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Newspaper Page Texttern wm MM u In Tfw . Hay's Jews By FJlANK JENKINS DIIKSIDKNT TRUMAN tll - morning sign me uuii'uinviifc jndcr which wo tincuiilnu by .hut tho'laxpaycr iif the United stiilcsr aire to lend llrlliiin 31 illllnn dollar, tu be repaid by '.In- yce 2001. The ItrltUh cun begin to draw an thcr rtioncy Immediately, t . TUB President, In n lutement feinted Immediately utter IiiK the u(rromcnt, miyii the loun icrvc tho Inimodlulo us well an (hp Inijgitlmc Interests of tho United Stale "by helping to rralnre wmld trade." add Hint It. "nublc Great llrlliiin to co-obct'ale In crcutlng n pnl l.rn lf mutually beneficial economic 'relation among tho iiutliiniiiur the world." THOSE ro carefully cliocn wnnlii that In themselves menu Itltln it most of us. Wlmt ho litcnim U that the loan will muli In flirltnln to lli'l bnt'K on hrr feet q thut ho can nguln do buaiinVs with u In a big way 1 HIS lutemcit uggesl clearly Hint with the world dividing n l Into two arilngnnUtlc system communism I aim irro t-nii-i-prlw. we of America are going to NF.F.U tho trade of the free miiTonae nurl of tho world, of which, next af ter u, Uritaln In the lenrler. Ho EMPHASIZES that the loan aiireement between u and the liritlnh 'ls imt directed aitalniit ANY OTHER COUN TKY." and add.: .'The system u( trade we seek it 0en on the Hine fair terma to all tho United Nations." Little reading between the line I required to understand that he I referring to Russia which In the leadm of- Hie com munlaltc system. What lie nicun lit that If Hula'l willlnil to do hushim with u IN OVH WAY there ut nothing In the British loan agreement to binder tucli relation. ' THE point la , that Russia DOKSN'T do buliie In nirr wav. All builnc with Hula inuil be done with tho RUSSIAN STATE. lntcU or witn in dividual. a l tlio free enter prise way. t THIS thoiiult, of courne, wan uppermost In the mind of the ) member of emigres when they t voted, with a campaign coming "!1 up, they would much rather J have voted AGAINST the British loan, which l not popular i among the general run of Amer ican taxpayer.! Only the logic of the iltuation that I, the obvlou necessity to alrengthcn that part of the world that doe buinca OUK WHy Influenced the acnale and the house to approve the loan, which isn't n good vote-gctlor In a campaign year. , THE British loan br unpopular for the simple rcnuon thut the British fulled In pay their World War I debt. Unfortunately, Ihe reason why they failed to puy la not no sluice. It Involve In ternational economic, -which I a complicated subject. , Tlio British didn't pay their Wj.rlI Wnr I rleht heenuse thrv COULDN'T pay. We refused t accept PAYMENT IN GOODS, which Is tho only way nation can pay their debt. Our Idea then whs to SELL ALWAYS and HUY NEVEK. You can't do business Hint way. Business is TRADE. Unless there is TRADE It units down. What Is buck of the present loan agreement Is the purpose lo enablo tho British to '1 HADE with us. By trading will) us, they can pay their debt. IT Is really too bud thut sub jects such as this arc us dull us dishwater to tho average citizen. Wo cun understand twisting - the British lion's tail. There is DRAMA in that. We cun under ' stand the demagogue who bents his breast und shouts: "Why should we loun more money to these Britishers who welshed on their debts to us after the lust war?" PERHAPS we can understand thut In the present situation In tho world we HAVE to stand back of the nations Hint do bus iness in OUR wuy. Either that or we shall have to do business Russia way. When you do business on tho other fellow's terms, you arc lit a distinct dls advantage. That is tho nub of this present situation. Hughes Keeps Up Battle For Life LOS ANGELES, July 15 (A') Ills temperature and pulse still above normnl, Howard Hughes remained In critical condition this morning In Good Samarl tnn hospital, whore tho famous plane builder was taken a week ago yesterday after crushing his, experimental photographic plane. A bulletin Issued by Hughes' physicians gave his temperature as 101 Mi and said his pulse was running between 120 and 140. Breathing continued pninful and laborious, but Hughes had Just ended three hours of restful Bleep, tho bulletin snld. Last night Dr. Verne Mason said ho ' wn optimistic over Hughes' chances for complete recovery, British Loan Bill Signed By Truman WASHINGTON. July 15 Pi President Truman today signed tho :i,7!0, 01)0.000 British loan agreement, terming it a niujor Nlep to carry out a program "lor reviewing and expanding International trade." The loan, Mr. Truman said In a statement, servos the Im mediate as well as Inng-llme interests of the United Stales, "by helping to restore world trade." At the same time, ho added, It enable Great Britain to "co operate In creating a pattern of mutually beneficial economic relation uuiung Hie nation of the world." "It goe fur to remove the danger of rival and nntngoni tlc economic blocs," the presi dent continued. Not Against Othtrt He emphasized that the agreement between the two countries I not directed "against any other country," adding: "The system of trade we seek I open on the same fair term to alt tho United Nation." Mr. Truman signed the meas ure at a ceremony attended by a large group of notables, In eluding Lord Invcrchapel, the British ambassador; Secretary of Slate Byrnes, Chief Justice Vinson, Treasury Secretury Sny der and member of both pollt Icul pur tics from Capitol Hill. The president used 20 pens In signing tho measure, hand ing them out to his visitors as souvenirs of tho historic occa sion. Todd Jurymen To View Scene A visit to the Pacific Fruit Express Ice dock office where Ron Simmers was killed lust January 23 was the first busi lies on the agenda of the cir cuit court Jury which I hearing Ihe voluntary manslaughter case of Clyde Edward, Todd tin HI -! IIUllll, 1 ho Jury was rapidly selected Monday morning and sworn in at 11:30. The 12 inn, warn nr.. ccpted from the regular Jury niiiei, niinniiKn court olllclals iad anticipated having to poll .special panels. In his opening statement to the Jury, Prosecutor Clarence A. Humble described the small, narrow ice dock office and drew a word picture of Hie "horse play" shooting for which Todd was charged with voluntary manslaughter. Humble said that the state did not Intend to show any pre meditation on the part of Todd, but that the shooting was a vol untary act brought on by the provocation of Hie brief, plavful scuffle between Todd and Sim mers. Todd was a Southern Pa cific special officer, on duly and armed, and Simmer was a Fruit Express company em ploye. In the defense's opening statement, J. C. O'Neill said thut ho believed the evidence would not show Hint Simmers wn kllied "feloniously and vol untarily" as alleged In the In dictment. He indicated that Todd' defense would be that Ihe shot was fired accidentally. Members of Ihe Jury hearing tho case arc William Metier, Charles Rend, Mike Ziipnn, Leo N. Huls, A. C. Edsnll, Pnl Quln Inn, John B. Lemlrc, Ivnn Otto mini, Estln Bnlsiger, Floyd B. Pally, Hugh D. O'Connor and M K. Lucas. Treasury To Call U. S. Securities WASHINGTON, July 15 UP) Tho trensury announced today It would redeem with cash an other $1,250,000,000 of public debt securities maturing Aug ust 1, Tho money for this debt re duction will come out of the treasury's big Idle cash balance, listed todny ut over $12,2B1, 700,000, since the government la still operating in the red. The announcement brought lo nearly $13,500,000,000 the debt retirement accomplished or projected since March 1. The total federal debt stood today at $208,234,683,240. Jap Soldier Unfolds Tale Of Balloon TOKYO, July 19 (!') A Jap anese repatriate from Man churia asserted today that at tho end of the war Japan was preparing to invade tho United Stnlcs from Manchuria with balloon brigades ferried across tho Pacific In man-carrying free balloons. Lance Cpl. Isamu Takagi, who said he was captured by the Russian army and escaped, told the story to Kyodo News agency, adding that the man currying balloons, similar to tho explosive carriers which wcro launched In great num bers, were perfected too late for use. ..:-..r &;a: : z : PRICE ri' "tXv 1-CS- KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY. JULY IS. 1946 (Telephone gill) Number 10871 ' : imese IBani Miiiids ferities . : . Tunnel Open Again After Train Wreck The Dorrls Southern Pacific tunnel was cleared and okayed foi pussuge at 4:35 a. m. Sun day and today freight and pas senger trains are gradually catching up with their normnl schedules through Klamath runs. All of the 15 cars which were caught in the tunnel in Friday morning's cuvc-in and derail ment were gotten out several hour before the tunnel was de clared safe, but the passage was checked closely before any traffic was allowed to go through. The mishap threw out of Joint all the railroad' schedules through here, and trums were lule last night and today be cause of the delay In getting equipment back to Oaklund to begin runs. The passenger trains should be buck on schedule by tonight, SP officials suy. As many os 150 workers at a time were busy from shortly after the accident until the tun nel was cleared, on the Job 12 hour auid off 12 hours. Workers Mobilised Section gangs, car men and muinle.iancc crews were brought to the tunnel from Klamath, Dorris and Ml. Hebron. A 50 man tunnel gung was brought over fiom the Siskiyou line be low Ashlund and one crane cume from hero and another from Dunsmuir. The SP had cranes hauling damaged cars out of both ends of the tunnel. Officials of the road from as fur away a Son Francisco came up to look over the clearance work. Included In the 15 cars trapped In the cave-In were the two car "loaded with pontoons which caused the accident, two of sugar, one of coffee, two of petroleum products, four of gov ernment medicul equipment, one of Gerbcr's baby foods and canned goods, one of automo bile tires and two of general freight. The sugar, coffeo and medical equipment was most heavily damaged, but all the cars were badly battered. Contents of severnl of the enrs had to be re loaded onto other curs here for further movement. Child Wounded By Stray Shot A bullet which ricocheted from a rock struck Arthur Meeker, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Meeker of Dairy, lute Sunday afternoon and sent the child to Klamath Valley hospital with a wound In the left arm, The boy's father said a group had gone into the field near the Meeker ranch and was tnrgcl shooting and hunting Jnckrab bits when one of the men aimed his rifle nt a rabbit, the bullet glancing from a rock hitting Arthur, who was'stnnding near by. The bullet entered the left arm at the elbow passing com pletely through the flesh. It is thought the upper arm bone is damaged. In the party were Meeker and Arthur, Joe Meeker of Midland and his son Dick, aged 14, and Roy Wilson. The force of the bullet fulled to knock the child to the ground, but on his cries the men rushed him to the ranch house and then to the hospital where ho was admitted at 4:30 p. m. His con dition is said to be good this afternoon. The fnmily lives at :IH Homcdalc, Klamath tails during school months. Invasion Plan Tho man-carrying balloons. Tnkagi sold, were In reality double units, one of which was to bo detnehed to permit tho soldier to land on United States soil to carry out snbotngc. Takagi said ho was with the 2322nd balloon brigade nt Hi- rln, Manchuria, where 8000 of the explosive-currying type were released to be windborne toward the United States in the last three months of the wnr. A flvc-saunre mile, under ground plnnt at Kirin was used for tho balloon manufacture, he asserted. Ho snld the balloons cruised at from 20,000 to 40,000 feet. Workmen Work was progressing rapidly on the $400,000 grain eUrator Job under construction at Tulana Farms ntar Worden and saveral of tha huge 14 circular grain tank or bins are shown In this picture. The bin have a diameter of 23 feet 1 inch, and work of pouring the concrete foundations is now complete. At least 100 workmen will be on the Job by tomorrow according to the contracting firm of Henry Geoug and Sons. Spokane. Wash., and the entire job should be done by harvest time. Work on the tanks will start Tuesday, demanding a larger crew than has been employed the past several weeks. Survey Of Sprague Water Resourced Underway In an effort to determine the feasibility of regulating the flood runoff of Sprague river, a reservoir typographical survey of thut area is now being made by the II. S. bureau of reclama tion. Although field work has been in progress since April, field parties were not trans ferred to the district until July 1. An inventory of water re sources will show lo what ex tent the winter runoff of Sprague river can be conserved by storage for summer use. The sprague river project is only a small part of a planned survey to be made of the Klam ath basin from the mountains to the sea. The aim of the inves tigation Is to Inventory all land and water resources. This will give an overall picture of water resources and point the way to further development so that complete utilization of water Pioneer Film Due Saturday Pioneer thrills of early Ore gon will have a colorlul revival next Suluroay, July in iviam atn rails when the drumming of horse's hooves warns Hie "Wan r'rom Canyon rassugo ' to pit his skill against a manhuntuig posse ot mounted riders. The all-Klamnth manhunt, planned in connection with the opening of Ernest Haycox s "Canyon Passage at the Esquire and Tower theatres on Sunday, July 21, carries with it a reward of $150 in cash for the first hunter to spot the human quarry. If the "Man from Canyon Pnssnge" eludes the posse, the cash reward will go to the Klam ath Falls Police Beneficiary as sociation. Rules of tho contest specify that the posse must be mounted on horse, donkey or any other four-legged animal thut cun carry a saddle and rider. En trants must receive an official entry blank at the Esquire or Tower and must wear an official arm band which may also be obtained at the theatres. Applications may be made at the theatres in person or by tele phone from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. dally, or by wire or letter. Rid ing clubs, hunt groups, posse or ganizations and individual riders may enter the hunt. "Tho Man from Canyon Passage" will be a well known Klamath personality. His name, will be announced Tuesday. Foremost stipulation in rules of the manhunt Is an order against roughness In any form. The only act necessary to make the arrest is to touch tho fugitive and state: "You are the Man from Canyon Passnge." The official drawing from a hat, which will signal the start of the hunt will be nt 1 p. m. on H-anllnurd on Paia S, Col. 8) Swarm Over Giant Grain Bins .. y2S3HaHaVatBSaa for agriculture, recreation and industry will be possible. Heading the entire Klamath survey Is C. W. Burningham of Redding, Calif. Before estab lishing headquarters in the pub lic works office at the Klamath Falls airport, he worked on the Redding USBR project to divert the Trinity river to the Sacra mento basin. As the Trinity is a tributary of the Klamath, the study will be completed as a part of the new Klamath sur vey. In charge of office work at survey headquarters is C. D. Lawrence who has recently come to Klamath Falls from the Grand Coulee dam project in Washington. He has been with the bureau of reclamation since 1937 and is a graduate of Utah State college. Lawrence will make his home in Klamath Falls. Hugh P. Crawford Is m charge of the field survey and will head field operations in cluding reservoir and dam site work, exploration and canal and land area locations. A graduate of Washington State college at Pullman, Crawford has worked for the bureau in Washington, Oregon and California since 1937. Clerk and stenographer for the survey office is Madelyn B. Menn, who has been transferred from the bureau office in Den ver, Colo. Approximately 25 employes, including the exploration forces, are coming to Klamath Falls to work on the survey. Already four of the staff members have purchased homes in Klamath Falls and are bringing their families here. President Honors Nisei Army Unit WASHINGTON. July 15 m President Truman stood in the rain today to pin the presidential distinguished unit citation ban ner to the colors of the 442nd regimental combat team of Japanese-Americans. Standing on the elipsc, a park just south of the White House, the president congratulated about 500 nisei soldiers Jap anese of American extraction for victory both over the enemy and "prejudice." Dreamer In Hospital After Leap In Sleep LOS ANGELAS, July 15 (fP) Robert Cason, 28, told police ho thought he was driving his automobile toward the edge ot a cliff when the brnkes failed, so he leaped from the vehicle. ' It was all a dream except the lenp. Cason took that through the window of his bed room and went to a hospital with cuts and bruises on va . rious parts ot his anatomy. Weir Elected, By Antelopes Bob Weir, Lakeview, was named Chief Whitetail at the 11th annual meeting of the Or der of Antelope at Hart Moun tain last weekend. A crowd of some 300 members and initi ates attended the first post-war meeting of the group, coming from all over the west to camp on the slopes of Hart moun tain. Members of the Order of An telope gathered at their desig nated waterholes on Friday to start the trip. Some stayed in Lakeview' on Friday night, while others camped at various spots along the road to camp. Early Saturday morning the crowd started pouring into the main camp for the big evening bonfire. Arrangements for the trip were made by Art Fish of Lake- view and Burt Snyder, also of Lakeview, handled the initia tion of new members. Some 75 men took the pledge and were named to the order of Mixmas ters, the newest degree for those members celebrating their first antelope trip. Other officers named at the bonfire were Francis Lambert of Portland, King of the Desert; Percy Locey, Corvallis, Grand Proselyter; Tod Powell, San Francisco, Keeper of the Wa- luaaunue an Pare X, cal. ) Pravda Wriier Says 'Velvet Curtain' Masks British In Pacific and Levant MOSCOW.'July 15 The communist organ Pravda de clared today in an article by Boris Izakoff that while British circles have been talking about a Russian "iron curtain" in east ern Europe Britain has hung up a "velvet curtain" In the Pacific and middle east. The article, which invited Pravda's readers to lift the "vel vet curtain" and look behind it stated: "Curious details are outlined from time to time behind the folds of the velvet curtain, which divides Indonesia from the out side . world." It added that in Indonesia a year after the war there is "occurring war activity on a big scale of which we read daily in the newspapers" and that more than five months after Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's speech before the United Nations security council "war in Indo nesia is unceasing day after day,' , Behind this same "velvet cur tain," the article continued, a British government mission went to India with a plan of treating all possible questions "except the most Important the evacua tion of the English army from India." Turning to Palestine the Pravda writer stated: "In reality there is happening in Palestine something quite close to war operations. All that is there be WEATHER NEWS jir li, i His. li.lf It) II Mia. . i rrtclplulOa l kaarl Rlrtam yaar I data .. n a7 II.M Lait aar faracaalt Claar taalfat aa Tat. Manchurian Communists Renew Fight NANKING. July 15 ff Fighting flared in Manchuria and North China again today as ine nation s sporadic peace ne gotiations were stifled by sum mer heat. Meanwhile, American Marine corps headquarters in Peiping reported that seven marines had been captured by a band of 80 armed Chinese north of Chin wangtao and held prisoner since Saturday, xne band was not identified. Associated Press correspon dent Tom Masterson also re ported from Peiping that com munist troops had struck at a railroad station south of Tien tsin, in Hopei province, and launched new attacks in the vicinity of Tsingtao and Tsinan, at the base of the Shangtung peninsula, there are American marine bases at Tientsin and Tsingtao. The reports were carried in the independent Peiping Press, which late last week rerxirted 20.000 Red troops had opened attacks on nationalist outer de fenses at Tientsin. Marines Search Countryside Strong detachments of Ameri can marines were scouring the countryside north of Cmnwang tao searching for the missing Americans, whose jeep was re covered in the village of Hsi nanchung where they had gone to purchase ice lor their detach ment, which was guarding i nearby bridge on the Peiping Mukden railroad. - -- Generalissimo Chiang - Kai- shek deserted the heat of Nan king and direct peace negotia tions for the mountain air of Kuling, flying to his summer capital with Madame Chiang and their, elder son, Chiang Ching-kuo. , Airline Plans 4 Daily Trips Enthusiasm over air travel with the inauguration of United Air Lines' run into Klamath Falls on August 1, has resulted in the installation of four daily trips instead of two as original ly slated, it was announced Monday by W. T. Mclntyre, station manager. Planes southbound will ar rive here at 10:06 a. m.: north bound, 10:19 a. m.; southbound, 2:25 y. m.; northbound, 8:04 p. m., - Mclntyre said in an nouncing the new schedule. Mclntyre said the demand for air travel both into and out of Klambth Falls, made it nec essary tor the company to ar range for four daily planes in stead of two. The Mainliner 180 s will make the runs as originally announced. Personnel manning the Klam ath Falls office of United Air Lines was also announced to- (Cantlnaa an Pase S, Cal. 3) ing done is justified In London by citing a misunderstanding be tween Jews and Arabs. Con venient justification!" Pravda said that Egyptian efforts to get the British army out of Egypt were useless and that foreign troops were still in Syria and Lebanon. It asserted that Greece, sole Balkan country on the other side of the "velvet curtain," knows "neither peace nor order." De spite the fact that a promise was made to evacuate British forces after the elections, "English forces are still not leaving," Pravda said. "The picture would not be complete if it did not Include what is happening behind the velvet curtain in the English occupation zone of Germany," said the article. "The Soviet press has already pointed out that an appreciable part of the German armed forces are still not demobilized in the English zone." Pravda placed the number of these forces at 147.672, and add ed: "This is almost one and a- half times more than the Ger man reichswehr was permitted after the first World war." Soviet publications leveled new broadsides over the week end at United States proposals for atomic energy control and Top Secret Information Passed Out OTTAWA, July 15 WV-Soviet espionage operators in Canada (ought and obtained top secret political Information relating to policies ot the united States and British governments as well ai the Canadian, the special royal commission investigating Moscow-directed spy activities re ported today. The commission reported also that the Russian government seems to have operated not on Dut several parallel under-cover systems" in Canada and might still be doing so. The commission repeated ear lier charges that the Soviet net work had spread into the United States and Great Britain, and added that it also operated on the continent of Europe. In a final report on' four months' work, running to 692 pages, the commission added sev eral sensational charges to it earlier disclosures which already nave sent some Canadian gov ernment employes and a member of parliament to prison for con spiracy and violations of the otficial secrets act. Presented to Commons The 250.000-word document. presented in the house of com mons by Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, added nine new names to the 14 previously named, but said that without fur ther documents "we cannot iden tify any non-Russian member" of rings other than that around which the five months probe has revolved. That was the military intelli gence system directed by Col. Nicolai Zabotin, former military attache recalled to Moscow some time ago for "inadmissible activ ities. In swift sequence, Supreme Court Justices Robert Tasche (t.ollaa. an rata , CaL 1) Churchill Asks Big UN Forces LUXEMBOURG, July 15 (IT) Winston Churchill strongly ad vocated today unlimited armed against all aggressors Addressing the Luxembourg chamber of deputies, Churchill urged a collective force exerting its action from a world center so that aggression would "fall powerless." "I hope Germany will resume her place in the circle of Europe in the form of separate states," the former British prime minis ter, said, "so that not one of them will be strong enough to menace the safety of peace." After lunch Churchill paid a tribute to all United States sol diers who fell in the Battle of . the Bulge by placing a huge -wreath of red -roses and white gladioli on the grave of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. The wartime commander of the U. S. third army, who died of injuries suffered in a traffic accident after the victory, is buried in Hamm cemetery near LuxemDourg, where 8500 white crosses mark' the resting places of American soldiers who fell defending this country. Baseball Scores NATIONAL R H E New York 1 9 2 Chicago 3 7 0 Koslo, Trinkle (7) and Coop er; Wyse and McCullough. R H j, Philadelphia 2 1 6 Cincinnati 4 8 1 Stanceu, Mulcahy (7) and Hcmsley; Hetki and Mueller. U. S. occupation policies in both Germany and Japan. M. Marinin, commenting in the communist organ. Pravda, asserted that "ruling circles" in America in general have no in tention of renouncing the atom bomb and declared: "The atom bomb called into being 'atomic diplomacy' and from the entire period p dis cussion of the problem of atomic energy in the United States the conclusion is reached that ruling circles in the United States in general do not intend to renounce the atomic weapon. On the German question Y. A. Viktorov, Pravda's international reviewer, wrote that "the Amer ican plan for a treaty of demili tarization ot Germany, despite its ballyhooed names, presents a step backward from the Berlin (Potsdam) conference decisions and Ignores entirely the guaran tee of reparations deliveries." Meanwhile the trade union newspaper, Trud, lashed out at American occupation authorities In Japan, declaring they were supporting "reactionary 1 e ments" and placing obstacles in the path of Japanese trade union ists. The Trud writer asserted that an order by Gen. MacArthur, was an example of the support given reactionary elements.