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QN our teletype early this morning
there was a piece by James Mar
low telling about what ha waa dolnf
on lha 7th day of December, IM1.
He wrote It last night, he aaya, and
edda wonderlngly that when he eat
down at hla dek and typed the daw
the waa worklni a day ahead, aa
a bit of ua newspaper people dot It
broke over him lor the lint tuna
that thla la rill DAY.
Let 10 on from there In hi own
words. He aaya:
"Suddenly I remembered what day
It waa. I etopped there and went
a'tiound eaklng half a doeen men In
I the office: 'Vou know what dale
Tomorrow la' Each In turn eald
'December 7.' I aald: 'You know
what ennlverear It laf One by
one, they eald NO. 'Pearl Harbor,'
, J aald.
"And one by one Uiey aald 'It la.
at that' or 'dure enouih.' Thry were
urprlaed they had forgotten. Juat
aa I waa. Some ot them were vet
arena. The laat one I apok to had
eerved out Uie war In the navy. He
wee doubly aurpriaed to think De
cember 7 waa the anniversary ot
Pearl Harbor. He aald he thouf ht It
waa December "
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WELL. I went them all one better.
Until I aaw Marlow e column on
the teletype. It had never occurred
to me that another anniversary of
Pearl Harbor Day waa rolling around.
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JUARLOW wae out fishing on that
blarkest day In our history.
He and hla companions earn In
about lha middle of the afternoon.
They had no fih. as often happens.
They were anting around In the
ahack that waa their camp, talking
It over and offering the eurtomary
fishermen alibis
Suddenly a portable radio some
body had brnittht along aputtered
and barked: "The Japanese attacked
Peart Harbor thla morning." For a
while It didn't reclater with them.
Yoi know how It la when you're
listening to the radio with only pan
of one ear.
SUDDENLY IT BROKE ON
' THEM. What the radio announcer
waa saying was true. WE WERE
AT WAR I
e e
QN that fateful day. I hit the duck
V swamp at daylight. Our duck
hunting gang did better than Marlow
and hla fishing companions. The
limit waa ten than, and wa got our
ten ducka apiece so easily that we
hated to come In. Por a long time
we aat around on a grassy Utile rtee
of land In the marsh and talked It
over. We were happy and relaxed
like duck hunters always are under
the circumstances.
Eventually we came Into town and
atopped by the office for some reason
or other. THE NEWS HIT U8 LIKE
A BLOW IN THF PACE.
.
tr I live to be a hundred, that pie-
lure will slay sharp and clear In
my mind all Its details as distinctly
cut aa a cameo.
Never, no matter how many yean
may roll over my head, can I fall to
frel again the queasy alcknera that
hit me In the pit of the stomach aa
the fact burned home In my con
sciousness that THIS IS IT. That
war waa upon ua again after the
Interval of peace since the last war.
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VET, UP to thla morning, I had
1 FORGOTTEN. It waa not until
my eye fell on those word on the
teletype that It all came back to me.
How about you?
Did you remember yesterday that
today would be Pearl Harbor Day?
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WELL, wa fought the war,
" We Ucked the Japs.
We Ucked the Oermana.
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WOW we're feealng them. We've
been feeding them for nearly four
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Lett W Forget
Battleship Arizona's Hulk
Grim Reminder of Evil Day
PEARL HARBOR, Dee. 7 NPi The twisted eapereirwtere of la
Brood aid kaltlaehlp Arlsoaa Juts above the water.
It la a grim reealnder ef what bappcaed here eight yeere ago
Japanese aneak bombs eank the Artsoaa that fateful Sabbath
sacra. Many ef aer geJIsal erew aia Bet gel off.
be reels where she fell the Arlsona a asoeiaaaeeit W the first
Aaserteaae la die la World War II.
On thla aaalrereary all abeat the Arlsaeui waa eereeie aad pretty.
Mfe oa the aaval base flawed evenly.
Hhlae gUdrd by geallf, catering aad leavlag that pearl-Uke epet
aa the edge ef the lalaad called Uaha.
Their wafcee aoflly loacbed the protrading balk.
A email party weal aboard.
The chaplain Inlawed a prayer.
Only a few asade the pUirlauie.
The Arlaeaa at weak aad worn by war aad lease.
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Prlee Five Ceata M Pages
KLAMATH FALL. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 14
Telephone gill No. SMS
Russians' Extensive
Plans for Possible
U. S. War Revealed
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (AP) The Chicago Tribune, in a
dispatch from It Pari correspondent, today said Soviet
Russia is making- "intensive effort" to prepare its Arctic
regions for a possible U. S. war.
The correspondent, Henry Wales, wrote he had ob
tained his information from two escapees from forced
lnhnr nrniocta in the area.
The principal point of
Wale' account were:
The two main military
base are newly- created
clues, Vorkoutak and Ttksl. at the
mouths of the Pouhura and Lena
rivers. Other ports hava been de
veloped at the mouths of the Dvlna,
Ob. Y encase 1, Ingirka, and Amur
rivers.
A atrategle railway la being con
it rue ted from Lake Baikal to the
Bering eea opposite Alaska, but the
Red army la utilising froaen rivers
as Its chief highways.
Soma 300 mteorologloal stations
hava been established in trie Arctic
regions.
Eye Wltaeea
Wales wrote: Thla Information
and a detailed description ot the op-
perauona were obtained from an eye
wllneea who was sentenced to forced
lebor on Nova Zambia, but became
III and waa evacuated to Vorkoutak
whence ho eecaped through the
Iron Curtain to France.
Other Information waa given by
a political prisoner employed on the
project who fled from Ua con
centration camp."
He added, "from bases in Prana
Joeef land, Dlcksen Island, and
Spitsbergen, the Red army plans
operations via Northern Oreenland
to Northern Canada within easy
range ot the United ISatea."
Atomic Strike
Spread Feared
OAK, RIDOE. Term, Dee. 1 UP)
A mush rooming wildcat strike the
first In Oak Ridge history threat
ened today to spread to all con-
miction crafts working on lnstal
latlons In this atomic city.
A top atomic energy commission
official, who declined use of hla
name, aald ha has received uncon
firmed reports that about 300 car
penters end labors will walkout
sometime today.
AEO officials and representatives
ot the national labor relations board
who ware called In hurriedly
have been wrestling with the prop'
lem since yesterday.
The number Idled reached around
3000 employees In all construction
era Its except carpenters and labor
en.
Five Injured
In Wreck
North of City
At leaat five persons were Injured
In a heed-on eollliton 40 mllea north
ot here, thla morning and two of
those hurt are In Klamath Valley
hospital. 4
They are Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge C.
Rice, former residents of this city,
and parents of Don Rice who oper
ates a store at Dairy.
Three aoldlera were among those
Injured but details were not learned
here at noon. The accident occurred
around 10:10 a. m. when a car pass
ed a state highway truck and crash
ed Into the northbound Rica ma
chine.
- Mr.- and M s. Rica are seriously
but not ertucatly Injured. They ware
brought to the hospital here by Mr.
and Mra. Donsld Champman, also
former residents of Klamath Falls
who ware en route from Portland
to Oakland. Calif.
Miners Hold
To 3-Day
VorkVeek
NEW YORK. Dec. 7 (AP)
The United Mine Workers
said after a two-hour confer
ence with operators today
that it still plans to keep
the three-day work week in
effect in the hard coal in
dustry. Thus the nation's 80,000
anthracite miners, barring a
last-minute change, will fall to re
port tomorrow and Friday after
working the first three days of thu
week.
John L. Lewis ordered a shortened
work week for all his mlnera In call
trig off a full-scale toft coal strike
but week.
Operators asked the union yenter
dey, when negotiations looking
toward a new wage contract began,
to lift the three-day rule for the
herd coal pits.
Union offlclsls gsve no Indication
unul today what their answer would
oe.
Aaswer
After this morning's session.
UMW Vice President Thomas Ken
nedy was asked If the union's plan
to stop work tomorrow stlU stood.
"Yes." Kennedy replied. '
Another negotistlng session was
plsnned this afternoon.
NO BIO BREAK
WASHINGTON. Dee. 7 OPWohn
L. Lewis' proud announcement that
some mine owner have met hi con
tract terms apparently left major
coal operators unimpressed today.
They aald the owners who signed
with the mine leader produce com-
perauvely Uttle aoft coal leas than
2,500,000 tons of the nation'a annual
total of 650,000.000. And they scoffed
a. euggestloaa that the new move
might mea a major break tn the
long coal dispute.
Lewis made the announcement
late yesterday. He aald United Mine
Workers members at the affected
pita would return to work immedi
ately on a five-day week.
Solons Study
Big Insurance
Investments
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 IM h '
multl-bllllon dollar Investments of
America's Ufa Insurance companies
came under the microscope of the
senate-house economic committee
today.
Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo), the
chairman, said the committee wants
to learn "what yardsUck the com
panies use In Investing the savings
of the American people."
The Inquiry la part of a broader
Investigation into the reported lack
of risk capital for new business ven
tures In the United States.
Th day's first witness was Leroy
A. Lincoln, president of the huge
Metropolitan Life Insurance
company.
The committee asked Lincoln In
advance to tell about Insurance sav
ings, the company's Investment pol
icies, and Just how an Insurance
company selects Its Investments.
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leSeMMeaTMa
i ALL IN THI FAMILY Member of the E. H. Shipler family participated in the Boy Scout
I Court of Honor last night In Altamont school when Dillard Shipler received the Eagle rank,
J.eft fo right, Scout Dorrel Shipler, Scout Dillard Shipler, Mr. and Mrs.. E. H. Shipler and
daughter Virginia, who M alto Girl Scout. (Story on page two).
Novelist
Rex Beach
Kills Self
SEBRINO. Fla, Dec. 7 OP) Rex
Beach, 72. naUonaUy known novel
ist, was found dead of a pistol
wound In the head at hla home near
here this morning.
His death waa pronounced suicide
by County Judge J, Howard Livings
ton and Sheriff Broward Coker.
Suffering
Beach had been suffering from a
throat ailment tor three years. Hla
body was found by a nurse who
brought him breakfast, the sheriff
ssld.
His nurse. Miss Tenia Simonlan.
found the writer In his pajamas on
the floor of his second story bed
room. The body lay by the bed tn
which he had pt through the
night.
Robert Fox. his secretary for 33
years, aald funeral arrangements
would be msde later.
New Novel
Beach waa In the midst of a
psychological novel, "Woman In
Ambush." on which he had com
pleted 37 chapters. He had not
worked on It tor several months.
This summer, Brach'i life was
despaired of for a while at Miami.
where he had gone tor treatment for
his throat.
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GREG LOOKS 'IM OVER L. H. Gregory, center, sporting editor of The Oregonion, admires
the trophies won by Joe. Nichols, left, and Tom Abner, last night ot the Lions club an
nual football banquet. In secret ballot by the Pelican footballers, Nichols, hard-running
halfback, was named the "most inspirational" player. Abner, big tackle, was singled out
as the outstanding' linemon of the. 1949 Pel football mochine. Gregory wos the guest
speaker or me annual pigskin banquet, (i-ull story on sports page). ,
Local Merchants See
Big Business Month;
Early Shopping Noted
IIST Vacation
Becomes
Stag Affair
An anticipated "big December" was expressed by merchants con
tacted today In the Klamath Falls business district, aa the tint week
ot December closed wrtn a rattling of cash registers. -
Concensus of i oatnJon among the merchants gave credit to she
Christmas opening and fanfare of last Friday night when an estimat
ed! Is. 000 residents of the basin area Jammed Main street to watdi iPranc! (Prenchy) Williams, pilot
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Davidson Mum
On Possible
Senate Race
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7 OPv Asslrt
ant Secretary of the Interior C. Ol
rard Davidson isnt talking about
published reports that: ;
A. He la In line to become under
secretary ot the Interior, an office
which became vacant December 1
when Oscar L. Chapman moved up
to become secretary.
B. He may resign to run for the
senate against Wayne Morse
(R-Ore).
Busy'
The native Loulsanan. who now
claims Portland, Ore., as his home,
says only that he is "busy with my
present Job."
He willingly reaffirms his earlier
pronouncements that:
He has been "approached" by
some democrats to quit his Washing
ton career and try to win Morse's
office.
He Is not happy with Morse's
stand against a Columbia vaUey au
thority. Davidson la a leader In
President Truman's proposed pro
gram for establishment of a valley
sdmlnlstrsUon In the Pacific Northwest).-
the Santa Claus parade sponsored
by the Klamaut Merchants associa
tion. Traffic through one of the city's
larger stores for the first week Indi
cated a much higher volume than a
year ago at thla time.'
Fast Pace .
Gift shops and smaller i tores ob
served yesterday that folks were
buying earlier and stocks were be-
White Christmas
Maybe ...
Klamath still may have a white
Chrlstmaa If weather forecasts con
tinue to promise snow. Flurries were
expected tonight, the weatherman
said. He left a light blanket on the
ground early this morning, tjut In
creasing temperatures melted the
fall except In shady north sides.
Minimum- temperature here this
morning was 23 degrees.
Motorists were warned to carry
chains over the higher elevations
passes where snow and Ice combined
to make for slippery road surfaces.
The Willamette pasa has packed
snow but la sanded, the Oregon
slate highway department advised.
This waa also true over the McKen
ale pasa but on the Santlam there
waa a violent high wind blowing,
drifting anow and creating Icy spots.
Chemult. Chlloquln. Keno, Bly
Klamath Falls with a light snowfall
and cly spots In thr road.
MILK HEARING
PORTLAND, Dec. 7 OP) A milk
control hearing here tomorrow will
take up a proposal ot Safeway stores
to haul milk produced In the Salem
area here for processing, then back
for sale In Salem stores.
Another Tough
Break for Man
Misfortune of sorts seems to be
following Howard Wllmer Shoun,
30-year-old mechanic ot 3534 Crest
street.
On Monday Shoun was arrested
here on a "fugitive from Justice"
warrant Issued by the U. S. marshal
In Kan Diego. He was charged with
non-support of a child.
Yesterday Shoun was released
from the county Jail on $1000 ball.
In the afternoon he fell from a 12
foot ladder while working at Acme
auto painters and suffered a hip
Injury. t
Kaier's ambulance moved the man
to Klamath Valley hospital where
X-rays revealed a fractured right
hip.
EVENING SHOPPING
Three "Family Shopping Nights
when stores will be open evenings
until o'clock, were set for the
next three Fridays, December 9,
1 and 23, by vote of members ot
the Klamath Merchants associa
tion at a special meeting at the
.Pelican cafe this morning.
The three special evening open
ings were decided upon to give
families time to shop leisurely
together tor Chrlstmaa gifts. The
opening Is for the three specUled
nights only.
KEY WEST. Fla, Dec T ()
President Truman's vacation party
became a stag affair today aa at
tention was concentrated on thej
4 -rrorcncoimng oatue in congress. lor
key administration objectives.
The president directed IX CoL
of the "Independence the White
House plane, to take Mrs. Truman
and his daughter, Margaret, back
to Washington.
Parley
Truman called his entire White
House staff to meet at 3 p. m. for
a full-scale conference on the "state
of the union" budget and economic
messages to be presented to con
gress In January.
These messages will lay the
groundwork for an election year
fight for the "Fair Deal."
The president, on the anniversary
of Pearl Harbor, is determined to
continue the European recovery
program, the arms-aid program un
der the Atlantic pact and other bi
partisan moves to strengthen the
democratic front against communism.
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coming depleted faster than a year
ego and they, too attributed the
heavier buying to the Christmas
opening. Good weather tor shop
ping had a lot to do with It, one
merchant opined. '
One thing waa certain, stocks were
more complete and merchandise of
better quality than at' any time
since before the war. There was con
siderable buying of "good stair and
the glftie type of merchandise was
expected to go a Uttle heavier later
tn the month.
This waa partlculkrly true of the
more expensive type of gift such aa
household furnishings.
Klamath shoppers were doing
their buying tn a far more festive
atmosphere as the result ot Christ
mas decoration of the downtown
area and merchants found today It
had paid of f to go all out In dressing
up their establishments.
One particular item, Christmas
wrappings, was going rapidly.- The
selection was good but the shopper
who wants to blend or unite ber
ties, cards and paper In one motif
should do this pretty quick If she
wants to be completely saUsfled.
'Ike' Says No
Politics
HOUSTON. Dec. 7 (Pi General
Dwight Elsenhower said todav he
wants no connection with politics
but wants to Use an active part
in public affairs.- . -
He told a news conference:
"If I Identified or afiliatrd my
self with any political party I'd lose
a lot of friends and I'm not going
to do that." .
Probe Group
Will Hear
Wallace
WASHINGTON. Dee. T
(AP) Lt. Gen. Leslie tL
Grove' testifier! today that
neither Harry Hopkins nor
Henry a. Wallace ever tried
to get any atomic secrets or
material from him for th
Russians. -Groves,
who headed -the
the wartime atomic bomb
project, told house Investi
gators that he had never, in
fact, met Hopkins or had any cor
respondence with him.
As lor Wallace, Groves said the
former vice president never brought
any direct pressure on him In con
nection with the atomlo energy
project and, as far as he knows,
never put on any Indirect pressure.
Mystery Note
Groves was a witness before m.
gresslonal Investigators dtgln Ignta
a story of atomic materials eaina
to Russia In lend-lease planes dur
ing the war and of a mysterloua -
note signed "H. H." saying "had a
ben of a time getting- these away
from Groves."
After getting Groves' testimony.
Rep. Welter (D-Pat. acting chair
man, aald the committee would give
Wallace a chance to testify later.
The committee broke off Its bear
ings to hold a closed door session.
Groves waa dislssed as a wit
ness.
Walter Indicated to reporters that
the date of any further hearings
would depend on when Wallace
wanted to have hit say.
Say Evideae.
O roves told the committee:
1. The TJtssiana got some atomie
material during the war. but that
ha doesn't know how any ship
menu "because we dont know how
many leaked through.1
2. He found evtdenee of Rusauui
spying within a month .of the tuna
ne took charge of the atomie borne)
project tn 142.
S. He knows the lend-lease admin
iatration waa under "pressure" to
give the Russians "everything they
sought'' and that a "great deal af
Influence" waa brought to bear. But
ha eald he did not know who ex
erted the presvre. - "
Hopkins waa at one time lend-lease-
administrator. A dose friend
of President . Roosevelt, Jfopkma
went to Russia to consult with the
Svoiets on their needs to hold their
front against the Germans.
Jeedaa Btary
Major O. Racey Jordan, whose
wartime Job was to aid la tend
lease movement of planes to Rus
sia, told of the Russians taking out
suitcase after suitcase load of docu
ments aa well as atomic materials.
He aald some of the document
were state departent papers.
At a news conference today. Sec
retary of State Acheson said the
state department licensed no ex
ports of atom'e materials to Russia
without prior approval from the
Manhattan project tthe wartime
name for the atomic bomb project).
Acheson also said he knew of ne
state department documents going
to the Russians.
Rep. Walter (D-Pal asked Groves
about Hopkins.
Groves said that no one at the
White House ever tried to get maps
from him "that I was aware of."
and he added that he doubted "very
seriously" If it was ever done.
N Apes-cache "
Groves said that he had never
had any contact with Harry Hop
kins. He went on emphatically:
"At no time, to the best of mf
recollection, did I ever meet Harry
Hopkins, talk to him on the phone,
receive letters from or writ letters
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Italy Honors
Toscanini
ROME. Dec. 7 OPl It's Senator
Arturo Toscanini now.
The famous conductor was named
a life-time senator of the Italian
republic yesterday for his contri
butions to the world of music.
President Luigl Binaudl made th
appointment to the man who left
his native country during Musso
lini's fascist dictatorship.
Hiro Household
Not Sacred
TOKYO. Dec. 7 WV-Klght years
ago Emperor Hlrohlto wa con
sidered sacrosanct by the Japanese.
Today he awakened 150,000 yen
($4,166) poorer.
A thief, who no longer considered
the emperor sacred, stole th money
from - th Imperial household account.
Meet the People
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DARLINI ILACKMAN It a member of the city family, pic
tured here t her typewriter in the city clerk't office of th
city hall.