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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1945)
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The vet- kp ma iki nivmiuii ii-i,viia jovcrnl JP officers in nnlal white uniforms, MINT, dress. parcntly Hie little yellow live a yen 10 su iu mo huntinil around In full Id polish.) k'WIIILE our 1120s, fight- ihe war our way, roam Ijlnnris by the hundreds il Lemny. heading our jmbcr command, says that 11.3 square nines mouui ) of NaKoya have been M Including two lm- , MITSUBISHI aircraft n ind a blc Mitsubishi (nl machinery plant (the Islils are one 01 japan s key families.) no auas line 60 square miles of I largest clues, including Ire miles in Tokyo, have bmbed out or damaged. while, from London, Ihe announcement that 's terror-spreading heavy h (Incliullng tho Lnncnst it carry the 11-ton earth' tomrjj) win be transicr- Ihc Pacific war. i i . . . t Lain -on -again Foochow the news again today initio claiming to have Ihe Japs' out again. ire rumors that the Japs 1 UKTTINO OUT of a stretch of the China ntcrino im Faochaur. II Bstcd that this area has kdc too hot for them to y our Philippines-based umor persists that the ) may be to retire from 1 Asia to concentrate tcps north of the Yellow i Manchukuo and Korea. well to keep our fin rosscd on all these but we can't disregard tirely. laps, according to the o radio, have a new earn typically and Jap. They're training Inued on Page Two)- In The Shasta -Cascade Wonderland PRICE riVE CENTS Mar 19- 1943 Max. (Mar IS) ... 4 Mln. Precipitation last 24 hours Stream year to data Normal ..- 10.71 !. .... Forecast: Warm Sunday with rlmiHi.' KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1145 Number 10470 Carrier USS Franklin Victim Of Jap Dive Bomber 1 .!. fe-Ccrr Crash es Injuries police reported an accl- rolVlllB three rnrm nr N Henley on early Sat- uwunK, a nine after montlo Luther Havs, a lfl.tA ITnrrl nnk Ihnt the accident oc- front Of his hnma ivln Jbout to make a right y unveway and was rom thn rpnr Kv a ioiq f riven by Edward Rus- llns of the Rl.hno hnt.l gth Falls. Passengers P Included his tun Peggy Joyce, 13, and 16. hnlli ...... fjn and sustained se- t. miravcllng with Ejkle was slightly n: more, Daniel ln Henry Engan, allot Por ed no Injuries. claimed that Hays waled for a turn and, MW the car. It was too x. n Plymouth IVn by Arcl Alvln An- ijmain Falls, was at 01 Ihn a... 1,1 4 1 by Wllklns' car after ' the car drven by e side of Andersons aly wrecked, and ro- k Muat anmage of the person was ocenmnnn. wlc. Neither of the IlljUl'ed. Nn n,.t. Eiitx clsu carrier, USS Franklin, operating approxlmetely 60 miles from Jap coast. Is victim of attack by Jap dive bomber. Picture shows debris hurled in the air as the great ship is wracked by blasts, while fire fighters race away to dodge explosions. Search was. underway at Crescent lake today for the bodies of two marines, missing after ' an aquatic accident in which their canoe overturned on the lake Thursday night. .The missing men: Assistant Cook David Van Dcest. son of Mrs. Louise Smith lDias-JSWlst, St,. Dcs Moines; la. , Corporal Neal Burris, son, of Fred Burrls, 612 North . llth St., Independence, Kas. Sat Up Camp The men were members of a party setting up a recreation and training camp at the lake. They went out in a canoe Thur day evening. A snout was neara from the middle of the lake, and when they failed to come in. a search was Instituted. . Both men were good swlnv mcrs and good boat-handlers. It Is believed they may nave been seized with cramns when-the boat overturned. The water of the lake tested 40 degrees at tho surface. ' 200 Feet Deep VtftrHnv. the boat was found, upside 'down in the mid dle or the WKo, wnicn is aooui (Continued on lJage iwoj Hillari.BeU Dies Of Wound Word was received from the war department on Wednesday May lti, by Air. ana rars. ncn v Bell, former res dents of Klnm ath trails, now ol iaicni, tnai their son, PFC Hillard V. Bell of the United States army engi neers died of wounds received on Kerama In the South Pacific on April 2. Another son, cpi. virgn A. Bell, United States army, was killed in action on New Guinea on September B. 1046. The 20-year-old youth was born in Klamath Falls on Sep tcmbcr 28. 1924. and is a Krodu ate of Klamath Union high school. with the class of 1943. He was an employe of the Southern Pacific railroad at the time of his Induction In September of 1043. and received all of his training at Camp Roberts, Calif, After receiving his overseas orders, Bell was sent to Pearl Harbor where he transferred from the Infantry to the enfii' neers. He took part In the Guam and Lcyte campaigns. Boll is survived bv his rjnrents Mr. and Mrs. Bert A. Bell, his wife, the former Lorraine Mattes, two brothers, SSgt. Cal, vin Bell with the army in 4taiy, and Clarence Bell of 1240 Gary street In Klamath Falls, and one sister,' Mrs. L. G. Logan oi Worden. " ' ' 1 'r nr ,m iji.n.m. n. u 0 An " nni-n-ri dline Set On Marriages fcw Ind inn mi ..-..' nn VlnmafVi TnHinn rrsprvft llt.lnff tnrrnthnr nr-rnrrltntf to Indian fve unl jlme j3 next to be marrcd according to brrti i' olherwise they must separate or be dealt - m mc law. The riiamam inaian council in- "C ICC S nllnr. l....l.... ...J H,. ..nraliru lit thn Inn I . tno mattcr to tho congress and that body in., t "ecemoor 13, 1D44, making it inanaaiory inai Ened i 13, lfl45, aU marrla8es and divorces must r'.me couDlen nfontnH hnva nlranriv pamnlled but a !mii ?0lP'es are being given a second notice by the nmistratlon warning them of the deadline. As -the nP.'or this legislation themselves it Is not expected - .muy W1U Be had 1M brinRing about icgai mar nivorcoj for the remaining fow involved. Tito Charged With Using Force To Establish Claims By TOM OCHILTREE Associated Press Staff Writer Field Marshal Sir Harold Al exander charged Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia today with the apparent intention of establish' ing claims to northeastern Italy and southern Austria by force of arms, . Revealing that he had. been unable to come to a friendly agreement with Tito the allied puted territories as trustees un til their ultimate disposal is settled at a peace conference." Wants No Change In Belgrade it was learned that Tito's reply to American and British suggestions that no frontiers be changed before the peace conference caused "sur prise and disappointment" at the U. S. embassy. American correspondents were ' informed. commander.. In the -Mcditcrran hnwpvar. olhat there-atiU-'Was-a' can theater told his troops that "it is our duty 10 noid mesa ais- E By EDWARD J. DENNEHY LONDON. May la tt'j fre micr Stalin let the world know today that he will not consider me disputed arrest of IB foles in negotiations tor the reorcam zation of the Warsaw govern' men! ordered at Yalta. "The arrest of the Poles. Stalin said, "has no connection wltn tne question of reconstruc tion 01 inc iJonsn provisional government." These arrests have raised protests in the British house of - commons and in the United States. . Names Conditions - Stalin laid down three "ele mentary" conditions for solution of the Polish question, the first of them recognition of the pres ent Warsaw government as the basic core of a national unity (Continued on Page Two) Raymond Hermann Killed In Aeiion PFC Raymond hciiumm. z5. was killed ill action on Negros island, April 24, 1843, according to word received today by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Hermann, route 2, -Merrill high way. Young Hermann was born and reared in Klamath Falls. He at tended Fairvicw school and KUHS. He Joined the army in 1941. . The father is an employe of the street department. Brothers and sisters of PFC Hermann in clude Robert Rankin Hermann, Weyerhaeuser camp 6, Mrs. Mary Thorns, Sarah Torgerson, Mrs. Myrtle Shearer, Russell C. Hermann and Paul Dillard Hermann. Art Treasures Taken By Quisling LONDON. May -19 (Nor wegian authorities catalogued as evidence today an immense for tune in stolen art treasures found In the mansion formerly occupied by Vldkun Quisling, who, they said, would be sum moned for a preliminary hear ing, probably on treason charges, within a week.' ' Minister .of justice lorge Wold said every attempt was being made to speed the trial of Hitler s luxury-loving puppet premier. "We have to study five years of criminal activity and it takes time," Wold said, "but we have no intention of coddling Quisling." BLOWS STRUCK Survivors Of Franklin Relate Story ; II ; eroic Lrew s Won By LOIS STEWART Right under the very nose of Klamath Falls is one of the best stories of the war in the Pacific. It is told by survivors of the aircraft carrier Franklin which officially broke into the news yesterday. It is told by 10 sur viving pilots, aircrewmen of the carrier which came home, sadly crippled, but bravely under her own power, and is now at the Brooklyn navy yard undergoing repairs. . . , The men we talked to are members of a newly commission ed air group stationed at the Klamath naval air station, ready ing to return again to combat in the final strike against the Japs. Knocked Jap Down The story of the Franklin was carried by virtually every paper in the United States. Some of the men who achieved nation wide fame are at the station here, including the man who brought down the Jap plane the lone plane which created in a split second one of the worst disasters in U. S naval history, He is Cmdr. E. B. Parker of San Francisco. Comdr. Parker was in the air at the time the Jap struck, at about 7 o'clock the morning of March 19, when the Franklin was 66 miles north of Japan. Comdr. Parker, flying a Cor sair, at the time, pursued the bomber, sent her down into the sea as it came out of a cloud. The officer didn't say much about it today. ' Just sort of grinned and said "That's enough." Tribute ':to the pilots and air crewmen was paid by Lt. Comdr. S. R. Sherman,' also a San Fran ciscan, and one of the doctors aboard. Here's a - part of his story: .... . "I was on the flight deck with the officer who was launching the planes. -This was my regular station during flight operations. Suddenly all hell broke loose. I found- myself - slammed against' the island structure and there violently thrown to the flight deck on my back: As I arose, the flight deck was enveloped in smoke and flames and terrible explosions were occurring all around me,' at intervals of every few. seconds. . : .' "It was impossible to deter mine ' in ' which direction to go for safety, and once in a moment of indecision I followed several other officers-: into the flight deck control room but found this an impossible place to ' remain, so I immediately returned to the flight deck and started to admin ister aid to the wounded lying all around me. . . j . "I was wearing the usual 1 flight surgeon's belt' which' con tained ample medical supplies and first aid equipment and then I was able to reach my oth er stores of first aid which were in the island .structure. Beine unable to find my medical corps man ' who had been- blown off the ship, I enlisted aid of surviv ing, pilots of- my air group and evacuated wounded and' dead to the -forward . end - of the flight deck.- - - ''The condition of; the-flight aecK- was- extremely - bad. .You couldn't, fee in. the smoke and flames. The' shrapnel from -our own oomos was coming down like' hail. - . ,-. , . . ; . ! we. set up ; an emergency dressing station on the forward end pf-the flight deck and treat ed the wounded as best we could in that precarious' position.-The aviators and myself made many trips back' into the areas-on lire and near where the explosions were occurring and' brought out more wounded. During those trips we all took time ' out to fight fire and throw the ammun ition over the side. : . Unselfish Courage ' "The unselfish courage- and heroism' of the air group per sonnel in saving lives and fight ing fires was the most inspiring '.'.'. (Continued on Page Two) - Chinese, Troops Again Recapture Port Of Foochow II. S. AWAITS WORD feeling that the situation .could be finally solved satisfactorily, . Tito was Quoted bv the Bel. grade radio . as declaring, that the "honor of our army and the nonor ot our country demand the pt-esence of the Yugoslav army in Istria, Trieste and the Slovene coastline." - Right To Remain The Yugoslav leader also as serted that the presence of his troops in- ine disputed area did not "prejudice the decision of a peace conference as to whom these territories belong" and de clared that his troops had equal rights with other allied armies to remain in territory they had liberated from the Germans. ' ' Declaring that Tito's apparent intention was "all to reminis cent of Hitler, Mussolini and Japan," Alexander said that "it was to prevent such actions that we have been fighting this war. .... The territory of Venezia. and Giulia, part of the area involved In - the - dispute, . went to Italy after the first World "War. . Previous Agreement J Allied headquarters disclosed that Tito -agreed in July. 1944. and - February, .1945,- that for military purposes allied forces should , occupy , the region, in cluding, Trieste, while the Yugo slavs should occupy Flume and an area to the east of a line running roughly- north of Flume. Tito rejected that agreement when- it was taken to Belgrade on May 8, contending that the problem involving disputed ter ritories in ; Italy and Austria "was now a political one and not a military one, allied headquarters said. - By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER ' Associated Press Diplomatic . News Editor . SAN FRANCISCO. Mav 19 (JP The. United States delegation-' i LhopiJigUeEienUy-foii.wordlfrom raoscow tnis weekend that may clear, the way for United Na tions approval of regional' de- lense plans hnd break a . confer ence jam on other critical issues'. For the moment , the 'Russians, and small nations unsure of the course the Russians may pursue, have the world security confer ence tied in a knot so far as im portant decisions are concerned. -Nations Revolt '- Iii addition there is an under current , of small nation , revolt against what some are terming big.power control of present and future United Nations machin ery. This alone could consider ably ' prolong the work of the conference here beyond the next two weeks. A whole series of develop ments spotlighted the new crisis in conference affairs. These de velopments included: Charges Dictatorship 1. Francisco Aguirre of Cuba, speaking in a closed committee meeting, hotly accused the. big (Continued on Page Two) Battleship Sunk By Italians LONDON. May 19 .OB The British battleship Queen Eliza beth was torpedoed .and sunk in January, 1942, by an Italian midget submarine which crept into the harbor at Alexander. EgvDt. the office . of naval- af fairs said today. The dreadnaught was refloat ed and taken to the United States for repairs, the an nouncement stated. It said no additional . information w a s available. Hungry Americans Look To Capitol For Food Relief By The. Associated Press ; Americans ' hungry for meat and some' other foods looked to Washington for help-today and had assurance that the federal government -would do' its best. :- f'Thei1 pleas anie-- irom' -marly directions-- from - new xork, meatless and poultrylees, short of Butter and eggs; from Chi cago, w h e r e. a. 'truck drivir str.ike hampered food deliveries a. third day; -'from'.' Camden,1 N. J.,. - whose mayor,' George . E. Brunner,- asked - President.- Tru man for-action.- ' . ... Subsidies Increased " ' i'.W'l r . Mobilization : Director Fred M. Vinson - announced a program of increased- subsidies to - boost: the meat - siinnlv hut warried it would ' "take-- some time, for : the effects of the pro gram -to' be-felt.' ' ' The house food committee was reported ready to blame the OPA,.the war food adminis tration' and other' agencies for a-growing sugar , shortage, and $6500 In Bonds Sold During Day ! By 1 o'clock Saturday, the day's bond sales' had reached S6500. '".- - . ' Mrs. Marjorle Frasier enter tained at the piano at 7th -War Loan - Bond headquarters, 8th and ' Main, Saturday morning while sales mounted. Members of the Chicagoans orchestra played at headquart ers at. 2:30. p.- m. with Sgt. Rob ert Pomrenke at the bass fildde, Cpl.- Harry Kraus, .piano, and Sgt. .' Max O. Shpckency, - saxophone.- - . i No program has been planned for '( Sunday, but the.office will, be opened again Monday-morning with- special - entertainment provided- by Klamath; residents and members of the military personnel. .''.,' ?.'.' Prisoners Faced Starvation, Satisfied Hunger With Cats, Reports Mrs. Sevcik By LOIS STEWART Ihunerv as men and women and Just oeing plain American can I children at Santo Tomas. Esther carry you tnrough a whale of a lot of grief but a nandiui ot rice and a pot of cat simmering on me stove neips, too. jsstner Bellant sevciK, first Klamath woman to return from imprisonment at Santo Tomas in Manila, can testify to the forti tude of American men and wom en who suffered under Japanese military confinement for what seemed endless years. Mrs. sevens, daugnter ot Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bcllant, 4510 Peek, arrived home Monday, She weighs an even 100 pounds and is fat compared to the 79 pounds she weighed when they moved ner by strctcner to tne camp nos pltal last February 5. Hungry After living in a Jap prison camp, you could just about set up housekeeping with nothing at all and be successful at it, Esther observed.' You haven't anything to cook In and, if you had, there wasn't anything to cook. That's what started fricassee a la puss- cat. - Shudder when von 111 ilk of eating cal? Not when you're as tells this storv: "I'd eyed a c e r t a 1 n cat for months. When the Jap military took over from the embassy, we were reduced to a handful of rice a day. It had the caloric value of one-half w h a t a three-year-old child needs to keep alive. '.-. Got the Cat "My friend Mary said she wished I'd quit talking about catching the cat and do some thing about it, so I went to a doc tor, a former eye specialist who was interned at the camp, and asked him U it was safe. 'Let me congratulate you, Mrs. Sevcik. oh your intelligence," he said. "This is starvation." So I got the cat. "I got so I could catch and kilt a cat faster and better than any woman in camp. We usually did it at night, then buried the skin. It tasted something- like rabbit and was quite good. We fried it, taking the fat from under the legs. ' Dowager Annoyed - "One day a very fat dowager living near tiny shanty -preened up to me and in a haughty voice said. 'Mrs. Sevcik, did you kill my cat? I told her no, I hadn't got her cat, hut it was only be cause I-couldn't catch it. The fact is, I'd tried to get that very cat the night before. - 'We didn't -tell the children they were eating cat. Life was grim enough without , that. So when' the troops came ;in, I was telling one of the GI's about our diet., I turned to. Mary's 7-year-old and said 'You didn't know you. were eating cat did you you thought it was chicken." . Not Chicken "The little fellow- just grinned and said, 'I knew it was cat, all the time. First "of all, you remem ber that big cat. Well, he disap peared and the next day we had chicken. And then I was sure when you said to mother,- 'Mary, will you have one of the front legs?'" - . ' '.: ' ' The Japs, dead set against cluttering ud the world with any more Americans, ' ordered aU pregnant women to report their condition to officials. The Amer ican doctors in the camp did not cooperate, 'but when it was learned that "a1 blessed event1' was impending, the husband was . '.(Continued on Fage oix) possibly to demand' curtailment of shipments abroad. . . . - Urge Federal Action Chicago's truck operators and wnoiesaie grocers- urged presv was asked - if 'he .couldrrfgef some meat, and points for a Hew Jersey oil 'refinery cafeteria.- Philadelphia's meat shortage was called the. worst since -the Civil war. --'.-:. . - . The agriculture 'department forecasting that the . number, of calories .- available . to civilians would' be 300 per' day less than last year, urged people : to"' eat more grain products. . Br LEONARD MILLIMAN . :: Associated Press War Editor '- V Japan -began marshalling school children today to stem the expected homeland invasion as the mikado's men-received a flailing, on all fronts and nearly 500 Superfortresses raided the -'saererf islanHe." - , . . "'. For the third time'Chinese In fantrymen recaptured Foochow, in the center of China's potential invasion coast. Within striking distance of China or Japan, end less assaults and counterattacks were made on Okinawa's cata combed hills. To the south, Fili pino guerrillas and Yanks, at tacking behind record inaendi ary raids, seized Manila's pri mary water source.- Blows Blanket Empire ''; V' ne meanin8 of the war was brought home to Nippon by four formations of B-29s on bombing , mine -laying , expeditions which topped allied air blows blanketing the far reaches of the empire, including wide and -unopposed sweeps over China and a British carrier raid on. Su matra. Nippon's, strongest reaction, as reported by Tokyo radio, was inauguration of - a -program to teach children, to . throw hand grenades, . Broadcasters protest ed that allied reports of peace feelers emanating from' Tokyo were "a source of annoyance" .to those plannihe the home de fenses. . , - ., '.' ; Foochow. Reclaimed' ' -A growing-weakness- on -the China coast was indicated by Vice Adm..Rvo7.n Pnlrnria na...,- ly-appointed commander of the emperor's' China fleet, which may turn out to. be a fictitious force. His- admission -that the situation came-- as was "complicated": reinforced Chinese re- ; Chunekinc annnnnrert Phi fought their way back info Foo- 1 enqw. and recaptured -it yester day morning . amid indications I the Japanese were abandoning a 500-mile- striD .of. the central China coast as ". indefensible ; against a feared American land- Small garrisons were reported already withdrawing from Wen- uuujiuvu i on- jrage . l wo; ; , 'I Could Just Wade In This' , 5 ""'f i'f - I "'"'. J- tv""'"" g .s"!aifc.-,..vWV-. Esther Bellant Sevcik, liberated, .from Santo Tomat orison. still marvels at the food at home.. During the late months of in ternment, ' the women . would lit.' around and: exchange exotic recipes,-"copying like mad." On; the back of a slip which. per mitted her to sit during roll call;: because of her weakened con- , dition, Esther planned what she would eat her first day of free dom. Here it is: 6:30 a. m., pineapple Juice, black coffee. Break fast, plum sauce, oatmeal, condensed milk., strawberry jam, toast : and butter, hot chocolate with marshmallowi, two wafflei, but ter, maple syrup, two fried eggs, liver and bacon, more toeit, jellied doughnuts, coffee, sugar and cream. 10 a. m., beer, cheese. ' crackers and cookies. 12:30 p. m.; fricasseed chicken, dumplings, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, buttered carrots and peas, baking powder biscuits, honey and butter, dill pickles, . apricot Ice,' box cake, cftffee. 2:30 p. m milk shake. 4:30 p. m., tea, pecan and cinnamon rolls, cheese and jam. tea, sugar and lemon, chocolate : cake. 7:30 dinner, lobster cocktail, aaltines, olives, celery , pickles, .' ham baked in honey and cream, .candied yams, escoUoped corn ; kernels with parmesan-cheese, fried turnips in ham fat, Parker House rolls,, tomato turpriae lalad stuffed with Roquefort cheese. -baked apple's, with mirihmellow sauce, candied fruits, Carntmv bert cheese, 'coffee and brandy. 11:30 p. m., inack, chicken and -,' ham sandwiches, milk. dential ' action ;to end ut driv- claimed Foochowt -literally "The ers' strike. Rep. Case;-ffl-N.-.rrHannv Rerln . . .. .li." . j ! ' x: . f
