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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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. "