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4 -H i : i i -1 . 1 Vicious Okinawa Air-Sea Battle Which George Gates Helped Film Will Be Shown At Craterian Soon George E- Gatej, Jr., chief photographer's mate, USNR, 1307 Queen Anne, Medford, Ore., served with the navy combat photographic mission which filmed the vicious air-sea battle for' Okinawa on which the new official motion picture, "The Fleet that Came to Stay," is based. Produced by Navy Photogra phic Services, headed by Capt. Gene Markey, USNR, the picture will be presented this coming Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at the Craterian theatre. First Official Showing "The Fleet that Came to Stay" is based on 200,000 feet of film I taken under fire by 103 navy combat photographers for tacti cal study and training purposes Released less than a month after Okinawa was secured, it is the first official two-reel picture showing the public the bitter fight against Jap suicide planes. One photographer lost his life in the operation, performed un der the most hazardous condi tions. Most of the scenes were shot under direct fire of the Kamikazes, providing valuable footage for the study of the habits, tactics and technique of the enemy suicide pilots. "The navy's combat photo graphers will forever have the I gratitude of the American peo ple for their contribution in sav ing lives of our fighting men," according to Lt. Collier Young, USNR, of Navy Photographic Services. He is a former scen ario editor for Sam Goldwyn, and directed and edited the film. Devised By Markey Methods used in filming the action were devised last August by Capt. Markey, in cooperation with Rear Admiral H- B. Miller, USN, director of Public Infor mation, who at that time was on the staff of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimilz. Under this plan, a story-board was prepared and each photo grapher was briefed on his indi vidual mission where his battle station would be and how and what to shoot. As the air-sea battle for Okin awa progressed, with thousands of Jap suicide planes attacking the fleet in an all-out effort to smash our sea-power, the combat photographers were spotted and respotted among fleet units so that every phase would be covered- "The Combat Photographers were not also rans in the Okinawa operation," Lt. Young said. "We were there and we got footage of Kamikazes from WANTED GIRLS for GENERAL OFFICE WORK 9 Typists Stenographers Filing Clerks Checkers ire needed for both permanent end temporary positions GOOD OPPORTUNITIES for CAPABLE GIRLS CALL Bear Creek Orchards Telephone 2161 Please ask for Mrs. Barfelr Here Was fftosKimcr 1 Js. Y3 vtfvv ja i I V!ti v. f 7 ' (Acm Radio-1 clephato) Reconnaissance planes or Army Air Force photographed this Riant col umn of smoke over Hiroshima at altitude of 20.000 feet above Hiroshima a few mtnuU of'er first atomic bomb was dropped on the city as smoke spread over 10,000 feet on target at base of rising column. AAF photo. every conceivable vantage, in cluding shots from the beaches : as the suicide planes attacked the fleet off-shore." Jap Units Photographed Jap carriers and battle units also were photographed by gun cameras on planes flying at mast levels. Film was rushed to the Fhoto ' graphic Science laboratory, j where it was processed and made available for tactical study, j Within a week after D-Day, the first footage was made available for news reels, flown In from the ! Okinawa beaches by Lt. John ' Munroe, USNR, photographic of ficer. I 'The Fleet that Came to Stay" went into production immedi ately, and the form was kept open until Okinawa was secured, so that the latest footage could be included. ! Lt- Julius Epstein, USNR, ! former Warner Brothers screen writer, was assistant editor, : while narration is by Lt. Fort I Pearson, USNR, formerly with SAVE THIS DATE! 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In a letter to Director of War Mobilization John W- Snyder, Mitchell proposed the following four-point program to help the lumber industry: 1. Immediate release by the army of all heavy-duty tractors and cranes earmarked for its use, to be diverted to the lumber in dustry by WPB as soon as pos sible, 2. Immediate relaxation of restrictions on the lumber indus try. 3. Immediate reappraisal of the army's lumber needs, so that all extra lumber can go to civi lian building. 4- Revision of War Manpow er commission hiring rules for the lumber industry Mitchell said that, northwest lumber mills must be put back into peacetime production at the earliest possible moment to af ford employment for vetcrariB and discharged war workers. 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This could be done easily and could be in effect by Jan. 1 while congress considered more thoroughgoing tax revisions. j Repeal of the normal tax i ligations of persons now paying up to $39 annually under the present structure. It would mean a reduction for all the re- I mainder of some 50,000,000 tax payers. I Still standing would be the heavy surtax which starts at 20 per cent and graduates to 91 per cent, according to income. ' If the normal tax is repealed, a family consisting of man, wife, two children with a gross Income of $2,000 and a present tax bill of $39 would no longer pay any tax. i Likewise a married couple with one child and a gross in come of $1,500 would no longer pay the tax. The same goes for a married couple with $1,000 of Income, In all these cases, none is subject to surtax. A man with a $5,500 Income, a wife and one child would find 1 his tax bill lessened by $135 per year. West Pine Lumber Auction Postponed Portland, Ore., Aug. 14 (U.R) A large western pine lumber auc tion scheduled to be held In Spo kane tomorrow has been post poned indefinitely, Lt. Comm. J. M. Hogg, western pine procure ment officer for the central army-navy procurement agency, said today. Turn of events In the war was given as the reason for the post ponement, Lt. Comm. Hogg said. FULL RELIEF FOR BOTH ITALY, AUSTRIA ASKED London. Aug. 14 (UR) The United States today asked the United Nations Reiiof and Rehabilitation Administration to put buth Italy and Austria on "full relief." The American memorandum was submitted to a plenary meet ing of the UNRRA Council by William Clayton, assistant Sec retary of State In charge of eco nomic affairs. BAR MASS PICKETING Hollywood, Aug. 14 (UR) Mass picketing of Samuel Gold wyn studios by film strikers was banned today by Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson, who said he would issue a similar order af fecting Metro-Goldwyn-Msycr. 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