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Newspaper Page Textaw in Herald aulte Weather Ne October 24. 1914 Mmw. M. 33) 7(1 Win. J'rerlplUilon !( 21 hours . 00 Hlrrim -er to dte . 'it Normal It Jait yer , - 7 Furccxali MHd, H'ednaidsjr 8hoollnf Houri Orrn: Open ll-.TM Clot .. , ..S:.,in TnlcUke: Open 7:(MI Cloio G;l by frank ..... .i.i.'Vi! Htm In The Shantu-CaHcailv Wonderland hillV ii... f nl IIIIHIil ill PRICE 5 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1944 Number 10296 A fpEIWfcJfD) lyLyl y L&LrQ NAZI DEFENSE LINES CRUILO UNDER ATTACK Ws Sews HT.. u. In on, our F"" "'i Jlliiri iiro prevent, Jw,K?-pl Z , reinforcing 1110 mii Arthur lins lolcl us te. "lA. i .11.1 nu Lcylu y. ,lr . " . ,iiouic Hint wo ore lug good pwgroM. L mu, guard ngnlnst ' --"S" i!Ss ffido .1 roy of big , Wth your "",.v," r ' .... . iTiinhlnii item " v" rhlmiing process doesn't if hcaiu-u-i -rt.o crushing 5, ot each Hrt'"-0. I chipping nwny HAS to pre 1 tl,o crushing down. 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I IL the fighting on tlio went' krn Iront goes fnrwnrd In slice oi loul weather, Tlio general snow of the season Inst niuht. nfter days of PS rain and low-hunglng DSCOW annuuiiee.s cautious- ly that the Itiisslnns hnvo llratcd "nt least" 11) miles in- .lit Prussia on nn U7-mlla Ic Germans. Knmnudtiif mnrn iiu, auiiiit uiiii ijciicrnl inlakhovskv (the U (t. v.-iir-nlrl Ian Jew whuse armies lire iving the grcnt rnilroud I to 1 n s I c r b u r g nnd igsburg) lins penetrated 35 Inta t'.ict ririmtln 'l'l,..u that Gencrnl Bnnrnmlni), iii'miniy up nn ot EUSl north of the Nlemen cx- DOcltf.t lit M,,.,l lu ....... the Niemcn unci Is aliening 0I tlio SOUthl'm hnnlf this will be meonlngloss unless vrtn r.,n... it .... map.) . NARY nnd Czcelinslo- 'Kla, where we know heavy bui.1i on, nro still cd In mystery. The Rome ."um suys luiiny the Ucr W cvucuiiIIiik Duilnpest. ".., wuuiii mean u uiu advance. a fair eui'Ku n.ni ...i. 11 l'ye to sny will be "onal. Tluii I. ii.- i policy. ... r'T lillO (llsimlphna Inn.!. JiW. 11,1,1 clc,"n "l cen k m:1!, m' Ih,,,,c K"nrd rwnr T. "'"'K iniu nnz I' geltlnR VEHY low.) J or lew furuolten Italy, in $ lumn:. Tilings will l but nr 1 lT,tC WlU!n W0 -.uiiuiy nol much TrntUl.t. . La ?S,,:.ACE i p To Hits f Novy Fire 1 AUr.i.1 K'Z :: '"r? which fnd dnmnV. , "vul "inenno KSall'''iy. V-' '"en nntl six civil- w!u0.' .'"?. tllsnntrmi. hurt of V1,,T,Rnlln by. Ili..ii, ,ni lry. Snn Pc water frL1 Jueno Bl,ll,ctl lii... nom n nn n..i me landing EAST PRUSSIAN STRONG POSTS TAKEN BY REDS Augustow, Huszt Also Captured by, Soviets LONDON, Oct. 24 (If Cnp turn of several heavily forti fied slroiigpolnts In East Prus sia and the naz! bnso at Augus tow In Poliiiul, 17 miles south east of Stiwalk, wns announced tonight by Moscow. The broadcast Russian com inunltiiic snld Huszt (Chusl) In tlio Ciirpatho-Ukraine hud fallen to Gen. Ivan I'ctrov's fourth llkraiiian army and that street fighting was being pressed In the northern Transylvania city of Sntii Mnro, 30 miles south west ot Huszt. Yanks Take Three Islands, Airfield MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (!) Rus sian penetration of German ter ritory to a depth of at least 10 miles In East l'ru.ulu wns pro claimed today In the first Mos cow announcement of a power ful red army offcnslvo that al ready has captured 400 nazl towns and vlllngo. . -. Summarizing rosulta of ihnt.i fmm unNt,in Lithuania thul the Germans have been re porting for a week, a Russian communlquo said Guokklvnn D. Chcrnlokhovsky's third White Russian army nnd broken through frontier defenses on an 87-mllo front on the east, Gen. Ivan C. BagramUn's (Continued on Paga Two) Two Generals ' Visit Barracks While on tour of west coast Installations, two high-ranking generals from headquarters In Washington, D. C, MaJ. Gon. UeWItt Peck, assistant to the commandant of the marine corps, and Drlg. Gen. Leonard E. Rea, nsnistant quartermaster gencrnl, looked over the bar racks mid Its facilities Mondny, Accompanying them on their rounds were Col. B. Dubcl, MnJ. Clyde C. Roberts and Capt. r . O. Lewis. The visiting generals left Tuesday morning by plane from the nnval air station to con tinue their trip. Nazi Fighters Challenge RAF LONDON, Oct. 24 (P) -Strong forces of German night fighters, snvpri fnr defense of nrizc tar gets, swarmed up over Essen Inst night to challenge a fleet of 1000 RAF heavy bomDcrs which at tacked the great armament and railway center In the heart of i no Kulir. uigm oomocrs iniica to return. The bombers, which flow through the first heavy snow storm of the season over the western front, also encountered the fiercest ground barrage they have met on their Inst seven trips to the Ruhr. By C. YATES McDANIEL Anociotod Press War Corrospondont GENERAL MucARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Oct. 24 (!') American libera tors of 11 towns in the central Philippines drove ahead on Lcyte Island today through al most Impossible muck and bit terly resisting Japune.se. Gcu. Douglas Mill-Arthur's communique listed tlio libera tion of 11 towns on the island of Lcylo and the complete oc cupation of the three small is lands of Suliinn, Dlnagut and Homonhon guarding tlio en trances to Lcyte gulf. Patrols had been put ashore on those islands one week ago today, fircparntory to last Friduy's big nndlngs on Lcyte. The southern column, units of the seventh Infantry division, cupturcd San Pablo airfield In a seven-mile advance stemming westward from the beachhead at Dulag. Tlio doughboys occu pied the field after a gruelling march of 12 circuitous miles through dense undergrowth and In broiling hent, reported Al Dopking, AP war correspond ent. Sniper Opposition Only rearguard snipers op posed the Infantry, following dispersal of light resistance by American Sherman tanks. The bulk of the Japancso force was in full retrcut. (Press dispatches from the front to the Melbourne Herald in Australia reported an Amer ican tank column had estab lished a bridgehead on Samur island, the link between Lcyte and Luzon islands. (The Herald's correspondent, Blulno fielder, reported the tank column was ferried across narrow San Juanico strait Mon day from a highway point above Tacloban, provincial capital of Leyte and provisional seat of the constitutional Philippines government. Fifth Island (Fielder's dispatch from Tac loban, cleared by military cen sors, said Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur capitalized on the rapid advance on northern Leyte to send his, troops to the fifth is land to bo Invaded since his re turn to the Philippines. (Invasion of Snmor was not mentioned by other correspond ents nor by MacArthur's own communique today. (A road leads up the west coast of Samar from the shores opposite Tacloban to the north ern tip, 15 miles southeast of Luzon on which Manila Is situ- Luted). U.S. sixth army troops moved northwestward from Tacloban, at the northern tip of the 20- mile Lcyte cast coast front, and slid through swamps In the southern sector from Dulag. Muck and slime proved' a great er obstacle in the south than the Japanese, and sometimes left the' advancing Yanks with out the support of their tanks. The coastal road south, from Tacloban to Palo was entirely in American hands. Palo and Dulag anchored the westbound arms of a potential trap reaching out to engulf Nip ponese 10th division elements the torturers at Bataan in a 140-mile sauaro area bounded on the east by the coast and on the west by a valley road lrom Buraucn to Santa re. Marked progress was report ed today in a communique on the Dulag south arm toward Buraucn. After menacing Nip ponese positions in the Catmon hills area were bypassed, Sher man ' tanks pushed seven miles from Burauen. The advance was over muddv road. It was a different story at Palo. All Monday night, the Japanese counterattacked and it was not until this morning that it was broken bloodily. Then the Americans resumed a slow Dush west of the liberated town of Palo which is six miles from the road junction of Santa Fe. The advance was contested along the main road. HEAT PROBLEMS SETTLED BY PUC The Klnmiith Healing com cany problem, aired at a hearing cohductcd here this past summer oy me puuuc uunuua i-uuiuua-slon, wns settled by tho commis sion when findings were an nounced at a meeting of the city council Monday night. The company is ordered by the commission to discontinue sale of hogged fuel that can be stored at their own plant as long as stor age space Is available, to main tain an accurate record of Inter ruptions and to notify customers in advance of any interruption due to mechanical failure or shortage of fuel. At all times, the commission ordered, the Klnmath Heating company shnll take all possible precaution to Insure adequate supply o fuel for operation. Flagg Signs Order George H. Flagg, public utili ties commissioner, signed the or der. Flagg pointed out that evi dence was presented by nttor (Contlnucd on Page Two) 15 Injured in Train Collision NEW ORLEANS, Oct! 24 (IP) About 15 persons were Injured, , r Ihnm cllnlitlv tnrinv in a collision between the outbound fast passenger trains Louisiana OI me Illinois umiiii s.vBivm uu the Sunset Limited of tho South ern Pacific lines nt Shrewsbury road just west of Now Orleans. The accident occurred In a 4ioavy fog. Fifth Army Units Menace Pp Valley Junction Town By LYNN HLINZUHLIHU ROME..OcL24i.-TAmcrk can- troops - oi tno imn army battling ' down the northern slopes of the Appcnnlnes ap proached today within four miles of Castcl San Pietro, large Po valley Junction town on the Rlmlnl highway 13 miles south cast of Bologna. Supreme Headquarters an nounced this American column had captured the village of Frassincto, southeast of Castcl San Pietro, after a heavy bat tle. Rough terrain still lay ahead. Minefields Delay Thick minefields, demolitions and barbed wire entanglements held up another force advanc ing on dominating Monte Bel monto. A communique said the most bitter fighting centered around that feature. On the southeast other fifth army troops drove for two and one-half miles along the high way to Imola, another junction point on the Rlmlnl-Bologna road, and captured the village of Fontanclicc. It lies seven miles southwest of Imola, British forces battling along Robombs Fall In Belgium BRUSSELS, Oct. 24 OP) Ger man flying bombs have landed in Belgium, ji government com munique said today. The an nouncement warned the public not to help the enemy by spread ing Information about the time and place the robots landed. Wounded L wiwhiMi iw Hill mi Mlmirfi ; SPI S ARMY WINS VILLAGE .1 FRONTIER Maquisards Trapped In Valley of Aran PFC Jesse Dale Hankins. 18, recovering from wounds in a U. S. naval hospital in San Francisco, had a try at the Japs after his- second enlistment in the marine corps. highway 67 in the sector to the- e a s.t umheu beyond"; the road Junction of Portico on the way to Forll. On the fifth army left flank South African troops operating northeast of Vergato seized a hill dominating the Prato-Bologna highway. Indian troops captured Monte Cavallo, west of the Savio river and south of Cesena on the eighth army front, and on the Adriatic coast other eighth army forces advanced one-half mile beyond captured cervia. Canadian forces enlarged and strengthened their bridgehead across the Savio north of Ces ena; German tanks and Infantry counterattacked the Canadians, but the latter held firm, the announcement said. Four Killed In Plane Crash MARCH FIELD, Calif., Oct. 24 (fl3) Four March Field men were killed in the crash of a four-engine army bomber one and one-half miles north of Cor ona, Calif., last night, Col. El roy A. Walthall, base command er, announced today. Two others were Injured, but not seriously. One of them was 2nd Lt. Phillip H. Ball, 25, co pilot, of Ashton, idano. Contrail Seeks Resignation of Chief Heuvel in Hot City Council Session In a sizzling session of the city council Mondny night, the resignation of Chlof of Police Earl Heuvel was sought by Councilman Rollln Contrail. Due to tho nbsenco of Mayor John H. Houston from the coun cil table, A. II . Bussmnn sug gested that "In all fairness to Mayor Houston, tho motion be Intel on the table until next week," and Contrail withdrew the motion. Letter Causal Fight The tempest grew out of a let ter signed by Chief Heuvel and nn accompanying chart which appeared In the October 20 Is sue of The Herald and News. In the letter Chief Heuvel stated that ho had submitted his "resig nation to tho city council they unanimously requested that I servo for the completion of the present administration." In the article, Heuvel stntcd that the polico department was being nindo a political football, and asked tho people to be guided by "facts and not political bunk." . . , To this statement both Can trail and Bussmnn took strong exception, Cantrall Quarterback j Said Cantrall, who carried the ball during the evening and oc casionally passed it to Buss man: ' "Well, gentleman, as far as I am concerned, that probably .'states that he offered to re sign. Now, if he did, as he so states in that letter, then we have a copy of his resigna tion on file as we also have minutes that pertains to our action, I'd like to have them .read If what ha says here is true. To save anyone em barrassment of answering it. it was at a meeting of the council as a whole that he pre sented hit resignation and I've always considered, as a coun cilman, that when we got to. gether here and talked things over, it wasn't going to be a matter of publication unless we had decided It was a mat ter io be carried out." Move Defoated , At this point Cnntrnll made a motion, Inter defeated, that all publicity given to newspapers first pass through the hands of the mayor for his official OK. He amended this to "any ap pointed deportment hend other than routine work," The mo tion was seconded by Bussmnn who then made tho fallowing statement: 4 "I also rcadr this particular article, (referring to the chief's letter and chart), and the head lines. I'm not certain whether they w'ero written by tho news paper or HcuvcJ and they read "Heuvel Asks Voters to Be Guided by Facts, Not Bunk," nnd they should read, "Bunk, Not Facts." Contradicts Hauvel "Heuvel said ho submitted his resignation to the council. ; I take exception to that At a council meeting as a whole ho 'asked us to accept his resigna tion, but he did not put It in writing. That was at tho time that he had troublo over the juvenile situation, I told Heu vel he would be showing his color If ho turned in his resig nation, but he did not formally submit It to the mayor or coun cil to bo treated as a resigna tion. "If he did. why didn't he moke mention of that fact that the council voted it at round' table discussion, threo-to-two for his resignation? ' ; "Good on Crime "Ho also states hero that ho will make every effort to en force the low and reduce crime In the city. He's dono a pretty fair job on crime but not the (Continued on Page Three) . Swabbies Fight Elks, CI' s Battle Bees War Is war, decide sailors and soldiers, whether it's war against humans, animals or in sects. Over Tho Associated Press wire today came tho following sidelights in an all out offensive: The navy stands ready to level Its guns in defense of tho embattled farmers of Hope, Idaho. The targets-Mf the order comes to fire will be deer and elk which growers con tend browse nightly In their gardens and eat away or chards. Aid from the Farragut, Ida., naval training base to elimi nate surplus animals was re quested some time ago by Rep. White (D-Idaho). Today White's office was Informed by Commander F. H. Kclley of the Farragut base that navy trainees are ready for action. "We will stand by with the necessary equipment awaiting your reply," Kellcy wrote. And two privates who land ed In the fifth wave of the Philippines invasion were seen tossing sticks Into a tan gled mass of coconut tree (caves. Pvt. Luclo Berrez, Cuero, Tex., and PFC Robert Plant, Kelso, Wash., had run onto a nest ot bees.1 They said it was the nearest to an enemy at tack they had encountered. PFC Jesse Dale Hankins, 18, who broke into the nation's news columns after serving with the United States marine corps in the South Pacific at the age of 15, is back in the United States, this time to recover from wounds received in action against - the Japanese in the taking of Guam. Young Hankins enlisted in the marines when barely -15. --Later, his mother aDDe&led to the war department to have him sent home because of his extreme youth. Undaunted, ' Hankins waited until he. was 17, and then with his mother's consent went back into the marine corps. - When the marines hit Guam," Hankins was right in there plug ging. The third day a Jap got him. Hankins was returned to a U. S. naval hospital in the San Francisco bay area where he is being treated for wounds in both arms. The youths mother. Mrs. Es ther Hankins, operator of the Hollywood beauty salon, has gone to San Francisco to visit her son, accomoanied by another son and daughter, Gene and Lois. Lionel Hankins of this city is the marine's father and his grandmother Li Mrs. Olive Han kins of the White Pine apart ments. Fun-Frolic Show Set Wednesday Townspeople are urged to sup port the Junior chamber of com merce in their efforts to establish a teen-age club for Klamath Falls by attending the big Jaycee Fun-Frolic Revue at the Pelican theatre at 7:30 tomorrow, Wed nesday .night. A talent, variety and fun stage show, featuring local entertain ers and the Marine Barracks or chestra will be presented on the stage, followed by Kay Kyser's Caroline Blues, ' on the screen. All proceeds will be used for the teen-age project. Fifty servicemen will have an opportunity to attend the event on the tickets purchased for them by the Brattons of Klamath Packing company. Other persons who want to see the show should buy their tickets while they ore available at Cur rin's for Drugs, Castleberry's, the Pelican cafe or the Pelican theatre. Canucks Get Foothold At Edge of South Beveland LERIDA, Spain, Oct. 24 (P) Spanish army forces recaptured a frontier village yesterday in the Aran valley and closed the main exit for Spanish republi can maquisards who infiltrated into Spain from France. Todav. the forces of General Franco were moving down the valley in an effort to liquidate completely the dissidents. The maquisards are operating in groups of a little more than 100. Army officers said they now had the choice of resisting until death or capture, or of dis banding for an attempt to es cape through the heavily guard ed passes wmcn are Banned with snow and which tower more than 10,000 feet. Those cap tured with arms face possible execution. Clashes Extend (Spanish republicans in Paris said the border clashes had ex tended deep into Catalonia, and were rising in intensity. The maauisards were veterans of ex cursions against German -occu pants of France and were said to be operating from bases in the . Toulouse area of France. They were reported to have netd several villages, at least long enough ; to . liberate anti-Franco political prisoners. - - (In.some cases, Franco police men' were . taken back into French territory, the Paris re port said.. It was reported in Paris that the French forces at the interior gave the Spanish republicans bases for operations in reward for the part they ; (Continued od Page Two) By WILLIAM FRYE LONDON, Oct. 24 (P) Brit ish troops fought into the streets of the key Dutch road center o 'S Hertogenbosch tonight. Ger man defenses apparently wero crumbling on a 12-milo front south of the ancient fortress town. . The British offensive was ono phase of a squeeze drive in con cert with the Canadian first army against some 40,000 Ger. mans fighting to hold southwest ern Holland and deny the allies use of Antwerp as a supply port. Win Foothold Canadian infantry and armor striking forward three miles won a foothold on the eastern edge ot South Beveland, one of two Schelde estuary islands where German guns command tho water approach to Antwerp. . Artillery and aircraft support ed this push, opened after tha Canadians cut the causeway, bot tling off the Germans on South. Beveland and Walcheren islands. jjrivo Near Hoosendaal Other Canadian units Hrnvi, within three to five miles of the strongholds of Roosendaal and eergen op zoom,, rolling back the enemy coastal flank some 50 miles west of the British offen sive. An assault rine was shanlne around 'S Hertogenbosch, with. lioniuiuea on Fage Two) Open House Set For I to 4 P. M. Friday's "open house" at the Klamath naval air station will be confined to the hours from 1 to 4 p. m., it was announced today Dy tne cnamDer oi commerce committee in charge of observ ance of Navy Day here. The public is invited to visit tne station witnm tnose nours. Visitors should drive to the main gate on Altamont drive, where they will be directed to parking places. The administration of the station, headed by Comman der R. R. Darron, is giving full cooperation to make this feature of the day s observance a success. Germans Dissolve Military Bands STOCKHOLM. Oct. 24 (IP)- German military bands have been dissolved under nazi mobili zation plan and musicians will carry guns instead of horns and drums, a dispatch from Berlin said today. Indians Push On Past Tiddim SOUTHEAST ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy, Ceylon, Oct. 24 (P) Troops of the fifth Indian division driv ing southeast in Burma's Chin hills from Tiddum on the heels of retreating Japanese have ad vanced 11 miles long along the Fort White rond and now are within two miles of the enemy stronghold at Kennedy Peak, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat- tcn announced today, Dennis Morgan To Arrive Here Dennis Morgan, ton flight screenster and frequent visitor in Klamath Falls, is expected here early this evening for a few days' duck hunting. ; Morgan will be accompanied by a Hollywood friend and they will be guest at the Wlnema Drainage of Gas Storage Plants Ordered in Ohio CLEVELAND. ' Oct. 24 (Fl Draining of two liquefied gas storage tanks, which remained intact after explosions and fire at the East Ohio" Gas' company's plant devastated a 50-block area, was ordered today . as a pre cautionary measure. - In addition to the area al ready evacuated, residents of 21 properties adjoining the plant were directed to depart while drainage operations are in progress. Meanwhile,, the number of known dead in last Friday's disaster amounted to 114 on the county morgue's records. Only 37 of these had been identified. The missing list .was reduced to 89, of whom 47 were gas com pany employes, sixty-live vic tims remained in hospitals and of these two were reported in. critical condition and three in poor condition. Coroner S. R. Gerber said there was evidence that at least 28 more bodies remained in the ruins of the plant and surround-: ing homes. , Kurile Islands Hit in Daylight SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 (ff) A daylight raid on Paramushiro and Onnekotan islands in the Ku riles by American bombing planes was reported today by the Tokyo radio in a broadcast re corded by the federal communi cations commission. The radio said that six B-24s' made the raids, but claimed Jap-, anese fighters "intercepted and heavily damaged" two of the six and "that no damage was sustain ed by our side." Committee Plans "Shot From Sky" Exhibit -I ' H Plans for the layout of the army air force's "Shot From the Sky" exhibit coming to the carnival grounds on S. 6th Novem ber 1 were drawn up yesterday at the grounds by Lt. Edward M. Cogswell and committee heads from Klamath Falls. Grounds for the huqe display of captured enemy equipment were donated by Frank Ferrari, 2374 Shasta way. In the picture are (left to tight) Charles R. Stork, secretary, Klamath county chambor of commerce) Myrle C. Adams, chairman, 6th War Loan drive in Klamath countyi Lt. Cogswell, and Jack Almeter, manager, U. S. employment service.