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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON June '4, 1943 Japs Spend Year Burrowing Tunnels In Attu's Tundra By WILLIAM L. WORDEN MURDER POINT, Attu Island, May 20 (Delayed) W What ever else the Japanese have been doing on Attu for the last year, they must have spent most of their time digging In the mushy tundra, American soldiers advancing on Japanese positions all over Attu have found literally miles of tunnels nnd caves. Every sniper's nest is a pint-sized underground house, sometimes with four or five tunnel-connected firing positions. Machine gun em placements are elaborate caves with side passages for storage of ammunition or food, other niches for the crews to sleep in Typical Pott A typical Japanese command! post is an underground hut some 20 feet long and half that wide,! beautifully screened with blocks of tundra, protected from shell fragments by tundra battle ments. . . . The only part of it extending above ground is the smoke pipe for the central heat ing stove. Most such huts are built into the sides of hills so that some drainage is provided. When the drains fail to work, however, the Japs simply lay catwalks over the water and go on using the installations. Elaborate Positions Most elaborate of all are the anti-aircraft positions, which in clude three or four rooms, all underground except the single roofless circle which holds the gun itself. Crews slept, worked and played in the caves they had built. At the west arm of Holtz bay, the trench system was so elabor ate that it was possible to cross the entire valley without once exposing oneself to the sight of anyone in the bay the distance is almost two miles. At the air port in the east arm of Holtz bay, workers even lived under the landing strip in underground sheds placed in recesses in the side of the plateau. Sand Bar Installation One of the strangest of all the Installations was on a sand bar directly behind a gun position in the east arm of the bay. Starting with a gravel mound about 20 feet in diameter, the Japanese had built it up to a cone. If in tended for concealment, it was a flat failure. It stood out as far as it could be seen. A stove pipe came out the top. To enter, a man clambered up the gravel to a point about four ' feet below the top, there entered a twisting slit trench so narrow that a normal sized American wearing a canteen belt had to take the belt off before he could go through it. The trench turn ed sharply, slanted down, enter ed a four-foot-square four-foot- nigfi, : floored chamber. One corner contained a tiny stove-, an- otner a bag of rice. No Windows The chamber was windnwlew had been completely roofed be- iore some American dropped a grenade into it. An occupant could not look or shoot out, could not even see the gun clos est to mm. unless it had been removed so carefully as to leave no trace, there was not even a telephone wire into the nla, The litter on the floor (aside irom a packing box) contained two postcards, a Jananm rtir. tionary and the inevitable bottle ot puis. Red Cross Notes The relations of forces on the Soviet-German front have changed. The fact Is that Ger many is becoming more 'and more exhausted while the So viet Union is more and more developing its reserves and be coming ever stronger. Josef Stalin. Today the greatest successes of the Russian front have led thousands of Americans to throw their hats in the air and pro C.sim that victory is just around the comer. We still face re verse4 and misfortunes. Presl dent Roosevelt. For over three years Fred Fleet very competently carried the work as disaster chairman for our local chapter. This year he was appointed home service chairman as well; the home service work has more than tripled in the last few months and is getting heavier as the war goes on, so Otto Smith has taken over the work of disaster chairman. In the home service depart ment we have an interesting item today. March 28, 1942, the local chapter sent a mes sage to Italy for Mrs. Maria Sari who lives with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sari at 5327 South Sixth street. The message was to her husband, Ezio Sari, and asked for news of their family. On May 13, 1943, over a year later, a reply arrived, which Mrs. Sari was kind enough to translate for us. It read: "Hap py about your news. We all well, Brothers safe and well. Ilda (daughter) in eighth ,grade. Regards to uncle and aunt. Kisses to you and the boys." We are also advised by Helga Lott of Chiloquin, Ore., that she has had a reply from her homeland to a message which the local chapter sent for her in August, 1942. These are only two of the many services which the home service department covers. Recently the Algoma Com munity club disbanded and gave the amount remaining in. their treasury. $21.67, to the Red Cross. Last week the International Red Cross committee ship "Caritas I" sailed, carrying the largest shipment of prisoners of war relief supplies ever cleared from the United States. In - the cargo were 500,000 standard food packages. . In cluded also were 22,500 invalid food parcels, for distribution to the sick and to prisoners recov ering from wounds, and 3,000 medicine kits, containing spe cial household medicines. These are all for American and United Nations prisoners, in cluding Belgian, Yugoslav, Po lish, Greek, Norwegian and Netherlands prisoners. The "Caritas I" 'will dock at Mar seilles, France, and this is the second occasion on which a ship from the territory of one bellig territory held by an enemy bel- territory held by an enemy be- ligerent. Her cargo will be trans-shipped by rail to Geneva, thence for distribution to the prison camps on the continent. The regulations by which close relatives of United Na tions prisoners of war may send standard food parcels to iden tified prisoners in Europe through the American Red Cross, may be obtained from your local Red Cross chapter. The regulations, effective June 10, cover prisoners of Belgian, Polish, Yugoslav, Norwegian, Netherland, Greek, etc., nation ality; no packages may be sent to prisoners of war from the United States, as the army and navy are supplying all these. ROOSEVELT TAVERN Chicken Steak Chinese Food NO RATIONING ON MIXED DRINKS AT THE ROOSEVELT Bar Open 10:00 a. m.-72:00 p. m. Dance With Pete Collie and His Orches tra Wednesday and Saturday. No Cover Charge At the State Line Named 'Sweater Girl for 1943' v 1 1 1 a - A; m Dark-haired Alice Wallace (above), photographer's model, was chosen "California Sweater Girl for 1943" by the Associated Apparel Manufacturers of Lot Angeles, which annually makes such a choice. v Prisoners held by Japan are not included in the new regulations due to present lack of transpor tation facilities to the Far East. ROSE POOLE, Publicity Chairman. Bandelier National Monu ment, in New Mexico, had 13, 689 visitors during 1940. UNLIMITED SERVICE KANSAS CITY, W) Cpl. Reuben Morose, 28, was mildly amazed at his latest official notice. It was from the draft board through which he had been in ducted into the army a year ago. And it advised him he'd been classified 4-F. RUB S I RECORD ID E BY ESCORTS LONDON. June 4 tm In creasingly dcadjy allied convoy escort services sank more enemy submarines in May than in any other month of the war and In the post two months tho number of operating U-bonts In the At lantic appears to have decreased. A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, declared today. Ha told the house of commons that in tho last 13 months the total enemy submarines sent to tho bottom exceeded tho num ber sunk in all of the previous war period and thut in the lust six months tho rata of destruc tion was 25 per cent ebova the previous half year. Paying tribute to the work of tho U. S. alrforce and tho RAF in bombing U-boat bases, Alexan der predicted that "as time goes on bombing ot the building yards and component factories should hnvo an ever Increasing effect" on the battle of tho Atlantic, Ha said It appeared that the number of sen iniumiudera sent to Ilia bottom during tlio inuntli Just ended was ureutor tlum the Germans could produca In all the facilities available to them, COME CLEAN, BOYSI PHILADELPHIA, (fl) When dump trucks filling In a hous ing project dribbled dirt down the mlddlo of their block and verbal protests failed, 50 house wives Joined hands In a human chain and blocked tho street. One driver got caught inside the chain and the women kept him prisoner until ho cleaned up his dirt. Tho Jellyfish is almost pure water, being composed of 00 per cent water. i warn m cri.iini Nature puts the flavor in . . . Salt brings it out . . . Scores Treated For Injuries in Celanese Explosion CUMBERLAND, Md., June 4 (fl') A score of persons wore treated In Cumberland hospitals today for Injuries suffered when a shattering explosion virtually wrecked one building of the Cel anese rnrpnrallon of America's plant. No one was killed, but ap proximately 40 persons were In jured, five of them sorlously, In the blast which blew a huga hole , In tho roof of the Celanese plant's three-story, block-long Acolon Recovery bulltlliig lata yesterday, Wo will do everything possible In order not to be Involved In this war, but wo know now that It Is not within our power to re main nut. President Ixmnt Inc. nu of Turkey. LESS DRIVING MORE SERVICE? In many cases, the effect of wartime conditions on car driving is a considerable reduction in the distance a car travels every month, And tho strange effect of (his is (hnt it can happen that less driving may create a need for more service. Official sources have said that any car which travels less than 90 miles a month does not get enough "exercise" to keep in good "trim," While this low mileage may not always prevail here, tho same kind of logic calls for a recasting of ideas about servicing. That's why it is a smart move to go into tho details of possible special servicing requirements resulting from wartime driving. A good car dealer Is always glad to talk over problems concerned with car care and driving habits, and is always glad to give helpful advice. If the way you use your cor now is changed to any extent from peacetime habits, it may have made ncccisary a new slant on the attention you give it. It pays to know about such possibilities and make sure your car is getting the proper attention whether it results in more service or less. H. E. H AUGER 1330 Main St. . . . MmaA IT HAD TO COME! Oregon had to take steps to protect MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY A, wnnjffi'fm' t'ie moOTinS public from the reckless, financially irresponsible Ny nPAnAIIAinil 1111 .V. t vSwvifm driver. Last year more than 70,000 automobile drivers were in- k REwl ONSlDl LI I Y ffMKnff3 volved in accidents in this state. yVN. k law s vM Zrf,, . , . V VMM WS.f n u 10. Under wartime conditions the situation was getting worse. And so the Oregon Legislature, at the last session, passed a law patterned after successful laws in many other states. This "Oregon Motor Vehicle Safety -Responsibility Law" goes into effect Wednesday, June 9. Friefly, it requires the driver involved in an accident, whether at fault or not, to establish proof of financial responsibility in the amount of $11,000; otherwise his car license and his driver's license will be revoked. Financial responsibility can be established in any. one of 3 ways: 1) Post cash or'securities in the required amount 2) Provide a surety bond . 3) Carry an automobile insurance policy (standard limits) Please note, the law does not require you to buy insurance, although of course that is the easiest, cheapest and last com plicated way to protect yourself. If you already have a standard limits automobile insurance policy this new law does not affect you. Drivers who would find it inconvenient to put up $11,000 cash, or post a bond should take out automobile insurance now. In ' surance is always easier to secure before an accident than alter an accident This law protects YOU take steps to protect yourself I AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT PREVENTION ASSOCIATION OF OREGON 314 OREGONIAN BUILDING PORTLAND, OREGON : M'Vwm-'i