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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
August 18, 19'4
Wade In, Tear Japs
Apart, S ays D e Witt
After Tour of Attu
. By EUGENE BURNS
AN ADVANCED ALEUTIANS BASE. Aug. 28 W Lt. Gen.
John L. De Witt, back from an inspection trip to the western end
of hU command at Attu, warned that "We must carry the war
to the Japanese; we must wade in and tear Japan apart, and
dynamite and gut her with Incendiaries."
. The head of the western defense command reiterated, In a
quonset hut interview, that Japan must be hit with the full offen
sive fury of the United Nations and qulckly.-
"Our future yours, mine and every other American's is
first upon, the Pacific, .he de-
dared in a quiet, determined
voice. "Japan is our mortal
foe."
Bold and determined fight
ing, he said, won for Japan most
of her early war objectives.
"Since - then," -he continued,
"she has had a year to pour
concrete into her gun positions,
which cover all the beach land
ings. She is today training arm
ies from overrun peoples. She
is pillaging the richest empire
in the world to make guns and
bullets to fight us.
"Today we have only Japan
to fight. If we -wait for Japan
to organize the countries she
has overrun we will be fighting
the most heavily manpowered
nation in the world, and one of
the most resourceful. '
"We must not allow '.Japan
time to indoctrinate these con
quered people. We must not let
her dip deeper into her rich
treasures." , . .
"Alaska Is the base from
which to launch an offensive,"
he asserted. "Today we have a
chain of bases extending from
San Francisco to Attu to carry
out Tokyo's ultimate destruc
tion." At the same time, he contend
ed, the Philippines should be
recaptured to cut asunder the
Japanese supply lines while aid
Is speeded up to China.
By such a multiple pronged
offensive against Japan, the
general predicted, "we can
smoke out her fleet and force
her ships to fight. We can chase
their tincan Zeros into the sir
or we will wreck them in their
revetment. "
Referring to the approximate
llstsnrt between the American
Aleutian bases and Japan's
northernmost base at Parmu
shiro, the general declared:
"Successful bombing cannot
be done when you are still 790
miles from your target and your
planes must fly 1500 miles. One
heavy bomber based within 250
miles of a target is worth five
bombers 750 miles away.
"To bomb Japan's homeland
bases effectively, we must
wrench base after base from the
Japs."
He estimated that one gun
aimed at the' Japanese today is
worth five"1; guns ' two years
hence; 50,000 troops storming a
Japanese beach are worth 100,
000 a year from today, and 100
heavy bombers raining destruc
tion on Paramushiro today are
worth 1000 two years from to
day. A Maine man has a clock 63
years old that still runs. Prob
ably because he never tried to
fix it. .
During the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1943, 2,225,000,000
nickels were in circulation in
the United States.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 M
A possibility that "wolf packs"
of orphaned children may be
found roaming the country after
the war unless congress acts at
once to defer fathers from the
draft was pictured Friday by
Senator Revercomb (R-W.Va.) a
member of the military affairs
committee.
Revercomb, Just back from his
home state, said the recent de
cision of the war manpower com
mission (WMC) to begin induct
ing fathers into the armed forces
October 1 had "thrown the peo
ple into a turmoil."
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NEW YORK. Aug. 27 (Pi
Brendan Bracken, British min
ister of Information, assailed at a
press conference today "uncon
scious fifth columnists" who he'
said fostered naii propaganda by
spreading rumors that soviet
Russia might seek a separate
peace with Germany.
"I don't think that Stalin's In
ability to attend conferences or
the shifting of ambassadors to
the United States and Great Brit
ain implies any deal with Ger
many," Bracken said.
V'There are a lot of unconscious
fifth columnists who do grave
harm in spreading rumors about
a separate peace. Great Britain
and Russia have a treaty govern
ing this point, and soviet Russia
has never broken its word.
Officers Chose
Speedy Juveniles
SPOKANE, Aug. 28 P) The
state patrol and sheriff's office
reported today two juveniles
were in the county jail following
their capture after an 80-mlles-per-hour
chase across the state
line to Post Falls, Idaho.
The patrol reported the pair
walked into a downtown park
ing garage last night, slugged the
attendant and took a car, driv
ing away and taking the attend
ant with them.
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Accumulation of
Unexpended Relief
Funds Denounced
PORTLAND. Aug. 28 (At
State Public Welfare Commls-
sioner B. G. Skulason Friday de
nounced the accumulation of
unexpended relief funds and
urged the granting of the $40'
a-month maximum to the needy
as soon as possible.
Skulason, recently appointed
to tha commission, interrupted
routine business after Commis
sioner Hugh Ball said, "Mult
nomalt county has made a fine
showing in having 35 per cent
of their budget unexpended at
tha end of the biennium."
Separate Peace
Advocated by Finns
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 28 (d
Finnish political leaders, ' advo
cating moves for a separate
peace with Russia, have warned
President Risto Ryti that "Fin
land is sliding toward a danger
ous path," the Finnish govern'
ment disclosed Friday.
"Continuing aod progressive
deterioration of relations with
the United States recently has
produced especially great con'
cern among the people, said
petition submitted 10 days ago
to Ryti by jnembers of various
political parties.
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were introduced in 1834.
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German Prisoners Believe
New York Reduced to Ashes
YAMHILL. Ore,. Aug. 28 (P)
German soldiers taken prisoner
in North Africa believe the Luft
waffe has reduced New York
City by bombing, Lieut. Robort
L. Pickens said today.
"Nails actually believe thnt
German planes have raided our
cities and that America soon will
ask for peace," said tho 24-yciir-old
army pilot who participated
in tn first raid on Rome.
"Italian war prisoners act
whipped and are thoroughly glad
to be out of the war," he said.
"The German enlisted man re
alizes he la beaten and knows he
has been fighting for a lost
cause. But tho nazi officer con
tinues to be arrogant, conceited
and demanding."
Talk of the kind of America
they want to come home to domi
nates the spare-time of American
fliers overseas, the Flying Fort
ress pilot reported.
'The boys know' that. 1 a b o r
isn't always wrong and that cap
ital isn't always right but they
are grimly wondering why co
operation on the home front Isn't
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tory overseas," he said.
Pickens returned to his home
nere after oeing wounded In a
raid on Messina, Sicily, when
his piano was set afire and
forced to return to Tunisia for a
crash landing. His crew shot
down five intercepting Messer
schmilts. Swedes to Protest
Fish Boot Sinkings
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 27 (IV
The Swedish foreign office an
nounced Friday thnt a protest to
the German government was be
ing drafted, shortly after a com
munique slated two German
minesweepers had sunk two
Swedish fishing boats without
warning.
Tho latest protest, the second
in 10 days demanding that Ger
many halt her attacks on Swed
ish commercial and military In
terests, will be presented short
ly, it was said.
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Notes
By The Associated Press
Oregon Shipbuilding corpor
ation In Portland launched Its
243rd Liberty freighter, the Ed
ward N. Wescott, named for the
New York author of "David
Harum. , . . The Seaside hotei
was purchased for an undis
closed price by the Astoria Hotel
company, operators of the Astor
ia and Gearhart hotels. . , ,
Oregon theatre operators,
meeting In Portland to plan
their part In tho third war loan
campaign, were told three army
bombers that have engaged In
raids on Germany wo.uld be
flown by their crows to a num
ber ot Oregon towns during the
drive. . , . Portland police Iden
tified the body ot a man who
died In an accidental fall as that
of E. H. Green, 70, Tenino,
Wash. . . .
Dr. Robert W. Hemingway,
4R, prominent Bend physician
since 1922. died at his home fol
lowing a heart attack. . . . The
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Portland harbor patrol recov
ered the body of an unidentified
slacks-clad woman from the Wil
lamette river. . . .
The Wast Coast Lumber aom
mission In Portland told em
ployers It no longer would grant
retroactive approval to wag
changrs made without prior no
tification. . . . The civil service
commission snnounced applica
tions for postmaatershlps at
Hammond, paying $1300 yearly,
and Huntington, paying 1U00,
will be received until Septem
ber 10.
J, Lewis Luckenbach, New
York, president of the American
bureau of shipping, said In Port
land that west coast yards art
producing 84 per cent of this
country's merchant shipping.
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William Chain, Los Angeles,
charged with violating the dim
out ordinance, told the court he
had lost his false teeth, and was
driving with his headlights shin- (
Ing brightly In sn effort to find
them.
"A persons! crisis," ruled
Police Judge Samuel J. Craw
ford, suspending a 110 (Ins.
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