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Moscow Say s Americans Fight In China In Th. Dafs hm By FRANK JENKINS RUSSIA contliuiPi to dominate the nowa of Out world will prubulily continue to throuulmut II in lllnllmra of present -aay adults, You nmy think that what li going on INKIUK tlin united Stntci rmirclally wlint la going tin In till" coinmunlty la your biggest, almost your sole, in-tcn-at. Tlmt Isn't true. Wlint Russia dors In the prea ent atuto o( tha world concerns peace and war. I'euce and war are the hlKUrst aubjccla In SVEHYUOUY S life. CTAI.1N auya today that Russia can't help feed the world, aa aha haa been reoriented to. The , request, he adda, cornea 00 dnya too lute. Drouth, lie auva, hua wrecked Ruaaln'a winter wheat crop. Ho hua lust laatied a decreo ordering the plowlfiK up of iinu'li of tho T Kunalun winter wneui neiin unu : their reaeedlnu to spring wheat lie (representing the coininunlt party) la direction lieuvy Hunt liiir of aorltiu wheat In Silxrrln Unless theae cropa produce, ho concludi-i, IttiMln too will be Hungry, TT sound reuaoiinble. There nro ao ninny aspects of the Russian atutude that sound unreason nble. it pleunes us, some way, to find something In the Kusslnn situation Hint seems to mako tense, AS to Russia, this Is TRUE: The attitude of the Amerl ran people toward the Ituiulun people la a f KIKNULY attitude. We want nuthliiK so much as to Ket along with them In pruce and uniity. It Is this writer's belief. based on limited personnl obiter- vatlon, that the Russian l'KUPLR feel much tho same toward us. Yet American Russian rein tlona are going rapidly from bad to worse. w IIY? Well. In trying to answer that question we shall have to soar olr into tne realms 01 specu- latlon and surmise. WE must remember that some " 180 million Kusslnns are ruled absolutely by some four or five million members of tne com munlst party. These members of the ruling party value their power and llielr privileges. They MAY fenr tho western democracies even more than wo v of the western democracies fenr ) communism. Everyone who has f been thera aiirees that Russian private soldiers have been tre mendously impressed by wlint they think: of as the I LtK Ti existing in ravaifcd eastern uer many. In Chechoslovakia, in Aus tria and even In Hungary. Com' finrlns It with wlint they have at tome, It looks to them like ABUNDANCE. They MIGHT come home and aay to their rulers: "Why can't WE have as much as these other people who hove been living under despised capitalism? That would be embarrassing. TT Is an unfortunate, but HIS x TORICAL, fnet when thoughts such as this begin to run through the minds of the common peoplo RULERS find foreign wars a convenient and quite effective way to hold onto their privileges and their power. That has happened over and over In the long centuries of which we have a record, it could hannen attain In Russia, That Is wlint keeps us fearful of what Russia is up to, WHAT can wo do about It? " About all we ordinary p pie enn do Is to go on feeling friendly townrd common, ordi nary Russians. But we must Insist that our own government shall keep Americas military power unwenkencd. ' Jt ts doubtless unfortunate, but It still is TRUE, that power wins respect In International dealings. Weakness seldom docs. Chinese Forces Report Advance By Tha Associated Prasa Chlncso government forces to day claimed they had entered Kungchullng, halfway between Szcpingknl and their goal, the Manchurlan cnpltnl, Changchun. Communists countered by clos ing In on Chaoyang In south eastern Jehol province and Tal linn,' cnpltnl of Shnntung. Frontline dispatches relayed from Mukden reported elements of tho government's new first army reached Kungchtiling, 40 miles south of Changchun, last night and that advance units to day pushed seven miles further north. Baseball Scores AMERICAN R H E Philadelphia 4 7 0 Chlcngo '. 5 10 0 Mnrchlldon, Bcsse (0), Harris (0) and Rosar; Hayncs, Caldwell (7) and Dickey, New York S 10 0 Detroit 3 8 0 Gtimort, Wndo (8) and Dickey; I Hutchinson, Trout (S) and Teb- J. belts, Richards (II). Pittsburgh 2 6 1 Philadelphia 8 12 1 Hnllctt, Helntzlemnn (5), Ga bles (7) nnd Lopez; Howe, Karl (U) and Scmlnlck. No Sign Yet Of Revoking Strike Calls By Tha Associated Prass The question of whether gov ernment seizure would keep the nation's railroads running and coal mines working moved toward a showdown today with out any signs of optimism. John H. Sleelinan, presidential labor advisor, suld after a con ference with tlin railroad broth erhoods that "I don't know about the chances for a settlement" before the railroad strike truce expires at 4 p. h. (eastern stand ard time) tomorrow. Across the country, thousands of rank and file United Mine Workers greeted news of govern ment seizure of tho mines by staying away from their Jobs. Tho men hud been digging coal previously under the two weeks truce agreement which runs out Saturday. Tho brotherhood of Locomo tivo Engineers und Railroad Trainmen suld they hud submit ted their "final proposition" for uvertlng a nationwide rail road strike tomorrow and that they may confer during the day with President Trumun, Krug Sm Lewis Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug, federal mine adminis trator, and hla assistant Vice Adm. Hen Morrell went Into their second conference in two days with John L. Lewis In an effort to get assurances Hint the 400,000 soft coul miners would stny on tho Job after a two-week truce expires Saturday. President Truman's order seizing the mines became effec tive at 12:01 a. m. today. Lewis, at a preliminary meeting yes terday, told Krug the question of working beyond Saturday was one fur the Individual miner to decide. Krug added, however, that Lewis took under consider ation a request for "support." Krug said that whatever con tract the - mine administrators work out will have to be sub mitted to the operators before agreement can be completod and. the mines released to their own ers. Lewis' most controversial point in demands for the miners Is a seven per cent payroll levy for a union-administered health and welfare fund. The operators have offered him the 1 U a cent hourly wage increase. In the rnll dispute, Steclman said after yesterday's talks the "situation doesn't look too good." Ho told reporters he still was trying to work out a com- Eromlso between the demands y the two brotherhoods and the fact-finding recommenda tions. He said there was "per- naps a uuio progress, out "not much." Nazi Frank Pays For Lidice Crime PRAGUE. May 22 (41 Karl Hermann Krank was hanscd to day In a courtyard outside the people's court chamber while the widows of Lidice the villago which the nozls destroyed after slaughtering its men milled in a throng about Pankra prison. Frank was convicted yester day by a Czech peoples court on charge of responsibility for tho massacre of Lidice, a vil lage of S00 persons, erased by the nazls when Frank was the reichprotector of Bohemia and Moravia. Wins New Trial ti Gilbert E. Thi.l (above), walks with tha aid of canas along a San Francisco street aftor tha U. S. supreme court granted him a new trial in his $250,000 damage auit against tha South ern Pacific railroad. Thlel lost both ieot when ha fall from a train window while suffering "delirium tremans." A federal district court' Jury previously denied him damages. AP wlrephoto. PRICE nr.n'3g firemen 2 ,' . . -..v.V . If .. ', - 1... fr W -it I i 5T "" TTti Fireman examine wracked tha ninth floor set-back of tha town financial district alter tha occupants. KUHS To Give 305 Diplomas Nelson Reed, member of, the school board of District 2, will present diplomas tonight at S o'clock to the graduating class of Klamath Union high school when seniors march Into Pelican court in the final step of their four-year courses at KUHS. Commencement will open with the processional, Corona tion march from "The Prophet," by Meyerbeer, with. John Best directing the KUHS orchestra. The invocation will be offered by the Rev. S. M. Topness, pas tor of Klamath Lutheran church, and the salutatory will then be given by Scott Reed fol lowed by the valedictory by Mary Griffiths. Three numbers will be pre sented by the combined choirs with John A. O'Connor, director. This will be followed by the presentation of scholarships and awards by Bernadine NogRle, faculty advisor for the senior class. Arnold L. Gralapp, superin tendent of ' public Instruction, will give the faculty trophies to the students and Stanley D. Woodruff, principal of KUHS, will make the presentation of the class. Diplomas will then be handed out by Reed, and the class will sing the traditional, "Klamath Memories." The re cessional, "Pomp and Circum stance," by Elgar, will complete the program, . The Parents and Patrons club of KUHS is giving an informal reception for the graduates and their parents In the girls' gym- (CanUnaiS an Pact , ColumB l m ? ""' , " Ambulance Man Describes Nazi Massacre DACHAU. Germany. Mav 22 W An American ambulance driver who helped wounded Ger mans in Normandy told today how enemy troops . Ignored his Red Cross Insignia and shot him four times after he surrendered at the Malmedy crossroads De cember 17, 1944. Glaring at 74 SS war crimes defendants, Samuel Dobyns of Sandusky, Ohio, described to a U. S. military court the shooting of more than 100 soldiers as they stood with hands upraised in sur render in a field In Belgium dur ing the Battle of. the Bulge. Dobyns was trapped by cross fire that day and nls ambulance was riddled by machincguns. He said he had Just painted new red crosses on It, He and his helper hit the dirt and the ambulance was wrecked against a tree. He surrendered to a group of German troops. he testified, and one private wanted to kill him on tho spot. ' "An officer told him not to shoot me," Dobyns said. Ho walked slowly before the defendants, but was unable to pick out the officer. Llne-Up for Death Dobyns said he was lined tin with perhaps 150 others, includ ing live wearing Red Cross in tmib mu 1 Examine Fuselage Wreckage iaa)ui"ini ms rrt 4 ' a: 3 '"'iMC; .js 1 1 , - te fuselage of an army C-45 twin-engined all-metal monoplane on Bank of Manhat tan company building In New York City's down plana crashed into tha 58th floor AP wirepnoto. School District Vote Tomorrow Klamath voters, residents of School Districts 1 and 2, are urged to vote tomorrow, Thurs day,, on the budgets of both, di. trio's roiling place ior uisirici No. 1 Is Fremont school, for Dis trict No. 2, Klamath Union high school. The hours are 2 to 7 p. m. for both places. Voters in District 1 will be presented with two ballots, one for the 1946-17 budget and the other for a two-year serial levy 6f $50,000 for each year to bo used in construction of an addi tion to Mills school. The budget figure is $510,924.77. The budget for District No. 2 Is the only item to be considered and Is for a total amount of $389,171. Both districts will present the new teacher retire ment fund, made mandatory by act of legislature, and this must be considered by the voters. All legal voters who ore taxpayers, are urged to go to the polls Thursday. Highest Paid G Returns To Army TIFFIN, O., May 22 JP) Nev In R. Haudenschild, 35, of near by Republic, the highest paid buck private before his dis charge from the army lost De cember, is back in the army air force. Staff Sgt. Marvin R. Hedrick of tho army recruiting service, announcing Haudcnschild'a- re enlisment. said the private's wife and the couple's 13 children would receive $320 a month in family allowances. Haudenschild, after contributing $22 toward his family's support, will re ceive $28 a month. At Malmedy signia. A pistol shot rang out una a man near nun fell. "I broke ranks and ran to the rear," he said. "Then I heard another pistol shot and others in the rear started to disperse. At least two machineguns opened up and we all hit the dirt. I was shot four times and there were eight or ten other holes in my Jacket. 1 "I saw three or four German soldiers shoot the wounded that were crying for help. I thought I was the only one left alive." After several hours, Dobyns and 15 or so others Jumped up and ran to safety. Dobyns said he could not iden tify the captors as SS men. Homer D. Ford, a milltnry po lice private of Lecton, Mo,, told how he was .'apturcd that day and escaped from tho bloody field also after he had been shot. As he lay feigning death, he said he heard Germans stamping around and battering the wound ed with rifle butts. This testimony concluded the prosecution's presentation of eye witness accounts by five enlisted men and one lieutenant who sur vived the Mnlmcdy shootings. All six now have been mustered out. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. nam hi ui ft Q St" ' I ' - f I of the skyscraper killing fire Writer Tipped To Quit Poland - WNEW yORK, May 22 0P A correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance who recently visited Poland writes that Larry Allen, Associ ated Press correspondent at Warsaw, has been told anony mously at least three times that he should leave Poland. Writing from Nuernberg May 21, Pauline Frederick, an Amer ican correspondent, said: "I could not have cabled any true stories out of Poland. Press messages that the government does not like are stopped dead in Warsaw. Larry Allen of the Associated Press, who has been waging a discouraging battle to get the news out, has been told anonymously at least three times lately that he should leave the country. "I was in Poland on two days May 1 and 3 that came near to lighting the fuse of the civil war that even a member of the Polish parliament admitted is tnreatemng. On May Day the writer wit nessed a great celebration of the workers' holiday in Krakow, in which communist and hammer and sickle banners were dis played and participation was compulsory. On May 3 the gov ernment banned celebration of the country's "Fourth of July. In an informative message to his New York office recently Allen said "had triple threat but situation well in hand. He did not amplify this and it is not known whether he was referring to the anonymous warnings re ported Dy tne wan A writer. Browder Reports At US Embassy MOSCOW, May 22 WV-Earl Browder, former general secre tary of the communist party in the United States, registered at the American embassy today and agreed to meet foreign corre spondents at a press conference tomorrow morning. . He ' appeared smiling and af fable at the embassy and gave data about himself for the em bassy files on Americans in the boyiet Union. Solon Would Send Lewis To Russia WASHINGTON, May 22 (VP) A suggestion that John L. Lewis be named ambassa dor to Russia was made in the house today. - The proposal was made by Rep. Herbert (D-La.), who de clared: "We ought to send Lewis to Russia, where his peculiar talents for cooperation, un derstanding 'and eagerness to assist humanity could work to the .best . interests of our country. "He would fit in well In a country where they follow his rules of 'I won't play if you won't play with my marbles." '"It ' 1 tW MAY 22, 1146 (Telephone Big Armada Leaves Hawaii En Route To Bikini Bomb Tests ABOARD USS MT. McKIN- LEY, May 22 (IP) The biggest group of test ships yet to leave Pearl Harbor sailed today ior Bikini lagoon soon to be swept by atomic-bomb fire, blast and very high waves. Ten target and support ves sels headed by this flagship of the task force commander, Vice Adm. William H. P. Blandy, were ordered on their way today. Only a handful of the larger target ships were left in Pearl Harbor, including the veteran carrier Saratoga and the former German heavy cruiser frlnz Eugen. Blandy told newsmen before boarding his flagship that scale- model experiments "indicated that very high waves could be expected in the second test at UN Keeps Iran Question Open NEW YORK, May 22 (JP) The United Nations security council decided today to con tinue the Iranian case indefi nitely after hearing Iranian Am bassador Hussein Ala express doubt that all Soviet troops had left his troubled country. The vote was unanimous ex cept for Russia's continued boy cott. Edward R. Stettlnius Jr.. Unit ed States delegate who was Joined by Great Britain in a de mand that tne council Keep the case before it, said after hearing Ala that he believed "more than ever that action should be de ferred." Ala told the council, with Russia still absent from the talks, that he believed "it was long after May 6 when all of the Soviet troops were with drawn from Iran if they are actually out now." Ala made this statement onljr a few hours after sending the council a telegram from Pre mier Qavam of Iran stating that a commission had found no trace of Soviet troops and that local people in the regions of Azerbai jan visited by the commission told it the Russians left Azerbai jan on May 6. Ala's statement brought out a sharp difference between the ambassador and Iran's propagan da minister, Prince Firouz. Firouz yesterday said all Rus sian troops were out of Iran. He further stated that Ala's statement in New York Monday that Russian interference had not ceased was Ala's own views and not those of the Iranian government. House Group For Big Navy WASHINGTON, May 22 (JP) The house naval committee voted today to seek restoration to a pending navy appropriation bill of sufficient funds to pro vide a post-war navy of 1079 combatant ships. At a closed session, the com mittee decided to carry to the house floor tomorrow its fight to override the appropriations committee's recommendation for a fleet of 965 ships. The 1079-ship fleet is the size approved unanimously by the house late last year in legisla tion expressing the sentiments of congress with respect to the postwar navy. The senate has not acted on the house-passed bill. lota Urmia C AZERBAIJAN I I MaroglM .J.t.. L.J .UUMk INI UINU ninn IRAK M. r v SaltaniH I R A Q KURDISTAN S Radio Tabris reports Iranian government troops attacked Asarbaijan frontier posts at Bagchan, Mispah, Sourat and Zenjan (1) on Aierbaljan bor der, announcing Iranian offen sive toward Tabris (2). Other government troops attacked Kurdish positions on Kurdistan (3), according to radio reports. Iranian Crisis WEATHER NEWS stsr ss Mai. IM.r II) SI Hla. rrMltlUllta laal M kaira Straaat aar la sal . M .11.14 Naraial l la ss Lal rar la.ll r.rasaau uvareaai wna aaawara. i till) Number 10827 Bikini when an atomic bomb Is exploded by radio impulse some 18 to 180 feet beneath the sur face. July 1 Target Data The first test, an air-dropped bomb, is scheduled July 1: the second, as soon thereafter as pos- smie. The sub-surface bomb will be suspended in a bathysphere-like container hung beneath a barge, and will be detonated by radio Impulse from a ship 20 miles away. The bomb will be at least 18 feet below the surface, he said. Greatest depth of the la goon is 180 feet. Rear Adm. W. S. Parsons, Blandy's technical deputy, said the navy's scale-model test at the Carder Rock, Md., testing basin, demonstrated that an un derwater blast would prove much more effective against ships than an air-drop. Blandy said that all 77 target ships would be in Bikini for the first air-drop test; that all sur vivors would remain for the sec ond blast; and that any worth repairing, after that, would be towed back to Pearl Harbor. Independence Included Included in today's departing force were the battle-tested car rier Independence; four subma rines, the Detuna, farcne, Apa- gon and Pilotfish; the destroyers C. P. Cecil and Furse; and the transports Wharton and Kenneth Whiting. Already en route were four famed battlewagons the orange- painted target builseye, the Ne vada; and the Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and New York. The testa must be concluded by September, so that civilian scientists observing the results can return to their worK in the United States. Subsidy Halt Motion Fails WASHINGTON. May 22' UP) A motion to end all consumer price subsidies on food next July 1 was defeated, 11 to 7, by the senate banking committee today. Offered by Senator Capehart (R-Ind), it would have exempted other subsidies now paid on cop per, lead, zinc and rubber. Government subsidies to keep down retail prices now run in the neighborhood of $1,600,000, 000 a year, say members of the committee which is drafting a price control extension bill. The committee decided to meet again this afternoon in an effort to reach decisions on other proposals for reducing and even tually eliminating the subsidy payments. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) had ready an amendment to end the subsidies by Jan. 1 and to cut their amount for the last six months of this year to about half what OPA says is needed. The subsidies are paid on meat, flour, dairy products and some other commodities to hold down their price in the grocery store OPA figures that their removal would necessitate a rise of five to six cents a pound in the price of meat, for instance, and one cent for a loaf of bread. Norwegian Crash Takes Heavy Toll OSLO, Norway, May 22 (JP) Thirteen persons were killed to day in Norway's worst flying ac cident when a DNL (Norwegian Airline company) Junkers plane crashed into Oslo fjord soon after leaving for Nebu airfield near Oslo. The Swedish painter, Isaac Grunewald and the Norwegian author, Ronald Fangen were among the victims. City Planning Commission Suggests Vote On Metersi In an effort to put the widely disputed parking meter question before the people of Klamath Falls, the city planning commis sion last night voted to recom mend to the city council that the matter of installing the meters be placed on the ballot in the November election. There was no mention of a trial period for the meters in the recommendation, but the com mission expressed the opinion that it would favor installing them on a trial basis prior to placing the matter 6n the No vember ballot. At recent city council meet ings, suggestions have been of fered regarding a survey to show the feelings of the people on the subject, and a suggestion that the meters be placed on the November ballot found favor able comment from both those who oppose and those who favor the parking gadgets. Reds Accuse US Airmen Of Bombing MOSCOW, May 22 (P) Pra. da, communist party organ, said today in a dispatch from ita Vladivostok correspondent that American airmen flying Amerl can planes were fighting In) Manchuria on the side of tha Kuomintang (central govern ment) troops. The dispatch said : seven American planes had been shot down after they had bombed the people'i revolution ary (Chinese communist) army. (There has been no indication recently from China of any American-piloted planes operat ing over aiancnuria except aa transport! for American ob servers or peace teams of Arner lean, Chinese government and communist members. Both U. S. army and marine generals in China have denied repeatedly that American pilots were flying anything but peaceful missions.) The Pravda dispatch, which was dated May 18, was head lined "American bombers and fliers in personnel of Kuomin tang army. Pravda reported that after tha withdrawal of red army unita from Manchuria, fierce fighting broke out between the Kuomin tang army and the people' revolutionary army, American Armament ' "As has become known from authoritative sources," the arti cle said, "The Kuomintang army is armed with American guns, part of which have been cap tured as trophies by the people's) revolutionary army. "Greater shock was caused In the ranks of the people's revo lutionary army by the fact that the seven downed bombers which were bombing troops of the people's revolutionary army were found to be American. Th fliers were also Americans." The Soviet press and radio re ported today without comment that all Soviet troops had evacu ated Manchuria by May 3. , Izvestia, Soviet government or gan, published the news in Tass dispatch from Khabarovsk, which said: "In accordance with reports received from the staff of Mar shall Rodion Y. Malinovsky, tha evacuation of Soviet troops from Manchuria was fully completed on May 3. Thus the evacuation plan of Soviet troops from Man churia, which was announced at the end of March, was fulfilled enmpletely.J' - . i ,; . Charge Questioned SHANGHAI, May 22 UP) Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem Jr., today termed "very questionable" a Russian Tass news agency as sertion that American-piloted planes had been shot down over Manchuria while bombing Chi nese communist forces. Gillem, commander of U. S. forces in China, said he had ab solutely no information on the) Tass report. He recalled that an order that no American planes should fly north of Mukden had been issued after earlier com munist assertions that U. S. planes were active in Manchur ia. Russians Defer Troop Movement PRAGUE, May 22 (JP) It was announced today that the transit ' of Russian troops across Czecho slovakia to Germany had been delayed until after the Czecho slovak election Sunday An official announcement said the Russians "generously agreed to the delay after reaction here and abroad misinterpreted the motive." Yesterday jt was stated a nine-day movement of Soviet troops from south to north across Czechoslovakia had begun in order to carry out a readjust ment of red army occupation forces. 'The few troops already on Czechoslovak territory will ba rushed through before the elec tion," the announcement today said. MEASLES LEADS DISEASES PORTLAND, May 22 (JP) Measles continues to lead com. municable diseases in Oregon with 322 cases in the past week, the state board of health re ported today. There have been 3681 cases this year. Dealing entirely with traffia problems, the commission voted to recommend to the Klamath Merchants association that its members restudy the present loading zone set-up. The com mission's principle objection to the loading system is that tha 40-foot spaces alloted to loading; and unloading on main streets in the business district could ba used . to better advantage as parking areas. Since there ara alleys at the - rear of business houses, the commission feels that the rear entrances should be used, removing the delivery traffic from the main parking areas. ' A third recommendation sug gests to the traffic safety council that it study the possibility of placing one-hour parking re strictions on 7th opposite tha post office to eliminate all-day parking there.
