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AGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLSr.ORECON Robot Fighter Said To Make Fastest Controlled Flight . n.. rnlNVT.m DANKER A FIGHTER BASE IN BRIT AIN, Aug. 18 (Delayed) Wi llie tirsi inree buil-u puuu u tt-propelled fighter plane the ME-163 "Flying Wing'1 in close quarter combat expressed belief today that in a vertical dive it made the fastest controlled tlight ever achieved by man. (A section of the story at this hnini lltDn rlnlfktoH hV PPhsOrS.) The first detailed description Of the Mfc-ltM was given uy Col. John Murphy, Tulsa, Okla., - o.rannl4 ivfnctnnc cmmHrnn W t I J -v." o 1 commander who shot down the first Japanese plane m tne Aleu tians, Lt. Cyril W. Jones Jr., of Athens, Tenn., and Lt. Jimmy C. Shoffit of Fort Worth, Tex. Diving on four rocket planes which attacked a Fortress forma- PORTLAND, Aug. 21 (") Republican war veterans clubs will be organized through Ore gon. This was announced by the state GOP central committee which reelected all old officers Saturday. Neil R. Allen, Grants Pass, chairman; Kenneth Nielsen, Eu gene, secretary, and Howard Wall. Portland, treasurer, were elected without opposition. The committee voted also to recommend to the state legis lature that its membership be enlarged to include all cpunty chairmen and vice chairmen. Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois congressman, declared at a Sat urday night republican rally that the U. S. senate's refusal to ratify the secretly negotiated Versailles treaty is a warning against a "one manpeace . alter . this war. ; . . He asserted that the Versailles negotiations , a n d President Roosevelt's conferences with Churchill and Stalin parallel. B-29 Crash Landing Injures Two Men SEATTLE, Aug. 21 W) Two of six men aboard a B-29 Super fortress received slight injuries Saturday when the plane made a crash landing in Puget Sound near Redondo beach. . Boeing of ficials said the plane was on a routine check flight" Those aboard the plane, the company statement saia, were J. A. Johnson, pilot; Frank yager, co-piiot; uaroia u. nut fington, Stanley J. Elliott. George F. Stein, all of the Boe- jng company, and J. D. Peterson, representative of the Bendix Aviation . corporation. Which two were injured was not dis closed. Churchill Praises American Troops ROME, Aug. 21 OP) Prime Minister Churchill praised the American fifth army today as one of the great striking forces of the allied nations and paid a special compliment to U. S. troops of Japanese and negro ancestry.. . - Churchill paid his tribute to the fifth after witnessing a pa rade of the famed 34th infantry division, i . - "The 34th was the first, or among the first, of all United States troops to leave- the new world and carry by their sacri fices - and valor the precious messing of freedom and justice to lands enslaved," the prime minister said. He spent the night with Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, commander of the fifth army, at advanced headquarters, and conferred while there with Maj. Gen. Charles Bolte, newly appointed commander of the 34th. A fifth army spokesman said future operations were discussed. Record Launching Makes History ' PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21 tfP) Naval launching history was made at the Philadelphia navy yards yesterday when the An tietam, 27,000 ton aircraft car rier, and the Los Angeles and the Chicago, 13,000 ton cruisers, slid down the ways. Ralph A. Bard, undersecretary of the navy said it was "the largest launching at one time and one place in all naval his tory." ' ; Hon near Leipzig yesterday they destroyed two and damaged a third all at point blank range. Cant. Arthur F. Jeffrey of San Francisco, Calif., a 0-38 Light ning pilot, three weeks ago shot down the only other ME-163 de stroyed so far but got his at long range and could give - only a sketchy description ol it. Bird shaped ME - 163s (15 words censored) swished by Fly ing Fortresses-so swiftly that the crews did not realize wnat they were. (20 words censored.) The Mustang pilots, however, identified the "Flying Wings" as far as 12- miles off because of a spectacular dense white cloud trailing half a mile behind. They nicknamed the new planes "Jetties" because they are jet-propelled - like buzz bombs. Americans and British' also have developed jet - propelled fighter planes, but so -far there has been no announcement of their use. The pilots agreed the plane was' powered only by the rocket propellant. The cloud trail is from the burning fuel. A single-seater, it has a stub by fuselage only two-thirds' as long as the broad tapering wings. (Six words censored). The -pilots sit under a glass canopy in the fuselage. (Seven words censor ed.) . . -' . , Flashes of Life By The Auociated Press HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILMINGTON, Calif. There's some point in a soldier being at the port of embarkation station hospital on his Birthday. Local 100 of the United Rubber Workers of America, Los An geles, gives this birthday eift to any patient: A free telephone call anywhere in . the .United States. ... MANNA : VANCOUVER, Wash. A. E. Robinson, 77, and his. wife. 76. were sadly surveying the fire- blackened ruins of their little farm home. A stranger came up, handed them. $100 and walked away with: VJust consider that it came from the Lord. DOWN A RAT HOLE TUSTIN. Calif. The local ra tion board replaced the 1085 gasoline ration stamps Lew Betts reported stolen from his filling station. But when he came back a second time to report the same Joss, . the board said twice was once too often. It turned out all right, though. tie finally found the coupons. A mama rat had used them as bedding for the youngsters. RESCUE : KANSAS CITY "Oh. we must have left them ur there. cried Paula DreilLng and Helen liirk. So firemen, who had just fin. ished rescuing them from a" sec ond floor dance studio in which they had inadvertently been locked, climbed back up the lad- der and brought down their purses. Capsized Steamship To Be Salvaged By Navy Experts PORTLAND, Aug. 21 (P) Navy salvage experts will re move the capsized Russian steam' ship from the Willamette river beside Port of Portland dry- docks. Col. Ralph A. Tudor, U. S. dis trict army engineer, said the army had rejected all bids for removal of the wreck and re- qested the navy's salvage service to taKe over the job. WARNING CARS COQUILLE. Aug. 21 m The Coos County Livestock Ship pers' association will send spe cial warning cars ahead of its large trucks on the Coast high way in compliance with an or der of the state agriculture di rector. County Agent George Jenkins reports. DIAPER RASH One of nature's greatest aids to baby health, is sleep. Aid rest and sleep by soothing and relieving diaper rash with Mexsana, the soothing, medi cated powder. Believes itching and cools burning of torturing irritation. A favorite for over forty years. Costa little. Greater savings in the larger sizes. Be sure you demand Mexsana. ANNUAL STEAK FEED of. . Klamath Post No.' 8, American Legion . at '' MOORE PARK Tuesday, August 22, 1944, 6:30 p.- m. BARBECUED BEEF Plus All the Trimmings and Refreihmen' Admission $1.00 Per Plate All Legionnaires and their families and guests are urged to attend. Members from neighboring posts are cordially - invited. . Installation of Officers for Merrill. Malin and Klamath Post No. 8, Following the Feed. SGT. LES FINLEY, , . Chairman. WOMEN IN Llna Gladys Harris, daughter of Mrs. Isa M. Freeman, Shev lin, Oregon, has completed en listment' in the Women's Army Corps and will leave for the basic training center at Fort Des Moines, Iowa during the latter part of August. After basic, she will be assigned to the surgical technician school. Mrs. Harris graduated from the Silver . Lake . high school, Silver Lake, Oregon. AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE LIBERATOR STATION, Eng land Holder of one of the finest aircraft repair records in its B-24 Liberator division is the eighth air service command sub depot headed by Major Roy W. Graves Jr., of Houston. Texas. This unit, in operation for less than six months, has handled more than 1000 work orders for repair and modifications of dam aged heavy bombers. contributing to tha seneral excellence of the sub-depot is Cpl. Antonio Ortis of Klamath Falls, who is a sheet metal specialist. . MOTHER RECEIVES WORD Mrs. Maud Boggs, 4615 Shasta i way, heard recently from her three sons who are overseas. Two of them, Pvt. Adrian Stra- aer, zo, and t ieia gook Archie Boggs, 22, are in Italy, and Sgt. Robert J. (Butch) Strader, 22, is in a hospital in the South Pacific recovering from wounds re ceived during the initial attack on Guam. Mrs. Boggs also has a' grandson in the service, Cpl. Don Elverud, who is in the radio ground crew and is now on his way overseas." in tne letter received by Mrs. Boggs from her son "Butch," was an account of his experience when the marines invaded Guam. An excerpt from the let ter follows: "I hit the beach with the usual assault waves. We went right on through faster than we ex pected to. Our resistance was quite "heavy, but that just slowed us up a little. "WelJ, things went as expect ed all along. It was toward the evening of the second day that I was hit. I wasn't really hit, but was too close when a Jap mortar shell exploded. It sort of knocked me nuts for awhile. I came to aboard ship and was just a little crazy, sprawling, hollering and fighting a one-man war. This lasted, for a few hours, and then I felt-as though I had lust awakened and could remem ber only faintly what had hap pened during that period. "At present I'm in perfect health, enjoying my stay here. I know it won't last long for it Is just too good to be true. I'm at a hosmtal on a really beautiful island. We have even got nurses here Boy. I darn near fainted when I saw them. I sleep in a. nice hut, springs, sheets, etc. We have a Ked cross rec-hall, store movies, etc." . Letters from Set. Strader's friends may be sent to Base Hos pital b wavy 14U, 70 fleet Fost office, San Francisco, Calif. : Cleo C. Epps, fireman 2c, whose family lives at 4614 Den ver, Klamath Falls, has been as signed to the crew of an LST, a landing ship, tank, at the am phibious training base at Camp oraoioro, va. - ' AN AIR SERVICE COM MAND DEPOT IN ENGLAND Sgt. Ervin D. House, son of Mrs. M. F. House of 1814 Etna, Klam ath Falls, is now serving as a welder in the metal manufactur ing section of the largest air English Hail New Hero America's Gen. Ration LONDON, Aug. 21 (T) Brit ons are hailing a new hero Lt. Gen. George S. Pntton Jr., in which they see embodiment of many qualities frequently attrib uted to Americans: dnsh, daring and a rip-roaring drive. They ore applying such terms as "legendary" to the exploits of Pnlton, whose, tankmen are rid ing roughshod through the Ger mans into the heart of France. The press continually relates his exploits with tanks, six-shooters and swords on and off the battle field. The British (fro familiar with the soldier-slapping incident of Patton's stormy career, but in the words, of the London News Chronicle Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's faith in Pntton's ability "secured his services for the swiftest outflanking move of any army-in history." The News Chronicle has picked "Son-of-a-Gun General" Patton as its "man of the week." The London Evening Standard editorially lauded Patton and his men, commenting: "There have been few sights to equal tho Americans on that day (their Avrnnchcs break through.) A never ending ar mored host was sweeping into France. The sumo casual young men who lived among us and shared our trials niui olonsures were now thundering out tho an nihilation of un army and the liberation of n country. "And lending them was a le gendary general Patton of the grim juw and disconcerting maiv nors. An editorial page feature In the News Chroniclo described him as "superman" in iiupeiir- once and possessing a "drive and dash that doesn't count tho cost because he believes victory Is won more cheaply that way." The News Chronicle said Pat ton has constantly justified his "theory of firo and movement moving into the enemy and pushing past him." It added: "Patton's tactics hnve taken the German blitzkrieg of 1940 and, with America's overwhelm ing war-making resources, have torged lt into nn Irresistible weapon to turn against tho ag. gressor." Navy Air Group Acclaimed For Sustained Air Combat WASHINGTON, Aug.' 19 ffl A record for sustained combat flying by carrier based aviation is claimed for navy air group 25. recently returned from the Pacific. , The navy reported today the pilots and air crewmen flew against the Japanese an aver age of nearly four hours daily for 23 continuous davs in the current Marianas. operations. Normally flyers are 'able to rest between shorter carrier strikes, but this time the power ful task force 58, of which ail- group 25 was a unit, sailed to the Marianas and .stayed there. "We didn't win the war," said Lieutenant Commander Robert H. Price of Webster Groves, Mo., and Shelbyville, 111., the air group commander, "but we did a lot of work." The group, now home for rest and rehabilitation, flew for ten months from a light aircraft carrier of the independence class, which fought in nine ac tions. The air group destroyed a total of 120 Japanese aircraft service command depot in Brit ain. . Before entering the air forces in November, 1942, he was em ployed as a hooker on railroad landings by William Raymond, logging contractor, in Klamath Falls. Sgt. House attended Curtis-Wright Technical Institute in Olendale, Calif. MALIN Mr. and Mrs. Ray Van Meter, have had recent word from their son. Private John van Meter, that he is still moving up in Italy. He is serv ing with an armored infantry di vision in the 5th army and land ed on the Anzio beachhead, later going through Rome. He was hospitalized for some time by ill ness out is again witn nis unit. A second son in the family Corporal Ray Van Meter is with a marine unit at Camp Pendle ton near San Diego, serving in the personnel department. Prior to going to nis present location he served in Alaska near Sitka. YOU CANT BEAT this to relieve TORTURE f ATHLETES FOOT Many Drvgcfets Say! 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Of those destroyed, 37 were shot out of the air. and 83 bombed and strafed' on the ground. a Japanese licht cruiser and a 4000-ton cargo ship were bombed and sunk by the group also. Enemy ships damaged 'by Dombs and strafing included two destroyers. 15 carlo shins ;ind numerous smaller craft. One of the snectacular Indi vidual experiences of the air group involved' Lieut. Comdr. Price, who, flying a Grumman Hellcat fighter, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire in the midst of a Jap convoy he was attack ing, and spent 11 days on a liic raft before he was rescued. , He lived on an eight ounce can of water, a seagull 'that alighted on his toe. and two fish which jumped into tho raft. Six pilots of the group were awarded the Air Medal on' their return to the United States. Search Continued For Escaped Trusty SALEM, Aug. 21 (P) Author ities continued a search todnv for Noble Clayton Smith, 30- year-old Trusty, who escaped irom tne state prison annex yesterday. Smith was convicted In Mult nomah county in 1835 of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon.. He was serving a zu-ycar sentence. Twelve state prison trustic's now are at large. FARM MEN NEEDED BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 21 (VP) A growing need for replacements for soldiers now In service will necessitate withdrawal of many young men from Idaho farms at the conclusion of the 1944 har vest. Brig. Gen. M. C. McConnel, state selective service director, said. KILLED IN FRANCE njtrur vnnK Alio. 21 (VP). Tom Trennor, war correspondent for tho L.OS Aliguies nines mm tho National Broadcasting com pany, has boon killed on tho roucl to Purls. AHvlees to supremo headquart ers in London said It was report ed -one other American- corres pondent had been killed and three wounded, . Treanor's death was announced from Franco by John MiicViine, another NUC reporter there who sulci tho Jeep In which Treanor was riding was run ovor by nn American tank. , , MiicVnno udded: "Tom was where ho wanted to bo, at tho very tip of the units of tho American third nrmy pushing toward Purls. There were Germans behind nud all around him. ' "It wns his groat ambition to bo tho first rudlo correspondent to reach Paris mid send the word back to tho people buck home. "Tom's loss will be great. Ho was greatly loved by Ills fellow correspondents ever ready and enthusiastic ever wanting to help. Ho was such a swell guy." .Treanor recently published a book of his experiences as a war correspondent, called "One Damned Thing After Another." He is survived by his widow, Eleanor Stlmson Trennor, mid their three children, Thomas. 10, Marshall, 8, and Cordelia, 5. Canned Pea Price Ceilings Raised WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (II Price celling increases for pro cessors of tho 1044 pnek of can ned peas were announced yes terday by the office of price ad ministration. - - Retail ceilings will bo the samo as last year, OPA said, since the added return to can ners will be subsidized under the commodity credit corporation agreement Intended to hold the price line on certain canned foods. " The new prices do not cover wholesalers and retailers who establish their prices by fixed mark-ups. The pricing formula for processors is the samo as that recently announced for can ned spinnrh. asparagus, and red sour pitted cherries. 7:15 p.m. LOWELL THOMAS NEWS TIME DON LEE-MUTUAL Standard of California Prime Minister Fires Yank Gun ROME, Aug. 21 (!') l-i iivio Minister Churchill pnrmmnlly shot n big American uun at two German cannon positions iitii'Mi Of PImi, It was disclosed today. Aftor.hu nulled tl)u lanyard, tho shell foil 200 yards short of tho tiirget. 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