Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, May 19, 1945, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextI 1 4 WO HERALD AND NEWS Saturday. Mar ROUND GAINS III DWSSTHUGK (Continued From Page. One) ' show, and preparing to evacuate Kmoy and Swatow. These three sities and Foochow are the ma or ports on the Chinese coast mce guarded by Formosa, whose lirdromes and defenses have een largely neutralized by daily .aiding bombers from the Philip oines. B-29s, packing the power - of he Pacific air war, attacked Tokyo and Hamamatsu indus tries with demolition bombs to day, adding to the announced devastation of nearly 60 square miles in Japan's six largest cities. Guam headquarters for., the 81st bomber command an nounced more than 300 Super torts made the attack on Hama matsu. It is 60 miles from Na goya, twice set afire this week in 50 plane incendiary raids which left nearly a fourth of Ja pan's third largest city de itroyed, including 33 specific military targets. WEATHER May It Max. Kin. Precip. Eufen ..... 64 45 Trace Klamath Falls 48 37 .13 Sacramento 66 43 .13 North Bend 59 45 Portland 6.1 46 .00 Reno , 54 38 Trace Ban Francisco 60 49 Trace Seattle 64 4R Trace Morifnrri 64 45 .06 Red Bluff 64 45 Trace Northern California Motly clear to day, tonight and Sunday, but wun tome cloudiness today over mountain. Warmer. ... Wuhlnrtnn and Oregon' Partly cloudy today, tonight mnd Sunday. Warmer Sunday. BOYS WANTED To Join Boy Scouts Apply F.O.E. Hall 9th and Walnut Sti, 7:30 Monday Evening EDITORIALS NEWS ON iMsTonitel p - H 2felr TBIGGEE 1 Bob HOPE Belly GKABLE 11 ALL BOND BALLY p (Continued From Page One) SCHOOL CHILDREN' to throw grenades in a die-in-the-last-hole aefense of the empire.' fSUMORS that high-up Japs are talking peace persist peev ing the Tokyo radio consider ably. It says today: "Wiaespread peace speculation in an quarters of the: globe EXCEPT JAPAN has become a source of annoy ance to us. Japan is too much occupied with keeping the war going to ooiner wnn sucn things." '. THE ' Chinese, whose intelli gence service is often nrettv good, have claimed for some time that there is an under ground peace movement in Ja pan, neaaea oy former premier Prince Konoye and supported secretly by Jap big business in terests anxious to avoid further destruction of property. . (You may have noted in re cent European dispatches the doleful squawk emitted by the current head of the Krupp fam ily when he was captured in Ba varia a few days ago. He regard ed as an outrage the destruction of his fine big war plants at Essen.) , . DON'T be fooled by all this Jan np&re talk. It doesn't ne cessarily mean a thing. History makes it quite clear that peace moves usually begin shortly aft er a war begins. Aggressors are always willing to quit as long as they are still swollen with loot. Don't really prick up your ears until the Japs begin to hint that they might surrender un conditionally. . . STALIN comes today a little farther into the open in the Polish affair. He issues a statement stand ing pat on his existing provision al Polish government at the BASIC CORE of future Polish governments which, he says, must pursue a FRIENDLY pol icy with Russia and NOT follow the rjolicy of the 'cordon sant- taire" (quarantine) against the soviet government. One gathers that he means business.. . ... ITlON'T get all hot and both- aiwl ahnnt thi Polish rilp. kus. .We know we're not going to war with Russia over'it. Russia probably knows it as well as we do. V'e common run of oeople. who aren't taken into the confi dence- of the insiders, have a strong suspicion that FACTION AL troubles lie somewhere at the root of it. The Poles who have been thrown out would doubtless like to- get back in feeling, of -course,- that they would be far Better rulers ot tne Polish people (outs who want in always feel that way). : But WE aren't eoing to1 WAR WITH RUSSIA because the Lon don Polish government-in-exile has been tossed out and another Polish government put in. For one thing, we don't know how the BUL.K. U this ruita THEMSELVES feel about it. There will be a lot of spar ring around (including consid erable bluffing) before Europe gets all settled down again. This Polish business is a part of it. So is the business of Tito and the Yugoslav ambition for more territory which make stare heads in the news today. The BIG SHOW-OFF atarrlnf Artiur LAKE-Dala EVANS 1 PLUS ' i 1 ' F0G 1 I ISLAND 1 H Lionel ATWELL ( als i I j GHOST GUNS! Wallace BEERY James GLEASON in "This Man's Navy" Serial News I IB SHUT MY BIG MOUTH WItn JOE E. BROWN and ' Roy ROGERS In "SONG OF TEXAS" flerlaf Comedy Xvw SURVIVDHS OF FRANKLIN TELL RESCUE STORY You will driva your car with much mora confidence if it is properly insured. Sea Hans Nor land. 118 North 7th Street. (Continued From Page One) incident of the entire disaster to me. Many of these men could have abandoned ship without any criticism in face of the re peated explosion ana inmost cer tain sinking of the ship. 'We all thought she was go ing to sink. "About two hours after the initial bombing, we were able to set up an emergency hospital just below the flight deck in the Junior officers bunkroorh off the fo'csle.. There, more extensive medical assistance in the form of plasma and blood transfusion and surgical treatment could be instituted. Again, great tribute must be paid these ingenious airmen who doubled as medical corpsmen and undoubtedly saved numerous lives. 'Word was finally passed to us, after the wounded had been cared for, that a cruiser was coming alongside and we could evacuate the wounded personnel to that ship. Again the pilots pitched in and under most dis tressing conditions managed to tenderly carry these wounded through a maze of broken lad ders and cat walks UD to the flight deck, now listing at a 13 degree angle. We managed, somehow, to remove all wound ed to the Santa Fe in spite ot heavy seas and without turther injury to the men." One of tne- snip s aoctors was trapped and killed in the sick bay below. Two. others were trapped in other portions of the ship and unable to reach the flight aecK until late in me aii-ernoon. The first bomb struck direct ly between two planes of two men we taiKeo. to. Lt. DeWayne H. "Ted'' Stcg- ner of Downey, Calif., 26-ycar-old bomber pilot, was prepar ing to take off with the rest ot the planes. He was the last man off. "That bomb hit right behind me and blew my plane off the deck. But I was still able to flv. The elevator was blown right out of the hole, t ne oomo blew' me off the bow in the di rection which I was going. I was able to keep airborne. I was so scared I just flew around a little bit. Hundreds of thoughts w e r e going through my mind. Eventually I ren dezvoused with a group of eight other bombers and four fight ers and completed our assigned mission which was to strike shipping in the harbor of Kobe. After the strike we landed on other ships. The Franklin could not be used." . i Young Stegner's parents are Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Stegner and live at Downey: His crewman was ARM 1c Joseph Roynolds ot Blue t ieid. w. va. We next interviewed Lt. (jg) Harry Kincaid, 26, Oak Hill, w. va., and a former washing ton and Lee university student "I wasn't flying that day,' Kincaid said. "There were 15 planes and 24 pilots. I was in my room on the main deck. Sound asleep. After - the first blast I got dressed and started toward the hangar deck. It sounded like a gigantic pop corn popper with the small am munition going off on the hang ar deck. The fellows were in their planes, ready to take off. All tuning up. "We tried to get down to the hangar dock and on the way took a wounded boy standing at the forward elevator to a bunk room for .treatment. "We were gathered on the fo'csle deck and just at that time all the explosions started, bombs going off. You didn't know what was going on. Wo just knew we had been hit. Most ot us just stayed there and the explosions kept up Jor almost three hours. "Then we got all the hoses we could and ran back to the hangar deck and some went to the- forward unit of the flight deck. Took around two hours to cot 200 people uo on the flight deck, up the single ladders. We couldn't see back behind the superstructure because of the smoke and names, we mannea the hoses and patched people up temporarily in the bunk rooms. Then the light cruiser Santa Fe came alongside and rigged up a breeches buoy. First they took all the stretcher cuscs on the breeches buoy. Then the cruiser broke away and the second time just ground along side us. The executive officer of the Franklin ordered all pi lots and crewmen-to get these wounded men who could walk and help them to the Santa Fe. There were lots of men with minor burns helping. "Rayhill and I were dragging a big hose. A big explosion blew up in our faces. He dropped the hoses and ran like mad for ward. These pictures you see of two blurred figures running that's us. Lt. Theodore "Tommy" Eger of Palmyra, Mo., was right be hind Stegner, ready to take off. His name is pronounced "Eager," good name for a pilot. His folks are Mr. and Mrs. Ben Eger. He had quite a story. Saw Explosion "I was right behind Stcg. The dispatcher was Just getting ready to signal me to "rev" up and I saw a plane come right down about 20 feet above the flight deck it was the Jap plane. I felt the explosion of the bomb. It struck right be tween our two planes. "I saw the flame flash up on the port side of the deck and immediately felt a lot of heat. It was hot! I got out of the plane with my aircrewman, now missing, and ran over and got behind the island structure. Planes and bombs started ex ploding almost immediately and I stayed there just a few min utes. The flames and smoke forced us over the side. We were both wearing flight gear and life preservers. We went down the rope together. There was an awfully neavy sea. Twenty to 30-foot swells. I loined a large group of men hanging onto a floating life net about a couple of hundred yards from the Franklin. Then I passed out from shock and ex posure. Rcoaini Consciousness "Ensign George Grabow - of St. Louis, Mo., helped Keep me afloat. He s here at the station now. I stayed on the net until we were taken aboard a des troyer in about- 24 hours; I re gained consciousness sometime later. ... At this point one of the pilots cracked: "Eger died for his country once until we pumped him out!" . "The next time I met my air group was in a hospital. Most of us went there. I was two weeks in the hospital and then flown back to the states." Ensign Wallace L. Young, 22, Medford resident and son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Young. 32 N. Riverside, was on the flight deck m a torpedo bomber when the Jap plane came in. "Awful Close" "I looked up in time to see the plane start its run and watched its bombs fall. It was about 20 feet up. Awful close, STMTS SUNDAY it) MI r i - i inrlinr- if. Fourguys'are'frantic -'CauseJoanVgone'romantlc In herJirst, gay glorious comedy ! r X3k yVHALWALLIS'rVodiicrion "The Affairs of Ssan" ''-.DENNIS O'KEEFE Dan DaFan . Ilta Jehmen . Walter AM OlracM fcy WHUAM A. KITH A PARAMOUNT PKTUKI as mm s Na MMMauno ilu tut oi mr THE SA3IE VU TV HE AT BOTH THEATRES I got out of the plana and crawled back to the fantall under the propellors of planet behind mo. Together with sev eral other pilots we milled around trying to una iuhib fresh air to breathe. Then when the first major explosion start ed, we abandoned the fantall and I straddled a gun mount, preparing to go down a rope. Another explosion Jarred me looso and 1 fell about 70 feet into the water. When I came up I inflated my Mao West but due to holes in the top, the air went on through and I was forced to swim, "I learned to swim in the ' wnn r.nsign rv. s.. lumvt and Lt. Fred Vleweg, we swam to a nearbv raft and wore later picked up by a destroyer. We rejoined our outfit later at an island base. My aircrewmen were ARM 1c Bill Watt of Kansas, the radioman, and AMO 2c R. E. Wilkinson, the tur ret gunner. I thought they were lost. I was sure nappy to find them four days later. Two other men who arc at the station and saw the Frank lin crippled, were AMM 1c John William Rosenkranz, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Rosen- crant of Oshkosh, Wis. He was in the plane with hit pilot, Lt. F. T. Page of West Virginia, and ACRM Stanley W. Krula. "We got out onto the flight deck and went down the line to a life raft. The smoke and flames were thick. You couldn't see." Said ACOM Paul Day, 25, ton of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Day of Easlcy, S. C: "I go with the air crew as rearmament man and handle the bombs on aircraft after each strike. I was standing near Dr. Sherman when the bombs struck. I cared for the wounded and like everyone else, did what I could." Gruesome Days The next five days aboard the Franklin were the most gruesome, in the opinion of Dr. Sherman. "We interspersed between op erating on other wounded, found later, and taking care of people who were ill. The flight sur geons had to dip out and Iden tify and bury almost S00 vic tims of the catastrophe. The ship's chaplain assisted In this unpleasant detail. "It was assumed by those of us who remained on ship that a great many pilots in the planes on the flight deck were Instant ly killed. Three days later, while engaged in burial detail, a ship pulled up alongside and a great many of these pilots were shout ing and gesticulating. We were profoundly relieved. They had been blown over the side." PBLTlBTSl (Continued From Page One) government. At Yalta President Roosevelt- and : Prime Minister Churchill pledged recognition of the Warsaw regime as soon as it was organized on a broader The Russian leader broke his silence on the Polish issue as re ports were heard here that ar rangements were being pressed for a meeting of the Big Three. His statements were contained in a reply broadcast by the Mos cow radio to a letter written by Ralph Parker, Moscow corre spondent for the London Times. (Continued from Page One) 200 fret deep at the point where the accident evidently occurred. t i iri,,u MrNamnrL officer in charge of aqimtc activities at the barracks, is In chargo of the attempt to rocover the bodies. Major G. LueK, a iwvni aviator, has obtained use of a plane from the naval air ttij tion mid will assist the search party by aerial rcconnaisniico. Officers Invaitigata Col. George Van Ordon, com ....... ..rrir..t- mirl Cut. Lowell COKgi'.'hull, senior medi cal officer, went to inr ihkc CVM..U al I I f. l'lCl)ivtlll! cm i, ..... - - - - - - - -- word of the accident. Sheriff Lloyd Low lent equipment aim the assistance of a deputy in making the tea re h for the bodies, The two miming men had been here about six months. Van Deett had planned to take leave soon to return to Kansat to got married. U, SUITS WORD (Continued From Page One) power of wanting to create a "collective dictatorship" of the world, other delegate! reported. 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