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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE HERALD AND NEWS EMPLOY INT IN STATE DROPPED OF. SALEM, Oct. 1 ffl Employ ment in Oregon on July 1 was down 7 pen cent from the pre vious month, 3 per cent less than during last January, but 27 per cent greater than in June, 1941, the state unemploy ment compensation commission said today. The lumber and logging In dustries employed 21 per cent less than in June, 1941. Total covered employment rose from a low of 168,333 in 1940, to 236,821 in June, 1941, and reached a peak of 339,000 in June, 1943. The total in June, 1944 had fallen to 312, 000, and dropped to 290,876 last July 1. The number of employes in the construction, food process ing, lumber and wholesale trade industries is less than be fore the war, while the number in agriculture, forestry, fishing, and financial pursuits are about the same. Shipbuilding had 67,355 em ployes on July 1, compared with 84,618 last January, and 3544 In June, 1941. "Hits. Marie Wilcox, president of t)i strict 4 of the American Legion auxiliary, will be guest of honor at the regular meeting of Klamath unit, Tuesday. Ac companied by the district com mander. Bob Bryant, Grants Pass, the two will make their first official visit following the convention held last month in Portland. Mrs. Wilcox is well known in auxiliary circles and has an outstanding record of service to her credit. Mr. Bryant is a veteran of World War II. For both the Legion and auxiliary, this will be drum corps night, and all former drum corps members are urged to at tend. M. E. Cooper is in charge of refreshments, Paul Otterbein will preside for the Legion and Mrs. Alfred Petersteiner will conduct the auxiliary meeting. Mrs. Petersteiner will be of ficially installed as president. Two Men Rob Driver, Steal Cab SALEM, Oct. 1 ' (ff) Two men stole a taxicab and robbed the driver of $18 to Stayton last night. George Richards, driver for the Salem Taxi company, told state police the pair got into the cab in Stayton about 11 p. m and asked to be driven to Salem. After they were out side Stayton, they took the cab and money. The cab was found aban doned this morning near Tur ner. A Fence to Meet Every Need Made from selected 48 in. full six wood tlats, evenly spaced and woven between 5 cables of heavy wire. Colors, red or green. It's easily, quickly and per manently erected. Long last big and makes a good ap pearance. It's inexpensive, too. Just the thing for Victory Gardens. Keeps dogs hi or out) Suburban Lbr. Co. 4784 So. 6th Phone 7709 ITU JUL! fit tOO ADDITIONAL FROZEN FOOD LOCKERS Steel Construction 8 Cu. Ft. Capacity Available Oct. 1st Quick Freezing Cutting Wrapping Storage CALL 5361 for RESERVATION Brattons' Frozen Food Lockers Let Us Take Care of Your Game Monday. Oct. 1. 194S Flashes of Life ON STOMACH TIME PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1 (IP) The switch to standard time brought a long wail from the Philadelphia zoo where dinners were served an hour late. "You see, the animals go by eastern stomach time,"' said Curater Roger Conant. JOY ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Oct. 1 OP) Coach Tony Valdez was the only casualty when his team beat the cross-town rivals. He rushed jubilantly into the gym, bumped into an iron post and broke a rib. COSY PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 1 OP) A little girl watched, puzzled as a crowd jammed the aisle of a city bus. "Mother," came her shrill pipe, "what are all those people standing up for? There's lots of laps?' GONE LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (Pi State Patrolman John Shoe maker flagged an erratically driving sailor to the curb, hand cuffed him in his car, and went to the state patrol office for a squad car. When he returned, the handcuffed sailor and the automobile were both gone, he said in his report. GENEROUS KANSAS CITY, Oct. 1 William B. Moorhead, police re porter on the Kansas City Star, returned from talks given before 400 Atchison, Kas., high school students and the Atchison Rotary club with a traffic violation ticket. "You're supposed to put a penny in the parking meters there every fifteen minutes," he explained. "How would it have looked for me to break into my speech at its most exciting points to dash out and put another penny in the meter?" I ACE 1 A marine ace who knocked down three Jap Kamizake planes in two minutes in an aerial bat tle 50 miles northwest of Oki nawa April 16, has returned to the marine air depot at M i r a mar, Calif., for leave and reas signment. He is Capt. Floyd C. Kirkpat rick of Klamath Falls and is credited with a total of 5 s Jap planes shot down during 60 mis sions. He logged 220 combat fly ing hours. The Oregon ace and fellow pilots of his "Black Jacks sec ond marine air wing fighter bomber squadron, contacted 25 Jap suicide planes attacking shipping April 16. The Leather necks disposed of 151 planes in 15 minutes and the anti-aircraft guns on the ships below took care of the rest. That is where he got his three in two minutes. The Japs were diving on the destroy er, USS Laffy. None hit the tar get. Capt. Kirkpatrick hit three more Kamikaze planes in their dives over American fleet units, causing the Japs to miss their targets and crash into the open sea. Me shared one of tnese kills with another pilot. He has been awarded the Dis tinguished Flying Cross. An uncle, Lester F. Kirkpat rick. lives at 1900 Esplanade. Capt. Kirkpatrick, a 1937 grad uate of Klamath Union high school, attended the University of Oregon. 1. Returning! j i ' ' By PPu'or Demand f'- NEXT MONDAY T r'C ' (Oct. 8th) 0rfh Armory 'X' ''''' Featuring - k 'twiJ Roy Corded Jr. mi muantmtt. tiy.'"'v'-' Be sura and make a data Ml r ivmi oftMiut-J hear thi band on lllHsM-r ii iti iiiJi i'ne'r return engagement. Navy Rear Admiral Carl Trexel. the naval air station. With him were left, Lt. Cm dr. J. F. Fitipatrick and right, Cmdr. Paul F. Keim. Adm. Trexel, center, makes frequent visits to the station from his Seattle ofiice. Official Navy Photo. OUR MEN AND WOMEN I IN SERVICE E DISCHARGED Sgt. John L. Dolan of Sacra mento, Calif., has been separ ated from service with the army air forces under a pro vision which allows men over the age of 38 to request a dis charge. Sgt. Dolan is married to the former Ruth J. Walker, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker of 2950 Crest, Klamath Falls. LANDED FORCES ABOARD THE TRANSPORT GRIMES IN TOKYO BAY (De layed) Peter D. Zupan, yeo man, third class, USNR, 429 Commercial, Klamath Falls, sailed into Tokyo bay aboard this ship and landed the first occupation forces on Japan. ON SUBMARINE Gail C. Lusk, electrician's mate, second class, Route 3, Klamath Falls, served aboard the submarine USS Sailf ish on a war patrol during which she sank three ships and damaged another, to win the Presidential Unit Citation. The Sailfish defied an escort of destroyers and cruisers and a mountainous sea kicked up by a typhoon to sink a 22,500-ton Japanese aircraft carrier of the Kasuga class after a 10-hour battle. AT TREASURE ISLAND Johnnie B. Fisher, seaman, first class, USNR, of Route 2, Klamath Falls, has reported in at the U. S. naval armed guard center, after spending 13 months as a member of a gun crew aboard a merchant ship. The armed guard center on Treasure Island directs the training and assignment of all officers and enlisted personnel of navy gun crews of merchant vessels in the Pacific. ON USS LIBRA ON THE USS LIBRA IN TOKYO BAY Kenneth L. Hartley, 21, seaman first class, USNR, son of Mrs. Fritz Carl son of 3137 Cannon, Klamath Falls, was serving on this vessel, an attack cargo auxiliary, shin. when she entered Tokyo bay Officials Visit Air Station 1 O p O a o a civil engineer corps, was a viiltor to help the 3rd amphibious force carry the first seaborne unit of the navy-army occupa tion team to Tokyo. The Libra fought through 10 battles in 39 months in the Pa cific, sailing 160,000 miles on combat duty. Her only casualty was one man nicked by a ricocheting bullet during the Rcndova operation. RAISED FLAG MILLE ATOLL. Marshall Is lands J. Z. Zunwalt, seaman, first class, 2225 Beihn, Klamath Falls, was among the 200 sailors and marines who raised the American flag on this atoll the first Japanese territory formally to surrender in this war. AT TOKYO BAY ABOARD THE USS COLO RADO IN TOKYO BAY (Be layed) Arthur N. Null, 24, sea man, first class, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Null, of 208 E. Main, steamed into Tokyo bay aboard this ship to support the occupation of Japan. The Colorado, whose crew had taken her through ten invasion operations to help bring the final capitulation of Japan, had been near Tokyo before, ane sailed with American and British war ships into Sagami bay, 18 miles from Tokyo, to support the first landings of airborne troops at Atsugi airfield. GETS PROMOTION WILMINGTON, Calif. 1st Lt. Marion Foster, now stationed at the Los Angeles port of em barkation, has been promoted to captain. Capt. Foster's home is in Klamath Falls but he now lives with his wife and two children at 941 Watson, Wilmington, Calif. ... RECOVERS ABOARD THE HOSPITAL SHIP USS BENEVOLENCE IN TOKYO BAY Steve W. Sprague, 34. Klamath Falls and Redmond, civilian carpenter who was captured at Wake is land, is recovering aboard this ship from beri beri, a disease caused by lacK of proper food. He was rescued from a Japa nese prison camp by a party from the special task unit for the evacuation of prisoners set up by Admiral Halsey and headed 86 Proof 8.4 Groin iteurrai : Spirits . liTRTR CORBY'S In Klamath Falls Thursday at by Commodore Roger Simpson, famed destroyer squadron loud er, and Cdr. Harold Stasscn, chief staff officer. Sprague told a harrowing tale of torture, star vation, exposure and disease In prison camps in China and Ja pan. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Sprague of Redmond. GETS DISCHARGE BKr 1c Howard Lawrence Gill, 1211 Crescent, has been dis charged from the U. S. naval separation center, Bremerton. Wash. AT SANTA BARBARA SANTA BARBARA, Calif. PFC. Albert C. Barrett of Klam ath Falls has reported to the army ground and service forces redistribution station here for two weeks of rest and relaxa tion. The veteran recently re turned from 33 months overseas duty in the Pacific. STUDIES IN FRANCE WITH THE UNITED STATES FORCES IN FRANCE SSgt. Warren H. Foster, son of Joseph H. Foster of Kcno, and veteran of tiie Kninciana and central Europe campaigns, is now en rolled in an eight weeks' course in French language and civiliza tion at the University of Nancy, France. THREE SERVE PEARL HARBOR Three Klamath Falls navy men have been serving with the 85th Naval Construction Battalion here, climaxing, with the war's end. a long period of duty that 'began in the Aleutians. The Klamath Falls men are: Clede A. Smith, fireman, first class. 2840 Patterson street; Bernard E. Vallencour. seaman. second class, 1823 Earle, John Carothers, shlpfltter, third class, SAW JAP SURRENDER ON THE USS K1MBERLY IN TCWC UiV frl.i.tn T ailrl Con ner s mate, first class, 23, Lake- View, witnessed the formal Jap anese surrender from this 3rd Fleet destroyer. The Klmbcrly, one of the first ships to enter the bay, was anchored near the Uba Missouri, scene of the ceremony. DEVELOPING ENLARGING . PRINTING PHOTO SERVICE 111 Underwood Bldg. 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The commission, however, withdrew this suit, believing it would be better for nn Indi vidual to bring the action, Young contends nn error was made la a legislative commit tee. The atnto supreme court threw out another 11)45 law on tho same grounds, This was tho law providing for local bud gets. Two Babies Die In Blaze BUTTE FALLS. Oct. 1 ) Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wells were mourning their two baby sons todny killed in n flro Inadvert ently caused by tho Wells' older children. An older child poured denn ing fluid on a living room stove Saturday. Four of tho Wells' children ran to safety as the flames mushroomed. Mrs. Wells. across tho street at a neighbor's home, fought vainly to cross the flames Into the bedroom where her Infants were lying. Around Oregon Br Tha Associated Press Resident Biologist H. R. New- comb has completed plans for counting upstream fish migra tion In the Umpqun river ut a counting tower at Winchester dam above Roscburg. . . Malheur county crops in tho Vale nren this year are valued at su.uiui,- 606 and represent a third of tho entire county's production. . , . Civil service examinations for a permanent postmaster at Free water will be held soon. . . The University of Oregon now has 2647 students, 40 per cent abovo last year s opening week enroll ment. ... A' weed known as Rus sian napweeds has appeared In fields of the Med ford area and County Agent C. B. Cordy is di recting an eradication program, DAMAGE CEMETERY PORTLAND. Oct. 1-lT) Six Bcavcrton boys were In cus tody of juvenile authorities to day for damaging landscaping in Mount calvary cemetery by driving through lt in an auto mobile. Officers reported the youngsters admitted blame after one boy confessed his part in the cscapada to a priest. FOR THAT y .ontgomery Eight Injured In Freight Wreck THE DALLES, Ore., Oct. 1 Ml Eight trainmen worn Injured, ouu seriously, when thirteen freight curs were derailed Into Saturday in a head-on collision between two Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad freight trulns. Lawrence Chlsholm, 35, Van couver, Wash,, wns in tho hos pital hero with client Injuries. Others hud only minor hurts. Assistant Dispatcher W. A, Taylor reported tho two trains worn 12 miles from Wlshrnm, Wnsh., on tho Oregon side of thy Bend, Ore,, lino when tho wreck occurred. CIO Director Frowns On Message DETROIT, Oct. 1 UP) August Scholia, CIO director In Mlchlgun, frowned todny over a fivc-puge-long telegram from Socrotury of Lubor Schwellun bach. Tho tolcgrum wns In refer ence to tho oil walkers strike, "Schwellimbuch sent It col lect," Schollu said. "It cost mo $5.30. How would you feel about something Ilka that?" 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