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Br FRANK JENKINS
IN the absence of startling new
hooting now, thoro li dra
matlc itory iroin tlio Pacific to
day. A U. 8. dcalroyor stopped a
Jap hoinllul ihlp vn route to by
punned Wiike Inland to evacuate
alck and alurvlim Jam. searched
it, tound it OK, and permitted It
10 continue on n orrana. ine
deitroyor remained In the vicin
ity, Intercepted the Jap ahlp on
ita way back, searched It again,
found it atlll OK ai a hoanltal
hip and acjit it on Ita way to
Japan.
On Ita return trip, It had on
board 704 Jap, tome 10 to IS
per cent of them probably due
to dlo beforo reaching their
homeland.
vTHK atory l Inlcrcitlng for
V various reason.
'. Althouuh wo aro fliihtlnu
tavago, almoat a ub-human
enumv. Vie do not ncrmlt our-
riven to DESCEND TO OUR
ENEMY'S LEVEL.
There wilt bo Americana who
will truth at tho mouth at thia
example of what they will term
ap-hoaded aentlmcntality. We
mliht aa well let them froth
Opinion, thank Cod, In FREE in
America.
Intelligent thinker will rcc-
ognlze that In fighting a lavage
enemy nothing it to bo gained
by descending to the level of
savagci ourieive.
DON'T worry about the lough'
nrn of our flahtlna men,
Their record of JiiD-kllTlng In
the Pacfic hai left no doubt of
that.
THE Incident may indicate a
x further alight ipreading of
the faint crack that Is beginning
to appear in the hitherto pol
ished armor of Duihldo.
- It la not uncommon for the
Jnp soldier to wear next to hl
k In a little alik flag on wnicn
hi mother or his wife or aome
one cloui to him ha written:
"You are going to die for your
emneror." He wa given that
flag aa Ills FAREWELL for
under the lavage code of Buihlclo
Ha un not exiMtcted to come
$ hark. If tin found hla wav back
he wi expected to bo Ignored,
a one who though atlll walking
was DEAD.
, Here la a cane of Jap being
fninlngio,i,8ur .there it I.
' Exnerloncfl teachc u that the
jt lavage who Is beginning to be
1 ahaken In hla auperatltlon I apt
I to bO MUDBLED SAVftUt,
THE Jap radio nay today that
250 of our plane (baaed pre
sumably on Okinawa or maybe
' Iwo) made a DOUBLE itrike yes
terday. That 1 to ay, they
camo over once, went back to
their bao and refueled and re
armed and CAME OVER
AGAIN.
The Jap estimate that 11,000
American pione aro now en
gaged in ine aiiacx on japan.
OUR 8th air force, hitherto
bnned In tho Phlllpplno. has
been MOVED TO OKINAWA,
' Tlilrtv-slx hours after arrival,
it was carrying tho war to the
Jap homeland.
1 (We still have plenty of planes
left In the Philippine to carry
on tho lob there. In addition, It
ia probablo that Brltlih air
atrength is beginning to arrive
in tno tar souin racmc in cun-
. dderable strength.)
BAL1KPAPAN 1 today wholly
In Australian hands. The
Japs, strewing land mines bo-
vihj ihjim In mi 11m ttin Herman
manner, are retiring Into the oil
field to tho norineasi oi me
town, doing all the domago incy
can wnuo mcy can.
nflMB mnrn etntlstlcs:
" In Juno, our blockading
planes sank 164,800 ton of Jap
y onunuca on rants ocvwu
Postal Receipts
Up $27,025
: Postal receipts for Klamath
post office for the first half of
104S totaled $121,040.94, accord
ing to Burt E. Hawkins, post
master, exceeding tho first half
year of 1B44 by $27,02.1.54,
Receipt for June, 1045 are
$19,224,17, tho' lowest month
this year, exceeding June, 1944
rocelpt by $1,670.50.
Tho first quarter this year
showed postal receipts of $62,-
? 73.53, and for tho second qunr
er $58,6(17.41, First and second
quarter totals for 1044 were
$51,207.82 and $42,717.56.
. Postal receipt drop off every
summer, Hawkins stated, and
start climbing tho third quarter
with Clirlstmns mulling bringing
them up to tho highest totals the
last quarter of the year,
$25,000 Needed In Drive
At noon today, Klamath county still had 125,000 to go
In th 7th War Loan drive quota, with bond headquarter
official fairly confidant that th eounty would go over th
top by th tlm bond hadquartr closed at 5 o'clock this
afternoon. ; r
Mn. Hoi Pool, war loan chairman, itated today' that
h hoped Klamath cltlien would dig llttl depr In thilr
pocket and buy on mor bond so that th quota would b
met by today' doadlln. - ?
A, bond booth at th rodo epratd by group from th
Klamath naval air itatlon nttd $4250 purshai prlc of
bond during th four day It wa open and thU hlpd bring
th county llttl narr to
Herald '3hw2fcttr&
PRICE riVE CENTS
Burner On
The "For Sal" algn I going up on this burner at th Wyr
haauaer Timbar company plant sine plana are undar way to
reconvert slab and slash wait into chip which will b ud for
electric power. The pasting of tha burn marks change in
the lumber industry towards greater utilisation of wast.
Utilization Of Wood Waste
Brings Burner Elimination
- A significant step toward the
ellmlnallon of waste In lumber
production will be taken when
tho sawdust burner at the
Woycrhncuser lumber mill
cease operation this fall. Tho
burner will bo replaced by a
system of conveyor and "hogs"
which will make useful fuel of
the slash and slab waste previ
ously burned.
Tno burner, 135 feet high and
50 icct in diameter was ono of
tho first items to bo completed
at tho cost of approximately
145.000 when tho nlnnt was con
structed In ,1929. Ita 110 feet of
steel shell , Is lined with fire
brick , ami Is capped by 25 'foot
hlgh'tcrccn. Since 1020 tho fire
smouldering In the; burner has
gone- out only once, In 1032,
when tho plant was shut down
WASHINGTON, July 6 (VP)
Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex.)
iredlcted today that all at
cmpt to attach reservations to
United State ratification of the
United Nations charter will be
beaten down.
Saying, he had been informed
that at least two senators plan
to present - reservations, Con
nally added to a reporter:
"I'm .'of the firm conviction
thatiwe shall bo ublo to defeat
all reservations and ratify the
charter without amendment." 1
Short Hearings
At -the same time, Connally
said hearings before tho foreign
relations committee he heads
will bo shortened as much as
possible. .
"I hope that wo can finish
them in a week," ho said. "That
is just a hope, however."
Tho hearings open Monday
in the caucus room of the sen
ate office building.
. , Hrs Report
Tho house, meantime, heard
report on the charter from
Chairman Bloom (D-N.Y.) and
Representative Eaton. (N.J.)'
ranking republican members of
that chamber's foreign affairs
committee. Both were delegates
to tho San Francisco conference.
Bloom called on the scnato to
"lead tho world" in ratification,
th top. .
CHARTER WITHOUT
RESERVATIONS SEEN
Way Out
in
for several; months during, the
depression. I
During this week millwrights
and mechanic huvo been con
necting somo of tho machinery
for tho replacing of tho burner
with a system of conveyers and
hogs, a scries of 24 knives on. a
rotating disc which makes chips
of tho wnste material. With the
framework 'nearly completed it
will be another month or two
before conveyer belt and addi
tional - machinery aro delivered
and installed.
Estimating that there Is one
halt unit of sawdust waste from
each thousand feet of pine logs,
200 units of hog fuel by-product
will be saved for each eight
hour operation. Somo of this
waste has been converted Into
chips and returned to the fuel
house for producing power dur
ing tho past 15 years. Now with
the now - installation all the
waste will be used this way. ,
The chips twill go directly to
the fuel storage house or to an
outside storage yard after leav
ing the hogs. - It will then be
brought back' by a two-way con
veyer when riRCded and will be
used for more electric power.
Hull Discharged
From Hospital
WASHINGTON, July 6 W)
Former Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull was! discharged today
from, the U. S. naval hospital
at nearby Bcthcsda, Md where
he had been a' patient since last
October.
' Physicians attending the 73-ycor-old
former secretary- said
that hospitalization was no. long
er necessary in view of his
"most satisfactory recovery,"
He had been undergoing treat
ment for a throat ailment. -.'
Lower Points For
Butter Studied
WASHINGTON, July 6 ()
Secretary of Agriculture Clin
ton P. Anderson said today a
study is being modo with a view
toward loworing tho point value
of butter. I
In reply to a lotter from Sen.
Wiley (R-Wls.) i asking for an
investigation of tho butter sit
uation, Anderson wrote:
"An examination is being
mndo of tho butter supply in
relation to the demands of the
military and War services in
order to determine whether it
is possible to reduce the gov
ernment set-aside on butter so
that more can flow quickly to
the tables of tho American peo
ple." , ,', ... ,
Bulletin
WASHINGTON, July 8 (P)
Frd M. Vinson will b ap
pointed scrtary of th treas
ury to auccd Hnry Morgan
thau, Jr., th Whit Houi an
nounced today. . . .
.V. r
J$i-?,me BUM
tp.AMATH FALLS. OREGON,
Ul
mm
Use of Captured Nazi
Items In Pacific
Desirable
By NORMAN WALKER
WASHINGTON, July 6 )
The scnato war investigating
committee today demanded
prompt recovery of lend-lease
arms -from European Hie for
use in the Pacific war.
A report based on an ovcr
sops investigation by a subcom
mittee headed by Senator Kll-
gore CU-W. va.) said 'noiii:,:
has been done" along this line
nor toward concentrating cap
tured German arms against the
Japanese.
"Tho committee believes that
all sources of supply for the
Pacific war should be exploited
to the maximum," the report
states, "ana mat existing stocks
of armaments and supplies
should b e drawn upon first
where possible, and certainly
they should Include captured
enemy materiel." ,
U. S. Retain Titl
Noting that legal title to lend
lease materiel rest with the
United States and that master
lend-lease agreements specifical
ly provide for their return, the
committee said failure to act
constitutes "a lack of vigor and
attention to our Interests."
. The report viewed tho situa
tion as one oi "extreme urgency
and serious Implication." say
ing it is boosting war cosu and
cTcayng' reconversion by caii
ing -manufacture or item iden
tical with those now Idle in
the hands of our allies."
Also, . the committee ' said.
there always is the possibility
that allies allowed to keen arms
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NEUNER KOT TO
SALEM, July 6 IP) Acting
Governor Howard C. Bclton in
dicated today he would not ask
Attorney General George Neu
ner to take charge of the prose
cution In Klamath county of
Earl Heuvel, former Klamath
Falls police chief, who is under
four indictment charging sex
offenses. '
Ncuner expressed his willing
ness to send one of his staff to
assist In the trial, but he doubt
ed whether the law gives him
authority to step into a case
after the indictments are re
turned by the grand jury.
District Attorney Clarence A.
Humble of Klamath county
asked Bclton to request Neuner
to take charge. Belton answered
Humble's letter today, pointing
out Ncuncr's interpretation of
tho law. .
It was expected here this
morning that the attorney-general's
office, while it will not
take charge of the cases, will
provide assistance to Humble in
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Rescued From
GROUP URGES
RECOVERY
Th trio of plan crash survivor who war rescued by glider
and tow plan from "Shangri-La," a valley in New Guinea, ar
(left to right) TiSgt. Kenneth W. Decker, Kelso, Waih.i Cpl.
Margaret Hasting of Owago, N, Y and Lt. John S. McCollom,
Heating, Mo - .
FRIDAY, JULY 8. 1945
Japs Evacuate Scr, Wounded
Members Of Wake Garrison
Inspects Posts
Admiral Royal Ingarsoll mad
a flying trip to Klamath Falls
today to impact local naval in
stallations. Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll,
commander of the western sea
frontier, was in Klamath Falls
today on official business at the
naval air station and the Marine
Barracks. He was accompanied
bv his staff of eight, all from
headquarters in Saij Francisco.
y1 TKoTarty 'arrived by plaBe
at tne air. siauon r naay morn
ing and went from there to the
Marino Barracks, where, it was
Lmet by Col. George van orden,
uapi. xoweil iuggesnan, uie
marine band and staff officers.
After la brief" inspection, the
group had lunch at the bach
elor officers' quarters at the
Barracks, and left later this aft
tcrnoqn to return to San. Fran
cisco. Those accompanying Adm. In
gersoll were Rear Adm. Man
ning, Commodore Piehl, Capt.
Perlman, Capt. Churchill, Cmdr.
Smith, Cmdr. Cowan, Lt. Cmdr.
Querna and Lt. Col. Fox of the
marine corps.
Chinese Capture
Kianqsi Centers
CHUNGKING, July 6 P)
The Chinese army spokesman
said today that the Chinese have
recaptured the important com
munications centers of Kiennan,
Lungnan and Tingnan. all in
southwestern Kiangsi province
within 140 miles northeast o:
Canton.
The spokesman, MaJ. Gen.
Kuo Chi-Chih, said the Japanese
were retreating toward .Nam
yung in Kwangtung.
He said the Chinese successes
had frustrated a Japanese plan
to establish- communications
along - the Kan river to . the
Yangtze through Nanchang ' as
an alternate line of retreat for
their forces in tho Hongkong
Canton area, in the event the
Chinese puncture the enemy's
Canton-Hankow railroad corri
dor.
'Shangri-La
NEA tlphoto.
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: I :WSKMBEBM-1 1 :. 1 1 ,000 YANK '
'
Max. (July 5) 90 Min .. 53
Precipitation last 24 hours . 00
Stream yar to date ' 13.2J
Normal 11.93 Last yar ...... 9.89
Forecast! Clear Saturday, gantl wind.'
By LEIF ERICSSON
GUAM, July 8 WO Th U. S. navy ha permitted Jap.
an hospital ahip to evacuate 974 men from th enemy garri
son on Wak Uland, on which a gallant marine fore held out
arly in th war until overrun by superior Japanese landing
forcei. Pacific fleet headquarters announced today.
Adm. Cheiter W. Nimiti reported that IS par cent of th
Japanese taken off th long Isolated Uland were tubercular.
Fourteen wr wounded. Th remainder were suffering from
malnutrition.
Tb Pacific fltt admiral (aid nny medical officer esti
mated that 15 Pr cent of those raftering from malnutrition
would not surriv th voyag to Japan.
Th evacuation presumably removed most of th Japanese
garrison and was a virtual admission that American fore could
By DON DOANE
LONDON, July 6 m The
Conservative Press maintained
today that yesterday's general
elections had "almost certainly"
resulted in a victory for Prime
Minister Churchill's government
but labor party organs held the
conservatives had lost their
absolute majority in parliament.
. Results will not be known un
til July 20, after the absentee
soldier vote is counted. ,-. I
. Near Record
Observers agreed there was a
near record turnout estimated at
almost 24,000,000 voters 80 per
cent of the eligible electorate
of 30,000,000 lured by good
weather and a hectic campaign
battle between the conservative
program of free enterprise and
the labor platform of , partial
nationalization of industry.
. -The Dally Herald; laboriiewsj,
paper, claimed -ine jeasi opn
miiite forecast" gave labor 266
scuts in the' new house of com
mons as against the 163 mem
bers it had in the dissolved
parliament It said "there were
confident predictions that the
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Stone May Leave
Tribunal Post
WASHINGTON, July 6 W
Owen J. Roberts' surprise resig
nation from the supreme court
spurred speculation today that
he may be followed soon by
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone,
oldest man on the tribunal.
President Truman announced
Roberts' resignation late "yester
day, to become effective at the
end of this month. He has served
on the high court 15 yearsf be
coming its leading dissenter and
often caustic critic, of his col
leagues' views.
I Sproutless, Wrinkle-Free U
Spuas Kesuit trom f ests
They've found a way to keep
potatoes from sprouting, and
taking on the sponginess and
wrinkles that go with sprouts.
It's done with hormones;
those complex chemical sub
stances that regulate growth in
both plants and animals. , The
Klamath agricultural experi
ment station has been testing
sprout inhibiting hormones in
the past few months, and today
Director A. E. Gross- was able
to report "striking results" from
the experiments.
In this test, stripped paper
impregnated with the hormone
was mixed with the potatoes
when they were stored last fall.
Another lot of similar potatoes
was stored under identical con
ditions, but without the hormone-treated
paper. ,
Sprouting Spuds
No differences were noticed
in the two lots until this spring,
when the untreated spuds began
to sprout normally. The treated
tubers remained dormant.
As the season progressed, the
untreated lot . became badly
sprouted, the tubers lost their
firmness and became wrinkled
and spongy. The treated lot
continued firm and almost com
pletely dormant.
When the comparative test
was discontinued . on June 20,
the untreated lot had lost 7 per
cent In weight when desprouted
and the spuds were poor in ap
pearance. In the treated lot po
tatoes were still firm and with
very small distorted sprouts,
and the Weight loss was less
than V4 of 1 per cent.
Not For Seed '
Gross pointed out that the
treated potatoes should not be
used for seed, as there has been
found no way to get them to
sprout normally, once they have
been treated with the sprout-
July 8, 1945
Number 10509
take Wak any ttm they wish.
In one' of the most dramati
cally humane incidents of the
Pacific war, the USS destroyer
Murray intercepted, stopped
and searched the Japanese hos
pital ship Takasago Mara about
300 miles north of Wake Tues
day. Jap Cooperates
The Murray' commander-reported
that a boarding party
from his ship searched the Ta
kasago with the full coopera
tion of the Japanese command
ing officer, who said his vessel
was on the way to Wake to
evacuate the garrison's sick and
wounded.
The NiDDonese -officer said
his shin would remain at Wake
for a few hours and then pro
ceed to Japan.
The American commander
Dermitted the hospital shin to
continue its voyage. ,,
Second Search
The Murray intercepted the
Takasago Maru again yesterday,
about 40 miles north of wake,
and again a boarding party
searched the shin.
They found it was carrying
074 military, rj a t i e n t a from
Wake,. Of- these -400 were- navy
personnel and 484 army person
nel. (, . -..
After this visit and search,
the Murray's commander told
the hospital . ship to continue
her voyage to Japan. v
When the Takasago Maru was
first stopped by the Murray en
route, to Wake, 2300 miles due
east of Honolulu, the boarding
party found she was carrying a
crew of 157,. including civilians,
a navy boat crew and commu
nications personnel, and 180
naval medical personnel .'
' 400 Defenders
When the Japanese attacked
Wake, the island was defended
by 400 marines in the first de
fense battalion detachment com
manded bv Mai. James P. S.
Devereux with a small plane
force of the 211th fighter squad
ron under the command of Ma.
Paul A. Putnam.
..In addition there were 1000
civilian workers developing
Wake's airstrip and lagoon, har
bor on the island.
inhibiting hormones. The treat
ment therefore should be used
only on potatoes intended for
storage tor tame use.
Gross said that hormones are
coming in handy in many phases
of crop production. Fruit trees
are sprayed to prevent prema
ture fruit isjii. tomatoes are
snrayed' to produce seedless to
matoes. More recently a selec
tive weed spray has been de
veloped to kill certain types of
broad leaf annuals and peren
nials and not injure narrow
leaf grass type plants.
Discrepancies In Munition :
Needs. Supplies Revealed
WASHINGTON, July 8 IP)
American armies fighting Ger
many with cannon sometimes
idle for lack of ammunition re
ceived huge tonnages of air
bombs they couldn't use. ' -.
uisi-iosuiK uiia tuuay mc sen
ate war investigation committee
also " said American ' delay in
sending jet propulsion planes to
Europe very nearly allowed the
Germans, already far ahead in
their production, to. regain air
supremacy, over Europe.
"For over a year." the com
mittee said in reporting on ex
tensive ' investigations here - and
abroad, "our air corps in the
field had been advising procure
ment officials at home, oi the
imminence of this situation.' .
. Onltf Tvn Planes ,
"Yet. ud to ' the cessation of
hostilities only two American
let nlanes had found their way
to the European theater of oper
ations." ,
The unwanted air bombs, the
committee said, were one type
of 20-poundcrs in 900-pound
. . 1 - '
PLANES READY :
TO HIT NIPS
120 Square Miles Of
War Industry
Razed "
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor ,
Startling evidence of Ameri
can air might . being hurled
against Japan came today a
Tokyo reported 250 U. S. planes
made double-strikes against the
homeland for the third lucccs.
ive day.
Japanese sources estimated
11,000 allied planes are pressing
the attack aealnst Ninnnn.. -
American announcement dis
closed: More than 120 sauare mflrx nt
Japanese industrial cittes hav
B-29S STRIKE
WASHINGTON, July (IP) :
Superfortress rnwd their
attack en Jaoan's industrial
cities today, bitting fiv cen-j
ters on th horn Island of v
Honshu with fir and xplo-1
aiv bomb. - .- f
A very large task fore, pot- '
sibly 400 or mor B-2S took :
part in th five-day raid.
- Th bombers reached their '
target! at night.
been destroyed by Superforts.'
This includes newly announced
destruction of 74 per cent of To-
Kusnima. largest citv on snikn-
n, u.auu, uvntu wut ill a o , 1 , -
kic jujj . lire rata ana od uer
cent of Okayama, important in-T
and sea port luu miles trom.
Osaka. - -..
The U. S. fifth air force, which,
paved the way for Gen. Douglas
MacArthur return to the Phil,
ippines, has been shifted to at
tacking Japan in the first move
of MacArthur" s forces on the:
road from Manila to Tokyo. h
wnue American air lorce
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LONDON POLES ASK
By DON DOANE ' '
LONDON, July 6 UP) The
repudiated London Polish gov
ernment called upon the 250,000
men. in its armed forces today
to remain loyal an action
which apparently ' challenged'
the pending plans of the Big
Three to give these men a choice
between returning home or re
maining abroad.
Shorn of recognition by Brit
ain and the United States, the.
exiled regime of Premier Tom
asz Arciszewski declared that 4
would hand over its authority
"solely" to a government form
ed on free Polish soil. . , '
In a statement issued through
the Polish telegraph agency, .the
London administration said any
Polish government to which it
would turn its authority must
be one which "reflects the will
of the people as expressed in
free elections." -v
The statement was a clear in;
dication of Arciszewski'. inten
tions to carry, on the exiled
regime despite the handicaps of
non-recognition and the Immi
nent withdrawal of British fi
nancial support for all but the
armed forces and a few agen
cies necessary to carry out the -liquidation
of affairs in London..
Meanwhile, the newly-formed
Polish provisional government
of national unity in Warsaw
started action to take over the
assets of the rival London ad
ministration. '
CHOCKTOOT DIES
Jerry Chocktoot, Klamath
Indian who was injured in th ;
rodeo on Monday, July 2, died
thi afternoon at 2:20 at
Klamath Valley hospital from
injuria. .
clusters and another of 260
pound fragmentation bombs. The
report said air force officers in
the field testified "they had no
use for one (the former) type
and a very limited use for the ,
other. '
' "These bombs were simply :
allowed to accumulate, despite
the fact that on some occasions
the air forces were without more
useful types of bombs which
they desired to enable them to ,
complete missions. . , .
Forced to Accept
"Witnesses in the United
States contend that the theater,
ordered these quantities to be
shipped, whereas the unanimous
testimony of officers in the.
theater was that they did not
desire , these bombs and the.
bombs in effect were forced
upon them."
The committee said an artil-
lery ammunition shortage in IP"
nnd ' 155-millimeter caliber' de
veloped In October, 1044, and.
never was overcome, requiring
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