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Newspaper Page TextCHN reds ACCUSED OF BLOCraNG In Tli Hnv's lews By THANK JENKINS yllE blu row over voting pro 1 ceduni. which has had the J21- lUtlllll IMMICT Conference Ulllcfl (ur iluyo utid days, finally ends uk political wrunglcs uuully do) in a compromise. Tlio compromise (whlcn was championed by the llrltli.li) re-iiuiri-H n two-thirds majority (or UKCISIONS of tbo conference, I u.riull imMmlllCI adopted liy simple majority to go to tbo 1 1 In Knur (Russia, llrltuln. U. S. and France) foreign minister council "recommendations. RUSSIA wlm her point on the ....... ii, ir.i. uniliiu ruin (wblch she wanted hcruusn a two-thirds v..ti. lit harder to get). She loses .. ...,i., i in iim iiu'i iluil thn four' IK.w.-r foreign milliliters council (which she dominates because of i,..m Vkvm nowi-rl has lo accept ivromini'iidnlloiis from Iho lurr 21-niitlon conference, i',, u..i i.vim fnlnt understand ing of this tricky mill Involved nilualtun, you mum remember Hint In effeel we Mild the llrltliih have AIM'KAl.Kl) from the velo rlddeil foreign milliliters council to the l.AHGKR conference of nations In on effort to brlim the imwer of world opinion lo benr on Russia. . , , The compromise la regarded m a victory for our moc. ONE run t help belnit trucK oy the renemlilunro between thl Purls conference of nations mid a hill political parly nomiiiiitliiK r.iiivfiition In our own country. Tin-re i, the mime poll and Imul of SPECIAL Interests. THIS U the bis question: "Will we ll' t lasting peace out of this convention of tuitions?" One wonders. ALL the common, ordinary, little people of the world WANT I'KAC'E. Juil as all the common, ordinary, little people of Amer ica want good government, with equal right and Jusllre for all. Slid experience lias tiituiht us that we haven't got anywhere neur what wo want in the way of good government and equal hunded justice out of our big political party conventions. THIS is the trouble: The delegates to political party conventions gel all snarled up In the problems of party politics and the rewards thereof, in this fog, they lose sight of the OVEHAI.L PKSIHK OK COM MON PEOPLE for plain, simple, good government. In international conventions, such as this one at Paris, the NATIONS represented get all fouled up In the machinery of WOULD POWER POLITICS, thus liislng sight of the basic de sire, of all the plain peoples of the world for pence. IT looks very much to this writer as If we shall not have lasting peace until we are ready to accent HONESTLY AND UT TEHI.Y the nrinclole of the Golden Rule: "bo ye unto others as yo would that others shall da unto you." , THE odd part of it Is that our lied "nrncllcal" ncople regard the principle of the Gold en Hole as merely a pretty pic ture to hung on the wall. They're sure it WOULDN'T WORK. In practice. It DOES work as Instanced by the fact that sound, honest business men arc finding thai a contract Unit Is fair to both sides is more PROFITABLE thun one thut gives all the velvet to ONE P-rty. ... IN such situations, we used to be able lo shrug our shoulders in a disillusioned sort of way and conclude: "Well, if wo can't havo peace, we'll have to go on living In a world in which war appears to be inevitable." in these flays, when we're be ginning to gel a peep lit the awful possibilities of atomic power In tho hands of unprincipled lend ers, we're being compelled to wonder If there will bo a WOULD TO LIVE IN If we don't learn how to get along with each other in a give-nnd-tukc, llvo-and-let-llvc way. Medicine Rushed To Medford Boys MKDFORD, Aug. 7 (l'l A supply of streptomycin was be ing rushed here today from Port land to aid Larry Cranston, 7 mid Ills brother, Donnlc, 3 seri ously ill with typhoid fever. Doctors nnped the recently de veloped drug might cure the boys, who hnvc been running temperatures of 104, within a few days. The older brother has been ill two weeks and the younger a week. With no other enses of typhoid here, health officials were un certain how thn boys contracted the disease. A possibility wns Iho Irrigation ditch where their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Cranston, sold they had been playing. Retail Potato Prices Decline At Portland PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (I') The potato prlco on several Portland retail ninrkets was down today to SO cents for ten pounds, com pared to tho previously prevail ing no cents. Tho department of agriculture attributed the drop lo a crop surplus. Freight Car Lack Cramps Industries A serious shorluge of railroad cars threatens Klamuth basin potato shipments Ibis fall, and mill operators In this area say that they are only able lo obtain from AO to 60 per cent of the cars they need currently for lumlier shipments. Rallroud officials suy that no new curs have been built during tlio war, and those now on order are being held up In production at vurlous plants because of shortages of materials, including lumber. Most serious shortage is in reefers and box cars, as cat tle cars usually are too rough to move anything but stock In. Early shipments of spuds from Klamath Falls tills year muy force a shortage, with buyers getting spuds out as soon us pos sible, Last year the roads sent 1 ftOd carloads of potatoes out during the month of September alone, and tills year's crop muy run heavier, but probably with fewer cars. llox shook Is being sent out as rapidly as possible by mills In order to move the vital crop of perishable goods in the south. In Mime eases, shook lias been loaded Into reefers, including the Ire compartments, sent south and knocked together only to be reloaded on the reefer. Iced and shipped out. Cattle curs arc be ing used by some snippers to move hath shook and unfinished lumlier. Chamber of commerce direc tors, at their luncheon at the Pelican cafe toduy noon author ized the chamber manager to tukc all necessury steps to In form the ruilrouds and railroad car distributing agency of the need for curs for both agricul ture and lumbering here, and to mulntaln watch for any evi dences of discrimination agulnst Klamuth shippers. Mitchell Tlllolson told the board that the situation with re spect to grnin shipments, espe cially at Tulelake, is most ser ious. Storage facilities are in adequate to handle the grnin lCnllntS r t, Cl. 41 British Study Jew Blockade LONDON. Aug. 7 (I'l A well Inlurmed government quarter saiii today Urlliilu might insti tute a full-scale blockade of the Palestine coast to end Illegal Im migration into the Holy Lnnd. The Informant said the British government was planning an all out drive to end Illegal immi gration of European Jews into Palestine and that the land and sea operations involved might include a blockade of the const. Tlie government informant said today's cabinet meeting probably would "press the but ton" on operations. 1 Tlio land campaign against Il legal immigration, he indicated, would take place in Italy, Aus tria end "right back into the dis placed persons camps of Ger many" whence most of the Il legal immigrants begin their trek to tbo Holy Land. Troops would be ordered to tighten control with a view to eliminating the underground pipeline which allegedly carries the Jewish refugees from Eu rope to Palestine, 28 Known Dead In Earthquake CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domin ican Republic, Aug. 7 (!') The known dead in Sunday's earth quake and tidal wave mounted to 28 today and tho Dominican Geographical and Geological Institute said tho tremor might havo shaken up and changed the ocean bed at its deepest point in the Atlantic. Tremors still shook the island yesterday. Official reports indicated that the tidal wave which hit Bnhln Escoccsa (Scotch buy), levelled the towns of Mntnnzns, Nugua, Arroyo Salado and El BaJio. President Trujillo banned the export of any foodstuffs in order to meet acute shortages. Four Negroes In Gangland EVERETT, Aug. 7 V) Four negroes were being questioned by police today in connection with the gangland styled slay ing yesterday afternoon of 55-yeur-old Roy Baldwin, also col ored, who was dragged from a car, shot above the heart and left laying on tile sidewalk with his hands folded across his chest. The slnying occurred on Hcwtilt avenue, Everett's main east-west thoroughfare, eight blocks from the central city In tersection, shortly after 3 p. m. yesterday. Police Capt. C. E. Jones snid the men under arrest were Charlie W. Williams, 4(1, listed as an omployo of Flrcrcst sanitar ium nnd owner of the enr identi fied by witnesses ns having been used in the slnying; Snoblo John son, 27, of Monroe; Wllllnm Bnr nett, 81), of Everett and Phllnnder Cnrr, 40, of Seattle. Williams and Johnson wcro picked up together, Jones said, PRICE FIVE CENTS .O -i' 11:1 LI ' oS ri nr pv. 3 1 1 Vr ll W Open For SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 7 !) The historic flight of two unmanned U-17 drones from Wlo, Hawaii, to Murduc air base, Calif., today was termed the forerunner of accurate, long range guided missiles armed with atomic warheads. Urlg. Gen, William L. Richardson, chief of the army air force gullied missiles division, snid the unprecedented radio-piloted flight proved the air force could have struck a target at 2S00 or more miles range with any Jury Names HeirensAs Ross Killer CHICAGO. Aug. 7 lPl The statu moved today to wrap up its case against Willium Heirens by obtaining an Indictment charg ing the 17-year-old possessor of a dual personality with the murder of Mrs. Josephino Rots, one of the three killing he con fessed. Early this afternoon the Indict ment was bunded down in the criminal court of Chief Justice Harold G. Ward who set 10 a. m. tomorrow for arraignment. In unfolding a detailed story of his incredible criminal career yesterday, he set forth how he knifed Mrs, Ross, a 4:i-ycar-old widow, in hir apartment in June of 1945, although he had not been indicted for tins murder. Dtgnan Cast Solved Ills confession solved the fiendish kidnaping, strangling nnd dismemberment of Suzanne Degnnii, 6, on January 7, and the shooting and stubbing of Miss Frances Brown. 33, a form er Wave, on December 10, 1945. Within less than an hour after Wllbert Crowley, first assistant state's attorney, announced wit nc.uics would go before the grand Jury, the Jurors named Heirens in a true) -bill formally accusing him of murdering Mrs. Ross. Crowley said testimony includ ed that from police officials and Mrs. Mary Jane Blunchurd, 21, one of Mrs. Rons' two daughters. In his statement Heirens said ho killed tho woman but could not remember inflicting the 11 knife wounds or covering the largest wound, in the neck, with adhesive tape. Dulles Flays Reich Policies CAMBRIDGE. England, Aug. 7 Ol'i John Foster Dulles, vice chairman of the newly formed church commission on interna tional affairs, reproached U. S. occupation authorities in Ger many today for what he called repudiation of pledges made before the rcich's capitulation. Recalling that Hitler said de feat would mean the end of the German people, Dulles told the general conference that he was humiliated by many things in American occupation policies. Without particularizing, he asserted that questionable con duct of some of the occupation troops and "slave labor under terrible conditions" represent ed the breaking of promises contained In leaflets Inviting the Germans to surrender. He said he had the "distinct impression" that the major powers still looked upon the German people as a "great war potential. "Next to the atom bomb," he continued, "tile Germans ap pear to be the most valuable war potential that any great power can lay Its hands on. "The process of getting the German people in the next war is already under way. Under Arrest - Style Slaying when the car was found at Bur nett's home after a farmer re ported to police he had pulled the vehicle from a ditch and then driven the two men back to Everett without any knowledge of the slnying. Burnett and Cnrr were taken into custody later. Reconstructing t h c killing from the stories of four wit nesses, Police Cnpt. M. W. Stev ens snid a large Buick pulled up near a building under con struction. The driver got out and then pulled Baldwin out oi the back sent, backed away a few steps and shot him in the chest. The other negro then jumped out of the car and helped the killer turn the victim's body parallel to the curb, crossed tho hands on his chest nnd Jumped back Into the car and drove away. Stevens said Baldwin previous ly resided in Senttlc and Spokane and had a petty criminal record In both cities. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST Flights New Vistas Atomic War conventional bomber un manned and added: The atom bomb to us is a warhead. We fully except some day to have larger guided mis siles with atomic warheads." "Operation Remote (the drone mission) proved we have control equipment which will operate reliably at least IS hours, sufficient to laxe any conventional heavy bomber 2500 or more miles. That air craft could have been loaded with 3000 pounds of TNT or other explosive. It would not have been necessary to ny me mother up to the target. The mother could have stood oil nu miles and directed the drone in nod nicked uo the target. We could have done 11 witn B-32's or B-35's or any other bomber and with the same control eaulDment." Using Ii-32 or similar DomD- crs. with a range of 10,000 or more miles. Richardson point ed out, the United States could strike almost any poini on earth with guided missiles. On yesterday s drone mission, the mothers operated as close as 200 feet to the "babes" and bs far away as three miles. Col. Alness' unit has operated drones from 25 or more miles and Richardson said they had been directed from 50 miles. Only current limit is that of radar vision theoretically about 100 miles, although,, that has not been tested. The flight was termed thorough test of controlled mis siles. The babes took off in a light shower and were taken to flying altitude, 7000 feet, through the heavy clouds. They faced headwinds and cross- winds. They lew through showers, strong sunshine, moon light, clouds, haze and directly into the rising sun. By remote control, their fuel supply was changed from wing to bomb bay tanks. The bomb-dropping drone's bomb bay doors were opened, the missile was re leased and the doors were closed by radar control from the mother. 'Mercy Killer' Gets Clemency BOSTON, Aug. 7 Iff) John F. Noxon Jr., who has spent two years in "death row" at state prison awaiting electrocu tion for murdering his imbecile infant son, today had his sen tence commuted to life impris onment. Governor Maurice J. Tobin recommended clemency for the wealthy Pittsfield attorney and the executive council approved. Noxon, himself a hopeless cripple from an attack of In fantile paralysis suffered Sev ern; years ago, had lost every appeal through the courts. He has steadfastly maintained his innocence since his convic tion two years ago and refused suggestions of friends to base a plea for life on a mercy kill ing." During his trial, Noxon tes tified that his 6-month-old men ially deficient son, Lawrence, accidentally came in contact with a live wire being used in repairing a radio. Plane Crashes House Pilot Escapes Injury SPOKANE, Aug. 7 W') Fred Husk, 22, civilian pilot, wns nearly scalped but esenped with his life this morning when his light plane crashed into the side of a house near Geigcr field. Clnrence B. Bratton, owner of the house, snid the plane made a half circle, apparently with dead motor, just before crash ing. The ship plowed into a wide bay window, the nose pro truding eight feet into the living room, wrecking a radio and moving a stove six feet off its base. Bulletin SALEM, Aug. 7 (fl5) Gtorgs E. Sandy, stats director of vat rans' afialrs, said Wtdnesday that ha Is "ntiralv In accord" with Governor Snail's plan to ac quire the Klamath marina bast for lower-division collaga facili ties for World War II veterans. Sandy said reconversion and operations costs "ara negligible in relation to th banaflts to vet trans and to the taxpayers them selves who would be acquiring a six million dollar plant at no cost to tha state." Quake ' ' : I If 11' " ' mx in Members of grinning crowd building in the downtown section republic, left by the sharp earthquake felt the world around. Photo by Bob Glanders. Miami Daily News and flown io Miami. AP wirephoto. I(F Would Gain 40 Firms, 500 People In Annexation Around 40 business houses ' and some 500 people are in cluded in the roughly trian gular suburban section on S. 6th which will be brought into the limits of the city of Klam ath Falls if the proposed an nexation', measure on the No vember ballot is approved. The district is county pre cinct 33 and includes the area within an imaginary line from the point where Shasta way juts off S. 6th, down the center of Shasta way to Washburn, down the center of Washburn across S. 6th and over to the railroad right of way and back the right of way to the present city limits. Among the businesses that would be brought into the town boundaries are Frazer's market. Home Lumber company, the Roundup tavern, Lucca cafe, an Oregon Food store, Rich field Oil corporation. Tufts Furnace company, S. 6th Auto Wrecking, O. K. Second-Hand store and others, all in the 2300, 2400 and 2500 block on S. 6th. The Tower theatre, across Washburn, would still be out side the city limits. Majority Needed To pass this annexation measure, the people who live Envoys Agree On Vote Rules PARIS, Aug. 7 (iP The con fmnn nf Paris wound UD its work on procedure In the rules committee today after settling a marathon argument on voting machinery and invited five for mer enemv states to participate in its deliberations beginning Saturday. Under an American amend ment, as altered at Russian sug gestion, the representatives of Italy, Romania. Bulgaria, Hun gary and Finland can be heard both in committee and in the full conference sessions on ques tions of the treaties concerning them. The committee adjourned at 12:30 a.m. after 20 hours of de bate In which it was finally de cided over the embittered oppo sition of Soviet Russia and five other members of her bloc to adopt a British compromise on the votine machinery. Soviet Russia had held out from the first for a two-thirds majority rule and strongly op posed the British amendment permitting simple matority "rec ommendations, ine isetner lands and Australia' soearhcaded the fight against the Russian po sition. The compromise on voting procedure, as well as other rules approved bv tne committee, must be ratified bv the full con ference in plenary session. Pageant Calendar Mrs. Clyde James and Hor ace Robinson will meet with Chllociuln Indians for re hearsal at 7 o. m. Wednesday In the Spnnlsh Castle, Chilo quin. They will also meet with Indians of the Beatty region for rehearsal at 7 d. m. Thurs day at the Beatty church. (Telephone till) Damage point to a crack (arrow) in a of Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican and are registered voters in the area must give it a majori ty, and the people of Klamath fans must okay taking the dis trict in by a majority. For the May primary election precinct 33 had only 48 registered vot ers, i This suburban 'section was' voted on two years ago but the annexation lost by two votes in a balloting that was not right because of a mixup in precincts. The city voted for the annexation, but at that time the area under question was not in a precinct by itself, but was split up. Some resi dents of the section didn't find the measure on their ballots while non-residents across the street voted on the proposal. To avoid that situation this time, the city outlined the dis trict in question and had the county set it up as an individu al political district, precinct 33. If it comes into the city in No vember it will be city precinct 33. Project Favored Dominic Frazer of Frazer's market, who has been active in campaigning for the annexa tion, said today that he thought most of the business people along the three blocks of S. 6th wanted to come in, particularly to enable them to connect with the city sewer system. At pres- (CantlnHta rag 8, i-si. if Coos Calaboose Claims Couriers . Latest word from the Cen tennial couriers reveals that they were finger printed and thrown into jail all in fun at Coquille Tuesday. At Coos Bay they were met by the Coos Bay Pirates and then Wednesday morning delivered mail at Toledo and Tillamook. They expect to arrive in As toria this evening. The couriers, Joe Black well, Newt Nelson and Chet Barton, are making a horse back trip to Oregon cities ad vertising the Klamath Cen tennial, August 22-24. 7, 1948 Pig 37 7, Survivor Of. Bikini Declines Texas Invitation HARLINGEN, Tex., Aug. 7 ()Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said in a letter to to Texas air day officials that pig 311, who has been hogging headlines for being a survivor of the first atom bomb, actually was "far from the big boom" and didn't deserve much publicity. The letter also carried Admiral Nimitz' own drawing of pig 311. Texas' first air day celebration, which is expected to attract a possible 6000 private planes here September 7, had invited pig 311 to be present. The Invitation was sent to Texas-born Admiral Nimitz. In a reply addressed to John Van Dronkhlte, an official direct ing air day, Admiral Nimitz did a bit of "ghost writing" for pig 311. He answered as if the letter came from the pig, and then drew his Interpretation of pig 311 as a signature. WEATHER NEWS AfU 1, ISM MX. lAmg tl ...IS Mis. .41 Slram jmt la Sale 11.41 Nral lt.M Lait ymt Il.tS rrcatl: Slwl rUIf UmMra Israt. Number 10891 Truman, CIO Forces Beat Slaughter Br The Associated Press President Truman and back ers of his move to unseat Rep. Roger C. Slaughter came out on top today (Wednesday) in what the Missouri congress member had called "a fight to determine the future course of the demo cratic party." Complete returns from the fifth Missouri congressional dis trict gave Enos A. Axtell, 37-year-old former navy lieutenant, the democratic nomination by 2301 votes over the two-termer of whom Mr. Truman had said: "If he's right, I'm wrong." Slaughter was one of the few congressional incumbents defeat ed as voters in Missouri, Vir ginia, West Virginia, Kansas, New Hampshire and Arkansas chose party nominees in primar ies yesterday. The CIO-PAC and the Pcnder- gast political organization of Kansas City lined up with Axtell and the president. Mr. Truman had condemned the incumbent as an obstructor of administra tion legislative aims in the pow erful house rules committee. CIO Domination Slaughter questioned pro priety of the president's inter vention and asserted that the CIO-PAC. under communist in fluence, hoped to dominate the democratic party. Each of three senators up for renomination yesterday won handily. All democrats, they were: Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. whom the CIO-PAC hoped to oust; Frank P. Briggs of Missouri, endorsed by Mr. Truman; and Harley M. Kilgore of West Vir ginia, backed by the CIO-PAC. New Hampshire's governor, Charles M. Dale, won republican renomination by only 500 votes over U. S. Rep. Sherman Adams. In Kansas Harry H. Woodring. former governor of the state and secretary of war early in ..the. I DM..-ii . : r i uuvKici, auiiittiiBud ijuii, re turned to political prominence as democratic nominee for gov ernor. Georgia Blacks Slay And Rape SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 7 (&) Solicitor General Pro-tem An drew J. Ryan Jr., said two ne groes early today attacked a 22-year-old city fireman and his 17-year-old girl companion, and after shooting the fireman to death raped the girl. The solicitor identified the fireman as Anthony Elixson, veteran of naval service in the recent war. Ryan, after questioning the girl, who was treated at a hos pital here, gave this report: The couple was in a parked automobile on a road in a sparsely settled section of Chatham county about 1 a. m., when the two negroes ap proached. At gun point they forced Elixson from the car, led him several yards away and shot him. Then they returned to the car, forced the girl from it and each raped her. After the as sault, they left her in the car. She walked to a farmhouse and called police. Matt Sampson Jr. Sought By Family Police are looking for a man named Matt Sampson Jr., thought to be working in a log ging camp somewhere in this area, to relay to him a message concerning a death in his fami ly. Sampson was registered at the Kern hotel July 4, and is believed to be employed by Weyerhaeuser. "Regret to inform you that there was a slight error in the publicity I received relative to the long swim in uiKini lagoon he wrote. "When you learn that I was actually on board a trans port far from the big boom, I fear you will want to retract your cordial invitation, ... I am really tired of all this publicity and want to go home to mother." Admiral Nimitz suggested the use of a "ringer" and added, "if all you want Is a pig, use one bred in Texas he might not be able to swim, but would no doubt be in better shape to enjoy the festivities of air day In Texas." Van Dronkhlte had asked if pig 311 were a male or female. A postscript said, "I am prob ably an it." The letter was Initialed "C. W.N." Propaganda Move Seen In Actions PEIPING. Aug. 7 WP Amer!. cans at executive (truce) head quarters today accused the Chi. nese communist branch of ham pering an investigation Into tha July 29 clash of U.S. marine and communist soldiers near An- Ping. The Americans expressed tha ' opinion that the communist branch was acting on instruc tions from Yenan with the orj. ject of preventing a quick vet diet and capitalizing on a vig orous anti-American propaganda campaign. In their version of the Anping incident, in which four marines were killed, the communists ac cused the marines of fighting shoulder to shoulder with Kuo mintang (government party) troops and attacking the com munist eighth route army. Tha marines said they were ambush- f' ed at Anping. Americans at executive head quarters said the communists were approached August 2, but stalled until August 6 before agreeing to guarantee a safe con duct for an executive headquar ters' fact-finding team into communist-held territory southeast of Peiping to investigate the in cident. Communists Stall While waiting, the team'i chairman. Col. Michael F. Davis of San Antonio. Tex., called meeting but the communist member did not attend. Another -session was called the following day at which Davis intended to question officers who were on the marine convov at Anointf. The communist member of Davis' team refused to accept the officers' testimony. The communist member, the Americans said, demanded that the team first interview Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, com mander of the U. S. marines in China, at Tientsin. Gen. Sun Lien-chung, commander of the government's 11th war zone, and a communist commander whom he refused to identify. Jap Says Reds Blocked Peace TOKYO. Aug. 7 Wl Adm. Keisuke Okada, a key figure In the surrender campaign of year ago. said todav that Soviet officials knew six months before Kussia entered the Pacific war of Japan's desire to surrender but gave no indication of having transmitted "pleading" peace feelers to Russia's allies. The former premier and elde statesman gave his behind-the-scenes version in what he said was his first interview with a ioreign correspondent since the occupation. An official representative of the foreign office made the first peace overtures in February, xvto, aunng conversations with the Soviet ambassador to Jannn. Okada asserted. "Russia's part in the Pacifia war had nothing to do with Japan's desire to sue for peace," said the spry 79-year-old admiral on the eve of the anniversary of surrender. Peace could have coirle many months earlier if Russia had promptly relayed Japanese re quests." Youngsters Shoot Moore Park Birds Youngsters shooting guns from the hills in and around Moore park have been responsible for the loss of a number of park: birds, particularly pheasant and quail, according to the park board. Because of this and the dan ger of park visitors being acci dentally hit by wild shots, the park board warns parents of children using guns that the offenders will be picked up and turned over to the law enforce ment officers and the parents will be held responsible for any damage. The birds which have been killed are free park birds, al lowed to roam over the park: grounds without being caged or penned. f Ex-Russ Captives Will Face Courts BERLIN, Aug. 7 (&) Trial by court martial was ordered today for Capt. Harold Cobin of New York and Lt. George E. Wyatt nf Oklahoma Cltv. whose un authorized entry into the Soviet occupation zone caused them to be held by the Russians for 27 days. The courts martial were or dered by Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, commanding general of tha office of military government, and Maj. Gen. Frank A. Keating, commanding general of the U. S. army's Berlin district. Cobin is attached to military govern ment and Wyatt to Keating' forces. Courts martial charges ara now being prepared. Cobin and Wyatt have been released from house arrest and restored to duty. "