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h.u liuiic forces, Including
liO tanks, massed there nnd
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fas won as wi.-.v .,..-..
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IfJD our lines in nuuuna, una
11 clvc III practical cquuiuy
ill the Germans In llio way of
niport.
i nockct of Germans still
Ids the south bunk of the
Vide, thus preventing us
m us nil he Antwerp rome,
Canadian) ore uiung uuo
Docket mid ro reported to
mulling jironress.
I " ' " -
f EAKING of pockets, today's
dispatches tell us lilt, I 1UU,-
Germans arc still pocKotcu
roncc m uuKKorquc, urcsi
lent. St. Naziilre, etc. Elsen
cr, you see. has borrowed
fcArlhur's UY I'ASSING stra
$ theso words are written
the silence from Hungary
fey Is practically total. The
lie oi uciitracic sin rimes on,
kradc Is on both the Danube
frsnd the Ricul tmns-Uiilkun
iroaa. llcnco Its linporlunco.
)NT overlook the fuel that
lai Dcst less than n month of
Id fightlni! wealher is left In
i'w. inui, in iiseu. insures
evenu soon
IHMANY oriiunlzes a home
Sunrd of EVKHYBODY from
o (10. In n decree brondenst
t him (not read personally).
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enemy will of destruction
WO Will llirn.u lilm l,..l.
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io me nisi i ermmi.
rn own south, in our war
in .
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Britons
Venray; Yanks
Mop Up Aachen
By The Associated Prass
LONDON. Oct. 18 (II British troops c.ptur.d V.nray and
formed a solid 10-mila front In t.rn Holland 33 milts from
Duiiburg today, whlla Barlln daclarad half a million man wara
facing each other In The Netherlands ready for "battle that may
flare up at any moment."
Canadians to the west pressed back the German pocket block
ing use of the great supply port of Antwerp.
Aachen still was being beaten Into submission. U. B. heavy
bombers again struck at Cologne 40 miles beyond it, sapping
German power to move up reserves, Berlin asserted the Ameri
can first army was preparing new offensive aimed at Cologne.
By VERN HAUGLAND
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Oct.
(II Cnrrler manes swept
northern Luzon Tuesday slnk
Inii or nettlni! afire seven ships
mid destroying ID planes as a
lecheck of Jnpanese losses in
the Mnrsn rnlil of October 11
showed 37 additional shins and
(18 small craft sunk or damaged
there.
Adm. Chester W. NlmlU. in
a communique today, announced
that a reassessment of Japanese
piano losses, based upon sun
Inenmnlete rcnorta. showed 815
enemy nlrplnnes were destroyed
In the Phlllpplnes-Formosa-Ok-annya
area from October 9 to
October 13.
Atoll Occupied I . t V
Nimltz also announced tho
occupation by U. S. round
forces ot N R u I u atoll In the
western CnTollnos." 80 " irillcs
south ot Yap and 210 miles east
of Palau, October 15. There
was only alight resistance at the
tiny group oi islands encircnn
((.onunuca on rasa iwoi
Detroii Locals
Ordered to End
Work Stoppage
DETROIT. Oct. 18 fP) The
United Automobile Workers
(CIO) today ordered officers of
local 174 to end Immediately
strikes of 8500 production work
ers thnt have halted ouipuv oi
war mntcrlcl In three plants of
the Kclscy-Haycj Wheel com-
Pany. , in
"Tho International union will
be compelled to take drastic ac
tion unless the strikes are ended
without delay," Georao F. Addcs,
International secretary-treasurer,
said In a message to tho local of
ficers. ,
Staler Inquiry
Called Off
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (P)
tho senate campaign expendi
tures committee decided todny
that It was without authority to
Investigate the so-called "Buttle
of the Stntler," Involving fisti
cuffs between two naval offi
cers and members of the AFL
Teamsters union, following a po
litical argument.
Tho scnnlc group, headed by
Chalrmnn Green (D-R. I.), an
nminrnH ll wax rirnDulnK the sub
ject as none of Its business. It
has been making a preliminary
inoulrv during the last two
weoki nnri had obtnlncd affl
davita from those reported to
havo been involved.
Subs Bag 7 More
Jap Warships
Japan's war nnd merchant
fleets have suffered another
henvy blow nt tho hands of
American submarines, navy
Sccrotnry Forrcslnl disclosed to-
Hm. n a lin rnniir InH destruction
of aovon additional warships
and ZD merchantmen Dy unocr
sea craft.
rri.n .MMlnrw intH thnt ntir
lug tho past four and a lialf
months the guns of America s
third and tutn noeis, opcraim
against the Japanese, have sunk
or damaged uuo vessels, no
nrl IIidI rtlnnnn nnri flak WCB'
pons of the two fleets have shot
down 1827 pianes ana ocmj"
-J lino .Inna lnt .Ilinft
Tho Yank submarines boosted
to 804 their bag of Japanese
ships destroyed since Pearl Har
bor as the secrotary credited
them with three destroyers,
three escorts, one minelayer
and zs mercnanimen ot omt.
cnt types,
in The ShantaCaneadt Wonderland
Take
A small Oermnn attack cast
of Aachen was beaten off toduy,
n front dispatch said, in another
of tho scries of vain blows that
have now badly cut Up two
enemy divisions. One of these
divisions Is substantially ue
atroyed ns a fighting unit, while
the second bus been materially
reduced. The rest of the rain
swept Aachen front was gencr
ally quiet.
The front in France sprang
to action also. U. S. third army
troops in a mile gain hit with
in .four miles of the fortress
city of Mctz, and French forces
farther south made progress,
punching - within from three to
(Continued on I'age twoj
Directors of the chamber of
commerce were informed by the
local1" troop entertainment 'com
mittee today, that the committee
will not relinquish $1000, left In
tho- original troop,. hospitality
fund wheii other money was
turned over to the Klamath mlll
tafy service commlttcev
- The directors had Miggcalod
thnt the $1000 be turned Into
tho Klamath county combined
community fund, to be earmark
ed for troop hospitality. The
committee said that It desires to
retain the $1000 as an emergen
cy fund, for uso for hospital
trains or other unexpected de
velopment here..
The committee pointed out to
the directors thnt 11 was not a
committee of the chamber of
commerce. The committee was
formed several years ago and
there had been an Impression
that it had Its origin in the cham
ber. Members of the committee arc
Lynn Roycroft, chairman, rep
resenting the American Legion;
Ed. Bell, representing mo cuy;
(uonunuco on rage awoi
Reds Invade
yanced mile Inside the border
, n
miles nortneasi oi iniivcuiB
Invaded Ciechoslovakia on a 170
of -the arpaiman' moun.aii... .
l il infill ii i li mil i s itewiw . b ."yyffTYcIt1;...?"'-1 J-yLb'-"
;.,' flKttm (Jft v iGoidSptos
',!''- .jjH.llla.nb.H fAJMi!.,s'' SJj
T-:W EAST PRUSSIA AnTP
i,;;,i"-f JKAII.n..lr. ok"tej
Kl r' i &y c Berlin i TiajJ f ' . , ; '
' f ' '
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944
itaHtHOWMWBMtPPwPfl'Jii i im miii'ri rumm r flli, fcai.rsT r-"Ts
NT
FOR ALL-OUT
All Able-Bodied Men
Ordered Into
Home Guard
LONDON. Oct! 18 (P) Adolf
Hitler, observing that "lust as in
1030 we are facing the enemy
alone," proclaimed tonight tho
formation of an armed German
home guard and declared:
"Germany's second all-out effort-must
nnd will succeed."
Hitler's voice, which has not
been heard on radio channels
since shortly after the roponea
assassination attempt of July 20,
was absent again from the Ger
man airways today. His decree
setting up tho guard was read
for him for tho nome service of
the official German news agen
cy, DNB.
"Throw Back Enemy
"Relying on our own force,
we will not only break the ene
my will of destruction, but we
will throw him back again' the
Hitler utterance said.
"I call on all able bodied men
to tight," ; .
The decree then announced all
civilian men between .18 and 60
were ordered Into . the volks
sturm, in armed home army sim
ilar to thnt which Britain organ
ized In 1940 after . the fall of
France." '
Second Mobilisation.
'"Whereas, the enemy believed
that he could gel ready for the
last knockout blow, we, on our
(Continued on Page Two)
Bulletin
U. S. Senator Guy Cordon
Informed The Herald and
News late today he had been
notified that the navy depart
ment had authorised addition
al $1,008,000 for construction
at the Marine Barracks.
The work will Include 12
new barracks for 180 men
eachi six additional barracks
store rooms, swimming pool,
and a gate house.
German Soil
to the town of Schlrwlndt. 42
- lM ..nn.l.ri nmA , ml I 1 n
"i - -- --
- mlle front, crosting the barrier
MR DECREED
'J'J
Q Iffi "'
E. P. Ivory, left, democratic
dential Candidate Harry Truman,
1
South Still Solid, Says ;
Declaring the solid south Is
still solid and that California will
go for Roosevelt with a 400,000
majority, Democratic Vice Pres
idential Candidate Harry Tru
man made his first public cam
paign appearance in Oregon at
the Southern Pacific depot here
this morning. .
About 75 democrats and other
interested citizens were on hand
to greet the train of the Mis
souri senator, which was slated
to arrive at 7:40 but didn't come
in until 8:30 a. m. Heading the
group were Henry Aiken, hepp
ncr, state democratic chairman,
and E. P. Ivory, Klamath demo
cratic central committee chief.
Informal Chat
- Truman . chatted informally
with the Klamath group, shaking
hands all around after receiving
a handsome gift of Chinese
pheasants from Ivory.
He declared that the Roosevelt-Truman
ticket offers the
country an experienced admin
istration in time ot great crisis,
and urged democratic workers
not only to get in the registration
but to get out the vote.
Still Solid
HA recalled his recent trip
through the south, which he said,
is "still solid" and his more re
cent journey In California,
which he said he was sure would
go for his ticket by a 400,000
majority. "We're going to win,
all right," he said.
Ivory made a short speech of
greeting. A number of the local
democrats rode the train as far
as Chiloquin, and Aiken accom
panied the train on to roriiano.
Report on Pearl
Harbor Disaster
Expected Soon
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (P)
A report from the naval board
of inquiry, studying responsi
bility for the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor is expected in
the near future, Navy Secretary
Forrcstnl said today.
He told a news conference
that the report will be sub
mitted to him and ho will "de
termine what further action is
Indicated."
Rear Admiral Husband E.
Klmmel and Mnj. Gen. Walter
C. Short, nnvy and army com
manders at the time of the at
tack, are under charges of dere
liction of duty.
Nazis Claim New,
Secret Weapon
LONDON, Oct. 18 P) The
Berlin radio camo up with a new
secret wenpon story todny, an
nouncing tint nnzl troops on the
Russian front now are using an
"electric machinegun.
Tho wcabon. said the broad
cast, is known as "the death
scythe."
Ma, tout, til , Mln. ..
PrtelplUllfln lait 7i taonra
fllream year to date
Normal 8 Latt ytar
fartcaalt Bright and Ctrar.
Ttaaraday flltootlnf Ilnura
Orcgnnf Opnn fi:12 C.'late ,
Tnlelakt: Ope a ....-.... e:M Clot .
sins Mi
Pheasants For Harry Truman
county chairman, presents a string of pheasants, to Vice Presi
who made a oriel campaign stop nere today.
.
Truman in Talk Here
Lew Wallace,. Oregon national
committeeman, and Nancy
Honeyman Robinson, national
committeewoman, were to join
the party at Salem.
Truman posed for pictures
with local and state democratic
leaders, including a number of
democratic candidates for- office.
These included Marius Petersen,
aspirant for the state senate;
Tom Bustin, candidate for. the
legislature; Dorothea Buck, can
didate for county commissioner,
and Joe Mahoney, candidate for
justice of the peace.
ROME, Oct. 18 fP Two Brit
ish destroyers landed forces
which took over tho island of
Scarpanto at dawn yesterday
after the Greek population on
the island had "contained" the
enemy garrison there, allied
headquarters announced today.
Located in the Dodecanese
group, the mountainous Island
of Scarpanto is between Crete
and Rhodes. The island is 30
miles long and has an extreme
width of eight miles. Approxi
mately 8000 people live there.
No Opposition
The British destroyers. Ter
pischore and Cleveland were in
volved in the operation, carried
out without opposition. The
landing parties were given an
enthusiastic welcome, a com
munique said.
it was announced tnat uer-
man demolitions on the Greek
mainland caused severe damage
to the harbor installations at Pi
raeus, the oort of Athens, but
most of the utilities at the port
are functioning. .
More allied parachute troops
have been dropped in the Athens
. (continued on rage two)
Doughboys Move
Past Livergnano
ROME, Oct. 18 (P) American
troops, driving toward the an
cient Italian city of Bologna
have .advanced nearly a mile
north of captured Livergnano on
highway 65, allied headquarters
announced today.
In the Adriatic sector' eighth
army troops, continuing their
painful advAnce into the Po val
loy, took over a few more yards
ot the Rlmim-Bologha highway
and closed in on Cesena from the
east and south.
Harvest1 Weather
Clear' today, tonight and
Thursday. Lowest tempera
ture tonight in lower thirties.
No Immediate prospect of
rain. No abnormally low
tem-seraturei expected for
serf ral days.
' f'
October II.
Number 10291
urn
TULELAKE Cancellation of
the refrigerator, car freeze, in
effect since midnight, October 2,
brought about renewed activity
in the potato harvest area and
buyers said they would start
shipping as soon as they had
spotted cars, several shippers
said that cars would be avail
able Wednesday.
The problem of obtaining reef
ers was quickly solved in this
area as growers reported the sid
ings lull oi cars even during
the freeze. Ival Wolfe of Craw
ford and Wolfe, buyers and grow
ers, said there was no reason
the reefers couldn't have been
used and plenty of pressure has
been brought on Washington by
the growers."
Potato shipments for the
month, of October in the Tule
Iake area, were anticipated in
the neighborhood of 2500 cars.
Between October 3 and 17, in
clusive, a reported 380 carloads
went out of this section. Malin
shipped - 143 boxcars, Great
Northern at Merrill,. 50; Tule-
lake-Stronghold tuber points.
187. There was no report on the
bouthern Pacific 'at Merrill.
Yank Divisions
Now in Europe
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, PARIS, Oct. 18 (P) A
recapitulation of official an
nouncements shows the follow
ing American divisions have
been identified as operating on
the western front since D-Day:
Armored Second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh.
Airborne 101st and 82nd.
Infantry First, second, third,
fourth, fifth, eighth, ninth, 28th,
29th, 30th, 35th, 36th, 45th, 79th,
80th, 83rd and 90th.
SSipInts
Hurricane Whips Havana;
Six Killed, 20 Injured
HAVANA, Oct. 18. P) A
tropical hurricane lashed Hav
ana todny and Cuban Red Cross
reported at least six persons
were killed and 20 injured.
A heavy casualty list In Iso
lated areas from the winds of
more than 100-mile-per-hour
force was feared. . Thousands of
dollars of damage was done in a
five-hour whipping of the capital
before the center of the hurri
cane passed northward toward
the Florida keys.
Children Killed
Five of the dead, Including
two children, were pulled from
the -water near Alcoy bridge
leading from Havana to subur
ban uuanabacoa.
An even higher toll was feared
In rural -areas. Virtually all of
Havana was without power, and
.--
BREAKTHROUGH
MADE ON 170
MILE FRONT;
' t
Soviets Advance Mile
Inside German
Border
LONDON, Oct. 18 (P) The-
Russian army has crossed the
Carpathians and invaded Czecho-.,
Slovakia in lorce, jviarsnai btana
announced tonight in a triune
phant order of the day. '
This thrust was disclosed,
shortly after the German high
command implied that soviet
troops had invaded East Prus
sia and advanced to Schirwinda,
a mile inside the reich.
Stalin said General Ivan Pe-v
trov's fourth Ukranian army had
broken through from southern
Poland on a 170-mile front, cap.',
turing seven passes and advanc.
ing 12 to 30 miles. '
Cross Carpathians ;
"Troops of the fourth Ukran-i
ian front, continuing their of
fensive, have crossed the Car-'
pathian range, and having cap
tured the passes of Lupkovo,
Ruske, Uzok, Verecky, Viskov-
sky, Jablonicky and Tatar, have
advanced into the depths of the ,
territory of Czechoslovakia up
to 20 to 50 kilometers on a front
of 275 kilometers," the order
said.
"During the course of the of
fensive the troops captured the
Czechoslovak towns Koros-Mezo,
Jasina, Rachovo and the large
populated places of Chegtezne,
Velkopolyana, Ruska, Ljuta,
Uzok, Nizne Vereck, Zalomec
kaya, Philipec, Giljatin, Toguna,
Nadposto, and in northern Tran
sylvania captured the town of
Sziget."
Seise Virbalia
Berlin's announcement early
today indicated the Russians had
(Continued on Page Two)
Plans Underway
For 80 Houses ,
Plans. are being made for the"1
construction of 80 FPHA row
houses for the use of families of
men stationed at the Marine Bar
racks and the naval air base
here. .
Howard Perrin has been
chosen as architect for the local
project, which will be part of
the "fastest mass production
housing program ever tackled"
by the FPHA, during which pro
gram 525 government-financed
living units will be constructed
at 11 Oregon and Washington
points.
Completed plans will be is
sued and bids for the construc
tion of the row-houses will be
called by November 1. Bids will
open about November 8.
The project will be construct
ed in the general vicinity of the
Shasta View row-houses.
Today On The
Western Front
By The Associated Press
British 2nd Army Cap
tures Venray, important
Dutch highway center, after
two days of bitter house to
house fighting, and masses
tanks for push toward the
Rhine.
U. S. 1st Army Continued
mopping up inside encircled
Aachen and cleared segments
of the Siegfried line north
west of the city.
Canadian 1st Arm y
Pushed back the German
pocket blocking use of the
great supply port of Antwerp.
U. S. 3rd Army Advanced
nearly a mile north of Ancl-sur-Moselle
to within four
miles of Metz against only
light opposition.
U. S. 7th Army Against
heavy German counter-attacks,
made progress on the
southern wing of the front
just south of the road junc
tion at Bruyeres and north
east of Le Thillot.
'the city was isolated from other
storm-torn areas.
The national observatory sent
a message to the presidential pal
ace by army messenger, report
ing the highest wind velocity in,
Havana to be 110 miles an hour.
The 1500 ton Cuban navy trans
port Colombia, broke her moor
ing in Havana bay and was driv
en aground. No one was aboard.
At 5 a. m., wind velocity in
the city reached 60 miles an
hour, ripping down telegraph
and telephone wires.
The two principal radio chains
broadcasting from Havana left
the air early In the morning due
in nnwer failures. But several
small stations continued operat
ing. '
Communications with th
western end of the Island were
cut last night. .