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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1945)
m m fo) 0) Mfo) urn PRICE FIVE CENTS By FRANK JENKINS I 1V1NG t u liotul In London -' In (iillo different from living In hulvl In thu Stales, mid nii American coming hero fur the first t nii) hna a lot to luiirn be (oro beginning to fool even uy proxlmutoly sure or Himself III nii' aimnieai iriuiaiieiiiiiiB. Thu difference begins when your cub pull- up at the curb on mo loll mutt, or course, you are mi4 by n doorimin who I NOT borutl with llto, but (coin that ho ilia nn Imiiorlnnl lob (airly well up tho luddor, and position In tho world. Ho upon- tho door (or you (you hiivmi't been nblo to find the catch (or yourself, an that la a trick that taken time). He seca that tho cabman doesn't over charge you mid ho nlao sees that you nay tho cabman. Ha commanda tho presence of wirier, who htialU-a your bag- gage In and, liicl(lentiilly, kcepa track or it ror you, even in irieae days when you will probably have to wMl around for aome time before being amlgnrd a room, and ultimately deliver It there with no further bother on your part. WITH your baggage (pardon, pleaie: your LUGGAGK) o(( your mind, you approach the reglitratlon desk, whero you arc niel not by a harried room clerk but by a recepllonlat, who la a neraonage. and knowa It. but the knowledge hasn't Bono to hla head. Tho transaction of ree latratlon, confirmation of your reiervatlon and aaidgnment to a room la carried on In the at- mntphero of tho foreign office when an Important treaty la be ing negotiated. You ore finally conducted to your room not by a sweating trillion loaded down liko a puck mulo but by a special courier in impeccable attire (you arc fright fully fussed ai to whether or not to offer thin magnificent person a tip, but when you finally do ho accept It and aayir; i man you, sir '). Ho walla until your luggngo arrive, and directs I la diapoaal In tho proper places. TJAVING crossed the Atlantic - In the roatrictcn space or a plane, you nro travel-stnlncd and your clothea look liko they hnd been alept In for n week. You want them nrcsacd. So you np- proach tho nhonc. having It In mind to call up the valet and tell him there's a stilt in room ao and so and can you get It back by morning and ll not wny not. Your clutching hand la atop. ped In midair bv the Instrument's anpearnnce. its base is several times larger than tho normal American hotel room phone. Bo low tho receiver's cradle Is an electric clock and below the elock is a row of colored but tona, somewhat liko an Inter communicating phono In on of fice back home. Below the but tons Is a chart Illustrating their use. Beneath the red button Is bravo flmiro of a man In swallowtail coat carrying a suit on a hanger, obviously a gentle man's gentleman. Tho chart dl- roots you to presa tho buttons to summon tho sta((. So you put your finger on tho red but (uontinuca on i'ago r 01117 Trial Reveals French Plots PAItlS, Aug. fl (!) Gen. Pico Andnrt testified at tho treaaon trial of Marshal Pclain today Hint French troops wore ordered by Gen. Mnxlnio Wcygnnd at tho time of thu armistice to hide nil military equipment. They concealed 10,000,000,000 franca of war materiel from tho Ger mans and nn equal amount of food nnd rnw materials by tho end of 11)42, ho asserted. Andnrt said underground fac tories, at the orclor of Pctain, started building mnchlncgun carriers as early na 1041 nnd produced 270 of them in one year. Tho general said Petaln congratulated him for his part in the activity and ordered him to continue his work. Escaped Convict Eludes Capture SALEM, Aug. 6 (!) Charles Klmzcy, (10, who escaped from the prison annex Saturday, is still nl largo today. Sent hero from. Deschutes county Into In April, 1D3H, Kim zcy wns nerving a life term for armed robbery, Warden Gcorgo Alexander sulci today that prison records show that ho forced his victim to tnko poison, twisted n wire, around his thront nnd tossed him Into a cistern, All this hap pened In tho country enst of Bond. Klmzey is described ns 5 feet. 71 Inched lull, weighing 133 pounds. Day's Sews B-2 9 S MAKE 4 JAP CITIES MASS OF FLAMES Nip Opposition Light As Incendiaries . Hit Island GUAM, Aug. 6 (IP) Four mnro Japnm-ao cities were loft In a mass of flames by 5110 Super fortresses today nnd their de struction appeared certain, re turning crewmen reported. Waves of l!-2!ls dropped ap proximately 3B50 tons of In cendiaries on tho industrial cities of Nishluomiyn, Mnebaahi, Imabarl and Saga, and demoli tion bombs on the Coal Lique faction company at Ubc. One Suprrfnrt failed to return. Lltll. Fight Pilots reported Japanese op position waa light, although Capt. Lawrence Bird, Maplcton, Utah, reported seeing a Japanese jet fighter plane over Macbaahi. "At firat I thought it waa a flare or ball of fire. It camo to within 800 feet of our B-20," he said. Reporting on tho results of the heavy raid on Saga, on Kyushu, 2nd Lt. Gordon P. Marchal, of Sacramento, Calif., aaid, "I could see lines of fire on the ground and believe me, the whole thing waa definitely sat urated." Staff Sgt. Alex Krawahook, of Aberdeen, Waah., not only drop ped bomba on Saga but flw over four moro cities, dropping progagnnda leaflets. Over Nlahlnomlya. however. one pilot reported seeing more flnkr'mord fighters and more searchlights thnn In recent forays over Japan.' Fires could bo seen ISO miles at sea. Onco again an all but helpless (Continued on Pago Two) T FIRE BLAZES PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 6 IIP) Fires spewed by lightning over forests baked dry by 100-degroc temperatures dotted western Oregon today. While many now blazes were being set, the huge, uncontrolled Tillamook fire in northwestern Oregon roared into new timber, defying efforts of thousands of fighters to check it. In Douglas county, where much of the state's merchanta blc timber stands, 13 fires have been charted and others arc known to have bcon act during tho night. They generally were small ana control was expected soon, ' Elsewhere In the hcavlly tlmbcrod coast area new but small blazes were reported. Except to tho north, all fronts on the Tillamook blaze wore be yond any control but prolonged rains, fighters said. Forest Grovo rosidonts fought Sunday to check tho flames moving on tha watershed which supplies the city. Tho city council called an emergency meeting this af ternoon to provldo other fight ing monns. An army of 17S specially trained "Firefly" troops from tho Portlnnd nrmy airbnsc wore dispatched to the watershed. An other group of 75, ready to go, were held up until tho newly set lightning fire situation could be assessed. Tho full extent of the Tllla (Contlnucd on Pago Two) Ernie Pyle's Presence Lives His Boyhood Home Near EDITOn'S NOTKt Atrnii Africa mil Europe with the American ermtee, Rrnle Pyle and 111 Doyle reported to Amer ican newspaper reader, eRCh In 111 own way, what happened lnlde the hoy at war. They were the Iwn mnit widely circulated war coluninUI. yet noyle never aeemed lo feel that he whs compelliif. He ueaan lo receive let ter lollhtf him he wax "better than V.rnle Pyle." hut he would nnlv ei-ln. and Ills every ennreaalnn was that nf a country bny privileged lo work hcKltte a manter. -wnon ryie won the Flintier ir re. Hov e wa Iril V e ateri. When noyle won It hlmaelf he at first retimed lo helleve It he had never tried to copy Krnle. Ernie went to the Pacific anil hi rareer wa cut nhnrt. Mnl, now on hi way to the Pacific, ton, etopped by to aee Ernie' family. Thin la the flrt of two column about that vlalt. By HAL BOYLE DANA, Ind Aug. 8 () The roots grow deep in tho middle west deep enough to anchor even tho vngabond soul of Ernlo Pyle. You can feol Ernie's presence oven now In tho white frame six room 'farmhouse southeast of Telephone 81 J I KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, A' r , - ! a 2ld e-r Surveying tho Klamath basin aroa from haight of about SS00 foot is tht now fir lookout built naar tho Marine Barracks and manned by men from tha Installation. In tha upper picture, PFC George Goloaih of Springfield, 111., is on watch, and the lower photo shows a view of the complete tower. Three men are on watch at this fire tower for 24 hours a day and about 100 yarda from the lookout there is a tent, outdoor grill, and cooking facilities for uie of the men on duty there. The tower Is con nected by telephone to the fire house at the Barracks. Official Marine Corps photo. Boxcar Shortage Threatens Crops VALE, Augi 8 (P) A short age of boxcars for shipping early potatoes is still felt here, Coun ty Agent R. E. Brooko said to day, but late potatoes which' enn be stored will not be affected. Danger of losing part of the highly perishable crop still ex ists, sulci Brooke, although there has been no actual loss so far. He said about 50 per cent of all Malheur county grain now being harvested is going into storage, with farmers utilizing CCC loans to wait for spring sales. here where the war columnist spent his boyhood. Ho also re garded it as his true home. Tho keepers of his spirit still live there his "Aunt Mary," Mrs. Mary Bales, and his dad, Will C. Pyle. Aunt Mary Is n vigorous blue eyed woman of 70 who still drives her car to town at a 40-mlle-aii-hoiir clip to do her shop ping. Ernie's dad Is 77. Ho uses a cane and complains mildly that his eyes "aren't what they used to be." Ho is smnll nnd has the puckish humor of his famous son. Aunt Mary has Ernie's great gift of humanity. The 77-ncro Pyle farm Is now tilled by tho neighboring How ard Goforth family, friends of long standing nbout whom Ernie often wroto. "Will hasn't bern able to do heavy work now for ton years, 1945 Mariner vi fire Lookout Affidavits Filed Against Combs Affidavits of prejudice were filed in the county clerk's office Monday afternoon by Herbert Welch, attorney for former Po lice Chief Earl Hcuvel, against Judge Charles Combs of Lake view. The affidavits will bo sent to the supreme court of the state of Oregon and action will prob ably be taken this week. This usually means that a new judge is to be assigned to the case. On In Dana, Indiana but he helps out at sowing time," Aunt Mpry Ido me. "We kept a cow until two years ago. Then lt got to be too much for us In wintertime. We still have some chickens. The last time Ernest was homo I told him that Will and I were think ing of giving tip tho placo and moving Into town, and ho just looked at mo in that quiet way of his nnd said, 'If you do, I will never come back again,' " Aunt Mary looked around the neat parlor hung with pictures of Ernlo, tracing his career from childhood to tho last days before ho left to meet a doughboys' (lenth on fnraway lo Shima is land in the Pacific. She said: "I guess wo will stny on now nnd keep things just ns ho liked them." Aunt Mnry keeps ns busy as (Continued on Pngo Four) Auguit S, 194S Max. (Aug. t) S3 Min S3 Precipitation lilt 24 hours Trie Stream year to date 13.26 Normal 12.21 Last y.r 10.82 Forecast! Cooler with cloudi. II CACHE HOLDS STOLEN LOOT ALTURAS, Aug. 6 Seven thousand dollars in bonds, stock certificates and treasury notes as well as marriage certificates, stolen from a county safe in the Harper store at Adin, has been recovered today and were on display in the office of Sheriff John Sharp here. Sheriff Sharp announced ar rest of Robert Hanna, 41, of Sacramento, and said that Hanna had . confessed the robbery. Hanna told the sheriff that he had... his .accomplices hide the loot in a gunny sack in the high mountains between Aran ana Susanville. ' Hanna was taken into the area and finally indicated the moun tainside where he said the spoils had been left. The officers spread out and began a search. George Harper, of Adin, whose loss was in stock certificates, was the first one to discover the gunny sack lying at the foot of a pine stump. He let out a loud yell and others gathered around. Federal officers left with Hanna on Sunday for Sacra mento. Officers said Hanna ad mitted knowing the culprits who burglarized a tavern in Alturas of $1200 on July 28 but claims he was not connected with that robbery. Wallgren Policy Termed "Insult" SEATTLE, Aug! 6 (IP) A statement by Gov. Mon C. Wall gren that his administration was not hiring veterans who were "active republicans" is "ah in sult to the integrity and intelli gence of every man facing sui cide planes and shellfirc," Her bert Brownell Jr., national re publican leader, said here Satur day. "It is a good thing for Gov ernor Wallgren that the ' more than 100,000 of your own boys now actively serving Mr. wall gren's country and their coun try are not here to express their resentment on this matter right now," Brownell said in a talk to GOP party leaders from west ern Washington. C, Norman Dickison, first dis trict commander of the Ameri can Legion, said he had mailed copies of the news articles carrying the governor's state ment to the Legion's national headquarters. Chinese Clear Landing Stretch CHUNGKING, Aug. 6 (P) Chinese troops have broken in to the highway junction center of Ycungkong close to the South China sea and are fighting in the streets of that town 125 miles southwest of Canton, the Chinese high command an nounced today. Ycungkong is at the junction of the Kwangtung coastal high way and a road running north- cast to Canton and by breaking into it the Chinese secured con trol of a 60-mlle stretch of "in vasion coast" eastward from Tlnpak cast of the Lulchow pen insula. . This stretch is now open to. a virtually unopposed lnnding if Americans should choose lt for n staging point for supplies to Chinese armies In south Chlnn. A stretch of the coast west of tho Lulchow peninsula as far as Indo-Chlna has been under Chi nese control for aome time. iRmillilH Number 10585 CLOSELY KEPT Workers Themselves Were In Dark On Big Project RICHLAND, Wash., Aug. 6 (JP) Materials for tho new atomic bomb are being assembled in a huge super-secret government plant near here, where workers who never knew what they were making produced the compound by operating complicated dials from behind thick concrete safe ty walls. Some of the details of the se cret project wore revealed for the first time today after Presi dent Truman announced the first bomb was dropped on the Japa nese. Not until the official an nouncement, the government said, did any of the 17,000 work ers have any idea of the nature of the startling new product. The manufacturing area, a 400,000-acre, guarded section 30 miles from here, is sub-divided into three large areas. Each of the three Is sub-divided into smaller areas, each covering miles of ground. Three Units One of the three main areas contains the enormous structures where the material is produced. The second contains three huge chemical plants where the ma terial is purified and concentrat ed. The third contains the raw materials. One of the most difficult prob lems, officials said, was design ing -manufacturing processes which would, permit the fantas tically powerful explosive to re .(Continued on Page Two) . KF Enjoys Cool Sunday While Oregon Swelters Klamath Falls residents en joyed cooler weather Sunday while the rest of Oregon swelt ered in a heat wave which drove the mercury to over 100 degrees in some parts of the state. Forecasts .for Monday and Tuesday were for scattered cloudiness and showers lor northern California and Oregon, and this is expected to bring re lief to Portland, where 100 de grees were recorded; Medford, which chalked up 100, and North Dalles, where 105 was re corded. In Klamath Falls Sunday the mercury reached 83 high and there were a few scattered rain storms in the vicinity. A flash of lightning caused a tree fire at the Theodore Flackus home at Hildebrand, but there were no other reported lightning fires. Two other small fires have been reported in the Klamath In dian reservation area, both man caused and due to carelessness. One of the blazes occurred near Beatty and the other near Fort Klamath. C SECRET BAREDATLAST 'Hornei' Limps Home After Strike By June Typhoon WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (IP) A mountainous wave lifted up and smacked down the 27,000 ton aircraft carrier Hornet so hard last June 5 that the for ward corners of the flight deck folded down along the sidos. Thus nature, in the form, of a 120-knot gale (138 miles an hour), achieved what the Japa nese never were able to do in 14 months of hard-fought action it damaged the big ship. The navy, told the Hornet's story today. It let the Japanese know exactly whore the Hornet is Hunter's point in San Fran cisco bay. She steamed through the Golden Gate July 7 and went to drydocks for repair. Behind her lay 1.270.000 tons of enemy shipping sunk or dam aged . and 1410 ruined enemy planes. some or tne ngures: Six hundred and sixty-eight shot down, 742 planes destroyed on the ground; one cruiser sunk, one carrier sunk: 10 destroyers sunk; 42 cargo ships sunk. xne Hornet, named tor tnc ship which launched the first bombing raid on Tokyo, was 150 miles off Okinawa when tho ty phoon struck at 2 a. m. June S. Her bow rose atoD a great wave and then dropped with an impact which folded down the flight deck. The engines were stopped and the shlo drifted be fore the raging wind. She had to back into tho wind next morn ing to get search planes off the Truman Tells United States Secret Weapon WASHINGTON, Aug. 0 (P) An atomic bomb which loo.ee pent-up forces of the universe equivalent to more than 20,000 tona of TNT and repreients one of the greatest scientific advances of history has been dropped on Japan. . President Truman told today of the terrific destructive power packed into the missile which waa dropped 18 hours ago on Hiro Shima, an Important Japanese army bate. His state ment, released by the White Houae at 8 a. m. PWT, said the bomb "added a new and revolutionary Increaie in destruction" on the Japanese homeland. This awful bomb is the answer. President Truman's state ment said, to Japan's failure to heed the Potsdam demand that she surrender unconditionally at once or face utter destruction. The product of $2,000,000,000 spent in research and pro duction "the greatest scientific gamble In history," Mr. Truman said the atomic bomb has been one of the most closely guarded a secrete of the war Senator Dies a Hiram W. Johnson, above. League of Nations and charter opponent, succumbs. : ' AT WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 UP) Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, militant- opponent of thu Leame of Nations and the San Francisco charter for a .United Nations; -organization, died today at 7 years. The veteran republican sena tor succumbed at naval nospi-. tal, where he had been connnea for two and one-half weeks. His physician, Capt. Robert E. Dun can, USN, said he died from a thrombosis of a cerebral artery. - His political activities extend ed over a. third of a century cov ering some of the most stirring events in the nation's history. A striking figure in the sen ate since first elected to con gress in 1916, he played a lead ing part in defeating President Wilson's League of Nations cove nant and later in opposing Unit ed States' adherence to the world court. His wife,. whom he referred to as "the boss," was with him at the time of his death. His son (Continued on Page Two) Canadian Troops Sent To Pacific GUAM, Aug. 6 (IP) Canadian troops, the vanguard of 30,000 men of the Canadian army Pa cific force, have arrived in ad vanced Pacific areas. They will be followed . by Royal Canadian air force squad rons and 60 ships of the Canadi an navy, including two aircraft carriers, two cruisers, destroy ers and frigates. deck. They helped reassemble the task force. After their re turn the Hornet retired from the area. The Hornet spent 52 days un der Japanese air attack without being hit by even a macnine gun bullet. Her crew claims a record in the shooting down of 255 Japa nese planes in a 3U-aay period. In one day she accounted for 67. The Hornet was launched at (Continued on Page Two) Wfctf , West-Bound Moths Sweep Across Klamath Country ' A great wave of destructive moths is sweeping across - the Klamath country. Those orange and brown but terflies are the Groat Basin tent caterpillars in moth stage. West ward bound, they have been ob served over a wide area of this region, and are especially notice able along highway No. 97 north from Modoc Point and on into tho Deschutes country. They have been reported In vast num bers in Crater lake park, and along Grecnsprings highway west of here. - v The butterflies1 hafe just re cently hatched from the cater Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill gave the sig nal to start work on harnessing tne lorces of tnc atom. Mr. Tru man said the Germans worked feverishly, but failed to solve the problem. .president Truman said he would recommend that congress' consider establishing a commis- WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (IP) The atomic bomb announced ' by President Truman today , packs a punch equivalent to ' that normally delivered by ; 2000 B29a. , The president laid the mis- i sile has an explosive force 1 equal to 20,000 tons 40,- ! 000,000 pounds of TNT, as suming a B29 carriee a bomb load of 10 tons of TNT, four , 500-plane raids by the world'a biggest bombers would be necessary to equal in destruc tive power the exploding fury of one atomic bomb. The atoroio bomb dwarfs , by 2000 times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" bomb, which weighed ep- , proximately 11 tona. sion to cont-ol production of atomic power within the Unted. States, adding: "I shall make rccommenda t i o n s to congress as to how atomic power can become a powerful and forceful influence towards the maintenance of 1 world peace." Both Mr. Truman and Secre tary - Stimsnn. while. emnhnql7.- the new force, made clear that much research must be under taken to effect full peacetime , application of its principles. Mr., Truman, added: "It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which . the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East." . The base that was hit Is a ma jor quartermaster depot and has (Continued on Page Four) FAMOUS 1SI HOLDS The historic landings on Guadalcanal by the famous first marine division on August 7, 1942. will be commemorated In Portland Tuesday when 70 en listed men and four officers from the Klamath Marine Bar racks will join other members of the division fqr a reunion. The occasion will include a reunion dinner, and other activi ties to be held on Tuesday, August 7. Tho ' local marines left Monday for Portland, and (Continued on Page Two) EAST COAST ARRIVALS By The Associated Press Robert E. Carnlni, TS, Sprague River. Arrived on SS General Bliss, due at Boston on August 3. George P. Andrieu, T4. Midland. Arrived on SS Her mitage, due in New York on August 2. Wallace Lee, .PFC, Klam ath Falls. Arrives on SS John Erickson, due in Now York August 6. Frank E. Marlow, T4, box 445, Yreka. Arrived on SS Hermitage, due in New York August 2. pillar stago, In which they do their greatest damage. Thoao moths lay eggs In the summer and these hatch in tho fall into forms. Tho eggs are laid In vast numbers in the host plant and in the spring feed raven ously on the foliage. They do especially serious damage to bitter brush, but they also cat heavily of choke cherries, wild plums, wild currant, Jackplno, and even orchard trees. The tawny caterpillars grow to be about two Inches long. Tho "tent caterpillar" (mala cosoma fragilla) derives Its name from the tcnt-llko webs In which the caterpillars are found.
