tfffie
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VeoiherN
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alii
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9...' a, .licMii fleet" V re-
d to. A t'k K" ' ",y "
Ot "'T!'. I. I.rnn.lca.t
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a
BiVesc )viil spokesman
lis
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Iscy's
' .l.-d fr
om
i::"T!;iyic.01;yw1,
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Ida-
tnothcr Tokyo dispatch com.
I10!, i.. nut "dec lvc
Islvc
1'ry over the wurl.l u
inn
llll(i
ill
J 01 SC.ivii v. ..
Sirlnl Jnp communiques i
that 10 o( our wiirlilp,
l. ten carriers liuvu be
nd another 111 damaged.
i ,.r,i whatever, cither I
If ...i,,., nr rt.-.lflll Of
V itronj enemy claims, has
h (rom our Pacific head
iters. As these word nro
lion, ot noon, tho cllcklnit
..... Dm tplctvnt-s aro
Si, Indicating Hint oil ncwi
jlsblo has been transmitted.
Ill we can do lit to wait for
fU Irom Admiral niium.
JTEMPT1NG to reassure- our
J.i,.. Murine this nrrvoui
lint period, we recall that
jijip rndio has always talked
jxxi war. It had in brulcn
'5lidwoy until wo began to
from our side,
flicrc must be good reasons
Illic silence o( our fleet
mis having to do with tho
1.0V nt thn hutllfl. H Is
illy beyond belief that our
nanriers would conceal jrom
ich a disasi bit ua tile jii
pictures. ......,.
uropc, Hungary lias finally
IIODSCd
KL'iu tioruiy (iicnti ot mo
-rnmcnt) sued tor nil ariius-
Immediately the nazls In
I'ary pounced upon him like
Kcnorls of what Is hap.
ig arc contused, ltio nun
ns aro said to bo fighting
is themselves and also
ling Germans.
qie Germans admit that
nys bid (or pcaco has
ftly damaged the (German)
ng ot the war,
tiNGAnY'S crumpling was
pparcmiy mueli like Bui
s It was deferred until the
i.nu came in 1RRESIST-
(. lorcc,
e bnttln nn thn lliinnnrlnn
is curing tlie past week niv
io iinvc ocen u icrriiic
Tho Russians knnrkprl mil
ucrmnn tanks on Snlurdny
COW CIVCS thn lllnMnv 4nlnl
zl tanks destroyed thero as
l limn n..nll..
i,,,,tjr UlllllU, U11U
S. Whnn lt,n II ...Mtn.
nc jig was up, Hint Germany
U "w iwisyi proicci mom,
wc in lor una iroiiDio
Bans were more lo be feared
Ihcv milt rrun.A i.n
, mvsu inn i, njr
K. pnriiculnrly crcd tab c
iv ii quiuing out 11
&dc WnritAr A n . -
nnin mm
sVhn; ...".I "'ponn-
i i." s.onnon loony,
i uiio Hungarian
oi, I ueiwocn mo rcci
. "Brcni tirivo past
pest to Vienna and n nos-
tivAV " ,liinn ana a i
.FINAL DECISION IN .T
HE
L "
riniard, tho nusfllnni hnvfl
'ma Picls by combined
rt.-:"V..n"1!'1-. ihey
lid. i . .'A?11 ''otsnmo. to
on In '? "vny l,nc
L " i-ngo iiirec)
fsmuir Girls
y onot
ffnnU i
Innrlnrl
V their
to two lluio'
Dunsmiilr
was
Thn
aem- u"' mt'n t
South.
in i u"IKemnn.
Glendn
i. , ""Kmors or
I I' 'li.H
.o'woids1
Dunsmiilr.
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ruesdny
i-..' wcro
rusliliiK
- ". uurncy,
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I :""K lu 1 in B nru
which
Bllcl
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t and about 45 mil
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and
nf thn
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one of
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Three)
PRICE 5 CENTS
fezi Lifeline
YANK FORGES
MEET NORTH
OF NAZ POST
German Supplies Sent
Into City by
Parachutes
By ALEX H.
SINGLETON
LONDON. Oet, 1(1
(,1.The
lust thin lifeline of the nnzi
Harrison of Anchcn was cut in
tho buttle of tho Sleiifricd line
todny by American forces
which battled to a Junction
from positions north and north
east of tho city.
The junction was mode at
Wurselen, three miles north of
the city, by the U. S. first army,
which crushed five frantic
counterattacks In three days
and knocked out SO to 60 of
tho enemy's tanks. Wursclcn
was mopped up in the process.
Parachut Supplies
With the city completely
locked by oncircllnu forces, the
Germans were reduced to sup
plying the garrison by para
chute, Elsewhero allied forces sent
patrols across the Ncder Rhine
in Holland, clomped a two
cdMod .hold on tho -sea ap
proaches ' to Antwerp in Bel
glum and captured a dozen
towns, villages and forts In a
brood ndvnnec in tho Vosges
which took French troops to
within :i2 miles of the Rhine..
Yanks Withdraw
But along the Moselle the
bitter bottle Insldo Kort Drlnnt
ended unsuccessfully after 10
day of closc-qunrtcr combat.
Amorlcan forces withdrew
there before down Friday, it
(Continued on Pago Three)
Court Refuses
Tyler
Kent Case
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (VP)
The supreme court refused to
day to consider tho case of
Tyler Kent, code clerk In the
American embassy In London
who was convicted In a British
court of violating the British
official war secrets act and
sentenced to seven years' Im
prisonment. Kent's mother, Mrs. Ann
H. P. Kent of this city, asked
tho high tribunal to aid in
bringing about his return lo
tho United Stntcs,
Battle for
American first army Iroopi encircled Aachen today, cutting
off tha airman town from all supplies except those tent in by
parachut.. At Fort Drlanl, American th rd arn units war.
freed to withdraw. Positions of other allied urmies art Indl
cated by flags and arrows. ,
In The ShaHin-CitHviulp Wonderland
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1944
L. as i,...rjiV.J .,i..,t-vi.-u... , t -i nii-. ii i i -.'T.aWn j'i i ikAr.i.ii i.iii.. i"; m
Eight enlisted men and an officer of tht America! division, fighting Japs In the southwest
Pacific, formed a "Dimo-a-Doten" club and their leader hands over 10 cents for each dozen Japs
killed, First Lt. Raymond Ross of Modiord, Ore., hands out certificates to his men, attesting
lh numbar ol Jam each h killed. Left to sight!' Pfo. Manuel Alvlres. Los Anoeles; Pfc. Morris
Manuel, Winchester, Ky.i Cpl.
Ri P.nl. Minn.i Staff Sat. Harrv
Staff Sgt. Alex McLean. Grafton.
photo irom u. s. army.)
German Sea Escape Route
Cut by Capture of Port
By W. W. HERCHER
LONDON, Oct. 16 (P) The
German sen escape route from
northern Finland has been cut
with the enpturo of the Arctic
port of Pclsnmo and advancing
red army tanks were reported
today to hnve won nn important
rood junction close to tho Nor
wegian border.
Pr'nvda of Moscow described
tho newly won highway center as
the "key to Norway," without
nnmlng it further and said it had
been captured after Russian
forces bent off a counternttnek
by a German armored column
retrcSting toward Norway.
Divisions Routed
Also, Prnvdn snid the land and
sen nssnult on Petsnmo, capture
of which wns announced of
ficially by Moscow Inst night,
Fatherland
to tehen
Yank Fighters Kill Japs at 'Dime
Karl E. Doll, North. Holly wood,
SchulU.-Gsrv. S. D.t Staff Sqt.
N. D. and Pfc. Raymond A. CottrelL Sebeka, Minn. (AP Wire-
; -
routed two choice enemy Alpine
divisions in a three hour battle.
Moscow did not . report on
progress of the red army in Hun
gary ' where Hungarian nozis
were reported to have imposed
a rule of terror following an
armistice petition by Regent
Nicholas Horthy.
Not Mentioned
The battle for Belcrade was
not mentioned in the official
soviet communique, but Berlin
, (Continued on Page Three)
Tax Statements
Mailed Here
Klamath county tax office yes
tordnv mailed 21.000 tax state
ments to approximately 8000 tax
payers. In addition, a number
of tax statements are held at the
office for lnrgo companies and
rcprcscntotives of various groups
ol tnxpnyors, io oo cnuca ior.
Total of tho 1044-45 tax roll Is
$1,850,136.75, . or . about 10 per
cent over the roll of the previous
year.
The tax office urged that tax
payers mail in their checks with
the copy of the statement re
ceived by them, instead of going
to tho tax office to make pay
ment, in order td relievo conges-
lion at the tax office counter. The
receipted . tax statements- will
then be mailed to the taxpayers.
Unpaid tnxes for prior years
have been shown on tho upper
right hand side of nil statements,
and taxpayers should pay these
delinquent taxes when paying
for tho current yenr. In such
enses, however, it will be nccos
snry to hnve the tnx office com
pute tho Interest thnt has ac
crued to timo of payment.
Three per cent discount is al
lowed on all current year taxes
Cald in full on or before Novcm
cr IS. Taxpayers were asked
to make this deduction when
mniling In remittances for the
full year's taxes,
High
way Worker
Eseap
es Death
Charles Dougherty, state high
way cmnlovc. narrowly escaped
dcnth iato Monday morning
when he drove his rond blade In
to the oath of a Southern Pacific
AHurns-bound train, one-hnlf
mile south of Mac's store on the
Spring Lake road.
Fred Hnskins was riding the
trailer blade wncn he jumped
to warn Dougherty of the ap
proaching train. The engineer
hnd applied brakes by this timo
and as Dougherty sent the blade
on tho tracks, the engine sheered
off the front wheels and-. axles.
Dougherty escaped With' minor
face cuts, ,' ' ,
- a - Dozen'
- Calif,;.. 5gt. Richard KowitzJ
Ralph Brodin. Spooner, Minn.;
,
TO
TULELAKE At least a half
dozen shippers in the Tulctakc
area announced Monday that
they would discontinue shipping
potatoes and that they would
hold their spuds. Reports came
through today that temperatures
in the high spots south last
night hit 20 and 22 degrees
and that there is some report
o f frost damage t o potatoes
shipped over tha weekend in
non-rctrigeraior cars.
Some buyers said they would
attempt to ship out a few car
loads if the present weather
holds. One buyer snid that his
firm "was sending out a lew
boxcars resentfully" and that
everything was being done as
far as he could find out but
there was no relief in sight.
W. H. Anderson, farm labor
placement manager at Tulclake,
said that tncre w o u i a De a
check made this week on po
tato storage available and
growers would know at the end
(Continued din Page Three) .
Today On The
Western Front
By The Associated Press -U.
S. 3rd Army Driven
from slight toe-holds id Fort
Drinnt, in the Mctz-Moselle
sector, but blew up tho fort
after withdrawing. The fort
had taken everything Ameri
can planes and guns could
give it.
British 2nd Army Sent
two pntrols across the Nedcr
Rhine in the Amhem area,
where an airborne division
failed two weeks ago to hold
a Netherlands bridgehead
menacing Germany's north
flank;
Canadian 1st Army
Clamped a two-edged grip on
the sen entrances to Antwerp,
and Joined three bridgeheads
across the Leopold canal,
achieving a firm base for an
assault on the final German
positions in tho pocket
around Breaking.
U. S. 1st Army Fought
off the third furious German
countcf-attack In 24 hours at
Aachen and edged forward
by blocks inside the city.
U. S. 7th Army Drove Hs
deepest spearhead within two
miles of LflBrcssc, 24 miles
north of Belfo-rt and 32 miles
from the Rhine, on the ex
treme southern end of the
front. . ' -
Mas. (Oft. 19)
PrcclptUtUn U
8lrtm jiar t dal ..
Normal ft La it ytar
rricaI: BU$bMy ovarratl.
Sinday Hhosllnff Hnpra
Oreiont Optn n.;.Hn....4:2ft CIia
Tilclaktl Open Jt Claaca
iced
Chaos Follows
Hungarian Bid
For Armistice
By WADE WERNER
LONDON. Oct. 18 (JF) Hungary has toppled into "political
chaos after Regent Nicholas Horthy's dramatic bid for peace.
Horthy's auick eclipse at least on the Budapest radio by
Count Ferencz Szalasy's last-ditch crowd of arrow cross nazis
only emphasized that Hungarians were fighting among them
selves instead of against . the invading red army. Reports via
Stockholm today said that In some places they were, fighting
the Germans too.
This all added up to a melting of the barrier between the
red army and a great drive past Budapest to Vienna and a pos
sible final decision in the east. , -
The Germans took quick measures to stave off the debacle
but admitted through the official German news agency that
Horthy's petition for an armistice had "greatly damaged the
waging of the war." ' - -
, Tak Over Buildings
Berlin dispatches to Stockholm newspapers said nazi troops
swiftly took over all strategic buildings in Budapest and that. a
new government shortly would "try to get Hungarian troops to
continue battle on the German side." One-report' said Horthy
had escaped arrest and was holding out in. a strongly fortified
castle. ,':
A transocean broadcast from- Germany- said a "detailed
declaration" on the Hungarian developments would be forth
coming later. Meanwhile Berlin's morning papers' refrained
from mentioning Hungary. -.'.--.
That Hitler and his advisors should pause for some fast
ininKing oeiore explaining the Hungarian collapse to the war
weary German people was only natural. It was far more than
the defection of Hitler's last satellite it must seem to anv
German like the crashing of the
vuiueraoie area.
.''. Sail Control ".' -N
Pro-German elements. nrsumablv aided bv Gorman SS riivl.
sions rushed to Budapest from
nf lhii"pnirwlw,--lmwnio.Bli.B.a
" - - " " --'-"- .7 ...... iv. i. ... Dl.LI
. 1 I J , . . ( .
was uruHucasi eany uin evening
uy negem nonny. ,
Within a few hours another
nounced that the Hungarian nazi party headed by Szalsy had
iaen mailers in nana io eliminate traitors at all costs and
promise that "the most ruthless measures," including the death
penany, woum De imposed on
The Ankara radio said the
and a report broadcast by the
wormy nad been seized by the gestpo and taken to Germany. ; .
The effect of the peace move -on the Hungarian army, an
estimated 30 to 40 divisions, was not known immediately.
Horthy's petition, as recorded
ganan soiaiers to lay down tneir arms. A later broadcast of a
statement attributed to the chief of the general staff, Col. Gen.
Vitez Voeroes. ureed the troons to continue fi eh tine "until 'the
outcome of armistice negotiations
quoted swiss reports that large
were aireaay quilling.
'Desert Fox' Erwin Rommel
Dead, Says Berlin Radio
LONDON, Oct. 16 (IP) Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel,, the
"desert fox," is dead, the Ber
lin radio said yesterday. He was.
the famed commander of the'
Afrika corps. .
The Berlin brpadcast yester
day did not say how Rommel
was wounded or when he had
died, but said Adolf Hitler had
prdcrcd a state funeral. The an
nouncement described him as
one of Germany's "most success
ful army leaders."
Death Rumored
Rumors of Rommel's death
had been current since late July
when allied field dispatches
quoted German prisoners as say
ing' he had succumbed to in
juries suffered , when his car
was strafed by allied planes in
Normandy. The Germans subse
quently denied his death but
acknowledged he had suffered
a brain concussion and other
injuries in an automobile acci
dent during a strafing attack
on July 17. . '
Rommel, who became known
as the "desert fox" during the
African campaign, when ' his
troops drove the British to the
gates of Alexandria before they
were stopped in October, 1942,
by Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's eighth army, was
commander ot German forces in
Normandy at the time of the
allied invasion.
Von Rundstedt Quarrel
Ho was reported to have
Klamath $15,000
Short in Drive
Klamath county Is still $15,000
short in the combined commun
ity war chest fund drive and
persons who have not as yet
given their contribution are
urged to do so as quickly as pos
sible so mat tne drive can oe
wound up.
Charles. R. Stark, secretary of
the executive committee for the
drive, Monday, urged thnt those
who are. collecting donations,
turn In what has been taken In,
in order that progress in the
drive can be. determined from
day to day, &
t
brs
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Number 10289
gate guarding the reich's most
Vienna. aDDarentlv seized control
.1 , : , : . ' i i -
W.1. KIIUUII n utmxsiiKV
,. . ...
m an oraer ot tne day signed
! .
broadcast from Budapest an
tnose disobeying orders. -
gestapo was making mass arrests
radio at Lille, France, said
in London, did not order Hun-'
is known," but the Lille radio
groups of Hungarian -soldiers
Quarreled with Field Marshal
Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd. yon
Rundstedt then . over-all Ger
man commander in western
Europe concerning tactics used
in combatting the: invasion. On
July 6 the Berlin . radio an
nounced; that :Von Rundstedt
had-been replaced by Field
Marshal Gen. Guenther von
Kluge in a move .that, appar
ently was a victory tor. Konv
mel. ' -- . " . j.
A veteran of the First World
war. in which he foueht with
distinction. Rommel joined the
Hitler movement in its eariy
stages and-later was considered
a ereat favorite of the fuehrer.
. Me won promotion to iieia
marshal at the age of 50 during
the summer of 1942 for his up-
to-then successful campaign in
North Africa, - becoming the
youngest German' officer ever
to hold tnat ranK.
iyiSn
Artificial Harbors Solve
Invasion Supply Problems
LONDON. Oct. 16 Two artl-1
ficlal harbors, built in secret
and floated across the English
channel, explain the riddle of
how the allies were able to sup
ply their ground troops which
swept through northern France
while the Germans held every
port but Cherbourg.'
- in- disclosing tne use oi tnese
unique harbors, supreme head
quarters said last night that
they "made possible the libera
tion of western Europe."
Floating steel barges, 130
concrete caissons - or floating
boxes and seven miles of pre
fabricated pier equipment di
vided into , segments 480 feet
long were 'Used to make the
harbors along with a flotilla of
old ships sent to the channel
bottom to! provide part of the
breakwater system, . ,
The worst channol' storm in
40 years wrecked' one of the
harbors before . it was com
ploted, but not before It had
contributed heavily to the
stream of men and equipment
ON FORMOSA
FIGHT REPORT
Yanks r Shoot Down
100 Nip Planes Off
Luzon
V. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Har-
Dor, Oct. 18 (P) A furious air.
naval duel off Formosa, which
began Friday, went into its
third day today, Tokyo report
ed after officially announcing
the imperial fleet had joined
the battle.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced yesterday morning.
that strong Japanese aerial at
tacks precipitated the engage-.
ment in mid-afternoon Friday
and said "this fight is continu
ing." The Nipponese counter?
attack, their third of the For-
mosan campaign, followed new
American raids on that island
and Luzon.
Hit 100 Nips
Carrier planes of the third
fleet sweeping across Luzon in
two raids a day apart shot down-
or destroyed on tne ground,
more than 100 Japanese air
craft as the great aerial assault
upon the Philippines ana islands
to the north went into its sev
enth day.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Pa
cific fleet commander, an
nounced in a noon communique'
(Honolulu time) today that
fighter aircraft raided Aparri,
on the north coast of Luzon,
Friday, and on tsunaay at
tacked airfields in the Manila
bay area, 200 miles southward, -The
Japanese air force, stung '
into desperate action, attacked
with the greatest vigor it has
shown in many months, but at.
terrible cost.
Shot Down -In
one battle alone the-Amer
ican carrier planes- shot down
all but 10 or 20' of one inter-;
. .(.Continued on Page Three)
SEIZE LIVERHO
rruiv rof 1rt (ISA Amnrf.
can troops have captured the
hill town of Llvergnano, 10
the ' Germans had defended
fanatically for days, auiea neaa
quarlers announced today.
. tt c Infflnim tanlrs anA f nnlr
destroyers moved into Liver-
gnano wnicn guards me ap
proach to thehigh escarpment
on which the Germans defend
BoloKna, Llvergnano is on nign-
way 65.
German . troops stiu are re
sisting fiercely all along the
front and are launching counter
attacks whenever their forward
positions are prodded too sharp-
ly'o'n the other end of the Ital
ian frnnt Pnnariian units C8D-
tured the small village of Bui-
tuontinuea on .rage imcw
Deadline on Sale
Of Tickets Set
ath football game at Medford
will be taken off sale here at
10 a. m; Thursday morning,- ana
Vlomofh fane nihil nl&n tn BO to
Medford were urged to get their
pasteboards immediately.
The tickets are on sale at the
chamber of commerce.
Medford asked that the un
sold tickets be returned Thurs
day so they may be disposed of
in Medford, according to Prin
cipal Stanley Woodruff of
Klamath union high school.
pouring into France. The other
was fimsnea as planned a port
as big as Dover, capable of un
loading at least 12,000 tons of
stores and 2500 vehicles dally.
Built in Year
Construction of the harbors
was started in June. 1943, when
American and British opera
tions officers decided that
French ports falling into allied
hands during the invasion could
not possibly havf the capacity
for the quantity of stores neces
snry. ...
When sunk, the flotilla of old
vessels, including several Brit
ish and Dutch warships, pro
vided five small breakwaters
of which two were in the areas
where the artificial harbors
later were established.
Each concrete floating box
had valves making it possible
to sink or float them as desired.
These boxes plus the floating ;
line of steel barges anchored
farther out In the water were
designed to reduce an eight-foot
wava to one or two feet.