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IT Ui hour l which theae word
" ar wrmn. th ncwe u aingularly
unexciting. A nun with
heart could read th lrlelyie Una
morning without a llicker ol danger.
UKRES a uni)li:
Th Bnvlcl Union Uncording U
a London dlaptchi hu been claim
ing a hmi string o( firu for a
year. Today II tot (round to the
torn.
Th official new agency Tsaa
aaya Russia u 111 first nation to
adopt anaesthetics In childbirth on
bit acal. It did not specify when
Ruuia flrat bra in umg palnleas
birth methoda. but aald lhy wart
applied In J'i million casee Iron)
1J to I MO."
... 'DAY lha Muecow radio
want all out for Russian ber.
la on of Um interview buiineue
tltat the radio people cook up from
lima to Uin, an official of the 8
viet brewery industry told the Mus
row radio reporter that Russian
beer la belter and atroiifar thau
American beer.
ALL Ruaaian beer," ha aald. "l
made from barley, but Amartrao
beer la brewofrom m,M- anrenum
, ana area potatos."
i . . a
J? OUt BODY. I frar. hu been feed-
Ing this Ruuian bear official
sum cockeyed dai. I think I d
belter enlighten him bit:
fl Isn't beer, air, thai wo Amerl
rana "brew" from malia. sorghum
and potatoes. Instead. It la
dynamic concoction known aa
WHITE MULE. Whit mula la made
not In diaullerle or breweries of
tha commonly accepted nrt. It u
put together In strange mechanical
contraptions out In tha hills, in tha
dark of tha moon, and whrn paoplr
taka a. drop or ao too much of It
thay climb tre and bark Ilk a
aqtUrral.
I know, air, that your vodka la
powerful, and I am aware that your
people have a tremendoua cap
city for It. I hava marveled per
sonally at th way you toaa It down
tha hatch, undiluted, for houra at
a lima. I would advise. In all friend
line and alncertty, that you do
not treat while mula In thla man
ner. Climblnf treea and barklni
Ilk a squirrel might not plea
your big ahota In tha Kremlin,
a
T THINK I ahould remind Uiii
boastful brewery commissar that
H la never wl to underratlmat
your opponent' alcoholic beverages.
There la th historic can of the
Jut chieftain, back In th day when
tha Angle and the Jute took a
hack at th British Ilea whenever
they had nothing eta exciting hi
do. On of theae raiding partial
cam bark badly battered from a
foray Into Scotland, and tha home
fnlka akrd HOW COME?
The chieftain replied (according
T 'jn Intend :
"Our beer and ale and mead have
alwaya been regarded aa Invincible,
but then Plcta and Scot played a
(Continued on Pag Ji
Mrs. Roosevelt Replies
To Cardinal Spellman In
Letter Denying Charges
HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 27 P
Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, deny
ing any "bla against th Roman
Cathnlls church," aald today ah
would "continue to stand for the
things In our government which
I think ar right."
She made th statements In
letter to Francis Cardinal Spell
man who assailed her last Friday
In a letter for a "record of antl
C'athollclsm . , , unworthy of an
American mother."
"I assure you," wrote Mrs. Roose
velt, "that I have no sense of being
an "unworthy American mother.'
The final Judgment, my dear Car
dinal Spellman, of the worthiness
of all human beings li In th hands
of Ood."
The controversy stemmed from
Mrs, Roosevelt's opposition to fed
' eral aid to parochial schools. Car
dinal Spellman aald Mrs. Rousevelt
aligned herself with backers of the
Harden bill In her June !M column
and two others. The Bnrden bill
y would permit federal aid only to
" public schools. Mrs, Roosevelt men
tioned Cardinal Bpellmana opposi
Solons Plot
Plans For
Farm Bill
Washington. July iin
Farm-mfnded senator agreed today
to try to draft a new federal farm
prsgrsm and push It threngh tha
present aieelaa al eongreaa.
Chairman Elmer Thomaa 'D
Oklai aald Ilia aenat agrlcultur
oommlttee directed a aeven-man
eubrommitte headed by Senator
Anderson (D-N. Ml to draft the
new farm bill. Th decision waa
reached at a aecond conaecuuva
cloasd-doar session.
Both democrat and republlcana
on th commute aereed that th
new propoaal Ignored most propoaala
of Secretary of Agriculture Bnuinan.
Instead, they reported general
agreement upon thu program:
I. Retention at relatively high
level government price aapparta
fee the aa-ealled Wat com mem -tlcsl
earn, wheat, saltan, tsaaeca,
rice and peensle. Mast aenstar
were aald la farae flat sap ports
al pt per cent at parity U fare,
era approve planting and mar.
aetlai. eonirota.
t lis at fleaikle prlr asp.
psrt pregram far meats, dairy
pradurta, frnlta and nther aa
eallrd nan-baal and peetahaat
fana pradnrta. 1 nder Ihla the
level f government aapparta
eavM be rataed ar eawaeed In an
attempt In eantml pradnetwn.
Malorltv leader turaa (D-Ill ). a
member of the agriculture commit
tee, told reporters outside til closed
sesiton that "well have aom kind
of farm legislation" acted upon at
thla session.
Senator Aiken (R-Vt la a mem
ber of the subcommittee that will
draft tha new propoaal and also Is
sponsor of lha ao-called long-range
flexible price-support act. approved
by congress last vear to become ef
fective at the beginning of next
year.
Aiken aald ha win work with An
dersen, former secretary of agrlcal
lure. In what Anderson called an
attempt la make "the Aiken act
mor serviceable."
Pair Return To
Oregon For Trial
RED BLUFF, Calif.. July 31 (JP
Two young men. captured near her
Sunday, were being returned to
Salem. Ore- wher they ar charged
with armed robbery and burglary.
They were Norman Belts. 21, and
J. B. Rich, 30, Carnival worker.
Sheriff Denver Young of Marlon
county, Oregcn. left with th pair
by automobile this morning.
Two girls, on 14 and the other
16. questioned after they aald BetU
and Rlrh had kidnaped them, were
released last night and took a bua
for their homes In Bend, Ore. Fo
lic aald they weren't kidnaped.
tion to the Barden bill In her
column.
Mrs. Roosevelt wrote the cardi
nal: "I have no blaa against the
Roman Catholic church." ,
She added:
"I have no Intention of attack
ing you personally, nor of attack
ing the Roman Catholic church, but
I shall, of course, continue to stand
tor the things In our government
which I think are right,
"They may lead ma to be In op
position to you and to other groups
within our country, but I shall al
ways act, as far as I am able, from
real conviction and from honest
belief."
In her reply today Mrs. Roose
velt declared, "I have never advo
cated the Barden bill nor any other
specific bill on education now be
fore tha congress. I believe, how
ever, In federal aid to education."
The Bnrden bill I a substitute
for a measure already passed by
the senste which would allow the
states to use the federal funds for
parochial and privet schools If
they so desired.
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TRICE FIVE CENTS
Secretary Of State Asks
Balking Congress To Hold
Off Arms Aid Judgment
WAKlllN'fjTOV. July 21 (Ai necreUrv f Stale Arheaon appealed
U a balking rongreae today lm aaspend judgment an tha ll,4M.oe.M
foreign arms aid bill nnlll all the evldenr la In.
Arheaon told a nev-a ronferene that polnta raised on the program
by aeveral membera ml eongreaa are aound In theory but that (hey
talked In a mlaapprehenalon af lha facta.
Evidently referring I the eaggeetlon af Senator Vandenbarg
IR-Mlrh.l thai anlv an Interim plan ahould be adopted now, Arneaon
mid It la a good Idea la have an Interim program.
But be drelared that la exactly what Iba administration haa pra
poaed. Tha evidence at whlrb Arheaon epoae will be presented to eongreaa
beginning with hla appearance befer th bauee farelgn affaire com
mute tomorrow.
Dlaruaalng (hat appearance, the secretary refused ta answer di
rectly a rr porter's Inquiry aa la whether Ihe I'nlted Hlale government
haa Information "that the Russians are actively preparing for war."
Arheaon aald that waa what h called an af these landed numbers.
If he replied yea, the reporters would make a lot eat af that, he
aald. and If he replied no, they would make a lot out mi that; aa hla
deriaioa waa la make aa comment at all la direct reapanae.
Reception of thla propoaal a
appeared likely to be ao mew hat
leaa host lie than by th combined
membership of th senate s foreign
relatione and armed service com
mittees. Opposition Seen
Early checks Indicated a aub
stantlal majority of thai group of
31 senators will oppose th Il.tM.
OOO.OOO program. Moat of them ap
parently will insist upon much
leu expensive, stop-gap action un
til the projected North Atlantic
council can art up a committee to
map over-all defense of non-com-munut
areas In Europe.
Senator Bvrd ID-Va I and
Bridgra (R-N H i Joined the ranks
of thus oppoaing tha president s
propoaal. Both ar members of the
armed services committee and both
voted for ratification of the At
lantic pact
Bridge called tn pemtaenl'a ra
e,aeel far aethartty la Band arena
anywhere n doema aeecaaary a
"blank check demand."
"Thla p r a g r a m haa not beei
thaaght aat tram a defense aland
paint and II at In direct vtalatlao
at lha Atlaatt pact, which en-
vlaaan a nawtntU def eoae plan.
Bridgaa tald a repartee.
Bvrd said merely that he Is
againe the propuaal and will plan
hu opposition when th commit-
leaa ar told mor about It In
closed hearings.
Th stat department ha prom
ised to tell member of eongreaa
what It knowa about Russia's war
potential. II alao plana to supply
specific figures about what each
ally nation would receive In the
way of arm.
Hawaii ILYU
Threatens
Coast Tie-Up
HONOLULU. July 21 (AV-CIO
strike leaders renewed threats to
day to Invoke a west ooaat blockade
against Hawaii shipping handled
under proposed emergency legisla
tion. Oov. Ingram M. SUInback told
the legislature In opening a special
session yesterday to Ignore such as
sertions by spokesmen for the strik
ing International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's union.
But ILWU's Henry Schmidt came
right bark with:
"If strike breaking apparatus Is
set up here, no matter how It Is
done, the west coast will cooperate
with ua so the strike wont be
broken."
Hawaii's six ports hare been tied
up M days by the ILWU demand to
Increase pay of 3000 longshoremen
from II 40 to 11.72 an hour. Before
negotiations collapsed weeks ago.
the employers offered I1.&2.
Key bill before the legislature
seeks authority for Stalnbark to
take over essential Industrlea and
run them under civil service as
public utilities If labor disputes are
not settled during a IK day cooling
oft period. The right to strike would
be restricted In hospitals, sugar and
pineapple operations and the docks.
Yugos Holding
Red Citizens
LONDON. July 37 (P Russia
has demanded that Yugoslavia re
lease al Soviet clllsens she charges
have been Jailed, beaten and "doom
ed to starvation" In reprisal for
Moscow's critical attitude toward
Yugoslav Premlrr-Msrshal Tito.
A protest note "Insisting" on re
lease of the Russians was broad
cast last night by Moscow radio.
It was another demonstration of
the wide rift between the two
countries, resulting from Tito's
quarrel with th Soviet-led com
munist Information bureau (corn
inform). Russia announced during the
week-end she had rejected a Yugo
slav protest Over the Soviet atti
tude toward Tito's claims tor ter
ritory from Austria at the recent
Paris big four foreign ministers
meeting. Russia dropped support
of the Yugoslav claims.
IO KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
Spangler
Mill At Bly
Shuts Down
Th laal log. al least an til next
year, pa sard thraagh th Kpangler
Lamber company aslll at Bly yeafee
day and the mill which baa keen a
principal payroll aaare al Bly ha
Officials at lh reinsert-Spangler
lumber Interest said that Ihe
company waa sst at lag far that
mill and that Ihe plant might as
reopened Beat anmmar If stumpage
price came dswa.
Recent offerings of Fremont tor
eat umber in the Bly area have been
priced too hkch for the current lum
ber market. Harry Schoenbcrf,
Paimerton superintendent, said. -
Tht..?.'l7"1 !" btn opCT'';ln
e ehlfi a day since June, employ.
one
Ing around H men at the plant. An.
other 23 men were contract-logging
In th woods. Schocnbrrg aald about
20 men would remain at work tn
shipping for the next 80 days, and
after that the plant will be boarded ,
up.
The milt haa a ea parity of a boat '
it. feet at In raker In an eight- j
bear ahlft It area bollt some IS
year ago by Harold Crane ot th
Crane Mills eatnpany and waa Uken
aver by William Spanglee and the
Palmortaa compaay in 14.
Closur of Ihe Spangler mill Is !
second In the Bly area. A year ago
the Ivory -Pine company discon
tinued It operations. Weyerhaeuser
Timber company atiU haa woods
work In the area and affords
payroll for the town.
Death Takes
Mrs. Ottoman
Death took a' long-time Malin
resident this morning when Mrs.
Emllle Ottoman, 7t. died at Klam
ath Valley hospital after a brief
Illness.
Mrs. Ottoman was a native of
Prague. Czechoslovakia, and made
her home In the Malin district the
past 40 years. She Is survived by
three sons. Joseph of San Diego,
Calif., and James and Ivan of
Malin, eight grandchildren and four
great grandchildren.
She was a member of the ZCBJ
lodge No. 222 of Malm for many
year. Funeral services will be held
from the Community Presbyterian
church In Malin at p m., Saturday.
Whltlock'a Funeral home is In
charge. i
IWA-CIO Wins
Car-Ad-Co Vote
The IWA-CIO won a bargaining
agency election at the Car-Ad-Co
Pelican City plant yesterday after
noon by a narrow vote margin.
Of 11S employes eligible to cast
ballots. 69 voted for the union. i2
non-union and there was one vo'rt
ballot. The union lost a similar
election last year.
Robert Wanter, representative of
the national labor relations board.
conducted the election at the plant.
Demos Say The
War Still On'
WASHINGTON. July 27 (Pi
House Speaker Sam Rayburn ruled
today that "a state ot war still
exists" and congress Is not bound
by law saying It should adjourn on
July 31.
The law Is the 1946 reorganization
act. It fixes the adjournment' date
of congress as the last day In July
annually except In time of war or
national emergency, or unless con
gress provides otherwise.
Rnyburn'g ruling: was In reply to
an Inquiry by Republican Leader
Martin of Massachusetts, who aald
h wanted th altuatlon clarified.
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Eggs, Apples Fly Wfien
Pickets Appear At Food
Store Over Union Dispute
An egg- and apple-throwing epl-
eod this morning at an Oregon
avenu grocery resulted In th ar
rest ot Andy Olgler,. JS-year-old
butcher, on a charge ot disorderly
' conduct. He posted S2S ball at th
city police station.
The flurry Involved representa
tives at two local labor unions, one
a picket and the other trucker.
The trucker. Tom Fay. said he was
hit by an apple as he pulled up to
the store and he tiled the charge
against Olgler.
Russell Wilson, picket for the
meatcutters local J6 lAFLi. went
on duty In tront of the Oregon Food
store this morning as the union
brought to the front a dispute with
Olgler over his employment of a
non-union butcher In his shop.
Oiitler said he tried to drive the
picket away by tossing a tew eggs
and apples at him. and that when
Fay came he took him to be a
bodyguard the union had sent out
to aid Wilson.
Fsy gathered up one egg and two
apples as evidence and swore out
the disorderly conduct complaint
against Olgler. The butcher is sup
posed to be In municipal court to
morrow morning to answer for the
charge, but said he would like to
postpone the court appearance un
til he could go over the trouble with
a lawyer.
Olgler sad he considered the dis
pute one over Interpretation of
union agreement rules that only
union members be allowed to handle
meat. He said two other stores here
Poles Battle
Excommunication
WARSAW. Poland. July 27 (")
The Polish government moved to
day to prevent enforcement here of
the Vatican's excommunication de
cree against communist. At the
same time it announced acceptance
of a church proposal to negotiate a
church-stale agreement.
The government forbade Catholic
priests to excommunicate any Pole
belonging to the communist party,
denouncing as an "act of aggres
sion'' against Poland the Vatican's
decree threatening ex-communication.
The communist government's
statement was the first news given
tn Polish cltlrens by their news
papers and radio about the Vatican
decree.
At trie siime time tier government
announced it had agreed to n pro
posal by the Roman Catholic hier
archy In Poland "to start negotia
tions between the government and
the episcopate aiming at a settle
ment ot mutual relations."
, ;
iJ i . w -1 . wuu. ' uiwxiwv
ot trje Wong cornep and .th? big
In town, with larger meat depart
ments than his, were violating the
union agreement by hsving their
meats" packaged and sold from self
help counters. In those stores ca-h-
iera and clerks not members of the
union handle the meat before the
customer leaves the store with it, he
said.
Olgler non-union employe, over
whom the ruckus started, is Ed
Vernon, a former OTI student whom
Olgler said did not want to Join
th union. . , ....
Olgler said he told Vernon he
didn't hava to Join the union it he
.didn't want to, because other mar
ket in town ar "getting away"
with violations.
"I believe the union is afraid to
go up against some ot the big meat
markets," Olgler said, "so they hop
on a small operator."
The picketing effects only his re
tail meat market
Knife Attack
On Bus Lands
One In Jail
SAN BERNARDINO. Calif., July
27 ttP) An Oklahoma man ac
cused of stabbing two bus passen
gers and terrorising 30 others was
under obaervstlon todsy in the
psychiatric ward ot the county hos
pital. He was Herman F. Wright, 58.
ot Wapanucka, Okla., who with his
grandson, D. J. lid well. IS. was
en route to visit relatives in Rlpon.
Calif.
Sheriff's Cspt. L. L. Eblen said
that when the westbound bus was
approaching B a r s t o w, Wright
whipped out a knife, slashed his
grandson across the left eye and
subbed Mrs. Walter Dale. 63. of
Medford, Ore. Passengers subdural
him. , ... . .
Wright was taken from the bus
at Helendale. booked on suspicion
of assault with a dcsdly weapon,
then brought' to the hospital here.
He told attendants he didn't re
member anything about the affair.
Tidwell left the bus here. M.s.
Dale, after treatment tor super
ficial wounds, continued her Jour
ney. QUEEN
MOUNT ANGEL, July 27 lP)
Stella Dummer, daughter .of Dr.
and Mrs, Andrew Dummer, Mount
Angel, will be queen of the Oregon
flax festival here July 20-IU
Mar aa Tkasar. ait tl
aM SI. Law laalfhl 4a la IS.
Mas. Uslrm Mia tt
PrMlallalUa last S4 feaara a
Telephone gill
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of a 48-inch coocreta rwoe
Wooa corner north of Merrill.
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pipe port of -this, system.
Texas Town
Asks State To
Return Town
DENNING, Texas. July 27 MV
The people of this small East
Texas community are going to ask
the state- to give them back their
town.
They've Just discovered they are
trespassers or what they always
had thought was their own prop
erty. Blamed for It all is an absent-
minded citizen to whom the state
granted a patent on a 177-acre
plot back in 1884. He forgot to file
the document. Officially, title never
passed Irom the state to the Indi
vidual About 150 residents live In this
Northern San Augustine county
community. Many own or thought
they did the land on which they
live.
State Rep. Paul S. Wilson said
a sealous abstract attorney dis
covered only recently that the pat
ent ' never had been filed.
Wilson said he will go to Austin
next week to "try to straighten
the matter out." He think, the
state will give new patents on the
land to present occupants.
LONG DAT
PORTLAND, July 27 (Pi The
First National Bank of Portland and
It city branches will remain open
until o p. m. six days a week.
President F. N. Belsrano Jr.. said
the longer banking hours may be
extended to Its branches In other
Oregon towns. He said employes
will be on a five-day work week.
witn rotating days oft.
Air Force Reveals Plans
For Air Bases In Arctic
Bv ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON. July 27 (0)
The air force is talking about for
ward air bases deep In the Arctic at
which bombers could refuel on
strikes across the polar cap. ,
A cautious official reference to
this hitherto secret plan for stretch
ing the reach of bombers operating
from airfields within the United
States came to light today. In a
report on plans and money needs tor
the new heavy bomber base at
Limestone, Me., the air force says:
"A typical polar operation might
Involve aircraft taking off from
United States air bases, the stag
ing or topping off of these aircraft
at forward bases In Northern Can
ada, Greenland, or even the polar
Ice cap."
This project may explain how the
USAF can make good its claim that
the huge B-36 bomber can strike
virtually all "significant military
Trio Sought
After Tale
Of Abduction
A story of kidnaping, armed rsb-
kery and car thefl extending from
her t Sacrament I being investi
gated by stale police now, although
afrieen at both end ar Inclines!
la be skeptical.
Th event related by Edgar David
Felaa. roots J, Klamath Falls, sup
posedly happened the night nd
morning at July tl-22.
After considerable checking, state
police her arc becoming convinced
the story 1 trua and three young
men ar sought aa th Klamath
man' assailant.
Her I Pel' story of th events:
About 6 pm. Thursday. July 21.
he was driving toward town on
highway 6 and atopped at the traffic
sign at the Weed-Ashland Junction.
There a man accosted him and
asked for a ride into town. Ha
opened the door and a aecond man
appeared and both got in.
Can Fulled
Pels drove toward town about
two block and one of his passen
ger drew a revolver and ordered
him to turn the car around and
drive back to the Junction.
At the junction a third etranger
apeared and got In the ear. sliding
ander th wheel ta drive. Fries waa
placed In th middle ot the front
seat
They rode sooth thraagh Dorr Is
and aa down taward Weed and aa
Ihe way Feiss waa tabbed. First h
was asked to preduee his money and
gave ap M. Later an af the bandit
task hi wallet, extracted 17 and
returned the billfold.
They drove on through Weed.
stopped at a store south of that city
ana oougnt wieners, bread, cigar
ettea and the lake. Then they went
on south and late at night stopped
at an unidentified town on the
highway and the strangers bought a
bottle of whiskey, part of which they
forced their captive to drink. He
went to sleep.
Some hours later he woke up and
discovered he had evidently been
poked In the eye. Dazedly he asked
what had happened and was told to
shut up or he would "really get
woraea over. .
Ferns said he went back to Bleep
aad the next morning ke woke ap
tn a cabin at the b vanish Villa
motet at aaeraawate. The men. hi
ear. vateh, meney and wallet were
tone. Fsar printed names, probable
all at them phoney, according ta
Hscrsssrnao pctice.- vrere an th"
aaotel register.
Police Report
Feis reported the abduction and
robbery to Sacramento police, but
they put no credence tn his story
at first. Unable to interest Sacra
mento authorities. Feiss came back
to Klamath Falls Saturday and told
state police here the story. Thev
didn't put much stock in it until
some checking was done which sub
stantiated Feiss' details.
Outside evidence, stale police said,
revealed that three men were hang
ing around the Weed-Ashland Junc
tion the afternoon m question, and
the ear was known to have gone
through Dorri at the time Fels
said it did.
Then baa been n report at Feb
147 Chevrolet sedan being aban
doned and "John Doe" warrant
may be baaed for the three yrang
men dear rl bed by Feis.
Lewis Rejects
Contract For
Western Firms
WHITE 8ULPHUR SPRINGS.
W. Va, July 27 P John L. Lewla
today rejected an offer ot Northern
and Western soft coal operator
for a two-year extension of his
present contract tn exchange for
dropping the three-day work week.
The mine owners ottered to give
Lewis the same terms and condi
tions until March 31, 1951.
These Include a provision that
the miners work only when they
are "able and willing."
The union described the offer
as "ridiculous."
With the rejection of the opera
tors' offer, negotiations between
United Mine Workers and th
Northern and Western soft coal
men recessed until August 11.
Similar contract talks with the
Southern Coal Producers associa
tion were recessed yesterday at
Bluefield. W. Va, until August 10,
targets on the earth from base In
the western hemisphere."
The distance from bases within
the United States Itself to potential
targets In the heartland ot tha
Eurasian continent would be beyond
the range of even the B-38. However,
the new strategy suggested In the
report indicates that the mission
would operate like thla:
A B-39, whose home field waa
Limestone or some other airdrome
In th United States, would load up
with bombs and a comparatively
light load of fuel. It would fly two
or three thousand m lea to a staging
base on the rim of the North Amer
ican continent, In Greenland or
elsewhere in the far north. There
the bomber would "top off" It fuel ,
tanks (fill them to capacity.) That
would carry the Intercontinental
bomber to the target and back to the
stanlng base or to friendly territory
beyond enemy territory.