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Newspaper Page TextBULL HALSEY m DOCKS AT YOKOHAMA (Continued From Puna Ono) Nagano. I'lu'M) wore worked ovir Willi uiiny cutiintiiuH liittuiil scores of plunes destroyed or uiiinuguil on tliu ground. Humming pilots suid tlio en emy oilorvu no uli'borno opposi lion over Uiu liunulii una ono group lluw ovur Inruo fluids wllliuut clruwlng ' iintl-iilrcruit ilia. A Jiipimcsu torpedo pliino wiih shut down near lliu vast flout curly thin inornliiK, unit Admlrul Nliiuti unnoiincou unolhor hud torpedoed mid damaged u "innjor wur vessel" ut Okinuwu Sunday night. I'onio Alert Both Ntinllz unci llalsey luid iniilntiilncd u tunsu ulort ugulust possible Japanese treachery dur um lh two-day iiiivnl lull ended by this morning's smashing ut tuck. Tokyo rudlo broiidcust 11 Jnp u ue no linporliil liewUiiiirtora coinniuiil(iiu cliitmlng, Nippo nese suljiniirliios mink u large umpliuiu tender o(( Okinuwu Sunday. Iliilsey'i pilots Thurtdny nnd Krldny luid destroyed or dinn nui'd 711 enemy nlnnes nnd 1)4 mirluee crnfl In nddltlon to their July toll of morn thiin 10UI) vessels unci neurly 13U0 nlrcrud destroyed or dumiiKcd. There win no lull In fur east nlr forces assaults. More than -400 bombers mid fighters hum niered Kyushu .Saturday, sink inir or diimiiKlna ft I enemy ves- tela nnd small emit mid leuvInK the luuniifncturlng cenlrr of Ku- runic h hollow, flaming ruin, pilots related. Cien. GeorK C. Kenney declared hi xpindrnni rontlmied their atlnckit Sundiiy nnd iiwept over the enemy home, land iiijiiln today, although re ports of the damage they Inflict ed wero not yet available. No Safety Seen For Jap Sailors WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (IP) Japanese sailors nre not safe from American submarined even on ahore. The navy related todny that the sub Bnwfln wua seeking tar Beta In the vicinity of Dai to Shlma In the Pianpo biiolo is lands when It apottcd a Jnpa- neiie cargo ship beside a pier. On the pier wbs a Inrge bua be ing loaded with a naval liberty party. "When the debrlx from the blast of the Uowfin's torpedoes had acltled. little remained of Mho pier, and nothing at all of the cargo ihip and the bua, load of Japs," It added. The Bowfin la commanded by Commander John Corbua, of Vallcjo, Calif. Fire Fighters Work On Trails PORTLAND. Aug. 13 (IP) More thnn 150 fire flghtera nnd aeveral bulldozers worked todny to Iny trnlla around the 900 acre Codnr creek blaze In Warm Spring Indian reservation, atlll out of control Crews had checked other firea In the reservation. Pntrola kept a wary eye on the 3800-acre Sit wnlder bulto nnd the Mill creek rnnyon fires, amoldcrlng behind fire lines. A 00-ncre flnrcup which threntened the Slnnnsho Indian school wns being mopped up. Low humidity hampered fire fighting operations In tho reser vation. A mist which hung over Portlnnd yestordny did not reach to the firs areas. Vet Beheads Wife With Bolo Knife SEATTLE, Aug. 13 (Pi Earl Victor Hnrtley, 47, wns held on an open chnrgo In county Jail to dny after he admitted1 wielding the souvenir Filipino bold knife wiiiv:ii ij;ui-mii:ii inn mill m inu blows Saturday, Sheriff ' Harlan S. Callahan said. . Tho woman wns killed as she ran screaming to a neighbor's house. Hnrtley told - authorities ho had a modlenl dlschnrgo 'from tho armed forces nnd that he wns "psychoneurotic," . . Calliihnn snid he asked Hart lev his motive and sot this re ply: "To tell you tho truth, sher ff. I don't rightly know. Will you step on this cigarette for nic7 ... OTTAWA,: Aug. 13 (P) Tho United States is tho only coun try which knows nil tho details of tho ntomio bomb but- tho- In formation would be mndo avail able to Cnnndii and Britain If I liny should nsk for It, Munitions Minister C. D. Howe snid today. While Canada made essential parts of the bomb, tho Canndinn government for rensons of secur ity decided not to ask for com plete details of the bomb and llin United Kingdom followed a similar course, Howe told a press conference. WHY BE FATA? Get slimmer without exercise You mny lose pounds onrl livc more slriiidfr, Brnrefnl fimire. No f srrcliiliiR. NnlnxHilvft. Nodrmi. With (hli AYDH plan ymt don't ml out nny inraU, lurches, no I st of i, tnrMn or Imtier, you nlm rly cut lliem down, it taplrr whnn .you iioy rlcllclrtin vtt mlnforilfled) A YDS before mU. JiV f 'I' AVDS. .10-day pipp i.is. Mmtv turk on ths very Brit bot m't get mull. Prion EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued from Pngo Ono) strain with oojiiil courtesy, frlendlhiesH mid consideration enM'cliilly if It hud lost hundreds ot thiiusiimls i)l houses by doiiid Ing and had done relatively little new wur building of even a temporary nature. we nope, oi course, linn ii could bo dono. It WAS done, In a minor sort of wuy, during the UNCIO conference. Wilt lliu con ference wns a ureal, glittering how, in lis outer aspects. Wind. London Is going through ih ine AFTERMATH of wnr, and bus little enoimh of ulltler or glam our. In the buck of tho mind of every Lrnuloner who Is living In jummod-ln, niiuletiiuio quiii'icra must be this thuuKlit whun he sees n foreigner: "If It weron't for this blighter, I might huvo a place to live." And yet they tuko It nnd al most seem to like It AFTER, that Is, YOU brouk the Ice. Seldom, If ever, docs tho casually-met Briton apcuk first. But when you break in in the breezy Americun manner nnd stnrt n conversation they' tbnw out at once and from there on all Is well. 4-CflR SMASH PUTS (Continued From Page One) aecond car, apparently did not aeo Dirk's signal and crashed in to the rear of Blrk's cur as It wns turning, throwing It Into the ditch on the opposite side of the rond. The third cur In tho line of truffle was so close that it could not stop and rammed Into the rear end of the enr driven by Snnrr. Willy Dingier was driv ing this car. K?lth Smith, driver of the fourth automobile, could - not stop In time and smashed into Dingier a car. Stone received severe fncinl nnd body gashes and Birk nnd two women passengers were knocked unconscious and one of the women was thought to hnve a concussion. The Blrk party was returning from a show in Klamath Fails when the accident happened. Blrk's car was almost a total wreck and hnd to be towed Into town. V-J To Give Green Light To Reconversion (Continued From Page One) meat and sugar, will stay under controls for some lime uccause of continuing military require ment. Consumer Roods Volume pro duction before the end of this yesr, particularly of such smnll Items as toasters, Irons and other homo appliances. At least 3Uu, UUO passenger cars, double the number planned originally, are expected. Refrigerators and wanning machines also aro like ly to be in good supply Into this year. Price and rent controls Due to be retained for at least six months, possibly a year on a lim ited scale. Manpower Government offi cials! estimate at least 5,000,000 war workers will lose their jobs within six months after V-J Day. They mako no prediction how long It will be before these workers can be absorbed in civil ian production. Travel Troop mobilization Is expected io prevent lifting of re strictions for at lenst 00 dnvs. Steps nre being taken to trim drastically the current $48,000, 000.000 annual rnto of munitions production. Over tho weekond the navy halted construction of OS ships thai would hnve cost si.2Utl.UOO.000. and the armv in dlcatcd its purchasing would be cut more than $25,000,000,000 on n yearly basis. With even more-cut backs to come, production officials e s t i mated that manufacture for mil itary purposes would plummet to a rate of around $12,000,000, 000 a year within a few weeks niter dnnan fo ds. T h s exnendi Hire would bo mainly for main tenance and repair and for ex pcrlmentnl projects. Lakeview Man Wins Gold Star SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 W) Excellent rcconnnissnnce work on iwo Jimn has won Set, John. E. Bnxter, 25, Lakeview, uro., me uoid star in lieu of a second Bronze Star medal, the mnrlqo corps Information office announced today. Baxter, scout serscant with the- 23rd marine regiment, was accorntcd at the pacific base. M EVErtV Q WEDNESDAY ' !S Io 1-!:I6 I CHAY 9HEHBU1?CK8 I I and hit orchestra I BIG LAKES WOODS (Continued from Pugs One) - labor's no-atrlko pledge. Repre sentatives of muiiagcmont huvo suit! that the strike does not con form to the procedure set up in tho wur labor disputes law (Smith Connelly act.) Vernon Chntfc, UIU official, said that "wo do not consider the strike Illegal." So far as tho no-strike plcdgo Is concerned. Chase averred. tho feeling is whuro tho life of any union is jcopurdlzed, tho no strike pledge becomes unwork ublo, The life of this local union wns being Jeopardized by con tinuous violation of the main tenance of membership provision In contracts with several com panies Involved. So far us 1 am concerned, I am only attempting to keep people posted and the ficople on strike are the ones wno nstlgotcd tho strike." Cbaso raid tho union had met with a number of companies to discuss the strike Issues, with tho exception of WcycrhacuBcr. Ho said Weyerhaeuser refused to meet until the men are back, nnd also refused to negotiate before the strike was called on the question of union shop. Strikers hnve said they are fighting for a union shop In the various CIO operations here and for a raise from a bnslc 871 cents an hour to $1.15 an hour, Conference The latter question - was the subject of a negotiation confer ence held hero today by repre sentatives of 13 companies and the CIO union, but this confer ence was slated before the strike and did not result from it. Last March, CIO unionists asked for $1.15 an hour from these companies. Following reg ular procedure, Conciliation Commissioner George Brewer come here today in an attempt to effect an ngrcemcnt. This fnlled at the conference, nnd it Is understood Brewer will now report to the secretary of labor who will certify tho question to the war labor board as a dispute. The companies Involved in this matter are Weyerhaeuser, Kcs terson, Big Lakes woods. Chllo quin Lumber, all In Klama'.h county: Shevlln-Hixon company and Brooks-Scanlon, Bend; Och ocho Lumber company, Prine- vllle: Med ford corporation woods, Medford; Sugnr Pine Lumber compnny, Ashland; Tite. Knot Pine company, Redmond Pacific Woods Products, Grants Pass; Rogue River Box, Grants Pass, and McCloud River Lum ber company, McCloud. Eisenhower Lauds Soviet Desires MOSCOW, Aug. 13 lP) Gen. Eisenhower told a press com enco today Generalissimo Stalin hnd said things .during their so cial 'meeting here which con vinced him Soviet Russia's para mount desire was to be friends with the United States and her people. He snid he was unable to dis close details of the meeting, but he was visibly Impressed. Elsenhower declared he had not halted his troops at the Elbe or anywhere else last spring be cause the red army, of Stalin re quested it. USO To Sponsor Tuesday Broadcast' Another of the radio broad casts which originate from the new USO clubrooms will be heard over tho local radio sta tion on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The broadcasts, which are a production of the USO Radio club, include talent from all three branches of the armed rervlce as well as civilians. The programs arc open to the public and people arc asked to.be at the clubrooms by 7:50 to insure complete silence when the pro gram goes on the air. Henry Hobson, Porter At Local Barber Shop, Dies ored mun, was claimed by death Sunday, August 12, at 10 a. m., after an Illness of 10 duys. lie is mourned by friends tho length of Mnln street, where he was culled "friend" by scores of both OP A Stops Ration Book 5 Printing WASHINGTON. Aug. 13 Iff-) The OPA has hulled printing of 1B7,000,000 new ration books for food, shoes and gasoline, It was learned today. The stop order covers war ra tion book five for meats, fats, dairy products, canned foods nnd sugnr, and a new "A" gasoline book. Both had been scheduled for distribution In December. Tho -order halts work on the books pending outcome of peace negotiations. If Japan quits the stop order will become perm anent. The action was taken, It was explained, because there are suf ficient stamps in books now In use to carry through to about the first of the year. In the case of gasoline, rationing is ex pected to end within a week or two after V-J Day, The other programs are expected to con tinue longer. The OPA spokesman said thnt of 150,000,000 planned, only "a very few copies" of ra tion book five have been printed. Actual printing of 37,000,000 gasoline books hns not begun, but designs nnd engravings have been completed. Atom Bomb Kills Hiroshima Mayor ' SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 (Pi The mayor of Hiroshima and two other high officials were among the thousands killed when the first atomic bomb attack in history wiped out 60 per cent of that city, the Japanese Domei news agency reported today In a broadcast recorded by the fed eral communications commis sion. The official victims were list ed as Mayor Senkichi Awase, Kunio Hawamoto, secretary to the Chugoku superintendence general's secretariat, and Ta dashl Yoshida, director of the prefectural communications1 bu reau. Irou Aklyoshl, perfectural production chief, is still missing. UNVEILING HELD WITH 25TH DIVISION, LU ZON, Aug. 13 fP) Gen.-Walter Kruegcr. 6th army commander, unveiled a monument on Balete pass today honoring the memory of 25th division soldiers who died in the three-months-long Cnraballo mountain battle for tho gateway to the last Impor tant Japanese stronghold in the Cagayan valley. ' Hans Norland Fir Insuranet. Phone 6060. white nnd colored folk, and chil dren of all nationalities. Since coming to Klamath Fulls 18 years ago, Mr. Hobson has been employed as porter with Swanscn's barber shop, 623 Main. Mr. Hobson came here from Pendleton where he was a mem ber of the Masonic lodge. He was an ardent sports fan with a keen Interest In wrestling mutches. He is survived by his wife and stepson. Funeral arrange ments are pending at Whltlock's funeral home, Truman Presents Medal To Byrnes WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (JP) For his services as war mobiliza tion director for two and one- half years, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes received from President Truman today a Dis tinguished Service medal. Standing on the dewy crab grass in the White House rose garden, the chief executive read a citation which said "he did not hesitate to support unpopular measures essential to the sue cessful prosecution of the war." Cow's Record Nets Trophy CORVALLIS, Aug. 13 lP) Rinda Glow Charm, 13-ycar-old cow owned by Mrs. Frank Schutzwohl, Grants Pass, re ceived a production trophy at the annual Oregon Jersey Cattle club meeting yesterday. The cow's record was best In the state for 1944. She produced 872 pounds of butterfat in 305 days. Linn-Benton County Jersey Cattle club won the Hulbert trophy for outstanding spring 1045 show. SOVIET THRUST TS DFJ JAP BUFSDER (Continued From Page One) stormed ashore 90 miles south west of Vladivostok, also men aced the port of Scishln, 36 miles southwest of Rashln. Tokyo, broadcasting a com munique of the Kwantung army, said tho new soviet Manchurian drive was launched from outer Mongolia across inner Mongolia, and aimed at the Yellow sea. Llnsi, southwest Manchuria road center and air base, was report ed imperilled as the Russians hammered across a mountainous caravan route from Wuchumint- sln in inner Mongolia, 150 miles to the north. Should the Russians capture Linsl and drive on to the Yellow sea coast 240 miles farther southeast, the enemy would be isolated in China. The town Is 197 miles from the China fron tier and only 70 north of the northernmost rail line linking Central China with Mukden in Manchuria. Marshal Kirill A. Meretskov's first far eastern army smashed anead 2Z miles in Manchuria aft er capturing Hunchun, 37, miles north of Yukl, the soviet war bulletin said. Tumen, Junction city 27 miles to the west, con trolling rail routes from Central Manchuria to beishin. was en dangered as the Russians surged ahead on a 230-mile front north and northeast of Hunchun. Towns Hit ' Seven other towns were swept up in hard fighting through the rugged coal mining regions of Chientao and Mutankiang pro vinces. At the same time Marshal Ro dion Y. Malinovsky's Trans-Bai- Monday, Aug. 13, 1945 HERALD AND NEWS THREE kal army on the western side of the vast Russian Manchurian front broke across the great Khlngen mountain range and emerged on the eastern sloDes at a number of unidentified filaces. The Japanese commun que indicated this drive was In the area west of Tuchuan (Llch uan), 240 miles west of Harbin, nnrl thnf thn Rtieslnn- UaA mA advances of 50 to 106 miles in a l!" 8 colorful ceremony at which British Order Honors Nimitx ABOARD HMS DUKE OP YORK, Aug. 10 (Delayed W) . Great Britain today conferred one of its highest honors on American fleet Admiral Nimitx day In the area. Last Rites Told For Hi Johnson 13 SAN FRANCISCO. Aug, (IP) Californians will pay their last respects today to Hiram W. Johnson, the state's late United States senator, A train bearing his body was scheduled to arrive at Oakland. Aboard were Mrs. Johnson, Lt. Col. Hiram W. Johnson Jr., 18 senators and 18 representatives. An automobile procession led by highway patrolmen will pro ceed to San Francisco wherei services will be conducted by three faiths. The body will lie In state in the rotunda of the city hall for memorial services at 2 p. m. The rites will include an eulogy by U. S. Senator Sheridan Dow ney and addresses by Governor Warren and Mayor Roger Lap ham of San Francisco. COMMANDER VISITS PORTLAND, Aug. 13 (IP) Ed Scheiberling, American Legion national commander, will visit Portland September 6, National Vice Commander Dan McDade was informed here today. he received the Grand Cross of the urder of the Bath. In recognition of Nlmltz' naval leadership in tho Pacific, Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser, commander-in-chief of the British Pnciflc fleet, himself a knight of the ancient order, presented the gold medal lion five pointed star to the American admiral on behalf of King George. 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