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Newspaper Page Textmil ibb m mi MfflH mm m mm ; . J : . j Bays Mews raiff By FRANK JENKINS A S nearly as can bo determined Jurt before Ihlit newspaper's pages cloae. Ins rail amice in on. (There has been no formal an nmincement, but trnlns are being cinrellrd and frrluht embargoes lniMrd In the Knnt, whose time li three hours ahead of us.) It aeemi a traitlc pity. Infla- tlnn I creeping up on us, like a tiller In the JiiukIo and the only cure for iufliitlvn In more pro duction. In an Industry luch an ours, heavily drpondent on IruniportMlion, nothing could Immatrlng production mora cf fevtlvely than a rait strike. Ahmit the only hopeful thuught If that the (hock of inch an event muy bring us to our iioiiki may cause u to realize Hint the Inflationary forces with which we are dallying can be a ilritructlve aa an atomic bomb II they are permitted to get loose. VESTERDAY t h Russian A newspaper Pravda (which Is a part of the Soviet govern mental system) asserted in a dis patch from Its Vladivostok cor- leMxmdem that American airmen flying American planes are fighting in Mnnchurla on the side of the Chungking Chinese government troops and agulnst the Chinese communists. The dispatch added that seven of these planes have been shot down after bombing communist troops, (Our army and marine author Itlea deny the report. They pay we have no tactical air force In China, that our only planes there are unarmed transports used in supplying our headquarters and thai NO U. S. planes have been reported missing, either in mina or Manchuria.) TODAY we learn from Wash' x Ington dispatches that Mos cow l.i till Interested In a bll lion-dollar American loan, and hu sent us a new nolo about It (The contents of the note are tmdinclosvd. Our officials In 'Washington let out qnly the. fact that tney and tho Russian have not been able to agree "on toplca to be included In the loan con versations. ) TT la obvloua from our stand' point that these "topics' SHOULD be: If we lend Russia a billion dollars, does It seem probable that she can and will repay tho loan? What does she want to do with the money? Will such a loan be likely to build up her economy so that he will becomo a good customer selling to us what sho pro duces and we want, and buying from us what we produce ana she wants? IF these questions can not be answered to our satisfaction, there should bo no loan. We should never lend money to ANYBODY Just because he may be sore If we don l. Any banker, any businessman, knows the folly of that. t THE big thing we'd like to know about Russia is this: Does she, or doesn't she, pro pose to Include communism among her exports? TF not, wo shall have no trouble with Russia because of her communistic form of govern- ' ment. All sensible Americans will concede unreservedly that tho kind of government Russl has is Russia's business, and not ours. If Russia DOES propose to ex port communism on a big scale, there can be little but trouble ahead. AT this point, an extremely In teresting and significant question arises: If Russia should undertake to export communism to the United States (smuggling It In over our borders, If need be), WHO among us would be her cus tomers? . IN vlow of what hn.i happened over much of Europe, the Biiswcr Is fairly plain: As of the present, the cus tomers of communism In Amer ica would bo radical nnd discon tented OUTS who would like to get IN In order to secure for themselves the perquisites and the privileges of rulcrshlp. The same answer goes for nazlsm, fascism or what have you In the form of one-party TOTALITARIAN government. ALL these "Isms," a they have worked out so far In practice, are RACKETS primarily de signed to secure for the FEW the llon'a shnrc of the cream, leaving for the MANY the skim . milk. Arriving In U. S. nr Tha AMienlalad Trail Rlrhard A. Irian, TS, Lakavlaw, arrlvlns on llenry railing duo In Seatlla May 14. Vf if -&V S. Sft WEATHER NEWS j PRICE riVE CENTS KF Gets Airline Pearl Harbor As Stimson Avers F.D.R. Studied Attack On Japs WASHINGTON. May 23 !) The congresslunul Pearl Harbor investigation ended toduy with a stuteinent by former Secretary of War Stimson that President Roosevelt "was undoubtedly considering" an attack on Japa nese forces threatening bauth Asia luto In 1041. but to his recollection. Stim son advised tho scnute-house In quiry committee In written re sponses to a series of questions submitted by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.), the late president never formally announced any decision jf this kind to top mili tary advisers. Nor would ho have acted without the consent of congress the former cabinet member added. Slimson'a answers went into the committee's record along with replies by former Secretary of State Hull to 109 additional questions, mostly about reputed ugrcemcnts with the British for parallel action before the Decem ber 7. 1D41 attark. Hull denied knowledge of any such agree ments. Also Included In the record, now closed to further evidence. Two Badly Hurt In Fight Here BULLETIN A knifing and shooting scrape at the Avalon Rooms, 9th and Walnut, at 2:15 this afternoon, sent two Klamath men to Klamath Valley hospital, both in a critical condition. City police, called to the rooms to Investigate "a drunk," found John "Tex" Alnsworth, 45, lying on the sidewalk at the side of the rooming house, a bullet wound through his ab domen. In the rooming house, on a bed, was Glenn Harris, 38. an 11-Inch cut In his abdomen. Both were rushed to the hos pital In an unconscious condi tion. Police reconstructed the knifing-shooting fray after, they questioned Rose Lapham, a waitress, who occupied a cabin In the rear of the Avalon Rooms where the fight started. She said the two were quarrel ing in a little lean-to adjoining the cabin but did not know the cause of the fight. Harris is said to have had a .22 calibre pistol In his hands, and Alns worth a long-bladcd knife. After the knifo was wielded and the shot fired, Harris is said to have gone into tho rooming house after Alnsworth had taken the gun from him. Harris reached tho bedroom, collapsing on the bed, leaving a trail of blood into the building. Alnsworth appar- Canllnu4 an Faia t. Column I) This picture, taken across Klamath rooftops from Seventh and residential district shade trees as they approach full leaf In the demonstrates that Klamath people have made a lot of headway tree-planting program, even while many of the fine old poplars march oi progress. KLAMATH Quiz Ends was a copy of the memoirs of I'rinco Konoye. Japanese pre mier whose cabinet fell in Octo ber, 1841. Konoye's Account By Konoye's account, he pressed peace negotiations with tho United States in good faith. However, the prince quoted For eign Minister Matsuoka of his second cabinet as expressing conviction in May, 1041, that President Roosevelt "was appar ently determined to enter the European war. Chairman Barkloy (D-Ky.) called the committee together today to receive these documents formally and to act on a sugges tion that it request an additional 30 days to complete its report. The current deadline set by con gress is June 1. The investiga tion began last November 15. The committee last March re ceived a 20,000-word statement from Stimson covering his recol lection of events preceding Pearl Harbor. In it, Stimson said the president's "war cabinet" leached the conclusion at a meeting November 28 10 days before Pearl Harbor that the United States should intervene with force if Japan moved against British or Dutch terri tory in South Asia. The so-called war cabinet was composed of Hull, Stinuon, Sec retary -of the Navy-Knox,-Gen. George C. Mnrshall, and Adm. Harold R. Stark. Answers in Writing Stimson, In ill health, did not appear before the committee in person, so Ferguson drafted 61 questions In the nature of a cross-examination. On the point of the November 28 meeting, the Michigan senator asked wheth er the war cabinet's advice was "accepted and did it become our government policy prior to the Pearl Harbor attack?" Stimson wroto in reply that "It has always been the fixed and permanent policy of the United States government to de fend itself and Its possessions." (The military view was that a southward Japanese movement would Hank the Philippine is lands.) Tojo Slapper Too III To Try TOKYO, May 23 (AP Shu- mel Okawa, war crimes defend ant who was rushed out of the courtroom because he gleefully slapped ex-Premier Tojo's bald head. Is too 111 to be tried. A medical board reported to day both Okawa and Yosuke Matsuoka, former foreign minis ter, arc sick and unable to stand trial. Okawa was reported suf fering from a brain disease. The tribunal ordered contin ued treatment for both men at an army hospital "until further ruling." l-tJB Klamath's Trees Break Into M1IJ.IM.WII,H,1IM tl I iie.it -lnf.-t V : .-rH- IT FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1946 CAB 0.I(:'S Local Stop For United The civil aeronautics board placed Klamath Falls on the main line system of United Air lines. The action, taken in Washing ton, D. C. makes Klamath a stop on United's route No. 11, as an Intermediate point. This will connect this city with metro politan centers north and south. This authority, according to the Associated Press, is subject to the restriction that Klamath Falls may not be serviced on the same flights with Mcdford. Bend Is also an intermediate point on the new United route No. 11. WASHINGTON. May 23 (IP) The Civil Aeronautics board to day authorized three new feeder airlines to provide improved local air service in caiuomia, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. West Coast Airlines was au thorized to operate between Mcdford and Portland, Ore., via Grants Pass, Roseburg, North Bend-Marshfield, Eugene, Al-bany-Corvallis and McMinnville, Ore.; between Portland and Se attle, via Kelso, Chehalis, Olym pia and .Tacoma: between Port land' arid Seattle via' Kelso', Wash., Astoria, Ore., Aberdeen Hoquiam, Olympia and Tacoma; between Seattle and Port Ange les, via Port Townsend and be tween Seattle and Bellingham via Everett, Mt. Vernon and Anacortes. The board also authorized American Airlines, Western Air Lines, and United Air Lines to inaugurate additional air service in the same area. The board granted temporary three-year certificates to South west Airways company of Bever ly Hills, Calif.; West Coast Air lines of Seattle, and Empire Air Lines of Lewiston, Idaho. The board granted Empire Air Lines authority to operate be tween Boise, Idaho and Spo kane, via Ontario, Baker, La Grande and Pendleton, Ore., Walla Walla, Lewiston-Clark-ston. Pullman -M osc ow and Coeur d' Alene. Idaho. The certificate of United Air Lines for route No. 1 was amended to include The Dalles, Ore., and Twin Falls, Idaho, as intermediate points, to permit direct service between Pendle ton and Seattle. House Approves Navy Fund Bill WASHINGTON. May 23 (IP) The house by voice vote today passed and sent to the senate a $4,639,718,000 appropriation bill for the navy for the fiscal year starting July 1. Leaf Lincoln streets, shows the city's spring of 1848, Incidentally, it In recent years In their new were .being sacrificed to the (Telephone Refugees Show Concentration Camp Brands Ci-:$.f' WW ff Mrs. Elsie Sprintrut (left), Fish (riqht) display tatooed serial numbers they received in Auschwiti concentration camp while in German custody. They were among the 867 refugees that arriTed in New York on the SS Marine Flasher from Bremerhaven. AP wirephoto. Strike Strands Trains In K,F. ' The ' national railroad strike (-spread through, the Klamath rail road yards and extended para lyzing effects through the Mid land empire this aiternoon. Train service suspension was scheduled at 4 p. m. today, and was expected to leave at least one passenger train and several freights tied up in the Southern Pacific and Great Northern yards here. Beyond the immedi ate effect upon train operations, the strike seemed certain to hit all phases of business and indus trial activity throughout the area, its seriousness depending upon the length of its continu ance. First passenger train due here after the strike goes into effect (Cantlnnaa an Fata S. Calamn t) Ship Baby Toll Mounts To Six NEW YORK, May 23 (PV The death toll of babies stricken ill aboard GI brideships mounted to six today when a five-month-old girl, in this country only four days, died in Pittsburgh. The child, Vivian Smith, ar rived here with her mother, Mrs. Howard Smith whose husband lives in Burbank, Calif., on the SS Brazil last Sunday. The death, which physicians diagnosed temporarily as acute diarrhea and malnutrition, was the first reported among the Brazil's passengers. Five infants who traveled on the brideship Zebulon Vance have died from a mysterious ail ment which struck them as they crossed the Atlantic. The ship docked here Monday after a 13-day voyage from Le Havre. Four deaths occurred at the Fort Hamilton hospital where 13 other babies originally were taken and one at Paris, 111. Robert Ball, nine-week-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ball. died Tuesday night at Paris of what the attending physician diagnosed as "malnutrition de veloping into pneumonia." One of the GI wives. Mrs. John Aliberti, formerly of Kecr bergen, Belgium, said cabins aboard the Vance were so crowded that "in the cabin in which I came over there were 18 women and 10 babies." Sliqht Injuries In Car Accident Mrs. Naomi Miller, 47, pas senger in a ear driven by Mrs. Rose Gray, 1021 Main, received a shakeup and slight injuries late yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Gray's 1936 Chevrolet se dan was struck by a car driven by Lyle Ellsworth Petty. Mrs. Gray reported to police thnt she was going south on Main and had stopped for a traffic light at 9th. While her car was standing still, she said, Petty'a vehicle crashed Into the rear. Approximately $150 dnmage resulted to Mrs. Gray a vehicle, Mar ts M. mar tt ...... mi. . rraelaltallaa U M kasra Unas tur to Sata It.M Narmal ISM Lut raar raraeaall Claatr with ahawari. 8111) Number 10828 her daughter, Rita, and Mosses Marine Barracks Up For Disposal PORTLAND. May 23 UP) The Klamath Falls Marine Bar racks, declared surplus by the navy, jvas in the hands of the war assest administration Port land office today for disposal. Wilbur Barnes, WAA official, said he telephoned State Budget Director George Aiken and ar ranged a Friday meeting here to discuss disposal. The barracks have been considered by the state board of higher education as a temporary veterans' college. Soviets Again Ask For Loan WASHINGTON, May 23 (IF) Government officials reported today Russia has informed the United States it still is interested in beginning negotiations look ing toward a $1,000-000,000 American loan. These officials told reporters a new Russian note was received over the weekend. The United States is preparing an answer, they said, the third to be sent to Russia on the subject. Although they declined to dis close the contents, of the Rus sian note, officials made known that the United States and the Soviet still have not been able to agree on topics to be included in loan conversations. American officials previously had disclosed that the United States had indicated a desire to examine economic conditions in eastern Europe, especially in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Russia's failure to reply until the past weekend aroused specu lation that Moscow had aban doned hope of getting Ameri can financial assistance. Exiled Premier Declares Spain Arms NEW YORK, May 23 (AP) Jose Giral, premier of the exiled Spanish republican government, told a United Nations sub-committee investigating Fr a n c o Spain today that the Franco re gime has told every Spaniard he could arm himself to defend Spa n "against an attack by Rus sia." , Giral, appearing before the United Nations security council sub-committee in its first public hearing in the month-long in quiry said that: "Two months ago the Franco regime decreed that every citi zen could arm himself to defend the fatherland against an attack by Russia." Answering committee ques tions concerning the armed forces of Spain, Giral said "it is difficult to set tho armed strongth since the whole popula tion is entitled under law to bo armed." Paul Hasluck, chairman of the sub-committee, had called atten tion to a voluminous report on Franco Spain submitted by Giral Trains Stop When Crews J Quit Posts NEW YORK, May 23 P All railroad train service out of New York was cancelled this afternoon when the S p jn. (4 p. m. EST) deadline for a nationwide strike of trainmen and conductori passed by without any notice of a postponement from Washing ion. Simultaneously about 100 trainmen and conductors left their trains in Pennsylvania station and headed for a union meeting la H nearby hotel. The Pennsylvania already had cancelled seven of its crack, through passenger trains. The Long Island railroad, dally carry ing some lau.uuu commuters in and out of New York, had sus pended all service, a half hour before the S p. m. deadline. Loudspeakers in Grand Cen tral terminal blared with an an nouncement scarcely heard above the din of a roaring, shoving throng that the New York Central had halted all service at 5:10 p. m. (EST). Earlier train crews had left passengers sitting in their seats at the Penn station at exactly 5 p. m. while the same thing was happening on a half dozen other roads which serve the New York City area. Nearly a million out-of-town commuters were left without means of traveling between their homes and work. Fifty extra policemen were called out to corral a shoving, sweating crowd estimated at 6000 straining at the gates in Grand Central terminal. Announcements over the loudspeaker system were drowned out by the shouting tumultous throng. Many climbed through open windows, fighting to board trains. "Presume Strike On" WASHINGTON. May 23 (IP) Presidential Secretary Charles Ross said today "I assume the (rail) strike is on, in comment ing to reporters on the railroad 4 p. m. walkout deadline set by 250,000 trainmen and engineers. The government quickly clamped' controls-over -non-rail transrjortation to carry essential food and mail. Airmen Refute Pravda Charge PEIPING, May 23 M5) Unit ed States army and marine corps leaders today firmly de nied a Moscow report that seven American planes piloted by Americans had been shot down in Manchuria while bombing Chinese communist forces. "The United States army had no tactical air force in China," Brig. Gen. Henry A. Byroade, director of the army executive headquarters here, asserted. 'The only planes the United States army has here are un armed transports which are used for logistic support of executive headquarters. "No American planes have been reported missing, either in China or Manchuria." Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, commander of U. S. marines in China, declared in a telephone interview "the marines have no planes in Manchuria." 'Canyon Passage' In Portland Premiere LOS ANGELES, May 23 (IP) The world premiere of the film ''Canyon Passage," based on the story by Portland Author Ernest Haycox, will be held in Port land July 10, the Walter Wanger studio said today. Against USSR in which the armed forces of Franco were set at 840,000. Giral said the 840,000 figure included colonial troops. The five committee members and Giral sat at the translator's table in the security council con ference r6om instead of at the horseshoe-shaped council table. Giral spoke in Spanish, one of the five official languages of the United Nations. English and French are the working lan guages. The sub-committee Is inquir ing into Poland's charges against Franco's regime which included the contention that refugee nazi scientists are conducting atomic research inside Spain. Giral said Spain was Import ing arms from other countries but he did not name them. He declared that Franco had 250,000 troops along the French border. However, he said, a cable today from unimpeachable sources said f ranco now is put ting many of them In civilian clothes and Is camouflaging gun emplacements in anticipation of visits by united Nations observers. Talks Seelc Mine Peace WASHINGTON, May 23 (IP) With more than a third of the soft coal miners idle despite government seizure of the mines, a White House confer ence sought today to work out a wage contract acceptable to both John L. Lewis and coal operators. Among the conferees at tha early . morning meeting . were Secretary of Interior Krug, fed eral mine boss; Secretary of La bor Schwellenbach; Dr. John R. Steelman, president Tru man's labor adviser, and Recon version Director John W. Sny. der. Vice Admiral Ben Moreell, Krug'a lieutenant as govern ment operator oi the pits, also joined the talks. Krug later arranged to meet Lewis and John J. O'Leary, ' United Mine Workers vice pres ident later, presumably to get their views on contract pro posals and to enlist Lewis' aid in keeping miners on the job. The picture was not rosy. The best that Krug could offer as government mine boss was a guarded "hope" that the end, of the current two-week truca Saturday would not plunge all the' pits back into idleness. The first 24 hours of govern, ment seizure produced discour aging results from the admin istration point of view. Thou sands of miners, who had gona back to work under the truce, quit their pits. This mass return to idleness closed down an additional 243 mines, increasing the number immobilized by the bituminous dispute to more than 2100 out of 4500 total. The latest feder al estimates are that more than a third of the 400,000 soft coal miners are now staying away from work. Chinese Back In Changchun MUKDEN, May 23 (AP)Tho government today announced that national troops formally re captured Changchun at 11 a. m. after having engaged 'commun ist remnants remaining in the city in sporadic fighting." 'The resistance soon was overcome," said the commun ique, from the headquarters of Gen. Tu L-ming, government commander of northeast China (Manchuria). ,It reported that advance ele ments of Gen. Cheng Tung-kuo'a new first army entered Chang chun, capital of Manchuria, at 7 a. m. Earlier government dispatches said communists were seen with, drawing from Changchun yester-. day, presumably headed for Yungki (Kirin) 60 miles to tha east. (Loss of Changchun was a sea vere blow to the communists,- but they claim they stiU control. directly or indirectly, six of .. Manchuria's nine provinces and-, more than half its population.) -In contrast to the mild sklr-; mishing which preceded Cheng's entry into Changchun today, the communists were forced to waga ; a stubborn, four-day battle to seize the city in mid-April from a far inferior government force, made up chiefly of ill-equipped volunteers. Although Tu on Tuesday had appealed to the communists, through General Marshall's truce commission at Nanking, to evacuate Changchun to prevent further destruction of the city, there was no immediate Indica tion why the reds had left. Vote Today Polls were opened at t o'clock this afternoon, Thurs day, at Fremont and Klamath Union high school, when bud gets of School Districts 1 and 2, and an improvement levy for District No. 1, were pre sented to the voting public. The polls will remain open at both schools until 7 p. m. Any legal voter who Is also a taxpayer In the district, may vote and the public if urged to participate. .