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Newspaper Page Textrn7f?fn M UVUL A C v I. I 1 i h PRICE FIVE CENTS 111 TT ffl WVWVSAAAAArfA By FRANK JENKINS rVV for London no there will Ijo n brcuk In these chron icles until tho air mull cutches U. TN going to a foreign country (other, Dint in, 1 1 in 11 tho coun tries of tho Western Hemisphere, which Imvo n moro or loss chummy agreement thiit If you'll tuko our we'll lake yours) one iloe.m't Just toss n toothbrush und en extra shirt Into his grip and tuko off. It's u llttla more com plicated tlinn that. Especially In war time. Klr.it one secures n passport. A passport Is primarily tho per mission of his government to travel In other lands, but It Is ii llttlo more than that. In It the secretary of state, over his nig nature, requests "nil whom it may concern to permit (the bearer) safely and freely to puss and In case of need to give nil lawful aid and protection (to the Hearer) as a citizen 01 tlio united Stales." It Is a little green book about the size nnfl thickness of a pocket noicnooK. u curries your piC' turn, duly scaled by tho depart' merit of stnte, for comparison; and check-up. (After Hiking one look nt his passport photograph, li It Is normal and average, one knows how a roguo feels after being mugged for the gallery.) A passport sets you back on your heels to the extent of $8. TJAV1NG secured your govern. nicnt's permission to go visit lug. you next secure tiie per mission of tho first prospective vlsltee. This Is known ai a "visa," which Is diplomatic language for look-see, and the British, being sticklers for exact language, stale that the passport was I'scen1' on such and such a date. It Is "seen" at the consulate, and in Washington tho British consulate Is located at tho British embassy, THIS writer, like most country Americans, had always rather vaguely assumed that when one calls at the Dritish embassy, for whatever purpose, ho is apt to be met at the door by a bevy of liveried footmen, wlillo outside, perhaps, is a platoon of Guards men In tall shakos. As a matter of fact, you stroll In much ns if you were coming in to pay your subscription to this newspaper, tell a mild little nan the name of the porson you want to see (without even explaining why) and If you hap pen to know him you arc told as llko ns not to toddle along and sco if you can find him, When you do find him, ho Is attired not In n morning coal nnd striped trousers but In a sport Jacket and slacks. It Is a great shock. WITH your passport duly " "seen," you trot down to the offices of the airline, whose agent tells you that no matter what you have been told you DO need nn Irish visa, for the vicissitudes of the wenther or other fnctors might compel you to land In Eire, and if you were caught there without tho neces sary permission where would you be. So you flag a taxi nnd , dnsh out to the Irish legation which, asldo from having a scroll of tho Harp of Erin In the back of each chair, looks like any other hnlf office nnd half rosldoncc nnd get your vlsn. It costs you 20 cents which Is nn obvious bargain, since tho pleasant young woman who docs tho "seeing" takes a half hour for tho Job, nnd you don't have to bo in Washington lohg to (Continued on Page Three) Servicemen Make Honor Structures A gnla reminder to the fight ing spirit of each unit of tho ma rine corps, two totem poles re cently assembled in front of' tho Marino Barracks hostess house, will meet the eyes of all future visitors nnd incoming Leather necks to tho post. Consisting of unit shoulder pntehes . painted on masnnlto, each of tho six marina divisions am represented on tho sldo fac ing tho mnln gate. On two othnr sides of tho J 0-foot' poles are patches which represent defense groups, aviation, engineers, dog battalions, nlr wing groups, am phibious corps, raiders, para troopers, ships' dotnehmcnts, and amphibious tractors. : At tho top of each structure Is n gold eaglo standing three foot high with a seven foot wing spread, i The poles were designed nnd painted by Cpl. Anthony Gior dano nnd the cnglcs were de signed by PFC Norbcrt Ilcldt. The carpenter's shop did the construction. I Truman Historic Symbolic Rite POTSDAM, July 20 (!) Pres ident Truman, speaking at n symbolic flagrnlslng over con liercd Berlin, said today Un united Stales wanted not one piece of territory, but "pence and prosperity for the world ns a whole. Tho speech had great signifi cance ugulnst its background of tho Big Three conference, where tho president Is Joining Britain and lunula in helping to settle European boundary nnd other problems. "We uro raising tills flug In E SOUTH COAST FOR INVASION By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, July 20 (I') A 50-mile stretch of the South China const Is firmly In Chinese hands and open for n sea-borne invasion of the continent, the Chinese 111 g h command an nounced today. Chinese forces, striking east ward along the Kwungtung provinco coastal highway from the town of Tlnpnk, which they recently took nnd thereby sev ered Japanese communications between Canton and Hainan is land; reached tho vicinity of the road Junction city of Ycung kong, BO miles from Tlnpnk and 125 miles southwest of Canton. A Chinese army spokesman, MaJ.-Gcn. Kun Chi-Chih, snid the Japanese had moved 100,000 troops from Hunan province to the const of Shantung in the Inst four weeks, anticipating an American landing. Ho estimated that 1.000,000 Japanese combat troops were In (Continued on Pnge Four) Marine Corps . y I . " , ( " v f Poles erected near Hoitesi house carry insignia of six Leather neck divisions. (Official Marine Corps Photo). U.w.n Of If Telephone 8111 KLAMATH FALLS. C . ' O' Rai Flag in tho nnme of the people of the United Slates, who arc looking forward to n better world, n peaceful world, in which all the people will have an opportunity of enjoying peace and oppor tunity, Mr. Truman saia. The Stars nnd Stripes rniscd over the United States group council hcudquurtcrs In the former hcaduuurtcrs of ucr mnny's air defense wns tho flag that flew over the capltol in Washington the day the United States entered the wnr agnlnst the axis. It flew over Algiers when that city was Gen. bison bower's headquarters nnd over Home when the first axis capital was captured. It Is destined to be raised over Tokyo. "Let's not forget that wo ore fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind," Mr. Tru mun told the troops lined up for the ceremony. "Wc arc not fighting for conquest. Peace Aim "There Is not one piece of territory or one thing of n mone tary nature that we want out of this war. wo want peace ana prosperity for the world ns a whole. We want to sec the time come when wc can do the things In Dcnce that wc have been able to in war. If wc can put this tremendous machine of ours which hns mndo this victory pos sible, to work for peace wc could look forward to the grcot est ngc in the history of man kind. "That Is what we propose to do." Mr. Trumnn told the soldiers picked Infnntrymen from the second armored division, that they nnd, "proved conclusively that ii frco people can look after tho affairs of the worm, ine president spoke after Vice-Ad mlrnl' Emory S. Land, chief of the U. S. maritime commission nnd wnr shipping administra tion, arrived wun nis sian in response to a spcclnl request from President iruman. The president spoke extern porancously for two minutes. Gen. Omar Bradley, new vet (Continued on Page Four) Builds Totems y ' .v .O .AY, JULY 20. 1(46 T HIDES ACTION OF THIRD FLEET CUAM, July 20 UP) A radio blackout such as preceded the first American naval bombard ment of Japan screened opcr ations of Adm. William F. Hal scy's powerful U. S. third fleet today. Even verbose Tokyo radio mo mentarily broke off warning Its listeners that the task force would be back to strike at some unexpected place. Adm. Chester W. NlmlU' Fri day communique gave no hint of movements of American or associated British Pacific naval units in the eleventh day since Halscy began roaming up and down the coast of Japan un challenged. Nor did he disclose results of the Joint air and naval bom bardment of the approaches to Tokyo bay. Latest Blast Latest announced attack was tho Wednesday-Thursday mid night bombardment of Nojima Point, 50 miles from Tokyo, by cruisers and destroyers. The fourth naval bombardment of Japan, it came on the heels of a fierce sweep by hundreds of carrier planes over fighting Japanese naval units trapped in Tokyo bay's Yokosuka naval base. Bad weather reported yester day may still be hampering ob servations of results oi tnese heavy assaults. Or results may be withheld purely because of radio silence wnuc tne iicel shifts to new targets. JaD Navy "Walts" Wherever the allied- fleet is, Japanese .broadcasts, reiterated , (Continued on .rage tour) U. S. ASKS BRITAIN TO LIFT SUEZ TOLL WASHINGTON, July 20 (IP) The United States is pressing Britain anew to absorb - under reverse lend-lease Suez canal lolls on American ships rede ploying fighting men and equip ment to the Pacific. This was learned today along with the fact that while this country lend-leases all Panama canal charges on British ships, the united states paid su,34i,- 3UU on &ucz tons irom me start of the war to last January 1. . As troops pour eastward irom now-silent European battlefields to speed victory against Japan, shipping going through the vital Suez gateway will mount. u. s.-uruish negotiations on the Suez charges were revealed in an exchange of letters be tween Representative Robertson (R-N. D.) and the foreign eco nomic administration. f EA told Robertson this gov ernment first asked Britain to lend-lease the canal charges in (Continued on Page Four) Freight Truck Burns On Highway A truck belonging to tho West Coast Fast Freight company burned completely Thursday at a:3u p, m, it miles north of une mult on highway 58. The driver, Claire Johnson, received minor burns on his arms. , The truck was fln.Tgcd down by a passing motorist who in formed Johnson that the truck was on fire. He was unable to control the blaze, which started In the rear end of the vehicle around the differential, and the truck and cargo are a total loss Equipment for the naval air bnse at Oakland and some for Maro Island were being hauled In the truck, The trailer wns de tached from the truck and saved. BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H, Brooklyn 10 13 Chicago 4 5 Seats, Bukcr (5), and Sand- lock; Passeau, Erickson (5), Chip man (6), Starr (8), and Living ston. Game called 8 lit Inning by previous agreement. AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E. Chicago 6 11 1 Boston 3 10 3 Lopat and Tresh; Hausmnnn, Barrett (3), Terry (8), and Gar bark, R. H. E. St. Louis 4 5 1 New York 3 8.0 Jakucki and Mnncuso: Gcttcl. Holcombe (7) and Reseller. NEWS BLACKDU (July 20) Max. (July 19) ... 85 Min 54 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 ; Stream year to data 13,28 ; Normal 12,08 Last yaar 10.42 Foracasti CUar and warmer. Oregon Coast Blaze . li Flames lick into green timber as fire destroys thousands of acres of forest land. U. S. To Send Six Million Tons Of Coaf To Europe . waswngtqn; July 20 ' Secretary . oi tne interior ickcs today announced that if possible, about 6,000,000 tons of Ameri can coal will be shipped' to Eu rope for civilian use, between now and January 1. He said he wanted the Ameri can people- "to know that this decision involves the risk that we may have to suffer a short age of coal in this country next winter more acute than hereto fore predicted," and that coal al lotments for home consumption may have to be reduced. Worst Fuel Shortage Earlier, ho had predicted "the worst fuel shortage of the war" for this country. Noting that the decision to ship coal to Europe was reached as a result of reports received within the last few days on the "desperate" coal situation there, Ickcs said "the race in Europe today is one between coal and anarchy.", , - Needs Coal Europe must have coal with out loss of time if serious politi cal and social upheavals are to be prevented, he said in a state ment, adding: "I do not think that it is go ing too far to say that a coal famine of such severity as to de stroy nearly a:l semblance of law and order is certain to occur in certain countries in north west Europe next winter unless immediate and drastic action is taken now. "I have reached this decision only after the most careful con sideration. I have been largely influenced by the urgent and unanimous recommendaions of Former Marine To Teach, Coach At Local School MaJ. Clyde Roberts, former executive officer at the Marine Barracks here, has accepted a teaching position at Klamath Union high school next year and is being retired from the marine corps. Roberts will teach ' algebra and will also coach minor sports at KUHS. Ho graduated from the U. S. Naval academy at Annapolis in 1920 and is on in active duty at present at Min neapolis, Minn. While stationed at the Marine Barracks, Roberts acted as head coach of the Leatherneck foot ball team and produced a good, aggressive eleven. Ho partici pated in civic enterprises in connection with tho Barracks and is well-known in Klamath Falls. Casey Nominated For Beatty Post Veston H. Casey of the post office in Beattv has been nom inated for an Oregon postmaster ship. His nnme with that of Daniel E. O'Conner, Paisley, has been sent to the senate by Presi dent Truman, according . to- a wire message from Washington. Number 10571 1 M l. MA--A Id ! other, agencies in the eovem- ment wnicn nave political, po ncing ana supply responsibilities in Europe." '.'1 know of only one sure way to avoid disaster in Europe and further distress at home, Ickes said. "That is to increase pro duction and to increase produc tion we must have more coal miners. There is only one source of additional coal miners and that is the army. He noted that he has appealed (Continued on Page Four) AUSSJES RETAKE JAP OIL FIELDS By DEAN SCHEDLER MANILA, July 20 (iP) Australian troops on Borneo thrust five miles to overrun the rich Sambodja oil fields and re finery without a fight. ' They found only two Japanese defending the great field, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today. The field formerly produced 7,000,000 barrels of ready-to-use crude oil a year. The Sambodja field is one of the three major pools in eastern Borneo feeding the ruined re finery district around Balikpa pan. The attacking Australian 7th division found great fires roaring through the field, in dicating that the Japanese had followed the Dutch example of 1942 and scorched the oil-soaked earth as they left. Japanese resistance apparent ly collaosed or withdrew after a bitter dpfense had been put up at the field's aDDroaches. Sambodja village, normally Inhabited by about 1500 people, is 28 miles northeast of Balikpa pan and is situated on one of th pipelines that used to feed Balikpapan. Japs Rebuilt Despite Dutch destruction In 1942, the Japanese quickly put this great eastern oil district (Continued on Page Four) Marine To Teach 0 4Jy " n t li l-s atvtX Clyde Roberts, above, who will teach and coach at KUHS. 100 Evacuated From Town In 1 Flames' Path PORTLAND, Ore., July 20 CP) A few stole housewives la lumber town 50 miles northwest of here calmly wiped the morning dishes today with a 55-square mile forest fire only 300 to 1000 feet away. The giant Wilson river blase, which roared so close to Glen wood last night that about 100 persons were evacuated, stowed as it hit green timber near the town. The women who refuted to leave continued their usual morning chores today amid a blue smoke fog. The men, em ployes of Consolidated Timber company on whose property the tiny village lies, were all on fire linei. THICK SMOKE The blase, barely visible through smoke so thick that light! mutt be turned on in late afternoon, was only smouldering near the town this morning. Foresters hoped unless high winds arise during the day they , , could keep the flames from the I lumber mill and nearby homes. The mill was closed today. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the giant blaze, flames were moving westward in what foresters described as a "fluid state." One edge was roaring to ward a Portland mills camp south of Jordan creek. Much of the fire-fighting equipment was concentrated on the eastern end, where army trucks rolled all night to evac uate some of the Glenwood fam ilies. Orange Fog Women and children rode with household belongings in most of the drab-colored ve hicles, as an orange fog swirled down from surrounding hills. Men and older boys in the fam ilies, which lived on Consoli dated Timber company proper ty, stayed behind to battle with weary, smoke-begrimed fire crews. The blaze had eaten within 500 feet of the Glenwood com munity, -where smoke has ob scured the sun for a week. A (Continued on Page Four) E; 50,000 STILL IDLE By The Associated Press ) .' Labor disputes, in five, indus tries were ended today, enabling more than 15.000 employes to go oacK to tneir jobs, but worK stoppages across the nation kept an additional 50,000 idle. As old controversies were set tled, at least temporarily, new ones broke " out to show only little gains in the total number of workers affected by the stop pages during the last 24 hours. A three-day walkout over a contract dispute at the Pennsyl vania shipyards in Beaumont, Tex., enabled 8000 employes to return to work, while in Oak land, Calif., a Jurisdictional dis pute which tied up repair . of 21 government ships ended as 3000 AFL craftsmen obeyed a national war labor board back to work directive. The five-day work stoppage at the Joseph S. Finch and com pany distillery in Schenley, Pa., ended last night and 2200 work ers were to return to their Jobs. In South Bend, Ind., CIO United Automobile Workers voted to go back to their jobs Monday at. the Torrington company; to end a walkout that had tied up production of bearings since June 11. The fifth stoppage end ed was at the Stokes Rubber company in Trenton, N. J., where about 700 strikers voted to go back to work today. . Army Hunis 10,000 Jap Troops In Okinawa Hills By ROBERT GEIGER OKINAWA, July 20 (P) An estimated 10,000 Japanese troops are hiding in northern Okin awa's rugged mountains, the army, estimated today, a month after the island was captured. The Nipponese are being hunted down and killed, at an average of 50 daily, It was an nounced at headquarters of Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge', command er of the 24th army corps. After a lapse of almost' a month, Japanese planes have given Okinawa four air alerts in two nights. Marine night fighters shot down three of the enemy. Another raid was tried under cover of a storm. Three of the Japanese crashed, only one in an occupied area. Three Americans were injured. Radio Tokyo claimed, without confirmation, that Nipponese raiders "cornered and attack a group of enemy warships" in Okinawan waters yesterday and sank a cruiser and a largo trans port. . Nip Attack While the 82-day battle raged for Okinawa, vital as an air and naval base to prosecution of the war against Japan, Nipponese aerl attacks on shipping were frequent. The enemy sank 32 U. S. vessels and damaged some 60 in the entire Ryuftus cam paign, including U. S. fleet at tacks on the Japanese mainland, , Hodge's headquarters said new information indicates there were 90,000 Japanese garrison troops on Okinawa when the Americans landed April 1 and PLANES THROW NCEilES NIP TOWNS By AL DOPKIN r GUAM, July 20 (P) More than 600 Superfortresses In rec ord strength set conflagrations in five Japanese industrial cent ers with 4000 tons of incendiary bombs today as Okinawa-based tactical air forces made the war's heaviest raid on Shanghai and Thunderbolt f i g h t e r-bombcrs sealed off rail transport to the Japanese city of Kagoshima. The Superfortresses set Fukul, Hitachi, Chosi and Okazakl aflame and struck the Nippon oil refinery at Amagasaki a heavy blow in raids before dawn. , The weather forced lnstru ment bombing at all targets ex' cept Fukui, but all results were declared to be good to excellent. Two B-29's were lost; five crew men from one ship were rescued. The Japanese Domci Agency admitted some damage from the. raids.. . .. ;. . -. (In a followup on the B-29 raid, about 100 Mustang fighter planes attacked targets in central Honshu about noon, to day,, radio Tokyo said. They strafed the Okazakl and Toyo- (Continued on Page Four) $4000 Damage When Fire Razes Barn A fire which destroyed the hay barn, milking machine and killed four calves caused about $4000 damage on the Ed Popple place on Thursday, according te the Klamath county fire depart ment. The trucks from the county shops battled the blaze for an hour before it was put out about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. !: Other small grass fires have been plaguing fire units and the county trucks were called to the Baker gravel pit north of town on Thursday afternoon to extinguish a blaze which cover ed about 30 acres on hills there. The city fire department was also called on Thursday after noon to the fire near the Baker gravel pits. On Friday morning, the trucks were called to Elm and Market to put out a small grass fire. ' that the Nipponese drafted 50, 000 Okinawans for military service. This total of 140,000 defenders was nearly double the preinvaslon U. S. estimates, i: . 100.000 Killed ' More -than 100,000 Japanese troops and Okinawan conscripts were killed in battle and about 10,000 have been slain or cap tured since the island was se cured June 22. " Col. Cecil W. Nlst, San An tonio, Tex., said that during the vicious fighting, for Okinawa, more than 97 per cent of the Japanese troops preferred to die fighting or by suicide rather than surrender, but that since June 16, when they began sur rendering in the closing days of battle, 26 per cent of . those cornered have given up. Of an estimated 410,000 Okin awan civilians on the Island,' 240,000 are in Internment, A careful search of the Island has failed to disclose the fate of Americans taken prisoner by the Japanese. ! v No American List - Tlicro has been no announce ment of the number of Ameri cans believed taken prisoner. It has been estimated as high as several hundred. U. S. casualty lists for the Okinawa campaign show 236 men missing. Fighting men who fell prisoner to the Nipponese would be In that group. " Army patrols still are search. Ing out Japanese troops, hiding In caves and other retreats. If a call fails to bring out any enemy troops, the caves are sealed with dynamite.