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I11 llr,?'',ins llllmll tllO Rus
tic 0,'r 'i'" , In.ldn K..l
"Vnniw '""' MVl,,"
If" 1 k; , snmlior. ul
t"1'''. in follow ii. win il'"d
"flNl'O KUMANY, Willi
mountain rK1.t ,.Vcry
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L iho western front, wo and
fir., n.i.i.i, r temuornrlly
,ff by wcullllT IMKl HHPPly
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SshMijIlnclly NOT offensive
Wilhcr ,,r Iowlv
fine lhb,,,b " .
ilni the Cermnn out of
Antwerp
E RE doing well on Ley to.
Tacloban, tlio isinmi s i
town, full l ; ,'!on
... lien nniucrni un
f rc.tarllnii to preparo there
base for ALL ARMS
(Smy-navyolr) for future opcr-
"vicious Jnp lfllli dl
Aion" (march of death on Ha
tin etc) Is already In fupply
Utublc. and MncArlhur says to
6 Ihcrc Is more of II In store
j3 litem. Our bomber aro be
rignini to lilt every Jnp unit
Ull moves by Innrl or sea In tile
roundlng island.
iUR nig II l reconnaissance
lanes drop Incendiary
ii. ttnrtliw more fires, at
Mikniipon In Borneo.
Vatch Borneo, wliono oil U
men high test Ihnl It con ro
etlv from the wcllii Into the
1 lanki of ship, without re
nt. II wo can Keep me Jiipa
m US1NG.TIUS OIL THEM-
VtS, will be iirent.
I we can TAKE IT FOP. OUR-
,VES. It will cine our Pacific
ply problem immensely,
t
JAP naval commentator says
via Tokyo radio todny that
un WELCOMES our Invasion
3 the Philippines becauso It
lien another opportunily to
II crushing blows at the main
? of Ihc enemy's (our) Pacific
JfS."
Get Hie big bum up close and
fk him for a loop" which
1 been the hope of every ham-
rsg ngmer that ever chal
ked the chump.)
ilE Tokyo broadcast cnrrylng
thin nonspnso Is m?AMcn
1 AMERICA, iwllciillng that
worn us to near 111
his weird mili.himum .inn
?d! Maybe they are socking
ajlhcir Orientally dnrk and
to I, wry 10 net us to UNDER-
'.unit, uieni. Nothing else
t sense.
til, wo DON'T underestimate
n, and aren't GOING TO
re. Al dying bloodily In
"'0 msi corners, they're
in the unrwi n,,i
'. vn wrs by dying in des
"0 last corners.
JIAretle
must be hnvliiK trouble fig.
. ? OUt Whom lo l,nnl l nr.
C ,lES"!"ln" ll-'ve the
f"T NORTHWARD out of
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NVASI0N OF
EAST PRUSSIA
Berlin Radio Hints
Of Attacks in
Norway
LONDON, Oct. 23 (!') Rub
slim armies liavo Invaded East
PrtiMiu to o depth of IB miles
on an OHinlle front, Marshal
Joseph Stalin announcod to
night, This was the first soviet con
firmation of an offensive which
the Germain hove been report
ing for several days. In an earl
ier order of tho day Stalin said
Russian forces had captured the
town of Snlmljarvl In northern
Finland. Berlin broadcasts Im
plied the red army may also
have Invaded northern Norway
in a drive to slice off arctic
shoro bases for German planes
and submarines.
Break Through Frontiers
Troons of the third White Rus
sian front "supported by the
mussed blows of arinu-'ry ana
aircraft, have broken through
tho permanent, deeply, echelon
ed German defense! covering
the frontiers of East Prussia,
Stalin said. - ,-
The Lithuanian and ' East
Prussian towns captured Includ
ed Schlrwlndt, Naumoatls, Vir
balls, KibnrUil, Eydtkau and
Ebenrodc. ,
A Berlin broadcast, Implying
an Invasion of Norway, said tho
Kussiatui were attacking along
the road leading from Salmi
Jarvl to Klrkcncs, Norway.
Salml)arvl -is -oi Uio..rinnlsh
Norwegian border and n attack
along the road apparently would
put the red army over the boun
dary. Penetrations Acknowledged
"Deep penetration" In nail
lines between Goldap and Su
walkl wero acknowledged.
The Germans said the front
now was 10 airline miles long
from besieged Memel, northern
most German claimed city, and
Augustow In the Suwalkl sec
tor at the southeast corner of
East Prussia. -
two Pounded by
yank Bombers
V. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
Oct. 23 (P) American heavy
bombers dropped 49 tons of ex
plosives on lwo Island In the
Volcano group, 790 miles south
of Tokyo, last Friday, shooting
down or damaging five of eight
Japanese interceptors. One Lib
erator was lost.
Adm. Chester W. Nlmlti re
ported the raid today, along
with aerial slashes al enemy
positions on Yap Island, In the
western Carolines, and In the
central Pacific Marshall Islands.
One plane was lost in the Mar
shall but tho pilot was rescued.
Three enemy planes definite
ly were shot out of the skies
over lwo, one wag probably de
stroyed and a fifth damaged.
Aegean Island
Cleared of Nazis
ROME, Oct. 23 (yp) The large
Aegean Island of Evvola (Eu
boea), tidjaccnt to the Greek
mainland north of Athens, has
been cleared of Germans, allied
headquarters announced today.
The island's a mountainous
stretch of IIS miles and 33 miles
at Ms greatest breadth. It Is sep
arated from the mainland by a
nnrrow channel, the northern
part of which la known as the
channel of Atalantl,
Dispatches from Athena said
the Island's chief city. Khalkls,
surrendered to a combined force
of British and Greek patriots
and that a small number of
troops left behind In German
evacuation were taken prisoner.
Today On The Western Front
S. l.t a .T Associated Press .
"inni I,. , . , " ""or inking prisoner tno remaining jouu
on, iilohwn 1 c1 Anchcn, pushed one mile cast toward
u. 8 7ii. -u""-lr on me road to cologne.
the nails
small gains.
rlli'thJ ArmY Increased Its pressuro against
C.J.V,10 V'SRes Passes Intn Iho rnlnh and made an
iwern -J"' Army Cnnturcd Esschen. 16 miles north of
f a"t fe rri . "'I 1 l-mtlo advanco and also took the lm-
"r clear ii, "resnons in mo acncicie potnui
""tlih jnj ri'i'ioncnes to Antwerp,
"bosch In,, Armv Drove to within three miles of Her
eh const 'or tne holding, the southwest
U, 8 J . .
c', flehiii, ',my Pressed now offensive 18 miles east of
"cady gain, 0 tho ed8c" ot three . villages for small
Fire Hits Retail Lumber Yard Here
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' Picture shows spectators taking a close-up view of the fire which destroyed a part of the
Klamath Valley Lumber company property Saturday night.
Fire Sweeps Stock Sheds
At Lumber Company Plant
A spectacular fire Saturday
night swept stock sheds at the
rear of the Klamath Valley
Lumber company plant, 1D40
South Sixth street, causing dam
age estimated at between $5000
and $10,000.
Sighted at 10:13 p. m., the
blaio ; destroyed u ciunnlHy of
lumber, paint, wall boards and
roofing materials, before it was
stopped by tho Klamath Falls
fire department. It also reduced
to ashes a separate building
which served as local headquar
ters for the Foster & Klciscr
Sign company.
Containers Explode
Containers of turpentine and
linseed oil exploded in the heat,
and burning roofing material
added to tho bright glow that
illuminated Iho southern sky for
watchers from center of town.
It Was a fire that "looked worse
than it was" and rumors flew
that some large industrial plant
was burning down,
The blaze was located in the
center of an industrial and busi
ness district, and only effective
fire-fighting confined It to the
Klamath Valley property. The
Beverly Thomas
Reported Safe
Pvt. Beverly W. Thomas, re
ported missing In action with his
infantry unit in Franco since
September 25, is "safe and well,"
according lo word received by
his wife, Starlit, mid his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Thom
as, 2105 Wantlund.
Thomas' wile, who came hero
from Spokane upon receipt of
the message, that her husband
was missing, first had her hopes
raised whcn.sho received a letter
dated September 28, three days
after the date Thomos was re
ported missing. Since that time,
she has had three letters, written
October 8, 9, and 12. In one,
Thomas said his commanding of
ficer told him to write home im
mediately, ns information hud
been given Hint he was missing
In action.
In addition to the Purple
Heart, received earlier f o r
wounds while In nctlon ogninst
the Germans, Thomas has been
awarded the combnt infantry
man badge "for exemplary con
duct in action against tho en
emy." Ho has advised his family
that ho would bo able to tell
them "sometime" how the report
circulated thnt he was missing.
front end of the lumber com
pany building was saved, as well
as much of the lumber and other
stock. Two trucks were moved
from the building safely ;
Alarm Given
George Conners. who - oper
ates a radio shop across the
street, turned in trio alarm.
Cause ot the fire was not de
termined. Investigators specu
latcd tho loiterers around the
rear of the building may have
dropped a match or cigarette
butt there. John Fowler, Klam
ath Valley manager, said the
property was insured.
Cleveland Toll
May Hit 200
CLEVELAND, Oct. 23 (TP)
Coroner Samuel R. Gcrbcr es
timated today that "possibly
200 persons met death as liquid
gas explosions and flames laid
waste an cast side area.ono.half
mile square.
The number of known dead
in last Friday's disaster reached
104 today, with 102 persons
listed as missing, 49 of them
East Ohio Gas company em
ployes. "On present evidence, the
death list will total possibly
200," said Dr. Gerber, who is
directing recovery operations at
the scene. This estimate pre
viously was mentioned by
Chairman Stanley Orr of the
Cleveland Red Cross chapter.
"The ruins are still too hot
and 'dangerous to work proper
ly," Dr. Gerber declared. ;
Eighth Army Men
Occupy Cerva
ROME, Oct. 23 0P Eighth
army troops inching their woy
up the Adriatic coast have oc
cupied Ccrvia, on the coastal
road four miles north of cap
tured (Jcscnatlco and only 12
miles below Ravenna, but bad
weather again hampered opera
tions on the fifth army front,
allied headquarters announced
today.
Ccrvia, 19 miles above Rim
ini, is on the main highway
from Rimini to northeastern
Italy.
Tho communique said the al
lied bridgehead over tho Savio
river has been enlarged.
E
George Klncaid, 47, operator
and owner o radio station KFJI,
died at Hillside hospital at 6:25
p. m. Saturday of a gunshot
wound which Dr. George H. Ad
ler, coroner, announced was self-inflicted.-
: - .
The WeTl-Kfiown-- radio 'man
was found unconscious at his
home on Lakcshore drive at 5
p. m., by Jack Keating, member
of KFJI staff. He had been shot
through the head and a Luger
gun lay. nearby, according to
sheriff's officers and state po
lice, who investigated.
Calls Ambulance
Keating called an ambulance.
The officers said that Klncaid
left a note which left no question
as to the circumstances of the
shooting. Despondency over per
sonal matters was believed by
officers to have led to the act.
Kincaid came to Klamath
Falls from Astoria in 1932, mov
ing the radio station here from
the coast city. At Astoria, he
operated the station and previ
ously owned a news-stand and
truck line. He was widely
(Continued on Page Two)
Sen. Brewster
Cancels Tour
U. S. Senator Owen Brewster
of Maine, slated to appear here
before republicans at a mass
meeting Tuesday night, has can
celled the remainder of his Ore
gon tour, it was learned today.
Brewster has been appointed to
represent the U. S. government
on an international - aviation
board and has embarked on his
own duties.
Republicans here will meet as
scheduled, Tuesday at 8 p. in., in
the Willard, at which time Niel
R. Allen, chairman of the repub
lican state central committee,
will be the nrincipal sneaker. All
interested persons, including re
publican candidates and precinct
committeemen, arc urged to at
tend. The radio broadcast has
been cancelled.
-
Spaniards Take
Frontier Towns
LONDON, Oct. 23 OT The
German controlled Oslo radio
said tonight that Spanish repub
lican bands had taken four fron
tier towns In the Pyrenees after
a iour-ioy battle.
Allied Armies
Pound German
Defense Band
By WILLIAM FRYE
LONDON, Oct. 23 W; Six allied armies pounded the
light-drawn nazi defense band from Holland to Switierland's
border today with an unceasing pressure aimed at opening the
eventual cracks that will permit a smash to Berlin.
The rain of blows was not yet a grand coordinated offen
sive, but it was intended to hammer the enemy line ever thinner
and to mask the timing and place of the main attack.
The assault was on against the shrinking south Schclde
pocket west of Antwerp, the Breda box north of Antwerp, the
hard-held doorway from Aachen, the upper entrance of the
Saar valley, and the sharp-cloven Vosges passes.
The British second army, striking in three columns on a
12-mile front from the western side of its Holland salient,
drove to within three to five miles of the prize communications
hub of 'S-Hertogenbosch.
Canucks Advance
The Canadian army swept on from Esschen on the Dutch
Belgian border, 16 miles north of Antwerp, after an 11-mile
advance in two days, and hammered methodically toward
Roosendaal, four miles ahead.
The strikes here, which were assuming the proportions of
a general offensive to clear the sea lanes to allied-held Antwerp
as a supply port, had pressed the Germans from two sides into
the Breda box a 40-by-20-mile rectangle below the Mass
(Meusc). ,
The Canadians were about to outflank the German coastal
anchor at Bergen Op Zoom, four miles ahead.
West of Antwerp the Canadians captured Breskens and Fort
Frederik-Hendrik, a mile farther west, an old fortress modernized
by the Germans. On the south side of the pocket, the Canadians
took Schoondijke, pinching the Germans into a canal-sliced area
of only five by eight miles.
Nasi Hold Slips -
The German hold on the Schelde fast was slipping with
the capture of the controlling enemy guns at Breskens and Fort
Frederik-Hendrik. Only one battery there were three two days
ago remained in action in the Vlissingen (Flushing) area on
the north side of the estuary after allied heavy-bomber attacks.
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' U. S. first army pushed a
mile east toward Duren after its capture of its first major
German city, Aachen, and was clearing the enemy from the
area around the village pf Wurselen, three miles northeast of
Aachen.
It was here other Americans last were reported six miles
southeast of Duren, which is 20 miles from Cologne on the
Fh,'.n,hat the Germans .apparently feared the main, blow was
building up..: -! -. .
Allied Nations Recognize
De Gaulle Administration
WASHINGTON. Oct. 23 (IP)
The United States and Great
Britain recognized the De Gaulle
administration as the "provision
al government of the French
republic."
Moscow radio reported that
soviet Russia had taken the same
step, and similar announce
ments came from Ottawa and
Canberra.
Brazil also announced recog
nition, as did Venezuela.
The American action was an
nounced by Acting Secretary of
State Stettihius who also dis
closed that most of France, in
cluding Paris, had been desig
nated by allied military author
ities as an "interior zone" in
which the French authorities
have complete responsibility.
This interior zone covers
everything except the combat
areas and points essential to
combat supply.
Stcttlnius' statement recalled
that the French leaders, includ-
Churchill Spends
Time in Italy
LONDON, Oct. 23 (P) Prime
Minister Churchill spent a night
in Italy en route home from
his Moscow conferences with
Marshal Stalin, ' it was an
nounced today.
Churchill, accompanied by
Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the
British general staff, conferred
with Gen. Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson, allied commander in
the Mediterranean.
Churchill also spent 24 hours
in Cairo, conferring with,,Brit
ain's army and navy command
ers. Britain's participation in
the Pacific war was believed a
likely, topic of the discussions.
The prime minister returned
to London yesterday. He is ex
pected to report to commons
this week.
Open House at Local Air Station to Highlight
Klamath's Celebration of Navy Day on Friday
Klamath Falls an Inland
"navy town" will celebrate
Navy Day Friday with various
activities, highlighted by open
house at tho Klamath naval air
station. ,
Announcement that the pub
lic Is invited to visit the stotion
Friday, at hours to bo decided
later, was made by a chamber
of commerce Navy Day commit
tee following a conference with
tho commanding officer, Com
mander R. R. Dnrron.
First Public
A huge visitation Is expected
at the station, which has never
before been thrown open to pub
lic inspection. (Commissioning
exorcises lastf February were
conducted on an invitational
basis), Commander Darron and
the officers and men nt the sta
tion will be hosts, and visitors
will be given opportunity to
sec the inside details of one of
the most active naval air sta
tions on the coast,
It was pointed out that navy
operations would necessarily re
strict the visitors to certain
parts of the station, and that
definite hours for visitation
would bo necessary. Full an
nouncement will be made with
in a day or two.
Mayor John Houston today Is
sued a proclamation calling at
tention to Navy Day, .and plans
were on foot for a special navy
tribute at Friday night's football
game at Modoc field, when the
Pelicans play Eureka. Local or
ganizations were asked to ob
serve Navy Day this week.
"Take a sailor to lunch on
Navy Day" is to be the slogan
of a statewide observance, and
Klamath people were asked to
.loin In this showing of hospital
ity for navy men and women on
Friday.
Klamath's navy connections
aro exceptional for an Inland
city. Not only Is it the home of
a full-status naval air station,
but the marine corps, which has
tho largo Marine Barracks here,
is a part of tho navy department
and the navy medical corps op
erates the medical phase of the
barracks program. The navy's
bureau of yards and docks has
had full charge of the construc
tion of the air station and the
Marine Barracks.
The chamber committee Is
composed of C. F. O Loughlin,
chairman. Elton Disher and
Everett Dennis. The committee
is - planning special publicity
features in connection with the
day, and is cooperating closely
with the city administration and
local navy officials.
The same chamber committee
has been assigned to help work
out a' local observance of - the
marine corps anniversary on No
vember lo.. Q : . ;
ine General Charles de Gaulle.
have declared on several occa
sions their intentions to hold
elections as soon as possible.
"Pending the exDression . of
the will of the French people
uirougn ine action of their duly
elected representatives," Stet
tinius said, "the provisional gov
ernment of the French republic
in its efforts to prosecute the
war until final victory and to
lay the foundations for the re
habilitation of France, can count
on the continued, full, and
friendly cooperation of the gov
ernment of the United States."
Canada and Australia an
nounced similar recognition, in
statements at Ottawa and Can-
oerra.
Channel Basis .
The action of recognition com
pletely changes the basis of re
lations between France and the
allied - powers the United
States, Britain and Russia. De
Gaulle, instead of ranking only
as the leader of a "de facto" au
thority, now ranks as chief of
government and head of state,
approximating the positions held
by President Roosevelt, Marshal
Stalin and Prime Minister
Churchill. .
Among the practical results
win oe tne right of the French
authorities to lay claim to
French funds which have been
tied up. in this country since
German troops overran the
French nation.
It also appeared that De
Gaulle's position of insistence
on Frenoh representation in the
higher allied councils such as
the European advisory commis
sion would be.greately strength
ened. .- -
Richard Bennett
Taken by Death
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 (P)
Death has taken Richard- Ben
nett, a stage idol and screen
character actor famed for a
sharp and witty tongue that
enabled him to reprimand in
attentive audiences and make
them like it.
His daughters Constance and
Joan Bennett, film actresses,
were at his hospital bedside
when he succumbed yesterday
at 72 after a long series of
heart attacks. Barbara, a third
daughter, was reported on her
way here from New York. . .
firtons Land on
Nicobar Islands
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (P) The
Japanese news agency Domei
"has announced that British
troops have landed on the Nico
bar islands In the Indian ocean,"
a British broadcast said today,
CBS recorded tho broadcast, .
GIS ATTEMPT
TRAP FOR NIP
MEN Oil LEYTE
7th Infantry Troops
Advance From
Dufag
By C. YATES McDANIEL
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Philippines, Oct. 23
(Via Army Radio) (P) Ameri
can soldiers, pushing westward
on Leyte island's southern front;
today overran strong Japanese
defense positions and were try
ing to trap enomy troops retreat
ing up the wide Leyte valley.
AP War Correspondent Al
Dopking, on the southern front,
reported that Yank seventh in
fantry division troops, led by
tanks, were maving up the open
valley inland from Dulae where-
one of the first American beach
heads was established.
Edmundson Commands
The trooDS eneaeed in the nr.
tion were under command of Lt. '
Col. Herbert Edmundson of
Georgia.
The country leading north
westward from Dulag is flat and
ideal for tank warfare. The
Leyte valley, over which tho
forces of liberation are moving,
is 25 miles wide on the south-.
west. It tapers to 10 miles widej
on the northeast. The valley is
flanked by mountain ranges
with peaksrising up to 1300 feet.
Centers on Road
(The action west of Dula? an.
peared to center on the highway
leading from the east coast to
the roadside town of San Pablo.
seven miles inland. Beyond that
town was Bureauen, west end of
the provincial road. There it
turns northward toward Dagami,
highway junction. ,
(Supposedly, the Japanese on
the southern front were retreat
ing northward up the open val.
ley or iaumg oacK into mountain
positions on the southwest nf thn
valley.)
Temporary Capital
Meanwhile- Tacloban, the pro
vincial capital, occupied by the
Yanks after- theytook the "air
field in that sector, became tha
temporary capital of the first
free government of the Philip
pines in more than two years.
As his troops pressed forward.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced preparations already
are underway for construction o
a great base for future opera
tions around the rantnreri nlr.
dromes of Tacloban and Dulag.
jine supply prooiem for Ja
pan's vicious 16th division al
ready is becoming difficult after
their "preliminary defeat" and
should they be forced into tha
hills might become acute. Gen.
MacArthur said in his communi
que today. , . .j
Local Prisoner
Of War Releasee1
From Philippines
Americans were ' jubilant to
receive word that 83 prisoners
of war had been rescued from
the Philippines with the inva
sion of Leyte by General Mac
Arthur's forces; and Tulelake
residents found a familiar name
among the list which included
five Oregon men.
Lt. Charles Steinhouser, who
operated the Shell service sta
tion at Tulelake before the war,
was listed as one of the 83 men
now said to be in Australia. . ,
Steinhouser was one of tha
first reserve officers from tho
Tulelake area to be called up.
He reported in the summer of
1941 and his wife and child left
Tulelake et that time. Stein
houser's home was in Seaside.
He was a member of the Tule
lake 20-30 club, the volunteer
fire department and took part
in other civic affairs. The fam-
ilV llVPH in tho T.awrannn XJ-
ton homo. Steinhouser is a for
mer Oregon State college man
where he received ROTC train
ing. He was in field artillery
during his service and was sent
directly to Nichols field at Ma
nila before Pearl Harbor.
The prisoners were on a tor
pedoed enemy transport and
were hidden by Filipino guer
rillas for more than two years.
Other Oregon men included 2nd
Lt. Harry J. Skinner, North
Bend; Cpl.-B. J. Lorton, Med
ford; Pvt. Willard E. Halla, La
Grande, and MSgt. George Rob
inett, Eugene.
Japanese Admit
Defensive Action
By The Associated Press
"Japan is now on the de
fensive," a Japanese naval
commentator, Masanorl Ho, said
today in a dispatch transmitted
by Domei news agency,
Ito's statement came In the
course of remarks in which it
was claimed that Japan "wel
comed" the American Invasion
of the Philippines because it of
fered ."another opportunity to
deal crushing, blows on tho
mainstay of the onemy's Pacific
forces." .: .. . .. ..