BULL 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
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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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