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im KM BTI H nn ul uu a lb m lews! 4 to wn r f . ... Hiiririuo n frank- ,,, tho Pacific wnr IK l '".exciting locluy. T ('"PL i Li.iniu l.t temporarily I1' ' , i, inrrciiUul ruiiiH, ... now tins been an- at Jims bflray their fenr of . . nifllll'K. 1 JC UIHjr Mlilll- fPOKTKD l t "J" aro ;, of our l " ' V. run over imurii oi ' . . ii n in uiivn ii i Hr" or I,. rXhm S'limn In nut his e dc.,c"'. ... in ullnit Hint ho ,"givu a FULL report if It Vl.nsell i.pih'"! to believe Hint l.nlnit the home font uu iimy K j mi possible "an such : I moralc-butUllDK power as iiftrt any Information that 1 0,.'wl. i, ulvim lo the Ail inciue""1"' jfcemy. . . the snmo Idea lirrnN ha I Acalnst considerable opposi te hi ""lllU"1 " Wf- t- the divisions l-iikku " lilt I I'S -KIIMW1I1H tll'IV tho most Important news In e world to the relative of the cn a these organizations. Even censorship seems to be .1. rfimi cinwlv to the new jwm. I. , .. -i i Moll linn "" - f ENSOnSUIP as lo CHINA Is even relnxlntt a little. It niiiiomicud today that mtrlcniis In Kweichow ana man provinces nuve uu.n u. ..j i Kviiciintc in the face ol IENACING Jan columns driv IidccDcr Into China toward the urm road. in imnortnnl section of the lurma rond between Kunming Id Chungking runs Ihrouiih wclchow. iiunan ties jyni eui i Kwcichnw. (Chinese prov- Ictt correspond roughly to our law.) 0 for In November, our car 1 rlcr nlnncs 111 the Philip. InMircii hnvc sunk or dumaKcd Ul Jan ships 4B ot them nisi rddny-nlone. "No wonder the laps are fiRhtliiK hard for HAIL Ir.AnC In tin. inlnrlnr. The present point is thai 1 wc n sink and damage ENOUGH I their ships, they will hnvc to Bit the Philippines battle with .t forces they HAVE THERE IOW, 'IlTErt and bloody fighting toes on in Europe with little fr.ince of oositlon, i Eisenhower's mirnose Is lo BESTROY the Geririnn nrmlcs, lid II makes no great difference HERE he does It. As nearly V wc can Indue from the (lis. alches, we have gained about a lie and n half in tho Aachen lolomic men. but Von Hiuul Icdl. the I1H7.1 commander there, Is been forced to COMMIT IEW RESERVES lo the fighting I Wo Imvo more reserves than o enemy has. It wo can force Sm to throw In his reserves anil n then destroy them we'll be kcomplislihig our purpose. In e long run, It makes little till- fence whether we destroy tne "man armies WEST ' ot tho nine or EAST of It, nE'RE heavily bombing Ger- man niiiy Cl'llll'ra 13ll.n. the western front as we did France. (If wn rnn slnn thnir ' . . . - . T,ra a n a reinforcements, If 11 hove them at a critical dis. p vintage.) Our continuing attacks on nazl " IHCl llp nri. 1'i.i.nrlnrl In In. m dlsnntclica to hnvc dlmln kiwi ui-ptitlu n.n ..rrini.....i nr In The ShantaCaHcatle Wonderland Mher November 2B, 1941 Max. (Nut, Z1) 41 Min 1'reclplUllan lait 21 faouri fltrekrn yer to dil .. . Nurmal 2.10 Lilt yer Forecmit; Mllfhily warmer. Wednesday Hhaotlnr Hour Oreran: Open ........ 7:31 Cloie TBlelake; Open .,.-....7:il Cloie PRICE 5 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1944 Number 10324 ISSTI E 10 AVENGE TQKYORAIDS Fighter Planes Bomb, Strafe Saipan B-29 Base Klamaths Buy Bonds By VERN HAUGLAND SAIPAN, Marianas Islands, Nov. 27 (Delayed) (I") In an obvious attempt to retaliate for the first D-20 rnld upon Tokyo, Japanese fighter planes twice bombed and strafed the Saipan Superfortress base today at a cost of at least 13 Nipponese aircraft. Thero was no announcement of American damage, No Commtnt Brig. Gen. Haywood Hansell Jr.. commander of the 21st bomber command, said he had no comment because the de fense of the island was not Ills responsibility, but at a press conference beforo the first Tokyo raid he warned that the Japanese would react Instantly and strongly to an auacx on their mainland, Inevitably In flicting some damage on this base, but at a high cost. The first attack was by two or three low-flying airplanes which bombed and strafed Sai pan shortly after midnight to day. The . raid lasted only a couple of minutes. . Dosen Strlk At noon more than a dozen fighters boldly struck, dropping a few bombs and stroflng Irom as low as 300 feet; Anti-aircraft gunners brought down ai icasi seven; P-38's and P-47's tackled the Japanese planes as soon as they left the ainli-alrcraft rongc ond brought down six more In running battles extending over several hundred miles to the north, olmost to I wo island in the Volcanic group. The early morning attack sent everyone running to rarely used shelters. Half a dozen men neglected to put on their shoes (Continued on Pago Two) Bombs Dumped on Supply Centers i nNnnN Nnv. 28 WP) At least 1000 RAF heavy bombers In prc-dnwn raids today hurled some 4000 tons of explosives on Ncuss and Freiburg, German supply centers Just back of the western front, as the sustained 72-hour assault on nazi front line rail and supply centers con tinued. Freiburg lies behind the Mul-house-Kolmar sector where the French first army and the Amer ican seventh army are pressing up to the western bank of the Klllnc. American iiunyj niinoVort r.nmmn ra 1 move mcnts at Of fenburg, north of Freiburg, yesterday. Mosqultos raided Berlin dur ing the night. r-L i f r V. -T 14 3 ' r MyrU C. Adams, (center), chairman of the 6th War Loan drive, smiles approvingly at a generous check supplied by the Klamath Indians when they purchased $125,000 worth of war bonds in this campaign. Left, Boyd Jackson, and to the right, Selden Kirk. The tribe already has the following planes named after them for previous bond purchasos, one bomber named "Klamath" and two fighters, "Modoc" and "Yahooskin." LEYTE BATTLE IT STANDSTILL IN OHG ID Yanks Hit Jap Bases On Cebu, Negros, . Davao rench-Canadian Soldiers "Mutineers', Says Army Man VANfYl! IL" F''cnch-Cnnadlnn draftee PPS S IltinnnH nl T,.rn n 1; who have demonstrated for rre days against the O" Sl'rvice net, were termed rWinCCrs" trillnv h n.. nr.v, "kesmnn. Thoi. ...... i. wanetn i,.i .J1' "j Ihtu .1 ",,u ueuii sioppuu ""O thev ri-rnn i i.i. .'.!,.. iJlieir officers. .. .noue of commons was i croi session to- r ' 'a a dcmlnlnn. inllltlrm K'lptlon la.ua after', dec" rM!on ti-i mti. iiifc iMKon,ta King that n id. 8 onablo" unity l" "It OllOSlinn U1.I I..J "y Canada". old B,? yar-old premier .hit ."""""ment last night J " he would n.i.. ii k. V?,0.1 s?1 "'ron9 aupport In Ken """.dene, to b. hiln.j 7l week. Me KluJ? ,hat thl upportmust ripllt liberal party. line Fc. jrTn '""""'raiions nt Ter- fiver ,. m"c" nortl o van ft rwre .tlle Inrt?cst of a ovro if1 ,n Hr't'sh Colunv my tnntl10 woc'!rt and tho 150n Z mnn cllmntod 10U0 me Particbated in a parade and slldown last night. Ho added that not more than 25 per cent of the troops in the area were Involved. "Don't Want lo Go" The spokesman said the griov .. nf tlm men at Terrace "bolls down to the fact they jusi cion i wnnv iu ku uvu,h.m, The sit-down accompanied a rlnmnnulrnllnn with rifles by a regiment of French-Canadian troops stationed at the village of Terrace on the northern British Columbia coast. Tho nrmed demonstration and sit-down was related by a cor the Prince Ru pert Daily .News, who said no violence or uhiiuiku who. ih. cd. Members of the unit had de manded from army headquarters In Ottawa that, they be return ed to their homes In Quebec and were awaiting a reply, the correspondent reported. Meanwhile at Vernon, B. C., far south and Inland, an indi rect answer to the draft protest ers was given by the army in the squelching of an attempted second demonstration there by military police, and the read ing of section seven of the king's rules and regulations of Canadn to every man in the Vernon camp. Bomb Dump Explodes, Kills 20-250 in English Village BURTON -ON -TRENT, Eng- land, Nov. 28 (IV) Estimates of the death toll in yesterday's ex plosion of an RAF underground bomb dump still ranged from 20 to more. than 250 today. A former British army officer de clared "enough bombs for hun dreds of- major raids on Ger many were detonated in tne blast. ; Scores of persons "simply dis- BUDAPEST BATTLE By DANIEL DE LUCE MOSCOW, Nov. 28 iP) The heaviest snowfall of the year following a severe sleet storm slowed down action today in the battle for Budapest. German and Hungarian troops were occupying defense positions along a 20-mile curve from the southern limits of Budapest to tho rail junction of Aszod on the northeast, front advices said. Situation Tense Tho Russian command made no mention ol progress on tnai front although reports here said the situation In the Hungarian capital was tense. Tho soviet war bulletin, how nvpr reiiortcd capture of 50 ad ditional hamlets in the puppet state of Slovakia. Red army columns in a six-mile penetra tion of northern Slovakia crossed tho 2700 foot Carpatnian moun tains along tho Polish frontier, nihnr units in the south ad- vnnr -H to within 11 miles of the big north Hungarian rail center ol snioraijaujneiy. Widen Front Thus Col. Gen. Ivan Petrov's fnnrih Ukraine army widened its front to 75 miles from a point west ot DUKla pass in mo norm down to the Hungarion frontier, and further Imperiled the enemy strongholds of Prcsvo and Kassa (Kosice). , , . Red army units only 25 miles to the cast already menace those two points. EmilPotucek Dies in Camp Lt, Emil Polucck, 26, B-17 Flying Fortress pilot and hus band of Mnric Potucek of Malin, is reported to have died In a German concentration camp on October 10, two days after he was shot down over the Helen, Word of Lt. Potucck's death was received Here tins wcoKcnu, He was reported missing Novenv ber 8. In addition to his wife, Lt, ri..ir u mirvlvod bv his moth er, Mrs. Anna Polucck of Malin, his father, Joo Potucek Sr., Bo nanzn; three sisters, Mrs. Anna Knoll of Tulelake, Mrs. Mildred Holbrook of Malin, and Mrs. Lydia Huff of Merrill, and two brothers, Joe Jr., of Bonanza, and George of Medlora. Before entering tho service. T.t Pntucck ODorntcd a small restaurant In Malin and also had been employed on various ranches In that section. Mrs. Potucek Is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Joe Wntkhis of Malin, with whom she has made her homo since her husband entered tho service. t appeared and until we can cuecK up on them we are un able to say whether they are dead or alive," a Burton po liceman said. The British Press association said the toll might mount to 250 or more. ' Air Raid Scare One bomb burst and the rush of air ' apparently acted as a detonatorXor,.all- tho. bombs in the dump, situated near Burton. This detonating wave under ground caused the earthquake effect felt several miles away, driving many persons to air raid shelters. The village vanished as the blast shook the entire country side like an earthquake, and sent bombs high into the sky. They rained down liko a large scale enemy bombardment. Scores Trapped Scores were trapped in wreckage. Rescuers tunneled through rubble to bring out saiciy 4U persons Burled in s munitions works near the scene Windows 32 miles awavwere broken by the explosion, one of Britain's worst in the war. Sec ondary blasts followed. uratcrs torn out bv falline oomos Hampered rescue work. ers. Hundreds of cows were re- ported killed. Buildings, trees and telephone poles in the vi cinity were hurled into the air and shattered. A cement factory was de stroyed. Buildings at the bomb depot simply disappeared. nothing like it was ever seen on a battlcfied," a witness said. "Roads are turned up Part of. a village is gone; the rest is rubble. It looks as though every house had a direct bomb hit. Everywhere there are craters." U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUAhTErtS, PKARL HARBOR, Nov. -ii (H) The fight for Leyte island slitnered to a virtual standstill in the Ormoc corri dor's mud as terrific rains fell, but J. S. planes based on the is land dropped 235 tons of bombs on Japanese air installations on Uebu and Negros, and at Davao Friday, Gen. Douglas MacArth ur's communique reported. Tne toll ol Japanese ships sunk or damaged this month in relentless American carrier plane raids on the Manila area stood at 151 today with upward revision of figures on Friday's strike which bagged 48 ships and 7 airplanes. Adds to bcore Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in a communique added two" ships sunk and 23 damaged to tne earlier score. . . :: : In the Friday strikes. Hellcat fighters and anti-aircraft batter ies on American surtace snips have downed 58 Japanese planes, in addition to 29 more destroyed and ii prooapiy dam- aeed on the ground. Adm. . Nimitz' communique listed the following vessels sunk in the attacks: Cruiser Sunk A heavy cruiser at Santa Cruz, on- the west coasf of Lu ion". ,. h-- .w One destroyer at Santa Cruz. Two old destroyers at Marin- duque island, about 100 miles southeast of Manila. One destroyer escort. (Continued on Page Two) BRUSSELS. Nov. 28 UP) British tanks and steel-helmeted trooDS ffuard the Belgian parlia ment today as the chamber of deputies gave Premier Hubert Pierlot a vote of commence. Street car workers had struck several hours earlier, demand- ing -resignation of the Pierlot government, and columns of marchers were reported converg ing on the tense capital to join in a national day ol protest tomorrow against Pierlot's re gime. British troops set out to dis arm one column ot boo march ers from Mons. First reports said 200 persons of the Mons delegation had surrendered arms without a struggle. The chamber of deputies voted 118 to 12 for Pierlot s bill vest ing him with extraordinary pow ers. Major Joe Foss Reporting .x "I Vi ' " ' It Msior Joe Foss, South Dakota boy who made good in the air In early days of South Pacific fighting, has reported for duty at the Marine Barracks. He will be on the Pelican itage at both matinee and evening performances of the 6th War Loan show Wednesday. Major Fosi will have duty here as assistant plans and training officer. Official Marine Corps Photo Major ae Foss to Headline Jamboree -Major Joe ' Foss, American ace, will speak at the 6th War Loan bond program at the Peli can Wednesday.' Announcement that the fam ous ' airman would appear at both matinee and evening per formances was made Tuesday from the Marine Barracks where Major Foss has reported for duty. BOND SHOW; : Matinee, 2 p. m.! evening performance, . B oiclock. No seats reserved. General ad mission, downstairs and bal cony, $100 war bond; loges, $500 war bond. Major Foss, first American ace to tie the enviable record of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker of World War 1 fame, will be in troduced by Lt. Col. George O. Van Orden, commanding offic er at the barracks. The 29-year-old marine, back from his second combat tour of the Pacific, didn't have a chance to better the 26-Jap-plane record he rung up during the early days of the island fighting. Squadron Commander ' Out for seven months and based on Emarau, some . 40D miles north of Bougainville, Maior Foss was squadron-com mander of VMF 115, a Corsair fighter group nicknamed "Joe's Jokers" for its famous leader. But, because of a decided lack of aerial opposition. "Joe's Jok ers" ' became a dive-bombing outfit. In contrast to the rough' days in 1942. when the Sioux Falls, S. D. flier was operating from newly-won Henderson field on Guadalcanal and had a fight on his hands every time he put his Grumman Wildcat in the sky, Foss and his crew operated over Rabaul and Kaveieng, (New Britain and New Ireland) from last February until September without ever seeing a Jap plane in the air. - ...... Wet Jap ' In fact, the only one he saw anywhere was in the water, having been snot down or crashed previously. Despite the antt - aircraft screen, light and medium stuff, which Joe says was terrific (Continued on Page Two) Where the First and Ninth Armies Battle r rlpp American first and ninth armies are fighting in the Cologne area. Latest reports show that ninth army men reached the Roer river at Kirchberg, 23 miles from Cologne, and that first army units reached inaen, thro milts irom tne noer. AFL Ignores CIO, UMW Rebuff NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 28 UP) The American Federation of La bor voted here today to ignore tne "rebuff from the CIO and the United Mine Workers and to renew AFL efforts to bring the two organizations back into the parent federation. - The convention action was taken by the 600. delegates after William Green had offered to resign the AFL presidency, if necessary, to restore labor sol idarity. U. S. THRUSTS NEAR ARSENAL P0ST0FS1 Northern Units Reach Roer River, Pound" Cologne Defense ; LONDON. Nov. 28 UP) Third army doughboys thrust within 84 miles of Saarbrucken, arsenal ' capital of the Saar, today while ' their comrades to the north reached the Roer river and ' punched deeper into the Ger-' man defenses guarding Cologne. : Simultaneously with the ad- vance on Saarbrucken, other third army units cut into Ger-: many at a new point alone a . seven-mile front, thrusting with- in 34 miles of Saarlautern. This fresh invasion gave Lt.-Gen. Pat-; ion s men a zu-mue front inside . the Reich, and control of more . than 40 square miles of Ger many. .. :. Wholesale Retreats . The. German radio announced wholesale retreats both north" and south of Strasbourg tonieht. The enemy said the U. S. third and seventh armies were push-' iiik armies into me aaar irom a . French triangle along the Rhine southeast of Hagenau and north of Strasbourg. ... .' ''Relentless enemy pressure ' south of the- Rhine-Rhone canal . has led to a planned withdraw-' al to shorten our lines," Berlin " said of the flight below the Alsa tian city. - . f lgnt In Streets Surging forward in ore-dawn blackness, first army infantry of -Lt. Gen. Courtney H. - Hodges fought into the streets of Inden and Jugersdorf and close to Lamersdorf. ' " The U. S. 9th army reached the Roer at Kirchberg, 23 miles . from Cologne and less than .a mile across the . muddy Roer from the citadel of Julich. . Unconfirmed . A French broadcast asserting v that' French units of the U. S.-7th- army had crossed the Rhine -north of Strasbourg had no con firmation. ' ... " .' ,'; - The nearest third army ap-'; proach to Saarbrucken, sprawl ing. steel and coal, center, was at captured . Seingbousse to. the southwest..: . :'' ; . First . army troops "won ; two thirds' of Langerwehe, -. last rim--portant enemy communications- point west of tnejtoer.-,;uerman.. (Continued on -rage xwoj- , . NIPS DRIVE NORTH TOWARD KWEIYAMG By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Nov. 28 (fl1) Japanese invasion forces have, thrust northward from captured Hochih into Kweichow province in their drive toward Kweiyang, provincial capital on the Burma road, it was reported . unoffi cially today. If correct, it represented the first Japanese invasion of Kwei chow province since the war be gan. All American and British nationals have been ordered to evacuate Kweichow province and unoccupied portions qf Hu nan province, - --- .. At, the nearest- point the Kweichow border is about 30 miles north of Hochih.. (A Tokyo broadcast previous-j ly had reported that Japanese troops had stabbed eight miles into Kweichow province). . The Chinese high command, said one Japanese drive from Lluchow had enveloped Hochih in advancing to less ' than 140 miles southeast of Kweiyang while, another enemy column was pressing toward the proving cial capital . from . Poaching, in Hunan. The evacuation order affected missionaries,. Red Cross work ers and representatives of va rio'us civilian agencies. 5758 Vessels Lost in War By Allies, Neutral Nations By KARL R. BAUMAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 P) Shipping losses of the allies and neutrals irom . tne begin ning of the war through 1943 totaled 5758 vessels aggregating 22.161.000 gross tons. This was officially announced today. The British government re leased through the office of war information a - vear bv vear breakdown of losses by Britain,' the allies, including the United States, and neutrals, presumably in the service of the United Nations. Simultaneously, ' the war shipping administration an nounced United States losses to taled 753 vessels aggregating 3, 311,000 gross tons. In the period covered by the announcement, the United States constructed about 30,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant ships, roughly offsetting the losses. The maritime commission in its construction reports used deadweight tons as a measuring, stick, while today's report spoke in gross tons. A merchant ship's deadweight tonnage is some where in the neighborhood of 30 per cent greater than its gross tonnage, - Terms Explained (Gross tonnage the entire ca pacity of a ship expressed In units of 100 cubic feet to the ton; deadweight tonnage the carrying capacity of a ship, In cluding supplies as well as cargo, expressed in long tons, 2240 pounds.) - The report covered losses to enemy action, as well as marine casualties resulting from perils of the sea. - : No figures were given on losses for 1944, but the : ratio of construction t o losses I s known to be extremely favor able. ' - Losses were severe In 1942, followed by vast improvement in 1943. ,