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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.