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."
Kimmel and the late Maj.
Gen. Walter C. Short, then Army
commander in- Hawaii, were re
moved from their commands in
January, 1942, after a special
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the same position undetected
and launch atom rockets with
deadly aim and devastating ef
fect. The military has been unable
to work out a defense against
saboteurs who could carry in
their suitcases bombs that could
cause more horror than the en
tire Japanese Navy.
Adm. 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.
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'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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The scars of that Sunday
morning attack 13 (years ago
have been - slowly erased. In
Pearl Harbor there remains but
one gaping wound" the barnacled
hull of the battleship Arizona,
now a national monument. .
The Arizona holds the bodies
of 1104 men who died in the
December 7 attack. 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. She ran to the hole
which had filled from runoff
and heavy rain just as her son
was going down and managed to
pull; him to shore. -She applied
artificial respiration and after
mud and water gushed from her
son's mouth, he , began to cry.
He was taken to ah Oregon City
hospital for emergency treat
ment. ; .
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Seen After Action
Corvallis U.R) Another,
fight over liquor appeared to be
in the offing here today after he
the Corvallis city council gave
its approval to three applica
tions for possible sites for state
liquor stores.
The council split 5-3 last night
in favor of the motion approving
the site. Mayor Dean Dorsey said
the action-was a "direct slap"
at his administration, and in ef
fect approved the establishment
of a state liquor store here.
Dispensaries Opposed
Corvallis has never, had a
liquor store, and Mayor Dorsey
has opposed liquor dispensaries
in the city. The mayor said he
felt the action should have been
delayed until after he leaves of
fice Dec. 31.
While the city council de
clared it was not taking a posi
tion for or against a liquor agen
cy here, it was brought out at
the meeting that the liquor com
mission would probably consid
er approval of a site as approval
of a store.
Liquor by Drink Voted
In 1934 the Corvallis city
council asked the liquor com
mission not to establish a store
here, and an advisory vote in
1949 also opposed an outlet
Last November, Benton county
voted for liquor by the drink by
a narrow margin. - r
"Dry" citizens groups have
indicated they will protest the
council action. -
Lightning Knocks Out
Yaquina Lighting System
.' Newport, Ore. U.R) Light
ning knocked out the. lighting
system of the Oregon coast high
way bridge, across Yaquina bay
at Newport yesterday.
The bolts also broke a chunk
of concrete from the north pier
25 feet above the road bed.
, Damage was light and normal
operation was restored.
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Portland U.R) The First
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county will be put on the line
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of power. "
Request for Probe
Of Election Count
Portland (U.R)" Jess Gard,
Republican National corrimittee
man for Oregon, believes that
the recount he tried for last Fri
day with startling effect might
have reversed the outcome of
the. Guy Cordon - Richard Neu
berger Senate race, taking con
trol of the next Senate away
from the Democrats.
Gard returned to Portland
Monday, from Washington, D.C.,
defending his petition. "My ob
ject was to make Oregon voters
confident in the outcome of the
election," he told newsmen.
He explained his petition did
not charge fraud in the election,
but alleged several errors. One
of them, Gard claimed, was that
votes were counted for Neuber
ger which were mutilated or had
distinguishing marks and should
not have been counted. Similar
votes for Cordon were thrown
out, he said. '
Democrat Neuberger defeated
incumbent Republican Cordon
by less than one-half of one per
cent of the total v,ote, thus giv
ing Senate, control of the 84th
Congress to the . Democrats. .
Gard said he , wanted an . in
vestigation of the election moVe
than a recount, but that the only
way he could get it was to re
quest the recount. He petitioned
as a private citizen, hot as Na
tional committeeman.
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