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Newspaper Page Text"V s mm-1 wi m mwmM v--"" . . A -. : : : : : : . " 1 . 1 i; f lL rnxNK JENKINS ; ' . '' :- ' ': I ;.."" Fonca.ti Hot" """" ' A V .lltl. . r. M - m ( .--. .).. IIIHMBBII MM f PRICE 5 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1944 ,, ... Number 10255 ' ;': , lUUlll L I ! Gloomy Nazi nrnP DrinU i Allies Take Brussels c. , c .' . . K :. m BORDER OF .tewS Com-Are 1 Urn , ; YUGOSLAVIA n MSte f wflS " In Advance to-..: rgC-V Lafen LONDON,' Sept. ;6' .(PRus- ic 1 RANCE ; om 3 ... rNK JENKINS . 5:J chronicle yesterday, I " ..rilnn WHS inuuu mm F tf. omewlH.t less than Won w'u. '' , (i, u f hereby wlllulrawn, "S t. (lint till section iKK ro iJiill,lL,r l,n" veu; u another section follow- L Lirlm) V P the UlUlurBruunu K tho ni condition or If MitfMlton shown up ntnrt- i h iticro urc two pur uuy- r?i..i n.ui filmier. Tliul mn f..r c nncr U c It I n Cbrcakfiiitl "l. wlll r, lust ulioiit lorn! enouuli Kiwi them to change ull Ublo Hue" 't once- . I ". i" .T tn, l,.,.Ufnl In tho iiliie.iii of time yon l n. inner mid Kt nerved. f then ro bai'k und nmoku u Ue, pick your tooth, wu.li (ice or do whatever It is ..kit in do after cntlnti. .unnnn VOU KCl in unu . i nn,l hv the t mo you ith llie diner It will ho time ki."rCn'ii tine fills tho day M ttid leaves no room for tul. OAJN It Isn't ns bnd m It luumHj. This Is n rather un til Iralnload.' Included among US passengers, ir cmhimul., n Unrra roninany of 05 persons llta bren.'dolim tho Merry Idow in the rncinc const cii- mil Is now on us way obck Vfw York. They're a Hood Inured to the hardships of rt and Kivcn to making tne o ntc as u comes. ffg get dinner last' nlKht ro lirnl two hours and 15 mln i of sbindluii In line, on lop that we crossed a time zone the middle of tho waiting kiod. which mndo it three luri and 15 minutes by your llch which. In turn, nusrn- fled your stomach, (You'd k at your wnlch about every t minutes and think: (jooa Ird, I've been In this "ll for three hours.) Every few minutes tho'opcr- It people would break into a Men from the Merry Widow, tiich would lliihtcn the mo. tony greatly. Even if you had I ear for music, or wcro so lired on the world and all tho Jhtncss and gaiety in it as not use the Merry widow you Jd think to yourself: "Heck, Is would ho costins me 4 Itki at tho Geary theatre .In f," and that would make you lei belter. When tho opera people would pl, a bunch of colorcd-bov tlors bock down tho line Wild strike up or Black. Joe, ma's In do Col'. Col' Groun', p. So tho tlmo didn't acenvns n as It really was. . . JRE opera people rigged up. a uew game. One of them would beat out thythm on a wlnrlnw nr n '"H of the car and everybody Hid guess what tho tune was. 1 Went On frnn fni nnlKlntf (nr m a while, and then some ItUral'born unmhlnr nrnnnHPft f t wo toss a nickel in tho pot Fa Whoever LMInsanrl ihn limn f wouia take the kitty. "mi eouian i oo called mbllntr sn fnr nu 11. lu ,,,.,ui. pl writer was ermeirnrd. for " Sambling eh a nee. was in-. rra, nut it did help to pass ft long hours.) MAG1NE a counln nf lmnrlrprl IOPIC 111 nil vlnnna nl oliirnii. forStanti.'ntt 1,1 11,10 a C0UP'0 ot t-. nu iiooociy cussing llie allr0ad COlnnnnu o..,lul. Mai,.......' ""'r"" Inir, ,nc Pr service or i ! ""yng- much but laugh ll ,nA.klttl'g and engaging lni i Kumes. Tiicse Ij'i "'""ages have taught us M u ,V UL' ov 1110 Itnul V-JJay r" WU mini, ii. i .ul tin i-uu vim Ul wu m, -" uo uui ui u iui ui frlnthen?S'f"0cc?1; r'hc huVrsoul. ' 8 TH Pnrlieulnr train (then In- wriv B.'ur lower cars; lor- Imes three, But that was Mhc rnio TKono daiy8', Ev.?n E,,?"1 "."'to go around. cr lucky t0 hnvo cvcn QNK. rJn llle carIy days ot le Ne ui V snortago, thero I'l mi. , 1 oiscourtcous wait li'lhf, . 0,ot,' otc- Nno tla' F'ane'rBla' carefree tol NchcH i V.1e passengers Is fctvlo -i ule good-natured Icr th.f'von bv the waiters un. he fol , rusl1 conditions, and Ncr. i . 8 bccauso the pns olerani n,ro. 8ood-nntured and - to me wallers, cooks, Nklna ?rtcM ra hard F'lalniv i 1,0 " 01 courtesy hhlnorv ? W 10 keep the ""Wne ;m iiuman relations tl " smooth v I1Q oi r '"In'thi1, problems present- IConit- , Pcuiar ainer nnucd on Page Four) ' Bul gars Ask Peace From Reds: Joint Armistice Expected By The Associated Pross LONDON, Sept. 8 Bulgaria appealed to Russia today for an armistice, a fw hours after lht kremlin declared war. Cairo dvlcas said a Joint peace with the United States, Britain and the soviet union was expected 'as a result. The German radio at Oslo said the Russians had marched Into the Balkan kingdom. There was no confirmation from Moscow or Sofia. The Bulgers asserted that their government had ordered strong measures against German forces, accused of attacking Bulgar army units claims countered by the Russians, who said the rulers of the country were tools of the nasis and tied to the xGorman war chariot, Whether terms drafted by the By GEORGE BRIA ROME, Sept. 6 (IP) French forces chasing the Germans from sou thorn Fruncc wcro believed tonight to be approaching Dijon (population 00,800), ancient capi tal of Burgundy, after occupy ing Chalon-Sur-Siiono apparent ly without opposition. Chulon (population 31,010) is a strategic communications cen ter and district capital 37 miles below Dllon. From Chnlon high ways and rails fan out toward central France and southwestern' Germany. . American troops occupied the villiiRc of St. Gcrmuln-Du-Plain between Chalon and the Swiss border. Position Noi Given Allied headquarters - gave no Indication of the position of the mnln German force. Latest re ports had the Germans fleeing toward Dijon, which is less than . Continued on Page. Two) .' WPB Official ns Post WASHINGTON, Sept.-6 (P) The third vacancy In two weeks In the war production board's top command occurred today when Acting Chairmnn J. A. Krug ac cepted "with great reluctance" the resignation ' of Operations Vice Chairman L. R. Boulware. Boulwnre, disclosing that his resignation was submitted the day Krug took charge of the war agency, said he was leaving be cause It was his "sincere convic tion that the activities of WPB will be freer of the possibility of further public controversy if Krug had a new vice chairman "known to bo completely of your own choosing,",' , Nelson, Hurley Now in Chungking CHUNGKING, Sept. 6 OP) Donald M. Nelson, head of the U. S. war production board, and MaJ. Gen. Patrick Hurley arrived In Chungking today ac companied by Gen. Joseph W. Stllwell. Resigi Americans and British for the abortive peace talks in Cairo would be revised or presented in the same form In the name of all three allied governments, including Russia, has not yet been decided. The Russians have been consulted on the U. S. and British terms and it was learned in Cairo that little if any change would be necessary. The armistice appeal, the offi cial Bulgarian radio announced, was delivered to the soviet lega tion in Sofia shortly after mid night. No Reaction ' There wag no Immediate re action from Moscow and ho in dication whether red. s r.m y troops had already crossed' the northern border of, Bulgaria, along which, they had. been poised for several days after a swift advance through Romania. It appeared, however, from the trend of events that should Bulgaria succeed in making peace with Russia she might find herself at war with Germany. ' ' ' Ministers in Session ' The Sofia radio said the Bul garian council of ministers was still In session early today after directing Me, .acnusuco..appeair but -whether this meant that fur ther steps against Germany were being contemplated was a mat ter' of conjecture. The council meeting was sum moned at. 3' p. m. yesterday, Sofia said, to "take decisive and firm measures" against German troops who: attacked Bulgarian army- units-engaged in disarm ing nazi soldiers fleeing across the border from Romania. The disarming order had been given in .conformity with Bulgaria's previous declaration of "neutrality-" , ' Kyang Ttsken by Nipponese Army CHUNGKING, Sept. 6 ''(Pj The Chinese.high command an nounced' today, the loss of Kyang, 50 miles southwest of Japanese held Hengyang,. and. further gains by the enemy, striking down the Hunan-Kwangsi - rail way in an effort to cut Free Chi na in two. .' ' Kyang guarded the allied air base at Llngling. A communique from. Gen. Jos eph W. Stilwell's headquarters earlier told of a heavy American air attack on the nrea' of. Kyang, suggesting that it had been seized by the invaders; ' Increasingly gloomy broad casts are being made by Lt.- Gen. Kurt Dittmer, above, of ficial Berlin radio newscaster. In a recent broadcast, he put out strong bait for a negotiated peace. By KARL R.- BAUMAN ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 0 fP) All controls over production, save those, "absolutely essential necessary to assure the reduced measure of war production necessary to beat Japan," are to bo removed immediately upon Germany's defeat. , After producing what Is need ed for the Japanese war, industry will have virtually a free hand in resuming civilian production cars, washing machines, 'elec tric refrigerators or anything else. A policy pf allowing': manu facturers to make 1'whatevef people want," without direction (continued on.yaga xwdj . ..' i 1 Jap Admirals Killed by Yanks LONDON, Sept. 6 (ffT -The Tokyo radio said today that a Japanese vice admiral And five rear admirals were, killed' 're cently "by enemy-action in the command area" of the 'Yoko- suka naval station.. The naval- station is ' situated on tire west shore of Tokyo bay 12 miles ..south of Yokohama. Its command area should cover thousands of square miles of the Pacific The broadcast did not. bring out whether the deaths resulted from sea or air attacks.. , Jap Casualties Hit Two Million CHUNGKING. Sept. 6 (JF) The Chinese asserted today that the Japanese had suffered 2,144, 000 casualties 'among combat trooDS Dlus "600.000 to their gar rison. suDDly and transport units in the rear" during the eight years of war through June 61. Chinese casualties were said to total 2,802,220. Major Charles Hansen, Pilot of B-29, Reported Lost in Action Over China Major Charles E. Hansen Jr., whnsft home is sometimes given as Klamath Falls and whose mother and sister live here, has been lost In action as a pilot of a giant B-2D oomDer over unu, The tragic news was received tui. ...nnb- hv hln mnther. Mrs. una "j " " . Charles E. Hansen Sr.. and sis ter, Mrs. wen jr. diuck, i simultaneously with the publica- .1 1 nntlnnlll mnHDK tiff flf B 11UII ill IIWWM .... story of the bombing of Japan s Yawata iron worns uy '""J"' Hansen's B-29 on June 15, 1944. a ,Un nllmhoH in the command of his ferry squadron on its world-wide missions, and then transferred to Decome a m- , r nF Amur en's fflB&ntiC iui ui unu w . -- a-o weapons hurled directly on Ja pan, Major Hansen was one of Oregon's outstanding men In this war's aerial achievement. - ., Native HonrasKan - Hn was a native of Osceola, Nebraska. He came to Oregon and to Eugene with his parents in 1B25, attended Patterson grade school and graduated from Unlv I1-- 1.I..U .nl.f.1,1 Hfl WAS vermiy niKu Vi graduated from FullertonCallf., junior cuiiebu, ; State college. He entered the air A..M..f i -1030 nnri srari. uated from Randolph and Kelly 'Hi8' first station was March field. Calif., where he wa. assign ed to duty with the 19th bomber group, whlcn saw amy m uio South Pacific early In the war. n-i i- ,u. ..,. IvTnlnl HnnRen j-nur iu uiu wji ,-Jr, participated in the first trans-Pa cific mass flight of bombers .to the Hawaiian islands (April, 1941) commanded by General De Los Emmons. Pioneered Flights Cairo, Karachi and Basra were familiar places to Major Hansen during the time he: served as a foreign ferry pilot after transfer ? I i- -Ma joy Charles Hansen Turhu - Severin Taken I ri Advance to -! i .' Frontier ; London: SeDt: b winus- sian troops smashing through Romania'have reached the Yugo slav border at Turnu-Severin; Moscow announced tonight.. . I capture oi tne frontier town at the iron gate leading to -Yugoslavia was accomplished after an advance ot 50 miles from Cra iova, which, fell to the red arniy yesterday. -Moscow disclosed the success after Premier Stalin earlier had announced the capture of the fortress of Ostralenka. Oitralenka Captured ' The Narew river stronKpoint of Ostralenka, 60 miles northeast of Warsaw, was captured, today in tne violent new. Kussian of fensive between the capital and East Prussia, Marshal Stalin an nounced in an order of the day. Ostralenka' lies on. the east bank of the historic river,, which Moscow and Berlin dispatches said had been crossed, and 26 miles . south ;. of.the louthern boundary of East Prussia, against which Berlin announced the now. erful offensive was directed. Railroads radiate from ' the town to East Prussia.-' Bialystok. Warsaw and Siedlice.. .- . .. from the bombardment group He chalked up hundreds of hours of flying and delivering planes, personnel and cargo to points in an parts or me gioDe. tie pioneered- flights to Africa, Egypt, and India, and received a num ber of special citations for speed records which have ' hot been broken since. He Commanded the 26th ferrying squadron, with headquarters at Memphis, Tenn., for a :year prior to this transfer to the B-29 project In Septem ber, 1943. He 1 participated In 'the shake-own-raid on. Bangkok, piloting a B-29, which, came tnrougn un scathed 10 days before the his tory-making B-29 raid, on Japan, proper, June 15, ; -! ' Correspondent Passenger ', Thi; time his plane carried Roy Porter, war correspondent, and Porter's story, built around Han sen and the B-29, appears in this month's Cosmopolitan). It gives Hansen's address as Klamath Falls,! although . his ; wife and 2-year-old ' son, Charles III, live in Casper, Wyo., arid he has never actually : made; his home here, i j Porter's story tells of this first mission over Yawata, and Major Hansen's plane .was called the "first B-29" because it was the first one to1 be flown overseas by Its own crew to a far eastern base, it was the first to fly the Himalaya hump, the first to be jumped by Jap 'fighter-planes (Continued on Page Two) MOSCOW.- Sept. - 6 - UP) Swarms -of -.-. StqrmovUr -plane's MMd the renewed' Russian' of fensive in the Narew. area;! 312 miiei f rem -jmrjin -we ciubchi reported approach pf any allied army. ' undone' 2-nuia--sector, the Germans concentrated four divisions, y i ;,';-:. i' Front ; dispatches' from"' Romania- said 'the. Germans were offering considerable resistance in Transylvania mountain passes north and northwest of captured Pitesti. '. -.- ..,.;.! Advahcing' 41 aV.breakneck speed 6f more that! , 70 mil in a ; single day in : Romania, soviet armored forces', seized a strategic springboard for an- im mediate united front-, with Marshal Tito's partisans and an invasion oi ine Hungarian pwum. Front disriatehes said the Ger mans fled-'in a wild rout ahead ot a fed army spearhead which had almost . completely . out flanked the northern frontier of Bulgaria, against wnicn.. Kussia yesterday declared war. . There was no official word in Moscow of a red. army march into Bulearia. confidently ex pected to involve virtually -no resistance Dy ine jsuigars. (The Sofia radio said that.Bul earia had already asked Russia for an armistice.) Army Jakes Over Two Too Plants ". HOUSTON, Tex.,1 Sept 6 VP) tnHav took over two plants operated by the Hughes Tool company, one of the na tion s largest manutaciurers oi Under presidential - orders 'the military moved- in- because of a "threatened- - interruption"..- of work arising from a labor dis pute involving 5000 workers. ; Nn troons were moved in. A group of about 20 army officers, headed by Col. Frank W.- Caw thon, assistant district supervisor of the midwest procurement -dl- vlcln'n-- air ipehnieal 'serVlcA. com. mand. Wichita. Kan... .took charge. .' . .''". '. . ,; '' Sub Robafo Lost In Action ' WASHINGTON, Sept. &m Loss in action of the submarine Robalo, commanded . by - - LJ. uomor. Manning marius : jrvnn mel. son of Rear Admiral, Hus band E. Kimmel, was reported by the navy today, " ' - ' , - The submarine, a . navy an nouncement said, was "reported lost in action" -against unidenti fied enemy forces. . Allied troops are in possession of their fourth axis-held capital Brussels, - and the town of Namur is also reported in allied hands. Black areas-on the map indicate allied holding in France and Belgium as reported by allied headquarters, but unofficial reports have troops far in advance of these lines. Directors Vote to Back v Equitable Freight Rates Klamath. : chamberof -pomr merce directors voted today fof: chamber . .leadership 'v in"..'; tb.e presentation of a case to the. rail roads and "interstate commerce commission' to .bring about more equitable freight rates to Klam ath Falls and the -Midland ' Em- pire. . ' : . . .... .' '' ; r The action followed a long-discussion of a report by the rates and, lpcqs,ral committees of the Navy to Expand; After V-Dayi : WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (Ph Navy Secretary Forrester' said today mere win De no aemomu zatlon of the navy '. when -Ger many la defeated. . .."On the. contrary." Forrestal said, "the navy is expanding and will continue to expand, The navy cannot demobilize until Ja paa is defeated.". LONG. HARD FIGHT I WASHTMrjTnW; Sent IIP Nkvy Secretary Forrestal report, eeaitoday that the Japanese now are able to mass tneir own pow er in a comparatively small area and that a "long and hard" fight is in. prospect. He' said at a-news conference-! that a year ago the Japanese had their air forces spread, over, an immense- Pacific area but that with, the capture or neutraliza tion and by-passing of some 50 enemy, bases by American forces "the Jans are relieved of the re sponsibility of supplying them witn planes." - - ; cain Mass Power : "Thev can mass their air now- er now in the narrowing theater of action, the Philippines. China, and .Japan - proper," Forrestal said. He added that the Japanese ob viously have been saving their forces -for' engagements to come and as a result will have more planes in future engagements. Al so, he said; the Japanese have made "many important technical improvements" in planes. 'Thus." he said, "the United States ,navy. will face, Jap air power in the coining year that will be stronger both quantita tively, and qualitatively. . The (Continued on Page Two) Ellsworth Sets to London Trip EUGENE. Sept. 6 (& Repre sentative. Harris ElisWorth of Rosebure will flv from Washine- 'ton to London, England, Satur day- as- an-informal- visitor from tne American congress -tor the parliament, and' government of Great Britain, according to word received nere today Dy Mrs. Java Ci Ellsworth, the representative's mother,, who makes -her home here..- ' .. . , The letter from her son told Mrs.. Ellsworth that the British had arranged the trip and that Ellsworth will go to England by clibDer- He expects to arrive in time for luncheon in London Monday. While there he will be a guest'of the American embassy He expects to return to the states ,oyt ocean iliner. v chamber,-Which" held- that, dis criminatory : freight- rates are a threat to Klamath's future, both as an industrial center and as a distribution center for this, wide midrcoast area. . . It was agreed to undertake the leadership of the rates enterprise provided funds for the purpose could be raised, arid the problem wa referred back to the rates, iridustriaUarid:ifihahce ; ebmmit tees of the chamber. It was ar gued-that even a-slight reduction in incoming and outeoina rates would Benefit tne area py jtens of thousands of dollars. ' ; . George P.. Davis, - chairman -of the rates 'committee, said . that equal rates for all points iir the Midland area, and rates- -that would;- encourage -re-manufactur ing ana- distribution - operations here, -arerofrvital importanceto the economic Welfare of the C(jm-munity.- Klamath, he declared. has- stiff ered under t. discrimina tory. rates and the groundwork is already laid for an appeal for fairer', treatment. He pointed to this area s favorable position in the coast . transportation picture as. justification , for rate adjustments. Nicholas Long, ,' chairman of i (Continued on Page Two) Fleeing Japs Break Contact With Pursuers SOUTHEAST -ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, KAN- DY, Ceylon, Sept. 6 (Japan ese forces retreating from India have hroken-off contact with al lied forces pursuing them into western Burma .but British and American planes- continued to hammer the enemy's line of with drawal, headquarters announced today. - - - - Jbong-range Brmsn ana Ameri can fighters also struck at rail way yards in. the Mandalay. area and heavy bombers attacked Sangkhla- in Thailand, . on the Thailand-Burma railway. ' Moti lein, an important Burmese com munications point,;.was plastered by night bombers. .' . ' in northern aurma, auiea pa trols ' made further - progress down the Mandalay railway to ward nopin. Late Enrofee j Has Reasons ' HAMILTON, N. Y.,'"Sept. 6 '4P)-e-Reporting. , 10.-. minutes late.'as a new student at Col gate, Joe Wilson Jr., radarman second ' class,-" of -Valentine,! Neb;, Was reminded' by Lt. Ar-; , thur Mooney, of the necessity, of punctuality.' , . I thought I had done right .well-": Wllsoh saidr "YbU see,: sir. T" was iri Africa tfesier-; day." . '' .,- ) By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Sept. 6 (P) Strong forces of the U. S. third army established themselves firmly across the Moselle river today in preparation for an assault on Hitler's west wall - after their armored patrols, reconnoitering the path of advance, had crossed the German border and then re turned to the main elements. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared the battle of Germany was about to begin. "Battles soon will be. fought on German soil," he . said . in. broadcast-instructions to foreign workers in Germany on ways to aid allied troops in combat areas. - . Defense Weak ' ' ' - : A senior staff officer at su preme " headquarters declared that Germany's last defense hope in. the west,i the Siegfried line or west wall, was no strongi er than the Atlantic wall,, if as strong, and "of course we are going, to break it." .The - only question, he said, was where and that part he left for the Germans to worry about. He made it clear that the great est problem for the German de. fense was its insufficient man power, that there' were far fewer troops in the line than intended to man it against a major as sault which may come any where along its length from the Swiss frontier . to , its northern flank; . ; i v . . - V Penetrated Sunday Supreme . headquarters offici ally described the penetrations of the reich frontier as actions perhaps 25 to 30 miles ahead rof the main front. - The third army permitted disclosure only today that these had occurred Sunday the first officially re ported army entry into - Get .'. (Continued on Page' Two) -' British Ljghts To Shine Again After Five Years 'London' "Sept. A-ev-w Tht lights will come on again m Brit ain September 17. -The ministry of home security announced to night a relaxation of rigid black out regulations which have kept the country in 'darkiess for five years.t - .. - ; ..' '.' Sweden Bars Way To War Guilty STOCKHOLM, Sept. 6 (IP) Sweden will bar its frontiers to war criminals and return to their own countries , for , justice any who "slip through," Gustav Moeller, minister of social- af fairs, declared, in a speech, last night. . , . ..... "Our policy so far has been to keep our frontiers open for refugees": said Moeller-"but it should not be concluded that Sweden, will be open, or is pre pared to grant asylum,- to those who b-v.. their actions, have de fied the' conscience of the civil ized world or . betrayed their own" country," , : Reich Historian Dies Fighting - LONDON, Sept. ,6 (IP) The official . historian 1 of Hitler's 100-year reich; Gerhard Schroed er, will not have to chronicle its untimely end. ".The official Ger man news agency said today that Schroeder "died fighting at the head of his men near St. Lo."l Limited Demobilization Of Army Troops Planned By WILLIAM FRYE , WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 , (VP) Plans for a limited start at de mobilizing Ariierica's huge army soon-after Germany's - defeat based in part on the solicited sug gestions of fighting G. L Joes were announced today by the war department. '- . ; ; - Because of the continuing war with Japan, 'releases of troops from service at first will be slow and small in number. The army cautioned soldiers and the public that the war with Japan will take "first priority? ; in, military calculations and shipping. : Since demobilization 'has been fixed on an 'individual basis, some men will be sent back from the Pacific as, well as from Eu rope and American outposts. ,. , Four Factors Guide . Four - essential factors, win nowed from suggestions gathered in- -an army survey, will guide the priority system of releases. They are: length of service, overseas .time, combat credit and number of dependents, i The i- bulk .of ..the army's strength will be shifted to the Pacific. The awesome might of the; additional forces to be un leashed against Japan is indicat ed in these words: "The Pacific theater. will have No. 1 priority. All else-must wait. To it will be transported millions of fighting men,- mil lions of tons of landing barges, tanks, planes, guns, ammunition and food, over longer supply lines than those to Europe." - Priority System (' The priority system will gov ern the release of the relatively small number of riien to be de mobilized under these conditions. The four faotors will be calculat ed in this mariner: - - i 1; Service creditbased qn the total number of months of army service since September '16, 1040, when the. draft law became effective. i . ; 2. Overseas credit, based Ion the number, of months overseas. 3. Combat credit, based on each award of the. Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished , (Continued-on PBe Four) .