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Yanks Gird For
New Drive on Japs
In Northern Luzon
MANILA, May 20 (UP) The
25th division headed tor the open,
tonic ground of northern Luzon
today after capturing Sunta F-i,
gateway to the rich Cagayan val
ley; Most of the remaining Japanr.se
forces on Luzon are scattered
across the northern areas of the
island. Once in the open the
Americans can use their over
whelming mechanized superior
ity; which has been little good in
the hill fighting so far.
The breakthrough into the Cay
agan valley was aitod by a blis
tering bombardment of enemy
positions and rear areas during
which 450 tons of bombs were
dropped by planes of all types.
Light bombers zipped back over
target areas to strafe whatever
Japanese person nel remained
above ground.
A new battle shaped up in cen
tral Mindanao, where the Jap
anese remnants in the hills man
aged to refoim some soil of line
running north and south, parallel
to the Sayre highway.
The Australian forces rn Tara
kan Island pushed through the
jungles to reach Djeoata on the
north coast, thus cutting in two
the Jupunese-held portion of the
island:
Counties Limited
To One Memorial
SALEM, Ore., May 20 (UP)
Oregon counties are empowered
by law to construct only one vet
erans' memorial building or mon
ument, Attorney General George
Neuner today advised Arthur J.
Moore, district attorney of Des
chuti's county.
Notwithstanding the signified
willingness of the citizens of both
Bend and Kudnioiul to have such
structures located on land owned
by or donated to the county, the
1045 law specifies that $25.(100
may he expelled on only one such
monument or building. Neuner
said. The limitation was raised
from $10.1100 to $25,0110 by the re
cent legislature.
O RATION
CALENDAR
Processed Foods:
Book 4 Hlue stamps 112
through M2 valid through June
2. Blue stamps N2 through S2
valid through June 30. lilue
stamps T2 through X2 valid
through Julv 31. Blue stamps
Y2, Z, Al, lit, CI valid through
August 31.
Meat, Butlor, Fats, Choose:
Book 4 Hed stamps Y5
through D2 valid through June 2.
lied stamps F.2 through J2 valid
through June 30. Red stamps
K? through P2 valid through
July 31. Hed stamps Q2 through
L'2 valid through August 31.
Sufjari
Book 4 Sugar stamp 35 valid
through June 2. Sugar stamp 38
valid through August 31.
Shoes: Loose stamps Invalid,
Book 3 Airplane stamps 1-2-3
now valid. New stamp valid
Aug. 1.
Gasoline: Coupons not valid un
ities! ondorsod:
"A" 15 coupons expire Juno 21.
Btovoi
Apply hwal Ixiard for oil, gas
stove certificates.
Wood. Coal. Sawdust:
Delivery by priorities based on
needs.
Fuel Oil:
Period 1 -2- 3 4-H coupons valid
through Align t 31,
Wastf P'pfi and Cansi
O Bundle,: waste paimr mud pro
pared tin rang "may be h it ,u the
salvage depot, il()ii JettoHo)!
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"Little len" of Arctic Are No Myth
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Probers Find Solution To Old Mystery
HEADQUARTERS, Alaskan Department, May 28 (Delayed!
(UP) A fantastic story of raw tribal superstition and military sig
nificance came out of the bitter, mirage-hung mountains of the
Alaskan Arctic today.
It is an old story with a new twist the story of the "little men"
the malicious pigmys who for centuries are said (o have harassed
the swart, husky whale and walrus hunters of the Arctic.
Ypkohama is Left
In Flames After
Great B-29 Raid
(Continued from Page 1)
for Tokyo and northern Japan.
The big bombers struck from
medium altitude nt the 9 a.m.
morning rush' hour and, Tokyo
accounts said, unloaded their car
goes of death and destruction in
a steady rain for two and a nan
hours.
' Fighters Guard Bombers
Mustang fighters from Iwo
estimated by Tokyo at 100 to 150
strong ran '-interference for
the Superfortresses and tangled
with enemy fighters high over
the port city. Tokyo said Jap
anese anti-aircruft batteries also
were in action.
A Japanese communique said
30 B-29'3 Were shot down and
40 heavily damaged out of a force
it estimated at 5Cd Ii-20's and
100 Mustangs, lt said the raid
lasted a hour and a half with
some bombs alo falling on Tokyo
and Kwasaki, midway between
Tokyo and Yokohama.
Japs Say Damage is Heavy
"Considerable d a m age was
caused in the city of Yokohama,"
the communique said.
The raid was the Tlrst in
strength on Yokohama, a modern
city of 72 square miles packed
with shipyards, motor vehicle
plants, steel plants and assorted
aircraft, rubber, radio and petro.
leum works.
Bombs were aimed at three
main areas, YokVihama harbor
with its docks and breakwaters;
the modern commercial and resi
dential sections to the southeast,
and the northeast district, where
numerous war plants lie on re
claimed land jutting out into
Tokyo bay.
Last lliles Are Set
For Pioneer Sheriff
ALBANY, Ore., May 29 (UP)
Funeral servicis have been sot
for 2:30 p.m., Friday fur D. S.
(Vanliy) Smith, 87, widely known
fornur Linn county sheriff and
circuit court bailiff for tho last
60 years. Smith died at his home
here Sunday night after a short
! illness.
He was a son of Delazon Smith,
first United Stales senator fiom
Oregon and was the last surviv
ing member of Co. E., first regi
ment, 2nd brigade of the Bannock
Indian war.
Memory of Oregon
Pioneers Honored
ST. PAUL, Ore. May 20 (UP)
Memorial Day will be observed
in St. Paul with the unveiling
of a marker in memory of Phil
lipe Deere and Francois Rivet,
who were with Lewis and Clark
and initialed to Oregon about
1(120.
The Ameriean Pumper Trails
assttciation is holding ivrcmoni-'S
at the giaves of as many Lewis
,.nd Claik men us can he found.
St. Paul church reeoixls show
I't-cre was buried in IH47 at the
t.ge of 108. and Rivet, in 1852,
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The white man never believed
the yarns about the little men
who appeared each fall In Eski
mo villages to raid and pillage
and then mysteriously vanish.
But they believe them now. They
believe them because a careful
investigation by an American ar
my officer has been made of the
phantom-like marauders of Asi
atic countenance and cruel hab
its. And further investigation is
in progress.
The white men believe the "lit
tle men" stories now because they
remember how Japanese fur pi
rates in past years raided Aleut
and Eskimo villages from Bris
tol bay to the Seward peninsula.
And it has occurred to them the
Eskimos and . their cousins the
Aleuts suffered from raids on the
part of the "little men" long be
fore .the white people of North
America did.
Recently a party of Eskimo
members of the Alaska terri
torial guard on patrol up the
Nbaiak river wre visited
twice by the strange "little
men" and wore forced to en
gage them in a gun-battle be
fore the intruders would de
part, The Eskimo making the report,
a captain in the ATG, said "they
were very small men and they
did not speak English. But they
didn't sneak Eskimo, either."
The incident resulted in an in
vestigation conducted by Major
Marvin Marston, Seattle, who on
the authority of Lt. Gen. Delos
Emmons, and Governor Elnest
II. Omening of Alaska, travelled
by dog team deep into the heart
of the Baird mountains through
areas no white man had visited
in 40 years leaching the remote
Kiana village on the seacoast.
There M.irston interviewed the
members of the party which had
fought with the little men.
The vlling? had been guarded
by ATG sentries following an at
tempted raid by the little men
whom the Eskimos said commun
icated by means of shrill bird
like whistles.
That fact alone interested
troops here since it recalled that
Japs on Attu often used bamboo
flutes in signalling to one an
other. Chinese Continue
To Push Southward
CHUNGKING. Iay 29 (UP)
Chinese vanguards are approach
ing Sullu, 48 miles southwest of
the captured air base city of Nan
ning and only 50 miles from the
French Indo-China border, a com
munique annouced today.
Othere Chinese troops i cached
the vicinity of Pinyang, 50 miles
northeast of Nanning and 70
miles south of Japanese - held
70 miles south of Japanese-held
Liuchow, another former Ameri
can base.
Because he admired the orna
ment, one Miinbettus tribesman
pierced his lips w ith an ivory pin.
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Np Cause for Alarm
Seen in Growing
Manpower Surplus
SAN FRANCISCO," May 29
(UP) Despite a steadily in
creasing labor surplus on the
Pocific coast due' ' to cutbacks
Mid cancellation of war contrac s,
manpower officials are confident
there exists no cause for alarm
or lessons to believe an urmy of
ex-war workers soon will be sell
ing apples.
Instead, they predict that the
Pacific coast, because of its prox
imity to the Japanese war, will
probably have the smullest pool
of surplus workers in the United
States. In other words, there arc
and will be plenty of jobs.
The increase in the number of
workers now out of jobs because
of industry chunge-over is pure
ly temporary. The war man-
power commission terms it a
period of adjustment.
Ship Repairmen Needed
Paradoxically enough, side by
side with the surplus there exists
a critical labor shortage in coast
ship repair yards. Battle-damaged
vessels are standing off-shore at
Bremerton ond San Francisco
because there are not enough
electricians, machinists and other
skilled and semi-skilled workers
to do the job.
The WMC army, navy ana
maritime commission estimate
20,000 workers arc needed im
mediately in the industry.; Plans
ore underway to import eastern
labor again to help fill the hole.
Point of confusion in the paci
fic coast labor situation is that
the manpower surplus cannot be
drawn upon to fill the skilled repair-worker
shortage.
The repair yards are a nigniy
skilled industry and sometimes
refuse to accept men with pipe
fitter or machinist ratings simply
because the men have had no
actual experience in' ship repair
work.
However, WMC estimates some
75,000 priority jobs on the west
coast arc available to take up
the current and pending worker
surplus. The figure does not in
clude the 20,000 needed in the
ship repair industry.
Aides Are Sought
By State Agencies
The Oregon merit system coun
cil has announced an examination
has been set tentatively for July
7 for applicants for a number
of professional and skilled posi
tions in the state service. Appli
cations must be filed with the
council by June 23. Full inform
ntion may be obtained from Prof.
William Griffith, 018 Mead Build
ing, Portland, 4.
Among the positions in which
vacancies exist are key punch,
tabulating machine operator and
senior tabulating machine oper
ator, unemployment commission,
staff assistants in social work and
fields representative, public wel
fare commission and state health
officers (nurses and doctors) san
itarians and sanitary engineers,
by the board of health. All ap
pointments will be on a perman
ent basis.
Hospital Ship Hit
By Japs Reaches Port
LOS ANGELES, May 29 (UP)
The hospital ship USS Comfort
is in Los Angeles harbor today
for repairs after a Japanese sui
cide plane attack killed 21 per
sons and injured 52 aboard the
ship last April 28 near Okinawa
Authorities said the mercy ship
was plainly marked and carried
lights.
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'HEAVE TO FOR BOARDERS' Photo above depicts a hither
to undisclosed historic incident in the war against Germany, A
navy escort carrier task group attacked, boarded and captured
the U-boat 505. marking the iirst time In U. S. history since 1815
that U. S. forces boarded and seized an enemy warship in battle
on the high seas. Photo shows U. S. boarding party on the sub
marine. .
British Capture
Nazi Propagandist
WITH BRITISH SECOND
ARMY, Germany, May 29 (UP)
The British second army hold
William (Lord Haw Haw) Joyce,
nasty-tongued British nazi who
i anted at his homeland over the
German radio, in custody today
and sought means to try him as a
v. ar criminal.
(The uuthoritative British press
association said Joyce will be
tried for treason in England de
spite his naturalization as a
Cerman subject. It was possible
Britain will refuse to recognize
the naturalization on grounds
that it occurred during wartime.
Treason can te punished by
hanging.)
Joyce was captured in northern
Germany by British second army
officers combing the area for war
criminals. He was placed under
close security guard for addition
al questioning.
Ceiling On Early
Apples Is Raised
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UP)
Ceiling prices for the 1945 crop
of early apples, fob country ship
ping point, have been increased
from $2.85 to $3.33 a bushel, the
office of price administration has
announced.
This means retail ceilings for
early apples will go up about luj
cents a pound, OPA said. The
increase will be effective from
today through June 20. The in
crease was necessary because of
adverse growing conditions, OPA
explained.
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Arguments Are Set
In Budget Law Case
SALEM, Ore., May 29 (UP)
The Oregon supreme court today
set June 6 for hearing arguments
in the injunction suit attacking
house bill 403 of the 1945 legisla
ture, known as the "local budget
law."
The Oregon business and tax
research, inc., of Portland, ap
pealed the suit against the secre
tary of state after an adverse de
cision in Marion county circuit
court last week. The tax group
claims the bill, as signed by the
governor, was not the bill as in
tended by the legislature.
6 OUT OF 7 WOMEN
ARE CHEATING
ON RED POINTS
Among housewives recently
Interviewed, 6 out ot 7 were
cheating themselves passing
up extra red points because they
did not save all their used Tats.
These women were saving only
the easy amounts from frying
bacon or broiling. They were
throwing away the little bits . . .
the meat trimmings and table
scraps. Yet those small amounts,
saved and melted down, can fill
fat salvage cans In no time at
all! Have you been cheating your
self? Then start saving, every
scrap today I Our country needs
fuU urgently to help make battle
field and home-front essentials.
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On sky roads that arch over the West, the sturdy DC-3's of Western Air Lines
skim trails Kit Carson broke, link towns first joined by stage and covered wagon.
Today, Chevron Aviation Gasoline brings extra power, range, dependability to
var-busy planes likathesc. Tomorrow, there'll be a highway version of tkis
famous flyinguobringskyway performance to your
tines flies
AVIATION W GASOLINE
Occidental Tenant
Of Nisei Farm is
Ousted By Jury
OREGON CITY, Ore., May 2D
UP) Masavuki Fujimoto, 28-
yeur-old Japanese-American bur
ly farmer, won In court last nigiu
permission to rcoccupy the farm
lie leased when interned aft-'!'
Pearl Harbor.
Tho jury was out only 15 min
utes. Fujimoto had leased his 00
acre berry farm in Clnrkamas
county to ivir. and Mrs. Dale
E-3rgh, who agreed in the lease
to surrender the premises to Fu
jimoto after 30 days notice upon
termination of the national emer
gency and his r e tu r n to the
county.
After being released from the
Hunt, Jdaho, relocation center,
Fujimoto served notice to regain
his land on March 24 ond the
Berglis took, the case to court.
Bergh has been a loader in the
Grtsham anti-Japanese f.roup.
Fujimoto was born in Portland
and attended grammar, high
school and Reed college there. He
is married and the father of two
children.
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Oregon's present facilities are inadequate to provide the higher
educational opportunities which have been promised to returning j
, service men. A special election has been called for June 22. to
enable the citizens to approve a $ 10,000,000 State Building Fund '
to provide these facilities as well as adequate State Hospital and
Houses of Correction improvements that arc badly needed. - !
Normal progress of Oregon as a State demands that the J
$10,000,000 State Building Fund be voted. It will not mean l
increased tax rates. The money already is on hand, and requires
only authorization from the voters to be used.
VOTE 300 X YES
Paid adv., United Cituent Commit It, Inc., Ralph D. Moore, Manager, 233 S. W. Stith Avtoua, PorlUnd
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Tuesday, May 29; 1945
Pilot of Famous
B-17 Quits Army
CAMP BEALE, Calif., ; May 29 :
(UP) Maj. Allen Martini of
San Francisco, pilot of the Flying :
Foitress "Dry Martini" which set
record in 1943 ' by ' shooting
ciown 21 German planes in 15
minutes over Paris, has endrd
Lis army career, it was disclosed
today.
The 25-yoar-old officer has
been given inactive status un
der the point system. -i .
Herman Goering 'Ondyi broad-;
cast a warning that his. luftwaffe
would "get" the "Dry Martini"
the only time the nazi official is
known to hava challenged an
Amei iean plane or pilot by name. .
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