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M in uv 4 (r(7 mm PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THUHf' AJ J) , a". Jf In Tftr By FRANK JENKINS . HTIIIS Is 0110 Of till! bill (UCA- x linns of Ihu day: Wlmt are our boys going to want wlien llii-y get buck from thu wnr? ' , Everybody is asking it. You L hour ull kinds of unsworn. Some T of them sound reasonable. Sonic I of them lira obviously foolish. The only answers thut uimitint to much, of course, uro those liivvn by the scrvlco moil thorn- solves, A lot of them uro gel tiim out on points und other wise. They seem lis much In terested in this subject as any one clue, n ml some of them talk quite freely. Their answers vary, but most of the present dischargees wnnt to itet jobs and start making a living us soon as possible. AN ulr corps colonel, Just back from three years scrvlco In Europe part of It In the air, part of It on the ground build lull airports, barracks, recreation units, all the myriad things that have to bo built to curry on u war and ut the sumu time main tain the morale of the men wiio aru fighting it thinks that a Hood half of the rcturnliiK serv ice men will bo rugged Indi vidualists. They have seen regimentation In action, ho says. They've seen it win battles. They've seen it Set tilings done. They've seen all tho marvels of disciplined or ganization. They know it works, in Its way. But, he adds, they DON'T LIKE IT. They want to bo done with it as soon us possible. When they get out of uniform, they want to run their lives In their own way. Ho thinks they are GOING to. s rpHIS colonel is talking of GIs r; -and ho thinks that when tho war is finally over and we return to tho ways of pcuco they will rcinduct themselves into civilian Ufa with surprisingly little Jolt or Jar. Ho Isn't so sure of tho officers. "A lot of tho men who aro of ficers in this man's army," ho says, "aro making moro money than tliry ever made before. They have acquired the habit of command the kind of com mand that Is based on rank rather than on tho building up of a business and the meeting of payrolls with EARNED money. And a considerable number of them have been touched with the tin-god divinity that goes with having emblems on your should ers all tho way from gold bars to chickens. I sometimes doubt whether they'll ever bo nblo to recover from It." "THIS air corps colonel (who never forgets that he cumc Into the army out of civilian life and Is Just a civilian In uni form and never lots anybody else forget It, ho says) Is partic ularly concerned about the men in the combat end of tho air corps. "Thcy'ro a special breed," he says. "For years now they've LIVED on excitement. Tho best of them arc a daredevil Int. In tho nature of things, they're tho heroes of this war. Whether they'll bo able to do-herolze themselves and get down to the ordinary levels of civilian life in time of pence Is more than I'm able at tho moment to sny," J, It's true enough, he adds, that " after this war ends we're going to have to maintain an air force (Continued on Pago Two) Japs Busy "Saving Face" As Air, Sea attacks Grow SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 (I) Tokyo radio admitted to day that air and sea bombard ments have shaken Japanese morale, and unofficial spokes men debated whether tho allied fleet was readying for quick in vasion or merely making "spas modic" attacks unworthy of be ing met, One analyst saw in tho fleet action merely an "insane" ef fort to pep up the American home front. Domcl agency spec ulated that the warships might be feeling out coast defenses for an invasion that might como sooner than expected. Other evidences of Nipponese fear came. In these broadcasts, monitored by the federal com munications commission: Ta It co Irimiano, managing director of tho Imperial bank, bemoaned tho "general feeling of insecurity" that is causing tho Japanoso people to hoard their funds Instead of banking them, Ho pleaded, for immedi ate deposits. Tho Tokyo newspaper Asahl ' exhorted tho government to for get cliques and conventions in the nation's crisis and take a ; "world , shaking" stop to give the people a greater role. Even small towns ere feeling Telephone 8111 Jp fc .. .. . . . , V w IKAZE mis ERQGA; 337 KILLED Jap Suicide Hits Car rier January 21; Back in Action WASHINGTON, July 10 UP) The aircraft curried Ticoncleroga sulfered 337 casualties and ter rific dumiigo when struck by two Jupunese suicide planes near Formosa last January 21. Disclosing this today, the navy said casualties included 144 killed or missing. A eoiiiunrutlve newcomer to the fleet tha arrived only lust November t h a Tlconderogu nevertheless amassed u record hut included tho sinking of one heavy cruiser, light cruiser, two destroyers, four destroyer escorts, four Jurge oilers, live freighters or freight transports, and 14 miscellaneous craft. Even as sha was struck, her planes were busy lashing enemy Installations mi Formosa. Back In Fight Despite tho heavy damage she suffered, her crew brought her back to tho Bremerton, Wash., navv vurd where workers spent 153.000 mull days repairing her hurts. Now she Is bnck In the fight, better equipped than over. During her first tour. In addi tion to enemy ships sunk, her aircraft destroyed or damaged 207 enemy planes, probably sunk four moro destroyers, one moro destroyer escort, four more lame oilers and 20 moro freight ers or freighter transports and damaged 07 ships of various categories. . iler planes also cic strayed and dnmagod ground In- stallntions on Formosa, In Indo china and on tho Smith China coast, including Hong Kong, and pounded Luzon to support the in vasions and assist in the elimi nation of enemy air power In tho Philippines. "Zeke" Hits At the time she was attacked, tho Tlconderogu had Just re lumed from the third fleet's daring sweep into the South China sea. A minute after noon on January 21, a single engine Japanese plane, evidently a "Zeke," came out of the sun and through a cloud bank to crash through the flight deck. The bomb exploded between the gallery deck and the hangar deck which wss packed with air (Continued on Pago Two) Klamath Rangers, Fire Crews Alerted Forest rangers and fire crews arc being kept on the alert in Klamath county to check Im mediately any small blazes which might be started In forest and brush lands. ' Tho danger is extremely high now, according to forest offi cials, because of the very low humidity. Readings, were at 23 Thursday afternoon and 20 is considered exceptionally dan gerous by loggers. Weather forecasts were for scattered showers in tills area. I ho effects of allied fire raids. Domcl reported that Kouchl, n little community on southern Kyushu, had to move its 40,000 book library to safety. Brighter words came from Lt. Gen. Snburo Endo, director of aircraft ordnance, He boasted that piano' production had made rcmarkablo progress despite frequent raids nnd soon would bo "numerically superior" to that of tho allies, An hour later this was reduced to "numerical ly equivalent," One commentator heaped scorn oh Fleet Adm, Chester W. Nlmilz' statement that ono of tho -reasons for tho surface at tacks wan to extend and tighten tho blockado around and over tho Japancso homo islands. The commentator said this thought was "Insane." In fact, ho added, tho Japan ese command is determined not to act no matter how great the "enemy provocation." ThlB ho termed a "wait and sea" policy, In another broadcast, Tokyo quoted Gen, Yasujl Okamura, supremo -commander of Japan ese forces in occupied China, us saying any withdrawal of his forces from China would take two years. 1 TC1Q Col, George O. Van Orden, retiring commanding officer of here greeting Col. Merlin Schneider, new commanding officer. Wednesday night to assume command of the pott, is a veteran Okinawa. Col. Van Orden came here last November and has now (Official Marine Corps photo). WASHINGTON, July 19 Mi Assurance thut the United States will insist on equal participation in any big power supervision of the proposed elections in Po land was received by Senator Vandenbcrg (R - Mich.) today from the state department. The senator made public a letter from Undersecretary Jos eph C.Gruw saying this govern ment does not consider its re sponsibility, under tho Yalta agreement, to have been dis charged by creation of tho pro visional Polish government. Vandenbcrg had addressed a letter of inquiry posing these three questions: "(1) When the new provision al government begins to operate, will the United States be permit ted to send full diplomatic and consular representatives into Po land? "(2) Will the American press be permitted' to send its uncon sored correspondents into Po land? "(3) Will the United States participate, on an equality with the other powers, under their Yalta obligation, in a general su- fiervislon of these 'free elections' o make certain they are 'free' In fact as well as name." In reply, Grew said President Truman had established diplo matic relations with tho provi sional government and chosen Arthur Bliss Lane as ambassa dor. As for tho press, Grew said the United States had made it clear "that it expected Ameri can correspondents to be per mitted to enter Poland in order that the American public may be fully infoiwd of tho situation In that area." . . This government, Grew said, also has "for sonic time been pressing tho soviet authorities" for authorization for American correspondents to enter eastern and southeastern Europe, On the final point, Grew said Ambassador Lane and his stuff would moke reports on the situa tion and that this government will decido on the basts of these reports whether supervision of tho election would be advisable. He added: "If it Is decided to supervise theso elections, tho United States government will, of course, in sist upon Its right to participate on an equal basis with the other powers. Target By Night In the first niaht hnm. bardment of Jap homeland. Hitachi, war "boom" town 75 miles north of Tokvo. U imaih- ad by terrific shelling of Ad miral Haitey'i third fleet, while 1500 carrier planes continued to strike capital. euir i . HON$HU ? StWHOMIM 2BfP x HITACHI jlT TOKYO j ; f CJTchikuia ( I QOSHIMA yl ' 19, 1945 oreets Colonel Man Beats Her, Woman Pays Fine Melissa Case, 4 0-y car-old Indian woman, who was se verely beaten Tuesday night by Frank Bose of Malln, ar ranged payment of his fine in Justice court yesterday. Bose was arraigned before Justice J. A. Mahoncy and pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery. He was fined $50 by Justice Ma honey. Tho victim- suffered deep ,cuts to her, forehead ;,and body bruises from the beat ing which occurred on the road between Merrill and Ma lln Tuesday night. STINISON ID' WASHINGTON, July 19 (P) Rep. Rankin (D-Miss.) told the house today Secretary of War Henry Stimson and two of his key aides should be removed from office. Rankin declared that Slim son, Undersecretary of War Rob ert Patterson and Assistant Sec retary of War John J. McCloy "are using their offices to indoc trinate men with communistic philosophy." Ho added: "The house committee on un American octlvities is getting constant protests from soldiers that these men arc responsible for commissioning communists in the army. "I think these three should go now. "It is gratifying to note thot President Truman is going to hurry home from Germany and I hope he continues his policy (Continued on Page Two) Northwest Must Develop Markets SEATTLE, July 19 (P) War Production Board Chairman J A. Krug, in Seattle to confer with regional WPB directors, said yesterdoy that the Pacific Northwest must keep alivo the "splendid spirit I ha've seen In your war industries" and de velop moro markets if it hopes to keep its huge aluminum plants in operation after the war. "It is not too early to begin plans now, he said, and there aro no WPB restrictions on manufacture of fabrication of aluminum. Bulletin WASHINGTON, July 19 (P) The senate passed and sent back to the house monetary fund and reconstruction bank agreed upon at Brotton Woods. "Home On The Range" Camping under tho stars, cooking coffee In a tin can, swinging in a xnddlo all day long, will bo the life for cattle moil in Barnes valley for about threo weeks, The men havo been out mending fenco the past week, preparatory to branding the spring calves born on tho range. Cattle are being rounded up from the Taylor grazing land to be put on summer rnngeland in tho Fremont forest area. Walter R. Campbell, Davo Campbell, W. D.' Campbell, Lawrence Campbell, Henry Gerber, Garner Lundy, and Lloyd Gift arc riding in tho roundup, while Mrs. Dave Campbell and Mrs. Henry Gerber aro in charge of tho chuck wagon. A cook shack will bo established by tho branding corrals and tents will bo pitched for the use of the ladies. (July 19) Mix. (July 18) ... 85 Min 50 Precipitation last 24 houri 00 Straam year to data r 13.28 Normal 12.05 Lait yaar 9.89 Foracaib Seattarad showers. the Marine Barracks, is shown Col. Schneider, -who arrived late of the Marshalls, Guam, and been assigned to overseas duty. 57, . By The Associated Press The nation's, idle over labor disputes, around the 40,000 mark for the past few days, shot up past 57,500 today as 200 lumber yards in the Detroit area closed, idling 14,000 work ers. . ' "Meanwhile," In a " move to avert another strike, President Truman today directed . Petro leum Administrator Ickes to take over and operate the Sin clair Rubber company plant at Houston, Texas. The president, in his execu tive order, asserted an "imme diate emergency" had been rais ed by a strike vote taken Mon day by members of the CIO oil Workers International union local. The workers, who voted 361 to 129 to strike, produce buta diene for making synthetic rub ber. The yards in Wayne (Detroit), Oakland, and Macomb counties are closed by owners today in what Howard T. McLccs, secre tary of the Detroit District Lum ber Dealers association called "management's strike against their employes." Affected by the closing were 4000 employes and 10,000 carpenters, McLees said. For tho last seven weeks, 700 AFL employes of five lumber companies have been on strike, in a dispute over a new con tract, including the closed shop. "They want a closed shop and they got one," McLees said. "We still stay closed until the union meets us half way. The war labor board has ignored (Continued on Page Two), Alert Boy Saves Drowning Man GRANTS PASS, July 19 () Leland Wilson, 32, was heroi cally rescued from drowning in the Applegate- river at Murphy, Ore., Wednesday afternoon by Robert W. Taylor, 15-year-old boy at Murphy. Wilson had started to follow his sister and a friend to the middle of the river when he became ill and turned to return to the shore. Ho. immediately went down. His mother, Mrs. James Cecil ot Murphy, seeing his distress, called to young Taylor who was sitting on the Applegate bridge. Tayler dash ed to the scene, dived in and pulled Wilson to the bank. The boy then ran to tho Murphy store for help. George Hanner, owner of the store, and Mrs. Cecil gave Wilson artificial res piration which revived him in a short time and he has now fully recovered from his experience. Number 10570 TO QUICK VICTORY OFBItTHBEE Pacific Win Would Bring Global Peace By DANIEL DE LUCE AND ERNEST B. VACCARO POTSDAM, July 19 P) President Truman was believed emphasizing to his Russian and British allies today the necessity of winning a quick victory in the Pacific in order to speed the re construction of Europe and allow the world economy the benefit of global peace. The third meeting of the Big Three presumably was sched uled for this afternoon. The president will give a state dinner tonight at the little White House for Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill and five other representatives of each govern ment. An official announcement said the Big Three were meeting reg ularly with an agenda prepared each morning at 11 a. m. by the three foreign setretaries. Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes presided at the first foreign sec retaries' meeting today, with Anthony Eden and V. M. Molo- tov rotating the chairmanship on succeeding days. The agenda they prepared was a top secret Most Proposals Russian and British proposals at Potsdam were believed to be much more numerous than those offered by the United States, in view of thl -more, .detailed pol icies of the two countries regard-; ine EuroDe. . : s President Truman summoned Gen. Omar N. Bradley for a conference tomorrow regarding his new duties as head of the veterans administration. - Soviet-controlled Berlin news papers gave front page prom inence to a dispatch in Red Star of Moscow on the urgency - of clinching postwar interallied co operation at the Potsdam con ference. "It is easy to think how com plicated are not only the Euro pean; but the world problems that must be discussed and solved," the Red Star dispatch reprinted in Berlin said. "All depends on goodwill, understand ing and, a realistic view of all sides of the deep changes which have occurred in Europe and other continents as a conse quence of the historic victory over the dark forces of fascism." (The Moscow government newspaper Izvestia said the Big Three were seeking the quickest liquidation of the terrible con sequences of the war and the (Continued on Page Two) Killed In South Pacific Action Friends and relatives here have received word that Ken neth Gregg, GM 3c, USNR, was killed in action in the South Pacific on June 30. Gregg was the manager of the Shasta Food market on Shasta way and also was em ployed by Beck's bakery while living here. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gregg, are resi dents of Bend. He is survived by his wife and two small daughters, also of Bend, who are now in Klamath Falls with Mrs. William Owens of Lake shore drive, Gregg has three brothers also in the service. No other details of his death were told in the telegram received from the war department. Killed On Okinawa r ' ' " ' TRUMAN r r r i r O Kenneth Gregg, GM 3c 57th Strike Puts Torch To ; 4 Nip Cities GUAM, Friday. July 20 UP) A foice of more than 600 B-29s. . the greatest Superfort fleet ever sent out against Japan, put the . torch early today to four more Nipponese cities. The targets included Hitachi, shelled recently by American and British warships, and an oil refinery, the latter blasted with demolition bombs. Striking in the morning darkness, the giant bombers carried a load of nearly 4000 tons of explosives in the 57th of their incendiary attacks, which have charred 6 cities to date on the. Japanese mainland. Most of the Marianas-based planes pounced on the Honshu , island cities of Choshi, a primary source of protein for Tokyo. Yokohama and other large population centers; Fukul, one of the most important industrial cities on the west side of Honshu; Okazaki, which took the industrial and Hitachi. A smaller force hit the Amagasaki branch of the Nippon.. Oil company just north of Osaka. LAST ULL 41,000 Acres Swept By Three Blazes In North Oregon PORTLAND, July 19 JP) Three Oregon forest fires, . one on the rampage after several days' quiet, were blazing un controlled today after blacken ing 41,000 acres; and the state forester said the fire might con tinue all summer. . Tho eiant Wilson river blaze, already covering 30,000 acres of northwestern Oregon, gained an other 1380 acres during the night and was rampaging north and west. State Forester N. S. Rogers aid if hieh temDeratures and low humidity contmwe the fire might spread to the coast , and last all summer. ; ' Fires Get Together The Wilson river fire, fanned by an east wind and a low hu midity of 24, was within five miles of the Salmonberry fire, (Continued on Page Two) A warning was issued today by juvenile authorities to par ents of young children cautioning- them that numerous com plaints have beeji received by the juvenile officers here con cerning the molesting of private mail boxes by young boys and girls. In a few instances allotment i checks have been removed from government envelopes which 'is a particularly serious offense, juvenile officers said. Officers requested parents to caution their children as to the gravity of this offense and stated that in case of further violations strict measures would be taken. Juvenile authorities also stated that some residents of Klamath Falls have been negli gent in leaving their homes eas ily accessible to illegal entry (Continued on'Page Two) BASEBALL AMERICAN - R. H. E. Chicago ...5 12 0 Boston 3 9 1 Lee and Tresh; O'Neill, Ryba (8) and Garbark. NATIONAL R. H. E. Brooklyn : I 5 0 Chicago 3 9 0 Lombard!, King (8) and An drews, Sandlock (8); Wyse and Williams. RIG COAST FIRE IAY n Plane Crash Report Brings NAS Gear To Truck Wreck Crash equipment from the naval air station was rushed this morning to the scene of what was erroneously reported as an airplane crash at California and Conger, about 8:15 o'clock. Upon investigation, however, it was found that a truck filled with sawdust belonging to the Klamath Heating company and driven by Oliver Lesh had gono out of control and smashed into a row of trees, brought down some power lines, and damaged the lawn of Mrs. P. G. Smith, 560 Conger, where tho truck finally stopped. Lesh suffered a bruised leg and a possibly broken foot. He was taken to the Klamath Val ley hospital for treatment and X-rays. Lesh was driving west on Cali ' ' ' " overflow from nearby Nagoya, It was the tenth oil target - singled out lor destruction oy the 20th air force. Once before more than 600. Superforts were assigned a sinj. gle mission but more B-29s be gan today s auuu-mne rouna trip to the target areas than for any other previous strike. r The strike continued the pro gram to burn out and blast out the core of Japan's war machine and slash its ability to feed facj tory employes working on arma ments for the nation's defense against invasion. . -. Hit Choshi Flames licked Choshi, second largest city in the China pre fecture and most important fish ing harbor on the east coast of Honshu, and undoubtedly af fected its output of food for the . great cities to the south, ; One-eighth of the entire Japa nese fish catch is estimated to enter this harbor for distribu tion to the Kanto plain district, which has a fourth of Honshu's population. Situated on the prominent Choshi peninsula 60 miles north of Tokyo, Choshi is jammed with industries associated with the fishing fleet boat building, can neries and net factories. Vital food is carried to Tokyo and points north and west by the Sobu main line. The city is also the southern terminus of, the important Tone-edo water-,, way to Tokyo. The fishing vil-. lage of Hasakl lies directly to the north, across the Tone river.- I Choshi'svOwn population total" Ol.OUU. - .- ' :,. , Fires flared at Fukul; Honshu west side city of 100,000 per sons and its concentration of war factories. The industries for which the Superfortress bombardiers aim--ed included plants turning out aircraft parts, electrical equip ment, machine tools, iron and other metal products, rubber goods, chemicals and textiles. ' Fukui, 20 miles inland from the Japan sea and 45 miles southwest of Kanazawa, also is an important rail center on the: Harariku main line. Refinery Ablase Qkazaki, old and highly In flammable, is on the Yahagi and Ohira rivers 18 miles southeast of Nagoya castle. It is known to contain many "shadow factor ies" of backyard industries.' It turns out war implements such as aircraft parts, ordnance, elec trical equipment and light metal parts. The city's population is 84,-, 000. . -' The Superforts spilled their incendiaries on Hitachi two days after this industrial center north of Tokyo had been hit by United' States and British warships. The Nippon oil refinery is considered the number one re finery in the Osaka-Aamagasakl' area. It is located at the mouth of the Muko river. ? Klamath Schools ' To Get $246,155 Klamath county has been ap portioned $264,155 for the school year of 1945-46, it was announc-.. ed today by state superintendent of public instruction, Rex Put nam.. ' ' . .; The money to be paid to the counties next October and the following April, consists of sur plus income tax revenues and will be used to reduce property taxes. Lake county, according to the figures released, was allotted -$44,951 for the same period. fornia when the truck slipped out of gear. Lesh was unable to gain control of the vehicle and jumped clear leaving the car careening wildly down the street without a driver, The resulting crash' Inspired the mistaken report that an air plane had crashed and equip ment was rushed to tho scene. , The truck was almost totally demolished and tho front wheels came loose ' and rolled 20 feet from the front of tho truck.; Two wreckers and a large der rick was summoned to pull the car from the scene. Sawdust was strewn from one end of. Mrs. Smith's yard to the other. Lesh will probably be charged with failure to have a chauf feur's license and for having in adequate brakes, according U city police.
