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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1960)
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Tuesday, January 26. IfJRO PAGE FIVE Aide To General Of AF Almost Shot MacArthur Shortly After War Began By COL. ALLISON IND Written For The Associated Press (Copyright, 1936, By The Associated Press) Gen. Douglas MacArthur is 80 years old today. Except or a split-1 second, wholly unmilitary inter vention one dark night in the Phil ippines, he almost certainly would have died shortly after his 62nd birthday. And I, aide to his Air Force chief, would have been his unwit ting executioner. Very few Americans, and we de voutly hoped, no Japanese, knew the general and his party were on the southernmost island of Mind anao that night. President Roose velt's radio order that reached him in the rock heart of Corregi dor's Malinta tunnel was most scC' Local Firms Top Bidders Two areas of Rogue River Na tional Forest timber were sold Friday by the Klamath District for a total of $97,640 $2,090 more than the appraised and minimum bid .iice. Modoc Lumber Company was the lone bidder for the Scott Creek Blowdown area in the "panhandle" portion of the county, east of Cra ter Lake. It contains an estimated 1.500,000 board feet of pine spe cies, and 500,000 feet of white fir and other speciesi The company bid appraised prices of $26.95 per thousand feet for pine and $10.95 for other species. Total bid was $45,900. Ellingson Lumber Company of Klamath Falls bid $51,740 for 1,100,000 feet of pine species and 400,000 feet of white fir and other species in the Dry Creek No. 1 sale area west of Fort Klamath. Three other companies submitted bids. The timber had been appraised at $49,650, or $38.10 per thousand feet of pine and $19.35 for other species. The company bid $40 for pine and $19.35 for other species. The forest service announced Dry Creek Sale No. 2 will be con ducted sometime in March. The area contains approximately 3,800, 000 feet of timber. No breakdowns of species or appraisals have yet been prepared. Housewife Sets Submerge Mark PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) A New York housewife who spent a record 100 hours and three min utes underwater suffered nothing Morse than dishpan hands. Jane Baldasare climbed out of her windowed, nine-foot deep tank and said, "I feel like I weigh a ton." She was in the big circular tank from 10:30 a.m. Wednesday until 2:33 p.m. Sunday, eclipsing the B4',2-hour record set by Robert In gollia. Port Jefferson, N.Y. The weather outside was 45 de grees but the water was kept at 85 degrees. The 24-year-old blonde took liq uid nourishment through a tube and slept about 18 hours in the tank. ret. It directed him to take key staff officers and break out of Bataan and Corregidor before the implacable ring drew hopelessly tight. How he was going to negotiate the endless hostile miles from the Philippines to Down-Under Aus tralia with rag-tag ends of battle shot equipment was his problem. He was to reorganize in Australia and when America and her allies could spare the men, ships, planes and guns to do it with, he would fight his way back. Aside from the military need to kgep the encircling enemy in ignorance, there was the morale of those who would have to stay behind. They formed the only bar rier to the Japanese roll-up of Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific; the 'tight, bitter resistance from the foxholes leeched into the flank of the rugged peninsula and the bellowing guns on the rock at the entrance to Manila Bay had already upset Tokyo's whole oper ations timetable. But by March 1942 everyone knew what he wouldn't say and tried not to think about: Time was running out for Bataan and naming me one of five to try to fly south to Mindanao the night of March 10-11 came like a last hour reprieve from the governor. Somehow we made it and on the 12th were searching for Gen. Sharp's underground headquar ters. We wouldn't have found it without help a beautiful blend with the pineapple plantation, the orderly rows uninterrupted over the buried nerve center of Amer ican resistance in the south. There we learned Gen. MacArthur and party had already left Corregidor in PT boats. Compared with what ,we had been experiencing, Mindanao was a lush wonderland. The Japanese? Yes, they were in Mindanao. But mostly they were some miles to the southeast not like the snipers on Bataan, looking down your throat from treetop concealments. The Del Monte planation com pound quietly got ready to receive and hide the MacArthur party un til the Flying Fortresses from Australia could run through 1,500 miles of hostile air and pick them up. That night I felt I had to get away from everyone; here a .man could be by himself, couldn't he? But the night sentry ring around Del Monte was now doubled against infiltration. I put it on the line with the lanky Texan armed with a Springfield. He let me through on the promise I would not go far nor stay long. The next day the PTs came. But at the compound not a sign betrayed the presence of the new comers; the Japanese would have ripped the whole island had they been given the slightest cause to suspect. To the restless MacAr thur, restriction of any kind was intolerable. But compromise of his party's safety was unthink able. All that day he remained severely under cover. But night brought wide cover darkness. In another part of the compound I prepared to repeat my nocturnal excursion into solitude. I checked the cylinder of the hand-gun in my holster. It was a long-barrel revolver that had been fdeal for sniping on Bataan, a deadly ac curate weapon. The rich Cagayan country was WANTED! 1,000 Working Girls fo join our Earring Club! Absolutely No Obligation Just Come In And Register and Receive -8 Pair of Earrings Free - Your Choice a vast shadow under the fling of bright, clean stars. There was no moon but the night had a suffused luminosity. Peace. Peace. Then I heard something. The habits of war were ada- ment, the animal reactions instan taneous. Already I was in the ditch beside the road, gun out. The sound could have come from the crunch of a boot on the gravel road. I dropped over until my cheek was against the ground. It was warm and dry. In that posi tion man-size objects would ap pear in relief against the night sky. Japanese troops on Bataan wore battle dress with green, net- covered helmets. But in rear areas they often substituted a soft field cap raised along the midseam What I promptly saw against the stars was a shape that could have been a man wearing a cap that could have been raised along the midseam. A Filipino would have a straw hat, or none at all. And no Amer ican was supposed to be abroad outside the sentry ring. A Japan ese, then. 4 Inches at a time I got the gun in position under my left armpit to cock it without making a noise. I was betting against the shape's decision to move before I could crook my left arm for a rest and take him under aim. He was stock still. That meant he had heard me the same moment I had heard him. Slowly the sights came into position. The crown of that head gear was like a bull's-eye exactly topping the front sight. In turn, the front sight exactly bisected the V of the rear sight. I could not miss. I began the trigger squeeze. . I think I sensed rather than saw the second figure, and I rcfocused my eyes. This one was consider ably shorter and the head was in distinct. Of course they would work in pairs! There might be others. And my shot would bring a hail of sentry bullets too. Maybe I should try to take them pris oners? And then, subdued but clear at that distance in the quiet night came a woman's voice. "I don't hear it now." I recognized Mrs. MacArthur! I used to, chat with her on the way to church occasionally in Manila before the war1 and had visited with her briefly on Cor regidor a month before. The strength drained out of me. I was afraid sheer reaction would cause me to fire that gun. "It's Ind, general," I managed to say. His voice was firm and crisp as usual: "Where are you, Ind?' "In the plantation, sir. I mis took you for a Japanese infiltra tion party and I almost shot your ears off." Mrs. MacArthur 'gasped. He chuckled. "Well, you better get up here and we'll decide who's going to escort whom back to the com pound." I am not sure what I said be cause I was too preoccupied with the recollection of the time I had spent filing the trigger of that gun down to a hair release. WILLIAM ANDERSON, pri vate in the U.S. Army, is taking an eight-week train ing course in Security Sup ply School at Fort Ord. An derson is the son of Mrs. Eric Anderson, 14 3 4 Pleasant Street. Hrs wife, the former Carol Woster, is a student at KUHS, from where An derson was graduated in 1955. ' Manager Notes Fairground Use TULELAKE For the first time. interim use of the Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds has exceeded its fair time use. Bill Whitaker, newly reappointed fair manager, gave usage figures in his annual report to the board of directors at a meeting held last Wednesday night at the First Western Bank at Dorris. He said 33 organizations have used the fairgrounds for a total of 241 times, with a total attendance of 24,407 persons, during the past year. The grounds have been used for dances, meetings, banquets and parties. There was a total at tendance of 16,117 at the 1959 fair. Exhibitors totaling 709 entered 2,731 exhibits for premiums amounting to $11,264.27. The sum of $424,205 is invested in buildings and grounds. Major projects completed during the past year include rodeo chutes and race track, race track lighting system shower rooms for junior exhibitors and construction of a maintenance building. At Wednesday night's meeting, Bill Ganger was elected president of the Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair Board of Directors and Russell Smith was elected vice president JOKE ON A JOKESTEE DALLAS, Tex. (UPI) W. C. Jack, whom his fellow workers said was a harmless practical joker around the office, had all his teeth pulled by a dental sur geon. His co - workers Monday sent him: A pound of peanut brit tle, six packages of corn chips, corn on the cob, salted peanuts and tooth picks. WALLET LLnJWUfi) $1 Girl Who Had 'Too Much' Dies 'Too Soon' At 38 NEW YORK (AP) Actress Di ana Barrymorc, 38, who made her life a tragic struggle to fulfill the mythical promise of her name, died Monday. Her nude body was found lying face down in bed by a maid at nor fashionable East Side apartment. Her physician said she died of a heart attack but he refused to sign a death certificate because Miss Barrymore had no history of heart trouble. Police started an investigation. Authorities said there was no indication of suicide. Miss Barry more, who was trying to make a theatrical comeback after a life of alcoholism, degradation and broken marriages, had once made a suicide attempt. She told her story in the host elling autobiography,-"Too Much, Too Soon." She was the daughter of the late John Barrymore, whose swashbuckling off stage matched anything he did on stage, and the late Blanche Oclrichs, who wrote plays and poems under the name Michael Strange. Her aunt was Ethel Barrymore, and her uncle was Lionel Barry more. Her theatrical ancestry went back four generations in this country and England. Diana Bar rymore's name opened for her every door in show business, but when she made headlines, it was seldom in the critics' columns. In her book,' she wrote: "The fact that I came from a long line of Barrymores isn't going to make me feel that I must always keep iriving to live up' to their accom plishments." But she did keep striving. In 1938-39, she was New York s "Personality Debutante." Her smiling, young faoe was photo graphed in all the fashionable night spots with cafe society es corts. Encouraged by her father, she launched a theatrical career in summer stock and quickly moved on to Hollywood. Miss Barrymore's movie fail ures led her to excessive drink ing. As a young woman, she moved swiftly through two unsuc cessful marriages, first to Bram- well Fletcher, an actor, and then to John Howard, a professional tennis player. By 1947, her reputation tor drinking and belligerence had closed all doors her name had opened. During her third marriage to Robert Wilcox, she and her husband were arrested for steal ing food from a supermarket. One day, Miss Barrymore swallowed 27 sleeping pills with whisky as a chaser. She was found in time to be saved. After the death of Wilcox in 1955, Miss Barrymore began the long, uphill struggle for a come back. She wrote her book, in cluding the sordid details of her dissipation. She licked her drink ing problem. Recently she completed a suc cessful 10-week Chicago appear ance in "Garden District" by her close personal friend, Tennessee Williams. At the time of her death, she reportedly was negotiating to star in London in "Sweet Bird of Youth," another Williams play. She told friends recently, "I have begun to find my way." Her body was taken to Bellevuc ospital for an autopsy. Her man ager, viola Rubber, who lives across the street from Miss Barry more s apartment, said the actress had complained recently of chest pains. She had been under a doctor's care. There was no indication of the value of Miss Barrymore's estate. Her attorney, Aaron Frosch, said she "had no financial difficulties." Friends who visited Miss Barry more at her apartment Sunday night said she was worried about not working. But Miss Rubber said she had several offers. When told of her stepdaughter's death, Dolores Costello Barrymore wept at her home in Fallbrook, Calif. "She was a bad little girl," said Mrs. Barrymore', third wife of John Barrymore and once a top screen siren, "but we never had any difficulties." Miss Barrymore's only other survivor is a stepbrother, Leonard Thomas, of the Achorage Hotel, Antigua. B.W.I. A movie version of her - auto biography was made last year, starring Dorothy Malonc and the late Errol Flynn. Retired Exec Dies At Age 75 SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)- Retired movie executive Watter- son R. Rothacker, 75, died of can cer Monday in St. John's Hospital, Rothacker, a Chicago native. was among the first producers of films for advertising and 'educa tional uses. He also was active in early experimentation with' sound. He was a former vice president of Paramount Pictures and during World War II served as a govern ment , censor of motion pictures. Weather Table THE HEATHER ELSEWHERE By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS High Low Pr. Albany, cloudy 31 20 ... Albuquerque, cloudy 54 36 ... Anchorage, cloudy 23 9 ... Atlanta, clear 49 30 Bismarck, snow 12 3 .02 Boston, cloudy 33 29 .07 Buffalo, clear 33 22 .0." Chicago, cloudy 33 20 T Cleveland, cloudy 35 23 ... Denver, cloudy 47 28 .. Des Moines, cloudy 27 12 ... Detroit, cloudy 33 23 .03 Fort Worth, rain 51 49 T Helena, cloudy 31 18 .... Honolulu, clear 82 63 ... Indianapolis, clear 41 22 . Kansas City, rain 45 33 T Los Angeles, clear 60 54 .13 Louisville, clear 46 28 ... Memphis, cloudy 52 31 ... Miami, clear 70 66 ... Milwaukee, cloudy 27 10 Mpls.-SI. Paul, snow 23 4 T New Orleans, cloudy 58 47 ... New York, clear 43 3ft ... Oklahoma City, cloudy 48 41 .... Omaha, cloudy 26 8 .... Philadelphia, cloudy 39 27 ... Phoenix, cloudy 68 52 ... Pittsburgh, clear 32 27 Portland, Me., cloudy 33 31 Portland, Ore., rain 40 36 .26 Rapid City, snow 33 10 T Richmond, cloudy 43 29 St. Louis, clear 46 30 ... Salt Lake City, cloudy 38 22 .30 San Diego, cloudy 65 56 .35 San Francisco, cloudy 58 52 .42 Seattle, rain 48 46 .50 Tampa, clear 66 45 Washington, clear 44 34 T (T Trace) Noted Medic Heart Victim CHICAGO (AP)-Dr. Max Tho. rek. 79. internationally known Mir. geon and founder of the Interna tional College of Surgeons, died Monday night of a heart attack. Dr. Thorck. who had nrit hn in ill health, suffered the attack in his home on North Lake Shore Drive. Dr. Thorck, born in Hunsarv. c.iine to the United States In 1900. He had practiced medicine in Chi. cago since his graduation from Hush Medical College in 1904. He had been chief surgeon at Ameri can Hospital for many years and also had served as orofessnr nf clinical surgery at Loyola Univer sity. 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