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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1944
Number 10304
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WORM
Gl S OVERRUN
TWO VILLAGES
IN ADVANCES
jiivs Jews
1 ...AW-
i Hurt oi i
TUET within or
Iff n.,mn,u on tho """
I w i Th. Sehrl'lB estuary inn
"lively wlUii bo y
'W" - i.i,IIiiU 111 irom
w. about I Uliil'l"'1-"' 1,10
, J.I nil Wll Cliciuii ...
'"Sh .id" f Hi" estuary
P'u.J nrogrcss again"
il fury K""'
KSffiriS loX.lwerp I,,
Mde.c ',,t ? heir guns which
in rnminilllllMl It llllVO
lrtni' ked L out. Wo 1 ll
k"0, n :s out of Hio
lirt ' cil," u nn miles of walur
c this li written. Ju.it be ore
Ino indicate wl.etl.cr It may
tk itart ol our long-expected
it oOtnUw In U area.
.,A THOUSAND Amorlcim
mil heavy bombers
Eta 1)00 fighters lire
rar.t Clerniiiii oil fncll-
raonulir valley.
hat battle of Hungary teems
to be nunc n .''
mi oday oniy
Budaoejt. quite a gain slme
J-J.'. n.norts. 1 no UBUIC
-v.". ... ...in.,,. i.
brail lougiii I" i"".".
w" a i-i.. n...... ,. urn
. Aiimurv. in.. ..,-- .....
iptnntly attacking with heavy
.iinn. nf tanks, ii nd the
Ermms arc opposing them with
sed anti-tank sons.
litre also llio ijcrnmiis mo
Mills with laiiniicni ""'.
ir nhi- mi.i nurnusc ui-iiiu i
ay the nus.ili.ns as long a
lblo at wiia i iv r.u kuoi.
wi iii In the wide Dan-
it valley, which is ono of tho
lorlc entrances to Liermany.
HERE Is o rnther odd nolo In
ihn nnlknn news today.
The German say (you must
l.i. nnllitd how liberal tho
I-tmju ore with new laUily
htever tliclr purposo may nei
It the British, In co-operation
1th Tito's Partisans, have
tired nd taken possession of
100 miles o( the Dalmatian
it of Yugoslavia (across the
ulic irom Italy) including
port of Split.
There Is o( course the military
nihility that It i.uiy be a move
5 nil on iiorimins escaping
n Greece, but nt this stage of
war In the Balkans ono van t
Ip wondering If It has (Inter
linial) POLITICAL slgnlf
pee. Tlie lirilish want r
;cr In (he Yugoslav pin nflcr
ar, i ins novo con ti mean
per that Churchill has come
imc sort of working agree
pt with Stalin as to Yutto-
n or mat no Is applying a
e pressure to GET such an
!ment.
rom hero on out, In the war
Europe, we'll havo to kcop
nitol motives In mind. In
! way or another. Ihov will
rather looks today as If thoro
nu siii(Miorts over
o yesterday or at least that
l aid no bombing,
, Toko rndio reporfls in-
iiiaiciuing jnp Jit-
i t
N Tokyo radio has n new ono
flodtv. II ic im.i.. . ..
fc'iu?,.li,,v"si0i of NORTH-
wemsthBlii.n l.ij
k,r1!i"!c"Jr!rs ln 11,0 norlhi
WTO ink. ,.,,..1 .
Icon ,iTr (l"lod by tho
U. S. Navy Fliers Plant Two Bombs On Jap Battleship
9 SillRdK
ft
Two bombi txplode noor th forward turrot of tho Japanese battleship Yamato as she fleet
from the U. S. third fleet through Tobias Strolls In the westorn Vitayant, Philippines, in the great
naval engagement of October 25. The enemy warship was under full steam when navy filers
caught her, (AP Wlrephoto from U. S. Navy.) , .
Inieresi in Political Campaign Mounts
With Record Vote Indicated in County
Interest and suspense mount
ed rapidly this week lis the 1U44
political campaign went Into Its
final stage, and Indications arc
that Tuesday's election will
bring out one of the heaviest
Klamath county votes In history.
Election machinery is being oil
ed for tho big task of recording
Klamath county decisions on
men and measures.
Local democratic and republi
can organizations today were
winding up active campaigns
which have cmphaslicd the na
tional tickets of both parties.
llQlli Frank Howard and ,E. P.
-r
iLSM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (P)t
Presldcnt Roosevelt today di
rected Donald M. Nelson to re
turn to China at "tho earliest
possible date" to organize in
Chinese war production board.
After a long conference be
tween Nelson and the president,
tho White House Issued a state
ment which said: .
"As the president's personal
representative. Nelson will con
tinue his work with the Gener
alissimo (Chiang Kai-Shek) on
measures aimed at strengthen
ing the Chinese war effort, and
notably In organizing a war
production board to increase the
(Continued on Pago Two) i
Kujawski Now
Back on Duty
PFC Charles S. Kujawski,
who was reported missing In
action last week, returned to
duty October 0. according to
word received from the war dq
portinent by his wife, Mrs. Pn
trlela Kujawski, 024 Martin. De
tails were not given. i
Kujawski is with the army
Infantry . in Germany, and has
been ovorsons since July of this
year. He was employed here by
Calplnc Lumber company and
was n member of tho Klamath
Falls flro department before he
entered mo service. i
pocrats Can Win Only by
Pining GOP, Says Dewey
fiv Itfiir .
"'p'THEATlurtlmore.
tic v,'l'l'ealing for dom-
ra v Y 11 governor
03 'ernmnTcd 1 this
nail todny, that the nnlv
lrty to win
the ' . " 10 3"n
RJ11' "rival here by
r"iown crowd Mii,inj
' 2S.0UO to' an n h
ru' nrci.in..ii..i '. '
N In i " 1 """iince
wis exicmpo
IhWi ht t hero 1,
illshlno Program for
ln .' ."I'1 bo "wrei'knrl 1..1.
will'. P, .Vno nun's arbl-
fleet 0 . nntlon docs
. :v a now nri.ii.
In rnn . " nirHllon
cooperate with con-
A ,.
wv "'""ion
hh'?,vc1 a standing
i."-' 'a mlniiin. i.i.i...i
nit', wuillllu
Nan . .
v at ,.,1 ":" "( nut immc
ti dln Z ' llctcrmed the
"'P'omacy, ulc qunrrcl.
ing, bickering and chaos in
Washington" under the new
deal, Dewey said that President
Roosevelt, in his speech of last
Saturday night "dug out and
dusted dff nil the broken prom
iscs of 1032, 1038 and 1040 and
then doubled them.
Those promises were not
kent. tho candidate continued
"and there was no basis for be
lieving that others would bo.
"Hule For Sale"
"Mv onnonent. In Ills desper
ate effort to win himself 16
continuous yenrs .in, .tho White
House, is offering to sell our
government for $1000," Dewey
said. Membership In the Ono
Thousand club of democratic
rnnlrllnitnrs included "special
privilege," he said, and the
right to "have ten with the
i.ll l.f .!, iwlilln Hnlmn'
j,. i-m.itTiii. in n,..- ..
on Thursday' afternoon,"
Tho OOP nfesldcntinl nomi
nee repeated charges he made
ln Boston Inst night that the
democratic party "is being cap
tured by n coalition of subver
sive forces, including new u.m
ers, members ot tho political
(Continued on Page Two)
Ivory, COP and demo chairmen,
respectively; expressed sntisiac
tlon with tho support given by
party workers, and voiced pride
in tho local campaigns made this
year, which, they pointed out,
have been kept on a high plane
and should be effective in bring
ing out a well-informed vote on
Tuesday.
Most observers believe senti
ment Is pretty well crystallized
in the county by this time on the
national election, but neverthe
less the next four days will be
devoted to final appeals. District
and local contests, . which were
rather Into In getting started, are
now going strong, and H is pos
sible the last-minute, efforts n I stale . iiasUWSUeJocaUJi
these' "contests' may ' ch'angelHe'
outcome of some of them.
Lowell Stockman, the tower
ing second district republican
congressman, was hero today
campaigning right along with
C. J. Shorb, the democratic can
didate for the second congres
sional scat. . Klamath county lias
the largest volume of vote ot
Gillenwaiers
Now Full Colonel
Theodore R. Glllenwnters,
former Klamath county district
attorney, has been promoted
from lieutenant-colonel to full
colonel, hcadquurtcrs ot the
army air forces weather wing
announced lliursoay. ,
Col. Glllcnwatcrs hns been
deputy wing commander sta
tioned at Ashcvillc, N. C. Ho
was made second in command of
the weather wing, the promotion
roniliiL' nnon his return from a
40,000-mile visit to weather
service installations on four con
tinents a little over a month ago.
Pvt. John Tripp ,
Hurt in France
Pvt. John F. Tripp, 10, son
ot Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tripp,
216 Old Fort road, -has been
wounded In action in France,
according to word received from
the war department. His In
juries occurred October 14, but
details havo not been -available.
, John, former Herald and News
carrier, enlisted August 3, 1043,
completed his training nt Fort
Monde, Md., and was sent to
Italy with Mark Clark's Fifth
army. He took part In the in
vasion on, the Anzlo beachhead
and tho buttle ot . Naples. Ho
was transferred a short time
ago to n fighting unit In France.
John was with the- 36th en
gineers. His father operates the
Home garage on tho Old Fort
road.
Wounded
anv county in the big second
congressional district, which em
braces everything east of the
mountains.
Four Compete
Considerable heat has been
cencrated tho last few days In
the mayoralty race, wun iour
candidates ..competing tor inc
vote. This big field indicates
tho probability that a plurality
rather - than a majority, may
elect the mayor for the next four
years.
wot only do ruamatn county
voters have a lot of candidates
on which to voto Tuesday, but
they will ,li(vc. a part . in . de-;
termining the fate' of numerous
P ISLANDS
T
Flight Appears Only
Reconnoitering
. Operation
L i v AW4 U
Pvt. John F. Tripp
campafgiiing liai'been done brr
anv. measure cxceDt the "little
Townsend bill, and the 'school
sUDDort amendment
Tho latter issue has attracted
unusual interest. Wyatt Padgett,
legislative chairman for the
county group ot the state teach
ers' association, has directed an
active - campaign in behalf of
this measure, and said today that
Parent-Teachers association, in
particular, have given effective
aid to the cause he represents.
The state taxpayers associa
tion and others are opposing the
proposal on a statewide basis,
and have extended their opposi
tion into this county in various
ways. The measure is sponsored
by the urcgon Teachers associa
tion.
Allies Clear
Yugoslav Area
LONDON, Nov. 2 UP) Bitish
troops and partisans have cleared
100 miles of the Yugoslav dal
motion const, Including the major
harbors ot bp 1 it, Mctkovic and
Qlibronlk (Ragusa), the German
communique announced today.
After the landings, the com
munique said, "our protective
formations detached themselves
to prepared mountain positions
In the coastal strip according to
orders." . .. I
Reds Sweep Over
Tisia River Bank
LONDON, Nov. 2 (IP) Rus
sian troops have completely
cleared the left bank of the
Tiszn river in their drive on the
Hungarian capital ' of Budapest,
Moscow announced tonight. .
The brondcast communique
said the red army had captured
the former chief ot the Hungar
ian general staff, Col.- Gen.
Janus .Voresz, ' .
Britons Enter
Port of Salonika
ROME, Nov. 2 (IP) British
forces have entered the Greek
seaport city of Salonika, where
they were received enthusiast
ically by tho populace, allied
headquarters announced today.
Tho Germans announced yes
terday they had evacuated the
city, Greece's second largest and
the principal seaport on tho
Balkan peninsula, It is approxi
mately 100 miles northwest of
Athens.
Bulletin
LONDON, Nov. 2 (P) More
than 17S German planes were
ahoi down today In orie of the
war'a greatest aerial battles at
- revived Luftwaffe.- built
around - jet-propelled - ' planet,
challenged American bombers
and fighters over oil iargoit in
the rolch.
- By The Associated Press
Japan melted down a confus
ing and contradictory series of
reports Thursday into one ac
count that .American Superfort
resses reconnoitered over Tokyo
Wednesday, dropped no bombs
but panicked some of the people
before flying back to bases pre
sumably in the Marianas.
The account, excent for identi-
iicatlon of the planes as B-20s.
was given official enemy status
by Kenichl Kumagai, vice chief
ot japan s air defense general
neadquarters today.
No Confirmation "
Headquarters of the . 20lh
American air force, which nrovi-
ously has announced all B-29
raids within a matter of hours
after the bombs fell, said noth
ing. This would tend to indi
cate, it tne big bombers were
over Tokyo, that they were en
gaged in reconnaissance.
Kumagai, 'in a statement
broadcast to the Japanese people
and recorded in the' United
states by the federal communi
cations commission, saidr
1 - Onlv Reconnoiterina - -
"The enemy activity at this
time was confined to a recon
noitering flight. However, it is
cognizable that the tenddncy to
carry oui air raids against Ja
pan is ever increasing.1'. i.- it-
- . ..- .. .- - . -.'
uDviousiy ne was referring to
If .At i at
tacks - on Japanese industrial
areas, principally on Kyushu.
Kumagai-said -appearance of
the planes cause air raid alarms
in Tokyo and its port of Yoko-
nama. .
He reprimanded some of the
people because they . "lost their
calmness."
Carigara Totters
Under Gl Pressure;
Jap Posts Waver
By MURLIN SPENCER
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. Philippine!,
Nov. 2 (A') The village of Carigara tottered today, with elements
of one American force actually in the town and another probably
lest tnan two miles away. . .
The last Japanese concentration east of the Leyte mountains
was on the verge of falling to unitt of the first cavalry division,
reportedly already battling for control of the town; and its south
ern defenset were being pressed tighter by the forward push of
the 24th division, moving northwest from the Jaro area.
The cavalrymen first entered Carigara from the east more
than a week ago during a patrol action after their amphibioui
landing on the nortp coast but
nuu to ruure wnen mure power-
End of Antwerp Fight
Looms As Germans'
. Forced Out "
MERRILL Sale of the D. E.
Alexander ranch at Adams
Point, to Dale West of Merrill
and Louis Lyons of Malin, was
announced Tuesday by the
Klamath stockman.
The 400-acre ranch located on
the Merrill-Malin highway, is
one-of the best known in Klam
ath county and during recent
years has been devoted largely
to the production of potatoes
and extensive cattle feeding op
erations. ;
., Rancher Massacred;;'
, The 'ranch has an interesting
history. It was owned in the
early . days before the Modoc
war, by William Body, who was
massacred, along with his two
sons and son-in-law, a man by
the name of Shearer, in an In
dian uprising in the hills just
above where the present ranch,
buildings now standi ii
Later .-Mrs.,B ad y-jnarried
Mike Hartery, a ranch employe,
and the place became - known
as the Hartery-Body .ranch.- ' A
year or; two before the Modoc
war, Jesse D. Carr bought the
property, Carr was known as
one of the biggest operators in
the basin and his name is syn-
. (Continued on Page Two)
U. SW Britain Disagree
On Postwar Air Policies
By JAMES J. STREBIG '
Associated Press Aviation Editor
- CHICAGO, Nov. 2 OP) A
broad difference in opinion over
tho major goal of the internation
al civil aviation conference be
tween the United States and
British Empire nations was em
phasized today in the statements
of policy by three delegation
chiefs. . ... .
Stating America's position ior
the first time, Adolf A. Berle Jr.,
assistant secretary of state, de
clared against' the Canadian
plan supported in general by
the rest of the British common
wealthfor a world air trans
port authority with power in the
economic and commercial fields.
He .described the unite.d states
view of .the 51-nation meeting
briefly as follows:
An-opportunity to assure an
nations equal rights in the air.'
-! The time and place to work
but agreements for air routes
between nations, ' . ..
The time and place to lay tne
groundwork for a new interna
tional accord on technical phases
of aviation. ...
. The nlnce to begin developing
an international authority "a
splendid dream" which might be
achieved at some tuture time.
r. n Howr. chief of the Cana
dian delegation, restated his
country's plan for a world
version of the United States civil
nnrnnniitire hoard.
Viscount Swlnton, leading
Britain's delegation, took a mid
dle view which aimed at the
Japs Eye Attack
On Home Islands
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 (fP)
A Tokyo broadcast today said
inrllrorllv Hint the Jaoancsc ex
pect an American invasion of
norvnui ii iiippuu.
A Dnmcl riisnntch. recorded
by, the federal communications
commission, quoted a mim ran
mmirinr "nt a front line base in
the northern tip of Japan" as
saying "training before the en
emy landing is more Important
than sacritice attcr tne enemy
landing."
The occasion was the delivery
of several tanks, mado partiHlly
of scrap iron and copper donated
by the "boundless benevolence"
of Emperor Hirohlto.
l "If tho enemy approaches,"
the tank commander promised,
"wo will destroy him at the
beach and case the mind of his
imperial majesty."
eventual world authority view of
Canada, but- left room for in
terim bi-lateral agreements to be
worked out in accord with the
convention groundwork to be
laid nere.
Gen. Kesselring
Reported Hurt
AT THE SWISS -ITALIAN
FRONTIER,- Nov.- 2 P) Field
Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring,
commander of German forces in
Italy, was reported wounded to
day in an allied strafing attack
similar to the one which cost
Marshal Erwin Rommel his life
in France.- ' '
Information from Italy said
the marshal's automobile over
turned near Bologna after an
allied plane machineeunned it.
ine extent of nis injuries was
reported not yet ascertained.
ful Japanese forces appeared:
The 24th division, its advance
slowed by a series of road
blocks, met a new obstacle be
yond the village of Tunga,
where . the retiring Japanese
blew up a bridge and thus add
ed further delay to the Ameri
can difficulties.
The Carigara fight if won
would open the coastal road to
the - town of Pinamopoan and
thus permit, closing of the ene
my's only vehicle route across'
the' mountains from his rein
forcement point at Ormoc bay
on the southwest coast. It was
the principal action of the last
24 hours of Leyte.
Far to the south of this twin
pronged advance, units of the
24th corps were pushing west
straight across the jungled hills.
Some were reported half across
the island, their objective of at
tacking the Japanese at Ormoc
bay now mostly downhill from
their painfully-gained, positions.
Terrain rather than the enemy
aDDarentl v - of fered most of the
obstacles there. No. important
fight had been reported by these
units since the last strong pock
ets of 'Japanese were wiped out
in the 'Dagami and- :Catjnon: -Jiill
areas, (, ''"
Canadian Head
Of Defense Quits
OTTAWA, Nov. 2 (IP) Can
ada's Defense Minister Col. J. L.
Ralston resigned today, protest
ing against the government's re
fusal .to compel military -conscripts
to serve overseas.. Lt.
Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton' suc
ceeds him. -
Use of the home defense army,
numbering about 70,000 men,
has been an issue in Canada sev
eral years and brought on the
crisis in Prime Minister W. L.
MacKcnzie King's cabinet. Un
der the government program,
men called to compulsory mil
itary service may not be sent
overseas unless they volunteer.
In general, opposition to total
conscription has come from
French-speaking Quebec. -
Nazi Airforce
Battles Yanks
LONDON, Nov. 2 (VP) For the
first time in a month the Ger
man - airforce came ud in
strength today, .challenging Am
erican Domoers pounamg me
reich.- Incomplete reports to
night' showed at least 38 Ger
man planes were shot down in
two' separate air battles over
Merseburg and Bielfeld.
Hy WILLIAM FRYE r-
LONDON, Nov. 2 (P)Ame
ican infantry, fighting through
the dense Hurtgen forest south'
east of Aachen, advanced from
one to nearly two miles in a
new attack today, overran two
villages and reached a third.
British commandos and Canad
ian infantry assaulting dike
girded Walcheren island were in
the last phase of the battle to
uncover Antwerp. They fanned
out rapidly along the two to
three mile wide Dune zone and
flushed the Germans out of all
but the northern outskirts of
the . port of Flushing , (Vllssin-
gen).
. Stiffer Battle ..:
Meeting stiffened rearguard
resistance in the drive toward
Rotterdam, however! Americans
and Poles were forced to give
up their narrow -hard-won
bridgeheads over the Mark river,
last barrier before the Mass
(Meuse) and Hollandsch Diep
bridges. - - -. - ;
With heavy preparation by ar
tillery, stealthily placed .the last
two weeks, -infantrymen of tha
U. S. first army hopped off to
the attack through Hurtgen for
est this morning. They overran
the village of Germeter and
reached tne town of . Hurtgen,
seven miles southwest of. Duren
on the road to Cologne for a?
gain of a mile. The village of
Vassenack was overrun, in an-'
(Continued on Page Two) ,
Junction Made :
, - 1 - v
In Italy Area "
ROMEi Nov. - -2 () Polish'
and Indian- troops, advancing
several . miles northward-, from'
; captured Predappio toward ,the, .
iB-t,A7isv.- i.';T;...n;.-"3;;AiM f
Forli, have joined a bridgehead
won by other eighth army forces
advancing across the Ronco
river, -above Meldola, 'allied
headquarters announced , today.
Meldola is seven miles south
of : Forli.- Steady progress in
expanding the bridgehead just
to the north has been reported
since it was won early in the
week: Other eighth army troops
some-days ago were reported
only two miles from Forli along
the : Ronco immediately east
ward. -'.- . -
" South of Bologna on the cen
tral sector American troops
cleared the Germans from the
village of Casetta, the commun
ique said. ' ' . .
Marines Sight ;
First Snow
Many a veteran of the South
Pacific saw his first snow in al
most three years as big-as-dollar
flakes fell at the Marine Bar
racks between 8 and 9 o'clock
Thursday morning. '
The flakes melted as they fell
on the wet ground, but lent a
winter atmosphere to the marine
plant as snow clung to pine trees
and covered roof tops. For
some of the men from the deep
south it was their very first
snow. It was like a messags
from home for the kids from-up
Minnesota, and Michigan way,
and talk ran high of ski slides;
toboggan runs and skating ponds.
"Miss Klamath"' Goes To Portland
1
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Y I- hi I , :
laiirfj , '
Jean Bolin, chosen "Mist Klamath" In the' Junior chamber of commerce-sponsored contest latt
September, left Wednesday for Portland where she entert the finals for the title of "Mist Ore
gon." Two candidates go to Portland each week where they are graded.'Mis Oregon" will b
chosen from the contestants In time to start work on the 6th War Loan scheduled for Novera.
ber 20. Left to right, Myrle C. Adami, Eth Wa r Loan chairman, Andrew Collier, Klamath court,
ty war finance chairman. Mist Bolin, Vorn Ow em, co-chairman of the finance committee. Mam
Tin Hixon and John Sandmeyer of the Junior chamber. Mitt Bolin will broadcast Friday at 9:30
p. m. over KGW, Owens announced. ' ' ' , ...-,!'..'