THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 21. 1943
PAGE THREE
Japs Suffering
Major Defeats
In Air Battles
Air Supremay May Bo
Way to Ultimate Defeat
Of Nipponoto War Lords
Ity I'. Kt-i'lilli'
l'ti'll.t l'rw Wiir AmI)II
('oiilinulni! Mi-WH of Ariii'ilcaii
Niiin w.i-11 III Die Noiitliwmti'rii
t'iii'Klt' slmwa no( only Ihiit thf
JlllillirKI' UK NlltllTlllU U M'lll-H Of
ili'dntN liul n mnjnr ili'li'iil In
wlinl ll. "' Im oik- of lh (IivIhIvi
1,111) ) -m of the I'urlflr wiir.
'I III' lllMi Of !"! Jllllltl'M' lllirl'
In ai'tlun olf (liiiulnli mmii I tin
lii'i'ii fnlliiwi'd u ll In i) four ilit y
Ity (In miiiikIiIiik of '.'2 Jupani'iH'
lilani'M iml of -IH In an aili'inpl lo
H.ilil on I'm I Darwin, Aumi alla.
Tiikrii In ron)iinrlioti with Nlml
lar out' Klili'd vu t.il li s Kprciiil 'Mil
al fri'iiii'iit Inli'i vnlN nil Hit this
iniintli, llii'M' rnKiiKi'iiH'iit rm
tip m out' ('oiillmilnu iiiiilii' whirh
tin- Japiiiii'iu- mi' IokIhk i'imu'Iu
Hlvrly. Mort I'lmiii Anki'il
It imlnlN llw wuy to llir I'Vi'ti
tuul ilifcal of Japan, with A hut
1 it i ulr powi-r HurhruillnK tin'
I'uiiil to Tokyo. 'I hcTcrotilil huvr
liii'ii llttli- I'linnolatlon for Japan
In tin' iii'u'k firm WiiKhlnuton of
the iirw air ilrpal linrnl appro
pi milium which plnvldi- for nruiiy
Iiki,imi moii plain's nnd an mlill
tlonal l.miO.lNM) mm to fly and
KTVli t' thi'in.
Tin- JaHinciu', llki the (ier
iniiim, Htai ti-il thr war with a rr
iillallnn of I hi' linMirtami' of ulr
miwit. It now MM'tim prohalilt'
that they illtl not Knisri to the full
t'Kt t'xtfiit how ulr ihiwit him cum.
Iili'tfly rt'volutlonii'il modern
waif ai p.
Holh Rlartcil on I hp iit!lt prill
rlplf lull illil not rarry It out to
tin- iiitfitiiary nth tli'ifm1 rn'onim1
tlit-y illtl not inakr nllowunri- for
Hip fact that If thly illil not win a
"IlKlnninit" war, Amcrlfiin and
Hi mh production woiiltl In due
tunc turn the luilitnrr of ulr pow
er and ovcrwhiim them.
Stalin Nfir (ioal
That In what In now hcinfi wit
nt'Niu'd In wcNlcrn Kurox the
Mediterranean, the Kuwiliin front
ami. In Hn first allium, the i'uciflr.
It would Im premature to luiy the
t'nlli-d Statca Iiiin yet gained nlr
aupciiorlty over Japan, but It In
Nteadlly maivhlnii townrdN that
Coal, both In the southwest Pa
cific and In China.
The Japanese uro obviously
tnakliiK their (ircutcNl air effort
of the war In the southwrst I'm
iflp and It In belnir Ktendlly frus
tinted. 'Irie fact that they keep
comlnK u'ter so many costly de
feat In evidence1 of the numerical
iitreiiKth they have concentrated
In the area.
Their losses, against limlteil
JapuneNe production, and expand
Inn American prtxtuetlon" are
Ixiuntl to have a telling effect In
the greater ti'Nt later, when the
main Japanese Islands ore the
target.
War Briefs
I Mr tlnluJ I'm)
KurnM: Swiss Nources reMirt
heavy homhliiK attack on Fried
lichNhafen, Cerman epelln base
and war center, while na.lN nc
knowledge raids on southwest and
north Cermiiny.
Africa: Allies bomb three Sici
lian nlrdromcH after heavy raids
by American and llritish bomlierN
on key Italian targets In Sicily
nnd on the mainland.
Kiissln: Russians report destruc
tion of 27li Ccrmun planes last
Week, raising seven-week bag to
tnore than 3,(UX); na.ls say they
repulsed soviet attacks In Nome
WrenRth northwest of Kharkov,
north of Orel, on central front and
In northwest Caucasus.
, Southwest I'aclfle: Strongest
spit flu- flghler foiif ever thrown
Into defense of Australia destroys
or damages 22 of 4H Japanese
planes trying to raid Darwin; only
two Spitfires lost.
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Making Sea Water Drinkable
Ml
Turifylng device demontmtd here by ailor eonverU talt walf
into drinking water boon to ernmm and flyen adrift ut tea.'
Water i put in top part of bag and aqurczed through chemkiils
that filter It. All life rafts will carry thlt equipment.
9,000 Foremen
End Plant Strike
Detroit, June 21 U"i The atrlke
of !t,(MKt hourly piled foremen
which threatened pniductlon at
the Willow Hun botnlMT plant and
three other factorlea of the Kord
Motor Co. ended at 3:30 a. m. to
day when the strikers returned to
work, a company spokesman re
IKirtcd today.
Some of the atlikera picketing
the plants returned to work ut
that time, it was reported, and
more were expected to report for
the morning shift.
A preliminary estimate by the
comNiny showed production cut
"only 10 per cent" by the walkout,
but a later company statement
wild executives were "amazed" to
learn that per capita production
during tbe strike actually In
crcaitvd and that as a result "we
didn't lose a thing" In output of
war equipment.
Many Men Out
A spokesman said this record
was mude despite the fact the
number of men on the Job was
only SO per cent of normal dur
ing part of the foremen's stop
page. In addition to Willow Run, the
factories affected by the strike
were the itlvcr Rouge. Highland
Turk, nnd IH-nrborn plants.
The striking foremen are mem
bers of the Korcmcn's Assocla
Hon of America, a nunaf dilated
union. They did not attempt to
prevent any regular workers,
who belong to the I'nlted Auto
mobile worker (CIO, from en
tering the plant.
3 Children Die
In Night Blaze
Enumclaw, Wash., June 21 mi
Three small Indian children were
burned to death recently when
lire demolished the Irume home
of the Richard Andersun family
six miles from here.
The dead were Richard Ander
son, Jr., two and a half years old;
his younger brother, Gordon; and
Joyce Ross, two.
The children had been left In
the care of Christine Moses, 10, an
adopted duughter of the Ander
son lamlly, for three quarters ol
un hour while the Andersons and
Mrs. Marvin Ross of Auburn,
Wash., mother ol one of the vic
tims, left lor a short walk.
I'HINEVIM.K GIKL KNUOM.S
Eastern Oregon College, la
Grande, June 21 (Special! -Miss
Helen Mason tins commenced her
freshman work at tho Eustern
OreRon College of Education this
summer. Miss Mason Is Irom
Prlnevllle and represents Crook
county In the enrollment lor the
Ilrst summer session at Eastern
Oregon college.
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Round the World
(With Unlud I'm)
Canberra, Australia P a r 1 1 a
ment opposition advised Crime
Minister John Curtln today that It
would seek a vote of no confi
dence In his labor government.
The development followed politi
cal arguments raised by Cui tin's
recent statement that Australia
was now safe from Invasion by
the Japanese.
Tokyo- Elevation of three top
Japanese commanders to the
ibourd of marshals directing Jap
anese forces was announced to
day by Tokyo radio.
Paris - Radio Paris said delayed
action bombs still were exploding
last night ut Le Creusot, 170 miles
south of Paris, where a big force
ol llritish tour-englned bombers
on Saturday night shuttered the
Schneider Arms works, whose
value to German war production
i Is comparable to that ol the
Krupps plant at Ksscn.
I I-oiidonThe Belgian news
I agency suld urgent warnings of
a systematic allied bombing of
fensive against Belgian war fac
tories working for the Germans
had been broadcast to the home
land. Berlin An estimated 1,000 per
sons were killed and another 1.
OIK) Injured last night when two
sharp earth shocks rocked north
western Anatolia, Turkey, the
German DNB news agency re
ported in a Berlin broadcast to
day. Berne. A Swiss newspaper said
today that the bodies of 5,000
persons burled In a tomb near
Odessu were those of Jews killed
by Rumanian secret police. The
victims previously were Identified'
by the Rumanian press as Ru
manians killed by Russians after
the lutter occupied Bessarabia and
Bukovina In W 10.
CampAbbot News
Mttn i wi i uiuin . i hu iwi i i wwi
Camp Abbot, June 21 (Special)
Col. Aubrey H. Bond, command
ing officer 12th engineer train
ing group, and It. Col. Clarence J.
Douglas, director of training ac
tivities of the engineer replace
ment training center, will attend
a special army service torces con
ference at Fort Belvoir, Va.
A housing board for the pur
pose ol investigating, planning
lor, and disseminating informa
tion concerning adequate housing
facilities for military and civilian
lersonnel assigned to Camp Ab
bot has been appointed by order
ol Col. fYank S. Bcsson, post com
mander. More than 4,000 volumes ol
bonks, Including fiction, travel,
and biography were included in
the shipment given to the Camp
Abbot library by the Oregon state
library, Salem. A truck dispatch
ed Irom tho post transported the
books here this week. A special
selection ol latest new books are
being received dully by the spe
cial service olllcer and when the
camp libraries are open to mili
tary personnel within a short
time they will compare lavorably
with those of any post In the
country.
SEE WELL . . .
WORK WELL. .
You can't work at top efficiency
if your vition or below perl Your
eyes may be your trouble
why not have them checked
now?
Dr. M. B. McKenney
OPTOJIFTKIST
Olflcea: Foot o. Oregon Ave.
Phone m XV
Drop in Value
Of Deschutes
Property Noted
Total County Valuation
Will Not Be Known Until
Utility Data Available
A depreciation of S.'iiKJ.oriO In the
valuation of property in I'S
chutes county since last year is
shown in the final figures as
equalised by the county board of
iquallallon and announced by
County Assessor J. A. Fountain.
This year's total Is $H.2!W.M.-j as
compared to $h,(j;2,770 In June,
1!H2.
Three principal reasons are
Clven for tills decreUM': A timber
roll reduction was brought about
iM-cuuse The llrooks-JUanlon Lum
ber Company Is cutting Its own
llmlier: merchandise reduction
was caused by depleted stocks,
especially lumhcri; und a reduc
tion In structural Improvement
due to two per cent depreciation
allowance.
The total county valuation will
not be known until the public
utility valuation figures are re
ceived from the state tax com
mission in Salem. These are co
llected to show an Increase which
will materially cut down the S-HoG,-000
depreciation. Public utilities
valuation last year was set at
$1,809,710.
Values Drop
Total real property valuation
this year Is sii.401.0W compared
to $(i,672.375 In 10-12. Total per
sona! property, as shown on the
summary of assessment roll this
year, Is $1,KT)2.3H0, compared to
$2,039,570 last year.
The 211,574 acres of non-tillable
lands In the county were valued
this year ut $303,330: last year's
acreage was 193,841, valued at
$276,180.
There were only 65,934 acres of
timber lands this vear, compared
to 81,891 in 1942. Tills year's valu
ation totaled $'.59,335; last year's.
$818,935.
Movable machinery and equip
ment in 1943 moved down to
$778,350 from '42's $805,015. A
bigger slump was seen in the mer
chandise and stock in trade fig
ures: 1943. $492,205; 1942, S6G0.
210. Rise Noted
A rise was noted In the farm
Implements, machinery, and
equipment valuation with this
year's total set at $88,885, over
last year's $74,305.
The- followini table compares
19-13 and 1912 livestock inven
tories and valuation in the
county:
It'l Prr
' V.I. lull
M.irM. . .. I.4.'.S I ?l..KI0 lly.tT
i'ul y.trfi ly.7on u.a
Slt. ifiU IU.TA6 3.-..MU t.lv
swin i.sart 13.31& ;.t:'
IW:ry IU.VU6
Kit
V.I.
I s;'.aiK
I77.tim
41.1)75
12.25
.35
N.
. 1.M1
. 8,76
.12.175
. 2. m
I'nit
120.48
Hm, muln
Caul
SSrp. RKlU
Swim
I'uultrx
Tumalo
Tumalo, June 21 (Special)
C. M. Barnum, Lee Putnam and
Sam Henry fished at Suttle lake
Sunday.
Miss Rosella Richardson return
ed the last of the week from
Eugene where she was a delegate
the the Oregon state grange ses
sion, from the Tumalo grange.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben CJedney are
now living at Sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Windom
were among those attending the
rodeo at Sisters Sunday.
Mrs. Harold Pastrouch of Prine
ville visited her sister, Mrs. Kred
Shepard, Monday. Donna Pas
trouich, who has been visiting at
the Shepard ranch, returned home
with her mother.
The annual school meeting will
he held at the Tumalo school
house Monday evening, June 21.
Two directors and a clerk are to
be elected.
Mrs. T. V. Vandevert com
menced working at Camp Abbot
Monday of this week. Mrs. Van
devert plans to stay at the Claude
Vandevert ranch through the
week and come home weekends.
James Roley Is working for
George Thompson.
Del Davis J. L. Jones, Fred
Shepard and J. A. Blnckstone at
tended the OPA milk board meet
ing In Bend Thursday evening.
Our 1942 Record
10.045 Claims
All but 67 of which were settled
satlsfctirlly by mutual agree
ment! Only 810 of 1 went to
rourt! In only 210 of 1 was
our offer of settlement found
Insufficient by a court.
Insure for Coverage, Protec
tion AND CHOOSK YOl!lt
COMPANY FOB SKHV1CE!
FARMERS AUTOMOBILE
uter. INSURANCE
L. G. BOWNS
District Manager
1054 Bond Phone 881
Bend Codef Tells of Battle
In Darkness Over Solomons
1 Arilfir.ifi Avl.-ition f':,itj-l
ICe.l.-r '.-x:,s, June 21 The
i lMi;hcst li st lo v.hl'-h the mill
j t ji i divipllne of Howard ii. Rip
'I"" "f Bend, Oil"., hiis Is-en sub
I Jecp'd rami- aboard a b'irnbi-r in
li.i-S inihwes' Pacific last October
wh'Ti, for an obvious ic.ison, he
had to withhold his machine gun
file despite the fact he could have
tlnown tint slu:s Into a h(.:.t of
embattled Japs below.
I'.lpju-c, now a potential combat
pilot in liuinl.il at the San An
tonio aviuti'.n r adcl center, at that
time wa i a MTyi-an! a -rial cuntii r
aboard a B 17, attached to the l'Jth
bombardment group (heavy.
Recalling the Incident when his
ringer linger Itched to spew bul
lets Into the Japs, Cadei Kippec
said:
"We were on a night mission
over Buln, In the Solomons, and
we were giving It t'j shipping tied
up In the harbor. We got a pretty
roiigh reception. Anti aircraft wis
ripping upward at .us, but there
were no Inicrceptor planes.
"Kor the reason that it would
give fiivcn our position away, I
was forbidden to fire my machine
gun unless certain circumstances
dcwl-jped. The firing would have
shown where we Were and the
Japs would have been able to fire
din-ctly at us instead of blindly,
as they were having to do.
"liut there we were only about
3500 feet above those ships hurl
ing up their pom pom. The guns
were flashing below and the crews
were visible under our flares.
They'd have made good targets. I
looked down the sights and
thought, 'Oh, boy, for a shot at
them.' I guess it was one of the
greatest temptations ever set be
fore me. What I'd have given to
turn loose a few bursts of slugs
at those Nippies!"
Except for the flashes of the
Jap anti-aircraft and the flares of
the Americans and the flashes
from the bombs they dropped, the
battle was fought in comparative
darkness. The Japs didn't turn on
their searchlights for the same
reason the Americans didn't lire
their machine guns.
"But," jjald Cadet Ripple, "we
do know for certain that we dam
aged a cruiser that night and in
flicted lesser damage on other
1 tn 1937, 100 octane aviation a.
oline was jmt emerging from the oil
company laboratories. Production
was hardly (Treat enough to keep one
squadron of tighter planes in combat,
And it cost $ to make each gallon.
5 lut by 1930, they had hit 71
by 1937 they were shooting for 100,
end by 1939, for 100 plus. Why had
they made such progress? Not be
cause they expected a war all those
years, but because each company kept
otruggling to put out a better product
than others and get more customers.
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targets. Why the way they were
ri.iniT'l up in that harbor, we
muldn't have helped hut do some
damage to them."
Cadet llinpi ", 2") years old, par
ti' Ij.atcd mostly in night missions
in tbe 300 hours of living time he
accumulated over the Southwest
I'iififie ar-a. His first mi.v.ion af
ter arriving In that sector was the
bi.mbing ijl a Jap alrfii Id, a trip
he caller) "Just routine" because
no Jap planes challenged the fort
ress. On (mother occasion, returning
Irom a raid, the b.mber crew
spotted a formation ol six Japa
nese Zeros in formation beyond
range. Sin-e they were alone, with
no other bombers or fighter cralt
around, the crew members steeled
themselves for a "good scrap,"
said liippee, but the Zeros elected
not to take up the gauntlet. How
ever, they did cruise alonr, still
out of range, possibly waiting to
see If the B-17 might develop
trouble.
"All at once," said Rippee, "we
saw three of them peel off. We
I'-oked Over and saw American
fighter planes coming in hell-bent
for leather, ready to take them on.
The other three Zeros still trailed
along with us at a respectable dis
tance but never did make a move."
For his exploits in the South
west Pacific, Cadet Rippee wears
the four special citations given to
the famed 19th group for its
achievements against the Japs. He
also possesses the Asiatic Pacific
and American Theater ol war rib
bons. An engineer and salesman in
civilian life. Cadet Rippee enlisted
in the service on December 29,
1941. He left this country lor Aus
tralia on March 27 and Joind the
19th group in Melbourne. He is
the son ol O. C. Rippee, apart
ment 809 Holly Park. H. P., Se
attle, Wash.
NEW 'DRIXKIXO IMIX'T'
Sacramento, Cal. 'U The Cal
ifornia legislature has added a
new "don't" in connection with
drinking. It is: "Don't drive a
street car while intoxicated." It's
illegal now.
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2 ToEay,th American oil com
panies are turning out enough 100
octane to fuel the greatest Air Force
in the World. They are shipping mil
lions of additional barrets toour Alliex
And they have cut production costs
to an average of 13 per gallon.
6 If tho oil business had been
controlled by one company, or by the
government, this wouldn't have hap
pened. For there's not much incentive
to go a f ter more customers when you
already have them alL
Dewey Critical
Of Food Policy
Columbus, O., June 21 Ha
state governments must provide
working programs for solution of
the nation's food problems be
cause the administration has fail
ed, Oov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York said today In warning
of a meat shortage jeopardizing
the nation's obligation to feed
the starving survivors of a wreck
ed world."
"No purpose would be served
In analyzing the Incredible defi
ciencies of the national povern
rr.ent in Its 10-year campaign to
restrict food production In the
United States," the republican
governor told the 35th annual gov
erners conference.
Ileuey C ritical
"We are Just now reaping some
of the harvest of these policies,"
he said. "But as a sardonic final
touch, we now find that out of the
genius of the OPA there was de
veloped a theory that it would be
a good idea to repeal the natural
law of economics that corn and
hog prices are tied together."
The result, he said, was a ceil
ing price on corn of $1.05 at Chi
cago while the farmer got $1.45
for the same corn "riht on the
farm. Just by throwing it over the
fence to his pigs."
The meat sitration now, Dewey
said, is a "Jumble of paradoxes"
because there actually is a live
stock population so vast that we
never can support it.
Competition Seen
"Right now in this country our
meat animals are eating into the
precious food reserves which
must be increased if we are even
to begin saving the undernourish
ed people ol a rescued Europe,"
ne saia.
" i nere can be only one result of
this," he continued. "Human be
ings will inevitably push the pig
away Irom the trough, to eat his
Dr. Grant Sktnner
DENTIST
1036 Wall Street
Evening by Appointment
Offlc PhM 73 Baa. Pimm IM-M
lOO oefesttc
3 Tho Inside ttory of this accom
plishment in a typical example of
American Free Enterprise at work.
For 100 octane was perfected by our
oil companies in their own laborato
ries before we entered the war with
out one cent of government subsidy.
7. lut many companies, compeU
ing with each other for your business,
forced improvements. And forced
them at a much greater rate of speed
than any monopoly (private or gov
ernmental) hs ever managed on its
own initiative. That's the inside story
of 100 octane.
J
corn themselves. Livestock will be
reduced, and its slaughter will lor
a time give us the illusion ol a
continuing meat supply.
"I think the Illusion may' lust
until ele.'tlon day next yeur. Hut
then will come the lime when vr
will rei.lly know what a meat
shortage means."
Brofkers
Brothers, June 21 (Special)
I3en Murphy and Jack O'Keeffo
are shearing sheep at Frederick
j butte.
' The ZX ranch Is fencing the
land n-ecntly purchased from
Dominique Verges.
I Mr. and Mrs. John Helfrlch. of
Brothers, went to Portland this
jweek on business. Mrs. Helfrlch
-will remain there a few weeks,
but Helfrlch has returned to his
store at Brothers.
John Helfrlch, Jr., was at Broth-
ers this week from Bend.
I C. L. Harmon and wife sold their
ranch near Hampton to Ray Lay
and have moved to Bend where
Ihey will reside.
j Mary Engle, county health
' nurse, was at Brothers Tuesday.
I Klmer Houston, Portland live
stock buyer, purchased some near
Brothers this week.
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For 3 Days
June 24, 25, 26
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gasoline
4 This was largoly tho result
of just one peacetime influence com
petition. You don't decide to make
lOOoccane one morning and start pro
due ing it the next. You have to learn
how over a period of years. Back in
1920, the best gasoline our oil com
panics could make was 52 octane.
If
8. And It's tho story of most other
war production as well. Years of
peacetime competition under Ameri
can Free Enterprise gave us theHknor
how," the plants and the mass pro
duction techniques to do the greatest
)ob ever tackled by any nation.
This strict, sponsors by tht ptopU oflht Union Olf
Company, is dtdicattd to a discussion otuM mi why
American business unctions. We hope you 'U feel fret
to send in any iugg$tions or criticisms yomkaes0ee79
Write: The President. Union Oil Company, Umeem Of
Building, Le Angtlet, California