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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941. OF GIVEN BYA.P JAN Huge Fires Started at Cavlte By Prolonged Assault of Japanese Bombing Planes By Russell BrinM Manila, Dee. 11. W Jap inn f o u r-m o t o r e d bombera smashed at military objectivea and shipping moored in the harbor yesterday In a prolonged assault on the Manila area that started huge fires at Cavite naval base and sent columns of smoke spiraling up from Nlch ols air depot. American interceptor pianos and Japanese d I v e-bombers fought a brisk battle over Nictv ols field and one plane was be lieved to have been hit. I watched the entire attack from a beach house IVt miles from Nichols. Hundreds of other persons along the beach front huddled against fences and beneath trees during the four separate afternoon attacks. Flames Roar High From where I stood, nine miles directly across the bay from Cavite, flames roaring high In the air could be seen at the end of the raid. Smoke also rose from a smaller fire at Cavite an hour after the as sault. Another Cavite fire ap parently was extinguished. Black amok hovered over Nichols field. After first circling the city in two formations of 27 planes each the Japanese returned sea ward, then split up for the as saults. High in the clouds above the bay at least six dive-bomb-en peeled off from the main units and roared swiftly toward Tl Japanese Bombers Shown in Air I (. .1. t. :r0 v 4t These are big Japanese bo mbers on maneuvers somewhere in the Far East. It is believed similar planes were among those which bombed Hawaiian islands without warning Sunday. GET WONDERFUL RELIEF Fa Ban aatal PILES!! faaaale pflea rm4 im wreak ana lanart fou with narfdanine Keh. burn ana IrrHa. tine. Staart'a PrranM Saeaealleriai arms uuick. alcome filler. Thair 1-wmr madira tloa Man. raal eomfert. Mueaa alraln. Iialpa tighten releaed membranee. irantly lubrttnua and aoriana. rrolecll.e and anil. nan. aa sear a eae. Ifa wondarfal to ba ' PUe Main. Cat rnnuhta Btaait a PyreaM SarMellarlee at Tour drua autre without elay efra and 11.30. a aaalm'e amm-Wak suara.ua. Nichols. The bomb blasts shook my house. The attack stirred alive gi gantic hornet's nest as Ameri can interceptors which had droned over the air base throughout the morning went into action. After their swoop onto the field the bombers climbed high and split up. In dividual dog-fights developed, with the Americans trying to get onto the tall of the Japan ese planes. Fights In Sky Been The fighting could be seen through scattered clouds direct ly over my head. Anti-aircraft guns cracked throughout the city and the machine-guns of the combatant planes rattled Incessantly. The fight lasted at least 13 minutes. One plane emitted a light stream of smoke from its motors and disappeared inland. Some witnesses reported that It had glided toward Mc'.'nley field, after which a high burst of smoke was seen. Another plane slanted seaward beyond Cavite, straightened near the water, then disappeared over the horizon. The fight ended when the fast bombers climbed high and headed seaward with the Americans following. Meanwhile, smoke began spiraling up from Nichols field. This attack started about 12:40 and ended at 1 p, m. Heavy gunfire ceased mom entarily . then burst out again at planes hidden In the clouds off Cavite. As a second wave of bombers came on the smoke rings of anti-aircraft shells puffed out far below them. The planes dropped 40 Dombs at columns of merchant vessels, sending up high waterspouts. Columns of dirt and smoke also shot into the air from the di rection of Cavite and flames roared up, apparently from an oil tank fire. Several bombs fell into the water off Ctvite. A third flight of nine bomb ers attacked some 13 minutes after the first assaults. Flying in close V formation they ap peared over Cavite, apparently safe from anti-aircraft sheila bursting below them The attackers dropped a clus ter of bombs, sending up two new smoke plumes from Cavite, swung toward the merchantmen and dropped another salvo, then bombed the Fort McKin ley area and sped back out to sea. This attack was followed by a fourth in which eight planes in close formation dropped some 30 bombs on Cavite. Hugo, Colo. (JP) What's In a number? Alice Poen would like to know. She was born on the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year at 11 o'clock and is the 11th child. INDEFENSEWORK GLASS AT SCHOOL Welding And Sheet Metal Study Requires Additional Instructor Waiting List. War with Japan has increased interest in the vocational de fense courses being given here in electric welding and aviation sheet metal, E. H. Hedrlck, city school superintendent, said to day. Because of this plans are be ing made to employ another in structor in welding around the first of the year to absorb about 30 of the 100 men now waiting their turn for Instruction, Mr. Hedrick said. As a class of 30 will complete its study around Christmas, 30 others will begin the course around the first of the year, thus reducing the wait ing list by total of 60, he added. About 60 are waiting their turn to take the aviation sheet metal course, Mr. Hedrick said. This course runs for 12 weeks but aircraft manufacturing com panies frequently employ the students before the study is completed and put them on the payroll while they complete the training in the factories, Mr. Hedrick related. The electric welding course takes from 10 to 12 weeks. Ex aminations, prescribed by the American bureau of shipping, ate given here. Age limits for welding study are 18 to 43, for aviation sheet metal, 18 to 39. Applications for enrollment may be made at the school superintendent's office in city hall or at the state employ ment service, 43 North Fir street NAZIS LOOT FORESTS OF OCCUPIED LANDS Portland, Ore., Dec. 11. UP) Germany is depleting her for ests at the rate of 130 per cent of growth, and Is looting forests of occupied countries, Croydon Wagner, Tacoma, told the West ern Forestry and Conservation convention here today. Wagner, vice-president of the National Lumber Manufactur ers' association, predicted that as a result Europe would be come an Importer rather than exporter of lumber. DEAD MAN DISCOVERED BY BLACKOUT WARDEN Hillsboro, Ore.' Dec. 11. (JP) Blackout Warden John Bremer of the Mlddleton district near Tigard forced open the door of a house that displayed a hall way light early today. Inside he found Myron C. Saltus, ST, sole occupant, dead on the floor. Coroner F. J. Sewell blamed death on heart attack. . . 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The guard, Orville Garrison of Taft, was pinned against the bridge railing by an automobile driven by Jerry Sittser, pub lisher of tha Delake Newt Guard. Sittser was seriously injured. Bremerton, Wash, Dec. 11. (P) Two marines on blackout patrol duty were killed early today when the automobile in which they were riding collided headon with Washington Mo tor Coach company bus at the Junction of the Keyport-Poulsbo highway. The marines were not immediately identified. It required approximately 141.000 tons of wrapping paper to do up tha products of butcoera and grocers last year. 2? m f C9 FOR 0 (3 4 there's no finer egression of the Holiday Spirit I elT-ra L" Heighten your lor of (aiHnsiaa' 100 Proof . giving (and serving) with this traditionally great Kentucky whiskey. 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