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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.