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Iin.n't Th. nrnriiiu n"" - i.nt Mi.ti. whero our In anlrvmen cllnu grimly . to tho SURFACE of Fort Drlunl in me ace of coiivernniHi mrm u--"-....,.., Urn (mm nearby &or nan forts mid o on digging for he nul holed up In the Intricate unnel system neiow me siuunu, kviVLL be wire II In litis west i" urnii iiBhUni! wn keep our i s 1 s n e e remembering Nor. Insndy. when wo wire slopped igaln nn ogam wntn wu hi. Germnn lino bill finally IlROKE THROUGH. It wo II do us wen nrre on inc homo front n our boys are do- n on the bloody troniiors oi lermnny, victory will ultimately c ours, V"Nlhe other sldo of Europe. fJ II,. nrnFiiH nf rirlvlllO tllO azls back to their home fortress .alls iocs on NOT spectacularly )tlt STEADILY. The Hum Wins are 111 tho out' Skirts of Belgrade. At BelKradu llicy will cut the great main-line tallrnad by which tho Germans fount ol mere in tno unman limit et out If they itel out. jEjIlninles of tho number of ncsc (jcrmnns run irom oigni a 25 divisions, indicating that fie don't really know how many nero rc.) Russian renorts suiicc.it that JNcow has already written luncnry off and Is now looking )N UEYONU to Austria whero iioiwiBjIs, are being Invited to fo-opernto wllh Kussla In throw ins oil the German yoke. Moscow Is pictured ns bellcv Ins that the Hunuarlnn hnmo front may collupxu nl any mo. ncni as uuigarln did, N tho Pacific, around 40 of our Liberators linmh .Inn nil In. Jiallallons nl Bnllkpnpnn again. no m uinbhuuhtku by KhlCrj (bl'i'HIi.n nf llw. rllultuwi.l fnrt niect 4U Jap Zeros mid the cuvlcit fink of Hie Pacific war. I n tone Jnn bomber flew In wnl of our Liberators and gave ne Jnn nnfi.nlrpi-T.ri ..- A. . .... k f.t,l'.' Wtl fw ground the HANGE by radio "'""li. the flak was AC J-URATE ns u.,.ll . i,nn.. . ...i.r me jnp mtos were shot flOWll bV 1 11. I,nnr. ',. ... fombers. Seven Lihnrnlnr urnrn But n lot nr i,. ..n ........ nln .,..i " " v" r ,, OIIIUIM:, . . A 1TN lk. i . . . . . 4J ' ' " "u,no ironi, tn Ills sec levdi DOII,lenl speech, KTJR evidently worr ed hv ,.,,1.1 1 .,. Mness nbout Illiimn., 1.1. in ..ii.-.. . Minr,.1'".. action commltloc) iiinn. U4j;,rtsoliilnu communist SIP0!"1- "0 says: i hnw. ...... . . . . hot iLi.- - . nv n. lnc sttppori or " person nr urn..., n pnrrtm... 1 buiiiiiuiiuu Ihor "n "m T fnsclRm or nny "cr forclm, Idcolouv which onunued on Pago Thrco) in Thn Shanla-Cniieade Wonderland !l!S'lfl,JJ1!ll!ilPiljiit!!iPiiiil!,ii It? ii sNIg1 October 6.1944 Msx. (Oct. 4) . 68 Mln. Precipitstion last 24 hours ; Stream year to date Normal .13 Last year Forecasti Clear. ..... . .38 .00 ..00 .00 PRICE 5 CENTS KLAMATW f-'ALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, Allies Take Greek Port; Seal Off Gulf HOME, Oct. 6 (Vl'l Allied land forces of the Adriatic have sealed oil the entrance to the jull ol Corinth In their Greek Invasion by capturing the fortllled port ol Hlon, allied head quarters announced today. Official Greek reports indicated that more than nail the Peloponnesus was securely tn the hands ol British troops and Greek patriots. Greek Premlor George Papandreou said in a statement that a minister of his cabinet had visited Trlpolis where "security battalions" Greeks lighting on the side of the Germans had surrendered to British ollicers without any skirmish." Trlpolis, In the east central Peloponnesus, Is 60 miles south- cast of ruptured Pntral on the golf of. uorlnlli and 73 miles BAL1KPAP ATI OIL By SPENCER DAVIS A L L 1 K U IlKADyU AKTF.nS, NKW UUINKA. Oct. 0 (!') Gen. nnuiiiiiK MncArlhur disclosed to- duy that n second crippling blow was dealt Japan's big source of nvlutlun gasoline nnd lubricating nil at Uallkpupan Tuesday by Liberator bombers, seven 01 which were lost In fierce sky battles with 40 Zeros. At least 11) and perhaps 24 of the enemy planes were shot down during a battle of more than an hour over the Borneo baso while 40 tons of concentrat ed explosives touched off huge ulusts among refineries and storage tanks. Freighters Sunk The coiniiiuiiloue also reported ulna enemv freighters sunk or damaged during raids by allied planes against the southern Phil ippines. Ambolna and Curani. Yesterday's communique 1 had listed 111 ocean-going vessels ss vletimi nf bomblncs. . A communique; last night et Pearl Harbor by Adm, CljcMer W. Nlmlli told of' the bombing of a Japanese destroyor and s large cargo ship near I wo Jlma, In tho Volcano Islands, 700 miles south of Tokyo. It did not claim fli.v were sunk. NlmlU' communique brought (Continued on Pago Tlircoj Airplane Engine Plant Blasted LONDON, Oct. fl II) A fleet of more than 1200 American iipnw hnmlirrt nttnekerl an air plane engine plant In Berlin and numerous other Industrial objec tives nnd airdromes In Germany today. sirnne forces nf British heavy bombers dumped a profusion of two-ton bombs and more man IISO.OOO Incendiaries last night on Snarbrucken, a major run center and arsenal In the SleR fried line behind Melz. Enemy broadcasts said It was a terror raid. British Mosquito before dawn gave the German capital a sam ple of the heavier shower of ex plosives rained by one large force of the four-englncd Ameri can planes in daylight.. No Gas Burned, Says Killer Kane BOISK, Idaho, Oct. 6 (VP) Col. John R. Kane, Gowcn field station commandant, today rclterntcd a previous denial that low grade gasoline was be ing destroyed at the baso ns charged by Representative White (D-Idaho) In congress. Kane, known for leading air raids over tho Pluestl, Romania, oild fields, declared: "The only Justifiable accusa tion concerning tho burning of gasoline by . 'Killer Kane' can bo made by tho pcoplo of Ploestl, Romania." "An Investigation Is welcome nt Gowcn field," ho told reporters, Marines vs. California Modot Not. 15 17 16 23. 2 21 U 24 27 13 0 , c Field, Saturday, 2 P. M. Leathernecks Ramblers Namot Pot. Names Not. Darnell LER Unger 75 Taylor LTR Conrad 24 yrne LCR Cameron , 25 Golden C B. Johnson 28 O'Connor RCL Beverly . 22 Hazon RTL Lo Rond 63 QPin REL Giorlich 69 Albritton QB ' Snook 98 R. Walters LHR .. Cornell .82 J. Walters RHL Kirstene 37 La Poglla FB Edmonston 89 HomlH cui j nunt t-lork, referee; Marble Look, umpire; Dr d !!' heod linesman; George Peters, field judge; 90 Wright, timekeeper. southwest of Athens. K Ion wus overwhelmed In an eastward advanco along tho gulf of Corinth from Patral. Visits Kalamal Tho Creek announcement also said the government mem ber, landing from tho island of Kylhera, off Greece's south coast, also had visited Kalamai on tho southwest coast. This indicated tho territory Intervening between Kalamai and Trlpolis was virtually free Ol uermans. Battalions Surrender Enemy security battalions hove surrendered at a number of other points in Greece, a communique said. Fifteen hun dred prisoners were taken at Patral alone. Immediately after seizing Rlon, seven miles up the coast from Pntrnl, the British turned enemy coastal guns captured there against largo numbers of small craft in which the Ger mans were trying to flee nortlv wnrd across tho gulf of Corinth An official statement said good results were obtained in this shelling. Boy Falls Under Car, Hurt$Arm Five-yoar-old Gilbert Spald lug, son .of Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Spalding of 1450 Home dalo, hud his arm crushed and received brultes on his body, when ho was pulled under bis father's car- by a rope tied around his waist. Tho rone caught in tho moving wheels of uic VCI1IC10. Gllbort and his brothor, Gall who Is eight, were ploying "horse" wlille they walked down the roud to meet their father, fcdward Spalding, when ho returned from work Thurs day night. Tho older boy had tied n rope around his . little brother, and lie held one end of it as they climbed on the run iilng board to rldo the short dis tance homo with their father. When Gall occldcntly dropped tho rope, it caught in the wheels of the car and pulled Gilbert Into the road, where tho car ran over his arm, Beats Cards Jack Kramer. Brownie Hurler, who struck out 10 Cardinals In today's game at Sportsman's park to beat the National loague champs 6-2 and glvo the Browns 2 to 1 edge In the world series. The USO has definitely ac cepted Klamath Fulls' invitation to .set up a service center here, reports Clarence Humble, chair man of the Klsmnlh Military Service committee, who has Just returned from a regional USO mcctinn held in San Francisco last week. A recommendation ns to the administration of the Klamath USO center was drawn up at the regional meeting and sent into the national directors for unnrova). If tho recommends- Uirougn,, the - ccntar the Salvation. ..Army,, as: direct ing agency, and tho . National Jewish Welfare society, 'flic wo men s division of the National Catholic society will have desk space, and the Travelers' Aid society will be granted office room to perform their typo, of service ncro, Mumble stated Explains Choice These organizations ' w e re chosen for the direction of USO activity here. Humble explained because the regional directors felt that they had available the type of officials suitable to nan- die the operation of Klamath's center, The recommendations will be submitted to the national board In New York on October 18, Humble snld, and if it is ap proved, oificials irom the above named organizations should be here in Klumuth Falls by Moa day, October 23 A big problem under consider ation at tho meeting was the (Continued on Page Three) "Fear Propaganda" Spread By GOP, Charges Roosevelt By D. HAROLD OLIVER Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Oct. 0 Presi dent Roosevelt, saying his repub lican opponents arc spreading "fear propaganda" in stating his administration is plotting to give the communists control of tho Kovernmcnt, disowned commun istic support for his fourth term bid in a rndlo address last night. Employing such spiked phrases as "rabble rousers," "political propagandists" and "bigots," Mr. Roosevelt declared: "I have never sought, nnd I do not welcome tho support of any person or group committed lo communism, ui iiii,,,, u, nnv other foreign Ideology wliicli would undermine the American system of government or tho American system of free competitive enterprise and pri vate property." , The democratic candldnto em phasized that this "docs not in tin. lmst interfere" with Amer ica's friendly relations with the soviet union, nnauig: mo kuhi of economy that suits the Rus inn nnnnln is their own affair. Ho devoted a largo part of his .fpnnrt camnalen speech de signed primarily as a "get out tho vote" appeal to references to communism in opposition speeches. He did not mention names, but snld it was a "source of regret to all decant Americans that some political propagand ists are dragging red herrings across the trail of this national election." , . "ror cxampiu, no iwtciicu, "Inhor baiters and bigots and some- politicians use tho term communism' . loosely, and apply ii in everv nroaresslve sociol measure . ond to .the views of ovcry foreign born citizen with whom they disagree. "They forgot that we In the BROWNS LEAD SERIES TILTS 2 MM IN Red Birds. Held to Hits by Kramer; 10 Strike Out, By JACK HAND SPORTSMAN'S PARK, St. Louis, Oct. 6 fP) The St. Louis Browns scored four runs in tne third inning and added two more in the seventh to ' defeat the Cardinals, 6 to 2, today and take a two games to one game lead in . the world series before a crowd of 34,737. . . . Jack Kramer held the Red Birds to seven hits and struck out 10 men to make his world series debut 1 a sensational suc cess. Ted Wilks, a rookie right hander, from Columbus, was charged with the defeat after being knocked out of the box on five straight singles in the third frame.- ' Futile Attempt '" Billy Southworth called on four of his young righthanders in a futile attempt to stop the Brownies' attack. Although er rors were responsible for both Cardinals runs, the Browns, de fense tightened in the late in nings - when danger threatened and right fielder Gene Moore made two brilliant catches to help Kramer out of trouble In the eighth..- " . Moore's long running catch-on Whltcy Kurowski's drive while going directly .into, the sun, prob ably saved the game in. the. eighth lion KOCS here will be Jointly, operated byWkefrCoopcrrs long double had United States arc all descended from immigrants (all except the Indians); and there is no better proof of fact than the heroic names on our casualty lists, i. The president referred to n statement by Chairman Ander-' son (D-N.M.) of the house com mittee on campaign expenditures that 13 republicans in congress had recently sent free through the mails more than 3,000,000 copies of n colleague's speech requiring more than 18 tons of scarce and expensive paper and at the taxpayers' expense." This document, Mr. Roosevelt added, "says that the 'red spectre oi communism is stinking our country from cast to west, from north to south' the charge being that tho Roosevelt administra tion is part of a gigantic plot to sell our democracy out to the communists." .. ... , , brought. Manager Luke Sewell from, tne dugout lor a consults tion with his hurler. .Kramer (Continued on Page Three) No Chance of Car Release, . Says Taylor :Wprd has been received by (J. A. Henderson, county agent, to the effect that there is no chance of more refrigeration cars being released for the spud ship ments at present. The shortage of refrigeration cars for commercial use in the nation Is general and growers are urged to ship in box cars un til better equipment is available. as an uninterrupted flow of Klamath Falls potatoes is necessary. It was asserted by C. W. Tay lor, agent for tno interstate com merce commission in Chicago, that there is a relatively short haul on local spuds and that the minimum temperatures is . not low enough to cause damage. to tno sntpments. : Yanks Hammer Three-Mile Gain By WILLIAM B. KING ' ' ROME, Oct. 6 (fl1) American fifth army troops hammered out gainsi up to tiirce-miles yester day over the rain-bogged, moun tainous terrain on tne ' ap proaches to tne fo vaiiey. xncy captured the road junction of Loiano, less than 14 miles south of Bologna on-the main road from Florence, allied headquar ters announced today. ' The . nazls threw reinforce ments of experienced Austrian and-German Alpino troops into the central sector adjacent to the highway and unloosed fierce ar tillery barrages. But on both sides of the road tho allies push ed ahead against the stiff resist ance and despite the foul weath er. , - " . i. . Today On The Western Front By The Associated Press U. S. first army After being driven from Bcggendorf by a furious German counterattack, launches a new attack of Its own, strongly supported by hundreds of fighter bombers, at Gellenkirchen, three miles north of Ubath. U. S. third army Breached the -Siegfried line north of Nancy, and faced artillery cross-fire, as it clung to its thin hold on Fort Driant. ' U, S. seventh army Was duelling with German artillery along . the approach to the Belfort gap, after having been forced to give up a slim hbld on a fort five miles south of Metz, on the extreme southern end of the front. Canadian first army, Let go with a tremendous aerial attack the moment a truce ended to permit evacuation of civilians from Dunkerque, and was expected to follow through with a land assault on that last nazi stronghold on the channel. . . .British second army Threw back three more counter attacks at the. western tip of the Holland corridor, while Canadians advanced behind sheets of fire to cross the Leopold canal in Belgium.- - - 1 - . ATTACK HITS NEAR GAINS MILE Withdrawals Made at ,. Beggendorf, Ubach Red Forces Invade Hungary; TakeMako LONDON, Oct. 6 Wl Russian troops have invaded Hungary from Romania, Moscow announced tonight. The broadcast Russian communique said soviet forces which crossed the border north and northwest of the Romanian town of Arad had captured various railway stations, including the junc tion of Mako IS miles east of Sieged, and more than 100 other populated places. There have been frequent unofficial reports recently that the red army was fighting in Hungary, but this was the first official announcement. - The communique also dis- VICTORY THIS YEAR IMOWli By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON. Oct. 6 VP) The failure of allied, airborne troops at Arnhem, in the bpin-ion-of-OWI Director-Elmer Da vis, makes' "more remote" the chances of victory in. Europe this year.- . . , - , Davis -said the "Arnhem af- fan""hacT made' out of date an office of .war information report which. had predicted- Germany would go down -"before,, or not long after,, the end of 1944.. ,., Heroic ' Struggle : ' He referred to the heroic 11 day . struggle to hold a bridge head across the-Rhine at-Arn hem,, Holland, against superior lorccs. ' . . . - "Everybody '.agrees." - Davis told reporters yesterday, that the defeat of the heroic airborne di vision makes German collapse "more remote than when our re port was put together three weeks ago. keaieea (Jut The report was not intended for publication, but it "leaked" after 8000 copies were prepared and some 4000 were distributed to persons in the advertising busi ness. ' Bombers Pound Kurile Island ' By The Associated Press Twelve American Liberators bombed Kita island Thursday morning in the deepest reported penetration of tne R.uriie islands, the Japanese Domci (News) agen cy said today. The broadcast, recorded by the federal communications commis sion, claimed that two attacking planes were shot down in "a fierce air battle." closed a . beachhead, 25 miles wide and 15 miles deep had been won on the Estonian island of -Saare; one- of a erouo of Iomx guarding the entrances to the gulf'of Finland and Riga. mubtjuw;- uct. e tf) kus- sian and Yugoslav troops fought the Germans in the outskirts of Belgrade today and front dis patches indicated patrols had crossed to the south bank' of the Danube from- . captured Fancevo, less than nine miles from the capital. . ' Marshal .Tito was reported near the front and it was be lieved troops of.. his army of national liberation would be the first formally to enter the for tified citv of 267.000. ' Pravda said other allied Sla vic troops had. reached the vic inity of Nis, 130 miles south east of Belerade. where the Bel grade-Athens-Salonika and Bel- graae-sovia railroads meet. - . - In northern Yugoslavia along the Tisza river, other Russian troops-were 'less than 30 miles across flat Hungarian frontier country from the second largest .Hungarian city, Szeged, im periled frohtally from Romania as well. ... Yanks Welcome To Occupy Bases, Says Aussie MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 10 fP) Australia and Brit ain would be glad to see Ameri can occupation bases in the Pacific, Sir. Keith Murdock leading Australian newspaper publisher, said today.. Murdock, chairman : of . the Australian - American coopera tion movement, said in an ad dress that the United States had no-territorial ambitions in the ' Pacific islands north of Australia, but he had no doubt American military, leaders would recommend establishing bases there. . By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Oct. 6 (P) U. S. first army forces, supported by hundreds of planes and guns, struck a solid new blow today southeast of Aachen which car ried through the dark lanes of Hurtgen forest to within six miles of Duren 20 miles from Cologne on the Rhine. The new attack' gained nearly a mile, in coordination with other first army units which were locked in some of the fierc est fighting of the Siegfried line battle in the Ubach breach, north of Aachen. - . - Reach Outskirts 7 Armor from the latter forces curled behind the broken main Siegfried line of steel and con crete and reached tne southern outskirts of Gellenkirchen in a three-mile push. The fighting was as hot as any experienced at the Anzio beach head, veterans . of that Italian battleground said, and before the new gams were registered tne Americans had given ground at two places, impelled by the heav iest armored counterattacks yet thrown into the contest inside Germany. .. . , : Temporary Withdrawal - - The first of these setbacks was at Beggendorf, about a mile and a quarter east of Ubach, but was only temporary. The Amer icans were forced to give up the town in see-saw fighting early in the day, but fought their way back in later and tonight they held it with a firm grasp. . . The other was one and a half miles south .of Ubach where the Yanks were driven off the top of a hill. But they held on to the lower slopes and braced with, the - aid of powerful , allied air support which took advantage of : the first clear weather -in- a .Week to blast destructively- at German armor. i , '. - Hurtgen Forest The first army's new attack was sprung through the pine carpeted six-mile-wide Hurtgeii forest. The town of Hurtgeii lies at its eastern edge, nine miles southeast of Aachen. . i ' ''We have been past the first belt of the Siegfried line of de fense for the last two weeks we now are on our way through the second," said an officer. .. Deadline Slated For Saturday on Registrations Klamath . county people who have not registered to vote, or whose registration is not in order, have until Saturday at 5 p. m. to take care of this mat ter. ' . The county clerk's office will be open this evening until 9 p. m., and on Saturday until 5 p. m. for registration. Voters may also register at Beatty, Bly, Bonanza, Chiloquin, Cres cent Lake, Malin, Gilchrist, Merrill, Plevna and Yamsay with local registration at those places. Those who fall to register, or whose registration is de fective, will not be - able to vote -in -the. general election November 7. ' Hunters Come Upon Plone Wreckage Wreckage Identified as Remains; of Army Plane . Airplane wreckage found , In the deep woods In wostcrn Klam ath county this.wck by two dc6r hunters had been definitely iden tified today as the dynamited remains of a single-motored army plane which crashed Ap ril 14 of this year In an accident which was reported at that time. The pilot, Lt. Adolf Rogers, was killed in the April 14 crash, and Captain William H. Law rence of the army air corps sur vived. ' Tho deer hunters, Al Rider and Bob Boldlschnr, enmo upon the wreckage In the woods and re ported to Sheriff Lloyd Low, who headed a party which went to Iho scene ot the crash near Buck lake. Low's party soon dis covered evidence that the wreck age had been previously inspect ed and photographed, and later Investigation, identified it-as the remains of the Vultce trainer that went down in April. Bones found by Rider and Bol dlschar are apparently the. re mains of an animal, and bv coin cidence were lying on the spot where the plane crashed. There was about two feet 'of snow on the ground in April, and the bones apparently were under the snow when navy and army men looked over the wrock. decided it could not be .salvaged, and dy namited it. -i It turned out io be the remains of an already reported wreck, when this, parry went to spot , near Buck lake where hunters had come upon twisted plane wreckage In the deep woods. In the picture) Constable Gary Coiad, Hunter Al Rider, Deputy Sheriff Jack Franoy, Hunter Bob Boldlschar, and Sheriff Lloyd Low. The plane, a Vultee trainer, fell last April 14, killing the pilot but only Injuring a passenger. ... f