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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, December 7, 1954 By ROBERT C. MILLER Uniied Press Staff Correspondent Pearl Harbor, T.H. (U.R) A sneak atom bomb attack on Pearl Harbor today would be a milk run for enemy, bombard iers, who would find Hawaii a bigger sitting duck , target than it was 13 years ago when the Imperial Japanese navy struck. Army, Navy -and Air Force officers reluctantly concede that it would be practically impos sible to halt an H bomb attack, which in seconds would wreak a thousand times more havoc than the Japanese managed in half a day's pounding. The only anti-aircraft on Oahu arrived two months ago with the 25th division. This ack-ack bat talion; and ships' guns are the only anti-aircraft defenses in the territory. There is no jet interceptor squadron working a round-the- clock alert to check unidentified aircraft. Radar defenses, have ieaKs tnat would permit a fast, high flying bomber to deliver a mighty . attack . without . being seen or heard. . The Air Force has no inter ceptions stationed here. Marine, Navy and National Guard jets merely hold "practice" scram bles with outmoded jets incap able of competing with the lat est enemy planes. Hawaii has only one Army division, the 25th, and a Marine task force is stationed at Kane ohe. There were two divisions stationed here in 1941. A 24 hour radar watch is maintained, but the screen is leaky. Even if an enemy plane were detected, there is little Hawaii could do against an H bomb attack but duck and pray. Pearl Now in Rear Pearl Harbor, which vas a front line Navy strongpoint in the Pacific war, is now a rear area supply dump and refueling station, depending upon its ad vance bases for protection. By an odd quirk, these ad vance bases are now located in areas once dominated by the same Imperial Japanese Navy that leveled Hawaii' bases. - Prince - umui Claimed Military officials say it would be impossible for an enemy naval force to reach undetected the same position 200 miles north of Oahu from which the Japanese carrier force of 36 ships launched its attack. They say our far flung outposts and advance bases would easily thwart such a move. However, those in charge of Hawaii's defense admit that snorkel submarines could reach Kimmel Charges Roosevelt Administration Deliberately Provoked Washington U.fi) Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, self styled "scapegoat": of the Pearl Harbor disaster, charged today the Roosevelt administration de liberately provoked the Japa nese attack that plunged the United States into World War II just 13 years ago; The retired naval officer, who was commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet on the "day that will live in infamy," also said that top officials of the War and Navy departments withheld from Hawaiian commanders in telligence reports, including in tercepted Japanese messages, that cftarly indicated the attack was coming. Had this information been passed along to him, even on the eve of the attack, Kimmel said, the U.S. warships which were to be trapped and destroyed or crippled in the harbor might have put out to sea to intercept the Japanese raiding force be fore it struck. Must Answer Like Criminals "I cannot excuse those in au thority in Washington for what they did," said Kimmel. "In my book, they must answer on the day of judgment like any other criminal." 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Felix Stump, command er of the Navy's Pacific forces, said that although Pearl Harbor commission headed by, former Supreme Court. Justice Owen Roberts held them primarily re sponsible for the success of the sneak Japanese attack. . . Kimmel's side of the great na val debacle and events leading up to it was published by the magazine U.S. News & World Report in the form of copyright- Boy's Death Brings Three-Day Oregon Wreck Toll To 9 By UNITED PRESS . A three-year-old The Dalles boy died yesterday afternoon jvhile en route to a hospital of injuries suffered in a truck-car collision on the Columbia River highway one mile west of The Dalles. Two other, children and two adults were injured. Thrown From Car The death brought the three- day total in Oregon to nine. The young victim was Eddie Remillard, the son of Mrs. Agnes Remillard, The Dalles. He was thrown from the car in which he was riding, and died in an ambulance. In serious condition was Mary George, 3, with head- injuries. Her brother - Billy George, . .. 1 6 months, was in fair condition with head injuries. They are the children oi Mrs, Margaret George, The Dalles. The driver of the car, Floyd Orron Daley, 40, and his wife, Edith, were in good condition at the hospital with head injuries and cuts and bruises. Other Driver Unhurt The truck driver, Albert Earl Jones, 31, Pasco, Wash., was un injured. John ZarosinskI,, 29, Klamath Falls, died Sunday night after his sedan crashed into a tree on the Worden road near Keno Sat urday night. He never regained consciousness. Other week end crashes in the state included one in Colum bia county which claimed six lives and injured 13 persons. Lane county recorded a single fatality. Expensive Wreath Decorates Home Memphis, Term. (U.R) Dr Ralph Richener's doorway today sported the most expensive Christmas wreath in town $200 gem. Richener got the wreath from the Little Garden club. After it was delivered, however, one of the club, members discovered that among the various pieces of costume jewelry used to dec orate the wreath was a $200 pearl necklace sent in by mis take. . v ... Grange Pomona Grange ' A luncheon will be given by Anne Carley; Pomona'- youth chairman, honoring the youth chairmen in the subordinate Granges of Jackson county, at the Girls Community club, Sat- urday.Dec. 11. - Plans will be made for the 1955 program and a good attend ance of the youth chairmen 'is urged. - : v Griffin Creek Grange Griffin Creek Grange will meet Thursday, ' Dec. 9, at 8 pan. H.E.C. will hold a candy and baked foods sale at Barne- burg and Andrews furniture store Saturday, Dec. 11. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Upper Applegate Grange Upper Applegate Grange will sponsor an auction sale Dec. 9 at the hall from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from '7 pjn. until every thing is sold. Grange ladies will serve food. All Grangers who can do so. are asked to donate pies or cakes. wm 1 la MM 'Sitting is still the Navy's biggest Pa cific base, "it is not the prime target it was in 1941. : "In some ways we are in a better position to ""resist .an at tack today than we were in 1941," Stump said. "In other ways, we are not. ; "We now have a vastly im proved security position through out the entire Pacific. We are better able to retaliate with de vastating effect. 1 Attack by ed excerpts from a forthcoming book, "Admiral Kimmel's Story." The book will be pub lished in January by the Henry Regnery Co. .oi Chicago. U.S. News & World, Report last week had published another and sharply conflicting version of the Pearl Harbor disaster - in a copyrighted article by retired Navy Capt. T. B. Kittredge. , Kittredge, a naval historian, said no important information "was ever withhheld" from Kimmel and Short. He also said that it was .a "fantastic misrep resentation" to suggest that the late President Roosevelt delib erately invited the attack to pro vide this ' country with an ex cuse to enter the war. Kimmel did not specifically list the Washington officials he considers responsible for Pearl Harbor. But his book bristled Moslem Leaders Cairo (U.R) Egypt's revolt tionary government hanged six leaders of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood today for attempt ing to assassinate Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. The executions began at dawn in the . Cairo Prison and were spaced at 30-minute intervals. In each execution, the. condemned was left hanging from the gibbet for almost half an hour. First to die was ; Mahmoud Abdel Latif, ' triggerman in the plot to kill the youthful Premier at Alexandria, last Oct. 26. . Following him to the gallows were Youssef Talaa$ 4Z; chief of the secret brotherhood; Ibrahim El Tayeb, 32, lawyer and brother hood leader in Cairo; Hindawy Dweir, leader in the Embaba dis trict; Mahomed, Farghaly, 47, brotherhood chief in the Suez Canal Zone, and Abdel Kader Oda, a member of the brother hood council. Patterson Renames State Commissioner Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson has reappointed L. O. Arens as' a member of the State Unemployment C 0 ni pensation Commission and State Industrial Accident Commission. His new four-year term starts Jan. 1 Arens has been on both commis sions since 1939. He represents the public on the two commis sions. The other two members are T. Morris Dunne, represent ing employers, and William A, Callahan, , representing labor. Arens came here from Klamath Falls, where he was an auto dealer. -. 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A thin trickle of oil still seeps from the sunken hull even after all these years. Japanese with direct or implied indict ments of the "late President Roosevelt, the late Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, the late Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff in World.War II, and Adm. Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations at the time of the attack., , Mothers' Action Saves Small Boy -Portland '(U.R) A three-year-old boy and a mother who knew how to apply artificial respira tion were credited today with saving the life of little Joseph Paul Christman, 4, who fell into water in a new hole for a septic tank, yesterday and nearly drowned. '-- J The little boy was - playing with his friend, Jerry Mirich, yesterday in a trailer park. Lit tle Jerry ran to his trailer house shouting, "Jofuss faw in - the pubdle." . ' . ; .' Joseph's mother, Mrs. Lyle Christman, was visiting Jerry's mother. 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