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run jet-Burs Editor MALCOLM grXlT Mshoglng Editor UBDCRiraON BATE! eorrtef irmnlh II 00 Br mall . mill TTinoiilb il.00 tw mall . with! MM -?er M M tnMrva m weond eiM Btatw at U oostotne of Kiamtts Km oI. on Auiuat 30. 1BOA. unotr act of contrcM. Me rob . 18T9 Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY THERE'S no provision for further appeal, and It's apparent that the Tulelake homestead winner list, announced yesterday by the recla mation bureau, is final to the last man and the lone woman. The fortunate 86 will choose their farms by March 13, which is none too soon inas much as these folks are ex pected to go on their land for 14 "? forthcoming crop year. fc Yesterday, we made a quick 3 trip through a part of the f ((.I basin, and we were impressed ' by the amount of activity un- immmmmmmmmmmJ tier way as already-settled ag- EPLEY riculturists make the most of the remarkably fine February weather we are having. There will be some disappointment, of a more bitter sort than followed the December 18 drawing. It is possible, too, that some injustices were done, and we doubt if it would be possible to devise any system for alloting rich prizes such as these without injustices. In a case or two, we are told, the letter of the regulations, strictly and rigidly observed, squeezed out ap plicants whose cases were highly deserving, and whose technical disqualification was in no way a fault of theirs. Undoubtedly, there were cases where strict legal interpretation prevailed over the heart impulses of the men on the examin ing board." ,For these and other reasons, we earnestly urge that no one seek to find unfavorable im plications towards the rejectees in the outcome of their, cases. Most satisfactory from the public standpoint Is the fact that the honesty of the work of the examining board and others involved in the procedure stands unquestioned. Apportionment Issue THE senate education committee at Salem was scheduled this afternoon to tackle the tough question of apportionment of the basic school fund which the public voted last November. In the house, an apportionment plan passed, after a compromise between opposing forces. In its revised form, the house-adoDted plan pro vides more generously for Klamath county schools and the Klamath Falls city elementary , jscools than did the original prorjosal. The high school district loses a bit under the revision, but not seriously, i In the senate, a different scheme, known as the "congressional district plan," has been pro posed, and will be there for consideration along with the adopted house plan. The congressional district . plan, as we understand it, would be still more favorable to Klamath schools. News Behind The News " Br PAUL MAL'LON , . WASHINGTON, Feb. '26 Here is 'an inside unofficial report on Germany, Japan and the American occupations (paraphrased conver sationally) from an army man who has studied both sectors. Keep this one for your scrapbooks, because the top men are said to be growing alive to the deplorable situation it presents con cerning the occupation of Germany. In line with it. General Marshall may change policy in the coming Moscow talks for a German treaty and the army certainly will be induced to make .some corrections at least, if it does not over turn its German setup. Here it is: The occupation of Japan is nearly perfect. This has been accomplished because the Japa nese are behind General MacArthur, not only 100 per cent, but (in true Nipponese fashion) about 101 per-cent. Industries have been re stored and are functioning as well as anyone expected. There are some defects but Japan is considerably supporting herself. Far more important, the American soldier in .Japan is a model. The officers have no trouble on looting, black markets, . or - even much on morality. Following the guidance set forth by MacArthur, they are cooperating with the peo ple, and the people with them. . In Germany the occupation is disgraceful. It is a disgrace to American arms and administra tion. Around 45 per cent of the occupation army, numbering nearly 200,000, are kids of less than 21 years of age. Another 30 or 35 per cent are repeaters, lads who came back to the States, could nof get or did not want a job, knew of the conditions of black marketing and looting to be found in central Europe, and went back to get into them. MacArthur Showed How BUT these kids and men are not to be held responsible for the corruption of the army of occupation. The men in charge should have set down an efficient program from the begin ning, as MacArthur did. Their trouble was that after the war they did not know what to do. They had no occupation formula such as Mac Arthur developed. So they turned for guidance to propaganda from home, and the most vocifer ous of the public here demanded swift denazi fication of any and all Germans, retributive punishment and other steps which have kept Germany from supporting herself. Denazifica tion is all right, as a theory. I feel that way my self. But nearly everyone who knew how to run factories and business operations was naturally connected with the nazi party one way or an other, so what we have done is to debusincssize Germany in the process. It would have been far better if we had required some na lis who knew how to do things, to work for us. However you may look at this angle, our basic defect is that we did not improvise a workable plan for Germany because our com manders had not studied and did not know the German people. (MacArthur's. economic and po litical aides had really studied Japan during the war). The Russian occupation is worse yet. The reds came in and took everything they could lay their hands on. They even took silk wall paper off the walls. In the Berlin subway they made off with so much of the machinery that we had to go after them, and get some of it back in order to put the subway in operation. But particularly they took machinery of all kinds. I suppose their idea was to take it back to Russia and operate it, but much of it is still standing out on German sidings. The Russians did not have the know-how of transportation sufficiently td move it home in good order, or even the know-how of operation to run it after getting it home. Their soldiers operate just about on the men tality of our youngsters. They had some trouble with "discipline at first. The papers now say this is straightened out. I would not know. But their operations in Germany show them to have done in general the first class job of sabotage our college boys might try on the night of the big game. At best, you would have to call their occupa tion policy "short-sighted realism." They took everything, and now they cannot use it. They ruined the German production system complete ly. What they should have done was to use it, make the Germans run it and provide enough for the German people and the army of occupa tion. New Start Needed A HAT should we do about all this? 1 V V thought a good deal about this on my trips when I had plenty of time to think. The only conclusion I could reach was- that we should clean out our whole occupation system and start all over. The army of occurjation would be far more efficient if it was cut from under 200.000 down to a bare nucleus of say possibly 500. We need no more than this to do the top job of policing. Then we should employ both Germans and Poles (refugees escaped from Russian domina tion) to fill out the army and do the actual su pervision of production. We employ both Ger mans and Poles now (as the British do in their zone) and say nothing about it." We should de velop this field openly and strongly. ' Then the Germans and Poles (who know Germany best) might be able to work out a plan of economic self-support. Until this is done, occupation will be-, costly and futile. But by doing this, we could bring the boys home where they belong, cut down the tremendous current costs (I am really sneaking of both Germany and Austria in practically all my observations and conclusions), and put the sector on a work able basis. " Of course, I realize that if General Marshall starts to develop such a policy there will prob ably be a howl. The domestic politicians will cry out that we are retiring from Europe, and abandoning our obligations there (really we would not be). Then there is the more valid question . of whether withdrawal would ODen Germany to further Russian aggressions. Per sonally I do not think there is the slightest danger of this. I have never seen the Russians able to produce anything except children. They have manpower, nothing else. If you start talking about leaving war poten tials to Germany you will never be able to find a solution. Food actually is a great war poten tial but it cannot be denied the Germans. Frank ly I am not afraid of Germany. No one could possibly be, who had seen it. Nor am I afraid of Russia. I think we should get the boys out and super vise the occupation job through the Germans and the Polish refugees. SIDE GLANCES coeo. srr Htk tttvcf. ac t, at era, u. p. nr. per, a-i "You never have any fights or play hookey or have any fun with us -didn't your parents ever tsach you right from wrong?" Boyle's Column Thaw's Death Brings End To Colorful Period In US Police Probe Stab Cases ' PORTLAND, Feb. 26 (JP) One man was wounded by an axe and a man and a woman were slashed and stabbed in three sep arate assaults here last night. Police arrested Roy Granville, 31, on a charge of assault with intent to kill and he was held today on $5000 bond in the stab bing of his wife, Thelma, 28, in what police described as an argu ment over the custody of their three children. The couple were estranged. Ludwig Larson, ,55, was found in his room with a wound on the back of his head. Police booked a rooming companion who said an axe figured in a fight he had with the wounded man. A man identified as Harold La Brecht, 45, was found along rail road tracks last night with sev eral broken ribs, brain concus sion and multiple stab wounds. Classified Ads Bring Results. 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Fpr 25 years after he shot to death Stanford White on June 25, 1906. over the affections of Evelyn Nesbit the most cele brated love triangle slaying of the twentieth century Thaw's court battles and playboy esca pades made him the most publi cized man of wealth in the na tion. His life read like a case history from Freud. Yet when I mentioned his name to a young taxi driver while en route to the Miami Beach waterfront home where Thaw died the youth did not recognize his name. "Never heard of him." he said, and added apologetically, "but I lived here in Miami all my life. ' That is a measure of the oblivion into which the madcap millionaire retreated more than fifteen years ago when he finally gave up his headline-producing antics. Retired. Gantleman . At his death at 76 Thaw was the picture of a sedate retired gentleman of means an unbent six-foot-one inch oatncian. still handsome with his thick white hair and small moustache. Al though he i nee ha ' tossed away S1500 a night on gay parties, he was a conservative in money matters. He disapproved of the new deal and considered himself a staunch republican in politics. As we sat in beach chairs on the lawn of the rented 15-room home where Thaw had wintered so quietly the last two years few neighbors knew his identity, his attorney, Sidney Werner, gave this last portrait of the man: maw didn t like gambling in any form. He was reticent and didn't express his moods or feel ings. "He was one of the gentlest and kindest of souls, and anyone who was in close contact with him became genuinely devoted to him. "His philosoDhv was to heln others who needed it and with the least possible fanfare, -he helped many poor people and sent a number of bovs and girls through school. But it upset him if his charities became known. He was a fanatic for the truth. I never knew him to tell lie. "He verv seldom went to nleht clubs, and then on'y for dinner. He rose at 7 a. m. and went to bed at 9 to 9:30. His chief diver sions were automobile riding, bridge and reading he had a tremendous knowledge of his tory and geography. "I do not believe he saw Eve lyn Nesbit the last 15 or 20 years of his life, although he helped her out financially from time to time. "He never spoke of his earlier troubles." Very Keen Mind Although Thaw spent some eight years in insane asylums i and took no active interest in I , ; ll, u uusincss auairs, ncriicr seuu nv had "a verv keen mind." In ill health since a paralytic stroke left him with an impaired right hand. Thaw enjoyed the seclusion which he found on a 67-ncrc $1,500,000 estate at Bol ton, N. Y overlooking Lake George. He bought the estate in 1934 after disposing of a home in Virginia. He inherited $3,000,000 and large interests in coke producing properties from his father, Wil liam Thaw, then rated as Ameri ca's third wealthiest man worth some $40,000,000. Born with a gold spoon In his mouth. Thaw novel let it melt. He spent a million dollars trying to prove he wasn't insane and dropped uncounted hundr Is of thousands more In court fights, expensive escapades, and fruit less ventures as a producer of movies that never reached the screen. But he died still high in the millionaire class well able to be buried in a gold casket if he chose. His conversion to the quiet life, however, came too late to ease the (resentment stiil felt against him by some elderly monled men. Thcv think the toss-dollar foibles of Thaw and other irresponsible wealthy play boys of his time helped cause an annoyed public to inflict the heavy income and Inheritance taxes which still constrict many an anguished millionaire who never bought a chorus girl an ermine coat or threw a whiskey bottle in u night club. iiMAAMeeiAMAAAeiMeAMMeieMeAAeAei The World Today By DsWITT MacXENZIE AP Fortlgn Affairs Analyst Highly disquieting Is the ro- Iiort brought by Lt. Gen, John i. Hodge, conimundvr of U. S. forces in southern Korea, regard ing Kusso-Anicrlcan roltillous in that Oriental liot-spol. The general, who Is buck In Washington to nuiko a report of his stewardship, suys ho has given up trying to negotiate with the Soviet milhorltit'g for unifi cation of the country under a provisional government, us pro vided for under thu Moscow agreement of 1945. Negotiations broke down last year over Rus sian insistence that no Koreans who opposed (he Soviet plan for a five year trusteeship over their country should take part in the government. Since then no soap. "What further is done Is up to someone higher up," says Hodge, after tho fushion of a man of few words. Korsans In Army The general further states that the Russian radio has acknowl edged Soviet conscription of Ko reans into the army in tho Mus covite northern zone of occupa tion. Dr. Syngman Fhee, lender of the south Korean democratic league, who Is In Washington, supplements this with the asser tion that the Russians are drill ing and equipping 500,000 Ko reans for incorporation into tho red army. Apropos of this, the Moscow trade union organ, Trud, said Dr. Fhee is trying to obtain weapons from the United States to make war against the com munists in northern Korea. That, on thunib-nuil, is the highly uncomfortable situation In Korea. At least that's what appears on the surface but there's a lot more than meets the eye. Invaluable Bai ' So far as China and Russia are concerned, Korea Is tin inval uable base for defense or offense. Its value to Japan when she was on the war-path is self evident. It is equally clear that Uncle Sam and Britain, with their great Oriental interests, want to see Korea established as an inde pendent state. As things stand, the country Is divided in halves, with Russia occupying the northern portion and America the southern. Tho line of demarcation is the 38th parallel, and this imaginary boundary is so tightly guarded by the Russians that it Is like a I Chinese wall. Now look at that map and note how Korea shields Russia's great Siberian port of Vladivos tok, and the Mnnchurinn ports of Dairen and Port Arthur in which Moscow is so deeply In terested. Strongly held with mili tary forces. It Is natural defense for the Soviet eastern posses sions. ' It isn't surprising therefore to HSRAI.D e NkriO, Klamath Falls, Pro, WSflNSSnAT, Fab, Id, HIT. Pais FslO 29 New Homes To Be Built In South Sixth District An estimated $200,000 homo building project is well under way on Gorvals street Just off S. tilh with E. II. Do Witt und David Blesli, Until of Klamath Falls as the builders. The pro gram Includes the building of 29 new homes, six of which arc already under construction. The houses will front each aide of the street which hits been re cently cut through the tract of lund and Is now being graveled. The street at present Is 1320 feet long and provision Is undo for a (10 font, width. Cement sidewalks will also bo Installed as the division is built up. Six teen homes will bn built on one aide of tho street and the re mainder on the opposite side. All of the homes are two bed room' houses, some larger than others and soma with fireplaces. The newest typo of construction, with plastered walls Is being omployed, each hits a utility room, plenty of closet space and an attached, concrete floored garage. The builders will put up homes to specifications of prospective purchasers, Three 45-foot lots In the sub division, fronting on S. Hth with a depth of 110 feet havo been retained by the contractors for buslivrss properly and plans have already been drawn uy s local architect for a five story building for the site. Severn! old poplar trees on the property are now being removed. The land truns-acllon, han dled by Wesley M. Sharpies, Klamath realtor, Is one of the largest In recent months In the suburban area. Several acres of ground were Involved, five bring purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Ovid Gervals, owners of tho Anchor hotel and bsrber shop on S. 6th. They owned the property for six years. Land across the new street, now the property of DeWitt and ( fllt'.ih was originally the old L, W. Horn tract. Horn, a long time resident of Klamuth Falls now lives at Snuta Ana, Calif. Do Witt ciiiiio to Klaniatli Fulls last September from Kan suit City nnd Joplln, Mo., and Uloh has been associated In tht contracting and building busi ness hero for some time, No consideration was men tioned by tho now owners on ths recent transaction. Bunnell Estate Set At $10,000 Robert Henry Runnell, former Klamuth county ludgo who died at Brookings Kcbrtuiry 111, left an estate valued at not In ex cess of $10,000 in real and per si. mil property. Ills will, dated March 5, ItKIB, has been pro bated at the county courthouse. Ilia wife, Ida May Bunnell, If named in the document ns ex ecutrix, and lo her goes the hulk of the estate. Lloyd Edwin Bunnell and Myrtle Dell Bun nell, son and daughter, of Ash land, were bequeathed $10, with a notation that Judge Bunnell's wife will provide for them from her estate, Ella May Reeve, a slater In Oakland, Calif., Is to receive $1000, sod another aister In Oakland. Charlotte Triplet!, al so receives $1000, City Delivery Bsrvles. Ph. $417. find that the Indications are Rus sia intends to stay right where shu Is In northern Korea, at least for the present, That. I take It, is the meaning of Gen. Hodge's report. And, tinder the circumstances, j one would expect Uncle Sam to continue In occupation of south- j em Korea until this situation Is 1 cleared up. It would be an astonishing thing to sea him pull out, leaving Russia In possession. Independence for the country is what he Is working for. snnnnnni COLDS Relltro nilsery, as moot mothers do. 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