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By FRANK JENKINS
AS tha coiivtmtiiiii ln Wah
liiKtdii) Willi which thrm
chronicle ro dealing it the
moment aembli, Uiore In a
filial tingle "I excitement In tho
air. Tho hlifli (Kilnl of the e
kIiiii ! to ho a vlKlt by throe
ltuln editor, and their iirt
aiipt'iirance la scheduled for thl
afternoon.
THE morning sewion wear on.
Tho lunch hour arrive. Tha
"bnokiirmtnd" speaker i Ad
inlntl Ninillz.
He tin a grim fare, but It is
Htlhtctipd by a twinkle in hi
ryo. Hi chief. Admiral King,
hit a grimmer face that la seldom
llHtiteiml by a twinkle. You
wonder Idly If navy Job tend to
make men grim. Then you think
of Admiral HaUcy, and decide
there' nothing to It. There have
been few tougher fighter than
llulncy, but hi face i round and
pleasant and he I full of wine
crnrk In hi off moment.
Men go through life with tha
face nature ha given them.
AFTER luncheon, thera i dls
apixilnting new. Tho ltu
lttn, flying to the meeting, are
held up by weather In New
foundland. No telling when
they'll arrive. Wo settl down
to work. , .
IJVENTUALLY they do arrive
lute In the afternoon. They
are tnken first to tho ftunian
rmbiiuy, then (untied over to
tho meeting.
Imagine yourself landing Irt
Moncow. iaklng no Ituiwlan,
and going at once Into a meet
ing of Hunalan where you are
expected to do the honor for
your country. Iff a tough al
ignment. Hut they handled themselves
well.
HEADING tholr delegation is
a major general, In the full
uniform of hi rank. He is the
mlliturv editor of Pravda. Hi
name i Mikhail Komanovlch
Guluktkmov.
He wear horn-rlmmed g!ar.
If you removed hi uniform and
dremod him In civilian attire, he
could mingle with these editor
and you'd never know he hadn't
come from Cincinnati or Buffalo
or Yonker.
ill fuce 1 round and plump,
Mid ht h a greoter sinllo. Uni
"form apart, he looks Ilka a
typical member of a typical
American chamber of commerce.
IZVESTIA. another of the great
II linn Inn newspaper, i repre
sented by llya Khrenburg, a
member of it editorial stuff,
lie la also a novellt and essayist.
And a war correspondent. Some
of hi work. Including an ac
count of the lego of Sevastopol,
ha appeared in magazine in
th! country. He is a clear and
vivid writer.
EHRENBURQ la the physical
opposite of Galaktlonov.
He has none of the general
rounded contour. Instead, he is
' angular, almost thin. He has an
alert, Intense face, with decpset
eyes, and a shock of hair. He
;cnk with great earnestness.
Ho ha an odd gesture of putting
1.1. fi.rtt imnH tn him phest. nnlm
inward, with the tips of his rc-
inxcd lingers loucnmg ms hkh1
tie.
Hi dress Is tho spit and Imago
of the less meticulously attired
American editors present, with
the slight carelessness as to de
tail that, rightly or wrongly,
we have come to associate in our
minds with literary men.
ml IE lhlrH member of the So-
vlet delegation is Konstantin
Mikhnllovlcn simonov, repre
senting the editorial staff of Kcd
Star, the red army newspaper.
Ho is the youngster of the party,
just turned 30. He Is a novelist
and a playwright, as well as a
war correspondent who covered
all the fightlng fronts for his
newspaper.
lie Is plump with the plump
ness of youth, as contrasted with
tUa matiiMi rtnhllf rolntinna mnn
rolypolyncBB of the general. His
iiulr Is black ana ammaani, ana
Ills face, especially the eyes, has
what we Americans think of as
the Slavic cast.
Like Ehrenburg's, Ills voice is
earnest and he speaks with an
intensity that carries to his hear
ers a strong impression of sin
cerity and desire to convince.
All speak in Russian, using an
Interpreter. , ,
THIS is running out to con
V siderable length, and there
Is an acute paper shortage. H
will be better to continue it to
morrow.) Family Rescued
From Gas Fumes
PORTLAND, April 29 (A)
A family of five was rescued
early today from a home filled
with furnace fumes.
Sheriff's deputies snid they
were called to the Wayne M.
Nelson homo in northeast Port
land by the telephone operator.
Nelson was awakened by his
6-year-old daughter and man
aged to reach the phone and
call for help.
Mrs, Nelson was reported In
serious condition but the others
were not hospitnliicd.
PRICE riVB CENTS
Spain Probe
Compromise
Gets 0. K.
Br rRANCIS W. CARPENTER
NEW YORK. April 29 (!')
Tho United Nation security
council, with Soviet Kuuia ab
laining, twlay adopted a com
promise resolution setting up a
sub-committee of five members
to Investigate charge against the
Franco guveriimoiit of Spain.
Ten affirmative vote were cart.
Soviet Delegate Andrei A.
Gromyko kept hi hand down
when tho vole was taken on a
reiulution which would require
the sub-committee to report by
May 31.
Dr. Hafex Aftil I'asna, cnsir
man and Egyptian dolegate, then
named Australia, Brazil, China,
France and Poland as members
of the nib-committee.
Reserve Opinion
Both Gromyko and ttic United
State delegate. Edward R. Stet
tiniu Jr., indicated they were
reervlng the opinion of their
delegations on whether the reso
lution was a substantive matter
or ono of procedure. Tho Neth
erlands delegate, Dr. Eelco Van
Klefens, also reserved the right
to talk later on the matter of
procedure, indicating a fight on
tiic veto question at an indefinite
date.
Shortly after the council met
Gromyko announced he would
abstain from voting.
Gromyko made It clear that
the Russian regarded the mat
ter already a question of sub
stance instead of one of pro
cedure but that they did not
choose now to invite the veto
power.
The Soviet delegate said that
if he had voted against the
Australian proposal it would
mako it impossible to pass It, in
dicating that he regarded it a a
substantive matter even in this
stage,
"This abstinence from voting
doe not in any way constitute a
precedent," he declared.
2 Mill Men
In Accidents
Two accidents were reported
by Klamath Valley hospital to
day, both involving sawmill em
ployes. Tom Smith, 68, route
3 box 1009, oiler at Pelican Bay
Lumber company's sawmill, suf
fered a fracture of the leg at 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon when
he fell at his home.
Lee Hardin. 52, 923 S. 8th,
laborer employed in the Ewauna
Box company sawmill, suffered
a badly bruised right foot early
Monday morning when he drop
ped a heavy, wet slab on his foot.
His injuries arc not thought
serious.
Byrnes Proposes
Four-Power Pact
PARIS. Apri! 29 (P) Secre
tary of State James F. Byrnes
said tonight he had proposed that
Great Britain, France, Russia
and the United States sign
23-year mutual assistance pact
to assure German disarmament
after the occupation is ended.
Rioting Marks German Vote
As New Rightist Party Wins
By RICHARD O 'REGAN
FRANKFURT, April 29
Germany's fast growing new
political party, the right-of-cen-tcr
Christian Social union, won
an overwhelming victory In
weekend county council elec
tions in the American tone,
marred by rioting and pro-riazi
activity.
Conservative rural voters
gave the church-supported party
almost a two to one lead over
its nearest rival, the security
left wing social democrats.
Tho communist party polled
only a bare 8.4 per cent of the
3,138,347 votes cast in the sec
ond free election in the area in
13 years.
Willie 8043 elected county of
ficials took their scats on rural
councils today, four United
States army agencies were in
vestigating a street battlo be
tween German voters and more
than S000 Jewish displaced per
sons at Dlcsscn in Bavaria.
Six persons were reported
still In hospitals out of 18 treat
ed for stab wounds and beat
ings in the riot which finally
('
Leaving
DR. PETER ROZENDAL
Dr. Rozendal
Quits Office
Dr. Peter H. Rozendal, for
eight yean county health offi
cer, announced today he has re
signed his public position here
to go into private practice at
Corvalli.
The position here will be
handled temporarily by Dr.
J. Martin Adams, who is home
from the service, pending com
pletion of remodeling of down
town offices for him.
Dr. Rozondal said he had con
ildored entering private . pree
tice here, but was unable to
find a suite of offices.
He came here from Lake
Preston, S. D., in July, 1838,
succeeding Dr. Neil F. Black as
Klamath county health officer.
During his administration, the
county health unit offices were
moved to the onlarged center
in the former Llghtfoot hospital
and a detention home estab
lished in connection with the
unit.
Dr. Rozendal said he wished
to express his appreciation to
county and city public officials
and all others who had cooper
ated with him in the public
health program here.
Permits Needed
For Bonfires
Fire Chief Keith K, Ambrose
warned householders agRinst
building fires out of doors with
out permit following a cali at
11:28 a. m. Sunday to S2S N
8th, where a trash fire got out
of bounds. No permit had been
issued and the fire department
urged ali persons to contact tho
chief s office in Hie future, uc
cupant of the N. 8th property is
E. C. Bradberry.
Two calls were received Mon
day. The first camo in at 10:48
a. m. from the J. Giison resi
dence, 818 N. 8th, where a flue
fire was reported. The second
was reported at 12:13 p. m. from
the R. R. McClintock residence,
1124 Owens, where a flooded oil
stove threatened the structure.
There was no damage irt either
CRse, firemen said.
was quelled by American sol
dtcrs.
Search was underway todBy
for two Jewish guards whose
disappearance prompted the dis
placed persons to rush the Ger
man polls after a report circu
lated that the guards had been
murdered by civilians.
Counter' espionage -agents
were probing the appearance of
nazi swastikas in another Ba
varian town and the setting fire
to a communist meeting hall.
Rurals voters in staunchly
pro-Catholic Bavaria gave the
Christian Social union its' big
total of 1,779,203 votes to the
social democrats' 938,783 by
overriding the majority the Int
ter secured in more industrial
ized greater Hesse.
A scries of . lesser disorders
in other Bavarian towns char
acterized tho county council
elections held throughout the
American zone. U. S. officials
denied, however, reports thRt
two deaths had occurred, al
though American troops, hem
med in by rioting masses of
displaced persons, were forced
to fire into the air to break up
(he milling mob at Diessen,
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
Parking Plan
Approved By
Safety Body
The city traffic afety com
mittee ha submitted recom
mendation to the city council
that parking meters be installed
in downtown Klamath Fails fur
a trial period of six months.
The traffic prooiem in the
busincKS district has been a sub
ject of wide discussion for some
time, and committeemen said
they feci that the installation of
the meters wiil Bileviate the
situation by proving a more
rapid turn-over of cars parked
on the main streets.
Members of the committee
considered calling on represen
tatives of other cities to find
out if the meters worked suc
cessfully, but decided against it
since the meters can be reject
ed if they prove unsatisfactory
after a six-month trial.
Up To Council
The exact streets which the
meters would cover are not
known, but they would be, pre
sumably, ail the streets in the
business district and not only
on Main.
The committee has recom
mended the type of automatic
postwar meter, which it be
lieves will make policing of the
downtown area easier.
The city council will deal
with the matter probably at its
next meeting. The council wiil
not meet tonight since today is
the fifth Monday In Uie montti.
Stage Line
Sale Made
Dale Mattoon, deputy sheriff,
and Ernest (Jiggers) Koschnick,
steward at the Elks club, have
purchased the Red Bcii stage iine
from tiie estate of the late Gor
don Quimby and will take over
operation of the una May l.
The purchase Includes the
route between here. Lakeview
and Burns, three buses and other
Red Ball property.
Mattoon is resigning from his
job bs deputy sheriff to assume
the management of tnc line.
L. A. (Jack) Murphy is admini
strator of the Quimby estate and
the stage line has been operated
under the jurisdiction of Quim-
by's heirs since his death last
November 3. Judge David R.
Vandenberg will approve the
purchase petition before it goes
into effect.
Quimby established the Red
Bali line in 1928 and operated
it until his death.
Mattoon and Koschnick will
be equal partners in the owner
ship of the stage line. Purchase
price was not revealed but ua
official estimates put it in the
neighborhood of $20,000.
Firing From Car
Stirs Officers
TULELAKE. April 29 Sev
eral shots fired into the air from
a moving car at dusk in the bus
iness district, put Night Officer
Bob Fishlcigh on the alert Satur
day night.
Fishleigh was without means
of transportation and was unable
to follow the car which left town
soon after the incident. Similar
reports came from Malin and the
Henley district where two youths
are alleged to have fired two
shots into a truck load of lumber
on the Merrill highway.
Row Ties Up
Portland Port
PORTLAND, Ore., April 29 m
The Portland Waterfront Em
ployers association canceled its
contract with the CIO Super
cargoes and Checkers union this
morning but only a handful of
ships iikely to be affected by
the near-complete port tie-up
were in the haroor. j
Eighteen ships left port yes
terday and Saturday as loading
was speeded up to beat the dead'
line set by employers in drawn
out dispute with the union over
the number oi ciieciters to Be
employed.
BUY PAPER
OSWEGO, April 29 P) Mr.
and Mrs. William L. Blizzard,
former newspaper publishers at
Portoia, Calif., have purchased
tho weekly Oswego Review, E.
A. Donnelly announced today. .
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 194
Klomoth Sprinter
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tui. .w Tnmm. PMrrrfi flft!. itsrtins Tunntr of
off to a flyina start as the oun sounds opnlnS the half-mile relay a the 28-30 ciuls Southern
Oreaon-Northwn California track meat en Modoc field Saturday aftaraoon. la t5 tcor.d isn
i. - n-Ji-.j ..,.,.,. tMrA I. n.nrf nA an th Inside Ashland. Mdf ord iasra won the fast neat
and the relay, with Klamath finishing close secc-no, mkb
tura fifth. Grant Pass. Altuta and Malin lan the second heat. Klamath Fail wea Use meet
for the fourth straight year.
Registration Strength In
County 4553 Below 1944
VOTER TABULATION
May, 1948, Primary
Klamath Falls-
Republican 3485
Democrat jo
Independent 18
Communist 1
Non-partisan, etc. 353
Total 8185
Klamath county
Republican 3404
Democrat 4837
Independent 29
Socialist 3
Non-partisan, etc.. 25
Total -
Total ail-county
8530
18,715
Final registration figures- for
Klamath county before the May
17 primary, compiled by the
county clerk, indicate a loss el
4553 voter over the county'
registered strength before the
1844 general election and a slight
loss of democratic party sirengm
although both city and county
are stiil comfortably on the dem
ocratic tide of the ledger.
Of a total of 18,715 voters
registered now, 8185 are demo
crats. 6889 are reoubiicans. 47
are independents, three social
ists, one communist and 810 de
clared themselves non-partisan
Truman Frees
Big Five Packers
WASHINGTON, April 29 AP)
President Truman announced to
day that the "big five" of the
meat packing Industry will be
released from government con
trol at midnight tonight.
The five. Armour, Swift and
Company. Wiison, Cudahy and
Morreil, were seized by the
government January 6 along
with a number of smaller com
nanies and operating units fol
lowing a prolonged labor dis
pute.
The White House said that a
number of the smaller com
panies already had been re
leased from government opera
tion. The release of the big five
means, in effect, the return of
control of the meatpacking in
dustry to private operations.
A total of 269 plants original
ly were seized by the govern
ment. Peoce Hopes Dim
In China Warfare
CHUNGKING, April 29 AP)
Efforts to settle the fighting in
Manchuria broke down today.
the utmost efforts of Gen. Mar
shall proving Insufficient to
bridge the chasm between the
Chinese national government
and the communists. . . .
All sides revealed that settle
ment of the civil conflict faced
Indefinite delay, with the gov
ernment refusing the newest
truce proposal and the commu
nists demanding stronRly favor
Bble terms on the basis of their
military successes.
Illegal Angling
Results In Fine
Paul Daly Hess, Hopka build
ing, paid a line ot s.a Satur
day when he appeared before
Justice of the Peace J. W.. Grit-
ton of Bly in answer to a
charge of angling -with pro
hibited methods. Hess was fish
ing in the north fork of Sprague
river with two lines, according
to state police who made the
arrest.
State police officers were
busy alone the streams Sun
day as scores of anglers were
trying their luck on the second
Sunday since opening - of the
fishing season.
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WEATHER NEWS
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Off To Flying Start In
or failed to state a party pref
erence.
The city has 4328 democrats.
3485 republicans and 372 regis
trants not luted m eitner major
nartv. In the county are
democrats, 3404 republicans and
288 others.
The democratic all-county ma
jority it new approximately 54.8
per cent oi tne total registration,
the republican figure is about
41.2 per cent and the non-parti
san, independents ana otners
make up the extra per cent
Two yean ago me aemocrai
majority was almost 57 per cent.
The number of non-partisans
registered now is larger than any
previous listing because overseas
registrations for servicemen did
not call for party preference.
Ex-servicemen who registered
overseas wili be asked to state
a Breference before getting a pri
mary ballot on election day and
those who do not state a pref
erence win take part in the non
partisan voting oniy
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Hits Klamath
The warm, sununerlike
weather felt last week in Klam
ath Fails basin vanished today
before a blast of chill, wintry air
and a 3 l-msle-per-hour Tftina
blowlne west-northwest.
The wind brought with It
showers and snow flurries and
biting cold although the mercury
dropped only to 40 degrees at
the lowest this morning.
Clearing weather is predicted
Tuesday but still cool for the
basin.
Snowfalls In ' the mountain
passes continued today, weather
reports snowed, ana plows op
erated on tne summit oi tne Wil
lamette highway. Slush covered
the Santiam highway near the
summit.
An inch of new snow was re
ported by the state highway com
mission at Santiam junction
where the temperature was 30
degrees and total snowfall at the
summit was SO inches.
It was snowing hard this morn
ing at Odell lake, with a tem
perature of 27 degrees and one
and one-naif incnes oi new snow.
A light flurry of snow fell at
Bend today.
Chains were not necessary on
any of the mountain highways, it
was stated.
SCHOOL QUOTA FILLED
PORTLAND, Ore,, April 28
AP The University of Oregon
medical school's fall terra ouota
of 75 new students has been
filled. Dean David W. L, Baird
reported today in report urging
more space . and an enlarged
faculty. Dean Baird said 300 ap
plications have been turned
down, most of them from vet
erans.
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Vet Force Proposed To
Stamp Out
WASHINGTON, April 29 m
Senator Murdock' D-Utah) pro
posed today that the OPA use
veterans in a strong enforcement
arm to stamp out black markets
as the AFL urged senate rejec
tion of house amendments to
price control laws.
Murdock's Idea was called
very good suggestion" by Wil
liam Green, president of the
American federation of Labor.
' Green told the senate banking
committee, at hearings on legis
lation to continue price controls,
that some house-passed proposals
on OPA would "amend price con
trol to death."
After Green had commented
that "wa can't surrender to th
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Nutnbar 1QSD?
Hslf-Mile Relay
the KUKS lay team, setting
Legislature
Meet Slated
SALEM. Ann! 23 m Ore
gon s first special legislative ses
sion in 11 years probably will
be held within the next two
weeks to enable the legislature to
take the bugs out oi Hie Mult
nomah county election registrar!
law so that the Portland school:
district can proceed with its etec- -lion
May 17 to levy $1,750,SSS
in school taxes, it appeared to-:
day, - ;
While tiovernor tart atieu
said he is waitine for briefs to
bo filed by the school district.
there was every indication ae
would call the special session.
The 1345 legislature passed
law creating the office of elec
tion registrat for Multnomah
county only, but it forgot to give
him power to- call school elec
tions. Consequently, the state
jupreme court rujed last Friday
that there is no way hi -which
the school election can Be field
unless the legislature fixes up the
law by adding art amendment
giving the . election registrar
power to hold the school elec
tions. The Portland school district
said that unless the people vote
the additional $1,750,13133, school
activities would have to be cur
tailed 28 per cent.
Progress Mode Is
Rail Strike Talk
CHICAGO, April 29 m
Railroad representatives report
ed "progress" today in discus
sions with two brotherhoods in
an effort to head off a strike,
set for May 18, that would dis
rupt the nation's rail service.
Committees representing the
nation's carriers conferred be
hind closed doors for two and
one-half hours to review the
findings of President Truman's
fact-finding board which the
unions called unsatisfactory.
Spokesmen for both sides is
sued brief statements as the
morning session ended and pre
dicted that the conferences
would continue for several days
before definite results could be
made public.
Noted Explorer
Dies in Gotham
NEW YORK. AjSrii 29 iJPt
Robert Abram (Captain Bob)
BariletL m noted explorer who
was a colleague of Admiral Bob
ert E. Peary in his 1S0S discov
ery of the north pole and who
"commuted to tne Arctic iut
40 vears, died here yesterday.
He entered the Harkr.ess pa
vilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian
medical center last "Wed
nesday with what doctors said
was an acute kidney and heart
condition.
Capt. Bartlett never reached
the pole himself although he
took Peary within dog-sled dis
tance of it.
Black Market
black market," Murdock made
his suggestion, adding, "I be
lieve a lot of veterans could do
the job."
Senator Capehart fR-lnd.) ac
cused the administration of in
dulging In "a 108 per cent black
market" deal in its corn subsidy
arrangement. .
When the government sought
to get corn for its famine-relief
program, it found it had tapsy
a 30 -cents-a-bushel premium,
Capehart said.
When businessmen pay isbove
ceilings to get commodities
needed to keep running. Cape
hart said, they are called black
marketeers.
"Now the government It doing
the same thing," he said.
Nip Warlord;
27 Others
To Be Tried
psni Warlord Hidekl Xoja and
21 other rmiiiarisiic leader
were indicted by the siiiet to.
day as war criminals.
ey will be arraigned Kay S
on 55 specific eharaet renuine
from murder of thousands 1
Americans on Pearl Hereof
day to conspiracy to hammer
trie wnole world into slave atctec
of the axis.
Defense counsel is expected
to be given reasonable time to
prepare its case before trials
begin before an li-r.aticn irl.
bunal.
Tribunal members heard Chif
Allied Prosecutor Joseph B.
Keenan read the indictments i
the Japanese war ministry build
ing, then called U. S. navy
Capt. Beverly M. Coleman, who
will head tne defense, into
brief conference, '
Wide Baas
Ai he presented the Indict
ments, Keenan outlined three
categories of charges; Crimes
against peace, "conventional"
war crimes, and "crimes against i
humanity." Offenses thus range.
from maltreatment of individu
als to world coniipiTacy, and
Keenan, made It plain that the
whole IS-year-stery of Japan'
bloody Bid for waiid power will
be tald la the forthcoming trial.
Those named in the indict
menu Included:
Four former premiers: To jo.
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Kekt
Hirota and Gen. Xuniakl Koko.
A dm. Gssml Kagano, former
chief of staff whose direct order "
launched .the attack on Pearl
harbor.
Geo. Kenii Doifcara, Japan's
"Lawrence of Manchuria, who
engineered the prewar Manchur
ian incident.
Three principal arranger o
the tri-partite act with Italy
and Gerraasyi Tenner Foreign
Minister losuke Matsuoka, Geo,
Hioshi Oshima (ex-ambassador
to Germany), and Toshsa Shir a.
tori ex-arnbassador to Italy). ,
Six other former ministers:
Gen. Sadao Araks, war; Okmorl '
Kaya, finance; Kiro Minami.
war; Mamoru Shigemitsu, for
eign; Shigetsro Shimeda, navyj
and Shigenori Togo, foreign
minister when war began.
Gen. oshir0 Umezo, whs
with Shigemits'vi signed sorrer
dr tenasaboaip the &"SS Mi
souri ia "Tokyo bey last Sep
tember. . ;
Hirohit' Omitted -.
Not mentioned in fee indk&
merits were Emperor Hiroiiito
and a half dozen oi Tojo' form
er cabinet ministers; Micoio Ys
zawa, Hiohiyo Jwamura, Kuni
hiko Hashida, Hiroya ino, Nobu.
sake Kishi and Vice Adm. Ken
Terajima.
Keenan did not refer to them
bat commented that omission
of a name "in a sense Implies
exoneration; other names may
be added.
indictments included specific
chaises of starting the war
against the 11 allied nations, and
18 of the prisoners including
Tojo were accused of murder
fcy "ordering, causing and per
asiSting the armed forces of Ja
pan to attack territory, ships
and airplanes" of other nations
in Hie Dec. 7, 1941, sr.eak . at
tacks. Hie charge listed as mur
dered some 4063 Americsxs at
Pearl harbor and others in the
Philippines.
Accused with Tojo in the mur
ders were Doihara, Hiranuma,
Hirota, Hoshino, Kaya, Kido Ki
mura. Muto. Nagano. Oka, Oshi
m,a Sato, Shimada, Susuki, and
Togo.
"it may seem strange to in
clade charges of murder, said -Keenan,
"but it is high time that
promoters of aggressive, ruth
less war and treaty-breakers,
should be stripped oi glamour
. and exposed as they are plain,
ordinary murders,"
On another count, aH defen
dants were held responsible for
planning "to procure and per
mit murder on a whoieseale of
prisoners of war . . , in ruthless
pursuit of victory In the unlaw
f ui war
Twelve were charged with
killing many thousands of Chi
nese civilians and fourteen were
charged with murder oi Rus
sian troops in 1838-1S33.
Crash Terminates
Chase By Felice
A state patrolman's car today
boasts a crumpled fender as the
result of a brash with Louis
Thomas Barrett, 31, route 3 box
35, whom officers arrested ai
2:25 a, m. Sunday on the Midland
road one mite south of highway
m.
Officers said that Barrett's
coupe was going south on S. fitii
and at She Midland intersection
turned off on that road. It was
first noticed that Barrett's car
was without a tail light and when
the patrol car siren blew to stop
Barrett, he allegedly stepped ort
the gas and drove away. Police
approached again and gave the
siren, this time the state car was
on the left side of Barrett who,
apparently, applied his brake,
caught the patroi car on the ief
side and sent it into the ditch.
There were no Injuries. Bar
rett was cited to appear ia court
charged with Inadequate brakes
and violation of the basic rule.
He got a warning slip en tfc
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