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By MALCOLM EPLEY
I By MALCOLM EPLEY
! fMOKE drifts over the mountains from the
f O great Wilson river fire, which has covered
) an area about as large as the Klamath irrigation
! district.
,' We hear of the terrible de-
vastation of vegetation, which
j can best be realized by persons
j who travelled through the Til-
lamook burn in the same
j northwestern Oregon area in
! the early 'thirties.
With it all comes a definite
; sense of loss to those who love
j the woods and the open coun
I try of Oregon.
! The Wilson river fire is a
i long way from Klamath Falls. EPLEY
I We do not get any logs from there. Few if
j any local people seek recreation in that area.
: But that is part of our Oregon country. It is
I an area that has contributed to the happiness
! and prosperity of many Oregon people. Its
j blackened acres will be a blow to the prestige
! of Oregon as a green country with great
i recreational opportunities.
i A great fire In Oregon timber damages all
i Oregon, and from this conflagration must be
5 salvaged a determination to prevent such de
: vastation elsewhere in our region. It drama
tizes the lesson of fire prevention in a way
that can't be done in editorials or by word of
: mouth.
I Hazards
A' ' HAZARDOUS condition exists on the Klam
ath naval air station access road at its
intersection with the Great Northern tracks.
' One sailor has been killed there, and there
I have been a number of accidents, chiefly at
j night,
' We are told that a sign on the highway,
I warning of an approach to a railroad grade
crossing, was knocked down In one accident
l and never has been replaced. A man stationed
at the air station reports this sign is lying in
i the ditch.
' Replacement of the sign would seem to be a
i limple precaution that should be taken im-
mediately by the proper authorities. But it
1 seems to us that a wig-wag or other light
! signal should be established at this crossing to
i make it still safer.
Another crossing that has long needed such
' safety device is that at Hager where the
Merrill highway crosses the O. C. and E. This
is an extremely dangerous crossing at night,
and only by a lighted signal can the danger
be appreciably reduced.
These needs have been mentioned before. We
think the railroads should do something about
! them.
.....
griefs From The Pocket File
1 IN the mail is a letter from Frankie Calise,
j former Merrill boy now In the army in the
' Philippines, telling us about the terrible wreck-
' age at Manila ... "If the American people
could see it they .would know what sacrifice
really means," he says ... Gib Fleet's fine
picture on our Page One the other day, showing
a branding scene on the Obenchain ranch near
: Bly, has attracted outside attention . . . An out
; door magazine writes us it would like to use
it . . . Some one has been poisoning dogs in
; the vicinity of California and Conger avenues
; ... A heavy penalty awaits the guilty if caught,
; we are sure . . . Our paper yestexday'said that
Truman Raises
; Historic Flag;
j Symbolic Rite
(Continued From Page One)
erans administrator who also had
! been summoned here for a con
J ference, accompanied him to the
site from the "little White
I House" in Potsdam. Stlmson,
I Eisenhower, Fatton and Maj.
i Gen. Floyd L. Parks. American
i member of the Berlin kom-
s mandatur, were in the presi
j dent's party. Lt. Gen. Lucius D.
j Clay, head of the U. S. group
j council, received Mr. Truman,
j The president's brief message
j was Interpreted by some of his
1 States insisted that the peace
and welfare of the average man
j were more Important than ter-
' rltorlal disputes and boundar-
( ies.
' German Sit
j The ceremony took place in
the cobblestoned central court
of what had been the German
! aircraft command for middle
: Germany. All Germans had
been cleared from the area be
fore the president arrived. He
, drove up in his open car, ac-
i f ompanied by military and naval
! aides and a small secret service
j detail.
! Immediately after the flag-
! raising the president sped back
; Into Potsdam to resume his de-
: liberations with Generalissimo
r Stalin and Prime Minister
; Churchill discussions in which
; possible Russian aid in the war
A GEM of THOUGHT
An overseas Soldier named Britt
Was writing his Wife a bit.
Said he If you ever hear that Cracki
The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
HONEY, tonight I'll be sleeping on it.
Linomenr, 25c to $2.50
From Doc and Idella's Drug Store
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Bureau Circulation
throne to a more suitable incumbent.
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Japan Question
A ORD from
against Japan,
caught mikado.
,...
Russia Could Help
of Japan's war
and if these
her big
be in a bad
November.
against Japan Is believed to be
Dlavina an important part.
The president was described
as eager to return to Washing
ton as soon as possible after the
conference here closes. He has
all but abandoned plans for even
a brief visit to London.
He is keeping in close touch
witn congressional consider
ations of the United Nations
charter and Bretton Woods pro-
posals, and the "little White
House" map room is receiving
hourly reports on the Pacific
war.
Experts Arrive
The shipping experts arrived
late yesterday amid indications
that post-war world shipping
and the role of the United btates
greatest merchant fleet in his
tory would play a large part in
the discussions of the president,
Stalin and Churchill.
Land attended the Roosevelt-
Churchill Quebec discussions
and furnished advice at later
Big Three meetings. Before leav
ing Washington the president
had directed the top shipping
official to stand by, ready to
join this conference.
It was disclosed also that
Prime Minister Churchill dined
alone Wednesday night with
Premier Stalin at the little
Kremlin. The conference lasted
several hours. Only Stalin's and
t-nurcnui 8 interpreters were
present at the dinner table dur
ing the private meeting, where
obviously much of world im
portance was discussed.
Eden Back
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden returned to work to-
Friday. July 20. 1945
an accident knocked down a tree In the yard
of Mrs. P. G. Smith at California and Conger
, . , That's right, there's also a Mr. P. G. Smith,
who happens to be a sergeant In the marine
corps, a member of a family prominent in
radio and movio circles, and a nice guy , He
lives there, too.
The War Today
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
Associated Preit Foreign Affairs Analyit
THE Chungking National Herald, which speaks
for the Chinese foreign office, , has come
out in support ofthe proposal by the people's
political council that the allies hang Emperor
Hirohito of Japan as a war criminal.
"Let him be hanged with the rest of the
gang," exclaims the newspaper.
Well, it's easy to understand this feeling,
after all that China has suffered at the hands
of her barbaric neighbors. And the Chinese
aren't the only people who have a long account
to settle with the Japs. However, one questions
whether we should be wise to hang the mikado
and, that being so, whether it is discreet to
advocate it in advance of an allied decision.
Such a proposal, coming from .Chungking, can
only have the effect of making the Nipponese
fight harder and longer at this critical juncture.
The argument for executing the mikado is
that Japanese militarism is built about him as
God-emperor. It's said, and rightly, that it is
because his subjects regard him as divine that
they fight so fanatically for him.
.
Mikado Is Tool
HOWEVER, it's one thing to say Hirohito is
the symbol about which the people rally,
and quite another to credit him with being
the real head of the government or of the
militaristic machine. There's some doubt
whether he knows exactly what it's all about.
In any event, he is being used as a too! by the
militarists.
It can be argued, of course, that a religion
like Shinto (the way of the gods), which lends
itself to the machinations of the war-lords, is
better smashed. Still, it is fairly obvious that
if we did hang the emperor and did try to
destroy, the . religion, we should be creating
chaos in Japan, and therefore should be under
taking a dangerous experiment.
For this reason and not because of any
regard for Hirohito or his religion many ob
servers feel that the allies should proceed cir
cumspectly. At any rate, before advertising
the hanging they should have made up their
minds definitely that they are going to carry
it out, and risk prolonging the war. Here it
should be added and this is important, I be
lieve that decision not to hang the emperor
wouldn t preclude forcing him to give up his
Potsdam is that President Tru-
YY man reportedly is trying to clear the way
for concentration of the Big Three on the war
and observers are watching in.
tently to see what steps the trio may take to
expedite unconditional surrender. Mr. Truman
is said to maintain that the saving of Ameri
can lives is of paramount importance to the
American government. So one would think that
the question of unconditional surrender would
take precedence over the hanging of the un-
PURELY as a matter of speculation, it seems
clear that should Russia come into the
war, it would greatly shorten the conflict. One
of the prime reasons, as I see it, is that the
allies could render Manchuria impotent rather
quickly by striking from soviet soil. Many
industries are in Manchuria;
were destroyed both Nippon and
war-machine on the continent would
way.
If the Russians do enter the war, they may
in due course invade Manchuria with their
armies, unless Japan surrenders. However, un
less the Muscovites struck quickly they might
have to postpone the operation, since there are
only about six weeks before bad weather
blankets Manchuria and turns the terrain into
a mud field which renders movement difficult,
Then the ground won't tighten up until about
day and fulfilled all his regular
appointments wun aoviei ror
eien Commissar Vyacheslav M.
Molotov and U. S. Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes. Eden
had been too ill last night to
attend a state dinner tendered
in a cordial atmosphere by Pres
ident Truman at the garden-
bowered little White House.
The absence of the foreign
secretary had caused some con.
cern here in soviet and Amer
ican compounds. Apparently,
however. Eden was ready to
plunge back into the task cut
out for tne toreign secretaries,
who under conference procedure
reach generalized agreement on
problems and pass them on to
tne Big three lor final decisions.
U. S. To Send
Six Million Tons
Of Coal To Europe
(Continued From Page One)
to the army to release "suffi
cient" miners at least 30,000.
He said he understood that the
plan is now under consideration
and declared he was confident
that the army, which well
knows the serious situation in
.Europe and the disaster that im
pends, win accede to this re-
ciuest."
As solid fuels administrator,
Ickes asked the fuel conservation
directors of 25 states to launch
local drives immediately to place
homes and other buildings In
condition to keep people warm
on short fuel quotas next win
ter. The program is designed to
make every home, shop and
building "heat-tight" by insula
tion, storm doors and windows,
weather-stripping, caulking
cracks and by other means,
Ickes said. He added in a state
ment that furnaces and other
heating equipment should be put
SWIM TRUNKS
$2.25 up
OREGON WOOLEN
800 Main
SIDE GLANCES
oowt im tr wia tffrwff. wc T. m. ata u. . fat, err. 7-70
"I wish he'd write more clenrly 1 cnn'l mnke out whether
it snys 'heartache or 'heartburn' I"
EVAGUATED
M TOWN
FLAME'S PATH
(Continued from Page One)
mild southwest wind continued
to drive the flames, which al
ready have blackened 55 square
miles, toward the northeast.
The limber company mill
partly lighted by fire outlining
the hills less than naif a nine
away, operated at full blast
throughout the night to send as
much lumber as possible tnrougn
the Dlaner. Mill hands kept fire
hoses playing over lumber stack
ed on the loading docks await
ing shipment.
Soldiers Join Fight
Three hundred more soldiers
100 each from Fort Lewis and
Vancouver Barracks, Wash., and
Fort Stevens. Ore. joined the
nearly 2000 civilian and service
men fire fighters, trucks cram
med with G. I.'s. red-eyed from
lack of sleep, continued to roll
toward the fire. line.
A refugee camp was set up
at Balm urove, south of uales
creek. Farmers further down
the valley from Glenwood gazed
apprehensively at the sky and
some loaded belongings into
trucks, ready for evacuation.
The humidity reading at Glen
wood was 40-45 yesterday a
slight improvement. Forestry of
ficials sun could not explain
the origin of the disastrous fire
Willamette Valley Lumber
company officials here said the
burned camp was one no longer
in use. The present Black Rock
camp was evacuated during the
night as flames approached; but
trenches bulldozed around the
camp held the fire away.
Residents of the rural pioneer
district in Polk county prepared
for possible evacuation tnis after
noon as the blaze began gain
ing headway.
A group of the 300 fire fight
ers, forced to flee from their
lines, called for reinforcements.
The blaze, partly on cutover
land and partly on green timoer,
was about 12 miles from the
city of Dallas.
Smoke 20.000 Feet High
The state forestry department
reported that smoke from the
vast blaze was billowing 20,000
feet in the air, and said it had
no hope of controlling it unless
the weather changed.
The Salmonberry creek fire,
a few miles to the north, took
a sudden leap to the west, cov
ering an additional 3UUU acres.
The fire, which already had
spread over 3000 acres, was be
lieved under control early this
week. It was burning mostly
through logged-off land, al
though 1000 acres of green tim
ber had been killed.
The 8000-acre Polk countv
blaze, so far confined to logged-
off land but threatening a vast
stand of green timber, destroyed
the WlllameMo Valley Lumber
company camn at l a. m. today.
About 3,000,000 feet of logs at
the camp were destroyed, the
logs valued at $30,000.
ABERDEEN, Wash. July 20 (IP)
Fire in the North river country
which raged through more than
2000 acres of slash, burning log
ging equipment and some green
timber was still out of control
this morning, though it had
calmed down to some extent due
to a high humidity, state fire
officials said.
in efficient condition to save
fuel.
'Millions of Americans in the
eastern half of the nation will
have to keep warm on 80 per
cent of the cool or coke' normal
ly burned while fuel oil users
cannot expect more than three
Kallons for every four normally
consumed," Ickes said.
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Oregon Senators
Vote For Charter
PORTLAND, July 20 (IP)
Oregon's senators. Wayne Morse
and Guy Cordon, have sent word
they will vote for ratification of
the world security charter with
no reservations.
Morse said the charter was
"deserving of the unanimous
vote of the senate."
Although Cordon said there
is room for improvement in the
document, he is prepared to vote
tor H as is.
AUSlSW
JAP OIL FIELDS
(Continued From Page One)
back into production. They
drilled new wells and boosted
out nut of crude which is so
pure that ships can use it with
out refining to beyond pre-war
levels in air effort to build up a
stockpile of fuel oil.
Sambodja is the third oil field
recaptured from the Japanese,
the other two being the. Miri
and Ceria centers in western
Borneo. It is expected that the
allies will follow the Japanese
pattern and quickly bring the
fields and refineries back into
production, thus easing oil and
transportation demands on other
allied sources.
U. S. ASKS BRITAIN
10 LIFT SUEZ TOLL
(Continued From Page One)
the fall of 1942. After formal
talks in London and Washing
ton, however, Britain refused.
The matter was brought up
several times since then. The
latest request was made last
May 22 and new discussions
now are underway in London.
The letters showed that the
United States paid out about $9.-
000,000 in tolls on British war
and merchant ships going
through the Panama canal from
the start of lend-lease to Janu
ary 1. 1945.
Therefore, Washington Is ar
guing again with London, Brit
ain should pay the fauez costs.
The Suez canal is owned by
a corporation organized under
French law. The. British gov
ernment, as the major share
holder, holds 44 per cent of the
stock. This was cited as a rea
son why Britain should bear the
burden of getting American ship
ping tnrougn.
Tne British, however, replied
that the toils have to be naid in
Egyptian pounds, recalling that
lend-lease arrangements require
that countries lend-lease only
goods made from their own re
sources or services which mean
spending their own currency.
Miners To Get
More Red Points
WASHINGTON, July 20 (IP)
Coal and ore miners throughout
the country will become eligible
early next month for extra
ration points for meat, dairy
products and sugar.
The UFA announced today
that an experimental program
now in effect for San Fran
cisco and Denver area miners
only would be expanded dur
ing the first week in August to
apply everywhere,
As in the two western reg
ions, conl and ore miners who
do not have access to in-plant
feeding establishments will be
able to obtain a monthly maxi
mum of 50 extra red points for
meals and fats, and a supple
mentary stamp for ono pound
of sugar a month.
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Meanwhile Gen. Douglas Mae
Arthur announced from Manila
that moro than 300 tactical me
dium, heavy and attack bombers
with fighter escort, all from
Okinawa, crossed the East China
sen and hurled moro than 2110
tons of bombs on KluiiKwan air
drome, just north of Shanghai.
Kalngwan, the Rrcntnst enemy
air base In China, had four paved
runways tor uomuers, two tight
er strips and numerous build
ings. Heavy cloud cover pre
vented accurate observation of
results. Thunderbolts which es
corted the bombers found and
hit tho Tlnghal airdrome In
Chu Shan island opposlto Shang
hai In low-level attacks.
Coincident with these Tues
day raids, others of MacArthur's
Okinawa-bused Fur Eost air
forces heavily hit Kngoshlmu on
the main Japanese southern is
land of Kyushu, blocking Ihroe
important railway tunnel and
damaging a third. KiiKoshlma,
a city of 180.000, slto of n mu
nitions works and a submarine
shipyard, was thus cut off from
rail communications with rest
of Japan.
Kagoshima's coasts also were
hit along with oil storage fa
cilities. Another forco of MacArthur's
tactical Thunderbolts put twelve
500-pound bombs into a 10,000
ton Japanese freighter and left
lt sinking halfway between Oki
nawa and Kyushu.
Meanwhile, navy search
Privateers and Liberators had
their best single day against Jap
anese shipping between the
Asiatic mainland and tho Jap
anese islands on Wednesday,
sinking 11 and damaging five
small coastal cargo ships. Fleet
air wings one and 18 mndo the
strikes, off the Korean cast coast
and opposite Honshu.
Tho second marine aircraft
wing, by shooting down three
enemy planes, ran its bag to 500
since it entered the Okinawa
campaign April 7.
The Superfortresses, In the
heaviest strategic raid of the
war, hit five centers on Honshu
from 60 to 200 miles from Tokyo
in their campaign against Jap
anese "shadow" (small home)
industries.
Crewmen reported smoke ris
ing 17,000 feet high over Kukul
and said "it looked like the tar
get was destroyed completely."
There was almost no flak or
fighter opposition over any tar
get, but searchlights were so
numerous that one filer said 11
reminded him of the New York
World's fair.
At tho Amagosnkl oil refinery,
fires were set so great that one
airman said ho saw them more
than 100 miles away.
The Superfortress "Coin'
Jessie," which dropped the army
air force's 2,000,000lh ton of
bombs on tho enemy last week,
made her 45th successful mis
sion, over Chosi, where her crew
reported the target was a mass of
flames. This one plane now has
dropped more than 60,000 pounds
of bombs on Japan.
The Tokyo radio reported that
American Liberators scouted the
Chosi area in the wake of tho
B-29s and that a lone B-20 re
connaissance plane was over
Hitachi today.
HELLCATS BLAST
KAMIKAZE STRIKE
WASHINGTON, July 20 (IP)
Fourteen Hellcat pilots of air
group 30 scored a 47 to 0 vic
tory over Japanese kamikaze
planes seeking to attack task
force 58 off Okinawa April 6.
Led by Lt. Roy F. Gillespie,
100 Girard street, Bclllngham,
Wash., tho American carrier pi
lots knocked down the Japanese
suicide fighters and bombers in
a spectacular 30 minute engage
ment. Not a Yank was lost or
injured, the navy reported to
day. Air group 30 now is homo for
rest and reassignment.
In its entire tour, Fighting 30
knocked down 110 enemy planes
without losing a pilot in aerial
combat,
Lt, Johnnie G. Millar, Okar
chie, Okla., was credited with
five.
Operating from an Independ
ence class carrier, air group 30
served with Vice Admiral Mlts
cher's famed task force 58 dur
ing the period when .it support
ed two maior Invasions, de
stroyed or disabled remnants of
the Japanese fleet and shot down
thousands of planes.
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From the Klamnth Republican
July 20, 1005
Trout fishing will Do a new
attraction at Crater lake this
year. A number of years ago,
trout were put Into I lie hike to
see if they would live. Kaeli
year they havo been Increasing,
until now they uru quite plena
fill.
The Elks lodgo of Ashland,
No. IH1, has just received II
charter. A number of Klamath
Kails men belong to tho Ashland
lodge.
From the Evening Herald
July 20, 1835
Charles P. Pray litis been re
appointed head of tho state po
lice. Open house will bo held Sun
day by the Kennies Gulf ami
Country club,
LD
SOUTH GDAST
FORJPON
(Continued From Page One)
China and Manchuria plus an
equal number of auxiliaries. He
sulci Jupnne.se seo truffle be
tween the Islands and China had
been interrupted and that no
troops had been moved recently
in cither direction.
Yeungkong is a little more
than 000 miles northwest of Lu
zon. Beach Clear
This elenred a stretch, former
ly held firmly by the enemy,
where tho Japanese announced
they feared an American inva
sion. Generalissimo Chiang Kill
Shek was quoted in a Yank
magazine dispatch miida public
yesterday, however, as miylng
in effect that an Invasion of the
continent would be unnecessary,
that the enemy could lie sub
dued by Chlneso gruund forces
aided by American air power.
in riwangsi province (..hlne.se
forces which swunu out in n
wide arc eastward from recently
captured Lluchow havo captured
the Important highway Junction
of Lalpo and havo turned north
toward Kwellln, adding to the
number of Chinese Iroops clos
ing In on that largest of, former
U. S. 14th air forco buses.
The cigarette that is 100 per
cent less irritating Is tho one
that is dead out. Bosldes the
economic loss by reduction ot
raw material, many man days
of vitally needed labor are ex
pended fighting forest fires. Do
your port. Let's Keep Oregon
Green.
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DANCE
Saturday Night
K. C. HALL
Sppniored by Towniond Club
Modern and Old Time Dancing 9i00 'til liOO
Men SOo Ladloi SOs
NEWS BLACKOU
HIDES ACTION
OF IlFLEEIi
(Continued from Pago One)
the imperial alrforco has no In
tention of trying to slop Its at
tacks, llulsey's prowling along
Nippon's shoreline Is a "baiting
scheme," Tokyo prunugundlnts
explained, and the Jupuucsa
navy and alrfurcu lira not com
ing out to fight now. They nio
wultlng for an advantageous
llino licfiHe they strike."
Kudln Tokyo Indicated clear
ly this "aclvantaKcnuK tliuu"
would not coinu until American
Invasion forces begin storming
Japan's shores.
Nlpi "Explain"
A typical Nipponese commen
tary came from a military cor
respondent of the Tokyo news
paper Yoinlui'l llochl, who sug
gested tho Japanese tactic "com
pletely frustrated" llalsey'.i
"main mission to size up our
striking powor to bo deployed
In the event of mi Invasion."
A broadens! of his eoinmunlury
said "temporary suspension" of
allied carrier raids may menu
the allied naval force Is with,
diuwlng.
Thero may not he a cough In
n carload hut tho spark from it
carelessly thrown cigarette enn
be plenty Irritating. When In
your cur, use tho ashtray; when
walking, grind out tho butt In
mineral earth or rocks. Keep
Oregon Green.
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