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tlio mounting air offensive as
pieced togetncr from official
communiaues and advices of
nookesmen:
More than 100 army Mustangs
from two swarmed on Nagoya
and Kobe on Honshu yesterday
noon, rocketing and strafing a IT'
fields, factories, railroad trains
and small shipping reported by
General spaau of the u. a. army
strategic air lorces. , .
FoIIow-Ud
They followed up history's
greatest air assault by 820 of
Spaatz' Superforts in the pre
dawn wmcn neapea neavy mm
asp on four Honshu cities and a
Tokyo bay oil center at a cost of
one B-ztf and damage to six
others. Only 20 enemy fighters
were encountered, although four
cities had been forewarned.
Wednesday more than 250
Okinawa-based bombers and
fighters of the far east air torc
es followed up a 500-plane raid
the day before to churn to new
helehts the inferno started on
western Kyushu at the ship
building center of .Nagasaki re
ported today from Manila by
rteneral MacArthur.
The latest and final account
of Monday's devastating sweep
by British and American carrier
planes from Tokyo west to Mai
zuru added 48 more enemy ships
smashed, including one destroy
er sunk, two destroyers- and a
destroyer escort damaged.
Other Blows
Other aerial shipping blows
newly disclosed, adding up to
91 were!
The destroyers which shelled
Shimuzu, 80 miles southwest of
Tokyo Tuesday morning, sank a
picket boat and probably sank a
cargo ship.
Yesterday's Iwo-based Mus
tangs raiding around Nagoya
and Kobe destroyed 14 small
craft.
Wednesday's Okinawa - based
FEAF raiders of Nagasaki sank
or damaged 14 vessels, including
a submarine, large freighter
and a 2000 ton tanker.
Additionally, FEAF added 13
more vessels sunk or damaged
to the toll exacted Tuesday in
the Kyushu sector. .
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NEWS
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capirjg alive and " whole each
time. When it hit first, we were
sitting in our comfortable home
when the sirens shrieked. We
ran to the basement and had no
more than got there when a
bomb smashed the whole house.
The pipes went, and water be
gan to pour in. I can remember
being more scared of drowning
as we stood on the tables and
-watched the water rise, than of
another bomb.
"It was new, then, and when
day came and we looked at the
wreckage of everything we had
and knew we had to take up life
again and go to work it was
pretty terrible. The other times
weren't so bad, for we were
frdened by then."
1 Iniat's just one little story.
happily uncolored by death or
Injury. There are millions of
them. Almost everyone . you
talk to has one to tell you. The
best figures indicate that MORE
THAN A MILLION dwellings
were destroyed or damaged in
London. That means that in the
nearly five-year period from the
blitz to the buzz-bombs anproxl-
mately 3 J million people were
leit homeless in this city.
,
ALL this leaves out the dead
" and the mangled. If one
started into that, it would be end'
less. There has been plenty of
aeain and injury on the battle
fields, and will be more by the
time the Jan is finished off.
As one listens to the stories of
the blitz, one is impressed oddly
by the fact that fear of death
and injury was only a MINOR
part of the terror. If you were
dead, you were DEAD. If you
were Injured, you would be
taken care of.
It was the over-all experience
of carrying on in the face of
conditions that made carrying
on a seeming impossibility that
burned itself into people's minds.
Japs Won't Quit
Suddenly Patch
CAMP GRUBER, Okla., Aug.
3 (P) Lt. Gen. Alexander M.
Patch, commanding general of
the U. S. fourth army, told the
B6th division yesterday there
was no' hope "Japan is sudden
ly going to surrender today, to
morrow or next week."
The lean, six-foot general, vet
eran of European and Asiatic
campaigns said in an address
prepared for delivery before the
Black Hawk division that "many
of our civilian population are
understandably confused,
"They know in their minds
lhat we are still at war. But in
Iheir hearts they find lt hard to
believe we have not already
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Revealed
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also knocking out two denial
fillings."
Captain Dunn then ordered
Miller to continue work, but
Miller did not "work fast
enough to suit the provost mar
shal so the guard went behind
Miller and beat him across both
arms, back and both legs with
his night stick, again knocking
him down and injuring ,nis right
arm to such an extent that he
socnt the next 16 days in the
nost hospital."
Testimony given by Miller
and other witnesses. May said
"left no doubt in the minds of
the committee members" as to
the "absolute truth" of Miller's
story, .
Winkle himself, May con-
tinned, acknowledged that treat
ment of prisoners was "pretty
much. "
Despite requests of committee
members, May said. Captain
Dunn has not been brought be
fore a court martial, although
a guard, Staff Sgt. Odus u.
West, was tried, found guilty
and sentenced to two years at
hard labor and dishonorable
discharge.
FOR COAST BLAZE
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had been abandoned during the
night. Although the fire burned
anerilv inside the lines, the area
was in "fairly good condition,"
officials said.
1 Because rugged terrain pre
vented use . of bulldozers for
trail buildine in the watershed
region, fighters used more water
to keep back the flames.
A dense pall of smoke hung
over the Salmonberry-nenaiem
area, where spot fires have
crackled for days roughly paral
lel to the Wolf creek highway. A
few loggers from nearby camps
struggled to' combat flames in
steep coast range mouhtainland
with no radio or telephone com
munication. In the extreme northern part
of the fire, loggers set a series
of backfires. Further south the
blaze roared only a mile from
the tiny community; of Wake
field near the railroad down the
Nehalem.
Davis To Hear
Ward Issue,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 UP)
The war labor board today re
ferred to Economic Stabilization
Director Davis its unsuccessful
attempts to enforce directives is
sued to Montgomery Ward and
Co., covering operations in seven
cities.
This is the usual initial step
preliminary .to government seiz
ures. The board voted referral
unanimously a few minutes aft
er concluding a hearing on the
company's non-compliance with
orders affecting the mail order
house in Baltimore and retail
outlets in Trenton, N. J., Barre,
Vt., Washington, Pa., Pueblo,
Colo., Kansas City, Kas., and
Kansas City, Mo.
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Gets Her Man
The 'pistol packin' blonde dep
uty sheriff of Yamhill county
has nabbed her num and he's
behind bars for three years.
Sheriff G. W. Manning said
today his 22-year-old chief
clerk, Jean Hoist, was respon
sible for detection and arrest
of Robert Bennett, a parolo vio
lator now serving three years
in the state penitentiary.
EMERGES FRDWI
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conference ended Wednesday
night. It began July 17,
The report deals almost ex
clusively with political ques
tions. A single reference to the
war with Japan crops up in a
section on Italy. It notes that
that former axis nation has
now joined with the allies in
the struggle against Japan."
Since Stalin's signature assured
his aDDroval of the entire report.
Tokyo can read into that passing
reference whatever significance
it desires.
Similarly, the leaders of Nip
pon may ponder the meaning
of the only sentence dealing
with military phases of the con
ference. The last paragraph of
the report said:
There were meetings between
the chiefs of staff of the three
governments on military matters
of common interest."
Price Raised On
Postwar Autos
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 3 (
New automobiles will cost ap
proximately 25 per cent more
than prewar models, says C. K.
Whitaker, president of the
Studebaker Pacific corporation.
He said material and labor
costs will be up 30 per cent
over prewar levels bu that the
industry will try to absorb the
differential of 5 per cent by in
creased efficiency.
American Combat
Casualties Gain
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 W
American combat casualties in
creased 1855 during the past
week, raising the combined
army-navy total to 1,060,727
since the start of the war. -
Secretary of War Stimson
gave 'his 'Thursday news confer
ence the cuprent arms figures:
197,676 killed, 570,766 wound
ed, 34,734 missing, and 117,741
prisoners of war a total of
920,917 casualties as reported
through July 29.
Navy casualties reported to
date are 51,588 killed, 72,855
wounded, 11,611 missing, and
3756 prisoners or a total of
139,810.
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The girl spotted Bennett on
a McMinnvillo-LaFayotlo bus
last Thursday, and promptly
lett the bus to call officers.
Then she again boarded tho bus
and mudo the arrest.
Miss Hoist earned the title of
'Pistol Packin last spring by
placing fu-st among state, oomv
ty and city police officers In a
sharpshooting competition.
PROCESSED
WITH THE 13TH ARMORED
DIVISION IN THE ASSEMBLY
AREA COMMAND En route to
the United States from the Eu
ropean continent, SSgt, Ivan
Ecclcs of 2135 Holabird, Klam
ath Falls, is now being processed
at Camp Atlanta in northeastern
France as a member of the first
ETO armored division to be or
dered to the Pacific.
SSgt. Eccles is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eccles of Holabird In
Klamath Falls. He will be given
a furlough before the division
begins its training for action -in
the Pacific.
CITED
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY.
ITALY PFC Forest D. Collins,
Klamath Falls, recently was
cited for outstanding perform
ance of duty in Italy.
He served on the fifth armv
front in the quartermaster com
pany of the 91st "Powder River"
division.
His wife. Mrs. Frances Mae
Collins, lives at 2001 Reclama
tion, Klamath Falls.
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ON WAY HOME
En route to the United States
from Europe for a 30-day fur
lough before going to the Pa
cific, 1st Sgt. F. H. Bryson, of
Klamath Falls, is b e i n g pro
cessed by the assembly area
command at Camp Washington
in northeastern France.
First Set. Bryson is the hus
band of Mrs. Edna Bryson of 403
Pine, Klamath Falls.
GET CITATION
WITH THE 80TH DIVISION
IN GERMANY Pet. T. J. Rlnk.1
route l box luuz, Klamath Falls,-
is an assistant automatic rifle
man in the 80th "Blue Ridge" in
fantry division's illustrious and
heroic 2nd battalion of the 318th
infantry regiment, which recent
ly received the coveted Presiden
tial Unit citation in the name of
the late Franklin D. Roosevelt,
as announced in orders of the
war department, Washington, D.
C, signed by Chief of,Staff Gen
eral of the Armies George C.
Marshall. The decoration accom
panying the citation is a gold
framed blue ribbon, worn on the
right chest, the only American
decoration so worn.
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Hoarc, former British foreign
secretary who is now Lord
Templewood, to Laval "to find
a solution together with me."
Ho told of a secret conversa
tion with the Prince o( Wales,
now Duke of Windsor, in an ef
fort to solve the crisis Willi Italy
over Ethiopia.
Laval asserted that the Iloare-
Lnval agreement between France
and Britain whereby Mussolini
would have gained control ot
two-thirds of Ethloola was ne
gotiated with the full knowledge
of Stanley Baldwin's govern
ment. (In England, Lord Tem
plewood declined comment).
Laval cxcorlatod the British-
German naval agreement which
he said was executed In contra
vention of an agreement with
France and without French
knowledge.
Asylum Inmate
Stili At Large
SPOKANE, Aug. 3 (IF) An
armed former asylum Inmate
who said he "wouldn't be taken
alive" was resisting for the sec
ond day today efforts of four
deputy sheriffs to oust him from
woods In the Deer park area,
Chief Deputy Sheriff Mons Ul-
vin reported.
Ulvin said the deputies were
attempting to make a "blood
less" capture under terms -oi nn
insanity warrant issued this
mornlnif by Superior Judge
Ralc-h E. Foley, who command
ed them to -take the farm worker
into custody without violence
"unless tho lives of others arc
menaced."
The fugitive, Ulvin said, fired
a score of shots yesterday at
eight deputies who surrounded
him in the woods. The officers
fired none. "He hit a state gravel
truck with two shots," Ulvin
added. Two children were rid
ing in the truck with the driver.
Convict Escapes
From Work Gang
SALEM, Aug. 3 UP) Lee
Webb, 31, who escaped from a
prison work gang near Salem
Wednesday, was captured early
today by state penitentiary
guards. He was, found hiding
in the Clear lake district, not
far from the potato field where
he made his getaway. '
Warden George Alexander
said Webb, who has less than six
months to serve on a lo-year
sentence from Lane county, has
been assigned to the penitentiary
bull pen for an indefinite period.
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Low Losses Keep
Halsey Fighting
GUAM, Aug, 3 (A) Low loss
os constitute one ot tho reasons
Adm, llulaey's third fleet Iuin
boon able to remain in Japanese
homo wators so long 24 days,
assuming It still Is there and to
lilt the enemy again and again,
both from tho air with more
than 1000 cariior planes and
from tho sea with seven naval
bombardments,
Adm. Nlinltz's eninniiiuliiuos
for tho period July 10 date of
tho first attack on Tokvo,
through July 30, dato of the last
reported assault, attain on Tnkvn
and on Nagoya and Malzuru
nave re ported on v 11H Amur.
can planes and 13 British craft
lost In ninny thousands of
somes.
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TO OPEN SATURDAY
Beglunlng Saturday, August
4, the high school nntatorlum
will bo open for an clght-dav
public swimming program, E, E.
minium-it announced loony.
The uso of tho KUHS nata
torium for this purpose has been
made possible through the
courtesy of tho board of educa
tion and tho high school admin
istration, The pool will be open from
2 to 5 p. m., and 7 to K p. m.,
beginning Saturday and every
afternoon throughout tho week
to and Including Sunday, Au
gust 12. There will be no eve
ning swimming on Sunday,
Afternoons the pool will be
open to all ago groups of bwIiii
niers. A small dressing room fee
will bo charged with half price
tor school children, In the ovo
nlng the fee will be tho same
as It has been to adult groups
for the past four woeks.
Swimming will bo under
(nullified supervision at all
times, with lift guards on hand
at the pool,
TO VIEW PLANTS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 ()
Senator Ferguson (R-Mlch.), a
mpmhpr nf fhn iiinnt. ,,,,. t.
vcstigatlng committee, will spend
part of the congressional recess
surveying light metal and avln-
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ceasu" Is being proved lit real
ity to mai'lno corps and navy
personnel In Klinnallt Falls this
week with the amioaraucn of a
complete Navy Mobile X-Hay
unit.
The unit, an International bus
with a Wayne built body, is com-
Klete In every respect. Manned
y Dr. O, Leglnl and a staff of
seven, tlin unit Is capable of tak
ing ISO X-Hay pictures an hour.
Tho patient merely steps in at
tho entrance, stops for a few sec
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walks out at tho rear exit.
For each primary tuberculosis
case that Is found. $23,000 Is
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Amphibian Plan
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MIAMI, Fin., Aug. (') A
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carrying 10 passengers and a
crew of four sank at about
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a landing ut Fort Do France,
Martinique, n Irli no official!
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