German Border Changes
Vill Face U. S. Opposition
BERLIN. Dw. 30 M Reliable diplomatic sources predicts
today t proposals lor rTitk)i oi Gwmur'i wmImb frontier,
except for cession of tha Sui to France, would bo strongly op
posed by tho United. States at the forthcoming Gorman poaco
It Is expected, these sources laid, that tha United States will
at only oppoto Franca'a claima to tha Rhtnaland but will reject
mora modaat bordar changaa proposed by Holland and Belgium
ualau tha couatrlaa concornod can proaant aatltfactorr proof that
tha paopla of tho araa concarnad "genuinely datira" a change.
Tha poaltion of tha Unitad Statai and others on tha Qarman
bordar aattlamanta b being outllnad among tha four major alllad
powers hara for presentation to tha foralgn ministers council
whan it conTanaa in Moacow in March.
The American positions, it a
was understood here, will be
essentially the same as that out
lined by secretary of State
James F. Byrnes in his Stutt
gart policy speech last Septem
ber, although it is being pre
pared in more aciau to meet
the complex claims against Ger
many expected to develop at
the coming negotiations.
At Stuttgart Byrnes declared
the United States docs not con
sider the eastern borders of
Germany as decided and an
nounced ' opposition to any
claims against Germany In the
west except for the French
claim to the Saar. He further
qualified this by saying that in
return for the Saar, France
should "readjust her repara
tions claims."
There have been strong indi
cations during the past week
that Russia will support the
United States position with re
gard to Germany's western
frontiers. Soviet supervised and
sponsored newspapers in Ber
lin have launched bitter attacks
against the French for the new
customs control which they
have established over the Saar,
and also have criticized Dutch
and Belgian claims for border
revisions.
Dance Head
Faces Fraud
PORTLAND, Dec. 30 JP) A
dance studio manager was under
indictment here today, accused
of getting GI payments for non
existent dance lessons.
Odd Hagen Foss, 32, manager
ot the Arthur Murray studio
here, was charged with fraud by
the government. The complaint
said he induced a veteran to
apply for GI bill of rights pay
ments for dance lessons.
The veteran had taken lessons
before the studio was certified
as a training school and was an
instructor there at the time the
application was made, the com
plaint said.
Foss is free on $3000 bond.
Hal King, Oakland, Calif., re
gional manager of the chain of
dance studios, said the Portland
studio's franchise had been sus
pended, and the company would
repay any amount in a defraud
ment. 55 Motorists Cited
In Traffic Check
Fifty-five motorists, caught in
a two-way traffic check conduct
ed by state police yesterday, are
in for an appearance in justice
court today.
The check was conducted
simultaneously at the Merrill
and Ashland junctions. Police
checked for brakes, horns, wind
shield swipes and operator's
licenses, and said that 40 of the
offenders were given citations for
having faulty emergency brakes.
Allied Control
Outlines New
BERLIN, Dec. 30 (IP) The
allied control council today pub
lished a sweeping new law for
Germany prohibiting the manu
facture, import and possession of
all war materials from atom
bombs to daggers and kites.
The prohibitions are contained
in control council law No. 43.
It includes many provisions for
demilitarization of Germany
which were previously executed
by the four occupation zone com
manders in the form of proclama
tions and directives.
The law requires that Ger
mans declare to the allies any
still-existing war stocks, which
are to be destroyed or converted
to essential peacetime uses. It
provides penalties o imprison
Family Holds
Reunion Here
For the first time In 40 years,
four sisters and two brothers
gathered here to enjoy a family
reunion with the arrival of three
of the sisters from England
. Mrs. J. W, QukbeU, 2232 Gar
den, was host to her family which
included Mrs. Elisabeth Hyde
and Mrs. Clssie Smith, both of
Hyde, - Cheshire, England, and
Mrs. Alice Wade, Stockport, Eng
land, and the brothers, William
Pomroy of San Francisco and
Walter Pomroy of Klamath Falls.
Mrs. Hyde, Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Wade left England on the Queen
Elizabeth November 22, docking
in New York December 1. The
sisters spent Christmas with Wil
liam in San Francisco and ar
rived here Friday night. They
plan to make an Indefinite stay
of probably four months. Wil
liam Pomroy had completed
plans for a trip to England to
visit his family last May but
became ill on the train and it
was through his efforts that the
sisters were able to get passage
to the United States to take part
in the family reunion.
Quibcll is The Herald and
News carrier for the Mills addi
tion district and has held this
job for the past 13 years, which
gives him the title of "oldest car
rier" for the paper.
Nazi Doctor
To Die
FRANKFURT. Germany, Dec.
30 (P) Dr. Friedrich Mennecke,
former SS lieutenant-colonel,
was sentenced to death, and three
of his subordinates were given
prison terms today by a German
criminal court which convicted
them of the Euthanasia murder
of hundreds of inmates of the
Eichberg insane asylum.
It was the first war crimes trial
of Germans by a German court.
The victims also were Germans,
some of the hundreds ot thou
sands of mental and physical
defectives exterminated during
the war by the nazis.
The court found Dr. Mennecke
guilty of ordering the slaying of
1000 asylum inmates as part of
his "scientific experiments."
The convictions and sentences
may be appealed to a German
supreme court at Frankfurt and
also are subject to review Dy tne
American military government,
without whose approval no death
sentences may be carried out.
Never plunge glass and pot
tery cooking dishes into cold
water. Soak to loosen crusted
or burned food. Wash as usual.
Council
German Laws
ment and, in serious cases, death
for violations.
Dispensations may be made
for peacetime requirements
such as arms and ammunition
for police, explosives for demoli
tion work and cryptographic ma
chines for authorized internal
security services.
Also forbidden are warships of
all classes, aircraft of all types
including kites, captive balloons,
gliders and model aircraft and
all drawings, specifications, de
signs, models and reproductions
relating to the development, test
ing or inspection of war ma
terials. The ban on war chemicals In
cludes rocket fuels such as high
concentrates of hydrogen perox
ide. .
Panthers
Back In
Their Cage
EL PASO, Tax,, Deo. 30 (P) .
A Railway Express ear contain
ing three panthers was en route
to Los Angeles today after tho
anlmalsV campaign for freedom
had delayed the trip more than
48 hours. -. , ...
The campaign did 'not win
their freedom- but it did win the
animals a privato car.
The panthers, being shipped
from Dallas to California, es
caped from their cnge In a Toxus
and Pacific railroad baggage car
early last Friday while en route
to El Paso.
Dr. Noble Hainiler. trainer and
shipper ot the animals, arrived
there yesterday from Dallas and
decided it would be safer to put
them in another car rather than
attempt to re-crate them.
Armed only with a chair and
a piece of pipe two feet long,
Hamltcr prodded tho animals
into an empty car.
The panthers had not been
without food during their, pro
longed stay in the car but they
had been without water for 24
hours.
A small dog. soma chickens
and a barrel of fish that had
been traveling with the panthers
were unharmed.
Police Busy
Over Weekend
Nathan Copporfleld. 29-ycur-
old Klamath Indian from Beatty,
in the city Jail on a drunk charge,
Saturday night started a one
man riot with other inmates of
the drunk tank and had to be
locked up by himself after offi
cers had quelled the disturbance.
In police court this morning
Copporfleld pleaded guilty to
disorderly conduct and was fined
$25 and given an extra 10 days
According to pollco report, the
Indian beat and kicked two other
drunks.
Robert Bickman, roomer at the
Cozy hotel, was fined $35 and
given a 10-day sentence this
morning for giving liquor to an
Indian, Henrietta Johns, who
was jailed on a drunk count.
Bickman and the Indian woman
were arrested In his hotel room
Saturday night.
Three traffic arrests were
made by police over the week
end. Walter Gustave Eschenbeck,
205 Commercial, was cited to
come to court tills afternoon for
a violation of the basic rule on
S. 6th; Robert M. Farrand, 405
Martin, was cited for making a
U turn on 7th between Main and
Klamath, and Keith Elbert
Henry. 2215 Vine, posted $5 ball
for running a red light.
rive drunks appeared in court
this morning and six drunks
posted bail over the week-end.
Melhase Case
Row Looms
By way of answer to charges
made in- an equity suit rCgard
ln. Ua ...I.I. r " XlC I L
1 1 . 1 1 u cnwiv vt wub mviiHinvi
Klamath pioneer who died
March 28, the defendants, Win-
ired w. (.leghorn, John u.
Clcghorn and the Wlthrow-Mcl-hase
company have entered a
motion to have several lines of
the original complaint stricken
from the record,
The original suit was filed
by George F, Ketsdcver, Wilt
liam M. Melhase and Eva E.
Soulc, representing the heirs of
the Melhase estate.
Their complaint charged that
the Clcgliorns, owners of half
of the Withrow-Mclhase com
pany, had persuaded Melhase to
transfer his half of tho com-
fiany which includes the build
ng of the Hall hotel to them,
and also to make gifts to them
amounting to some $75,000,
thereby disinheriting the right
ful heirs to the estate.
The defendants' motion asks
that several phrases which in
fer that the transfer was made
without any consideration
whatsoever" be stricken from
the complaint.
A. W. Schaunn and D. E. Van
Vactor are attorneys for the
Clcghorns, and J. H. Carnahan
Is representing tne plaintiffs.
Judge Charles H. Combs of
Lakeview has been assigned to
conduct the case.
Special House Committee
Levels Blast At Russians
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (ZD
Charges of economic enslave
ment, political terrorism, relig
ious repression, broken prom lues
and ambitions for military power
were leveled agulnst Russia to
day by the special house com
mittee . on postwar economic
policy. - . .
Tho committee report the
sharpest official criticism of
Russia on Capitol Hill since tho
Soviet Union wont to war with
Germany demanded that the
United Stales assert "positive
leadership" In European eco
nomic affairs.
Simultaneously It asserted that
if Russia actually Is found to be
using German war plants to re
arm, the western allies should
Youths Held
In Holdup
James Lee, 24. who was or
dered to leave Klamath Falls
early in December, and a 18-year-old
Klamath Falls boy are
being held in Jail at Sacramento
in connection with an armed rob
bery, according to word received
by officials here.
The naturo of the robbory was
not disclosed, but officials were
asked to check up on the pistol
used, which is believed to have
been stolen here.
Lee, according to police rec
ords, had been in Klamath Falls
for several months and was ar
rested three limes. The last time,
early this month, he was given
a 90-day suspended sentence for
vagrancy and ordered to leave
town.
The other youth Is well known
to the police and Juvenile office.
and. was known to have been
armed when he left town several
days ago.
Rail Crossing '
Wreck Kills 2
MOUNT VERNON. Dec. 30
f1 A futher and his six-year-old
duuKhter fought for life in
the Skagit county hospital here
today as the aftermath of on
automobile-train collision which
yesterday morning killed tho
wlfo and mother and a three-year-old
daughter.
The dead were Mrs. Elva
Trautman, 35, and Donald, 3, of
East Stanwood.
Etrlcn Trautman, 32, the hus
band and father, was said by
hospital attendants to have a
brain concussion, severe lacera
tions and a broken anklo. The
daughter, Carol, received multi
ple head wounds, concussion
and cuts.
The accident occurred short
ly before noon Sunday at the
Fir (formerly Conway) railway
crossing.
State police said Trautman
apparently drove his car onto
the crossing directly in front of
a Great Northern passenger
train, southbound from Van
couver, B. C. to Seattle. The im
pact hurled Trautman 92 feet
from the crash scene. The others
were dragged in the car.
Identification papers on Traut
man indicated the family had
recently moved to East Stan
wood from Anacortca, police
said.
GOP Committee Runs Into
Challenge
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30 (Pi
Senate republican leaders' plan
to divide up committee assign
ments at an afternoon meeting
bumped into a challenge from
Senator Robey (R-N.H.) today of
their right to act now.
In advance of the meeting,
Tobcy told reporters that a rule
adopted by tho republican con
ference (the organization of sen
ate GOP members) on December
15, 1944, forbids making or ap
proving any committee assign
ments until after congress actu
ally convenes
He took notice of statements
by members of the outgoing re
publican committee on commit
tees, that they were merely mak
ing recommendations to the full
group of 51 republican senators
and senators-elect.
Tobey called this committee
a "rump" group, but declared:
"Any child of adolescence who
doesn't know that those recom
MONBAT, Dm. M. IM, Fata S'tM
denounce the entire Potsdam Bk
Three agreement and demand
that the Soviets "evacuate Ger
many completely."
First reaction to tha commit,
tee's . document e a m in tho
form of a protest against "head
line hunters" by Rep. Sol Bloom
(D-N.Y.), retiring chairman ot
the house foreign affairs com
mittee, Illoom told reporters the com
mittee should huve submitted its
evidence, "If It huat any" to the
atute and war departments for in
vestigation. He contended the
report would do "fur more harm
than good" In current dlpluniutlu
negotiations.
The state department declined
any Immediate comment.
Case Of Beer
Costs $1700
WOODBURY, N. J., Dec. 90
(A1) Jack Bitting, manager of a
liquor store, sold a case of beer
for $.1.85 Saturday. After tha
customer left, Bitting remem
bered ho had placed a paper bag
containing $1700 m cash and
checks in the beer case which
was taken away. The money
was put there because he did
not want to take the store re
ceipts with him overnight.
Bitting has appealed to the
customer to put in another ap
pearance with the money.
Theatre Man's
Death Told
PORTLAND, Ore.. Dee. 30 Wl
Albert J. Finko, 51, vice presi
dent of the Evergreen Theatres
corporation which operates mo
tion picture houses in Oregon
and Washington, died after a
heart attack here yesterday.
Flnke, who went to Seattle
after the first World war and
managed theatres In Seattle,
Bremerton, and Belllngham.
established a company with Al
Rosenberg of Seattle to operate
show houses In several Wash
ington cities. In 1D35 this com
pany was merged with two oth
ers to become the Evergreen
Theatres corporation, and Finko
moved here.
Finko, prominent In civic af
fairs, leave the widow, Marie,
formerly of Belllngham, a daugh
ter, and a son.
Accident Victims
Said Recovering
Clinton Barrett, 20, son of Mrs.
Ot Barrett, routa 3 box 305,
who suffered the loss of his right
eye In an accident at Weyer
haeuser Timber company late
Fridoy, was reported recovering
at Hillside hospital today. It is
understood that Barrett was
stacking boards when one struck
him In the eya
Tom Watson, 40-year-old em
ploye of the American Box com
pany, Chlloquin, was recovering
from a broken leg received Fri
day night in a fall downtown in
Klamath Falls. Ho Is a patient at
Hillside hospital.
Another induatrlal Injury was
reported from Hillside when Al
Hcndrlckson, Southern Pacific
employe, suffered an injury to
the left foot on December 2.1. Ho
is also improving. Hcndrlckson
is a resident of Los Angeles.
Over Meeting
mendations will gathor tho forces
of a snowball is lust kidding
himself."
Tobey's attitude and a bid by
Senator Reed of Kansas for the
commerco committee chairman
ship tentatively assigned by the
leaders to Senator Whlto ot
Maine raised the prospect of
a sharp row In the GOP meeting.
Tho gathering of all GOP sen- '
ators was called to agree on or
ganization ot the senate branch
of the now congress and parcel,
out the choice leadership posts,
Tobey made It clear he would '
challenge at tho meeting tho..
right ot what he called a "rump"
committee on committees to
make any committee assign
ments. He declared that under exist
Ing rules, the new committee on
committees could not be appoint
ed until after tho next session ot
congress actually convenes on
I Friday.