Word: tillamook
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...citizens of Tillamook County, Ore., like all Americans in time of danger, feel better with guns in their hands. In Tillamook they got out their guns and oiled them...
They meant it. They had no uniforms, did no drilling, furnished their own guns and ammunition for target practice. But they were dead shots and they were ready to shoot. They were even prepared to scorch the good earth of Tillamook County...
...Department and the Oregon State Guard did not know quite what to make of them. Tillamook's guerrillas got a commendatory pat for patriotic spirit. But Guard Commander Ralph P. Cogwill remarked that ununiformed soldiers are usually treated as spies or snipers if captured, said thoughtfully that "some of these fellows are fanatics...
...enemy, to set off a booby trap. The booby trap is a guerrilla's stock in trade. "You can exercise your schoolboy malice and ingenuity," suggests Mr. Levy. "Hang Mills bombs on doors so that they explode when the doors are opened. Put one in the refrigerator. . . ." In Tillamook, Ore., last week, residents were organizing a Guerrilla Club. Chief organizer: Stewart P. Arnold, blind vet eran of World...
...north of Spokane on to the east and south, eating deeply into resort towns in the Liberty Lakes country, finally jumping the border into Idaho, where 1,500 men fought the flames at Spirit Lake. With more than 200,000 acres burned & burning, the fire strode on daily toward Tillamook's record of 267,000 acres...