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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1944)
a. h n I L in iru zKy u m aw i if tell GERMAN W gv FRANK JENKIN8 NfiTIIER day calling (or a .nnlhcr brciikfuat. Anoutcr ... ; flOOUU, w. - - -.- . R ,onic)lliinK that can't be iconic would bo as decent, loWnnt of the rights, the LmlilblllllM nut the probable H 'others ALL the time Fr'?.-., u uf hnn i hov wunt 5 Z or for some reason aro on fclblcfor u.i to nttnln tlio brave world wo lulk so much ktlt. . After, nil. you know, brove ftniiTlarBcly through the co- fctratlon of human beings who r..,.imn in ulvo courteous con- Lerallon In their own conduct kwtlBl InO 01111:1 inyw muj UlillSl. , , . AST night tho head cook on r ik inup diner on (his train Lpcd Into the men's lounge T.'.F ...... n.iltniA a mhup and a relaxing smoke. ihlft since 8 a. m. He had I klrlc coming. It has to be Cm, to ho docs it. iHe J a marmo veteran oi inn julh Sca, medically dlscharRcd n crippling wounds. He's tak- im illi! whom he had left It It -He's doing pretty well, and no compintms.; 'HE colored boy who porters Dili cur Is a good, round 73 lie's a day. At around 0 d. m.. he shoos us lit of tho men's lounge. "Hcah's here Ah sleeps," he announces Ith a grin, ''and If Ah's. goin' bseep goin' An s got to nave iih sleep." ; y'-o.i (True enough. So we break to the- session without -a - com- FANCY planning will help after the war. But tho good 1 old tilrlt of tolerance for others will fo EVEN MORE to help us over leroudh spots it we lust nave c good sense to practice it in oje nays mat arc coming. PEAKING of planning, this writer dronned today into a kit beside what turned out to Ni city planner of some emin ence. In the ensuinc conversa tion, he offered a rather startling wtement. Tho city of Chicago,. he says, low owns approximately 40 PER CENT of Us own area. This ffopcrty, . ho adds, has been cquircd over the vcars bv tne imple process of tax llch fore losuro. It Is loented principally in rough seml-clrclo outside the oop district running around ram ncarlv to tho lake on the forth nearly back to the lake n the south. Those reasonably amillar with Clilcneo will rcc- Itnizc Hint this includes most of W least des rab o . residence rea of Din trri.nl nltv-nn T.nkc Ulchlean. It was acquired as- the result pi I simnle process ot abandon- pnt, As Its value declined, be pwo. of unfavorable residence tomUllons (such as old buildings "iiing Inlo slums occupied by indcslrablo types of population) wowners simply went off and The city Is STUCK with It. , 'r THE statement, Is startling be cause if approximates so "oscly the condition existing In "o many 0t our smaller cities wamath Falls, For example.) Jje point Is that it is a GEN vAL condition, faclnn tho big ics as well as the small ones. HAT Is to be done about it? .-Wall ..... ......... Ullllr,. 'Too anyway, we went on to djs- that problem.- The answer icemeri . t.iaennnui.. "u.,in.ia n oath ot us: ...I--.-.. .. ihO rlllna nf 11,1. initnlfu am Jflng to have to go Into tho real Hate business In a big and mod f " way cither that or see tho "U K of thoir best residence popu &m8''ato OVER THE CITY LIMITS nnl lntn ...rrminfllni) pWIX wllero' they .. WON'T, PAY CITY TAXES. In.. . luI 1 mo ci ucs uuuukii l0 of revenue. . . . . SUPPOSE these cities that own nearly HALF of their own I. !jncF nrea (and you'd bo sur it their number) took the Zkiby ,thc horns, tackled the Kf In a big way, tore down Hln.1 7 "u"es, re-piatica wnoie ih..us according to: modern S'u,onecl thorn to prevent un Eab'o dcvelopmehts in the 'fsale. ... " t,ll HIV If They'd probably SELL. cltf.. y didn't, suppose the belt? took another hitch in their houLand WENT ON and built lerM .,on 'he lots and then 'of- " me completed homes for . Continued-on Page Six) ; In The ShaHia nil bus Soviets Move Toward Junction With , Tito By EDDY OILMORE MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (; The red army slashed through the Bnlkuns tocluy In a thrcc-pronged drive which promised to smush Hitler's fast weakening hold on that vital area and trap thous ands of his troops by cutting all communications with the home land. Advanced Russian units moved west toward a juncture with Marshal Tito's forces and allied loops in Yugoslavia, while others advanced steadily toward tho im portant road and communica tions center of Slblu in Trgnsly vanla. No Response Officials sources were silent on military operations agaitist Bulgaria and there was no in dication of any response to Bul garian pleas for an armistice. (A German report said Rus sian troops fanning out across Bulgaria in a drive toward the Aegean sea had reached the area of Dcmotlka inside Greece on the Turkish frontier.) -To Create Wall , The objective of the Balkan drive Is to create a steel wall from the Black Sea to the Dal matian coast and pocket all the Germans in Greece, Bulgaria and In Poland, red' army: forces edged forward northeast of War toward the 'southern border of East Prussia, fighting against unusually stiff German resistance (Continued on Pago Six) Eradication of Cartels Needed, Declares FDR WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (A) President Roosevelt declared to day that defeat of nnzl armies must be followed by eradication of 'cartels as "weapons of eco nomic warfare," no released a icucr to occru- tary of Stole Hull which said mis can nc cionc, oniy inrouBii collaborative action by'the Unit ed Nations and that he hoped Hull would keep an eye on the entire subject, To reporters, Mr. Roosevelt remarked that the state depart ment Is ready to go ahead and tnat the justice department has been digging up a lot of facts. 75,000 Bomber Workers Idle By The Associated Press Some 15,000 workers at the Ford Motor company's huge Willow Run bomber plant were thrown into idleness today when ZOUU worKers in six oeparimc.. staged a worn siopimgu m y"- lost against tne iransiei- oi iu riveters, A Ford spokesman said the company sent the 15,000 work ers homo as a result of the work stoppage but added that tho plant would be reopened If all workers on a shift starting at 4:30 p. m. reported lor amy ClosinB the plane producing plant was iorcea, tne sponcs- nun sa d. when tne . wbikoui caused a shortage of parts and KdperK!"nTed, partmenis, Amendment of District n.mtnn fni rnnflrmation ' of an amendatory contract between tho United States and the Klam ath Drainage district which would relieve tne cusinti uuui ii nt nnnrnyimatelv $47,000, the unpaid balance of the original contract of 1917, was filed this week In circuit court. , ., ' ' mi.. nnnlraf Amends the original contract of the district entered into in " water right contract of the dis trict entered into In 1921. Under the amended contract, i. .itinr. t n rpliovlnff the Klamath Drainage disttflct from payment of the $47,000 unpaid uTnn nt tha nriirlnnl contract. provision Is made for the pay ment oi tne pHimite uuc on in - CaHfude Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1944 rate n -yL irw Sk. ,tsmizi., I mm wall 'tmgKmLMiJ.Mimmmmmmmmmmmamam-mli9mtmmmmmmmmmmmv' 'iii im First visitors to be lodged in the newly-opened Marine Barracks hostess house this week were Mrs. Diana Ryan, of Oakland. Calif., and Shirley and Virginia Ryan. They are visiting Cpl. Stan ley Adams, nephew of Mrs.' Ryan, at the Barracks. Reading , from left to right are Corporal Adams, Shirley, Mrs. Ryan and Virginia. - ' B-29's Blast Jap Arsenal In Manchuria; Patau, Yap Raids indicate By LEONARD MILtlMAN Associated Preis War Editor A powerful flight of Superfort resses raiaca me uupaucac mw nal in Mancnuria toaay, compiei- unina-oasea o-ivs auutucu lin ing circle ot' destruction blazed portent industrial targets". in around the -home islands of, Nip- simnianniiiv Berlin r a d i reported Palau and Yap, eastern reported Palau and Yap; easterntjMapanras- tne M-rnej way boMw planes hit Palou Wednesday and Tt,Hl(iu it, h I I a1 nnn .AttArlreri Yap. Tiie coniinuea iniensuy oi the attacks, if true, would indi cate a possible preparation- tor invasion.. . ," . Other axis r a d i o s broadcast mvasions , of Halmahera, south ern gateway to the Philippines, and of the Philippines them selves. Anshan Blasted Tokyo announced more than inn Gnni.fApta elrnnlr AnEhnn site of Japan's second largest i hi . j . j .i .i . . nn sue oi utipuii s auunu i a i p o t steel mill, in a midday raid on Marshall Says Last Phase of Debacle Near ROME, Saturday, SepL 9"(P) Gen. George C. Marshall de clared today in a . message oh the anniversary of the Salerno landings that "the last phaso of the German debacle is now at? hand." - i Addressed to Lt. Gen.': .Mark W Ctark and his fifth .army, tho message from the chief of staff said "Today we mqmen - anticipate the breach of , fim and the.occupa. .. o the po valIey... i Martin Barringer Hurt in Action PFC Martin T. Barringer of Eamath Falls was reported as In a lict nt naval rn. ualtics issued today by .the war uijjui nuui. me iaii'"o lie mat iiico. His wife, Mrs. Ida M. Barnn- gerillves at 2306 Oregon, Klam. Drainage Contract Set contract of 1921 in the approxi mate amount of $28,000. , .The Klamath Drainage dis trict includes 27,000 acres of land located in the lake bed Of Lower Klamath lake near Mid land. - Proper act . of ..congress ..was hecessary in order- to give i the secretary of interior authority tn execute t ie amenaeo. con to execute tne amenaea. tun- tract in oenau ot umwu and Attorney Fred Fletcher, who is conducting ine qonnrma wno :is euiiuuunns ine vwi.'B tion proceedings, said that both "w" r"X'"x"'5."' "j Senator Mjuy toraon- miu.vuir greSSman XjOWeil OIUUKUIUU liau I been very cooperative in securr ing tne passage ireaanij- 1CB Siatlon. '' . wearing on mn nwuuu.ina been set for October. 25.- . I '. .V'-"' First Guests At Marine Home Ma'nchuriat It claimed three shot down., j . First confirmation from the 20tlv bomber command was that maiiviiui la works, some 600 miles northwest CiS , i",.".; Mffiw, KU .Ma vi-j. atui o , 0Btm n (Continued, on Page Six) Tons of Bombs Poured on Robot Bomb Plat forms '. t riwnnw Coni' it m-Amnrl. u.v. w 1 ; . . . . . . m KnmKAM nltmtfMl d J OOQ trine of explosives into German robot Domo pi auorms across me cnau nel during the campaign against the nazi terror weapon, it was an nounced today, i - . U. :s:, , planes . flew . 18,496 sorties. MaJ. Charles 5. Hudson, Colrnn-M Calif a TT S Rlh air forcei group bombardier, said tne rooot piauorms were oomDea ao.llw ot'fircl Vint fVint lntot thpv ...An nQtnniiflaiforl nnH eiirrminH ed by heavy,, accurate anti-air craft . guns. At first, Fortresses could easily hit the targets from (kMLmll. Vidlryhlc Kill lafnt. rtor. man ground fire forced the fiig UUlllUUlS Up LU 1IVC 1111 1 Liberator Makes' Non-Stop Flight OTTAWA, Sept. 8 (P) A four-engined Liberator complet ed . t o d a y the first non-stop flight between the capitals of Britain and Canada, setting down at Rockcliffe airport near Ottawa 19 hours and nine min utes after leaving London. Among the passengers was Air Marshal L. S. Breadner, commander in chief of the RCAF. His arrival - followed T nnnn wnnple fhot PrlmP Minister Churchill and Presi dent Roosevelt would very soon meet,' probably in Quebec, to iA,.ir!a hnw thp nrmpd forces now in Europe and others would be used, in tne'Jfacitic. Air mar shal , Breadner attended the Churchill - Roosevelt conference xnUnn loot AltCMIct " The arrival of the plane led to a rumor that Prime Minister Churchill was : aboard, but this was denied by otticiais at tne field. .,. German Escape Lines Impassable ' By The Associated Press . DNB, official German news agency, broadcastthat the "large-scale detaching move- ments" forced upon tne uorman command ronowing ine ftmeri VUliiiiiaiiu . iu.ivrr.ne, , can breakthrough at Avranches in Normandy "may now be con- in nuriuanuj' sidered ended." una .said tne uenuaiia wwc DNB said the Germans were now stunuiHH un n line luiuisu by the' lower schedule west of nuvwwi., .uv . ... -'''- mibwvit'i ... .v. . . u . . , .... HH.UVU northern Belgium.'the Mouse, the iiunucra Dcisiuui, ui iiiyiiK, .... uran .v... " ning down to the Swiss frontier. ; .September 8. 1944. MexT (Sept. 7) ... 92 Min 49 Precipitation lait 24 houn ...00 Stream year to data 10.62 Normal. .. ......12.55 Lait year 17.88 Forecast! Hot and sunny. ' " !EI t rxrrriM c0rif tm L"Th Polish press bureau asserted to day tnat uerman troops nao evacuated Praga defense lines east of Warsaw. TtiB snnminpiimpnt wax al most simultaneous with. an-of- liclgl broadcast irom . Bona via LGeraitf0.wM -gg1-cPn''nB TheuMWs'aWao" af my j of brotherly ' peoples;'' ? i . thi -Towns uccupiea . ... tu MviM . nnmrniinlmip said Ruse,' across the Danube in Bul garia from Giugiu in Komania, and the .Bulgarian Black sea inn miles. south east of. Ruse, already had been occupied. ; . -. . - The' sOviet:eritry; followed by four days a Moscow declaration (Continued . on rage , six; Allied Aid for Italy Needed WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (fl5) Asserting that much . of Italy had been devastated by war, President Roosevelt said today that her 45,000,uuu peopie In an araa lpee than the size of California and with poor . . . ...in'MaaH aH. natural resuuitca miu ditiohal assistance from.the allies- if -she .is . to stand on. her own feet. He told his news conierence that Brig. Gen. William ODwy- Am;an opnnnmin officer CI, niiiEnvaii ... in Italy, has returned to; the United States ano win win. with him at the White .House today about plans tor mis hew aid. . Bombers Attack ' German Posts LONDON, Sept. 8 (P) Almost 2000 American, and British heavy bombers attacKeo lnsiaua 4i in ..mithwoat flprmanv and VIVlia ill awuwui.. ; 1 the besieged nazi garrison at Le Un..A Inrlav American bombers were ac companied by 500 Mustang ngni ers and battered chemical and oil Ml 1. nt T.iirliiilctchafan in the UlaillS o" iJi.v. .. .CT". -- Siegfried line zone, an ordnance depot at r.asiei near mam, aim an armored car piant av uuamv u.irt emithufftcl nf Frankfurt. . . All the objectives were in the upper Rhlneland opposite Lt. Gen, George S. Patton's Ameri can third army," massing in the Mobelle river basin for a drive into the uerman toruiicauons. Technical Data Learned by Japs wicinwnTniJ, Smt ft YiPl- A justice department spokesman said today that for ten years, before-P e a r 1 Harbor "a constant stream" of .tecnnicai ano eco nomic data "oi ine utmost hit ..... n Tnnan's B1-ma fnT.. es"- flowed to the Japanese as a result of Japanese commercial transactions with American firms. TnmAe G .Hffai.lln 'nhinf Af Ih0 department's economic warfare nU n eAnnta milllnrv scvliuil, wiu a.as.mM. ...m.w.j subcommittee that "the Japanese nrara ahlA tn 0pt. tppVinipal 'lennw- how' on some processes for pro-' auction of 100-octane aviation gasoline before they : were gen e r a 1 1 y available . to. American firms." - Number 10257 T BATTLES RAGE Nazis Flee - Northeast Toward Belfort Gap . By GEORGE BRIA ROME. SeDt. 8 (P) American troops of the seventh army, push ing into Besancon in . soutnern France after a swift advance from Apbois, were engaged in heavy fighting today with nazi forces attempting to cover the retreat of battered 19th. army remnants fleeine toward the Bet- fort gap 50 miles to the north east. . . The cap situated in the low lands between the Vosges range and the Swiss border at the low er tip of the Siegfried line is the sole area where .ther are no mountains to block -the -seventh army's entrance to the reichV penetrate Besancon. The Americans penetrated in to the ' western, southern and eastern sections of Besancon fol lowing a series of sharp' fights with substantial forces of Ger mans employing macnineguns, mortars and tanks in the first real resistance encountered - on the southern French front iri.SeVt eral days. : , mere was no outciai con firmation ' here of report from abroad that elements of tne seventh-army, had. linked up with Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army to the north.. tWeit 'iot Besancdn'iailiea1 f 6H M vaa r. .in. . ward elements breached the naziJ pflefense line set up along tpe i.aue river soutn- oi me loraoi De- ynaux between tne village of "Paray 1 and-Quigey, about ao miiAB in tn an6T -nnn npnprratan Into the forest.- - : v - Meanwhile, between Besancon and the Swiss, border, ' French1 . (Continued on Page. Six) Fourth Hot Day y Wilis Oregon f The fourth day of a-state wide heat wave was affecting cities in Oregon today after temperatures had climbed to the nineties' Thursday- -and- were threatening to do so again' to- UOJ . . . . . . - Medford and Arlington re corded 100 degree temperatures Thursday. Other Oregon towns and top . mercury readings were Klamath Falls, 92;- Baker, 96; Eugene, ' 93: Salem, 95; a n d Roseburg, 98. . , , ' At 2:30 this afternoon, the weather station reported a max imum of 9Q. 5 degrees for Klam ath Falls. " , ' i Fores! officials again urged caution' bgainst fire, warning that the acute danger in north west forests would not vanish until heavy rains wet the tinder-dry ground. Allies o ( ..y . ; ; tMrTv : ; ct.ndhov.Mp fr , AmieniTf--iSt.Quentm -!. VLuxembouf9Vl. m 'Hudwighfen - ". Ke Havre V - J ' , Allied armies swung Into position today to aim a decisive blow against Germany. Patton i troops poured across the Moselle as the British cracked the Albert canal line in Belgium-Hodges men fought around the fortress area of Liege, and allied bombers blasted nerve .centers to the rear of the Siegfried line. . I ' ' ' 1 1 xlke' Expects Nazi Collapse ; In November LONDOK, Sept. 8 (IP) Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower swunf four allied armies agTinit the Siegfried line for a knockout punch today and a dispatch from the invasion commander's headquarters declared the end for Germany may come by early November. Not even the highly advertised Siegfried line appeared ef much concern any more to the allied command. The rate ef allied advance will be determined only by the speed with which gasoline and other supplies can: keep up with the rocket-like ad. vances of allied armies, said a dispatch by Howard Cowan, Atv sociated Press correspondent who represented the combined American press at Eisenhower's headquarters. The dispatch, held up fire days, was released- from censorship tonight. The . belief that the last big battle in the west already had been fought was expressed as these develoements marked the iront cioaKea in a strict news blackout to mask. Eisenhower's next move 1. 'Lt. Gen.. George' S; Patton's U. S. third army poured troops over five bridgeheads -across the Moselle river in eastern France in the face of a storm of Ger man fire.; 2. The British second : army cracked the enemy's famous Al bert canal line an northern- Bel gium, . . t , Move to Liege - i 3. The first U. S. army of Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges moved up; tb' the' famous fortress ' areai of Liege in' Belgium..'.' :.::. ;. - 4. The 7th U. S. army, under Lt.J.Gen. .Alexander M. Patch closed in from the Mediterran ean on Besancon, only 50 miles from the Belfort gap road-to the Rhine, just above Switzerland. : 5. The British spearhead and the first and third U. S. armed forces were only about- 25 miles from the German frontier. .- 6. Two - thousand American aTVd "British heavy . b om b e r s beaved . shattering loads of ex plosives on-:the rear-nerve cen ters of the Siegfried line in at tacks such as have been the pre ludes to nearly all major allied offensives. ; ' . . ". :. i, ;- ."' Critical Points . ' --i - The array of. four armies was in position; or pearly, in position -to- atriKe -at any one oi several critical-points, from the Swiss ". CCbntlmied On Page Six)' Fire Breaks Out At Weyerhaeuser '', ;ire';.this.af ternoon broke put .loathe', boarding house building at , the Weyerhaeuser.- ; Timber companr 'burnt. . threatening for s time -to-: destroy the big. frame structure.. -, Th'6'"Biaewas :first"seen "by Mrs. Paul. - Layman, - who i was woriing iru a. garden.; -Herihus-i band give, the alarm and , the Weyerhaeuser fire crew, assist-; ed.by ma'Wjrbthers, poured water: intlrr.thB ..thicture -until., the. flames1 were quenched. . - '-The';'DOfand upper interior 6f: .the' 'building -were damaged.; The. flames broke through - the roof arid- were roaring outside when the .crews went to work. German Retreat Endways DNB ROME. 'Seot. 8 P) All main German- escape and supply, lines from Vienna and Budapest to Bulgaria and Ureece are impas. sable. 'the U. S. 15th air force an- nou'riced-. today while American bombers - and , fighters struck anew at 'railways and airdromes in seething Yugoslavia. - The fresh air blows supporting the offensive "by Marshal Tito and tne Kussians;. last reported 90 miles -east of Belerade. fell upon rail and other targets near the' Yugoslav, capital,, at Nis in central Serbia, at Brod and at Sarajevo,- birthplace of-the last war. Prepare Offense Against - Tl By NOLAND NORGAARD " ! ROME, Sent. 8 (P) Eiahth army tanks and infantry f ought forward another mile on the Adriatic coast yesterday and, reached the banks of the Marano river, only four miles from Ri mini, but 12 miles inland- the Germans, counter-attacking fiercely with tanks, brought the allied, offensive to a standstills allied, headquarters said today, Near, the other end of the Italr ian front American troops, who) today finish a solid year of com bat on the Italian mainland; ad vanced to -within two miles of Pistoia, the last important city south of the Gothic line remain ing in enemy hands.- :-t - - - .- usn norm Farther west patrols from the U; S. 92nd -infantry division Sushed well north : of Luccai. ear. the coast enemy artillery opened up with heavy shelling A --l..:n..AJ nn Tnnn ,C1V. . UUUIIUCU UU 1 u.A . i-i: ' ' Advisory Group Named to Assist Commandos Here Selection of an advisory com- mittee-- to -assist : the -. Klamath Commandos in their service cen ter, operations here was complet ed today, with the Commandos making the choices from names suggested by the military service committee. . Mayor Jobn Houston will make 'the : arinointments. the members to be A. M. Collier, Nel" son Keed, u. c Oiorenz and Mal colm Epley; As the first task,' the committee is expected to assist the -Commandos- in- solving the problem of expanded quarters foe-their -service -center. : '. -The advisory -committee- idea . was. agreed, upon between the Commandos: rand the- military service committee after consider able discussion. It was agreed the Commandos needed-a business men's group which would devote itself: specifically to Commando problems, whereas the : service committee coordinates all mili tary hospitality activities in the community. . Nazis Say Bor Army Liquidated LONDON, Sept. 8 (ff) The German radio asserted tonight that - Gen. . Bor's underground Polish army inside Warsaw had been, smashed completely,- a few hours after Bor himself said the nazis-were-evacuatmg the Praga defense lines east of the capital. Berlin said the "insurgents" laid down their arms.. Reich
