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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE TWO This Hero Is Too Tough For 50 Japs to Tackle , OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 81 m It wis a case of frying or fight ing against fantastic odds. And so Private Eugene O. Moore of the IX. S. marines cam out of his disabled and blaz ing tank to do hand-to-hand bat tle with more than 80 howling Japanese. The Japs used bullets, gren ' ades, clubs, fists and feet One even poked him with a fish , spear. , ' The 22-year-old former Huron, S. D., high school football player got the beating of his life, but be lived. His outfit wiped out the Japs Moore failed to kill, and now he if back from the Solo mon islands to recuperate, visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore, and tell his story. The lean, six-foot-three marine was gun loader In a tank that was lightered from Gavutu is land last August 8 to a nearby Jap-held island. A Jap ignited the vehicle with gasoline. A grenade killed some of the crew. "When the fire started." Moore said, "I grabbed an ex tinguisher but I couldn't bring the flames under control. "I killed one Jap who stuck his face into the turret of my tank, firing my .43 right at him. "I knew I either was going to get burned to death or shot, and 1 decided that a bullet was quick- hospital In a month, and is happy to be able to embrace his mother. "I got a bigger kick out of see ing her again than I did when I staggered into our lines and knew I was sate after the beating 1 took." HIGH SCHOOL News Notes and i ' Comment ' "I figured X might be safer backing out, so I climbed out feet first "The little guys must have thought I was a Mickey Mouse cartoon coming out in sections, I am so long. "Anyway, they were yelling that cilly Japanese in my ear ail the time. - "They kept kicking, beating and punching me, and I guess all that saved my life was my heavy, padded crash helmet "One Jap stabbed me with a three-pronged fish spear. An other clubbed me with a gun butt. Of course, I had a lot of burns, too, and a head wound that X guess came from the gren ade that exploded in the tank." - Finally they left Moore for . dead.- Two hours later he re gained consciousness. Around him were 41 dead Japanese. He found out later that Private Ken neth Koon, marine sharpshooter from Summitville, Ind., picked off most of the Japs from a near by hiding place. Moore hopes to be out of the By PAT MORGAN Eight o'clock Friday evening, October 30. It was time tor the kick-off of the combat between the Klamath Pelicans and the Grants Pass Cavemen. Mo scores were made in the first quarter, but there was a terrific struggle for the pig skin. One team would gain yardage, then lose, gain again, lose. Second quarter excite ment galore! Three touchdowns! "Baldy" Foster, after making a run of 00 yards, made a touchdown. Then the score went up to 13-0. Klamath scor ed again 19-0, and again 25 0. Near the end, Dick Prairie made a touchdown, making the score 31-0, Klamath's favor. Although the Cavemen lost they put up a good fight, as was expected, and most of the Grants Pass boys were sportsmen-like and upheld a friendly standing with the Klamath Falls townspeople. Although the piano dance music was almost drowned out by boards banging and boys shouting as the dance band stand was being erected, the girls in the fourth and fifth period gym classes danced on though nothing were hap pening. Considering the speed with which they were jitterbug gin', it looked as though noth ing could stop them. The students swayed their heads and tapped their feet in rhythm to swing music played by the KUHS "Music Makers" Friday in a brief pep assembly held in the auditorium before the dance. Coach Frank Ramsey inform ed the students that Arnold Selby, quarterback, had been chosen as team captain for the game with the Grants Pass Cavemen. Coach Ramsey also stated that Wayne Yancey, U. S. Oyer Egypt: Bombs for Rommel : ..., 'i u ." ' t. (NCA Radio-Tilephoto) Here's one of the most important phases of the battle of North Africa aerial warfare. Bombs from a formation of American "Mitchell" B-25 medium bombers head downward toward Rommel's Nazi forces and sup ply lines as R. A. T. and U. S. aircraft continue their shuttle relays that batter the enemy on the western desert. Photo radioed Cairo-New York. junior on the Pelican squad. would follow Lester Bishop's exaxmple and buy a zoot suit if the Klamath eleven won the game. Ken Wilson, a graduate of KUHS and a navy aviation cadet, spoke to the students. He said that the team needed plenty of support from the whole student body, As there has been some ques tion on the election of the freshman class officers, it hasn't been completed as yet Mt. Hood Stages Shifts Departure Time Schedule Effective November 1, Mt. Hood Stages, operating from the Pacific Greyhound terminal in Klamath Falls, will change their departure time to 8 a. m. and 12:45 p. m. for Bend, Portland, The Dalles, Yakima, Spokane, Burns, Boise and east This change will offer im proved connections with other bus lines operating throughout the northwest, it was stated by Ruth Snyder, local representa tive of the bus company. Insurance on your furniture Is surprisingly inexpensive. Phone Hans Norland. 7176. Lillian Ferguson Leaves for Service With Army Corps Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ferguson of 3440 Cannon avenue, now have a daughter, as well as a son, In the services, it was learned here with the announcement that Miss Lillian Ferguson left Friday for Fort Des Moines, la., to join the Women's Army Aux iliary Corps. Miss Ferguson has been asso ciated with Bowerman's Phar macy In San Francisco for the past several years, and left' for her new - duties from the Bay city. She completed her. school ing at Kansas university, and has frequently visited in Klamath Falls, where she has many friends. James H. Ferguson Is a sea man first class and radioman second class in the U. S. navy, and is now on active duty off the Pacific coast THIRST QUENCHER HOLLYWOOD The coffee situation isn't bothering .George Paris. . I In hit little eating place he 1 has put up a . sign: "We have plenty of coffee. First cup, 5 cents. Second cup, ' $100." Burial of Dead Commences In Tornado-Struck Town BERRYVILI.E, Ark., Oct. 31 W) Burin of the dead and re habilitation of the homeless com menced today in this small Ozark mountain . community where a tornado lato Thursday night killed at least 29 persons and in jured more than 200 others. The Red Cross, quickly coor dinating the efforts of state and local welfare agencies with Its own, estimated there were more than 500 persons homeless, that 130 homes were demolished and another 130 heavily dnuiAged. 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