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CJE'RE getting HtUo news
T ugain todny.
1 Tho U. S. First (furthest north)
irmy swings a Sunday punch ot
liio SicEfricd line lust north ot
K a c h o n (Aix-lu-Chappello to
traders ot Drowning.) Tho as
jault Is preceded by a fleet of
pearly 3000 allied warplnncs and
i heavily concentrated artillery
barrage. On thu heels ot the
hells nud the bombs, while thu
puemy defenders ore still shaken
no puncn-aruiiK irom ino rain
t explosives, tho infantry moves
ii.
A sain of about two miles in
he tirst hour is reported in the
any citspuicncs.
T seems to be quite an affair,
f- One ot our correspondent
tables: "I doubt it we'll stop
how until we reach the Rhine.
One mans opinion, based on
;ick ot knowledge ol wnat the
crmans win be amc to ao.)
k"THE attack is on the Siegfried
E1, A line fortifications, which
were built BEFORE multi-ton
ombs and modern cunccntruled
barrages were Invented. It
hould give us an idea as to how
ifective these methods will dc
gainst such prepared defenses.)
HG British still hold the
NMmcaen corridor, with its
Inllo-and-a-linlf-iong oridgo over
he lower Rhine channel. Against
his corridor with iu strategic
bridco at the tin. the Germans
avc been launching some oi
heir heaviest counterattacks
since Normandy.
so inr, incsc auacKS nave
FAILED.
There, is a rcoort this morn-
ng that the nazis have started
F1GH1 INU RtlKtftT irom
ivestern Holland, where they arc
imposed still to nave arouna
200,000 troops.
That is interest nc. II true.
The , Nijmegen corridor, it our
ido can HUL.U it ana men pusn
orthwest from its tip, is tnc
aw ot a trap that can bo sprung
hut on tho Germans in western
Holland. The start of a fight-
tie nazl retreat would be an
enemy admission that we CAN
old it and thai u s time to uti
OUT before wcsprlng tho trap.
TVE'LL do well not to count
hey are finally liquidated.
in it ne tneir way out oi traps
one of the things the nazis do
jest. They've done it over and
ver In the past year.
nfRAVDA (Russian newspapor)
says tnc tsamcs ore near
iquidation. Its frontline dis-
atehes tell ot compucaica en
my defenses before Riga, based
n natural puis man-maac nin
rances, but assert that "all these
hstnrlcs will be overcome.
Wc can usually trust the mil
iary predictions of the Russian
icwsnancrs. which are- rigidly
fcovcrnmont-controlled. It is
then it enters the realm of
lolitics that the Russian press
b open to suspicion.)
There are Indications in the
lews that after WARNING the
lunganans that they'd better
uit while quilling is gooa tnc
lussians are proceeding with the
1ILITARY clean-up of Hungary.
All this news, nowovcr, js
ghlly censored.
TVHAT has been said here so
F far rnnrprns MILITARY
tws. We must remember that
s wars near their end and the
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Myi luTlbaei. (50) Jacobs, left guard, (40) La Paglla, Leath.rnack back, and , (17)
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Stalemate Ended
First Army
Attack
By
LONDON. Oct. 2 (A1) The
U. S. first army, striking one of
the greatest offenslvo blows of
the war In an effort to break a
new hole in the Siegfried line,
drove a steel wedge two miles
deep on a six-milo front north
of Aachen today.
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges'
Infantry and tanks rushed for
ward toward Gcllenkirchen In
Germany from the Dutch village
ot Groenstraat, 10 miles north of
Aachen, and splashed across the
littlo Wurm river coursing near
the Dutch-German border in the
first 45 minutes of the attack.
Hold Three Breaches
The assault, made across wood
ed and pasture land pitted with
thousands of foxholes and mine
shafts which had been converted
Into strongholds, was aimed at
driving a fourth hole in Adolf
Hitler's west wall. The Ameri
cans already held three breaches
In the line near Aachen.
Tho attack still was going for
YeSfSbihc f f Am twmy 'fslirBbxM:
and tire irom artillery, anu six
barrelled mortars.
The fighting spread along a
front of 20 miles and broke out
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Ships Attempt
Rescue in
Mexican Flood
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 2 (T)
Warplancs and boats of many
kinds, including two submarine
chasers of the Mexican navy,
arc fighting a grim battle
against death, seeking to reach
thousands of flood-marooned
persons In five southern Mexico
states before disease and hunger
take a wholesale toll.
The health department ord
ered relief rushed to the
stricken regions, from Tamplco
to the Guatemalan border, as lt
was reported that children were
dying from fever and malnutri
tion. Hundreds of persons nre fear
ed dead as a result of the dis
aster, which originated two
weeks ago. . . -
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Marines Win
Palau Group;
Jap Ships Hit
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS. Purl Harbor. Oct.
2 Ml American control was socure over Polclu and eight
satellite islets in the southern Palaut today, after 17 days' fight
ing against stubborn delendari and heart-breaking terrain.
More than 10,000 Japanese troops have been killed In the
Palau campaign, Adm. Chester W. Nimlli said today in announc
ing the Islands were "secure," except lor two pocket of resist
ance. One, still vicious, held out in caves on Pelelu's Umorbrogol
hill (bloody note ridge). A second and smaller group of Nipponese
remained on Annaur itlet. six miles southward.
Southweit Pacific airman concluded one of their most suc
cessful months In the war of attrition against Japanese ship
ping. In strikes reported today they sank or damaged three vet-
By DANIEL DE LUCE
MOSCOW. Oct. 2 OP) Rus
sian fighter bombers swarmed
over Yugoslavia iu round-the-clock
raids on German forces as
Russian ground troops gained
steadily today along u curving,
muuntulnous front 70 to 100
miles southeast of Uclgrnda In
a drive that Is bottling up an
estimated 200,000 nazi troops in
tho lower Balkans.
The Germans were fiercely
1 1 .. n,.i. ti..iin,t nr.. it,...
tul, but yesterday fed nrmy
troops, with" Marshal 4 Tito's
Yugoslav partisans acting as ad
vance scouts, dented nazl de
fenses another 2:i miles to with
in 43 miles of the Belgrade
Nis railway, Moscow an
nounced. . Penetrate Hungary
(Meanwhile, an unconfirmed
Budapest dispatch from Turkey
said other soviet and Ilomaniun
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Bomber Crash
Kills Friends
ASTORIA, Ore., Oct. 2 lP)
Two men died In the crasli oi
a medium-sized U. S. navy plane
Into the Columbia river during
training on a bombing practice
range cast of here yesterday, the
navy announced today.
The dead: Ens. G. F. Glynn,
pilot, and F. Mnolna, aviation
radioman third class, both of
Chicago. Both bodies were re
covered. '
The public relations office ol
the navy oir station here sold
both victims long had boon close
personal friends in Chicago.
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1944
-T.U'i. including a 10,000-ton
tanker, bringing to 210 their
September total of enomy craft
01 an types sunK or damaged In
southern I'hilltipino waters and
their approaches.
160 Craft Destroyed
(In addition. Adm. William
F. llalsoy s third fleet carrier
planes destroyed 100 surface
craft of all types and damaged
200 others during their seven
day thrusts over tho Philip
pines.) American forces held only
the tall of tho Palau chain,
which Includes 20 main Islands
and a total of 100. But the cam
paign drove a deep wedgo Into
Japan's strongly-prcpured Caro
lines and gave tho Yanks at
least two ulrUcJds for land
based attacks against the north
ern Palaus and the Philippines,
019 miles westward.
Nlmllz reported that "cllul-
lirrmimrw'ine'rrnTwn'aTcW'
nanta continues.. Murine planes
unloaded numerous 1000-pound
bombs to "demolish remaining
enemy fortifications" on bloody
nose ridge. From these posi
tions, northward of tho Polollu
airfield, the Japanese 'held up
the American advance for sev
eral days, until they were by
passed. . . 1
Take Airfield
Tho Americans took a second
airfield a 4B00 foot fighter
strip when they occupied
Ngescbus islet, northward . of
Polollu.
Southwest Pacific bomber
damaged the tanker and a
coastal vessel off Zamboe.iga,
southern Philippines, Saturday
and sank an 8500-ton freighter
truusport In Tlworo strait,
southern Celebes.
The September shipping bag
Included a seaplane tender and
two destroyer escorts; 08 ves
sels ranging from 2000 to 10,
000 tons, sunk or destroyed; 38
ships damaged, and 111 barges
and small coastal vessels, sunk
or damaged.
Chinese Battle
Near Kweilin
CHUNGKING, Oct. 2 (P)
The Chinese command an
nounced extremely severe fight
ing today near Kweilin, locat
ing the battle four to 12 miles
southeast of the rail town of
Kingam, 31 miles from the
Kwnngsl provincial capital. ''
The American air force has
lost its advanced base at Tan-chuk,-the
fourth, abandoned. In
fnco of the Japanese offensive
through Hunan and Kwangsl to
split China In. two.. ,
World Series to
Open Wednesday
ST.' LOUIS. Oct. 2 (P) Tho
first-game, of the 1044 world
series. will start at noon PWT
Wednesday with tho Cardinals
oh "home" club for tho first,
second and sixth games, and the
Browns as host club for U
others.. .
Games will be played dally
until one club has won four
games. ' i
Today On The Western Front ;
1 'I-.'. "By The Associated Press .. . '.
; ' U; S. first army Lnunchod a ' tromendmis offensive
toward the Rhino from positions- Inside, the Siegfried lino ot,
Aachen, ending a two weeks' atalcmatb. .' -, -. .
. U, S. third army Repulses' major, Gorman counter attack
In four hours of fighting near Jollaucourt, IS miles northeast
of Nancyi ", .' ; 1 , - : --.:'
' U. S, seventh army Pushed further toward the Vosgcs
mountain passes, entrance to the Rhine, valey,r liberating tho
toWn of St, Jean Do Mnnche. ' - . ' ' '
British second army Broadens -Its' corridor In Holland
with a four-mile advanco in the Nijmegen sector, and atopped
a furious German eounte? attack, '
' -Canadian first army Contlrtiied mopping tip at Calais, on
the channel coast, while, the RAF shifted its attention to
Dunkerque, indicating a probable: ground assault on that
stronghold.' ' ' ' '"
First' landlord to sign-up at
of 1204 Mitchell. Ha Is shown above turning In his' registration to'Mrs.; Lawrence t; Aioriuon,
wife of a marine stationed here, who it a volurtteer registrar. 'In the center Is Marvin Hlxon,
examiner of the Klamath Falls rent office, who reported that 58 landlords had registered 205
housing units by 2 p. m.'on the opening day, and that eight 'rooming houses had, been listed.
Tragedy struck for the second
time within ono week In the
littlo town of Dunsmulr when
tire again claimed two lives.
Dead are Mr. and- Mrs. Ted
Spores,' 100 Onk street, found
early Sunday morning In the
smouldering ruins of their home
where they had a few hours
earlier celebrated a wedding an
niversary. :
Brother Lived Here
Mrs. Spores, 30. tho former
Thclma Durst, lifelong resident
of Dunsmulr, was the sister of
L. H. "Lou" Durst of Mcdford
but employed as box factory
foreman for sovcral years by
Pelican Bay Lumber company.
Durst left hero about eight years
ago and is In the lumber busi
ness In the valley town.
Spores was' woll . known to
railroad men in this area, having
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Service Men
Swear Allegiance
TwW soldiers, a sailor and Iwo
cx-scrvlce men took tho oath 01
allegiance In circuit court Sat
urday making them citizens of
the United Slates of America.'
Receiving their naturalization
papers were Suo Shcong Tsu, na
tive of Canton, China, and now
stationed at Camp Tultlako)
Ernst" Hclnz Haeusscrmon, na
tive ' of Germany, stationed at
Camp Tulrlakc: Dominic An
thony Varrone, stationed at the
naval nlr base, nat(ve of Italy;
Frederick Norman Barlow- of
Mnlln, natlvo of England and
Edward Holm of Eugene, natlvo
of Sweden, . , .., 1
.1 October 2,! 2844 '
Max. (Oct. 1) 14 ,' Mln.
Precipitation Int. 24 .hours ..
Stream year to date
Normal 03 Last ytar
f oracuti Partly cloudy.
Siegfried
Landlord Registers With OPA
the OPA rent control office opsned her Monday was MUM -Cox
Red - Faced Klamath Coffee
D r inkers S iock Up; Find
B ev erage Still Unrqtioned
A lot of Klamath housewives
had red faces but well stocked
coffee shelves as they stam
peded local groceries. Saturday
night - and Sunday morning
when announcement threaten
ing coffee rationing sent' them;
scuttling to tho nearest store.
But Monday coffee drinkers,
received assurance from War
Moblllzcr James F. Byrnes that
thcro would be no resumption
of coffee rationing now.
Byrnes said that there 'Is a
throe and one-half months sup-,
Rumely Indicted
For Failing to, ,
Supply Records
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (D-J
Dr. Edward A. Rumely. execu
tive secretary of tho committee
for constitutional government,
founded by' Frank H. Gannett,
was Indicted today by the Dls:
trict of Columbia grand Jury on
a charge of falling to supply the
house' campaign expenditures
committee with records of con
tributions received. . !
Gannett, Rochester, N. Y., pub
lisher and a candidate for the re
publican presidential nomina
tion In 1040. lold tho expendi
tures committee September 7
that tho committee which he
founded Is an educational, not a
political organization. ; ,
Pratt, Whitney
Workers Strike i
' KANSAS CITY. Octi 2 P)
A work stoppago halted produc
tion of airplane engines at. the
big Pratt & Whitney plant to
day;.' 1 ' ,rV .,'.,-, . v
1 L'.'C.iMallet,-manager 'of the
engino factory, ostlmated that
80 per cent of tho 10,000 men
and women on tho day shift loft
after punching timo clocks.
There Wore no picket line
and workers wore not turned
back : until' they , ware ,met by
union 'Stewards at ' their ma
chines, a plant official said,
Some remained on the job, but
not enough to start' the produc
tion :llmhe added.! :
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ply of coffee on hand or en
route and that' Brazil has given
assurance that. 1,000.000 bags
will be supplied monthly,
American importers had re
portqd : that growers In- coffee
producing countries bad been
staying out 1 of the market in
order to obtain a price increase,
causing the U. S. stockpile to
drop. Byrnes issued .his state
ment Sunday after reports had
spread that coffee rationing was
imminent and housewives In the
nation had started to stock up.
' Two of the larger down-town'
stores In Klamath Falls said
they had a heavy run on their
coffee' stocks just before tho 6
p. m.. closing nour. ncignoor
hood stores that remained open
Saturday; night did a land-office
business and one store started
ladling out tho coffee as' sup
plies ; diminished. - Another
?roccr rcporica n icrniic ,run
rom 5:30 to 7 o'clock, Saturday
night and not a few customers
bought, coffee by the case, re
membering the early war days
when a pound had to he stretch'
cd-ovcr a six-. weeks' period
Coffco came pff the ration list
in July, is3.i - -. '
ICC Freezes
Cars; Rule
An ICC order "freezing"; all
refrigerator cars at midnight to
night caused 'serious concern
among potato growers and ship
pers today, and nn effort was 'Im
mediately started to get a modifi
cation of the ruling which Coun
ty Agont C. A. Henderson said
apparently Was made-. without
full understanding , of the situa
tion in the Klamath basin.
Virtually all of Klamath's
huge potato crops are shipped In
"reefer" cars, to protect the pota
toes against the sharp variations
In temperature they ore likely to
encounter on tho way to market
through tho warm, Sacramento
valley or elsewhere, ' , ,
Loadings Impossible .
' The "order means that no more
loading of potatoes in reefers
will be possible after midnight.
Farmers and, shippers do not re
gard "hipping In boxcars an safe
or satisfactory, and a tie-up of
shipping- at ' this '' period - may
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Second Day of Season
Sees Two Accident '
V In Bly Region
Deer season was In Its second
day when two accidents, ons
fatal, occurred in the Bly coun
try of eastern Klamath county.
Monday morning.
James E. Wardc, 20, Mcdford
radio technician, was killed in
stantly when struck by a bullet
fired by another hunter. State
polico, the county coroner and'
other officials left at 1 p. m. fon
tho scene of the tragedy which
marred the first week of hunt
ing in this area. Details were
not obtainable. .
Hunts With Brother '
Wardo was hunting with his
brother, David . Warde of Port
land, in the vicinity of Finlcy
Corrals, 20 miles northeast of
Bly. He is thought to have
fallen about one mile from the
Corrals proper. ....
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Roy Wilson, 18, Lakcvicw, ,
was wounded, and Federal
Game Officer George Tonkin,
Klamath Falls, narrowly!
, escaped, death late Sunday
afternoon, when a bullet .
crashed-through the side of a'
' pickup truck near the Warner
Valley junction as Tonkin
was conducting a game .
. check. j ,
Tonkin was leaning , overt
to look at an untagged deer,
when the bullet tore through
the left rear of his coat. It?
- had come from a 30-40 Craig1:
which the Lakcvicw youth--said,
he was unloading. The
youth, recently - discharged'
from the navy, suffered a '
deep flesh -wound in -the left-
- side, and was rushed to the -Lakcvicw
hospital. His con-'
dltion Is not serious,
' Owner of the deer was1
charged with- having - an- lm-'
proper tagged animal and
-old .Into-justico-oourU-
woman nu
the Warde brothers Bnd sovcral
others, left Mcdford Friday night
to establish their hunting camp.
Word- of the shooting reached
Klamath Falls at 12:30 p. m. ,
Monday and Ward's Funeral
home sent a hearse to Bly. Warde
was employed by Verl G. Walk
er, Mcdford radio concern. He
leaves a wife, Eunice, and two
young ' daughters, ' Janet and
Maraloe,' at the family home,
310 Hnvcn street. He had been
a resident of Mcdford for tho
past six years. Wardc's mother, ,
Mrs. Otis DePugh of Fairfield,
Calif., is visiting her son's fam
ily at this . time. The father,
David Warde Sr., lives in Port
land. .Woman Shot
First accident of the season,
was reported early Monday
morning when Mrs, Max (Doro
thy) : DeVaney, 21, Jefferson, y
Ore.,- was brought to Klamath'
Valley hospital from tho Bly
area with a bullet lodged in her
back. ' I
- Mrs. DcVaney's condition was
said to be good late Monday
afternoon but that surgery would .
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Hunters Bring
In Few Deer,
Plants Report
Fewer deer than usual had ai
rived In Klamath Falls by Mon
day afternoon after tho first day
of tho current hunting season.
Local cold storage plants report
ed that only, about a dozen had
been received so far and. none
were unusual in size.
Many hunters are still out.
however, and many more deer
are expected .to be brought ih-
1 soon. . , ''!'.
Refrigerator
Hits Growers
throw the whole potato shipping:
season out of line. Tho biggest
crop in Klamath history is to be
shipped this year, and Henderson
saici mat zouu carioaas, wouia
leave the basin In October if not
Interrupted by the reefer ruling.
-Henderson and Charles Stark,
secretary ot ,the Klamath county
chamber of commerce, conferrod
by long distance, with' tho war
food administration at Portland,
and WFA promised to look Into
tho situation Immediately, s ,
Efforts Underway ' ' '
" Efforts to got relief from the
order were also underway in tHa
Tulelako end, of the basin. , 1
' The- order was believed a re-,
suit of a serious shortage of re
frigerator cars throughout the
country .at. a . period when heavy
shipment of perishable foods is
underway. ' Henderson said that
lt appears ICC officials did not
realize- the necessity for use oi ,
refrigeration cars In moving the
Klamath tropv
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