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RET1REARW1Y
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At least 400 persons had been
killed and 500 wounded.
The British commander in the
middle east, Gen. Sir Bernard C.
Paget flew to Beyrouth this
morning in a bomber escorted
by Spitfires. British destroyers
swung at anchor in Beyrouth
harbor.
British troops, tanks and ve
hicles, moved along the main
roads toward Damascus yester
da) after Prime Minister
Churchill's orders to intervene.
Paris newspapers used the
term "ultimatum" in describing
Churchill's note asking Sen. De
Gaulle to halt French military
activity- in Syria, but discussed
the situation in generally moder
ate terms.
Some French newspapers did
not comment at all. Others cau
tioned Britain that "appease
ment" of the Arabs in the case
of Syria held dangerous poten
tialities for Britain elsewhere in
the middle east. Some criticized
Gen. De Gaulle for taking a more
aggressive attitude than French
strength justifies.
The general tone. . however,
was of injured French pride,
rather than concern.
Reds Liquidate
Professionals
WASHINGTON, June 1 0P
Senator Brewster (R-Me.) said
today high London and Paris
authorities had heard reports
that the Russians are "liquidat
ing" professional people in Ber
lin and other occupied German
areas they control.
Brewster stated these reports
had come to him on his trip
with the senate's Mead com
mittee investigating, the status
of U. S. war materiel in Eu
rope. He returned today with
Senator Ball (R-Mlnn.), and
made his statements concerning
the Russians in an interview.
He asserted the "liquidation"
reports mentioned lawyers, busi
ness men and "other profes
sionals." Horn From Pacific RM 2c
Don Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roderick M. Smith, 931 Pros
pect, arrived home Friday morn
ing from the South Pacific where
he has been on duty for the past
several years. This is Don's first
visit home in 18 months. He has
a 20-day leave before returning
to his destroyer.
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Friday. Juna 1. 1945
Business Men
Ask Cancellation
Of War Debts
"WASHINGTON, June 1 ifP)
A committee of business lead
ers proposed today that United
States cancel all World War One
debts and World War Two lend
lease obligations if necessary to
clear postwar trade channels.
The Committee for Economic
Development advanced this idea
in a statement to the senate fi
nance committee urging approv
al of the administration s request
for authority to lower tariffs and
continue reciprocal trade agree
ments. The senate committee is
conducting hearings on the pro
posal, already approved by the
house.
Bly Scene Of Only
Deaths In U. S.
Caused By Enemy
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sionary Training institute in
New York.
The young minister said Mrs.
Mitchell, 26, was an expectant
mother. They had no children.
No Knowledge
Members of the families of
the children who were killed in
the blast, and Rev. Mitchell,
said the victims are not be
lieved to have had any knowl
edge of the danger of Japartfese
balloons in the area.
Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Gifford.
parents of Jay Gifford, one of
the victims, said they would not
have permitted Jay to go on
the outing had they known
about the balloons.
Army In Pacific
To Grow
(Continued From Page One)
to expect more damage rather
than less," he said.
7,000,000 Troops
The message, read to congress
by clerks, said the joint chiefs
of staff have decided "that our
army can deliver its heaviest
blows in the Pacific and win
final victory most quickly with
a strength which a year from
now will be about 7,000,000."
"By maintaining our army at
this size," the president said,
,"we shall be able to more than
double the force we now have
in the Pacific and hurl against
the Japanese an overseas force
larger than the 3,500,000 men
who united with our allies to
crush the wehrmacht and the
luftwaffe."
The president said the strength
of 7,000,000 men was decided on
by the joint chiefs of staff after
a consultation with General
Douglas MacArthur and Admiral
Chester Nimitz.
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Following are the "E" bond
sales as reported in to the bond
headquarters on Main street:
Klamath Falls post
office $ 12,618.75
Merrill 956.25
Malm post office .... 35,850.00
Blv 1,931.25
Ch'iloqiiin 5,737.50
Ewauna , 16,068.75
Sprague River 4,218.75
Klamath Production
Credit 6,787.50
First National Bank 395,968.75
United States National
Bank 134,727.50
First Federal Sav
ings and Loan 32,463.50
First National Bank
of Merrill 38,231.25
American Box at
Sprague River .... 4,106.25
The above figures of sales
of "E" bonds gives a grand
total of $689,666 in the mighty
7th War Loan drive to date.
HOPES FOR EARLY
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the other four delegation chiefs
is expected.
Moscow reaction to a pro
posed big-five statement on the
veto voting issue is due in a
dav or so. The statement is in
tended to reassure small nations
that the big-power veto could
not be used to prevent their get
tins at least, a preliminary hear
ing before the prospect world
security council. At the moment
a Moscow answer is the key log
in the work jam.
Guard Killed In
Riot At Fort
INDIANAPOLIS. June 1 P)
A guard was shot and killed
and three prisoners were wound
ed, one of them seriously, dur
ing a riot and fire last night
at the U. S. army disciplinary
barracks at Fort Benjamin Har
rison. Maj. Gen. James L. Collins,
commanding officer of the fifth
service command who was at
Fort Harrison when the rioting
started, said in a report for
warded today to the war de
partment that there were .indi
cations "that - the riot was a
planned affair."
He reported fires broke out
in a barracks and an infirmary
at two widely-separated spots
in the compound while the riot
ing was in progress. He esti
mated the fire damage at $100,
000. Nine barracks buildings
were Durnea.
Doolittle Teams
Up With B-29s
' WASHINGTON, June 1 (P)
Jimmy Doolittle is team in e un
with the Superfortresses to fin-
isn tne job he started three years
ago with his world-startling air
attack on Tokyo.
Disclosure that the mighty
B-29's, scourge of Japan's skies,
will be a part of Doolittle's
eighth air force in its aerial war
against the empire was only one
piece of news the army uncorked
yesterday to let the Nipponese
know the worst is vet to pnmp
Undersecretary pf War Patter
son served notice tnat Japan will
be pounded harder from the air
than Germany ever was. With
B-29 attacks already rivalling
the biggest raids against Ger
many, ne said Dom tne bomb
tonnage and the number of B-29
attacks will be stepped up con-
siaeraoiy.
In the tropics, a fly can go
through its entire life cycle in
10 days.
The planet Venus when seen
from earth in its most brilliant
phase is a thin crescent.
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EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
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thing short of unconditional sur
render. They ought to know better,
he aaaa grimly.
SO far, Churchill has been the
great war reporter. But even
Churchill, as his troubles multi
ply and his opposition rises, is
slipping a lituc. He informs
less, and preaches more,
Truman today seems Intent
only on telling us what we are
entitled to know and what he
alone can disclose. He seems
to realize that only the MAN
AT THE TOP can cut through
the mazes (and ottcn tho absurd
ities) of the censorship and give
the American people a clear
and understandable picture of
what is going on.
If he keeps it up, he may in
time overcome the skepticism,
the cynicism and the utter lack
of belief in ANYTHING the
government tells us that are
now and for a long time have
been hampering so gravely the
home front conduct of the war.
THERE is little of a startling
nature in tne dispatches to
day. x
jap opposition on Okinawa is
beginning to crumble. We make
gains ot up to half a mile in
spots. Shurl tails to us. Here
and there we are gc'ting oe
hmd the Japs ana trapping
them in small pockets.
The total of jap aead (count
ed bodies) is 61,ul9 and we ve
taken laoS rttl&UMSKS. There
are supposed to be about 22.0UU
lctt out of the original garrison
ot around bo.uOu, ana we re
now killing them oil at the
rate ot l,0uo a day.
TTHEv. Chinese high command
says the Japs are pushing
SOUTH along the East China
Sea, and have now reached
Pingyang, aoout halfway trom
Shanghai to Foochow. (They
may be afraid we'll land and
take Shanghai from the rear, as
they did.) The Chinese claim
to be chasing the Japs north
ward from Foochow,
A Chinese army spokesman
says Chiang's forces are inten
sifying their preparations for a
GRAND GENERAL OFFEN
SIVE, and predicts that this
will be .launched "earlier than
planned." The Paris radio says
both the Russians and the Japs
are CONCENTRATING
TROOPS on the Manchurian
border.
We hit Osaka with a 600
plane raid 450 B-29s escorted
from Iwo by 150 fighters and
drop 3200 tons of fire bombs
on the city's war industries,
shipyards and .harbor facilities
and rail yards.
THE situation in Syria looks
- a little less menacing at the
moment. The British bluff
seems to have worked, at least
temporarily, and the French
nave quit shooting.
French public - opinion, ' as
nearly as can be judged by cen
sored dispatches, doesn't seem
unduly indignant over the Brit
ish action.
It is a fair guess that the
ruckus isn't entirely over. It's
a certainly that there will be
plenty more like it before the
European business is settled.
Woman's Home .
Devastated
By Vandals
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and then topped things off by
writing obscenities on the mir
ror with lipstick. ..
Through shrewd work. Miss
Lucas apprehended the culprits,
who stated that they did the
damage "because they were mad
at another boy in that neigh
borhood." Upon contacting the boys'
parents, a promise of restitution
was obtained.
This is a typical case, Miss
Lucas stated, in urging parents
to cooperate with the juvenile
authorities by keeping a closer
watch on their children.
The losses by fire in the Unit
ed States for 1943 amounted to
$380,235,000.
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COMEDY NEWS
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ON SUGAR RACKET
(Continued from Pago One)
will furnish a report to my
board of the number of quarts
of food canned with this suRor
and the amount of suijur actual
ly used in canning this food. I
understand that m.v report will
become a part of ray record and
will bo considered in future
issuance of home canning and
other sugar rations to me."
"Robbtd Country"
Last year, Bowles asserted,
many persons who had no In
tention of using sugar for can
ning applied for sugar for this
purpose and in so doing "liter
ally robbed our country of a
substantial part of our limited
sugar supply."
The same thing Is happening
again this year, he said, adding:
'The home canning sugar
racket must be stopped."
Subs Sink 14
Enemy Vessels
WASHINGTON, June 1 UT)
United States submarines have
sunk 14 more enemy ships, In
cluding a destroyer and four
other combatant vessels In Pa
cific waters, the navy an
nounced today.
The other combatant craft
were three small patrol vessels
and a coastal minelayer. Non
combatant ships claimed in the
Intcst toll were a large tanker,
five medium merchant vessels,
two medium freighters and a
small merchant vessel,
Simultaneously, the navy re
laxed its security restrictions to
tell the story of the submarine
Salmon, which, forced by heavy
depth charge attack to surface
after helping sink a Jap tanker,
fought it out with surface guns
at point blank range with the
tanker's four escorts, forced two
of them to flee, and itself es
caped. Truman Backs
Tax Evasion Drive
WASHINGTON, June 1 P)
Asserting we are not fighting
this war "to make millionaires"
or to allow the black market
operators to profit, President
Truman today directed 'full
speed in the treasury's tax eva
sion drive.
In a statement Issued at his
news conference, the president
declared:
"We are not fighting this war
to make millionaires, and cer
tainly we are not going to at
low the black market operators
or any Other racketeers to be
in a favored class, when the
men in the armed forces, and
our citizens generally are sacri
ficing so heavily." '
WEATHER
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Max. Mln. Preclp.
Xuene , 67 47 .00
Klamath FalU .,.. M 37 .00
Sacramento . . 90 .00
Nortn Hend M ,
Portland ... 67 32
Reno 72 .TO
San FrancUco 61 S3
Seattle 64 50 .00
Med ford 78 4.1 .00
Red Biurr 78 m ,oo
OREGON: Partly cloudy today, to
night and Saturday. Little change In
temperature.
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New USO Center
Contains Homelike
Conveniences
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rr nvr Iniidsneukors located In
the social rooms and tho wo
men s lounge. Not mcreiy
nines to hang your hat." the
check room also Includes a con
venient wrapping table unci a
special depository for valuables.
Wives Considered
The pleasure and comfort of
not only tho sorvleewoinon but
wives of servicemen wero con
sidered In tho plan of the new
club. Included among the ac
commodations In tho women's
lounge Is a kitchenette, a pow
der room, a utility room und
two private showers. The kitch
enette appeals especially to serv
ice wives, who are privileged to
use it for evening snncks while
waiting for their husbands.
In the powder room are at
tractive dressing tables with all
types of cosmetics, and the util
ity room contains all sorts of
wartime "unobtulnubles" such as
Irons, washing machines and
sewing machines, as well as tubs
und Ironing boards. For enter
tainment during leisure hours,
there is a piano and a radio.
As a melius of helping to cope
with the cvcr-liurasging housing
problem, there are twelve cots
with bedding that may bo set up
In tlie lounRe after lip. m. for
wives unable tu obtain any other
type of housing facilities.
A particular amount of inter
est was focused upon tho cot
room situated behind the main
offices and complete, with all
types of first aid equipment.
It opens onto on emergency en
trance, easily accessible by am
bulance. Music Room
Music lovers may congregate
In a specially designed room
which features a piano, a con
sole combination radio and
phonograph and a complete
catalogue of popular and classi
cal records, as well as an album
of music that is sent each month
by the Firestone company.
Another Item found in the
mi, cli rnrtni It vnlr rirnrrttr
..that moy bo used to send men-1
sages home. In addition to the
musical instruments that are;
supplied by the USO, several
of the local residents havo gen-;
erously contributed those be-;
longing to their sons or daugh
ters. Sheet music ' nnd various
folios for group singing are also
available in this room.
Crafts Room
For those who want to give (
whirl to the artistic sido, there
is the arts and crafts room,
with free Instruction furnished
in leather work or shell craft.
Materials are also furnished for
carving In plastic or cluy sculp
ture, as well as sketching and
painting. This room has been
wired for radio broadcasts, and
plans arc being mado for a spe
cial fifteen-minute program to
be presented over tho air lanes
each week.
Camera fiends have found a
secluded haven In the dark room
that is complete with all types
of photographic equipment and
a slide projector. Classes for en
thusiasts will be conducted each!
week by Dr. E. D. Lamb.
Llbray Set Up
The library, combined with a
reading and writing room, was
established in a quiet part of
the building. Numerous edi
tions of current best-sellers and
various periodicals and news
papers may be found there at
all times.
The entire second floor of the
hltlldlntf fx rievnlnH tn nthlrtlrji
and recreational activities of all'
kinds. Including basketball, bad
mlnton and boxing. Equipment
for other sports, sucn as bnsa
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fishing and bicycling, may bo
checked out ut the information
desk. Ping pong und pool tables
havo been placed on the first
floor of tho club.
Whllo this USO Is much tho
same as others throughout tho
country. It Is more suocla ized
because of the very nature of
the men who use it. llioy are
courronicd oy uiiieroiu prob
lems. and the plans for doslun
lug and carrying out this pro
ject hove boon bused entirely
upon that fact. Perhaps this Is
not the largest USO center, but
it Is easily the most fully cmiln
ped and completely usable us
jur us uuutiiiuv seiviee 10 luc
military personnel.
Okinawa Bartlr
Near End
(Continued from Pago One)
command announced a new
army, the British 12th, was be
ing formed to operate from re
cently captured Rangoon in
South llurniii, whoneo It may
well spearhead the drivo Into
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