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fo) JV A price rive CENTS ENTS la Th Br FRANK JENKINS J TTIIK army give ua a fleeting hint loilny at whnt report rr for the AP rieacrlbe ui "horrendous" new weapon with which w may somcoiiy fiithl atom bomb carried either by rockets or by planes. The sketchy detail disclosed rem to Justify fully the use of "hnrrenilou" a descriptive adjective. a a ITS destructive power la bailed upon a Jet of molten metal, and a diaputrh from Washing ton tlila morninii, couched more or lea In Duck Roger lan guage, aaya: 'The Jet-firing mechanism la envisioned an airplane weapon. First It (the airplane) ...... .1.1 a v.... I In I. a guided by radar or drawn by electronic to It fkyborne enemy target (which, prcaum ably, would bo a rocket or Plane bearing an atom bomb.) Aa It cloard In, it would let go with dream of molten metal." Till molten metallic Jet, the rilapatch goe on, "would travel at audi a high apeed (maybe five mile PER SECOND) that It would go right through the armor plate of a plane flying an atom bomb or punch right through an ( atomic rocket, THE Idea I that an atom rocket, fooling along at mere 5,000 feet a aecond (a bullet travel at about 3,000 feet per aecond) would be caught up with by tills spurting fluah of molten metal whizzing - at 2.1,000 eel a second and POOFI That would be the end V of It. we ininK or ourselves, oi course, aa doing all this to our enemies, but we have to rcincm ber thut in the course of time our enemies would be doing it to us.) a a a TYE all fear world government " as we fear the plague, but in the face of terrora that science, Just now beginning to get Its stride, Is cooking up for us, world government may come to seem by comparison almost coiy. ( ( SPEAKING of old-fashioned terrors, there was a cyclone yesterday In the general area of Detroit and Windsor, which Is lust across the line in Can. ada. An eyewitness describes it thus: "It seemed to have electricity In the center of It. It wasn't blnck, the wny some people have described It. It was gray shaped like a cone, with the tip pointed toward the earth "It seemed to bounce along and every time tho tip of the cone touched the earth there was a rush of smoke. It seemed to pick or suck a house up and tear It to bits, dropping the pieces of wood and debris all over tho country. "Outside tho cone, It seemed iu uc mim, wiiiuii iiinuu mc cone In tho center looK some thing like a flashlight. As it picked up a house, it looked like there was going to bo a fire, and then a terrific wind seemed to smother the fire, TN the olden, golden days of tho dcur, dead past, a cyclone such as that would have seemed, even when merely read about, a horriblo nightmare Now it is almost comforting to hear of something of that sort that Isn't man-mado and primed for wur. a a a A FTER all these Jittery tcr "rors, we'd better solace our selves a little and as a solace nothing Is better than a good, nearly gripe. Along the gripe lino, Senator Wiley (Republican, from Wis consin) culls in tiie reporters in Washington and tells them with tooth -gritting emphasis that disposal of surplus gov ernment (war) properly by the War Assets administration 1 a national disgrace . . , that Is crying to high heaven for full exposure and immediate cor rection." VVITII tho country screaming " for goods' and Inflation creeping up on us Ilka a hungry tiger because of tho lock of them, it Js something of a scandal that government ware houses from tho Atlantic to the Pacific aro bulging with goods that because of red tapo and unworkablo legislation can't be sold. It soems probable that this flood will get to tho mor kets Just about tho timo industry wings into full production. Still, a lot of pcoplo want government to DO , EVERY THING. I Tornado Dav's lews :.r.;.v..........:.::.-. l-t KLAMATH Swerving 1 -.,Calia2j,prr ."'; ",v!t- ST-JK.-'-T.' r: The chain held when this load of logs rlppsd off a trailer at tha Oregon and Biahn Inter section at noon today, but tha trailer baam was wranchad in two and th alght-whaalad trailer tipped oar. Th log truck was driven by Hanry Junior Landers, 2S10 Altamont, who told police that anothar car cut across In front of hi truck a It was making tha turn on Biahn, and It was either ditch his load or hit tha other car. Th cab of tha truck laanad over as tha haaTy load tippad, but lighted iuali aa tha beam snapped. -. i . Circuit Court Frees Robson After a day and a half In court, during which thrco special Jury panels were summoned, the case against Arthur Corden Rob- son for larceny of an automobile was dismissed shortly after testimony had started in circuit court this morning. Judge David it. vandenberg, in dismissing the case, ruled thai tho Indictment under which Kob- son was being held was faulty in that the car In question was stolen in Washington. The Indictment, he said, would be good for a car stolen in Klam ath county, Tho car, properly of Kenneth Damand of Everett, Wash., was allegedly stolen in Seattle and driven by Kobson from Ft. Lewis to Klamath Falls. Robson, IB, was picked ud here In possession of tho stolen vehlclo and for AWOL last April. Judge Vandonberg. In questioning the charge, held that nothing In the indictment gave Jurisdiction to this court and also (lanuitNaa an rata a, caluma 41 Butter, Cheese Hiked By OPA Butter and cheese prices were up In Klamath Falls todav. fol lowing an OPA authorization for higher ceilings. Retail price of butter went up ll cents, and the wholesale price 10 cents. The now retail price In most stores was 67 cents. Cheese prices went up 3 cents wnoicsaie ana a cents retail. The increases followed a boost In milk prices allowed by OPA a few days ago. Dairymen said that the dairy price boosts will eventually do reflected in a more stable condition In the lo cal dairy industry, which has been badly hit by price ceilings on Its products and high prices on icca. Jap Witness Upsets Trial TOKYO, June 18 Ml A Jap anese professor, called as a prosecution witness In the Inter national trial of warlord Hidcki Tojo and 27 others, gavo the "wrong" answers todav and ud- set proceedings. Expected to testify that Ja pan's warmakcrs used the na tion's schools to whip young men Into aggressive fanaticism, Prof. Tnklomi Kaigo declared on the stand that military training orig inally nncl only peaceful pur poses. When questioning failed to elicit anticipated answers, As sistant Prosecutor Valentine Hammack asked for permission to Impeach tho testimony of his own witness. Later he withdrew the request, I FALLS. OREGON, TU';"L"t weeps Truck Dumps Logs on 'l si "aaSiaVT- -V TfV 'Vla j5f Pine Wage Raises Winning Approval First reports of ratifications of recent agreements on pine wage Increases in this area indicate the 5-cents-on-hour boost for both AFL and CIO workers will soon become effective. At Weed, both the employers and the- AFL employes have con curred in the wage boost in the AFL negotiated agreement for the Long-Bell operations. Other AFL ratifications are believed forthcoming. All employers operating plants where the CIO is tho bargain ing agent have okayed the agree ment recommended by negoti ators. CIO union balloting is now under woy, and results will be known on or before June 24, It Is expected. Chinese Reds Say Hope Dims NANKING. Juno 18 (IP) A Chinese communist spokesman charged today the government had dimmed hopes for peace by demanding that the communists yield a number of strongholds in North China, including all the coastline of strategic Shan tung province. The spokesman said the gov ernment memorandum was handed to General Marshall. spoclul U. S. envoy, who turned It over "without comment" to Gen. Chou En-lai, chief com munist negotiator. ihe government s new pro posal, reportedly laid down as the Pi ce of peace, was de scribed by communist sources as most unsatisfactory." Other than Shnntunc. wheiV the communists hove been clos ing in on tho Brent 1). S. mi. line-held port of Tslngtno, the areas to bo given up were not detailed by the spokesman. He said they embraced "sev eral provinces' north of the Yellow-river involving several of the communist's most Impor tant positions outside Manchur ia. (Yenan, communist capital, lies north of the river.) . Cruiser Louisville On Inactive List PHILADELPHIA. Jiinn IS (an The heavy cruiser Louisville, whose guns set naval gunfire records throughout tho Purine Joined the retired list todav, bo coming a member of the Phila delphia group of the 18th fleet. Decommissioning and Inocti vation ceremonies at tho Phlln. dclphla novol base marked tho ena or a io-yenr career for the 10,000-ton Northamnton clnss crujscr which supported nearly every major amphibious opera tion In the allied conquest of me japanesc-noict pacific Islands. Eli, 1848 (TUpbona 1111) Sidewalk U. S. Abstains From U.N. Vote NEW YORK, June 18 OP) Herschel V. Johnson, acting United States delegate, told the United Nations security council today he would abstain from voting on a British proposal to send the Spanish case to the general assembly without rec ommendations. Johnson said that ho umniri have been able to support the BULLETIN NEW YORK, Jun 18 A) Soviet Russia today invoked th raio on a resolution back ed by a majority of th mem bars of th United Nations se curity council which would hav nt th Spanish ques tion to th. general assembly for its action. British proposal if it had hoon put forward before the United States committed itself by offer ing a compromise plan for dis posing of tho case in the council Sir Alexander Cadogan, Brit ish delegate, yesterdoy proposed that the report of a subcommit tee which invtstieateri Snaln and recommended a break in relations with Spain be sent to me Hsscmoiy without the recom mendations. Johnson, speaking when the council resumed debate on the Spanish cose, said he had al ready macie it clear he would back the United States com promise put forward by Dr Herbert V. Evatt of Australia This would send the case to the assembly with a recommenda- uon enncr lor a break in rela tions by the United Nations wun opain or whatever action the assembly deems best at that time. Johnson said he felt that the Evatt resolution was the "most appropriate" action the council could take. The United States representative was said to have naa a large part in framing the compromise proposal now be fore the council. Bonanza School Lets Contract Contract for additional con struction on the Bonanza school plant was let late yesterday by the county school board to Lek bcrg and Duncan, and work will proceed immediately, it was an nounced today by County Super intendent Fred Peterson. The contractors will work on a cost plus basis. Somo time ago, when bids were submitted to tile board, all were rejected as too high. The lob will Include eight ad ditional classrooms for elemen tary instruction and completion of the high school gymnasium. ?nCr ""raj j WEATHER NEWS Jasa , III Mai. Ulna 17) a Mia. , . " Fraalallallaaj laal It atraana Mr la lata a Naraal II. 1 Laal jraar ........ ll.aa Faraaaall Claar Ua'af, laalfkl, til. aaaSar. Mumbal 10(49 Canada Also Ravaged By Freak Blow DETROIT, June 18 UP) A freak June tornado struck viciously Monday night Into southern Michigan and adjacent Ontario, Canada, and left be hind today a death toll of at least 17 and more than 100 injured. Searching parties hunted through a one -hundred foot path of devastation in Canada for possible additional victims. The identified dead totaled 13, but hospitals in the Windsor area reported at least "seven or eight" other victims critically injured and near death. River Rouge, Mich., a Detroit suburb and home of the huge Ford Motor company Rouge piani, sustained ine Iirst shock of the tornado shortly after 6 p. m., but tiny Sandwich, Ont., bore the full furv of the blast. Property damage was expect ed to .run Into the millions of aouar. Hundred Homalaii Hundreds of persons were homeless as the wind toppled their homes like so many straws. Business establishments were wrecked, autos tossed about like playthings and bodies of the victims were buffeted as the tornado reached its zenith. It zoomed across the Detroit river, the suction of the tornado creating four huee wstannnnii Coast guardsmen said that as iar as tney knew, no boats had been damaged by the huge freak .of nature.... The terrifying 'funnel, estJ- iiimicu variously ai irom 20 to 100 feet at its base, sucked nearly everything in a 100-yard swath into iu fatal grip. Sandwich West, Sandwich East and the outskirts of Windsor were the Canadian communities which recoiled under the full blast of the tornado before it headed for Lake St. Clair, where the weather bureau said it dissi pated. OPA Boosts Tire Prices WASHINGTON, June 18 MP) OPA today authorized an imme- uiHie increase or 3.3 per cent in retail ceiling prices for passen ger car tires. The same percentage increase, granted to offset producers' high er wage and materials costs, also was granted to manufactur ers and wholesalers. It also ap plies to motorcycle tires. The new retail ceiling for the popular size 6.00-18 4-ply pas senger tire, which OPA said rep- iv per cem oi all passen ger tire sales, is $15.70 on a notionwide basis. This is an in crease of 50 cents. The higher prices apply only to tires sold for replacement pur poses. Last week OPA granted manufacturers an increase on tires for new cars, but auto makers were not permitted to pass this on to the public in higher prices for new cars. Under today's order manufac turers' and wholesalers' ceilings for truck, bus and industrial re placement tires are increased by the equivalent of 1.4 per cent of exisUng retail ceilings. Area Jet With Speed Of 5 Miles Per Second Revealed WASHINGTON. June IB IP The army lifted the edge of a blueprint briefly today to dis close a fantastic weapon that may develop into a defense against atomic rockets or ar mored space ships laden with A-bombs. , It is a jet of molten metal which has an initial velocity of almost five miles a second. Although still in the research and planning stages, the possi bility of the horrendous new weapon has experts in the army ordnance department enthusi astic. They conclude that adapt ing it to a robot anti-atomic sky defense is going to require a bit of doing, however. The first hint of the molten Jet was dropped in a dully worded war department -announcement (with Einsteln-lsh overtones) which reported that postwar research of the ord nance arm is gradually outmod ing many standard weapons used in the World War of a year ago. Von Papen Unfolds Tale Of AniUNazi Intrigues NUERNBERG, Germany, June 18 lH) Franz von Papen told the international military inounai foaav inai one nr h a aides was slain by the German secret police after the aide helped him assemble records in Austria for export to sanctuary in owiuvnina, The gray old German diplo mat said me murder occurred in February of 1038 when Von Papen was ambassador to Aus tria, a short time before Adolf timer absorbed Austria in the Anschluss. He said the aide's body was found three weeks afterwards in the Danube. Von Papen said he was so con cerned over Hitler's aggressive intentions toward Austria that he violated a rule of diplomacy by shipping his records to Swit zerland to show that he was not a party to the nazi plot. Von Papen said Hermann Goering later reproached him with an accusation of perfidy. He interpolated to assert that none of these defendants can say I ever was a nazi." Both Von Papen and Goering are Portland Dock Walkout Ends PORTLAND, Ore., June 18 OP) Portland harbor returned to normal today as CIO Marine Cargo Checkers and Supercar goes accepted employers' assur ance that the wage increase ne gotiated in Washington last Fri day night applied to them. California checkers were named specifically for 'the pay boost but the Portland group was not and all CIO maritime unions here refused to return to work until the checkers vim assured of inclusion. Late yesterday the local com mittee for maritime unity re ported its satisfaction with th employers' assurance and R. J Olf checkers' president, said his union accepted It at a meeting early today. While settlement was await ed, only famine relief uhpI. were worked. Cowboy Group OK's Rodeo. V Last night's rodeo meetin- saw official sanction given the show by the Cowboys' Turtle association,' which will mean that all professionals mav nnm. pete here with full credit. Other developments . in the' coming celebration included the mring oi jimmy -uixon, from San Bernardino, and his mule to act as clowns, and the en. gagement of Mr. Wicklund, from the Kem Advertising com pany of Portland, to decorate ine cny streets lor the occasion Merchants are urged bv tho committee to decorate their windows in a fitting fashion for the rodeo celebration, and to enter floats in the hn Ymrtu of July parade to be held at the shows opening. Merchants wish-1 ing to donate prizes for parade events should contact E. P. (Pat) Ivory, in champ nf n n.,.j.. and grand entries. Charley Read, of Read's Sad dlery, has donated or,M oj silver mounted belt buckle set to the winner of the calf-roping event and Fraser's Market will .Ji'j5 ,$5 each dav to the fourth-place winner in the cow pony race. Committee Named Percy Murray. Ed rra,i,fnrj and Jess Johnson, of the fair board, and Fred Pnn r.t tv, county court, have been named as grounds committee, and are making preparations to put the fairgrounds in shape for the S .c;...AJcordjng 10 officials, (Cantlnma an ri. . c.l.m, J) ' President Nominates Judge For California WASHINGTON, June 18 F) President Truman today nomi noted George B. Harris to be a federal district judge for north ern California. This is a new position. As Possible Atomic Defense MaJ. Gen. Everett S. Hughes, chief of ordnance, is of the opinion the high explosive bul lets and projectiles that fighter pilots pumped into enemy air craft probably will be replaced in a few years by the new high speed metallic Jet, traveling at an initiial velocity of 25,000 fee1 a second. This molten metallic jet comparable in a way to what jumps out of a tooth paste tube when squeezed, a patient ord nance spokesman explained would travel at such a high speed that it couldn't be detected. That is, it would go right through the armor plate of u plane flying an atomic bomb. Or it could punch an atomic rocket right on the nose. If the jet travels at 25,000 feet a second and that speed is known to be possible its spurting flash of molten metal could catch up with a V-2, for it travels at only SOOO feet a second. A bullet lags at 3000 among the 22 ranking German on trial as war criminals. Attorneys for tha former chancellor and ambassador pre sented to the tribunal docu ments which they said linked Von Papen with peace feelers extended to the United States by way of Turkey in April of The documents contpndod that Von Papen, a German dlp- luinai ior inree decades, worked with George H. Earle, former fiovernor of Pennsylvania and ater assistant U .S. naval and air attache in Turkey, for a ne gotiated peace with the United States and other allied powers. Baron Kurt von Lersner, for mer president of the German peace delegation at Versailles, sent a statement to the tribunal describing his personal effort to end the war, and adding: "When in April, 1944, the op portunity presented itself to me to establish contact with George Earle, former American ambas sador in Vienna and Sofia, and a friend of President Roosevelt with whom I had already been personally acquainted for a long time, Vu,. Papen helped me in every possible way." A statement also was offered by Count Gottfriend von Bis marck Schoenhausen, describ ing a conversation with Von Papen on November 23, 1943, in which the prospects for a "change in government for Ger many and peace negotiations were discussed." Another statement said the plotters against Hitler in the July, 1944, attempt on his life nad planned to ask Von Papen to open peace talks with the al lies if the plot succeeded. Proxy Delays Draft Accord WASHINGTON. June 18 UP) Lawmakers caught in the teen age draft snarl looked today to a colleague en route to the atomic bomb tests for a way out of the tangle. He is Rep. Walter G. Andrews (R-N. Y.), a member of the dead locked senate-house conference committee assigned the task of BULLETIN ABOARD U. S. PAN AM INT EN ROUTE BIKINI, Jun 18 (Pi Rap, Andrews (R-N.Y.) said today hr bad radioed to' Washington hi proxy approv ing a moratorium on . tha drafting of 18-yaar-olds. writing a compromise . bill to keep selective service alive after July 1. Andrews was reported some where in the Pacific yesterday when the conferees failed for a second time to reach agreement At issue was whether and how to draft 18 and 19 year olds, now exempt from induction un der the expiring stop-gap exten sion act Members said Andrews left behind a proxy vote calling for restoring tnese two age brackets to the draft rolls without re strictions. The conference session . was recessed until Thursday to per mit an exchange of messages oeiween wasnineton and the Bi kini-bound Andrews. Both sides aereeH there ic slight chance that any 18 year olds would be drafted because by October 1 a large group of yuuins now 10 will reach la. Incumbents Back On School Board In extremely light voting, Jack Schulze ad Howard Ran. hisel were returned without op position yesterday to positions on scnooi ooard wo. 1, the Klam ath Falls elementarv riistriet Schulze received 38 votes for ine live-year position he sought, and Barnhisel was given 36 votes for the two-year term. Returns had not been received this afternoon at the county school office on the county dis trict election, which involved a budget as well as the selection of candidates for four positions. All filed candidates were unop posed. feet a second. Sound drags along at 1120 feet a second. Col. Leslie E. Simon, director of the ordnance department's ballistic research laboratory at the Aberdeen proving ground in Maryland, said rapid strides are expected in the immediate fu ture toward an understanding of the possibilities of "high speed metallic jets produced by shaped charges." "It can be logically antici pated," he said, "that with fur ther understanding of shaped charge phenomena, and with larger models it may be possible to overcome what now appear to be formidable difficulties in the attack of heavily armored guided missiles and high speed aircraft." ' The jet-firing mechanism Is envisioned as an airplane weapon. First it would hurl out a rocket to be guided by radar or drawn by electronics to its skyborne enemy target. As it closed in, it would let go with a stream of molten metal. 4 British Said Held -In Hostage : JERUSALEM, June 18 m-L A reliable informant aaiH fnnr British officer were kidnaped today from an officer club at Tel Aviv by a dozen Jewish ex tremists armed with tommy, guns. The new outbreak of terrorw Ism spreading throughout Pales tine came after a wild night in Haifa when nine Jews wer killed In a pitched battle after they attacked the central rail road shops. The deaths during gunfire and 15 explosions at tha railway yards raised the toll in recent days to 18 deaths. The informant reporting the kidnaping at Tel Aviv said the bandits were believed to be member of the Jewish ex tremist organization, Irgun Zvai Leumi. The British officers were believed seized as hostage against the impending execution of two Irgun members, sen tenced to death last week for participating in a raid last March on a British army camp. Taken for Rid The dozen terrorists raided the Hotel Yarkon, which has been a leading officers club in Tel Aviv for several years. Their victims were blindfolded and forced into taxicabs, the in formant said. , The underground Jewish ra dio said at the weekend some countermeasure would be taken against the death sentences Im posed on the Irgun member' by a military court in Jerusalem., While the battle of the Haifa rail yards proceeded last night, two unsuccessful attempts were made to bomb trains and halt them. Palestine police said the en gineer of a train between Haifa and Lydda ignored a red flag waved on the tracks two miles north of Lydda. Shots rattled around the cars but no casual tie were sustained. Min Exploded Other reports said a land mine exploded near Khanyuniff, between Gaza and the Egyptian border frontier In the south, just after an oil train passed. Re ports said the rails were re paired and service on the Lydda Kanatara main line to Egynt was not interrupted. Latest advises from Haifa said the railway shops-and a power, house were destroyed last night. A locomotive was ruined. Po lice continued to Cordon off tho area of the battle. The raiders set off 15 ex plosions in the rail varri escaped over heavily mined roads. The, official .nn.,,... a said five persons, including two wT?n'iere injured seriously nnti that 1 A n i J . mcu mm woman were arrested. Five of the Jews were killed when a civilian truck rushed a road block in the Haifa ho. area. No casualties were r ported among British army per sonnel. 6. Stephenson Dies Of Fever : LAKEVIEW, Ore., June 18--George Stephenson, 70, widely known Lakeview lumberman, succumbed here yesterday to an attack of Rocky Mountain spot ted fever. Mr. Stevenson had spent the last two or three months in the John Day country and is be lieved to have received an in sect bite there causing the ill ness. Born in Maine, George Steph enson engaged in the lumber business there and in Michigan before coming to Oregon 40 years ago. He was an old-time timber cruiser, and in his 22 years in Lake county was a timber tract operator and owner. He managed the large Dusenberry tract for many years, selling to the Lakeview Logging company about two years ago. He is survived by the widow and one son, Robert. The funeral services will be held at the Elks lodge at 2 p. m. Thursday, with Rev. H. N. Tragitt in charge. . Fritz Kreisler Reported Better NEW YORK. June 18 (JPI- The condition of Fritz Kreisler, 71-year-old violinist, was re- orted very good today at a ospital where he underwent an emergency appendectomy Sun day night. He was first reported m criti cal condition after the operation disclosed local peritonitis. Reluctant Candidate"; Elected In Roseburg ROSEBURG. Ore., June 18 (JP) Despite his broadcast appeal to the voters to cast their ballots for either of his two opponents. James Mess, a reluctant candi date, was chosen school director of the Roseburg district at yes terday's election, in which only 230 votes were cast. Mess, for mer president of the Roseburg chamber of commerce, received 132 votes or 37 more than the combined totals for th twp other candidates, ,
