Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1944)
,t ux W f1" tt-MiriNR 'S r three weeks ago, the r- War liiforniuium 1 0,( lLrf a report predicting 0?"rSSS.y wmiW o down tot crl" ,ut lonu '' 11,0 Wlfi4 Ytri.y It put "d 0 ,llow-UP l t'10 c"",ct Mt ,,o , f..m ire Arnhrm ""?!, ,. "'',,u'" ""' Sm ol victory in Kuropo "S'i would spend . IIUI. " i it timo kocImU to H ',,r4 '. i ll news bb It lm ll,tWVfll llVl" ui.llnt Into ltltt ",,?! ill i ml predicting unr ' truth "l t1,t NOBODY b,?!?An'3l'u)ii things h idvnwo-lho "brcuks." ... " yi- like llio attempted end mt VX . Wo MIGHT u" 'LnVhl t o Germans r and Bl elenr ,WT )K ND I "lr SI-(rl.Hl T'iforo l" "Hid .top "SuwTdW. They gut to wit" "tho niortct .no., ultwt" . , . V7E mllit Pnn nlh,y' Pctn rnlcl blow against ccniru . Gcrmun Twl . "ccc dc,,cn.tln ........ . hoinhnrd- .p'.rJsm;,K,, ' rSit TrCr might . I" on us. Ia.. . iT. nm.rliul "...u... " ' ;., coin rc.rdow,Vo.V.-roun.. P1 V. i r...i nm. which So Pie r i j h. hfliiio ninu n w" - tight wi. . . . L.s-Ff-tn II I If. n tolls 1.5 that f Nnnolcon mlifht have won nl . . ,.. ,lu .....it inf WriM. Victor lr ii hi, iim I. nrlll. ry like a plilol In tho bund. iolnung ii now ih-iij, " lowed." To do- this, ho had, to Imp his cannoneers galloping I n..l I pill hnlllfl Of OU.. 'v ....-... - - K'alnrlnn Wait RIMinilllZ UP. 1 Li., m tMA..'. nllll.i.v rnnlrl (um, iiniun..M n ............ ... o loneer be noiit Rnlloplnu He lout the bnltie. Brcnuw it inmrth nc Hint COVlklll t be crtscen wci-k niipna. LUV.n IIIIIIK BUII lll.l.. T 1 1 I . I .. .. .1111 tiannnn 9 Thnl It M hv II la Imnniuiihlo kr ANYBODY to not In nd- nco tho dntc on which the far will end. Or even tho op roxlmatc ante. ' KBOUT all we enn do la to P sire tip the iltuntion, np- raise the forces Involved on lh aides anil come to a con tusion nj to whether or not the crmnns have ANY chance to in the wnr. Most of us bnve nlrrndy done at. We've decided thnt noon- or Inter Germany must give Tho onlv Ihlnu thnt rmild ve her Would bo for im In lot b drnstlcnlly hi our wnr effort. ncre not going to do Ihnt. S hn ...I. .I.J ...I u ...... uwii iiuiinuu uin irv I quenlly here, tho Germnm Iclr own bordcra ever alnco I . AlB.nl.. I f...ll I K.iniviii uiiu ciiiiununin. lllV'tin l.nl.l .... 7t.-- (v . ..n.vii iu kivi: up innir Ot. nnrl Im.i ......i.i ui,ui.. . i.iiiiiiiv uiwuintv 11(1 llllln....!.. ...J ..l.ll..11.. But n tho buck of the I r Ihn DOIlDhl IT lullrLi tbcv Uld rnlli.n ..IH.....I-I.. i. .w.i.u IIIIIIIIIL1.'1V 111 their lint ....ii. .... . . flTuiu .. . I,ncl ari OAl-'tS SAFE frnm lut, 4-M. Thill li.. . ' w" inoy co iZ u" HoltHiiK n off until could ntll In I iu , UIU "ccomo no wenry wmua rivo mi wo on ntlvnnlnKoouH terms, mom IHE fortrcsj wall complex 'Is 1 " ''r y typical CJcrmnn com Kii.ul !r.nck!' ,ncl- to tho ivni u, "lP!; ""on of mod- uuiii ineir ncirn- o, rna. ,,p" .ro"red to tho -- ui mcir cnsllps and n" lo spoils or their This' i. l.- ii rat goiHB to d-?.n.cc." ,n ",0 "rt of often iiefr . . iMiuiu wans no - uro protection. posed to phiie Huniers Ivi Is toriJ , ..r.c:,crv.nton author! H foS,i ne? .lccr hunters iltci' kV.-i ' "'"""es forbid an ; on tho Klamnth Thov .ii i '.. In" reservation. imerLfythoro have been this .i,,l!,ncM oI violation v. and 11,0 . ""9t fcw k.T n.1 "rrosta may be " viomiion continues, n.n 'c Vims illtoiiVirn I ?ir PKICE 5 CENTS GIS SURGE Another Offensive Sweeps Below Aachen By JAMES M. LONG LONDON. Oct. 7 (n German Unci north of Aachen in Ger many crumpled suddenly today, mid U. S, first army tanks and Infantry swept forward three ml lot to Points six miles Into the relch. sclilnu five towns. Simultaneously another Amer ican offenslvo surited throunh fnrmt lands. 25 miles below Aachen, hlttlnit through antl lank traps, concrclo obstacles and mines In a new sector. The Aachen front before Dusseldorf, Colonge and Bonn flamed over 40-mlle area. Crumple Under The Ntubborn German stand-or-dle defense ubove Aachon In the Ubach sector crumpled un der tho weight of a U. S. first army assault, and Lt.-Gon. Court ney H. Hodges' men drove to ward tho Ithlne, with tanks fan ning out In sweeping moves. Tanks pushed east of Beggen dorl. Bncswller, five miles In side Germany, ' and . AUdorf, Morksteln, Herbach and Hof stndt were captured. Envelop Oladbtch The plunge sliced tho road from beselged Aachen northeast to Uladbuch. Tho first army was enveloping that ruined fortress city. Even as the first army tore on through tho breached Slogfried line above Anchcn, another as sault by the better part of a di vision was launched in a three mile wide forest below Mon ichau at a point 25 miles south of Aachen, and IS miles north west of Prum. Into Forest Along tho center, other first nrmv mon struck cast of Aachen. They drovo nearly a mllo through Hurtgcn forest, 10 miles lnsldo tho relch, and wcro fight ing 20 miles from Cologne. As land armies beat forward, tho relch was hit by one of the urrMitc.it air assaults of the wnr, with (IU00 plnncs including 3000 (Continued on l'ngo xnrcc; Strike Spreads To Paramount HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 7 (IF) A jurisdictional dispute between rlvnl AFL unions drow more thnn 100 workers from Para mount Pictures corporation to day, third major movie, .itudlo to bo enmeshed In tho controversy. Tho sevon sot decorators cur rently working failed to report for this morning and a few hours later 70 painters and 30 machin ists went out nftcr a brlof meet ing on tho lot. Nazi RE CH SEIZE TOWNS Stabilization of Coal Industry Urged by Dewey By JACK BELL CHARLESTON, W. Vn., Oct. 7 (i)-stabilization legislation for tho conl Industry In America wns advocated lodny by Govcr nor Thomas E. Dewey, republi can nomlnco for president, as ho nppenred in the capital vof the country's grentcst bituminous producing slate. , , "I have long favored legisla tion to stabilize the conl industry to prevent a return of ruinous cutthroat competition, which would impoverish tho people of tho conl producing areas,' said tho nomlnco in answer to a question. Asked Privately Tho question wns not put nl tho press conferenco which Dew ey held Immediately upon his nr rlvnl from New York but, It wns announced, wns asked privately after tho conference. Tho old conl control act under which tho industry opernted for severnl yours hns expired. Dewey mnde no direct reference to it In his statement, confining him self to advocating some sort of legislation nml foreseeing n good future for tho Industry, Confident With a "floor" under the In In Th Shanla ones Battles 3.0 k ruonville n. ' i (It. in liUTUM Mill, 1 15U , . ' 'IMaiiieres '.' OMETZ I OA JkTT fSeNfo Po-t ?..r i . . . I-? rJArjT-Va. fl Hunevi J "lfNeulchtl 1 -' Dostord f y'Bonhomme Iwr-onlV' ' Rem.remonOijJ3 i .i lCha, v --ws - 5V n langf Serenth army forcei hare battled more than half way through the forest, of. Parroy, while third array units enter their tlxth day of battle before Fort Drlant, fortress guarding the elty of Meti. North of Balfort. French and American soldiers fought their way to positions on three sides of the copper mine town of Le Thlllot. " Allies Clear Peloponnesus of Greek Minister Takes Oyer ,.... By The Astoclaied Presi - - ROME, Oct. 7 m The Pelo ponnesus was virtually cleared of the Germans today and a min ister of the Greek govcrnment-ln-exllc took over administration of tho leaf-shaped peninsula as Today On The Western Front By The Associated Press U. S. 1st Army Blocked temporarily yesterday, units exploded In three places, broadening the Aachen breach in tho Siegfried lino to 40 miles; tanks and planes back ed up the attack. ' U S. 3rd Army Gained 100 yards after savage fight ing in the six-day-old assault on Fort Drlant. flv i miles south of Mete on the Moselle r'jr' s. 7th Army mado local gains in the Vosgcs mountains In tho drive upon Bclfort Gap. . British 2nd Army Locked with tho Germans between tho Ncdcr Rhine a n d tho Waal, In Holland, while Can adians broadened a foothold on Iho Leopold canal In Bel glum, and drovo across the Dutch border. Cnnndlnn 1st Army Stand ing before Dunkcrquc, on the chnnncl const, supposedly pre ferring a Innd assault upon thnt stronghold,' dustry, he said, plus numerous inrlmnlnitlcnl advances. "I am confident of stnblo conditions for the Industry and a living wnnn for the coal miners com mensurate with tho hazards of their work. Received hero by a crowd po llco estimated reached 15,000 persons, Governor Thomas E, Dewey prcdiclcd at a news eon ference torinv that the percent age of soldiers who will vote In the November election win ex ceed thnt of clvlllnns. Bringing his enmpnign to the normally democratic state of West Vlrglnln for n major speech here tonight, the wow x ork gov ernor told reporters ho was satis fled thnt 77 per cent of the eli gible members of the armed service from Now York state hnd been mnilcd ballots for the presi dential election. As the republican presidential nominee's special train neared Charleston, nn assistant told re porters that a major campaign snecch nt 6:45 P. m PWT to night (CBS) would deal In part with tho problem of changing war plants over to peace-time production, - Canrade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1944 Oram pie South of Siegfried Breach -. .- ", JSAARBRUCKEN lur Still iDieuie Con. Strasbourg; , foreif of Po'Oi " Baearat amberviller's St. y4. British-forces pushed- eastward- hope of cap"m,f ti.rougtrthe'al toward the Uthmus of Corinth. ned air .'lid sea blockade,' . ; . A field dispatch from the cap tured port of Patral said the northern rim of tho Pelopennes us had been vacated by nazi troops In the exodus noted earK icr in the southern and central sections. Fight In Athens (A dispatch from Cairo said rftrnnnnifunnce rjhotoffraphs showed the Germans had blocked the Corinth ship canal, wn.cn cuts across the narrow Isthmus, by demolishing two bridges and sinking a blockship. Greeks in London said they had heard that the Germani blockaded all roads to Athens and that fighting was in progress at the heart of the capital). Relatively light units of the land forces of the Adriatic moved forward to liberate areas aban doned by the Germans. When the Germans failed to make a major stand at Patrai and Rion to cover the retreat, there was little to bar complete liberation. Abandon Isles It was assumed here that as tho Germans shrank the outer perimeter of the Greek defenses, they also abandoned Islands along the Turkish coast and in tho southern Aegean with the exception of Crete. Even the Crete garrison has been consid erably reduced, with most of the troops reported swarming to the western end of the island In the Audience Panic Caused by Firecrackers BOSTON, Oct. 7 (P) The loud explosion of severnl large firecrackers threw the premier of the communist political com mittee's controversial musical re vue. "FDR Victory Bandwagon" into temporary confusion last night. - The shnrp explosions came only n moment after Earl Brow dcr. communist political associ ation leader, hnd finished speak ing, but quick-thinking men in tho capacity symphony hall au dience quickly calmed excited spectators. Record Bomber Fleet Attacks LONDON, Oct. 7 P) The sec ond largest force of Amcrlcnn henvy bombers ever dispatched from Britain about 1400 with an escort of 900 fighters at tacked more thnn a dozen targets In Gcrmnny today, while anoth er fleet of 800 bombers was striking the relch from the south Most of the eighth airforcc taraets were synthetic oil works. tnnk fnctories and engine plnnts In central and northern Ger manyi Several of the major blows were In the Magdeburg and Lciuzla area. Another heavy attack wns nt Politz, north of the Baltic port of Stettin. : ' nri snnnn OJimdler :)HiaeiDijrg Landau A fTI ITTlOTJ Tubingen fbflenburg reiburg "SWITZERLAND Nazis; Government (A dispatch from Cairo said British and naval air arms "have sealed the fate of German gar . (Continued on Page Three) - 0UT2WI By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME. Oct. 7 (JP) U. S. fifth army troops have shoved ahead another two miles to within 12 miles of the Po val ley communications center of Bologna as the nazis were re ported working frantically to evacuate strategic war materials including railway lines from northern Italy to the reich. Allied headquarters said to day the Germans again had fail ed to stabilize their lines in the central Italian sector. Dough boys who cleared the enemy irom Loiano were fighting yes terday two miles north of that important road junction town on the main Florence-Bologna nignway, no. 65. On both sides of the highway other fifth army units kept abreast or the central salient To the west. British and South African troops occupied Monte Vigese, which dominates the Pistoia-Bologna highway, and to the east a spearhead north of the mountain village of Sasso leone carried to within 10 miles of Castcl San Pletro. which is on the Bologna-Rimini highway. Meanwhile, in the Adriatic sector Indian troops of the eighth army crossed the Fiumi clno river near its mountain source, slugged the Germans out of San Martino dl Bagnolo and captured Sogliano, 15 miles southwest of Rimini. Farther west in the valley of the upper Savio British troops took Tezzo. Boyd Borgstrom Starts Home CAMP LEJEUNE, N- C, Oct. 7 OP) Boyd Borgstrom receiv ed his honorable discharge from the U S. marines here today and began the long trip home to his parents' farm near Tre monton, Utah. Borgstrom, a prlvato first class who served 18 months in the South Pacific, was granted his discharge upon instructions from Lt. Gen. A. A. Vander grift, marine commandant, when the marine's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvln. Borgstrom, petition ed for his release. Three sons of the Borgstroms have been killed in battle and another is missing in action. Borgstrom will reach Ogden, Utah, early Thursday morning by' train and will go from thero to Tremonton by bus. : WeathcrNewSi ; WMW Octobtr 7, 1944 M.x. (Oct. 8) . 78 Min 43 PI I IP I P I flPP Pr.clpiUtion lut 24 houn 00 I.OllHrn I I ISS , 8t.i.m r.ir to dill 00 UllUuLU LUuU Normal 13 Lut yr 00 wiiwwi-w fw WW Foraeniti Drv and Warm. Yank- fush CARD5SQUARE SERIES WITH 5-1JQCJP.HY Musial Leads Attack With First Inning Homer By JACK HAND SPORTSMANS PARK, ST. LOUIS, Oct. 7 P) The Cardi nals pounded out 12 hits includ ing Stan Musial's home run to defeat the Browns, 5 to 1, today and square the world series at two games each before 35,455 fans. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen, slim southpaw from Broken Bow, Okla., scattered nine Brown hits over the route, pull ing himself out of several tight situations and leaving 10 men stranded. - Jakucki Pulled . -' 'r ' Sig Jakucki. the former semV pro from Texas, who pitched the pennant clincher for the Ameri can leaguers, was taken from the box after yielding five hits and four runs in the first three innings, and was charged with the loss. It was his first series appearance. ...4 Stan Musial. with' a two-run homer- in the first: inrrme and a single and dauble later led the Red Birds attack as their latent power broke through for the first time. Johnny Hopp.t Walker Coo per, and Danny Litwhiler were two-time hitters for the. winners while Don Gutteridge and Chet Laabs each had two blows for the Browns. ' " Nazis Prepare To Scuttle Ships LONDON, Oct. 7 OP) The German navy is preparing to scuttle its ships in Aegean har bors, a German transocean agency naval commentator said today. Many vessels brought from Romania along the Danube to the iron gate already have been sunk, he said, "thus constituting a not easily removable obstacle for enemy shipping on the Dan ube and hampering their sup plies. Similar tasks are now tak ing shape in the Aegean sea." Security Talks Reach Conclusion WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 OP) The world security talks among the United States, British and Chinese delegations at Dumbar ton oaks have now "reached a satisfactory conclusion," it was announced officially today. The delegates, a final joint statement said, decided on "an agreed set of proposals for the general framework of an inter national organization and the machinery required to maintain peace." Evacuation of Warsaw Ordered LONDON, Oct. 7 (If) The Po llsh Telegraph agency reported today that Germany had ordered the evacuation of tho entire Po lish population of Warsaw, esti mated at one minion persons, and added "there is every reason to believe they intend to send I large proportion of these to con centration and labor camps." 1 Spud Growers Appeal for Aid in Harvest Emergency An appeal went out today for all possible help in meeting the harvest emergency in the Klnmath basin, now at its peak. Many growers .are unable to take advantage of excellent harvest weather because of a short crew, it was reported by County Agent C. A. Henderson. While many people have gone out from the towns of the Klam ath basin, many more can be used. i Picking conditions are favor able, with good weather and high average yields. The weath- -:. Numb.r 10282 UI lUIUU,UUU Top Hurler Harrr Brecheen, ahoTe, pi the Cards back In the running in the World Series by forcing the Browns to take a 5-1 loss in the ' fourth series tilt. ' T y , By EDDY GILMORE MQSpOW, Oct.,,7 OP) Red army ; infantry waves, surging across the Romanian, frontier in toHungary on a 75-mile; front, moved steadily toward tne iisza and Koros river, last big natural obstacles before Budapest today. Indications were that the back bone of German-Hungarian re sistance had been broken and that the Soviets had an excellent Chance of carrying the fight to the area of the Hungarian capi tal within four or five days at the present rate of advance. Budapest was about 90 miles away this morning. . Spread Panic " - Kuban cossacks were reported spreading "death and panic" in the rear of Hungarian troops unable to disengage themselves on the shattered front in south eastern Hungary. "Our mobile units are chasing the retreating enemy," said a front line dispatch to Izvestia. (Continued on Page Three) - Japs Reorganize Rail System SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 7 (IP) A "wholesale reorganization" of Japan's crowded railroads will become effective Wednes day, the Tokyo radio reported today, as headed by ruu. "Ordinary passenger trains" and "those trains of no immedi ate importance" will be "re duced to the minimum," the report said. The purpose is to provide more coaches for war workers and more freight cars for the "war goods transport services." Quake Destroys Aegean Village LONDON, Oct. 7 OP) The German Transocean agency, quoting an Istanbul dispatch said in a broadcast today the town of Aivalik, on the Aegean coast was almost destroyed by an earthquake Friday morning and that at least' &U persons were killed at Izmir. Transocean said Edrelit, Ber gama, Soma and Manisa, in west ern Anatolia, were hard hit. er forecast for the weekend in dicates a continuance -of these conditions.. Henderson " suggested ' that local- people who can work either contact some farmer di rectly or list themselves with the farm labor .employment of fice, 116 South Sixth street. "The entire coming week will be particularly important in the potato harvest and if 'ample crews can be secured, the labor situation should improve by the end of that week," said Henderson.- . Sawmill, Green Chain Razed; Rest of Plant Okeh . Shaw Lumber company's milt at Tionesta, 60 miles south ot here, burned down last night at an estimated loss of $150,000. , Fire started in the east end of the Dlant at about 9:20 p. m..- and quickly enveloped the en tire mill and green chain. ; The mill was not operating at the time, but Shaw employes ran from their Tionesta homes and manned fire equipment; The planing mill, shops, ware house, and lumber in the yards were saved from the flames. ; . Cause Unknown Cause of the fire was not definitely determined, but at the company offices here it was stated that defective wiring or an overheated motor may have sparked the destructive blaze. A watchman had made - his rounds just five minutes before the fire broke out. Insurance Coverage The loss was covered by In surance. About 50 men were emoloved in the mill. ' J. R. Shaw, president of the company which has ooerated in the Klamath area for many years, was at Tionesta today and no immediate statement was available as to possible plans for re-building at Tio--nesta. The logging operation in that area will continue, with logs shinned by rail to Klamath Falls mills. The Tionesta mill was built In 1935. In May, 1942, the box factory there burned. The com pany has. operated largely on war orders throughout the war period. Some time ago, it was dis closed that the Shaw company planned to build a mill at Al turas, after the war. In con nection with the operations ot the Alturas ''working circle" of timber management. " . Western Cutback In Production Set By WPB WASHINGTON. Oct. 7 OP) War production throughout the country in the year after victory in Europe will be cut back about 32 per cent from the August rate, . with reduction in prime con tracts for west coast plants run ning somewhat lower about 25 per cent Chairman J. A. Krug of the war production board wrote Rep. King (D-Calif.) today. The letter to the Californian, based on preliminary results of a WPB study, was in reply to the expressed fears of King and other west coast representatives mat tneir section might not be allowed to reconvert on a oar with other areas because of the necessity for continued produc tion for the Japanese war-after V-Day. Third General Dies From Bomb Plot Attack LONDON. Oct. 7 (IF) Gen. Rudolf Schmundt, chief adr jutant of the German army, died oi wounas sutierea in tne July 20 attempt to kill Hitler and was given a state funeral at Tannen berg yesterday, a German news agency broadcast said today. A broadcast by Transoceari said the 48-year-old Schmundt was the third to die among the men wounded by the explosion. Others were Col. Gen. Gunther Korten, chief of the air force general staff, and a man named Berger, who has been Identified as "advisor to Hitler." , 7400 Register In Late Rush Over . 1400 voters filed last minute registrations at the county clerk's office during the last two days of the registration period. Mae K. Short and her staff worked over-time Satur day afternoon to take care of the late comers lined up outside of her office. . All those who failed to reg ister before five o'clock Satur day or whose registration is defective will not be permitted to vote in the general election this fall. The Road to Berlin By The Associated Press 1. Western front: 302 miles (north of Venlo). 2. Russian front: 310 miles (from Warsaw). 3. Italian front: 564 miles (from Loiano). jSj. tin? l !,: urn !5 !3; j .fV .-t : 1 1
