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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.
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Ban Francisco 60 49 Trace
Seattle 64 4R Trace
Morifnrri 64 45 .06
Red Bluff 64 45 Trace
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day, tonight and Sunday, but wun tome
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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.
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SURVIVDHS OF
FRANKLIN TELL
RESCUE STORY
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much mora confidence if it is
properly insured. Sea Hans Nor
land. 118 North 7th Street.
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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,
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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power of wanting to create a
"collective dictatorship" of the
world, other delegate! reported.
Senator Vandenhorg (R-Mlch.)
replied with a pla for "confi
dence and faith" In the big na
tions, In peace as In war. ,
2 A group of Latin American
lenders, reported to number
nine, banded together to ttnll
any further action on major con
ference Issue until Russia hat
clnriflcd her poiltlon on region-
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