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'Sfi'Bu-to.. GOVERN
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,ZVESTIA.j.nu.lMill- -rtlclo
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J'l ... ' n.wrv ii life
tilt d o; iis
ffi-b, America com-
crtln "H has bee
this fake P ol will be
;,li!cd l Iho very lust moment
. ire election, with the purpose
invr no time for denial or
pollution." It adds tlml the
-m-liiclsl. pro-German ties ot
I'-.. financed Dowey
Stction campaign oro well
i. iJ,,l,. In n lot of Other
.ropcan-mindod nonsense.
liMtHICAN voters, rouwi
Pmorc intelligent thnn any
ropean despot can realize,
that when Izvestia speak
;ilheVOIi;t ut biflun ana
Russian communist puny wo
at.
Admiring Russia's fighting
ijiim, hoping Unit wc will be
:t to work Intelligently with
ir in the long years to come,
wins; mat wo wii-l. oc uniesi.
. iti. in Knnrio rriMMiiiM.
ON US, liiuuhlng at the
."jrdity oi ..uus uisi-nuiuiic
'Al'h lha l nwprihfrl In llw. Hi..
slitan nartv. Amerieimjf never-
Itn RESENT this official
cian allemnt to HUTT INTO
-R POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
FWllnif n Hr,..i,I..Ml It OUR
Ursi. It Is NONE Of RUS-
IS the Pacific, a bloody battle
I impcndlnu ot Ormoc, on
wMlcrn sldo of Loytc, where
Jan have been liindlni! rein-
ffmcnts under cover of nlilht.
' brinttiiiK up our heavy
'utry. incrc tins already
fli one "banzai" chiirgo led by
wowaving Jap oil Iters whose
d result has heon In Ip&vn
dead Japs on the field.
These charifes nrn thn imml
p that tlio Japs know they're
In "considerable force,"
hi qi.,.,.. .. ...
it " I i me wcuiner
r- sv, ollu H (iircci nit wax
p on (he control house of the
. .. v.uuin, wun anoincr
l On a Jan kKIm ! a t.
fatten. '
'0"nn,lol of super-
Li Z . 18 11,0 second
hi!?portant S0lircc of J"P
(tta.in. """V"1"'- oie the
S ulnty of these
Ti, t' '
h( r J P" ,ncrvously report
too T!nollcrlnK "'KhU over
L,..i, " """"i purpose or
nlrFECTIVE UOMBING.
:nsnll1c. M""s ll,of new
Iraile front "n,r"nna' "
.f'w defense
(it at i nuerciam, Tho
tAnlrWcr1 ls 'nour hands,
wi out rofdr,,,nll' Gorman
IConlln, ;.i we win Be
iuii i-atie Three)
U.S.DOUGHBQYS
OPEN BARRAGE
AGAINSXJAPS
Yanks Annihilate Nip
"Banzai" Attack
On Leyte , '
By MURLIN SPENpEh
GENERAL MaeAHTIIUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, rhilipplnes,
Nov. (!') (Via Army Radlu)
American 135 millimeter long
turns sent 400 rounds of hlKh ex
plosives whining Into Japanese
concentrations at dawn today as
Yank Infantrymen annihilated
a "banzai" attack In another sec
tor. The artillery barrage In the
Ormoc urea possibly presages a
bloody fight for that Japanese
reinforcing point on the west
coast of Leyte Island and pos
sibly the final battle of the Leyte
campaign.
Vloltnt Clash
Entrenched Japanese, estimat
ed at (100 to 2000 and including
recently landed reinforcements
that crossed a mountain chain
from Ormoc, clashed violently
with advancing American Infan
trymen of the B6lh division west
of Dagaml, Important Central
valley road Junction,
Fighting was bitter. The Amer
icans were pinned down for two
days until light tanks, flame
throwers and grenadiers were
hurled against the Japanese.
Then the Japanese mado a futile
"banzai" counterattack, led by
sword-waving officers. The bod
ies of at least 300 Japanese lit
tered the battlefield,
V. Btraddl Trail ';;
Units of the American I Oth
corps straddled the Dagaml-Jaro
trail, effectively trapping the
survivors.
Plnnmopoan, strategic com
munication center on Lcytc's
northwest coast, was captured
yesterday by veterans of the
American 24th division who Im
mediately headed south toward
Ormoc, 20 miles away.
South of Ormoc the enemy's
lost escape port the 7th Infan
try division was about 12 miles
away from a 14-mile drive from
captured Baybay.
B
SINGAPORE TARGETS
WASHINGTON, Nov! 6 (VP)
Striking audaciously by day
light, B-20 Superfortresses plas
tered military targets at Singa-
fiorc In ono of two raids yes
erday by the aerial dread
naughts. The once mighty bastion of
British naval might in the Pa
cific was visited in "substantial
force" while sister ships lashed
out heavily at an oil refinery
In Sumatra.
Nona Lost
None of tho Supcrforts was
lost to enemy action In cither
blow.
The giant bombers of the 20th
air force which since early sum
mer have ranged from Man
churia In the north to Sumatra
In the south, and which have
hit directly at tho Japanese
homo Islands, ycstcrdaydlrcctcd
their might at the strategic tip
of tho Mnlnv peninsula which
(Continued on Pago Three)
'$0 Takes Over Operation
,f Klamath Service Center
'" X kin 00 ''K"ilzatlons,
center oW,n ?' "l serv'
vrmk "iti him ii n m
Ematti Pall. . . resiooni ot
litv . " .no way would iho
N l d IhM C CC,,t0r D0
Iwhlch h tho bar,
Renern,,ri "speol" nave
NcoS'",y contributed,
E, past, 10 opcrnto as In
he. cookie0 cotfcc' 8and
di!SlC," milk will
tapitalltT
F!i'.oy. cornlnn Inin vi.
t'lnitsiff 1 " W this area bv
flthZi ot th0 armod
6 fui's to be bud
geted to tho community," Foley
explained.
''There will bo no ehango In
tho policy of the center and tho
'business as usual' sign Is out,"
the director concluded.
Foley explained that the na
tional policy of USO has a con
tract with the federal govern
ment, army and navy and Red
Cross, which specifics that USO
must operate along certain lines,
USO can only operate In the
United Stales, South America
and Hawaii, This explains,
Foley pointed out, why many
service men with overseas rec
ord, mention the fact that USO
was not available in other parts
of the world.
Llttl Chang Needed
In thn case of Klamath Falls,
tho USO directors find It neces
sary to make little change in
the operation of the service
ctnter. Plans for tho new cen
ter, to bo housed In tho Blanas
building at lUh and Walnut, will
not be made until the arrival
(Continued on Page Three) ;
Reclamation Heads Change
" j v f ' '
W' it
Picture shows B. E. Haydep, veteran rsclemation superin
tendent here who is retiring, and Layton Stephens, project en
gineer, who will be acting-iuperintendent immediately and has
been recommended as Hayden's successor.
.
T
B. E. Hayden, since 1929 su
perintendent of the Klamath
Reclamation project and for 42
yeurs connected with the fed
eral reclamation service, i dis
closed today he will retire at
the end of this year. '
Hayden will tnke his. annual
leave, beginning Tuesday, ex
tending to the date his retire
ment starts. Ho has not yet
reached retirement age. but is
retiring voluntarily before legal
necessity.
: Stephens Rocommondod
Layton Stephens, for many
years engineer ior iho Klamatn
project, has been recommended
as Hoyden's successor. He will
be acting superintendent until
the retirement ot Hayden be
comes officially effective.
Hayden began work for the
reclamation service on Decem
ber 12, 1902, on survey work in
(Continued on Page Twelve)
Hot Mayor Race
Indicated Here
The hot mayor race, with
four candidates battling for
votes, topped interest in local
politics today. Main street
seethed with rumors and politi
cal talk, and It was generally
agreed that the outcome ot this
contest Is anybody's guess.
One candidate, Ed Ostendorf,
issued a brief statement to the
effect that he has not pledged
himself to appoint any certain
person as police chief. All of
the candidates, Including Osten
dorf, Walter Wicscndongcr, M.
L. Shepherd and 'Kenneth Mc
Lcod, have Indicated they in
tend to change the police chief
here, and Police Chief Earl
Hcuvcl has Indicated he doesn't
want the Job, anyhow.
Tho situation In all other lo
cal contests appeared rolatlvely
quiet.
Lt. Emil Poiueek
Reported Missing
MAL1N LI. Emil Potucck,
28, U. S. army air force pilot, is
reported missing over Germany,
according to word received this
weekend by the flier's wife, Mrs,
Mario Wnlklns Potucck, and his
parents, Mrs. Anna Potucck ot
Molln, and Joo Potucck of Bo
nanza. Lt. Poiueek Is a graduate of
Malin high school. He had been
overseas six months when word
come that he foiled to return
from a mission which occurred
within tho past week. Irt oddl
tlon to his wife and parents, Lt.
Potucck has two brothers, Joo
Jr., and George, nnd three sis
ters, Mrs. Lydia Huff and Mrs.
Wayne Holbrook, all of- Malin,
and Anna Potnok of Tulclake,
Marine Birthday
Observance Set
Friday, November 10, marks
the lGOth anniversary of the
founding of tho United States
marine corps, oldest military
force in the nation.
' In honor of the birthday,
the Marine Barracks, will ob
serve "open house" for the
public, beginning at 2 p. m.
Visitors will be able to inspect
the entire barracks and see a
parade ot 4:15 p. m. A pro
gram is being arranged, de
tails of which will bo an
nounced later.
ALEXIS CARRELL
BY
PARIS, Nov. 6 W) Dr. Alex
is Carrel, 71. surgeon, biologist
ond Nobel Prize winner who was
associated with Charles A. Lind
bergh in the invention of a me
chanical heart, died yesterday.
Two months ogo, Mrs, Carrel
denied published reports, attrib
uted - lo French government
agencies, that Carrel had been
suspended from his post os direc
tor of the Carrel Foundation for
the Study of Human Problems,
and said lie was at homo, serious
ly ill. J. W. Boucher, director of
the cablnct'for the prefect of po
lice, had declared the Carrel
Foundation was established with
Vichy government funds in
1941. .
Grieved
Friends described Correl os
grieved over accusations made
(Continued on Page Three)
POLLS GIVE
rarsiM
LEAD N U
1
Four Out of Five See
Demo Victory In
Election
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (VP) Four
of five nationwide polls show
President Roosevelt slightly
ahead of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey,
his republican opponent, on elec
tion eve.
Tho final gallup poll, released
today, gives Roosevelt 51. S per
cent and Dewey 48.5 per cent of
the civilian popular vote. Gal
lup's 48 individual state surveys
show 18 states with 165 electoral
votes sure for Roosevelt and 10
states with 85 electoral votes
sure for Dewey. The remaining
20 states, with 281 electoral
votes, are classed as "pivotal
states" in which neither candi
date leads by more than 3 per
cent.
The Fortune Survey of Public
Opinion gives President Roose
velt 53.6 per cent of the popular
vote as compared to Dewey's
40.4 per cent. These figures
were compiled from answers to
"attitude questions."
A secret ballot poll conducted
by the survey gave the president
52.5 per cent and Dewey 47.5
per cent.
Emil Hurja, associate publish
er of Pathfinder Magazine and
who has been identified with re
publican political activity this
year, said a poll which he super
vised in 28 counties in 15 states
indicated Dtwey's election by
an electoral vote of-364 to 167
with the New York governor
gettting 52 per cent of the popu
lar vote.
Other polls were1 unchanged
(Continued on Page Three)
Mrs. Trafton
Killed in Crash
Mrs. A. M. Trafton, well
known Dunsmuir resident and
wife of a Southern Pacific con
ductor, was killed instantly
Thursday afternoon in an auto
mobile accident south of Dorris
on the Weed-California high
way. The couple was en route to
the northern section of Shasta
county to hunt when their car
overturned three miles east of
Grass Lake. Mrs. Trafton was
pinned beneath the machine.
Mrs. Trafton is survived by her
husband and one son, Lt. Irving
Trafton, U. S. naval air force.
A second son, Lt. Armand E.
Trafton, was killed with the
army air forces in England just
one year ago.
Postal Receipts
Increase $7174
Postal receipts for the month
of October, tins year, were ?21,
309.34, according to Burt E.
Hawkins, postmaster. This shows
on increase of $7174.10 or 50.753
per cent over October of last
year.
These figures also show a sub
stantial increase of $2449.49 over
September of this year. It was
thought the main reason for the
increases was the Christmas
mailing rush to service men and
women overseas.
Izvestia Says FDR Victory
Certain; Tells of "Plot"
MOSCOW, Nov. 6 (P) The
soviet government newspaper,
Izvestia, in on article headlined
"The Election of Roosevelt is
Guaranteed," said yesterday
there were rumors thot republi
can interests might stage a lost
minute "fokc plot" against Gov.
Thomas E, Dewey's life and
charge it was instigated by
American communists.
Tho unsigned two-column sur
vey of tho American election as
serted such a rumor was circu
lating among foreign correspon
dents in Moscow. It declared
that "republican bosses , . . un
derstand failure is imminent"
and said that "under these cir
cumstances there is no wonder
. . . . tho republicans in despair
might resort to a big adventure"
in the hope of winning votes by
"scaring people with tho com
munist danger."
No Comment
(Gov. Dewey, reached In Al
bany, had no comment. . Presi
dent Roosevelt was in seclusion
in Hydo Park.)
"One should not forget that
history includes- a number of
such insolent, crude provoca-,
tions, beginning with a faked
document ascribed to commun.
ists, which appear on the eve of
parliamentary elections in some
democratic countries, up to the
burning of tho Reichstag In Ger
many," Izvestia said.
Plot Prepared
According to the rumors, Iz
vestia said, "the ' fake 'plot'
agoinst Dewey is being prepared
by the republican party with the
responsibility for the plot fixed
on American communists," add
ing: "The rcoson for this provoca
tion is clear to make millions
of voters jump in a different di
rection. It has been reported
this fake plot will be realized at
the very last moment before
election, with tho purpose to
leave no time for denial or in
vestigation." The paper declared that
"never before In the history of
the United States have observers
on the eve of a presidential elec
tion been so sure of the results
as they are now, because so clear
is the composition of forces sun-
porting each of the two candi
dates.'. ,
Battle Rages
In Suburbs
Of Budapest
LONDON. Not. E (IP) Furious fighting raged in the suburbs
of shell-torn Budapest today as heavy Russian infantry forces
joined armored vanguards which had penetrated the defenses of
the Hungarian capital from the north and south on the east side
of the Panube river.
The Germans said they had recaptured the East Prussian rail
town of Goldap, 19 miles inside the reich, after surrounding the
place. The Russians at midnight reported violent German coun
terattacks staved off there.
i Jh? ,nemy a'd also that a counterattack had started south
ot Budapest and that the capital was not yet under a major Rus-
ian RKKaillt- Tho rH arm-, nra.
leas At DUaaoeSt ueciarea regrouping and rein-
-iktsjy Romania
I STATU Tt MlttS
Russian armies are now ham
mering at the gates of Buda
pest. Arrows show towns cap
tured, opening way to the Hun
garian capital. The black line
indicates the battltfront. now
closing in on the city. .
Morise Francis House, 45, for
16 years employed as brakeman
for Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany, died at 6:15 p. m. Sunday
at Hillside hospital from injur
ies sustained earlier in the day
at the old camp eight miles
from Keno.,
House was working with a
crane lifting logs when the
crane toppled over, pinning
House to the ground. Fellow
workmen attempted to free
House and finally used a torch
to 'cut the crane away from his
body. The accident occurred at
2 p. m. Ward's ambulance
rushed House to the hospital.
In addition to his wife, Violet,
House is survived by his two
sons, Sgt. Vernon Eugene
House, somewhere in the South
Pacific, Sgt. Ervin Dale House,
stationed .in England,, one
daughter at home, Marian Fran
ces,' 1814 Etna, and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie House, At
lanta, Mich
Final rites will be" held Wed
nesday at 3 p. m., from Whit
lock's chapel with interment in
Linkville cemetery.
South Sixth
Exchange Sold
Sale of 50-foot frontage on S.
6th at Plum and occupied by
the South . Sixth Street Ex
change, was announced this
weekend by Mrs. Clara Mc
Pherren, widow of W. H. Mc
Pherren who was killed in an
automobile accident September
27. Tho property was pur
chased by Seth Waters, plumb
ing contractor, for a consider
ation in the neighborhood of
$7000.
Harry Roland and A. H.
Wpntherford have purchased
stock of the Exchange which
McPherrcn operated for many
years and until tne nay ot nis
rtenth. He was the oldest used
goods operator in the city. Mc
Pherren purchased the S. 6th
and Plum corner from Joe Mc
Donald of this city some three
years ago. Mrs. McPherren sold
she planned to remain in Klam
oth Foils.
Germans Patrol
Allied Position
ROME. Nov. 6 (IP) The Get-
mans began aggressive patrolling
of allied positions in Italy today
and several nazi planes attocked
the Fifth army sector below
Bologna, but allied headquarters
said frontline positions were
virtually unchaneed.
The weather cleared a bit
after several weeks of heavy
rains, but mud and swollen
streams still hampered opera
lions. ... . . ,. . ;i
forcing for the final attempt,
The German radio announced
early today that soviet tanks
crashed into the southern met
ropolitan limits, only two miles
from the heart of the city, while
a Bucharest broadcast said other
red army Units, racing around
the eastern edge of the canital.
stormed the northern suburbs
through .Ujpest.
At the same time red armv
troops threatened to gain a
bridgehead across thei eastern
fork of the Danube, just south
of Budapest, and cross on to
narrow Scepel island which di
vides the river into two arms
for 30 miles southward.
The city's-German and Hun
garian defenders were being
captured at the rate of 1000 a
day in the powerful Russian en
circlement, Moscow announced.
Hungarian reports quoted by
Bucharest indicated the bulk oi
the nazi forces already were
neeing xo tne western part
(Buda) of the Danube-straddling
capital. . . .
Nazis oii Edge ,
Of Disaster,
Asserts Stalin
By JUDSON O'QUINN -
LONDON, Nov. 6 (P) Ger
many is 4 on the verge of catas-
iropne," Marshal Stalin declared
tonight in an address in whirh
he said Russia, the United States
and Great Britain have "made
pians lor a secure peace.
It is not enough to win the
war but we must make any fu
ture war impossible." thefDre-
mier declared "before a Moscow
mrong commemorating the 27th
anniversity of the Russian revo
lution. .
He hailed the invasion of
France as the operation which
enabled the red - army to drive
the Germans from Russian enil
and declared that 120 German
divisions had been destroyed dur
ing me year.
General Fegan
Visits Barrack
Major General. Joseph C. Fe
gan, commanding, general, de
partment of the Pacific for the
U. S. marine corps, left for his
San Francisco headquarters to
day after a weekend inspection
of the Marine Barracks.
General Fegan conferred at
length with Lt. Col. George Van
Orden, commanding officer at
the Barracks, and this morning
visited the chamber of com
merce to discuss community re
lationships with the installation.
He indicated special interest in
recent housing developments
promising to relieve, in part,
the housing shortage here.
Nazis Blow Up Haiti
Of Bridge Over
Meuse j
fly WILLIAM FRYE
LONDON, Nov. 6 (IP) Field
Marshal Gen. Walther von Model
drew his battered 15th German
army back over the Mass
(Meuse) river at Hoerdijk in
Holland today, leaving the allies
in possession of all but one
short stretch of the south bank.
The Germans blew up half
the spans of the bridge, one of
the longest in Europe, as Brit,
ish field officers declared tha
enemy army had been half de
stroyed in the hard-driving of.
fensive in west Holland that be
gan two weeks ago. Marshal
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's
21st army group held sway on
the south side for 50 miles, from
'S-Hertogenbosch to the sea ex
cept for a four-mile pocket at
Willenstad. .
65,000 Casualties
As the British and Canadian
armies drew up to the water
barrier 16 miles south of Rotter,
dam on a potential new assault
line, the British estimated that
65,000 Germans had been killed,
captured and wounded while
being drive northward from 24
to 15 miles. -
Declaring Field Marshal Wall
(Continued on Page Three) .
KILLED IN REICH
Two former Klamath Falbj
men were killed in action Oc;
tober 9, both on German soilj
relatives have been advised.
1st- Lt. Robert Bunnell, 23?
U. S. army infantry, and TSgt.
Claud E. Pollock, .were tho two
whose names were "to be added
to the memorial shaft of World
War 2 heroes.
1st- Lt. Robert ' Bunnell, 25.
U. S.'army infantry, was killed
in acuon, . ac-1
cording to word
received here by '
the youth's un-i
cle, Robert Ross, I
zioz mrall. L,t.j
Bunnell, son of.
Mr. and Mrs. R."
S. Bunnell now
making their
home at Sandy
near Portland,
was married
and leaves a .
wife, Maybelle,
who resides
with his parents.
.Bunnell TSgt.
was born in claud pi'ioek
Branson, Colo.,
and came here with his family
10 years ago. His father oper
(Continued on Page Three)
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Killed
COUNCIL TO MEET
The city council meets in
regular session tonight, Mon
day, at 7:30 o'clock and mat
ters carried over from the
October 30 meeting will be
continued, according to May
or John H. Houston.
, Is. . , '
mill I
1 nannellKllis
Lt. Robert Bunnell .
Election Information
. The public will be warmly welcome at- The Herald and
News offices on Tuesday, election night. The traditional
Herald and News blackboards will be in operation, bringing
latest information on national, state and local contests. Radio
station KFJI will broadcast from The Herald and News office,
and will cooperate in gathering election returns. '
"Telephone inquiries to the office will be welcomed. Tho"
number it 3124.
The invitation to the traditional election party at tho
newspaper office is cordially extended to people of all politic
cal faiths. The latch string is out.
Here is election information: 1 '
Polls Open 8 a. m. until 8 p. m.. but closed from 1 to J
p. m for lunch. All election boards will stay together at lunch.
Counting boards start work at 1 p. m., but no results announced
locally until polls close at 8 p. m.
Polling Places Complete lists will be found today on page 4.
Who Can Vote Only registered voters, and they must rote ;
at the polling place of the precinct In which they are registered.
The Ballot The ballot will Include the presidential tickets
of four parties, the state offices, district offices, Klamath county
offices, state and city measures, and Klamath Falls tf flees.-, -.