mrs. Neal Stewart of this city. Lt. Bynon had visited here frequently, OPA Hotshots Get More Dough WASHINGTON, March 19 (VP) Amid some grumbling from critics of OPA, the senate today passed and sent to the White . House an appropriation bill in cluding $1,600,000 for the price control agency. The measure carries $3,347,000 for war agencies to tide them over the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30.