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fo)fo)Afo) pir la lb I J IMl ma lit TJiUr-. Oafs liens By FRANK JENKINS 1NITKD NATIONS adjourn it Bwirk scmIoh In n atmosphere of HOPE. It Isn't altogether the Polly anna kind of Tiope. (I'ollyamia wai a mushy (ictlonnl character of mine decade ago who baaed her Ufa oil being "glad" about everything that happened.) In the International picture, aom definitely hopeful development ara beginning to take shape In the poMlbly thinning fog of suspicion that haa tampered progrcM In the A DISPATCH by AP's John " Farrl thla morning say: "For tlii fir lit time sine ho- titer w an lucres In co . operative spirit between Soviet KuMla and the Weatorn power." 4 If there la to be a brave new world, there MUST be reasonable ro-oprratlon among the three great poweri) that dominate the prrnent world. Karri add: Mere, really for the flint time, SKC'KKT DIPLOMACY wa toiuwd overboard. The delegate big and amall poke more bluntly, more frankly than they had at either San Francisco or London." SUSPICION, the great enemy of reasonable co-operation, can be dissipated ONLY by frank limn and fair dealing. Blujit, frank talking usually help. THE big achievement of Uie waalon waa the olemn pti-dge, given by ALL the dele gate, that their countrie will aupport IMMEDIATE tep to reduce their armed force and prohibit the us of the atomic bomb. If that pledge la honeatly KF.PT. wa shall have mada pro grea. AMONG the Intangible, there la a TANGIBLE de velopment. Bv the procea of Infiltration, rtunila had practically taken over Iran' province of Aer ballnn. Th Iranian govern ment end In troop and TAKES AZERBAIJAN BACK for the present at leant. Thl mnrnlng' dlM'atche Indicnle that In the rucku accompanying the Inking back. me 100 of the Russian Inf lltraton ware f killed. ' RUSSIA DIDN'T SHOOT- . . Through our whole procoss of limiting Russian uxpmwlon, there ha been tha danger that Russia would atop talking and START SHOOTING at aome point. In Azerbaijan. he ha auffered at loal a temporary etback In her xpanlon pro gram without hootlng yet. TT la all right to hope If you 1 KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY. It la wlhful thinking that la dangerous. If we rofuae to drug ouraelvea with wishful thinking, wa can afford to hope these days that soma progress has been made. THERE is another development on the home front. We loam from Washington dlnpntches that the government Is preparing to boost non-residential construction by perhaps 40 per cent, put a floor apace limit on new home (meaning they can't be too big) and give prlvato enterprise a much big ger sny-so in fighting the hous ing shortage. ; Under the new policy, laid down by President Truman, gov ernment officials are setting out to run a housing program with- ciis r.i. a. c.i.1.0 ii Truman To Hold ' npwc LinriTPrenrA WAKHINI. IIP! MP in fill President Truman will hold a pews conference at 4 p. m. Wed ., nesday and at that time he will li make public the first report of his council of economic advisers. The council was set up by law to Inquire into mcana of provid ing maximum employment. Presidential Secretary Chnrles ' G. Ross said there will be a subsequent report to the presi dent, which will be the basis of his recommendations to the new congress on employment and economic matters. UN Assembly Leaves By JOHN A. PARRIS JR. NEW YORK. Dec. 18 (!) The United Nations assembly turned over to the 11-member security council today the monu mental tusk of setting into mo tion a program for reducing the armies of tho world and destroy ing the mass destructive weap ons of war. Ending an historic eight weeks' session at 12:44 a. m. (EST), Uie top diplomats of 54 nations gave the world its first concrete hope for outlawing war and tfien headed for home after writing another chapter in man's long search for peace. September Meat The next regular meeting will be held In New York next Sep tember 16, but the assembly may be called Into special session In six months to approve world , wide arms reductions which' the . security council is to plan In do- 'tall. In the vaulted gold-and-blue J I . ' 0 W PHICE FIVE CENTS i-agja. KLAMAT TV .o-Vt -". MONDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1946 (Telephone 1111) Humbef 10811 Flood E" ..oiage Toll Mounts . . Four Escape Death In Home Fire A family of four narrowly e caped from their burning home early Sunday morning and tho father, Henry V. Mundny, 29-yeur-old logger. Is In Klamath Valley hospital with severe burns received when '.v rescued one of his children from a sinnke-flllvd room. Mr. and Mrs. Muniluy, 3328 Crosby, and their two young daughter, Virginia, 5, and Lyn delle, 2, were awukencd at 8 a. m. by on explosion in the liv ing room coupled with a flaxh of flame which virtually engulfed the bedroom in w.ilcli Lyndt-lle and .er parents wcro sleeping. Munday said today from his cot in the hospital that he was ablo to lift Lvndelle out the window and aid his wifa from the room, but could not make his way through the house to the bed room whera Virginia was sleep ing. Break Window Munday broke an outside win dow In Virginia's bedroom, crawled through to the bed but could not" find the little girl. She failed to rvpond to hi calls and as the room was filled with smoke and flames were eating into the walls, he was forced to feel ins way over the furniture and against the walls until his hand full on the little girl, crouched in one corner. Ha then carried Virginia out the window. Mundny' burns were received first a flume swept Into his badroom and burned his shorts from his body. Lyndelle -had only the toes on her right foot burned, and Mrs. Munday has slight burns on one leg and her forehead. Virginia's hair was singed but otherwise the little girl waa reported unharmed. After treatment at Klamath Val ley hospital they left for Mun day's uncle's home in Bly, and they ara now at the Warren Vausebergh residence there. Oil Explodes According to Munday, he had banked a fire in the wood stova (CaaUaaa aa raga S, Calaaaa II Iran Claims Azerbaijan TEHRAN. Dec. 16 rP) Iran's central government, plagued for more than a year by separatist movements in Azerbaijan, claimed today to have brought Kurds as well as Azerbaijans back under control In the oil rich province on the Soviet frontier. The government also an nounced it had ordered the transfer here of Dr. Salamollah Javld, governor-general of sub dued Azerbaijan province, and M. Sabostarl, head of the Azer baijan provincial council. The war ministry said it could neither confirm nor deny reports that more than 100 Russian im migrants Into Azerbaijan had been killed by civil police and soldiers during the last three days at Tabriz, capital of Azer baijan. The newspaper Etnsh reported from Tabriz that Tehran security forces had reached Ardebil and found that tribesmen there had hanged or otherwise executed 40 adherents of the Azerbaijan semi - autonomous government, established during the last days of the Russian occupation of north Iran. Ends 8 -Week World Wiih Hope Of Peace assembly hall at Flushing Mead ow park, the world's diplomats gave a solemn pledge that their countries would support immedi ate steps to reduce their armed forces and prohibit the use of the atomic bomb. This was regarded as the most significant achievement of the assembly, which met in the United States for the first time and selected a Manhattan sky scraper site for it permanent home. But almost equally as signifi cant was the attainment of vir tually unanimous agreement among delegates, a unanimity that had been conspicuously lacking since the United Nations was born. For the first time since hostill ties ended, delegates agreed there was an Increase In coopera tive spirit between Soviet Russia and the wostern powers, There was evidence In some respects oi a softening of Rus Sctnt, c3u , The upper picture shows the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Matt. Crescent avenue, where Mary McComb. county librarian (left below), was tiangarously wounded by gunshot Saturday night. Held tn the shooting is Don L. Yancey (right below), son of Mr. Matt. Th picture of the house was taken from beside the home oi Miss McComb. and the edge of the McComb housa may be seen at left. Police say Miss McComb left her house when Yancey beat on tha rear door, crossed to tha Matts' house, and was shot in tha living room of tha latter residence. Atom Control Vote Slated LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., Dec. IB tP) The possibility arose to day that a showdown vote on the United States plan for control ling atomic energy might be tak en tomorrow at a full dress meet ing of the United Nations atomic energy commission. The political committee of the commission considered the his torical section of a proposed re port for the security council at a three-hour closed meeting today. After the meeting, it was said authoritatively that recommend ations in' the report must await policy decisions by the full com mission which might be taken tomorrow. Thus far, there has been no vote in the political committee on tha recommendation. Bernard M. Bnruch, U. S. re presentative on the commission, has requested it to accept unani mously the essentials of the U. S. control plan. Baruch is planning to speak again tomorrow to the commission and a vote is expect ed unless several other delegates also desire to speak. Session; sian policy and the diminishing ot soviet suspicions. Delegates agreed generally that U. S. Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes contributed greatly to this by disclosing voluntarily the num ber and position of American troops on foreign soil informa tion that Russia fought unsuc cessfully to have every nation give to the UN. This advancement in United Nations, relations was keynoted by Warren R. Austin, chief of the U. S. delegation In the clos ing hours of the session. "Starting with the Ink and paper charter," Austin told fel low delegates, "we progressed from positive disagreement and skepticism as to the solution of the great problems confronting us, to a newly discovered har mony to almost unanimous agreement. I think that we iiave established the essential reality of the United Nations." Principals in Strange 7oman Breaks Up Robbery A probable attempted bur glary at the Kirk post office and store on the Klamath Indian res ervation early Sunday morning was broken up when the post mistress. Empress Berrisn, fired a shot into the floor of the build tag. She told Sheriff Lloyd Low and Deputy Jack Franey that a man came to the back of the building and started kicking and pounding on the door about 4 a. m. Sunday. Miss Berrian was sleeping in a back room of the store and was awakened by the noise. She grabbed a pistol and fired a shot into the floor and the man ran off without getting Into the building. She told officers that she recognized him as a man who has been seen around Kirk for several weeks. The officers spent all day yes terday prowling around cabins and ranch houses near Kirk without locating the man. Blum Forms All Socialist Cabinet PARIS, Dec. 16.P) Leon Blum has formed an all-socialist cabinet with himself as president-premier and minister of for eign affairs, it was officially an nounced today. Andre Le Troquer, outstanding anti-communist -in the party ranks, was given the communist coveted post of minister of na tional defense, with control of the armed forces, at home, in the colonies and in the occupation zones. The formation of the one-party cabinet was the result of Blum's failure, in negotiations since his election as compromise president-premier last Thursday, to get parties to agree on a national union government. Government Sells Red Tape Cheap MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Dec. 16 P) The government Is getting rid of Its red tape at 28 cents a roll The war assets administration today advertised among the sur plus itsem for sale: ' ,78 rolls tape, red, cellulose, unused. .28." Shooting Builders OK Housing Bill SEATTLE, Dec. 16 (IP) Builders and lumberman today expressed general approval of President Truman's relaxation of building restrictions and ven tured the belief it would result in increased construction of rent al units, better class homes and commercial buildimt. Cliff Mortcnsen, president otj rtne'Seeltre Master1 Builders, saio3f his organization viad been work. ing with veterans on such a pro gram to stimulate building of apartment housing. George W. Coplen, regional representative of the national housing agency, said "there may be fewer houses built than under Wilson Wyatt's plan but there is a lot of essential non-housing construction which must be al lowed to get under way." He warned, however, that "the changes announced will not pro duce any more materials for housing and that the job re maining" is to direct materials "voluntarily or otherwise" into needed channels. Washington Floods Recede SEATTLE, Dec: 16 (P) Freezing weather following a two-hour long snow flurry brought western Washington's water-logged residents today the weather bureau's cheering word that the worst of the past week's floods "is definitely over." The week-long flood waters which at times lapped at house eaves throughout the White River valley south of Seattle and stood 10 feet deep over the Longacres race track were re ported generally receding. Philippines Get $1,000,000 Check MANILA. Dec. 16 OP) Dr. Frank A. Waring, war damage commissioner, today handed President Manuel A. Roxos of the Philippines a check for $1,000,000 as the first ad vance payment by the United States for war damage to public property in the islands. A total of $620,000,000 is to be held, if a Philippines plebiscite next March approves a proposed equal - rights - for - Americans amendment to the Philippines constitution. Chinese Battles Fiercest Yet PEIPING, Dec. 16 (fP) Chi nese communists today captured Chung-Yang in Central Shansi province after a 15-month seige capped by an offensive so fierce the defending garrison. In an ob viously erroneous message sent in ail seriousness, radioed it thought the reds were using atomic bombs. Chungyang's defenders were out of food and ammunition as a result of one of the longest com munist seiges of the civil war. The final assault on the city, some 100 miles northeast of the red capital at Yennn, lasted two weeks.- Government forces in Man churia, at the same time, claimed a victory , in which some 6000 communists were reported rout ed. . WEATHER Mai. (Dm. Il 4 Mia. . It raelallaMaa lit U kaara M Slraaai vaar la Sala I.4S Last raar ...I.M Naratal S.M Faraeaall Claarar aa aalSar faSay, iaalgat aa TaaaSar. Cold Snap May Halt River Rise By The Associated Press The flooding Willamette river's crest flowed past Salem today (Monday), while receding waters and a sudden cold snap gave relief to the inundated up per valley. In the Eugene' lowlands, where 3500 persons were evacu ated Saturday, the Willamette returned to its banks, and was steadily falling. Weather Bur eau Meteorologist Elmer Fisher, reporting no more rain and fall ing tributaries, declared that "the flood danger is entirely past in the upper valley." The Pacific highway, deep in water at Harrisburg over the week-end, reopened this morn ing, but the Coast highway was closed by the washout of a bridge. Several minor roads in the Willamette valley remained impassible. Damage High Hundreds of thousands of dol lars' damage was being tallied along the striken valley in live stock: and cmcken loss, erosion, and damaged buildings, as the river s crest nit Salem. The Willamette river there reached 26.7 feet this morning, 6.7 feet beyond flood stage, after cresting and starting to fall at Albany and Corvallis. Rescue crews took a half-dozen families from flooded Salem lowlands, while many others had volun tarily left their homes with the first warning. Portland,- .already .suffering some damage' from the high river, was warned to expect a still higher crest of 22 feet, 2.8 reel aoove tlood stage, tomor row forenoon. The Columbia river rose at Vanouver to 3.7 feet above flood point, and resi dents were warned to prepare for a 20 foot crest tomorrow morning. A Red Cross boat rescued Lee Kitrell and his son-in-law, William Romans, yesterday aftenoon from the stump of an unrooted tree in the Santiam river where they had clung three hours. The two, anxious about their dogs and livestock left behind at the home they had evacuated, were attempting to return by boat to the inun dated lowland near Jefferson. The boat wrecked on driftwood. Romans' son, also with them, climbed to safety on the drift wood. Coast guard and army en gineers stationed boat crews at Corvallis to rescue any residents isolated by the flood. Four adults and four children were taken from Brown island south of Salem late Saturday. Two others were rescued from their inundated homes along the San tiam river. Scotland Yard Threats Fizzle LONDON, Dec. 16 (JP) A total of 14 telephoned warnings that London buildings would be blown up have been received by police since Friday night, but there was no report of terroristic violence anywhere in Britain's sprawling capital. Scotland Yard, though seem- ing to lean toward a theory that a prankster was to blame for a "war of nerves" on police, nev ertheless had bobbies deployed at strategic spots today in view of three new telephoned bomb threats just to be on the safe side. Coast Stations Hear Tule Story Radio listeners on 20 coast ABC stations heard the story of the Tulelake homestead drawing last nig-ht when the weekly "Re port to the People" was initiated from the studio of KFLW, Klam ath Falls. Ray Best, district engineer of the reclamation bureau, and Dean Abbott, one of the veterans participating in Wednesday's drawing, were interviewed by Bob McCarl, KFLW announcer. Mel Baldwin of KFLW arranged the program. It was announced today that Lawrence Carr of Redding will represent Governor Earl Warren of California at the drawing ceremonies in the Klamath ar mory starting at . 10:30 a. m. Wednesday. Walter B. Horning. Portland, land administrator for tne veterans administration, will represent General Omar Brad ley, head of tha veterans admin D. Yancey Meld IriMaryMXomb Shooting Affair Miss Mary McComb, SO-year-oId Klamath county librarian, la ' in lamath Valley hoapital in aa extremely critical condition to day with a bullet wound in her neck and held In the county jail a her allagad auailant is Donald L. Yancey, 3$, ax-soldler. Mi McComb wa shot Saturday night at tha bom of Mr. ' and Mrs. John Matts, 1702 Crescent, when Yancey asurtedly ' fired ona ihot from a .38-callbre revolver at Matt, his step- father, ona hot at MUs McComb. and two at hlmialf. Yancay'a skull was creased by one of the a bullets, and the other graied nis scalp. In his statement to th dis trict attorney and other officers after the shooting, Yancey said that he was "in love" with Miss McComb and that he was an gered when her brother, David, warned him to cease his atten tions to her. The librarian and ex-soldicr are neighbors. He operates a small repair shop in a garage on her' own property. He drove the county library "bookmo bile" last spring and worked around the library until last September when he ceased working there due to 111 health. Yancey's story, given to offi cers in the presence of District Attorney Clarence Humble early Sunday morning, related that he went to the house of Miss McComb after spending some time drinking down town. He said that while down town he decided to go to the McComb residence at 1635 Crescent, directly across the street from the Matts residence, where he lived with his step father and mother. The statement, quoted by of ficers, said that Yancey smash ed in the back door of the Mc Comb house with his fist. Miss McComb, becoming frightened, ran out the front door and across the street to the Matts house. A few moments later Yancey came to the house, went into his bedroom, and took a revolver from a foot locker. According to the quoted state ment, Mr. and Mrs. Matts and Miss McComb were in the liv ing room. Yancey entered with the pistol, and an argument started. When Yancey asserted ly became abusive. Mrs. Matts left the room to call the police by telephone. Yancey drew his pistol and allegedly fired one shot at his stepfather, who was standing in a door, the bullet going br tween Matts' legs and into th floor. Yancey then is alleged to have turned the weapon on Miss McComb, who was sitting on the sofa. The bullet struck her in the right side of the neck. Fires At Head Yancey then put the gun to his own head and fired. The first shot barely grazed his head and singed his hair. The (CaaUaaaA aa rata S. Calaau II Search Party Finds Skiers PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 16 (IP) Two Portland skiers lost in a blizzard were found at 4 a. m. to day after an all-night -hunt by a searching party of 20 men organ ized by District Forest Ranger Jim Langdon. Bill Pollock, 22, and Dave Becker were discovered huddled under a clump of trees between Timber line lodge and govern ment camp on Mount Hood, try ing to keep warm. Neither was hurt. Olle Lien, a forest service guard, headed the party that found the men. The pair was first reported missing at 4 p. m. yesterday, while a blizzard enveloped tie mountain. The two -had been skiing from Timberline lodge to Government camp when heavy snows driven by a stiff wind struck the area. A bus carrying 35 passengers from the lodge was stalled in drifts and passengers spent the night at the lodge. Australian Lives Through Jap Beheading, Tells Tale TOKYO, Dec. 16 (P) An Aus tralian soldier who lived to crawl from his jungle grave told the international war crimes tri bunal today how the Japanese had botched the job of behead ing him. Testimony of the witness, Colin Fleming Brien, 23, of Syd ney, opened the final phase of the prosecution's long case against 27 wartime Japanese leaders. The trial began last June 3. Brien said he was taken to a clearing in jungles near Singa pore early in 1942, was told in English, "You are going to meet your God," and was forced to sit on the edge of his grave, blindfolded and with his mists tied behind him. A Japanese of ficer, sword in hand, pushed Brien's head forward, then "After a few seconds, I felt a heavy, dull blow on the back of my .neck. I fell over on my right side, then lost consciousness. When I regained consciousness, I was lying at the bottom of the grave under some wooden pal ings and clods of earth. I had large wound in th back of my Air Search To Start For Plane SEATTLE, Dec' 16 (IP) For th first time since the plane dls- . aDDeared last Tuesday after noon, weather conditions wer reported ideal today for an aer ial search of the slopes of Mt. Rainier where a marine corps transport plane is believed to have crashed with 32 ; men aboard. Eighteen army and coast guard planes took to the air from Mc Chord field and Port Angeles at daylight. A helicopter was expected from March field, Calif., for sup ply and evacuation, if the trans port is found. That the lofty 14.408-foot peak was still the most likely local for the missing plane was indl- cated early this mqrning when a small band of coast guardsmen 4 and other returned from check ing a report chat plane wreckage had been sighted 12 miles east of Eatonville, a small community 33 miles southeast of Tacoma. "W covered every foot of (round without sighting thing," said one of the party. A new group, however, waa to undertake a final check on 1 the region at daybreak. Two 20,000,000 .candlepower anti-aircraft searchlights were dispatched from McChord field to aid the searchers, but arrived after the party's return. Supreme Court To Hear Lewis WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (VP): The supreme court today per mitted John L. Lewis and ' his United Mine Workers to com befor it with a 10-point appeal from their conviction and ?3,- ' 510.000 fines for contempt. Th historic case, growing out of Lewis' flaunting a restraining order intended to prevent the re cent 17-day coal strike, thus was outlined for the court of last re sort in all its broad legal aspects. , One week ago the court grant ed the government request that it give a final, "authoritative" ruling on the action of Federal District Judge T. Alan Golds-. boroug-h in issuing the restrain er. All arguments arc set tor January 14. Officer Named Theft Leader FRANKFURT, Germany, Dee. 16 JP Col. Jack W. Durant was pictured to a military court today as the organizer of the $1, 500,000 theft of Hesse family jewels from Kronberg castle. Th prosecutor, Maj. Joseph Robinson of New York, said he would prove this. Durant, refus ing to acknowledge the court's right to try him, declined to make a plea but the nine colonels comprising tie court en tered a plea of innocence for him. Durant Is from Washington D. C. His wife and another offi- -cer -have been convicted in the jewel theft. neck, and ' was covered with blood." He said he never had been . given any form of trial, nor been ;. charged with any offense, H later was re-imprisoned. ! Australia's prosecutor, Mr. Justice Alan James Mansfield of Queensland, named wartim Premier Hideki Tojo and 11 oth er defendants as responsible for atrocities against allied prisoner! of war and internees. C-7 SHOMINCi DAYS 1IFT J i
