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Nl mm mam mm fasiws LtiETokvo rixHo tells ui. today fT"ll 1 i)00 ALLIED I'LANKS I ' Formosa, ii LTiOO Vll)i-riitor, EHUUHTMJ 8 ' Wll TEIIS. hi'vo "'' an . - iin ciiiiiiun. mi k vf,, is fe e" "I J"""n" nV"'"U" l?.r. iunie fro'". l I. ..II...... llm fcoiP cant ii wuya ui-""u Wa ; 'who. 'i " ,w""1 KnnL "o U wl.l mode,,. OU'U boiu-r iirt out your man .!,,. II 110(11 lOOk III lormoM hiicI the Kyukyi'... They f, the- lt bc""' tl,u South culm', L wiulern GUHMANY, Hie US I j,t iirmy Is clHu In on the iironirM ",V, - i the weu'in ii Tiro nn.l atrutoity nl Aachen In "'"'"il.'L Hum. B chance to lave the city by urrnderln It iith IK garrison. They declined ....ilr mid linmcuuueiy l.ircp. Willi ."v: -. Sroori Thi-y HOPED, evidently, a RESCUE Aachen, thin, proy nit to the German peoplu Hint . .1. urn hlilhlLTOm. ho emi t carry om i i m.. ,n.i.iin niiciniit. bloodily mibcd home, Is FAILING. ihia writer wero a home- rmtl rifi'mlllt. lie would bo nCA-ri.Y DISTURBED. Instead I reassured, by wlmt linn hup loned at Anchen. In other words. Ih.lr iirntriiv ilocsu t ccm 10 Iave been smart. rHErtE ore hIuhh of u German breakup In Holland. Tiiniiannriii of mill demolition xtwrui nro blowInK up miles docks In Rotterdam. West of considerable Gurmnn tree has withdrawn from Iho mth bunk oi tn Ncucr inorwi rn channel) Hlilno to Iho lOrtTIl bunk. Were slowly ciincning our rip on Antwerp mid the water- tyi lo we ciim ui n. ma crp supply line (when wo get nociicd) will be 500 in I leu fiortcr limit the lino wo'ro now jlni," . - r t rHE Russians nro closing In on tho EAST PRUSSIAN city Memel. Further south, they to ilormlni! up to Jho EAST f tu&hiAW ciiv oi tiisii. muui krther south, they nro movlnit kirthward iikiiIiisI Eust Prussia lorn Poland. Fur lo the south, they ore bvlnit westward ueross Hun ry. They nru alrcndy over lie Tlsin river and their ml- ariccd columns arc reported ply 60 miles from Budapest. Iho London rndlo riuotvs n re nt Irom Its Stockholm corres ondcnt that the lluiiitarliins ivo finally got In touch with io allies unci tiro seeking tin 'mlsticc. VERYWHEFtE in tho cast, 1 the Ituxslnns nro clrl vl- e Germans back to tho walls l tlielr home fortress, whnl 111 honncn to them when thev ft there Is indicated by whnt happening to them lit Aachen. r Moscow, Churchill and Stalin arc busv dlvldlim uo liropc Into Uritlsh and Russian pnercs of influence." Wo (American;!) nri Innllne. ively suspicious of tho Eur- lican devices of spheres of In- uence wnicli, history touches nave Dcen proline producers war. uur political Interest EliroDP lies SOI.KI.Y In nmn Mem thill will FWER WARS for bitter cx- ricnce has tmight us that from re on wo will bn mirkod lulu cry big war that gets started llut nrm.lli.nl .... .uii,iiiuii nuiinu " US that romnklnif thu tvopeon mind is too big n Job f i to Incklu and tho realities ic situation make it fnlrly p'n to us Hint our best hone -- vm III JMll'OpO 111 inu 'rSnJT'.V.'"11011 llcs some ih n . division of British '2 Russian interests, SO WO lll'K I, ,,!., ll.f.1 rS'1!1 "nrt S1"1'" succeed In '""'I '"Kcincr on n scheme of winuon Hint will work, I . sc to be In, lo some ex ,0'' the Moscow con S Al Iousl our nmbassudor :u?in,!opE fervently that he t In f 0!'l,nrUllllt.V to point kiln i . v-iuircn ii ana PHIl thill IV 'PITAItm fin t.i., keS w L i " lonK wny ,rom continued on Pngo Three) . pgorians Seek ,ace,Keport " radio said In n lirnnrl. E,ti,l)y CBS '"day that oripVi eorrcspondont i tOUCh W t l llm nllU oolr. n armistice." 1 kVu.'S"1!118 nre sntlsfnctory, i,"L.K0 Moscow short-1 f's quoted. corrcln- PRICE 5 CENTS ALLIED FIGHT Ground Troops Battle Within Ten Miles Of City nOMK, Oct. 12 (!) A groat force of Amerlcun heavy bomb ers delivered ono of the most concentrated attucks of the war today on German barracks, bivouacs, stores and dumps In a rough clrcla around besieged Bologna while allied ground forces deployed 10 miles from the city. Tho force of Klylng Fortresses and Liberator was larger than that which left Casnlno below Rome In ruins last spring and was the largest the U. S. 13th air force ever dispatched over a single target. Hit at Calllcano Brazilian expeditionary forces smashed today to the vicinity of Gall Initio. 20 miles Inland from the big Italian west coast naval base of La Speila. Another column, advancing up tho opposite side of tho Scrchlo river valley, renched Barga, four mileit east of Galllcuno. The ap (Continued on Pago Three) " SEATTLE., Oct, 12 (PI Dil lon S. Mycr, war relocation au thority director, listened to a first-hand account of anti-Jap-anesc feeling In the Ptiyallup and White River valleys today from a prominent member of the Re member Pearl Harbor league, a ncwly-organlzcd group opposing the return of Japanese and Japanese-Americans lo tho area af ter the war. Mycr met with C. (Nifty) Gar rett, Sumner publisher and mem ber of the executive board, at the office of Claude G. Walkor, WRA area manager, R. B. Coi 7.1ns, assistant WRA director, of Snn Francisco, was also present. No Bloodshed "The Remember Pearl Harbor league docs not have tho inten tion of Inciting to bloodshed and riot," Garrott sold, "but there I blood in the eyes of tho people of these valleys." "And there will bo blood in tho eyes of boys who come back to find that we're fighting the (Continued on Pago Three) Dynamite-laden Ship Downed VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 12 (CP) A dyniimito-ladcn ship sank oft Point Grey today after being rammed by tho Canadian Pacific Steamship's passenger boat Princess Joan. The freight er, the Squid, carrying 400 cases of dynamite, was badly holed by the impact in the light fog and went down In 10 minutes. Her five-man crew escaped to to tho Princess Joan. Tho Princess Joan proceeded to Victoria immediately after tho collision and many of the approximately 4S0 passengers sleeping when the crash oc curred did not learn of the ac cident until disembarking at Victoria, BOMBERSAID NEAR BOLOGNA Paratrooper Frank Cress Killed in Dutch Action 1 Mrs. Gladys Cress, 2940 Bis bee, was advised Wednesday night through tho wor deport ment thot her son, PFC Frank Arthur Cress. 23. a pnratroopcr, had been killed In action In Holland on September 28. PFC Cress was In on tho D Dny Invasion and tho Septem ber Invasion of Holland where he lost his life. Tho youth was born In Twin Falls, Ida., July 12, 1021, Hq came with his family lo Klamath Falls in 1023, wont through the grades at Altamont and was graduated in 1040 from KUHS. For a time ho was employed at tho postofflce and later worked for Ewauna Box company. Fnltnwlda his enlistment In thn imrntrnonn on July 20, 1042, Cress look his training at Fort Bonnlng, Gn.. and went overseas In September, 1043. Ho was (Continued on Pago our; In The Shania Veterans Line t -i'tK' ''tc i I Slrh FORWIULATO CHECK E ...f,-'rT. ' I.' I mi 'Wr: J-:-.-V ' mmpm ' PFC Arthur "Trigqer" Dollfka of HanoTer, Ka.;. get bis till of GI food )n chow line at the Marine Barracks. Dollfka, ex treme right,. Ii bolng served by (left 'to right) PFC,' John Mac Dougall. Now York City.- PFC William Baughman, Chicago; PFC James Demos, Rapid City. S. D., and Prt. J. B. Bauer, Kantai City. Kan, Below, Corn. Andy Anglovlch (left). Larki vllle. Pa,, seated at one of the four-table affairs with PFC Mike Macsko, who hails irom Pittsburgh, Pa. They're talking Penn sylvania shop. -. . . . Gf Food Gripes Send News Hound to Marine Chow Line By LOIS STEWART "GI Gripes," that strange mal ady that hits a certain per centage of any military outfit that Is strong and healthy, cen tered ono day last week in un signed Letters to the Editor, on foodstuffs served on tho troys of tho men who make up the per sonnel of the Marine Barracks. The Herald and News, which likes to find out for itself what's what, decided lo line up with BillTurpin Fataily Crushed ' Bill Turpln of tho U. S. army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Tur pln, formerly of Klamath Falls, now of Portland, wns killed re cently In Seattle when a torpedo rolled on him nnd crushed him, according to word received here by friends, Bill attended Mills school here until his family moved away about 10 years ago, Ho was serving as a mechanic on a trans port plane lo Australia at the time of his death. Ho is survived by his wife and baby In Portland. PFC Frank Cress Or i o o - Cnnciido Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1944 i i i ii li i iiiii Up For Chow At Marine Barracks the rest of the. crew and eat the chow that was dished out to tho 2800 men who live at the bar racks. . We chose Tuesday of last week, Wednesday of this. Until a few minutes before our arrival there was no "Hey, hore comes the press, haul out the T-bones," so we ate what the rest of them did and all wocan say is there was too much of it. Dollfka Escort ' V Last week, Uncle Bulgy and I, that's- our staff photographer who makes such wonderful field runs at tho football game, drop ped in at the mess hall. Our es cort, PFC "Trigger" Dolifka of Hanover, Kns., gave us our trays and this Is what they put on them: vegetable soup, roast beef, lima beans, lettuce, celery, sliced tomatoes, potatoes and gravy, bread and butter, cake and coffee. You could hardly see Unclo Bulgy! " We ate with Cpl. Andy Anglo vlch of Lnrksvllle, Pa., and an other marine who hails from that state, PFC Mike Maczko of Pitts burgh. Tho conversation shifted from east to west. Lewis' Guests Wednesday at noon we were tho guests of Capt. F. G. Lewis, post quartermaster at the Ma rino. Barracks, tho fellow who buys food and equipment for the plant. Ho didn't know we were coming until a quarter to . 12 and by that time . the chicken was deep fat fried for everybody. Tho menu on Wednesday: beef noodle soup with plenty of each In it, fried chicken, potatoes, cream gravy, peas, lettuce, bread (Continued on.. Page ix) . Count Schools Continue Closed Schools at Bonanza, Henley, Merrill and Malln, which have been closed tho past week and a half for tho potato harvest. will not re-open until October 23, it was learned from the county school office today. Tho week's ' extension to ' the originally, planned two weeks' shutdown was decided .upon at tho request of the farm labor committee - of . Klamath basin, which - felt that the students were still badly needed to help get in the spud crop. , , , C 1 a s s e s at; the four rural schools were .to have resumed Monday, October 16) U By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Associated Press Labor Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 &) An official in the first circle of administration advisers said to day the little steel formula would be held where it is until victory in Europe or at least until military experts can safe ly name that day. 'f This is not 'considered as of today lo be a Dro-eleetion nos. TsibTIIiy. , Disclosure of what amounts' to settled policy came as the result of a request for comment on yesterday's , w a r. labor aboard decision, to omit recommendations from the forthcoming . WLB report on wages and living costs. Expected, " ' The official,- declining to be identified by name, expressed no surprise at the WLB action and said it was expected and was the sensible position to take. He said, in effect, that the ad ministration would not tinker with the delicate balances of a wartime economy; that it would be time for a change only when the end of wartime pressures is clearly in sight. Production cut backs following . V-Day will re lax competition for manpower. Views Coincide The official's views coincide with' impressions which some labor leaders got from President Roosevelt In a recent confer ence. A d e f 1 n 1 1 e administration statement of this nature before the election is not considered likely, but it is believed that most labor leaders are now (Continued on Page Three) UNRRA Appoints Head for China WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (P) The United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration to day announced appointment of Benjamin H. Kizer of Spokane, to be .head of Its office for the China area , with headquarters at Chungking. - - - - Klzer, who is now at his home', will come to Washington before leaving for Chungking probably in late November. , In tho meantime, Kizer and UNRRA officials here will or ganize the nucleus of a staff for the Chungking, office and advance their plans for the ad ministration of UNRRA's part in the relief of China. Inclusion of Two Suburbs Within City Set for Vote (Third article of a scries) Interest in the third and fourth measures on the special city elec tion ballot, is centered on two suburban sections of the city which may, by vote of the resi dents of those areas involved, be Included in the city of Klamath Falls. One Is a section known as Mountain View, Irvington Heights, Nob Hill, Sunnyside, El dorado Heights and Lakcview ad dition. (The other concerns a section south of the city which will be discussed in tomorrow's article.) Mutual Vote Needed In both instances, voters of these two areas are to be given special ballots on which they will place their "yes" or "no" October 12, 1944 Max. (Oct. 11) 68 Mln. Precipitation last 24 hours Stream year to date Normal 35 Last year . forecast) Cloudy. Yanks Win I Ith Island; Japs Report Raids On Borneo,, Formosa By VERN HAUGLAND U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Oct. 12 HVi American forces controlled 11 islands in the southern Palaus today, after the second new landing in three days, as Tokyo reported continuing aerial blows against the key petrol eum center of Borneo, and a 1000-plane raid on Formosa. Soldiers of the 81st infantry landed unopposed Tuesday -on Bairakaseru islet, 9)4 miles northwest of Peleliu, Adm. Chester W. Kimili announced in a communique last night. Other ' in fantrymen Sunday invaded Garakayo, 2H miles north oi Peleliu, and secured control within 24 hours. Tokyo radio, heard last night by FCC monitors, reported that nearly 100 Liberators and 30 escorting fighters had smashed the important Borneo oil refinery at Balikpapan Tuesday morning. There was no allied confirmation. But Gen. Douglas MacArthur's southwest Pacific communique today reported a four-hour attack on aaiiKpapan Sunday by night pairoi DomDers. inis was tne fifth time in recent weeks allied planes have hit this oil center, which produces 15 per cent of Japan's aviation gasoline. (Tokyo today reported a 1000-plane raid on Formosa, off the China coast, with a result ing eight-hour battle in which it claimed at least 100 attack ing planes were shot down. Third Fleet (If true, the attack was prob ably made by carrier units of the U. S. third fleet which Tokyo previously said was "still lurking" near Japan after raid ing the Ryukyu islands,' sepa-. rating Japan from Formosa. The powerful naval force sank or damaged 58 ships of all cate gories and destroyed 80 aircraft in the Ryukyu strike). American marines, fighting on Peleliu, made "slow but steady progress" against Japa nese remnants, Nimitz reported. A sizeable ammunition dump was exploded in a cave held by last-ditch defenders., . 12.470 Japs Dead ' ' 'H-- Nimitz Announced Japanese dead in the Palau campaign to talled 12,470 through Tuesday, 10,305 of which were counted (Continued on Page Three) ' Rapid Progress In Peace Plans U, S. Objective WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (P) President Roosevelt said today it is this nation's "objective to establish the solid foundations of the peace organization with out further delay, . and without waiting for the end of hostili ties." "Substantial progress has al ready been made and it must be continued as rapidly as pos sible," Mr. Roosevelt said in a radio address prepared for de livery at the White House be fore the chiefs of the diplomatic missions of other American re publics. Males May Get Vests on V-Day WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (AP) The war production board's sec tion of gentlemen's apparel is recommending that two-pants suits and vests with double breasted suits be restored to the males on V-E Day. Morton J. Baum, head of the section, has so informed Rep. Scrivner (R-Kas.) whose recent letter to OPA asking restoration of two pants suits as an econ omy measure, was turned over to the WPB. Scrivner contend ed that pants were wearing out faster than coats and that sur plus coats were filling closets. Tho Kansan said he was ap pealing to J. A. Krug, WPB chairman, to lift the restrictions now for spring and summer suits, declaring that "I'm con fident that V-E Day will be here before these clothes are on the market." vote November 7. These ballots will be counted and if it Is not the will of these voters, the areas will not be included within the city. Let it be understood that if the city voters place their OK on the project, but residents of the suburban district vote no. the areas are not incorporated. An affirmative vote on the part of botii tne city ana people in the annexation areas will bring tne areas in.- Ballot title on No. 104, 105, is: "A charter amendment sub mitted to the voters by the com. mon council and Initiative pe nnon.: . This. Involves the area north. west of the city and Pacific Ter race proper, and includes the .38 ..00 .13 ..02 Number 10286 MENACE CAPITAL LONDON, Oct. 12 OP) Rus sian troops have hammered their way -to within about five miles of .Riga, the capital and chief port . of Latvia, . the Rus sian communique announced to night... ' . .v.. ! ' . . .This drive came from the east, the broadcast war bulletin said, and captured the town of Saveli as well as several other populated places within ap proximately the ."same radius of the capital. .- . Moscow announced also that advances had been made north and southeast of Memel. Oradea Captured Capture of the west Transyl vanian - strongpoint of Oradea was announced, tonight in- an order of the dcy .by Premier . Oradea lies 80 miles north west . of newly .- captured Cluj and 130 miles southeast of Buda pest, . at the approaches -to' Hun gary. The Stalin order,- broad cast from Moscow and recorded by the soviet monitor, said it fell to Russian and Romanian forces, commanded by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. A Moscow salute i of 12 salvos from 124 guns was ordered. : : , Invade Naiiland . Russian troops battled with in five miles of the Prussian port of Memel today in a siege of growing ferocity after in vading what Hitler considers German soil by occupying - the (Continued on Page Three) i Understanding o f Polish I Problems Looms; Bulgaria Accepts Armistice Terms By JAMES F. KING LONDON, Oct. 12 (IP) A frank understanding between Russia and Britain in dealing with the Balkans and Poland two potential threats to allied unity appeared today to be emerging from the conferences of Premier Stalin and Prime Minister-Churchill in Moscow. Indications of unity of purpose in dealing with the Balkan situa tion developed last night when Moscow announced that Bulgaria had accepted preliminary armis tice conditions agreed upon by the allies and had promised to evacuate within two weeks, ter ritory seized from . Greece and Yugoslavia. Rivals Meet The two rival Polish political factions were called to sit at the same conference table with Sta lin and Churchill . serving as in termediaries. The last obstacles to a meeting apparently were re moved with the disclosure that leaders of the soviet-sponsored Polish committee of national lib eration had arrived in Moscow and that Premier Stanislaw Mik loajczyk of the exile govern ment in London was ready to fly there. . ' These developments were Stalin Praises U. S. Industry MOSCOW. Oct. 12 m Pre mier Joseph Stalin, praising the industrial might of the United States, told a gathering at the British embassy last night that without American war aid the course of the European conflict might have been different. Speaking at a precedent-setting dinner given in his honor by Prime Minister Churchill, the soviet ' nremler said both Russia and Britain had played big parts in the war, out tne stupendous production and or ganizing ability of the United States had helped turn the tide. T OP GERMAN UNITS DRIVEN BACOYGI'S Americans Fight Into . .Factory District , Of City I By JOHN F. CHESTER LONDON, Oct. 12 (Des perate attempts by one of Hit ler's finest divisions to break the American siege of Aachen were beaten off today and U. S. first army infantrymen fought their way Into the factory dis trict - on the outskirts of the doomed and burning city. -German elements supported by from 20 to 25 tanks counterat tacked repeatedly but vainly north of Aachen, a field dispatch said. . American dive-bombers and heavy guns helped to block these thrusts at intervals be tween barrages laid down upon Aachen itself in continuation of the- demolition campaign underf taken at noon yesterday after the garrison commander chose to fight on. ,J "Greatest Battle" ' i i .The Berlin radio said thd Aachen action was "the greatest battle ever fought, on the west ern front." J . It was disclosed that a crew; of 6000 German demolition ex perts had blown up more than 10 miles of quays and docks dur-j ing the last .10 days in Rotter- dam, Holland's second city and biggest port. .Roads around Rot terdam were clogged with nazi transport, moving generally -id the south and east. . '. ; ' Abandon Area . ,-- - On the south bank of the Neder Rhine the Germans sud- denly abandoned a stretch be-i tween Arnhem and Rotterdam. While the German radio ad mitted American gains around Aachen and mouthed threats oj vengeance if "the American hordes should carry out ; the! threat to destroy - Aachen,; this (Continued on Page Three) Bremen Factories Hit By Bombers LONDON, Oct. 12 (P) Ap proximately 750 Flying Fortress-, es and Liberators attacked an aircraft components factory, at Bremen today while RAF heavies pounded synthetic oil plants at Wanne-Eickel in the Ruhr. ' The American bombers, escort ed by Thunderbolts and Mus tangs, also bombed other un specified targets in northwestern Germany as the German radio reported still another raid on central Austria by U. S. 15th air force bombers from Italy. J ' Wanne-Eickel is an industrial city northeast of Essen. . .. ,: . j greeted with applause in Lon don, where it was generally be lieved that Churchill's hurried trip to Moscow was mainly con cerned with preventing any clash of soviet and British interests over the Balkans or Poland while leaving the question of Lrcrmany to three-way confer-, ences later with President Roosei vehV -' Alarmed at Division " " Prospects of settlement of the Polish dispute were especially, welcome to . Britons,-who have (Continued on Page Three) Today On The Western Front By The Associated Press U. S. 1ST ARMY As ar tillery and bombers proceed with destruction of ancient Aachen, and after desperate' German efforts to send in re inforcements are smashed, in fantry begins moving into the smoking city. CANADIAN 1ST ARMY Meeting fanatical nazi resist ance as it attempts to clear Antwerp as a supply port, while holding firmly the Leo pold canal bridgehead. U. S. 3RD ARMY Slugged on slowly in the central sec tor, running into hard fight ing five miles from the fort ress city of Metz. U. S. 7TH ARMY Aided by the French 1st army, made slow advances in the Vosges foothills northeast of Epinal. BRITISH 2ND ARMY Clung to its sectors In the Arn hem area. Its pressure, com-' bined with that of the Cana dian 1st apparently was wor rying the Germans and they evidently were preparing to evacuate that section, as well as Rotterdam., whose pott fa-; cilities were being destroyed, (continued on 'age t our) t
