EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
OVER TOKYO GETS
BACK T0SA I P A N
Superb Flying Saved Craft
After Heroic Battle Last
January
Hdqrs., 73rd Bomb Wln Sal
pan, Aug. 20 (U.R) The twice
rammed Superfortress "Irish
Lassie" fought its way safely
home after the historic Jan. 27
raid on Tokyo despite uch se
vere damage that the crew al
most bailed out over Japan.
Superb flying and the unbrok
en will of American soldiers to
fight to live brought the ship
in for a crash-1 a n d 1 n g that
wrecked the plane but only
two men were injured.
With the lifting of security re
strictions, the story of the Irish
Lassie could be told today.
Three Zeros had been downed
by the B-29 when TSgt. James
F. McHugh, New York, opened
up on a fourth. But that fighter
came straight down and smashed
into the left wing just behind
the No. 1 engine. The plane rip
ped out eight feet of the aileron
one-third of the huge landing
flap, and tore up the gas tank
Flight Engineer Lt. Robert
Watson, Pomeroy, Wash., said
there wasn't much jolt. The navi
gator, 1st Lt. John J. Faubion
Austin, Tex., didn't even know
they had been rammed.
Enemy fire struck Radio Op
orator Sgt. Walter Klnnczak
Plymouth, Pi., and he dropped
to the floor.
Then Tallgunner SSgt
Charles Mulligan, Henderson,
Ky., caught another fighter com
lng straight at the tail. He and
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he AGE OF FLIGHT
The Age of Flight, hrn almost etrryone will travel !r air, is
already here. Hut right now llie ait lines ere Hill facf.l villi a
Mg job moving, the faMrst way, essential civilian anil mililary
passrngrr-rargo traffic. Tint's hy e don't slums lisvf space
available for you.
However, wild much additional equipment
alri-adv on order, we hope that anon you ran
enjoy the speed, comfort ami low fares offered
liy United Mainliners,
Municipal Airport
Telephone; 7111
Monday, Aug. 20, 1945
the Jap poured hundreds of
rounds at each other, Bullets hit
his right hand but he kept firing.
Then the enemy fighter bored
right into the gunner's compart
ment. The crash ripped out the
left side of the glass-enclosed
bubble, ripped off the left stabi
lizer and snapped all but one of
the control cables.
The bomber dropped 8,000
feet before Co-Pilot Leonard
Fox, Downey, Pa., found that his
controls could pull the plane out
of the dive.
Sgt. Clarence O. Leach, Mar
tins Ferry, O., and Sgt. Marvin
E. Meyer, Boone, Iowa, manned
the turrets for the running fight
out to sea. SSgt. Lewis E. Nel
lums, Pcnsacola, Fla., aided
Klimczak.
It took an hour to cut Mulli
gan loose. He was held in the
shattered compartment only by
torn metal snapped in his cloth
ing which kept him from drop
ping through the gaping hole.
Both his hands were frozen and
later were amputated. ,
The B-29 dropped out of con
trol when they swung in over
the Saipan airfield and almost
crashed into an embankment at
the end of the strip. But at the
last second it rose over the
hump, skidded hundreds of fect
and came to rest a mass of
wreckage.
Nine members were decorated
for their part in the mission. Al
though the entire crew was
ordered grounded after the
flight, McHugh and Meyer fin
ally managed to 'fight" their
way back to flying duty.
TOTAL TAX LEVY
FOR CITIES IDE
The tolal county, city and
school tax levy for cities of Jack
son county, as fixed by the
county assessor, arc as follows:
Ashland, 39.6 mills; Mcdford,
35.3; Butte Falls 56.4 mills; Cen
tral Point. 32.5; Eagle Point 39.5;
Gold Hill, 58.3; Jacksonville,
62.5; Phoenix, 50.7; Rogue River,
45.9; and Talent, 43.6 mills.
Special city levies are as fol
lows;
Ashland, 14.2 mills; Butte
Falls, 20.8; Central Point, 22.9;
Eagle Point, 11.7; Ciold Hill,
23.8; Jacksonville, 27.3; Mcd
ford, 17.5; Phoenix, 23; Rogue
River 9 2; and Talent, 20.3 mills.
The high school levy in all
school districts not maintaining
a high school Is 4.3 mills.
The county levy, outside of the
city of Ashland is 8.6 mills. In
Ashland it Is 7. mills. That muni
cipality makes Its own of .1 of a
mill for the library fund, and a
1.5 mill county road levy.
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Washington. Aug. 20 (U.R)
The War department announced
tonight that the 5th lntamry
division a veteran unit of 150
days of combat in Europe will
be sent to the Pacific area at the
specific request of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
The department emphasized,
however, that about 1,100 high
point or over age men, who arc
likely to be eligible for discharge
under any downward revision of
the army's point system, will be
transferred out of the division
before it is again sent oversells.
CAFE OWNER SLAIN
Denver, Colo., Aug. 20 (U.R)
A. L. Richardson, 67-year-old
owner-operator of one of Den
ver's most famous eating places,
was found shot to death in the
downtown cafe shortly after
dawn today.
JOB PROBLEM DUE
Washington, Aug- 20 (U.R)
Nine of the nation's 166 princi
pal labor market areas will face
serious unemployment problems
by Oct. 15, the War Manpower
commission reported.
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FIVE YEAR
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Soviet Program To Surpass
Pre-War Record For
Economic Gains
Moscow, Aug. 20 (U.R) Rus
sia announced today the launch
ing of a super five-year plan de
signed to repair the nation's war
damage and surpass its pre-war
economic development by 1950.
For the next five years, life
In Russia will be harnessed to
the restoration and expansion of
the basic heavy industries to give
the country a strong and well
balanced economy.
That was the underlying prin
ciple of the instructions issued
by the. Communist party's cen
tral committee and and the coun
cil of people's1 commissars to the
state planning commission and
various other commissariats over
the week-end.
The instructions stated that
the plan should he aimed first
at effecting "complete restora
tion of the economy in the for
merly occupied zones; secondly,
post-war reorganization of the
national economy, and thirdly,
further development of all re
gions of the Soviet Union."
As a result of the program,
the official announcement said,
"pre-war development of the na
tional economy should be con
siderably surpassed by 1950."
The program called for large-
scale expansion of the national
railway system.
The program will require
national effort surpassing any
thing attempted by the Soviet
Union in the years between the
1918 revolution and World War
II, because the country will un
dertake simultaneously two par
allel plans of reconstruction and
expansion.
It had been believed generally
that repairing the war damages
alone would absorb Russia's eco
nomic energies for many decades
to come. But the new plan also
calls for a tremendous industrial
expansion of equal scope.
Atom Bomb Plants
Roads Costly Item
Washington, Aug. 20 (U.R)
The federal works agency re
ported tonight that it spent $8,
726,597 in three years on com
munity facilities required by
atom bomb workers in Tennes
see, Washington and New Mex
ico. The money went for roads,
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abled Clinton, Tenn., to buy a
garbage truck. The funds were
spent in 20 communities that
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More than half the total went
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HALT LEND LEASE
PORTLAND'S PORT
Portland, Ore., Aug- 20 (U.R)
Lend-lease operations through
the Port of Portland under the
supervision of the War Shipping
administration for the Soviet
Union and Great Britain were
halted today after a directive for
the stoppage of lend-lease from
this harbor stopped activity at
5 p. m. Saturday,
John Young, director of main
tenance and repair for WSA
here, said instructions for the
stoppage had been received
through the office of the Pacific
coast director at San Francisco.
The Soviet purchasing commis
sion has also been notified.
Maj. George W. Berry, head
of the army transportation office
in Portland, said the army had
received no instructions and un
til such orders were received,
no change would be made in the
flow of military supplies. Tliej
army has been supplying the ma- j
jority of lend-lease materials to
Russia. I
The new order directed that
the Soviet government pay all !
bills and financial obligations- A i
greater part of this port, which1
has been the chief wartime port
on the west coast for lcnd-leae
shipments, has been devoted to
Russian vessels and huge stocks
of supplies and materials have
been loaded aboard Russian ves-;
sels here.
WAR PLANTS CLOSE
New York, Aug. 20 (U.R)
War contract cancellations and
cutbacks will force Curtiss
Wright Corporation and its sub
sidiary, Wright Aeronautical
Corporation, to close war-created
production facilities at Lock
land (Cincinnati) O., and Wood
Ridge, N. J., President G. W.
Vaughan said today.
SKIPPERS HONORED ;
Washington, Aug. 20 (U.R)
Masters of two vessels won mer
chant marine distinguished serv
ice medals during July, bringing
to 117 the total number of the
medals awarded so far, the Mari
time commission announced to
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Washington, Aug. 20 (U.R)
The United States last night ac
cepted the assurances of Thail
and (Slam) that her declaration
of war against this country was
dictated by the Japanese and
"contrary to the will of the Thai
people." .
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes released a note from the
Thai government which also dis
avowed its declaration of war
against Great Britain and as
sured her that she was ready to
turn British territories occupied
in the name of Japan.
Byrnes took note of the fact
that the Thai government was
completely dominated by the
Japanese at the time of the July
25, 1942, war declaration. He
said the United States always be
lieved the action "did not rep
resent the will of the Thai
people."
"Accordingly," Byrnes said In
a statement, "we disregarded
that declaration and have con
tinued to recognize the Thai
minister in Washington as the
minister of Thailand, although,
of course, we did not recognize
the Thailand government In
Bangkok as it was under Japa
nese control-"
The Thai note announced the
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government's determination to
make reparations for any dam
ages resulting to American in
terests as result of prejudicial
laws passed during the Japanese
occupation.
IS TOLD
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 20
i vu.ry ijerniany s inaouuy iu
' get down to brass tacks" in trans
I lating research discoveries into
production was a great factor In
its defeat, two American scient
ists just returned from a three-
month survey of the defeated
nation's laboratories said today
Ihe Germans had so many
projects going that they weie
bound to hit on at least a few,"
the two men said. "Some of the
things the Germans worked out
on paper were completely fan
tastic, or at least they appeared
so until you saw that they would
work."
Much of the costume jewelry
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coated with metal, according to
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