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Newspaper Page TextTWO HERALD AND MEWS SERVICE SEES GAIN IN LAND WASHINGTON,, Aug. 15 (f) Production ot uregon lann couiu Jio mutcrially Improved with 10,101 man-years 01 wum, mj. iho agriculture department's soi ...H-nnuatlnn MAI-l, I l-A (A man-year of work Is the estlmato of what one man can do in a year). Since 53,398,000 acres of Ore gon'5 61,663,000 acres are for i. ...... ila arnnc mnn ca; dim W " 1 fl " " - " ' years should be devoted to those lands, me service saia. v-unuui of dune and beach erosion on iho state's shorelands would be aided by planting 3,000,000 shrubs ana pianis a ou man ........ JtCBi JVU. ..... The state Is credited with 3,004,000 acres of prime farm ' ' ing land, 1,561,000 acres suitable for occasional cultivation and 3,012,000 acres usable only for wild life land that is rough, swampy or otherwise unsuitable for grazing or forestry. Largest proposed improve ments, in acres include: contour planting, 1,936,000; crop residue management, 2,086,000; crop ro tation, l.Bio.uuu; aeierrea grat ing, 8,548,000; fertilizing graz ing land, 1,544,000; proper stock-u-iit a rano nfin- rntntinn crazing. lO.isi'.OOO; salting of grazing lanas, r,ova,uuu; seeuiug ituigc: and pastures, 2,174,000; harvest of woodlands, 3,000,000; preven tion of grazing damage, 3,000, 000; fire protection, 8,000,000; reorganization of fields, 2,868, 000. Many of the recommended im provements, such as reorganiza tion of fields, require no addi tional manpower. Klgmathites Stage Greatest Jubilee In Town's History (Continued From Page One) buildings with open doors and many people attended services to offer heartfelt thanks to God that the most terrible conflict the world has ever had was at last over. Almost every other business house was closed. Two victory dances were held, and the armory and Danceland were bulging at the sides from an overflow crowd of servicemen and their wives or girls. The city was littered with paper and the debris of thous ands who jammed the streets to proclaim the victory. About midnight the streets cleared with the exception of a few late revelers, but Klamath Falls had celebrated in tradi tional style. Oregonians planned to attend prayer services and patriotic meetings today after the hilar ious celebration last night. Gov ernor an sneu proclaimed to day and tomorrow legal holidays and called upon the people of Oregon to devote their prayers and thoughts toward building a prosperous peacetime world. Asking all churches to open their doors, Snell urged that "re joicing De tempered with com passion and prayer. OBITUARY MARK EUGENE EDWARD MECUM Mark Ellffene Edurarrt Mmim a dent of Williamson River. Ore., for the past two years, passed away at Klam ath Agency, Ore., on Monday, August 13, 1945. at 1:50 p. m. He was a native ui ounaon, ure ana was agea as years, 8 months at the time of his passing. He ii survived by his father. Mark Me cum, Bandon, Ore.; a daughter, Nona Jean Ward; a son, Gerald Edwin Mecum, of Myrtle Point. Ore.: and two grand children. The remains Will be forward ed to Bandon, Ore., where funeral serv ices ana interment Will De held. Ward s Klamath Funeral Home, 02S High, in FUNERALS MAHV TANF rni.mriri t. Funeral services for the late Mary Jane Colwell of Merrill, Ore., who passed away In this city on Tuesday. August 14, 1945, following a brief illness will be held in the First Presbyterian church i urc- " rnaay, August n, 1045. at a n. m , utth th n..r n t Fergurson, pastor, officiating. Commit ment services and Interment family plot in IOOF cemetery, Merrill, Ore. Ar- iMUKKmemx are unaer tne direction of the Earl Whitlock Funeral Home of this mj. ciiDiiua hi c invnea. MIL AND henry imniinv Funeral servlcei for the late Miland Henry Hobson who paised away in this City on Sunday, August 12, 1945. fol LT!nF n lne" of one month, will be held In the phanfll nt tha rri ukiti..i. Funeral Home, Pine at Sixth, on Thun- ux, ia. B( a p. m,, with tiie service in cnarge ot Mrt, C. M, rimms. Commitment SftrvfcKi anrf in. terment Linkviila cemetery. Friends are Classltied Ads Bring Results, riiifiiiiiiinilUMaMti . Uaa (bis .modcin vapor m.ihod ' ..... ..... prompt rth.f (,om tilt ip.smi of Bronchial Asthma. Eaay to uae . . . CAUTION-tsf.;,rf,y,.., Give Your Feet An Ice-Mint Treat Cat Happr. Coollnt Raliti For Burning Callouwa Put Sprinf in Your Step Don't groin about tired, bnrnlnl fed. Don't moan about abllouaoa. Gat buajr And live them an lca-Mlilt trat. Ktel tho com fortlng-, soothing coolness of Ic-MInt driv In, out Aery burning . . . aching tii-.dn.aa. Hub le.-MInt over Uioso ugly hard old eorns and callouses, as dlroeud. Sea now whlta. crcam.llke. medlelnal Ioe-MInt h.lps sofun them up, Get foot happy tudajr U( lci-Ulnl way, At U druggiiu. PRODUCTION Wednesday, Aug. IS. 19S Ashes Blanket Coast Fire Site FOREST GROVE, Aug. 15 M) An 18-inih blanket ot ashes rov ers tho part of Forest Grove's watershed blackened by the giant northwest Oregon forest fire, Health officials were studying the problem of the ashes, expect ed to wash into the water supply once fall rains start.. Estimates of the amount of the city's water shed destroyed by fire ranged up to 33 per cent. KF TO OPEN THURSDAY (Continued from Pace One) well as Wednesday. Big Lakes has announced that its saw mill night shift will start Thursday night and the day shift and box factory will go to work Friday morning. Otherwise, retail stores will follow the recommendation of the Retail Trades committee of the chamber of commerce and remain closed both days. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (1ft The White House today retract ed a statement that this day and tomorrow are legal holidays and explained that President Tru man merely intended to excuse government employes for this period. Press secretary (Jnarles u. Ross said that last night's state ment which held the import of creating two legal holidays for purposes of overtime pay was issued In error. Koss said in a statement: "Today is not V-J Day nor is tomorrow. As the president stated yesterday the proclama tion of V-J Day must wait upon the formal signing of the sur render terms by Japan' there fore the executive order does not apply in any way to August 15 and 16. August 15 and 16 are not intended to be legal holi days. The president merely ex- c u s e d government employes from work on those two days. "The executive order will be applicable on V-J Day when it is proclaimed. Before that date uie secretary of labor will issue a clarifying statement as to its effect." Government Sets Goals For Industry (Continued From Page One) released from the army within 12 to 18 months. All men 25 years and older were maae draft-proof. tteps were lateen to insure veterans the first cracK at Jobs py preierence. - The navy cancelled S8.ou0.00u in war contracts.-. . The army is expected to can cel more billions. m Congress was called back into session September 5 to consider higher unemployment pay, low er taxes, and other home front measures. The whole process was sum marized by Mr. Truman last flight when he stood on the White House porch and said: "The emergency is as great as it was on' December 7, 1941." The one word uppermost in people's minds today was "jobs." Manpower controls were re moved because the manpower commission has suddenly stop ped trying to find people for jobs. Tjow it must find jobs for people. From now on, government permission won't be needed to leave a job. Factories can hire as many workers as they please. The compulsory 48-hour week is aeaa. "Jobs" are the hie ouestinn In. volved in the expected release of Deiween 3,uuo,0O0 and 5,500,000 from the army within the next year or year-and-a-half. Today, Brig. Gen. F r a n k T. Hines, just before stepping out as veterans administrator in fa vor ot uen. Omar Bradlev. an. nounced that "Dreferenrte in -inh referrals is assured veterans of woria war 11." He said a committee composed of himself. Draft Director Lewis a. nersney and Manpower Com missioner Paul V MfTMiilf Mnon imo"sIy agreed that when the pj7rrj7Y7r?rri Poor Digestion? Headachy? an Sour or Upset? Tired-Listless? Do you feel hoadachy and upaet due lo poorly digested food? To feel cheerful and happy again your food must be OlgeaUd properly Each day, Nature must produce about two pint of vital digestive Julca to help digest your food. If Nature foils, your food may remain undigested leaving you headachy and Irritable. Thorefore, you must increase the flow of thla digcstlva Juice, Carttr'a Liltla ;Llver Pilla increaso thla flow quickly often In as little aa 80 minutes. And, you're on the road to feeling better. Don t depend on artificial aids to counteract indigestion when CarUr'i Little Liver I'illa aid digestion after Na ture'o own order. Take Carter'a Little Livar Pilla as directed, gat loom tt ny drugstore, Only 25C the pain or ifc T'i your money back. Fmjl 10c,50cor$1.00 I it at all drug counters y INDIANAPOLIS SINKS AFTER MB HIT (Continued From Page) One) ' Hundreds more plunged into the sea without life preservers or rafts, so that dentn quickly be gan to pick them up. Ten officers and 305 enlisted men lived through the torture. Capt. Charles Butler MeVay, III, Washington, D. C, told much of the slory of the tragedy, in a calm, undrnmntic voice, A raft saved him, And Lt. Cmdr. Lewis L. Haynos, senior doctor (wife, , three sons, Fairfield, Conn.) described tho plight of the swimmers. Clad in his pajamn top, McVay ran to the chart house and told the navigator, Cmdr, John Hop kins Janney, Baltimore, Md. now listed as missing; "For uod s sake make certain contact reports get out. , Say we have been torpedoed. Our position sucn ana such, we are sinking rapidly and need immediate as sistance." Engines Stopped The captain ordered all en gines stopped. Radiomen tried in frantic desperation to click out their appeal for help. It was no use. There was no power. Another officer tried vainly three times to instruct the en gine room to reverse the ship she was going down by the head. McVay pulled on some cloth ing and returned hastily to the bridge. Lt. K. C. Moore (home town unavailable), damage con trol officer, said. ''I don't think we are going to last long: I think we ought to abandon ship," but Captain McVay said he respond ed: "No, take another look." Laated 15 Minutes Then the ship's executive offi cer, Cmdr. Joseph Flynn, Val lejo, Calif., reported the cruiser was filling fast, and the skipper told him to pass the word: "Abandon ship. ' Flynn also is missing. "I would set an outside limit of 15 minutes, McVay related. "That is quite a liberal figure for the time before she disap peared beneath the sea." Long-Time Resident Of Merrill Passes Mary Jane Colwell, a resi dent of Merrill, Oregon, for the past 40 years, passed away at the Hillside hospital August 14, 1945, at 1:15 a. m., following an illness of three days. She was a native of Little Shasta, Calif., and at the time of her death was aged 69 years, 11 months and 12 days. Surviving are: her husband, John Colwell; two sons, John Kenneth and Leonard Glendon Colwell, all o f Merrill; one sister, Mrs. Frank Graybael, Merrill;;.two brothers, Ed Pope of. Montague, .... Calif., LeRoy Pope of Millviile, Calif.; one grandchild. The remains rest at the Earl Whitlock funeral home, Pine at Sixth. WRA Sees Early Alien Transfer PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 15 (1ft A war relocation authority offi cial' predicted today that Japa nese timid aDout leaving reloca tion camps would now move quickly back to normal civilian Ufe. Clyde W. Linville, WRA head here, said transfer of alien and Nisei evacuees might enable the WRA to. wind up its work be fore December 31, the scheduled liquidation date. U. S, employment service fills orders for jobs, "any qualified veteran shall be given priority over all non-veterans." Arrangements will be made in all U. S. employment offices to accomplish this. Cancelling of $6,000,000,000 of navy contracts also puts the emphasis on "jobs." The action will put an unde termined number of people out of work not only at the plants holding the contracts but at other plants (subcontractors) making parts for those plants. -IdMH! Mai, Pallr Opens l:0-: I Starts Thurs Pallr 4 wi ' Aaj Fighting j, Guardsman f IfVj WIUARD PARKER ' ANITA LOUISE JANIS CARTER ff JOHN 10DER EDGAR KUCHAWAN ' Jap Balloon Attack Lands 200 Bombs On West Coast (Continued From Page One) Pedro, Calif. Then the first bomb-carrying balloon cume down near Knllspoll, Mont., De cember 11, 1844, Authorities quickly Imposed secrecy on balloon landings. In vestigation showed the balloons were ,13-fool, hydrogen-tilled bags made ot five layers ot paraf fined rice paper; that they traveled at around 80,000 feet with prevailing Pacific winds, comiiitt from Japan in three and a half to four and a halt days, at BO to 120 miles an hour. Kach earned rive bombs, four inccn diaries and a HH-pounri Trunnion tatlon-type anti-personnel bomb C o m b a tting the balloons quickly became an important de fense project, under (ho army's western defense command. The army and navy set up Joint oper ations centers, from which planes were dispatched to shoot down tho balloons. Compara tively few were destroyed by planes, however. Cooperation of state and local authorities was enlisted, and the military sta tioned "recovery teams" which pursued and disposed of bal loons when sighting reports were received. Recovered bal- loons were sent to aoro-logleal laboratories at Anacostla. D. C, where they were studied. Authorities found design of the balloons, and the automatic ballast-dropping device intended to keep, it aloft until it reached this country, were so good some suspected they were of German origin. But the Japanese work manship was sloppy, and the equipment frequently failed to function properly a factor which helped make tho attacks unsuccessful. About half the bombs dronned or were dragged off before balloons were found. peak last March and dropped to a mere dribble the last two months but authorities attribute this to the fact summer winds are unfavorable for sending gas bags from Japan. After the Oregon deaths, the war and navy departments re laxed the balloon secrecy suffi ciently to warn of the danger, but restriction on number and place of landings continued. Of ficial records contain instances of close escapes from injury in other cases emphasizing the need for caution by persons find ing still unexploded bombs. Near MoxeevClty, Wash., a sheepherder found a fallen bal loon with live bombs, dragged it behind his automobile and kept it in a building two weeks before authorities learned of the inci dent. A small boy in Washington state found an anti-personnel bomb, which looked to him like a toy airplane. He wound the "propellor" the arming device in the nose until it was within one-sixteenth of an inch of ex ploding the bomb. The Jad was pretty disappoint ed when his plaything was re moved, but not more so than the Indian children near Wapato, Wash., who found part of a pa per balloon and used it to make a beautiful tepee in their back yard. They were crushed when officers snatched it away. Numerals on recovered bal loon parts ranged from low fig ures first to as high as 15,980 on those found recently. Whether this indicates that many balloons were produced, authorities don't know but it may. Incidentally, the Japanese used English numerals because numbering in Nipponese charac ters would take too much space. Kiwanis Club The usual weekly meeting of the Kiwanis club will be held Thursday noon. Speaker will be Capt. Lowell T. Coggeshall of the Marine Bar racks. Eating Problema Klamath people who eat out all the time were limited to two or three restaurants on V-J Day. The Wl-ne-ma hotel coffee shop plans to stay open until 8 or 9 p. m., unless they run out of food. The grill at the Willard will be closed until 3:30 p. m. when lt will open for dinner hours. Hani Norland Auto Insurance. Phone . 6060, rrrrn hsaarfalBSBaVaaaaaBi Opens J:o-e;(n I'honn 41)07 i f$m 7W001EN TO BE RELEASED 12 (Continued From Pago One) combat 'service and tha greatest number of dependents. "The navy plans to denuibll lie some of its personnel almost Immediately," Snyder said. "Congress will decide," he continued, "on peacetime draft pulicies when tho cessation ot hostilities is ducltirod. This apparently meant after V-J Day has been proclaimed officially, Trumm'i Stattmtnt Mr, Truman s statement last night made it clear that, pend ing determination of when tho draft will end, only men under 26 will be called up by auloctlvu service. Monthly draft calls already have been trimmed from 110,000 to 50,000 men, The army demobilization rale was estimated by President Tru man as he recommended the draft adjustments which were put into immediate effect last night by selective service. ururt Director lowii H. Hershcy said the cut in tho call means that most of tho mili tary's needs can be mot with youths turning 18. Lstimatei Selective service estimated that approximately 100,000 youths turn 18 each month. Of that group about 35,000 arc tak en as 17-year-old volunteers each month by the navy. And of the remainder 85,000 about 25 per cent or 18,250, will be deferred for physical de ficiencies. Thus available for draft under present plans would be about 48,750. 2250 STILL IDLE IN L0CJLSTIE8 (Continued From Pago One) four major lumber mills here and five logging camps. The strike figure rocketed to this number yesterday when the Pelican Bay Lumber company -was struck by CIO unionists. There was no Indication today that any agreements had been reached between struck union ists and company officials. It was rumored here today that the war labor board will authorize a slight wage increase for tho lumber industry because of a cut back to a 40-hour week. However, in the event of any wage Increase, any mill on strike will not benefit by the raise, ac cording to the rumor. Harvesters Needed On Lane County Farms EUGENE, Aug. 15 (41 Fifty one acres of beans and 140 tons of outsize culls will be lost on Lane county farms unless harv esters are obtained immediately, the farm labor office said to day. Many growers reported work ing their fields themselves day after day and all farmers said the hired help situation was desperate. MONTHS .hone 4.1 U 7 llox Office Open Itiat rontinuou Show Thii Kngmtmn; OPEN 0:40 WEKK DAYS ENDS TONITE IIS0 Directed by HENRY KING Wrlller, ey UMAR TR0TTI 2Qi cwTunr.'oit aiCTUM y -NtXl iUNUAf- ROCKNG.wllkLought,rl ROLLING , , , with Kbylhnil Ill a""W Peace Problem As Great As War, President Says (Continued From Pago Olio) Tokyo early today tlmt tho Jap anese war minister, Korcehlku Anaml, had killed himself to "atone for his failure," There was much speculation uniting far eastern exports that Hlitihlto would tibilk'utu and might ulsu commit suicide, .Mr, Truman announced the surrender at a two-minute now, conference, Ho released at tho same tlnio the text of an accept ance note which tho Japanese government had ncnt to Wash ing tun through neutral Switzer land yesterday afternoon. "I deem this reply a full ac ceptance of the 1'utsdain decla ration which siu-cKlcs the uncon ditional surrender of Japan," Mr, Truman said. No Conditions There wer iu conditions, al though tho too had sought last Friday to win guarantees that the emperor would remain a sovereign ruler, Tho nation that set out at Pearl Harbor to defeat America and conquer tho Pacific and lands beyond had caved in com pletely, With tho president's an nouncement enmu a flood of or ders; 1. General MucArthtir was designated formally as supreme commander for tho ullied pow ers the United States, Russia, uritam niul China to accept the lornim Japanese surrender, 2. Tho Japanr.su government In a message sent through Swit zerland, was ordered by Mr. Tru man to stop hostilities on all fronts and to send omluuriei to MacArthur to urrange for the surrender. 3. Allied armed forces were ordered to suspend offensive ac tion. 4. Today and tomorrow were proclaimed by the president as holidays, although V-J Day awaits the formal surrender. At Guam Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz followed through with an order to tho Pacific fleet and othor forces under his command to cease their attacks on the Jap anese. Caa Firing" Admiral William F. Halsev ra dioed the death-dealing pilots of ins iniro iieei carrier piancs to cease firing "but if you see any er.omy planes In the air shoot them down in friendly fashion." At Manila MacArthur, who had been building up an invasion army that eventually would have struck the death blow had Japan not surrendered, declared "I shall at once take steps to stop hostilities and further blood shed." But no steps taken anvwhere could make up for tho losses of lite and treasure already lost In mankind's most frightful con flict. The United States nlono could count nearly 1,000.000 dead and wounded and a money cost esti mated at $300,000,000,000. Numbtrlasa Casualties The nations of tho world to gether suffered Incalculable cas ualties; some persons put the to tal at more than 23.000.000 killed and wounded exclusive of air raid and starvation losses that never can bo known. Only six minutes before sur render announcement, the navy released for publication later last night the news that the cruiser Indianapolis had been torpedoed and sunk July 30 with the loss ot 833 crew members, If lf a "frozen" need, advertise (or in the classified. article you i used one fijn fjpgz.-$ m mm m m muim m uu m BOX OFFICE OPENS 6:45 LEAVE 38 SHIPS PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 15 (fl'l Contractu for 35 vessels sched tiled for consti'uellun at Henry J Kaiser' three war-built Port-laud-Vancouver, Wash,, ship yards have been caneollml, Kaiser spokesmen revealed to day. Tho cut-back leaves tho yards which In four years have given the Portland area Its biggest bourn In history, only 3d ves sels to be completed, most of mom on me ways or now a outdttlnu docks. Cancelled me B escort ear rleis and five t'4 tniimiioi'ls a Vancouver, night A I'll trail porta and nine victory cargo ships at Oregon shipyard, and five tankers ul Swan Island, Yard spokesmen said workers. would be relt-aaed gradually, Kaiser yards now have about tiu.000 men on the payroll from a peak ot HO.uuo In IU43, Heads Named For Fish Commission POim.AND, Aug. 15 (in M. T. Hoy was formally named assistant master fish warden yes terday by Arnle J. Suomelu, new fish warden, under a roorKiiuUa. tinn of the stale fish commission. Irvine French wus appointed director of the department of hatcheries and dsn culture, and Hugh C. Mltt-holl was appointed spec la l represent at I ve. UlihliliHfl NOW '"""tw f k,i v " NEW Tonite Two BIQ Hill Week Days compared with uus half-beast, half nan who enslaves a girl in an asylum of honor...! i f m EPAU." Or' Celebration Free Of Low Violations City pollen reported Utile or no disturbance during the hilar I. mm victory celebration ,oro ant night, Four people, were, n rested for cirmikoiincm and mm private mall boxes on 8. Sixth and Homodiilo road were knock cd over. Outside of (his there were no Miti'laiiN Infractions uf thu law. No other acts of deliberate viind'. allsm were reported and with the exception of the terrific traf. fie problem, police had a quiet night. SEATTLE. Aug. 1.1 MM-. Two men were held for luvestlgallou hero last night In connection with the (aliil shmillng of Wall er Hornai'd Foley Jr., 22, Chief of County Detectives George II. uonrer now. Tho pair hnnl cated each other when brought fact! to face, l.ohr er said, but bntli ritmU'd commis sion of the crimp. l,olm-r said hn hud Inforitinllon was paid the killer for the crime. He Identified the two men ill William Jennings Conner. 47. and Edward K. Mitchell, 27, of Tacomu, former army ulr (orccs bomnartiier. When tho pair was brought In- 7 ether, Lohror said, Cooper Itlen Iflod Mitchell as n man with whom he hud seen Foley leave club Annual 0. Ml c hell hon lnv't hnrlv wn fntmrl llih fnt. siiltl the three left together, Ko towing day bosldo a country road. Continuous Shows Open 1 2 1 3 0 Ends Tonite rMHrW m pffflwVV aMM eieMLrttlftiA ftlwm ARMM! bMVtiful tkan . BASS! ADDED Program Hp Ice CHIPS & PUTT toner!) BEAU TIES (Vomtty) ' NEWS 1 A dating titan rk: ' V TI ) &maOB USEE C Xll.