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June Typhoon Miffs 3rd JFIeetf; 21 Warships IDamcagjedj By LEIF ERICKSON GUAM, July 13 (AP) A typhoon lashed Adm. William P. (Bull) Holioy'i third fleer with 13S-mll-an-hour wlndi lait June S, tor the bow off th cruller Pittiburgh and damaged at least 20 othor worihlpi, Adm. Choiter W. NlmlU an nouncod today aftor virtually every damaged ihip wot back In action. At laait four of the damaged ihlpi the battloihipi Mau achusotti and Indiana, tho carrier San Jacinto, and tho de itroyer John Rodgori--partlelpatod In lait Tueiday's 1000 plane carrior strike at Tokyo. The typhoon damagod more thipi than the Japanoie navy has boon oblo to do in action In any linglo battla. But Nimitx made no mention of anyone baing killod or loriouily Injured. He laid no ihlpi wore lunk. He lilted 20 damt jed ihlpi at repaired and back in ac tion, Including three fait new battloihipi and two Euox clan carrion. The cruiier Pittiburgh, which mlraculouily itayed afloat, Is being refitted for action, presumably tome additional ihlpi, not identified, were damaged and have not returned to sea. Many of fho ships were badly hurt by towering 100-foot high seai. None wai more heavily hit than the fait, new hoovy cruiior Pittiburgh, which was caught near the center of tho itorm off the Ryukyu islands. A thunderous sea ripped off 104, foot of her prow "and tossed it aside as though it were a match box to wallow in the storm off the ship's port lido," roported Anociatod Pren Correspondent Robin Coons. Copt. John E. Gingrich ordered the engines reversed and swung the 665-foot ship precariously around In a circle to escape a collision with her own bow. She came out in the dead calm of the storm'i center. Sealed bulkheads kept the Pittsburgh afloat and the cruiser, normally capable of 33 knots, lumbered back to Guam at nine knot for temporary repairs. The bow was taken in tow by a tug and brought back to port. Towering seal crushed 25 feet of the carrier Hornet's flight deck and badly damaged tevoral destroyers, other cor respondents reported. Planet on one small escort carrier "were flipped around like beanbags, tossed into the air end over end and piled in a jumbled heap of wreckage," laid Anaciated Preis corres pondent Grant MacDonald. The forward end of her flight deck was ripped up and left dangling over the bow. Ships which suffered damage and have returned to action Include: ' , Essex clan cruisors Hornet and Bennington; the fast bat tloships Masiachuierti, Indiana and Alabama; the lnd pendence type carriers San Jacinto and Belleau Wood; d stroyers John Rodgors End Blu; escort carrior Bougainville, Three other cruiieri and levon destroyer! which suffered minor damage also have been repaired and returned to action. Tho Nimitz announcement did not specify where th typhoon struck the third fleet for the second time in six monthi but presumably it was in the western Pacific area between Okinawa and the Philippines. This area is known as the western Pacific "typhoon cradle' where unpredictable violent stormi zigzag in a gen orally northerly or northeasterly typhoon path. Y V WtxXh PRICE FJVE CENTS The War Today By DeWITT MacKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst ONE of tho critical and delicate eases likely to be considered lit the coming clinic o( Doctors Truiniin, Stalin mid Churchill physicians extraordinary to tho world la Hint of Spuln, the problem being what measure lire necessary to purge this proud nud Important country o( the axis plague. Tho way things eland now, It looks very much lis though the euro of .Spain's Ills lies In a change of government. Support for that Idea Is neon in the action of a commission lit the San Fran cisco security conference the commission having voted that tho Franco regime, because it had axis mipport In coming to power, should never bo admitted to membership. That's a broad hint, to sny the least. , Now of course it would be easy for tho Dig Thrco to treat Spain's malady roughly. A lot of folk aro asking why the United Nations should bo con siderate in tho case of Spain when we have Just fought the blooiUest war of history to ex terminate nazlsm and fascism. Why not use tho bin stick? I'M afraid the answer Isn't qulto so easy as that. After all, iHjvereliinlty la the mightiest item amonii tho many nations, jl rent and small, which came so close to slavery at tho hands of tho axis. Tho Big Three un doubtedly would prefer that Spain cure herself. That attl ttido has been pursued even in tho case of Italy. Hero it should be emphasized that there's a difference between "Spain" and the Franco FalanKc party which Is In power. The generalissimo consorted with Hitler and Mussolini throughout tho war something which none of tho United Nations can for give. Apart from that Moscow won't soon forget that the Franco regime has been violently anil communistic from the start and was pitted against the commun ists In the civil war that brought him to power. Britain, while roundly con demning Madrid's dealings with Hitler and Mussolini, has more than once shown a desire to give Spain a chance to rehabili tate herself. Prime Minister Churchill gavo an indication of thnt last year when he told com mons that he looked forward to Increasingly good relations with Spain and to "an extremely fertile trade between Spain and this county (Britain)" during the war and offer tho peace. "yHAT brought Mr. Churchill some sharp criticism from his own people, and his "kindly (Continued on Pago Two) v Reinventory Of Klamath's Forests Starts In North Field work In connection with a reinventory of tho forest , re sources of Klamath county was recently started in the northern part of the county, according to J. A. Hall, director of tho Pa clflo Northwest Forest and Rango experiment station, Port land, ' , In this project tho original In ventory of the county's forests, mado In 1034 by tho station as part of a nationwide survey of tho forests by tno united stales forest service, will bo brought up to date, Tho 1034 Inventory showed n total of 22 billion board foot of timber of mer chantable size and quality In Klamath county, of which 17 billion feet was pondcrosa pine, the chlcr commercial species Cuttlnir depletion since tho In ventory has been heavy; during the docodo 1030-44 tho annual cut of sawlogs In tho county has averaged closo to 600 million board foot, 00 per cent ponder osa pine. However, loss of tim ber through activities of tho western pine bcctlo has been much less during tho last de cade than during tho previous decade. Lands to Be Mapped In tho reinventory, particular attention wilt bo paid to tho cut over areas In tho county. All of these lands will bo located and mapped and will bo exam ined to determine their current Teh Saddle horses stretch their legs at the Marine Barracks corrals after a seven-day ride from Fort Robinson, Neb. This new group makes a total of 60 cavalry-trained horses at the Barracks. Official USMC Photo. (See siory on page two.) TRIBUTE TO CITY Warm tribute to the commun ity for help in (ho fulfillment of tho mission of the Klamath Ma rino Barracks was voiced Friday noon by Col. George O. Von Ordcn, commanding officer, In a talk to the Rotary club. Col. Van Ordcn Is leaving soon for overseas duly ond his Rotary speech constituted a "summing up" of the Borrock's program to date. Individuals and organizations of Klamath Fulls and tho sur rounding area have made It eas ier to "do h job" at tho Marine Barracks, Col. Van Ordcn said. Ho also warmly praised , Capt. Lowell T. Coggeshall, ranking navy medical officer at tho Bar racks, for his cooperation, and Dr. Coggeshall, In response, told of the effectiveness of Col. Van Onion's training program. "Regular University" "If conditions had permitted a full complement of men at the Barracks throughout, we would have had a regular university up there," ho said. Col. Van Ordcn explained the new program opening up at the Barracks which will bring thou sands of men here from naval convalescent hospitals. lie gave statistics which (Continued on Page Two) condition. On selectively cut stands the average volume per acre of the reserve trees, the number of trees of pole size, and the degree of stocking of the seedling and sapling trees will be determined. Following field work, data ob tained ' on stands on cut-over lands together with data on the uncut areas will bo compiled and analyzed to furnish vital in formation needed in tho sys tematic management of tho coun ty's forest resources. Another product of the reinventory will bo a revised forest typo map on a scale of 1 Inch to tho mllo to replace tho one resulting from tho 1B34 inventory. Show Forest Cover Thcso forest typo maps show in place tnc loresi cover on an lands in tho county merchant able saw timber. . immature stands, selectively cut stands, non-restocked cut-over and burned aroos, lodgepolo plno stands, juniper woodland types, and 8ubalplno timber stands along the summit of tho Cas cade range. Field work In tho county is being conducted by George Meagher and Goorgo Morrill, James W. Glrard, of tho Wash ington, D, C, office of tho for est service, and F, L, Moravots, of the Portland office, spent sev eral days in tho county recently working out field techniques for tho reinventory. - phone Mi? klXm athT. rtEGON, Corrals At Marine Barracks Fate Of German General : Staff To Be Decided Soon By GEORGE TUCKER FRANKFURT, July 13 WP) Gen. Elsenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery are ex pectcd to decide soon on what to do with the German general staff. At midnight tonight supreme headquarters of the allied cx Dcdltionary force will be dis solved, but tho problem of handling the hundreds of high Tanking staff and field officers of the German army who are prisoners of the western allies awaits final disposition. British and American officers hold informal discussions on the matter during Eisenhower s ab sence. These conversations touched on the possibility of breaking up tho German general staff and TRIALS PROGRESS By RELMAN MORIN PARIS, July 13 (P) More than 20,000 people nave stood trial In tho nluo months' purge of French collaborationists, but 30,000 more remain to face judg ment, ministry of justice figures reveal. Tho courts have passed 994 death verdicts, 800 sentences of hard labor for life, 4638 other hard labor sentences, 1063 of im prisonment for. five years or more and 0876 for shorter jail terms. Thero wore 3315 acquit ted. Slow handling of the long lists of Frenchmen charged with aiding tho Germans drew sharp fire lrom speakers at the con vention of resistance groups this week. They charged that "the purge- is being conducted In a strange manner." If the courts move slowly, au thorities said, it is because only a thin line frequently divided "collaboration" lrom simply liv ing and working under German occupation, a lino not always easy to find. Tho cases that drew death verdicts or life sentences seldom presented difficulties for judges and juries, like tho supreme pen ally for treason imposed Wed nesday on Paul Fordonnot, the "French Lord Haw Haw," or last April on Gen, Henri Dcntz, who fought the British occupation of Syria, Road North From Park Now Open The road from Crater lake park north through Diamond lake was open to travel today. T. c, Parker, assistant super intendent of tho park, warned that slow travel will bo neces sary on the road for a while, be cause it is narrow and rough in spots, FRIDAY, JULY 13. 1945 condemning its members to exile in British crown colonies throughout the world, but the talks were regarded-as no more than ground clearing expeditions assembling data to be presented to Elsenhower and Montgomery Of the captured German mil itary hierarchy one SHAEF of- nccr said: . . "Some of them ought to be shot as criminals and undoubted ly will be. Others must be re garded purely as military figures wno carried out military orders, All thcso officers are still in uniform and are classified strict ly as military Drisoners. . "The greatest emphasis, how ever. Is placed on the members of the general staff. The gen eral start in Germany is a special clique, almost hereditary. "Its members are identified by the rod stripes on their trous ers and they are all-powerful. They make the decisions, They aro the ones who plan and ex ecute wars. "I don't know just how Eisen hower will do it, but I can prom ise you this the German gen eral staff will be broken up and destroyed so that it can never function again.": , . .. ; U. S. Commission Moves To Berlfit BERLIN. July 13 (P) The United States section of the allied control commission - for Germany has moved its forward headquarters to Berlin from Frankfurt on tho Main, it was announced officially tonight.-. The British section will move here shortly; Gen. Eisenhower's deputy on tho control commission, Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay, will have his per manent office In Berlin, Frank furt will continue to be head quarters for United States army forces in the European theater. American and British occupa tion zones will start receiving food from western Germany next week. Director Eyes Blueprint' For Lifting Price Rules WASHINGTON, July 13 (P) An OPA blueprint for tho first step toward lifting price con trols is being studied todav by Stabilization Director William H. Davis. In preparation several months, the plan sets up standards which would permit immediate elimination . of ceilings on a number of commldities. Others would be freed as certain con ditions were met. Officials - familiar with the proposal, which requires Davis' approval before it can be put into effect, said it provides for removal or suspension of price controls on these grounds: (July 13) Max. (July 12) ... 88 Min 60 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to date 15.28 Normal 11.98 Last year 9.88 Forecast) Wind and showers. Unopposed Strikes By Planes Hit Nips GUAM, July 13 (P) Virtual ly unopposed air blows by around 700 B-29s,. heavy and medium bom&ers, fighters and long range search planes across a 770-mile arc of Japan, extend ing north and south of Tokyo, were announced today. Prompt ly a U. S. air general on Oki nawa declared "the Japs, in my E MANILA, July 13 (P) Aussie 7th division troops, paced by flame throwers and tanks, have knifed deep into Japanese de fenses of smashed Stone ridge north of captured Balikpapan on southeast Borneo in heavy fight ing. At the same time, headquar ters reported today, Dutch, units joined the Australians in a left flank march up Kariango penin sula to execute a brilliant en circling maneuver against the entrenched Japanese who are pocketed some six miles north of Balikpapan town. The Borneo campaign is being fought in steaming, rain-drenched forests and deceptive bogs overgrown with mangrove undei a blazing tropical sun. ;..-. - 'In the main-assault, -norttJeast of Balikpapan in the Sepinggang Ketjil river sector, the Austral ians are advancing over a scrub by, rolling terrain permitting use of their famed medium "Ma tilda" tanks. In British northwest Borneo, the Aussie ninth division made a surprise landing near Andus, 26 miles northeast of Beaufort, while another column made a 10-mile advance along Beaufort to the Jesselton narrow-gauge railway without opposition to oc cupy Kimanis village, five miles south of Andus. This brought the leading elements within 30 miles of Jesselton, which has been under daily, harassing at tack from Australian airforce Spitfires based on Labuan and the 7th fleet PT boats. Search Continues For Mis'sing Body An Intensive search for the body of Richard "Bob" Hollings worth, 25, who apparently drowned at Lake o' the Woods Tuesday night, continued today with all available dragging equipment in operation at the scene, according to a report from the sheriff's office here. Holllngsworth was believed to have drowned when a boat in which he was riding with four companions capsized during a storm on the lake. Three girls from Medford and a man were rescued through the prompt action of Ed Miller, logger working near the lake who heard the shouts for help and rescued the four people. Some members of the Eagles lodge volunteered to assist in the search for Holllngsworth and left this morning for the lake. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Sheriff Lloyd' Low sent an other drag to the scene yester day afternoon with a detach ment of eight sailors from the naval air station here. There are now five drags in all operat ing In an effort to recover the body. -. 1. Where a commodity is in sufficient supply to eliminate danger of inflationary prices, In general this would cover items soiling substantially under the ceiling. . 2. If an article is ot small importance to the civilian econ omy, or the maintenance of ceilings is an administrative job out of proportion to the effect n higher price would have on the cost of living. : While tho plan sets forth no specific items 'Which might auallfy, an OPA official pre ioted that a "very large num ber" probably would fit the pattern. Number 10565 opinion, don't intend to engage us in the air." As enemy homeland factories and railroads were wrecked and even the smallest shipping sunk offshore, Brig. Gen. David F. Hutchison- of the far east air forces told Associated Press Cor respondent Richard Cushing at Okinawa that Japan obviously was hoarding planes to use in suicide tactics when Yank in fantrymen storm Nippon's inva sion beaches. Rear Adm. D. C. Ramsey, new chief of staff of the 5th fleet, estimated Japan might have 9000 planes available and prob ably could throw about 4000 in to the battle over Japan, s Weak Opposition Only weak fighter opposition was encountered over Tokyo bay and a city to the north as Superforts dumped 3000 tons of fire and. demolition bombs on five homeland centers before dawn today, returning pilots re ported. No enemy fighters could be found aloft yesterday as more than 120 Liberator and Mitchell bombers and escorting fighters from Okinawa ripped into fac tories and railroads, the port of Aburatsu and the naval air sta tion, of Naoya on Kyushu. Two Lost -. (At Washington, the 20th air force announced that two of the SuDerfortresses were lost and one was missing in the strike). The enemy " air jforcjt rsun- quished homeland skies so com' pletely that lieet searcn planes flew nearly 200 miles north of Tokyo to hit small shipping oft Sendai, then returned to Iwo a roundtrip flight . of nearly 2000 miles. It is approximately 770 miles from Sendai to the southern most target hit on Kyushu. Superfort bombardiers, build ing up the number of Japanese cities they have-hit' to 38, had to bomb by instrument through cloud banks. , - Congress Breaks 6-Weefc Parfey WASHINGTON, July 13 Congress dispatched a $769,364, 850 war agencies appropriation bill to the White House today after six weeks of controversy revolving about funds for OWI and FEPC. Legislative action was com pleted when the senate approved a compromise fixing the amount for the office of war information at $35,000,000. The house had approved it earlier after a futile effort, spear headed by republicans, to scale it down. The senate accepted a house stipulation that no funds of the war labor board should be ex pended in connection with dis putes involving agricultural workers. Mine Sweeper Loss Tod ' WASHINGTON, July 13 (IP) The motor mine sweeper YMS-39 has been lost in the Borneo area as a . result of enemy ac tion, the navy announced today. Casualties .among ner war time complement of 35 officers and men totaled five, including three killed, one wounded and ono missing. All casualties were enlisted men. The vessel was under com mand of Lt. (jg) Alfred C. Vauehn. of Kenbridge, Va. " The loss raised to 322 the total of naval vessels lost from all causes since the start of the war. The vessel was built at the plant of Robert Jacob, Inc., City Island, New York, and commis sioned March 11, 1942. Investigation Set On Coast WASHINGTON, July 13 (P) The house committee on un American activities decided to day to send an investigator to the Pacific coast Immediately to check on reports of subversive activities there. v Meeting for the first time with their new chairman, Rep. Wood (D-Ga.), the committee agreed, however, to send only a repre sentative to tho area, and not to go -Itself. Flee? Pounds Isles, Planes iHif umam CALCUTTA, July 13 (P) British fleet units have bombarded the strategic Nicobar islands while carrier planes attacked air fields in Northwest Sumatra, Southeast Asia command haadquar-, ters announced tonight in a special communique. ,, The fleet bombarded Nicobar island twice, once by night. Two merchant ships were attacked by planes at Nancowry Island One of the ships was burning furiously when the Japanese; beached it. The other also was set afire, A correspondent aboard the carrier Emperor reported! "For seven days we have been steaming up and down within sight of Japanese-occupied territory in one of the cheekiest opera-,, tions yet carried out by the British East Indies fleet the wide spread sweep in the area of the Nicobars and Andaman islands in, the bay of Bengal. ' v n "By doing so. we gave the Japanese in effect a challenge to- : come out and meet us. The Jap New Commander Gen. George Kenney , : J By SPENCER DAVIS MANILA, July 13 W) Gen. George C. Kenney was handed the army air forces' top tactical command against Japan today and promptly promised that his Far East air forces with ad vanced headquarters- now on Okinawa would bomb the enemy homeland 24 hours a day at all altitudes from 10 to 10,000 feet. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who has had Kenney as his right hand man for air since the early days on the defensive in Aus (Continued on Page Two) No New Fire Reports Now Although scattered lightning storms again hit the surrounding area Thursday night, no new fire developments were reported by Klamath Forest Protective association or the Modoc na tional forest office. On the Klamath Indian reser vation, however, one fire was started Thursday night and an other early Friday afternoon by lightning strikes, but both were under control immediately. The rest of Oregon has been sweltering during the past week with the exception ot coastal areas and regions near the moun tains where afternoon thunder storms have been a daily occur- ance and have been responsible for keeping the temperatures lower. On Thursday in Klamath Falls, the-mercury stopped at a maxi mum of 88 degrees and weather forecasts are for slightly cooler weather in most parts of Oregon with continuing thunder storms in the mountains. 7 k i Gl's, Tommies Follow Red Policy Toward Berliners , ' By DANIEL DE LUCE BERLIN, July 13 (P) To the great relief of G.I. Joe and Tommy Atkins, when you're in Berlin you do as the Russians do. In other words, American and British troops in the German capital most of whom are fed up with the non-fraternization policy in force in western Ger many are copying the interna tionally friendly ways of the red army in peacetime. The generals may say that nothing has been changed in the rule book since they moved mare than 30,000 American and British soldiers into Berlin. But things nevertheless seem to be different. Ivanovlch the red army anese, however, shied ou com pletely. Obviously the Japanese are . worried about future de velopments in Southeast Asia. It is possible they are conserv ing their fast dwindling strength.' to meet the next big landing assault. The lack of indication as tft just where the blow will fall is giving their island garrisons a severe case of jitter's' , Use Hell Cats - The British used Hellcat planes against ; Japanese ship ping, airfields and radar sta tions. They destroyed building and military installations. - The only opposition encoun-' tered was light to medium, flak,, at the airfields and two chal lenging Japanese planes, one of which was downed. Sweep Approaches , British minesweepers swept the - approaches to Malacca strait, which lies between Su, matra and the great naval base of Singapore, from July 5 to 10 without sighting a Japanese, vessel. While fleet units attacked the ' Nlcoba&jf planes also laid their explosive on the islands. The Nicobars lie 280 miles north west of Sumatra, rich Dutch oil producing island, and about 900 miles off Singapore. They are 400 miles west of the KRA peninsula of Malaya, linking Singapore to the mainland of Asia. . : ..' ; '.".-:; Men Over 26 May Change Jobs WASHINGTON,1 July 13 (P)- Men 26 or over who do not meet the army's regular physical standards are free today t6 change jobs without draft board permission. , At the request of the army, t selective service ' last night re laxed its regulations to exclude these men from the possibility of induction as job-jumpers. -;..' Heretofore these registrants who switched employment with out approval of their board could be drafted . for limited army service. , ; The job-jumper penalties, In-., voked six months ago to nip a trend away from war work, re main in effect for all physically fit men, as well as for registrants under 26 who fall shy of regular requirements.. ; Swimming P ool Open To Public - Klamath Falls adults and those of the high school age group will be given an oppor tunity to use the swimming pool situated at one end of Modoc field on Saturday and Sunday, according to . Ei E. Hambriclt, city recreational director, " The pool, which has been closed to the public, will be open from 2 to 5 and from ,7 to 9 Saturday afternoons and evenings, and from 2 to 5 Sun day afternoon. A fee of 80 cent will be charged. This project is part of the city recreational program. - ;', equivalent of G.I. Joe -- op erates on the understanding that he's not supposed to take dyed in the wool nazis to his bosom. He believes that nazis properly belong behind bars, and that Germans who are not nazis are entitled to be treated;, without race hatred. Premier Stalin' words to that effect appear on many signboards. Therefore, when Ivan saun ters out in the early evening ha feels perfectly free to drop Into a convenient cafe, strike up n acquaintance with any Gorman girl and Invite her to dance and drink with him, , ; In tho past week American and British troops also have been crowding night poU fav ored by the Russiani. "
