TWO HERALD AND NEWS
Monday. Augr. 8, 1945
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and namesake left San Fran
cisco last night.
Senator McKellar (D-Tcnn.),
president of the senate, today
will appoint a committee to at
tend the funeral of the silver
haired veteran.
Work Resumed On
Soil Erosion Plans
ROSEBURG, Auk. 6 VP)
Work has again started on six
Douglas county soil erosion pro
jects halted by the -war, the
army engineers reported today.
Congress has approved a
$176,000 appropriation for pro
jects at Winston, Melrose, Reeds
port, Gardiner, Loon lake and
Smith river.
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cloudinrai todav, tonight and Tuesday,
with a few light ahowera over the Cas
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Japan forwarned that the big
bombers were coming on a mis
sion of death was unable to
offer effective resistance while
the industrial areas of Nish
inomtya, Imabarl, Maebashl and
Saga and Ubc Coal Liquefaction
company burned and fell apart
from 3850 tons of incendiary and
explosive bombs dropped by
fleet ol 580 bupenorts.
Yesterday air raid sirens
screamed throughout Tokyo in a
warning that 100 P-51 Mustangs
had returned to strike terror
with rockets and machineguns
against anything they could find
in tne Tokyo area.
Radio Tokyo said 150 Mus-
tangs carried the assault into
the daylight today with an at
tack on the Tokyo area.
A single Japanese fighter
watched them come yesterday
and then fled from tne skies.
10,500 Tons Dropped
The B-29s in two raids August
2 and today have sown 10,500
tons of dreaded fire anddemoli
tion bombs on Japanese cities
in warnings to the people of
Japan to surrender uncondition
ally. They have burned out an-
proximately 160 square miles of
war producing cities since the
first fire raid on Tokyo March
a.
Warnings Given
While the newest series of
incendiary raids has always been
preceded by warnings to civilians
to flee to safety, their effective
ness was told bluntly in a single
sentence in General Spaatz' com-
unique which, reporting on
the record raid August 2. said:
"First photograohs available
on results of the B-29 strike in
the early hours August 2 show
that the industrial area of Toy
ama was totally destroyed."
Toyama, with a pooulation of
1Z7.000, was the third largest
city on Honshu fronting the
Japan sea, and had the empire's
largest aluminum plant.
MOVE FURNISHINGS
NEW PINE CREEK Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Gooch and family
of Lakeview started moving
their household furnishings last
Wednesday down into the Frank
Ross property, where they will
make their home until they are
able to build. Gooch has pur
chased the late L. C. Vinyard
blacksmith shop and garage and
plans to open for business just
as soon as he gets located. He
has also purchased the vacant
lot just east of Mrs. Hazel Vin
yard's residence where he plans
to build a new home.
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Dies At Portland
CORVALLIS, Aug, 6 P)
Last rites were planned today
for J. F, Schouk, 45, for seven
years superintendent of the Cor
vallis public schools, who died
at the Veterans hospital in Port
land yesterday,
Schvnk, past president of the
Oregon Superintendents associa
tion, has long been active in the
American Legion.
His widow, the former llllonc
Underwood Meyers of Grants
Pass, a son, John, a daughter II
lione, and a stepson Lawrence
Underwood, survive.
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mook burn 'is not known. The
perimeter surrounds possibly
240.000 acres. The interior is
dotted by large and small spot
fires as well as maor blazes.
Possibly more than 160,000
acres have been blackened.
GRANTS PASS, Aug. 6 UP)
Electrical storms of Sunday af
ternoon and early this morning
started 17 small fires in the
Siskiyou national forest, H. C.
Obye, supervisor, said today
Fire fighting crews are working
on all the blazes and by noon
today at least two of the fires
had been extinguished. Obye
said.
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Fourteen fires were burning
in the Page creek district in the
general vicinity of the Oregon
Caves and Grayback, one in the
Gasquct district and two in tne
Galice district. Eight of the fires
were started by the storm about
3 o'clock Sunday morning and
six apparently by the 4:30 a. m.
storm today.
Four of the sisKiyou fires
were reached by smoke Jumpers
from the Redwood ranger sta
tion, Obye said. The men were
also sent to jump to one of the
blazes in the Rogue River for
est. Eight smoke jumpers were
used on the fires.
None of the fires had made
any serious run by noon today,
Obye said, adding that he is
confident the crews can stop
them before much damage is
done.
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ROSEBURG. Aug. 8 (JP)
Electric storms early today over
Douglas county set 15 known
forest fires while men are hurry
ing to scenes of other charted
strikes, protective agencies re
ported today. Eight known fires
are burning north of Diamond
lake in the Umpqua national
forest, it was reported this morn
ing from forest service head
quarters here. All arc small and
are expected to be under con
trol today, utner ugntning
strikes in that area are being
Investigated. Three fires are re
ported in the worth umpqua
district and one in the Bohemia
region. These fires also are small
and have caused little damage.
Three Strikes
The Douglas Forest Protec
tive association obtained quick
action on three strikes in the
Dutchman Butte area south of
Camas valley, reporting all un
der control. Men are being
rushed to smoke sighted in the
Green Butte area of the South
Umpqua district.
Rainfall accompanying the
storm was too light and spotty
to aid in fire prevention, fores
ters reported.
Atomic Bomb Test
Held In Desert
LOS ALAMOS, N. M., Aug. 6
(JP) The atomic bomb, dropped
on Japan for the first time to
day, was previewed by scien
tists and military authorities in
the New Mexico desert July 16
when a test sent a ball of fire,
many times brighter than the
mid-day sun, billowing skyward
and set off a blast which rattled
windows more than 150 miles
away.
The steel tower from which
the test was detonated was va
porized. A huge sloping crater
was left where the tower stood.
Men outside the control center
more than five miles away were
knocked down by a heavy pres
sure wave.
Witnesses said a huge multi
colored cloud was ser.t 40,000
feet into the stratosphere in five
minutc3.
The blast, at 5:30 a. m. at a
remote location on the Alamo
gordo, N. M., army air base,
caused consternation throughout
southwestern New Mexico and
southern Arizona.
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made safely. Plants were do
signed so 1 1 wit all the complicat
ed operations wcro performed
by remote control behind heavy
concrete walls.
So complete were tho safety
precautions, officials added, that
they protected workers "against
even the fear of danuvr."
The project Is located In ccn-
nui iiMiiiiKiun siaie, ociwcou
the Cascade mountains and the
Columbia river, In a particularly
isolated area of gray-green sage
brush and dry water courses.
The plant was constructed by
the E. 1. DuPont Dencmours
company, which also has tho con
tract for operating them. Tho
Hanford Engineering works, a
DuPont division, has direct
charge.
Although residents of this lit
tle sagebrush-surrounded hamlet
knew the secret project was
something highly important,
they were as much surprised as
the rest of the world when Pres
ident Truman announced t h c y
had been producing atomic bomb
materials.
For two years, the govern
ment has been recruiting work
ers all over the nation for the
Hanford project, of which Rich
land became the residential cen
ter; Pasco the official headquart
ers, and several smaller cities
the mystery-shrouded nerve cen
ters in the war's greatest secret,
Secr.cy Pl.dg.
The army employed public re
lations officers to tour news
paper offices reiterating pledges
of secrecy. Mysterious directives
issued from censorship authori
ties simultaneously with mic
advertisements all over the coun
try calling for unskilled work
ers, electricians, millwrights and
specialists by the hundreds and
tne thousands for the Hanford
project.
Just how the mvstcrv-shrourt-
cd project would aid the war of-
lor provided a major eucss ine
contest throughout the Pacific
northwest. It was known tho Du.
Ponts had something to do with
it. It was known that armed
guards turned visitors back on
highways and side roads miles
and miles from the center of the
exclusion area.
It was rumored that whatever
was brewing in the Scabrock
country hereabouts was sn hush.
hush that workers knew only
ineir own small part of tne pro
cess and had no idea what the
finished product could be.
From time to time military
and war production authorities
complimented the newspapers
and the citizenry on their pa
triotic success In discouraging
speculation and keeping the se
cret. That whetted curiosity.
It isn't hard to keep a secret
if you don't know what it is
yourself.
And the most that the general
Hess Named For
U. S. Attorney
PORTLAND, Aug. 6 (IP)
Henry L. Hess, La Grande, has
been recommended as Oregon's
U. S. attorney by democratic
national committeeman Lew
Wallace. Wallace wired the
recommendation to Richard R.
Nacy, national committee vice
chairman, after Elton Watkins
announced Saturday he had
withdrawn as a candidate.
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Claudette COLBERT
public knew was contained In
newspaper accounts a year ago
last April when correspondents
were allowed lo visit ltlchliiiul.
About all they ieiii'iit-d and all
they revealed was that (hero was
a vast exclusion area compris
ing nun e than IS townships ami
more than half a million acres
over hero In llenton, Grant and
Franklin counties every aero
of it purchased by tho govern
ment. They found this area under
tliu uli-einbruclug supervision of
tho army engineers,
They knew homesteaders had
been displaced; lungtimo agricul
tural and other operations ended
by the urgent requirements of
an Isolated center tor some great
secret.
They wero told that there
would be no peacetime use for
tho secret.
And that's about where the
matter stood until this morning
when tho president of the Unit
ed Slates announced that:
"The force from V h I c h the
sun draws Its power lias been
loosed against those who
brought war to tho Far East."
FAMOUS 1ST HOLDS
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all are men who made the initial
landing on Guadalcanal.
Nine marines won the coveted
Congressional Medal of Honor
for heroic deeds on Guadalcanal,
two of the men having been
stationed at tho local Marino
Barracks at some time during
the past year. Tho two were
Major Joe Foss and Captain
Mitchell Paige.
Other Medals of Honor were
awarded to Sgt. John Basllone,
the first enlisted man to win the
Congressional Medal in this
war, Lt. Col. Harold W. Bauer,
Major Kenneth Dillon Bailey,
Lt. Col. John Luclen Smith,
Lt. Col. Robert E. Galer, Brig.
Gen. Merrltt Edson and Gen.
A. A. Vandergrift.
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'Hornet' Limps Home
After Strike By
June Typhoon
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Newport News, Va August 30,
l-l:i, and alter the shortest
shakedown cruise In carrier his
tory was in iii'tlon agiiliiHl the
Japanese cvactly seven months
Inter,
Under lli-iii' Admiral (then
captain) William I). Sample, l'en
sacola, Fla.. tho Hornet went in
to the Miirliinas, Iroui Guam lo
tho lion I n ami Volciino Inlands,
through tho battle of the Philip
pine sea, to Pagan anil the Doo
ms again, lo Knlwotok anil hark
lo tho Ikmlns, She was In the
Guam Invasion, then hit Yap,
Ulllhl and the lloiilns again.
As part of tusk (nice all and
flagship of Itear Admiral J, J.
(Jocko) Clark, she was into (he
Ikmlns so often the men formed
a "Jocko J linn development cor
poration" for the purpose of "de
veloping and selling shares In
real estate wilhin 000 miles of
downtown Tokyo."
After the successful Mailanus
operation, Captain Sample was
mado a real admiral and suc
ceeded as the Hornet's skipper
by Capt. Austin K. Dovle. I'ensa-
colo, Fla., who took her through
Me subsequent campaigns,
These Included strikes In tho
Philippines and Okinawa, sup
port of landings In tho Philip
pines nd, In Fobruary, 1944,
great carrier atrlkn on Tokvo
For two days Ihn lilu ,(,"
sleuiued uiirliallonucd 200 mil,.,
off Ihn const of Japan, imiiiliij
her planes In to spinad deniiu
lion. Later In February she t,)0u
part in tho I wo Jlmn Invnnlon
On Faster Sunday tho llornit
was off Okinawa again, this tl,,,,
for the Invasion of tint Island. On
April (17, mini) than noil j,,,,,,.
nesn planes attacked Clark's
group. The group accounted for
Wi of lliem, tho Hornet claim.
Ing more than a third of thus
destroyed.
The llornel's last major net Inn
was the destruction by her
planes of a hiigo new .la'punes
aircraft factory on (ho home in.
laud of Kyushu hofnro It ImJ
limit lo manufaclure n plane,
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NEWDKHG, Aug. 0 Ml In.
Juries received In an nuto-mnlor-cycle
collision wero fatal yesler
day to Wlnfied Mace, 211, who
hud beep riding on a cycle driv
en by 10-year-old Alllllo Dure.
Dare was only slightly injured.
A widow and three children sur
vive Mace,
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