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PAGE TtVO HERALD AXP NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Ace" Wanted to Fight Japs in the Aleutians, But He Didn't Make It " (Editor's Note: Thl Is the last In a series of stories by Cor respondent Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Times on action in the Aleutian Islands). Br KEITH WHEELER (Copyright, 1942, Chicago Times, Inc. AT SEA WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET, July 2 (Delayed) Six weeks ago I flew a patrol with an observation plane. I took the occasion to remark that, while It wasn't permitted to give the full names of Bill the pilot and Willie, the radioman, I wished I could because they had to fly patrols every day and some day might be killed doing it Out of ignorance, prophecy naoUc. nil Willi; o On the ship we called Bill the pilot "Ace," partly because of his considerable skill at throwing darts but more be cause of the great sickness he had. . His sickness was not in his body, for he was tall, muscular and handsome. His sickness was In-his heart and the malady was ' disappointment. He wanted to fight and the wanting was a fire that con sumed him. He wanted above ail the desires of his life, to fly a fighter plane in combat. With hatred that was almost an obsession, he hated the slow, sturdy, dependable, lightly' armed observation plane to which his orders condemned him. He abhorred the monotony of his duty, which was danger ous enough but not exciting. He loathed these things and longed to be. rid of them, but he was a fine pilot and consci entious. And In that mysterious bourne where the navy's chores are assigned, they felt that his great ability and experience out weighed his. wishes.' They may have sympathized with him, but !they would not change his duty, Endless So day after day be climbed Into his plane and flew his un eventful beat out over the ' empty sea and' back, endlessly -from ship to horizon and be 'yond the horizon and back to the ship. He did his work and he did it well. But always as he flew, his sickness gnawed at him and "he schemed to cure it. Between patrols he composed appeals for transfer to a fighter squad- ' ron. They were denied. He tried to Join the volunteer fighter group in Burma, but they wouldn't let him go. He pleaded for duty on an aircraft carrier, but they told him good warship TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FILL YOUR FUEL storage to day. Buy Beacon burning oil. Call Balslger, 6876. 8-3 FREE to good homes! Two cute, part Persian kittens. Phone 6304. 8-3 FOR RENT Partly or unfur nished 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms. Nice modern, home, 619 Klamath. 8-5 NICE ROOM Close in. 827 Walnut. Phone 3595. 8-5 FOR RENT Newly decorated two-bedroom house in Hot Springs, $40. Apply Drew's : Manstore or 1914 Lowell after . 6. 4311U ONE-BEDROOM HOUSE with two bedrooms over garage in rear. 128 Hillside. Suitable ' for six adults. $25. Inquire E. A. Dunham, 435 Oak.- 8-4 FOR SALE Two-bedroom mod em home. Hardwood floor, fireplace, lawn, one year old. . 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They were designed for one purpose, an aim having no re mote connection with aerial combat. They are extended eyes for the ships, planes that can be depended upon to stand up under the beatings of sea and weather but nothing more, Their great value is their abili ty to direct the fire of the ship's guns. Nobody who knows anything about them expects the pigeons to fight. When the enemy is near they are expected to keep as far from trouble as cloud cover or wave-hopping will al low. Dream Plans But Ace planned attacks. He dreamed of bombing an enemy ship and he believed sincerely that he could get away with it. He even thought, given altitude, skill and the advantage of a few seconds surprise, that he- could attack a Jap Zero fighter and win. He was not afraid of . death. He was supremely confident in his skill and there was pride in him as well as discontent. Probably he never considered death his own death for there was no room to accommodate death in his flaming spirit. He wanted to fight. Wanting to fight, wanting a fast deadly plane as an instrument for his skill was his sickness. He de served to die fighting. And so today he flew his patrol. Willie the radioman was with him in the rear seat. They flew out to the end of their sec tor and started back. On the way in they met a plane search ing another sector. Ace signalled the second plane to join up. Something went wrong then, nobody knows what. As the other pilot drew toward him, Ace's plane swerved into a turn, swung sharply around 180 degrees and dove into the sea. The other pilot landed in the open sea, taxied near the cap sized wreckage and, leaving the plane in the hands of his radio man, clambered into the water and tried to reach Ace and Willie under the heaving sur face. He found nothing but a float ing glove. The icy waters chilled his body so quickly that he could not climb back into his own plane, and he was saved only when the radioman, leav ing the plane unguided. crawled from the cockpit and pulled him back aboard. Somebody will have to go to the. girl Ace married two months ago and explain to her why his sickness will never be cured and why, perhaps, it doesn't matter now. Draft Regulations Protecting Family Put Into Effect WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 UP) New selective service regula tions designed to protect estab lished family relationships are being put into effect as rapidly as possible, national headquart ers said today. However, men classified be fore the new policy was an nounced July 13 as available for military service despite their family status still are being in ducted, officials said, and this situation may continue in many communities for some time. Quotas must be met, they said, even if it means inducting men who might have been placed in a deferred status under the new regulations, but under pre vious policy were 'classified as available for military service, The new regulations, applying to registrants classified after they were announced, will be ex tended to men with families pre viously classified as subject to Induction as rapidly as the local boards can reconsider the in dividuals cases. Herald and News want ads reach 40,000 individuals. Some-1 one wants what you have to sell. Advertise in the classified, Gas on Stomach RaUart4 la r Ml, mr mm, bk tnr til. Kor ttnmicl) ar.4 hranbum. doctor, ututllr pmcrib, lb, rut-n-u-tlr,, nfdlclnw knrri for Trflrtontltc frilef toedlelnci like ihoi. In B'll-tna Tiblltt. Na mailt R-ll-,n, hflnp, -wwfrrt t- a, Jtgcrrurabottato ui for doublt mooirbiek. fSe. Furnace Food. mm Hi Steel companies, hard-pressed for scrap, find fodder for fur- chlnery. Worker takes torch to mine hoist stored for years in Inland Steel's Indiana Harbor works. 5 (Continued from Page One) cent outbreaks in the unoccu pied area. The reporter noted that dem onstrations already had been forbidden, and that the order now only re-emphasized it at a time when second front discus sion, from the German view point, fills many columns of the French press in Paris. Government To Push Livestock Use of Grain CHICAGO, Aug. 3 (F) Gov ernment owned wheat, accumu lated through recent years of bumper crops, will be pushed in to livestock consumption even more vigorously and at lower prices in the near future, trade experts reported today. The government has been of fering this feed wheat since mid January at prices substantially below the market- and has suc ceeded in disposing of 35,000, 000 to 40,000,000 bushels. This is only a little more than a third of the amount it originally hoped to move in the first six months of the year. " Editorials on News (Continued From Page One) most of us are) has been one of optimism. It is only when NET RE SULTS since the beginning of the war are carefully weighed that the sterner truth becomes apparent. RECENT example is the offl cial news about the western Aleutians. If we depended whol ly upon the official communi ques, we should be comfortably certain in our minds that the Jap toe-noia out there is of no im portance and can be broken eas ily whenever we get around to it. It is only tlirough NON-OFFICIAL news and comment and our own common sense that we gain a contrary opinion. IFVON'T jump to the conclusion that our government is DE LIBERATELY misleading us by feeding us sugar-coated news rations. That isn't true. Official communiques are put out for public consumption throughout the world. They are subject to close scrutiny and analysis BY THE ENEMY. No matter what happens, they must not carry ANY note of panic or uncertainty. They must paint a picture of calm confidence in the ability of the government to handle whatever situation may arise. And they are NOT UN TRUTHFUL. Under their sur face the discriminating reader can nearly always find the real facts of the situation. But the general impression created by them on the average reader or listener is an unduly optimistic one. TT is largely because of these official communiques, with their hopeful and confident SURFACE tone, that the Amer ican public is complacent about the war IF IT IS COMPLA CENT. Hence this note of caution re garding the reading of censored and official news of the war. If you want the actual picture, you must dig beneath the surface of the communiques. NOTICE TO Home Owners Have that SEPTIC TANK cleaned before August 15. Prices will raise from 25 to 35 on that date. Most tanks need cleaning about very two years. Call 7833 for information. HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON GERMAN FORCE (Continued from Page One) German forces which crossed tlie Don south of Tslmlyansk were rolling the Russians back to the east, between the Sal and the Don rivers. This would Indi cate a German effort to widen their Caucasus wedge between Rostov and Tsimlyunsk. The German high command acknowledged that the red army was striking back with fresh force in the Don bend and at Voronezh, on the exposed north ern flank of the German offer, sive, but said the attacks were being withstood. The Germans were dropping parachutists in some key regions Bcross the Don and in addition the Russians reported finding nazl spies by the dozens operat ing In that area. Forty-five wore executed in one sector. Presumably these were fifth columnists. It was not clear im mediately from what group of the soviet peoples they had been recruited. However, large Gur man settlements had developed before tho war in the German Volga area, a large section soma 150 miles north and northeast of Stalingrad. Germans In this area were understood to have been rounded up and moved back from the potential battle area soon after the war started. Moscow newspapers gave in creasing space to demands for a second front to ease the strain on the red army. The commun ist party newspaper Pravda, de claring that "the danger in the south is more acute," said "the enemy is draining Germany and German-occupied countries to send all reserves into the fight." British military quarters said in London that sixteen nazl di visions had been transferred from France and the low coun tries to the Russian front, but added that this did not necessar ily indicate a weakening of Ger many's defenses to the west since the transferred troops had been replaced by other units. Heated Charges Hurled in Court Martial of Aroff (Continued from Page One) me four or five hundred if you had driven one out for me.' " In a long distance telephone call to Boston, Martin said, Aroff asked him to buy a Cadillac and drive it out to the coast for him. Lieutenant Klein asked, "Was anything ever said about pur chasing the car from you? "Not that I recall." Martin re plied. "You understood and the ac cused understood you were mak ing a gift of the car?" "I said, 'you can have the catj " "Did the accused ever offer to pay for the cor?" "No." . In framing the next question Klein began repeating testimony and pictured Martin as having said that the only financial ref erence, by Inference, was that Aroff had spent $200 on tele phone calls to Martin and could have been saved several hundred more. Lieutenant Robinson then jumped to his feet and accused the judge ' advocate of miscon duct. Stolen Car Found On Lake Highway A car belonging to. Lorenz company, reported stolen Satur day from the parking lot back of the Elks temple, was reported recovered by slate police Sun day afternoon. . The '41 Ford coupe had been abandoned In a ditch beside the Lake o' the. Woods road about eight miles west of. Klamath Falls. Police said that nothing had been removed from the car and the only damage was crum pled fenders. " " Mxssssm in ii ' in ,i ir vii n CTaap i n 1 1 i , ' 1 - mnattxtmuumuuumumxmtt ANNOUNCEMENT! 1Mnmmmmwumwm,u" Rose Ann Sitkin Furs Now at LONG'S-.., An outstanding collection of Quality Furs! ... all at August sale prices! Rose Ann Sitkin, recognized as one of America's leading stylists and designers, comes here direct from her Los Angeles fur store, bringing to the women of Klamath Falls in dividually styled furs of highest grade and.top workmanship . . "FURS FOR THE WOMEN BY A WOMAN" FOR QUALITY IN FURS - BUY NOW! Mr. Wampler Had Bad July Plenty of luck the hard kind was experienced in July by M. H. Wampler of Rocky Point, Wampler wu employed last month cleaning out trails for the U. S. forest service. On July 13, while going home on the west side of Up per Klamath hike, his ax was stolen. On July 20, some one stole his saw table, shovel and ten kettle. Finally, on July 2,1, his best saddle horse died. "K anyone can beat this for hard luck, would like to know when It happened," said Wam pler. hit ssnn m nnn syM WW,W UWUU w WASHINGTON. Aug. 3 (AP) Americans dug down and pur chased $900,000,000 In war bonds last month, with 18.000, 000 workers authorizing wage deductions and 110,000 firms operating payroll savings plana. It w a s the second highest month for war bonds. In Janu ary, immediately following Pearl Harbor and the declara tion of war against the axis, saies soared to $1,000,540,000, The treasury said It was "high ly gratified" with the July cam paign. During last month. Secretary Morgcnthau said, about $200, 000,000 was deducted from sal aries and wages for war bond purchases. The treasury added that 2,000,000 more workers participated in payroll savings plans in July than In June, when total bond sales amounted to $634,000,000. TBI! PORTLAND, Aug. 3 (JF) Ore gon training centers could be ex panded to turn out 10,000 avia tion mechanics a month, Robert M. Hamill, administrative, assist ant to Portland public school war production centers, said today. Declaring that for many of tho sheet metal processes workers can be trained In 90 hours, Ham Ill said that by running four six hour classes dally ot each cen ter, 5280 persons could be train ed -each month with present fa cilities. The capacity could be doubled by adding only benches, hammers and vices, he said. Hamill said the program could be put Into effect readily If the Henry J. Kaiser plan of building cargo planes at shipyards were adopted. Tire Thieves Have Active Night Here Tire thieves were busy Friday night of last week, with two such thefts reported to the city police. Arthur Larsen of Ward's Klamath Funeral home said that a spare tire and wheel were stolen from the trunk of a car in the garage back of the estab lishment. The trunk was locked and had been pried open. A blue blanket marked with three Greek letters was also taken, he said; E. L. Keller, 2335 Blchn street, reported to officers that a tire, tube, wheel and two mud flaps were stolen from his car some time Friday night. WAGE BOOST WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 VP) President Roosevelt signed legis lation today giving raises to thousands of government work ers, mostly In the lower-paid classifications, and boosting the minimum for full-time adult workers from $1020 to $1200 an nually. The budget bureau es timated the Increases would to tal $15,768,000 annually, with all but about 300,000 going to cus todial service workers and em ployes In the lower grades of the sub-professional service. T E 1111 Villi (Continued from Page One) bottom door of the shaft, some 15 feet above the spot whero the body was found, was ajar when the discovery was miulu, Allecn, duughter ol Mrs. Ada Ball Pearson Courtney of Chllo quln, win, attending ncluiol Id Lewlflon to be near her grand mother, Mrs. Mangle Bull. Shu was a giaduute ot tho Chlloqulii high, school and Is survived by a brother, Leon Mull, 15. CmCm'ii ut ihu sciuioi snui Aileen was a "model student." Superintendent U. G. Courtrlght of the Klamath Agency Mild Unit the Indian servlco In Idaho was making an Investigation into tho mysterious death as were Ieliihu officers. Dr. D. D. McRobcrtsou, who made tho autopsy in Lcwistou, said the girl apimrently hud died of a blow which fructured her sknll. There was no evidence as to whother an assault or a full was responsible for tha blow. Acting Chief of Police Kcl Jacks of tho Lowlston police fiilu his department was investigat ing and that he had nothing to say about tho cuso so far. Thu body was found by Bob Rclnnrd, an elevator boy, the chief said. Thomaton Diet Thomason, part Rogue Indian who claimed direct dnscvndiinry from Buffnlo Bill Cody, died peacefully in the Klamath In dian Agency hospital Saturday night. His death recalled one of the most sensational Indian murder cases In the bloody history of the reservation. Pearson, a breed and generally feared by other Indians, was slain In front of Johnny's pool room. No ar gument preceded tho shooting which was over the attention Pearson was paying to Elva Tlce, 10-year-old part Klamath Indian girl. Thomason opened flro on Pearson as the Tice girl grabbed his hand In an effort to foul his aim, Pearson, however, was fatally wounded and Thomajon later gave himself up. Thomason was acquitted by a Jury on January 20, 1020. Union Ruling on Output Enraged Worker, Claim MUSKEGON, Mich., Aug. 3 (AP) A war plant worker charged with destruction of de fense materials told United States Commissioner E. C. Far mer on arraignment here today that he destroyed the parts In a rage over a union limitation of the number of units a workman could produce daily. Tho worker, Hubert C. Cox, 47, an employe of the Sealed Power corporation, is accused of destroying five stacks of air craft cngino piston ring molds. Fox mado his charges against the CIO United Auto Workers Local 637, of which he is a member. He did not elaborate. RURAL FEAST NEVADA, Mo. When Pete Hackstattcr returned to his farm homo three miles east of Ne vada yesterday afternoon ho found his livestock hardly able to walk. Every manger and trough In the barnyard was filled with grain, and large piles of wheat and corn were scattered on the ground. A mental patient at the state hospital had escaped and de cided to treat the animals. Re-Elect Wm. I. Gunlock Incumbent ' ASSEMBLYMAN Second District, California BODY FOUND A DF SHAFT IDAHO TO Autry's In Technical Sergt. Gene Autry Is his tltlu now. The (unions lnE Ing stiir of movies, '"j Kudy llunhrliie, rnslit, he enters Air Corps lit (.'lilcago In rlurllnn crntt-r. Two accidents, both Involving taxlcnbs, worn reported to City polico as having occurred over the weekend. Tom Sheey said that his car was sldeswlped on Main street near Eleventh by a cab driven by 1J. E, Stuntcback. Ho esti mated that about $20 damago had been dune to his ear. F. D. Thornton, driving a ear, and A. K. Giiiin, driving a cub, reported that they crashed at tho Intersection of Tenth and Pine streets at 3:10 Saturday after noon. Gunn was snld to hnvu run a stop sign. There were two passengers In the uixl but no one vns injured and tho cars sus tained only minor damage. GUINEA FIGHT ML (Continued from Page One) mated at not more thnn 2S00 men has been reinforced by sea, tho spokesman said. In addition to attacking the supply dumps at Kukodn, allied heavy and medium bombers pounded enemy positions near Buna. Japanese fighters rose to Intercept the allied planes and a hot fight ensued In which five of the enemy planes were shot d o w n, General MncArthur's headquarters said. CIO, AFL May Try New Peace Movo PITTSBURGH. Aug. 3 (fl', Tho possibility of a reconciliation between tho Congress of Indus trial Organizations und the American Federation of Labor was revived today by a proposal of CIO President Philip Murray for renewal of pence negotia tions. Murray wrotu William Green, president of the AFL, that he had nnmed n CIO pence commltteo of threo mid nskeel Green to ap point a similar AFL group to dis cuss "possible establishment of organic unity between our or ganizations." Merrill Woman of Mooio Tho Morrill chapter of the Women of tho Moose will meet Tuesday night at the Community hnll In stend of the regular meeting plncc. , "Kings Bow" Vfi.f Silts I "POa TUB 0OMMON DRCSMia" "Crlma Rom Not Psy" CARTOON AND LATBKT NtWt NOW! ,sj THE TALK NjfcrJB OF THE , iMM TOWN! gg'MJ Sensational iiiMbjj Drama! ;V few 1 COOni OPSN I HO 'A NO lilt 1 DEAD. 1 WOUNDED SACRAMKNTO, Aug. 3 Oram .tiuuiiuii, victim of Yulo county shouting rnriy i Sunday In which Mrs. Augiuti . Ill-own Sparks. 37, was Killed by an ussertudly jealous suitor, ' l.eu Vincent Murky, 33, w, (:. rnpiirlril still In a serious con. I ilition at the Sacramento county hospital today. Moulluii, a Western Pacific shop employe, recrlvrd thrra luillnt wounds In the body, Yolo County Sheriff S. D, Monro ,-,,,,rttl L-tll.n MlirlfV rl,n,,H ti'i'iil him mill Mrs, (Sparki, waitress, engaged In convcrsn t m tlon In a llrmlerlck, Calif, chill1', parlor, 1 Sheriff Monroe Mild Marky M uud Mrs. Smirks hail knot com. 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