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an W GOT o 0 Day's IP Bv FRANK JENKINS THE Aunlrulluna linvo pushed Uv tmlnv Intn Ihn mitsklrtii nf niillkpapun. Tho Jnpa have ael flro to the oil town, unci It Ik burnliiK fiercely. Anmnii the toughest obstacles encountered by the Invndcra woro rivers of flaming oil cascading clown rnvluca from oxplodccl tonka, Tim Auatrnllun comnmnclor miyn the InviiKlon In iilroncly "strategic succcaa" meaning that thu uron will bo token, but much liurcl fighting lien ahead. Jap roalalanco la stiffening, na boa boon iinual In nil recent In vnaloua. Thoy don't try to atop u on the benches, preferring to fight Inter from defensive prod tlona woll buck. Their fnvorlto defense lit Bnllkpuiion, ua o I no where, aeoma to bo Interconnect ing tunnels and cnvea. Tho moutha of tho enves nro con cenled bv coinuufliigp nnd nfter our preliminary bombardment la Over thev run their liuna out on Mils and open up. MacArthur Indicates- lodny that the Australian aro two milea Inland and have nprcud out three mllea nlong tho ahore. Two airfield hnve been tnken. t ... DUIt bombers knock out 28 more Jap ahlps trying to run the blockade wo're beginning to tluhten around the homo lalanda. Tho blockude la evidently be ginning to pinch, aa tho home front Jupa ore told to get ready la rnt fond made from mulberry louvea and potato vinea, (Mul berry leaves, on which llk worms feed, are numeroua in 'jfltUlll.) Jap aclcntlata arc studying the problem or making aturcn irom somo 10 different tilanta. WITH our own high food " atnndarda, we're Inclined to bolleve optlmiatlcally that the Japs can be atnrvcd quickly In their rocky homeland where, In an area roughly one and a half time Oregon's some 70 million people llvo. Wo muatn't bo too aurc of that, The Jap can live on unbeliev ably little. OUR roaming bomber are concentrntlnif on Jap oil and Jap ships, It la announced to day that flu ner cent of For mati'i alcohol production has been dnatroved. Each (lav auea the dcatruction of mora Jap oil rc- ... llncrloe. y..iv IN Japan's principal induatrlnl cltlta, wo have now burned and bombed out 117 square miles roughly HALF of It 'In Tokyo aione. Imagine an area ten miles Ion bv mix mllea wide burned an blown out of tho henrt of Sun Francisco. But evon that doean't tell the whole atory. San Fran cisco Is a shipping, rather than an Industrial city. Tokyo la heavily Industrial, as well as shipping. If vou are fnmlllnr with Phila delphia, which Is both shipping and industrial, try to vlsunllzo 00 square miles laid wnste in the heart of It. Thnt will give you some Idea of what is happening although you must still re member that Japan is only about ono nnd n half times the land area of Oregon, with crowd ed cities BUNCHED TO GETHER. AND don't forgot thnt our earn- pnlgn of dcatruction of the Jap wnr Industry from the olr Is Villi UUU.tllllliUi . TYTTH our American habit of " Jumping to conclusions (especially HOPEFUL ones) we re apt to' think that It's all over but the shouting already. Thnt ISN'T true. Tho Jnps are a persistent people. , They aro tho world best burrowcrs, They're gutting underground as fast as they cnn. even with an their cities smashed they will be nblo to produco a lot of war material. But they haven't tho ghost of a chnnco to win. All they nrc doing Is Inviting national ex tinction, . PLANES from Okinawa nnd tho PhlllpDlncs nro OVER LAPPING at Shnnghnl. Incidontnlly tho Jnps nro re- Sorted toriny to linvo closed ALL orman firms In Shanghai nnd (Continued on Pago Three) Attlee. Churchill Trade I Blows In Vote Campaigns By DONALD DOANE ' LONDON, July 3 (fl3) Prime Minister Churchill and former Deputy Prlmo Minister Clement Attlee leaders' of Britain's strongest political parlies marshalled their followers to day for H last-minute drive for tho votos thnt will decide Thurs day's national election. - After crossing swords In a sharp oxchango of letters, Churchill, who hends the con servative pnrty, s;nd Atjlee, who leads tho laborltes, planned to mount speaking rostrums to keynote their parties' semi final round of orntory, Both parties concentrated their closing fire on London, where a fifth of Britain's esti mated 20,000,000 votes nrc bunched, with Churchill spenk ing in mnssivo WalthnmstRjiv Herald PRICE FIVE CENTB Fire Hits Picture ahows fire deatroylng moat of the B ration packing plant on the Greenaprlnga high way. Tha. private freeaer locker building, corner of which ahowa at right, waa apared fror the flamea. Arrow polnta to the corner where the fire started. Ita origin waa undetermined. By The Asaodated Press The government moved today toward scizuro of the Goodyear Tiro and Rubber company, Ak ron, O., where 16,700 CIO work ers have been on strlko for 17 days. The war lubor board referred the strike to William U. Davis, economic stabilizer, after ex hausting every resource toward ending tho dispute. Earlier Da vis directed cancellation of oc cupational deferments for strik ers registered tor sciecuvo serv ice. Leaders of the striking United Rubber Workers at both Good year and ' Firestone Tiro and Rubber company, .where 17,000 others are out, asked for an im mcdito senate committee Inves tigation of tho Akron labor situation. , "Not a single tire Is being produced in Akron," the leaders declared. The lubor board had proceed ed slowly toward seizure of the Slants by the army or navy oth of which are vitally inter ested in tho airplane tires pro duced by Goodyear and ex hausted every resource before relinquishing tho caso to Davis. NO PAPER ON FOURTH The Herald and News paper supply will be conaorved and the staff will enjoy a full holiday on July 4, tomorrow. No edition will be publlah ed, but publication will re aume at usual on July S, Thursday. Remember no pa per tomorrow, and the bull nesa office will be cloaed. Indian Soldier Hero First American To Enter Russian-Held Center of Berlin BERLIN, July 3 W) Tha veteran 2nd armored (Hell on Wheels) division of the iv aepioy deployed in the auburba Berlin today. A red-aktnned hero of tha U. Joy at the alght of the American, PFC Harvey Natcheea of the Ute Indian reservation, who wears a Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purplo Heart with Oak Leaf cluster, waa the firat American soldier to enter the center of the capital. The main force of the division was deployed in suburban Zhlondorf to the south. (Exchange Telegraph, In a dispatch to London, aald the British occupation force of about 15,- stndlum and Attlee and other labor pnrty leaders scheduling a scries of speeches elsewhere in tho city. Churchill brought one cam paign issue to an explosive head last night with a letter demanding that Attlee explain to tho nation just what con trols tho labor parly's .execu tive committee might exercise over tho government If tic laborites won. Churchill point ed out thnt the cxccutlvo com mittee was not elected by the voters. Attlee replied that tho execu tive committee had no control over lnbor members of parlia ment and added: "I am sorry you aro so distressed, owing to your laclc of acquaintance with the ordinary procedure of demo cratic parties In general and tho lnbor pnrty in particular." Packing Plant- But- Lockers F.-tP Packing Plant Destroyed By Fire; Meat Burns, But Lockers Safe Fire ' Tuesday, afternoon de stroyed a part of the Brntton packing plnnt on the Green aprlnga highway and a large quantity of precious meats. Averting a still greater food tragedy, flro-fightcrs stopped the blaze short of tho private locker f iliint where scores of customers tud . private meat supplies in freezer 'storage' and - this moat was reported safe today. ' - Gcorgo Bratton,- head of the firm, said today that total dam age caused by the blaze will run In the neighborhood of $100,000. Tho loss, he said, Ik partially covered by Insurance. Cause Unknown The fire started from an un determined cause at the south east comer of the building at about 4 p. m. Tuesday. An em ploye of the plant had been In a Hopkins Retires From Service WASHINGTON, July 3 (P) The Whito House today an nounced tho retirement of Harry Hopkins from government serv ice. A letter of resignation from tho ailing special assistant to President Truman and advisor to the late President Roosevelt was ..made public by White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross. . Hopkins, long a figure on the Whito House scene, told Presi dent Truman he had to relin quish his post because of ill health, Tho resignation came as Mr. Truman was preparing for his first Big Three conference. By DANIEL DE LUCE and the firat American aoldier entered the Ruaaian-held center of S. armv taenid down tint hn uuu, was expected to arrive In the main part of the city, to night, while the main British force would arrive tomorrow). Woman Cop Salutes After rounding a' shell-scarred victory monument in the Tier gnrtcn, taking a smart salute from a red army woman traffic cop, and start for the remnins of the kaiser's palncc, a lot hap pened to Natchccs in a few min utes: A Berliner on a bicycle asked the American from Utah to look up his brother. Pvt. William Schwellbcck, somewhere with American forces in France. Margaret Tltzc, who said she was born in Sheepshead Bay, N, Y., pleaded for a ride to Potsdam. Fur Coat Mnrgarct was dressed in a swanky black fur coat with a hnndkcrchlcf-slze United States flag tied to her sleeve, and when sho spied the "U. S." badge on Natchccs' jacket she hugged (Continued on Page Three) , mm Telephone 81? .y? KLAMATH -GON. Partially room at that corner about 15 minutes before the blaze was discovered, and noticed nothing unusual. When smoke was seen seeping around the door, an in vestigation disclosed the room was full of fire. A call was made to the - city fire department, which relayed the alarm to the county depart mont. The "plant Is 'about idur miles outside of the city. ,v County Answers Call County equipment and crews and equipment from the Klam ath Forest Protective association responded. By that time it was impossible to save the rear sec tions of the plant, and the slaughter house, sausage kit chen, pork cellar, killing floor, pump house, part of the corral, and other departments went up in flames. A cylinder of ammonia be came heated and exploded with a loud detonation. Several small continued on Page Three) Lake County Judge Assigned , Chief Justice Harry H. Belt of the state supreme court Monday assigned Circuit Court Judge Charles H. Combs, Lake county, to hear the four criminal cases here in which Earl Houvcl, for mer Klamath Falls police chief, will be tried on morals charges. Heuvcl was indicted on four counts by the grand jury of Klamath county. Circuit Court Judge David R. Vandcnberg disqualified himself from hearing the . cases last week. T.lnrfon mnA u,nm.M .ti. ' - yJt b 'J -. Western Show Goes Into Second Day At Fairgrounds By JOY BIGGS I A hot July sun beamed down on the second day of Klamath Buckaroo Days rodeo which went smoothly, ' with events dovetailing one another without pause. Emcee Lynn Roycroft's salty comments received a good re sponse from the cheering, yell ing rodeo fans, the Lone Ranger rode again on his great horse Silver, followed by Tonto on Scout, the G u s k y troupe of trick riders entranced the crowd with a skilled professional act with their snaking lariats, - Arena judges for the 1945 show are Marshall Flowers and Bob Colohnn. Race judges July 2 were BUI Dalton, Jack Mc Auliffo, H. D. Mortenson and his guest, Duval Moore. Timers are Tommy Hawkins and Fred Pope .. TUESDAY. JULY 3. 194S Japs Build Up Defenses In China, Home Islands; Plan Evacuation Of Civilians SAN FRANCISCO, July 3 W) The feverish Japanese military, trying to guess where allied troops will land next, rushed Japanese prepara tions today from mighty Singapore to the tow ering cliffs of the home islands. The enemy radio told of plans to evacuate civilians from Singapore, the formation of vol unteer corps at Canton and In Indo-China, and determination of Nipponese at home to die de fending Kyushu's soil. Domei agency reported 10.000 Japanese resi dents of Canton have formed special storming parties of males between 14 and 60 years of age. It is there that the enemy fears allied inva sion of the China coast to gain the important Canton-Hong Kong port facilities. Radio Tokyo said 100 medium and small sized planes raided air bases in southern Kyushu SIX CHARTER FLAWS LISTED HT SENATOR WASHINGTON, July 3 OP) In one of the first open senate breaks in the United Nations charter, Senator Bushficld (R S.D.) declared today the docu ment contains at least six flaws. These should be corrected, he told his colleagues, before the charter is ratified. Although the first-term west erner asserted some of the pro visions must be changed "for our national safety," he re nounced he would support tne treaty because he could not face his soldier son "if 1 fail to do what I can to stop the sense less, maniacal slaughter and planned murder of my-fellow men." y . ; . ... LUU Fault. - ' : t ri so onatA-uweeh-Bushf leld liked these as "the jurisdic tional faults in the new treaty. 1. "It delegates power which we have no authority to dele gate to the security council to declare war. . 2. ' "It places our sovereignty In the hands of foreigners be cause we have only one vote of a necessary total of seven. This power must be referred to con gress in each case as it arises. Aska Limitations -2. "It seeks by implication to delegate power to the Ameri can member of the security council to vote us into war without reference to congress. This power must be strictly de fined and limited by statute to congressional approval in each case as it arises. 4. "It grants to the security council power to regulate the size and kind of our armaments for national defense. No power on earth should dictate our de fense, exceDt the congress. 5. "It destroys the, Monroe Doctrine, which is the csly (Continued on Page Three) Klamath Nears Goal In Drive Klamath county is ncarihg the top of its 7 th War Loan drive quota, according to reports from bond headquarters. Tuesday. "The people from the area sur rounding Klamath Falls have met their share of the quota. If the citizens of Klamath Falls proper will increase their pur chases of bonds before the head quarters closes Thursday night, the county will go over the top," stated Rose Poole, chairman of the 7th War Loan. Bond headquarters at 8th and Main will ' remain open all day Wednesday, July 4, and until Thursday evening. Bonds pur chased before that time will count in the Klamath county quota. . The ride with the nation's colors was an impressive part of the grand entry ride, in which the rodeo queen, Blanche Schon chin. and her royal court of five princesses took part, with Buckaroo committeemen and members of the Klamath Sher iff's Posse. Ross Dollarhide Jr., of Lake view, rode and fell off the horse Smoky, as called for in the serltit of the .20th Century pic ture by the same name. Dollar- hide replaced yesterday's rider. Art Russel, who was injured after his filmed ride opening day. Dollarhide, who is 23 years old, has ridden aa nis lue ana is emDloved oh the MC ranch, one nf the lamest cattle spreads in thq country. This is his first . . .llonunuea. on rage rnreej . ll!ll"l!Htll'i:!lll!i:!lii!iliiilfliiilimii!mMimi:iii!i Weather Nei Max. (July 2) 89 MIn. ........45 Precipitation last 24 hours .00 Stream year to data 13.25 Normal 11.90 Last year...., 9.89 Forecaeb Clear Wednesday. Longest Parade In History Of Klamath Slated For Fourth One thousand combat veterans in full combat dress and equipment from the Marine Barracks will be a feature attrac tion for the second year in the line of march of one of the big gest Fourth of July parades in the history of Klamath Falls, Wednesday morning. Included in what is expected to be one of the longest parades Klamathatea have aeen. will be eight Waves and many pieces of combat equipment from the naval air station, a colorful parade of horses and riders, and representatives of marching groups and civic organizations. Boy Scouts. Camp Fire Girls. Girl Scouts, and other groupa. At the reviewing stand on the ateps of the Elks temple at : 4th and Main will be Marshall JACKSON FOR POST WASHINGTON, July 3 ,(ff) Actu -,Ghairman-' Rankin (D- Aliss.) or , tne Mouse committee on un-American activities indi cated today he would oppose selection of Rep. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) as committee chair man. .: In a statement commenting on the vacancy created by the resignation of Chairman Ed ward. J. Hart (D-N.J.) and re ports that the 33-year-old Jack son would succeed Hart, Ran kin said: "No member should be se lected for this post who opposed the creation of this committee or who is opposed to the pui (Continued on Page Three) Jerry Chocktoot la shown thrown. He was taken to the Drain concussion waa reported, Ml n PCX II o v'iiRv I " , , " . July 3. 1S4S Number 10507 today even as it was promising that crack new fighter planes soon would go into action to "bring down enemy B-29s before the very eyes of the people." Domei agency quoted the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Hochi as declaring Japan's small un derground aircraft plants were immune to air attack and work on the hidden assembly lines "must not be stopped for a moment." The dispatch as directed to Japanese In the Orient said the small plants were producing "scores" of planes monthly and that production could be boosted to the "hundreds." As directed to America, the English language version of the dispatch said the production "now averages over several hundred, with the pro duction curve showing an upward swing every night." Cornett, head of arrangements, assisted by Les Finlay, Col. George Van Orden and staff from the Marine . Barracks, and Comdr. Phil Haynes of the naval air station. . ' In the marine units under the direction of Col. William S. Vasconcellos. will be the drum and bugle corps, the band and the drill team. " Mounted entries', saddle clubs and; arm teams ana nunareas of individual riders are expect (Continued on Page Three) . EVENTS FOR JULY 4 10 a. m. ..Parade on Main street. . 1.-30 p. m. Rodeo at fair grounds, including: Grand en try ride with royal court, drill teams, saddle dubs. Sher iff's Posses. Calf roping, bare back bronco riding, bull dog ging, steer-teant roping, trick ridera. cowhorae race, five eighths mils free-for-all. Brah ma bull riding, musical chairs. Evening: Carnival on S. 6th. 9 p.m. Wind-up ball, Slam-. ath armory. Ride 'Er, Jerry! on that ornery aun-fiahln'. cay use hospital by the Oregon Women's icvergreen atuaio- PLANES KNOCK OUT AUSSIES GAIL Nip Scientists' Push Experiments Ori Food " By LEONARD MILLIMAN - Associated Press War Editor JaDanese were - told today tn tighten their belts and Drccarsl to eat food made from mulbero leaves and potato vines as alllec bombers knocked out 28 more ships trying to run tighteninf ainea DiocKades. ... Tokyo announced Jarjan'i al ready meager basis food suddIm would soon be cut ten per cent until tne ran narvest. MiDDonese) scientists were reported pushing experiments to develop starchea "to ease tne critical food situa tion" from 19 different niants. including the mulberry leaf on which silk-worms fed -in prewaJ oays. Oil Supply Cut Nippon's equally vital oil supl piy, essential jooa lor mecnan lzed armies and air forces., wa. cut severely . by Australian ground forces on Borneo and B-29s making their third strikJ in a weeic against homeland re fineries this morning. - Australian troops have driven. into tne suoutds of. uaukpapan Borneo's greatest oil center Australian broadcasts reported the SeDineeane and ManaoaJ airfields have already been cap! tured in the three-day-old inval Biuu. xnis wouia give tne Aussia seventh division control over 12-mile length of the Balikpaparl area. Official announcement! said they held a three by twq miie area. ... Already "Won" , "StrateeicaUv." sairi Lt. Cm Sir Leslie J. Morshead, Austral um corps commander, tne cam paign was won in the first few hours" when his - diggers seized a ridge overlooking Balikpapj aii a naming reunery; - t Reinforced: tank-led Aussiei Tokyo said there were 7000 men asnore led by 5a tanks pushed v continued on rage unreei;; Good Weather i For 4th Foreseen The weather man. enterine whole-heartedlv into the festive spirit of the Fourth of July, has oraerea weather .to please every one for that ereat dav.. . ..-... Forecasts for Wednesdav' JulJ 4, indicate clear skies and sunl shine, but no scorching tempera lures. . Last year the mercurv orilv reacnea ri on July 4, and with) fogs predicted creeping up along tne coast tomorrow, their cool ine effect may be felt in the in terior valleys, the weather mad sain. - V A Headlight, just before he ?wasj . Ambulance corps, and a slight
