wmber 5, 1944
elby Describes Landings
pn Philippines in Letter
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON
L'eold Solby- MM 3o In the
H .ovy and '.01'!,.U!r.
Mni Pelican fooiupii Player,
iiu"f.,... hid mi i oiitn hero u
tKl aWounfof the l.i.ulln
P1.?' ,nrf In tho Invasion of
'.F.h'i M.. Sanford Bclby.
Slcrc iJnvombcr 12 from
i'cKlcnnvy base:.
,.. nncl. now It cn be told.
twere In " J"0 '"v"m " r
2 ShillDDlno". cunt. toll you
x i, lainiicl or any dales, ino
ftchw 'went In. lh. big boys
luvcd clown a bar-
r.nTl really moan a bar
i( .'li i,t thorn wnnn t a
JE. of ground B' x 6" thtit
been hit. They minted u
J" Ire, which bumod very
h' ui I.. ur
I'hCn tllC SOimuni ira i in. "
la"'. .. ...I., frnm lie
, The "ol0 wns l,,rr"1:. '
royr" were putting tho 5
"'.hells In Ihero like shot gun
5t IhOy WVIU 1;i.i,j iruuimn
n Alter 1110 nwn y--m i...
watched them "hell and dive-
nb 111"- dldn'1 l0"k llkC
hlnc could llvo on thcro as
....II., ..In.lnrnri ll.nl
bill inc J"i'
ihlp with mortar flro from
.an,n Mill. HllLT VII.
!v went In clone to the beach
. l morning. All day we
MA hour uninll arms ond mii
&,io sun lire. There were a
t i...... ii. til I,,. ti r lor ni
iouRh our linen. The Junglo In
city dense win u m"ivi.-n n tun;
Ihi-m 10 luiik; in.
lnl. or miner, u hjw, mi
,Ul' I- J I III... ,l.
IIVM. "lien 1110 nHiivvs uhiiir
these Jiips woiiiu vuinw in
lh a uasKei on incir iieuun.
fV would hold their hands in
- ' ... ... IK. knul,l I .AW
s oasnci. hi iii
srrlrd grenades. I dldn t hear
Janyonc getting hurl by them.
A the second day our big
til were being set up on the
Jch. That night they opened
jon the big hill. It was some
fcworks. All night long flares
ir lighting tho sky. It was
d of funny, with these para-Jut-
flares as they drifted
vn, we could see the shadow
I their "chutes" spinning
Sound against the clouds.
Vust after dark wo heard
toll rms fire coming from a
aall hill where there was an
feorvatlon post. The next day,
i heard that a couple of Japs
lnt In. cut off the lookouts'
ids and turned the machine
fcj on the beach. The soldiers
I these Jans and good.
SVo had a lot of their water
aboard so we naa io iar.c
m ashore. We volunteered to
(o that we could get a good
ik at the beach. It started to
n just as we landed our first
id and we cot plenty wet.
t nnllvm were there watching
iarnt some of them helped un-
Id the small boats, mey were
orry looking sight,
.tost of them were wearing
lip clothes, tho stuff was so
i that It looked like It would
imblc If you touched it. Some
them had old dungarees that
ts almost all patches. . They
e aboard when wo beached
tLST) and tried to get some
hes. We gave them all our
clothes tor tho Jap money
p iney naa.
re gave fruit and candy to the
le Tdds. You should have
ti the way they went after It.
fit of the kids were In Just
undershirt made of burlap
I cme down Just below their
rnscn.
ffhere weren't many teen-age
Bs the Japs took most of
Im. There were Just the old
I very young people left. I
in't sec a native with a pair
If hoes on.
pe had a lot of air alerts, but
J very row planes, the most
ny time was four and they
ft so high that we could Just
neo them. On "D" day there
was a connle of them euine over,
a battleship got one of them ami
lliu other took off for home.
Hint night a Jap torpedo plane
ennui in, no was so low Hint we
couldn't censored he got
away.
I ho tracer flro wan beautiful.
more so than any fireworks that
i nave ever seen. The tracers
would leave the LMII1K II Uliiln
color mill ns they travelled, they
uiminu a iieep red until they
blew up.
Well, that winds up the in
vasion to now.
It suro Is a queer feeling you
get when you sec shells h ttlne
near you. You arc as scared as
hell, but yuu don't want to run,
you want to stay and see what Is
going on., l know I was seared
when these shells hit, especially
since we hud censored one
shell in that stuff and It would
be all over, but this une Is over
now and It Is all OK.
YAKIMA, Dec. 5 (I') A
slate-wide search for a 10-ycnr-old
Toppenlsh waitress, Virgin
la Ivi'V lull tllvt-n iiflrlnrl Imtin.
Ins today witli filing of an in-
lorniatior. in Yakima superior
rnnrt r-hnriiini' ll.n uii-l will, flrul
degree murder. The Information
was men Dy rrosccmor uoycl
L. Wiehl.
The girl has been sought since
November 25 when the body of
five-year-old Thomas William
Owen, known as "Butch" Lang
Icy, was found in her Topnenlsn
apartment. Or. W. II. Banks,
coroner, snld the child was beat
en to death.
The boy had been left in Miss
Ivey's care by his foster mother,
Mrs. Grace Langlcv, who was
living In Mullan, Idaho.
(A "piek-uo on-slght" order Is
sued to Seattle police said thp
girl might be found under any
one of the following names:
Sharon Lee Powers, Virginia
Stump, Hull. McDonald, Evelyn
Hu.ietament or Eva Jensen.)
Ireland Elected
Head of Hotel Group
PORTLAND. Dec. 5 fP) The
Oregon State Hotel association's
executive committee elected
Dean Ireland, manager of the
Multnomah hotel, Portland,
president of the association at a
meeting here yesterday.
C. E. McLean, Eugene, was
named first vice president; E. O.
Stratton, Pendleton, second vice
president, ..and Ed A. Fettig,
Portland, third vice president.
Val Austin, Portland, was elect
ed secretary and Stanley Smith,
Portland, treasurer.
Llasslfleu Ai Brlnii U.-miIIs
pace three;
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(M llwr MONARCH FOODS-all lnl n lot
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5 (!')
The sugar situation is getting
worse and tho shortage may be
prolonged, the commerce depart
ment reported today.
The decrease in shipments of
raw sugar from the Caribbean
in recent weeks was given as the
main reason.
This decrease came at a time
when sugar refiners had expect
ed to be. in nosltion to fill a
back-log of accumulated orders.
The department said It may
force curtailment' ol refinery
operations. .,
The commerce department
said nothing about changes In
sugar rationing, But the wor
sening situation clearly Indicat
ed tho possibility of a cut in ra
tioning of sugar for Industrial
users who have been the first to
be affected by a reduced supply.
Commerce department offi
cials said the decrease In re
ceipts of raw sugar is ' largely
due to tho diversion of-ships to
other routes. .
They said another factor in
the shortage is the small beet
crop of 1043, which Is apportion
ed over 1944 and now Is "catch
ing up with us."
Arrivals of raw sugar in the
first 10 months of the year were
500,000 tons above the same pe
riod of 1043. However, in those
same months domestic consump
tion ran uuu.uuu tons ahead of
last year. TIk department said
year-end stocks will be "materi
ally lower" than the 1,700,000
tons on hand at the end of 1B43.
TICKETS MAILED
LAKEVIEW For all in Lake
county who have purchased E
bonds since the first of Novem
ber, tickets are being mailed for
a war bond premiere, "Mr. Win
kle Goes to War." The show
will be held December 14, and
is being brought here by the
courtesy of M. H. Alger, theatre
owner, to show appreciation to
all of those who have participat
ed in the (jth .War Loan drive.
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