MKS WT Ml IMS ilil
. ... rnANK JENKINS
Luebntlli! of llio western front
KlEin.no mlHhl well to
I .J2n (fur lliu present, lit leust)
f o mi"'" uf tlio livers, m
f.jl ,, northern end. tho. Gor-
IT nro lioldlnB buhliRl the
linn" ",." ,,,,,.. bnl.lntl (liii
iT'iiil he Smir und In tho
m " ,i ilw, Hhlno Itself.
KlL rivers arc swollen
"heavy niln. , it I,,,,
1 IllUUU IIUIMI Luiiuniuiis
Ko by brc?klini1diww
10
"J rillllllUUU mm
used
t..vllv for triiiwpori. ou
iil'itb " - . ...
ids lire
iumcreus-' , ,
ii. u 400-milo front,
iTnlns me iiicomircd In yurds
L fractions of miles. Oiiins lire
i:,:oriniil only MS nicy ueiir i i
Hh i rinuipiil objective of the
K!lV,k-l.'l DESTRUCTION
I.....' (. ,.,i nrin cs engaged.
'.!" . ....iMii iniiiilncement.
I Will ' . nci.
Live. Li th"-1 i0- objective
J; killing tirrimmo
M who" we kill enough
I " i .i.ut. j i mi ill It I .fir.
Cormnii' 111111 '"""" """ .
IrcBk-lhroiiKli MIGHT bring the
JpHE Russian crossing of the
il Danube smilli oi miunin.ni
, ...... ...luim nroiiress. The
K tafS cVSSSl "lh r range of
f5 nl".:.. .... rM In lllll
low inOlini"i .......
Llhwost from the surrounded
fiy and lire heading down onto
S,? plain thnt lends to Austria,
r' vnn .i,L. ,, in thn north
Iliy UU HHii-a M".j
j Tlio Germans say today they
4 ..mplin MO 1'CM. Ull I1U
I hnl hut arc so
L lo defend Biuln. on the west
The Russlnns arc swinging
AROUND BOTH cities
TrHERE are confused rumors of
M lliihtlng between civilians
f.j nlVmrVn nollcn in both Budu-
,u w.... .. . . ,
the nasi police hold the
SUN nana.
L,i.nr ttWnrnullnff lllllimi
f Mom lroin Moscow today
Lt the time Is nearlng for the
JIG RUSSIAN PUSH, thnt will
tuuch off the enslcrn front froin
iiid lo end ns the western front
B OirCOIiy uiucneuoi..
VvN the wcslorn front, watch
J Mllmnitnn nnlipni 111 Hot
iH Ti knnekout ounch In
II. ..' i ..i nn.ilv tin Iminrhed
Bit' wi 'nv vuiiiv, j
pom mere, aiiiouk umu. .i,.-p...,
I10NTGOMKRY Is wnlling there
I. .t. r,trnn rlViT ITWH1
. .
M the Philippines, the Japs
f claim today they've lanoeci air
Wno troops In tho vicinity of
1... .l.fiAl.l. n. iinulnvn T.fwtfV
ccordinK to tho Jnp story, they
imo from four transport planes,
idlcatlng that their number is
ot largo. They are apparently
tilcldc stiunds, under orders lo
o ail ine (inmngo incy can ue
Inrn hnlnif l,lllnrl
t Tltn flrmnd hnltln nntie nn In A
topical downpour, with the
ucginning io muKe siiii:iiiu
jharccs often an admission
fat the end is near.
THE Chinese are evacuating
f civilians from Kwclyang, on
fie Burma road up toward
Chunuklni!. At thn Burma end
(I tho road, Chinese nnd Amcr
ns hnvo the Japs driven out
ii an out UN IS town.
1 The Jnps are apparently swap-
tv-oniimica on tJnge inrcc;
kn. J. C. Smith
leplaces Fegan
3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 W
ji poimmcnt of Mnj. ucn.
ulion C. Smith n commnndins
Stncrnl, department of tho Pact
c, marine corps, with hendqunr
in Snn Francisco was an-
runcccl l''ridav.
1 Tho mnrino corps nnnouncc
lc"t snld Smith will assume
faimnnd nhoul December 5, re-
r-vmg Mnj. Gen. J. C. Began,
r'"in me Miiro isjnnd, (Jam,
PVnl hosnltal.
I Smith Wns In nnnimnnrl nf tht
Fntl marine division when lt
punched tho Centrul Pnciflo ot
jns vo a year ngo with tho ns
f t on Tarawa, In the Gilbert
s?'!: "o won tho Dislhv
m Service medal for his
Vn )hllt Invnsion,
'recently l,0 Wns commanding
nal of expeditionary forccsl
LJ1"laii Lilands.
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PRICE 5 CENIS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1944 - Number 10328 ; : III I . Ill UilllL,
Beacons Shine
'4
If tv
To protect plants flying at night, beacons have been Installed
on Stukel mountain and Miller hill In this area by tho navy in
connection with the operation of Klamath naval air station.
Thrnn llnhii now shine from the points of Stukol, and two on
Miller hill. A similar beacon is
air station. The lights use acetylene gas, witn seienom cciivcon
trol which turns them on and off automatically. Tho upper
picture shows the traetor device used by the workmen in carry,
ing material to the sites of the beacons, and below is a view of
one of the beacons on Stukel.
Half-Way Mark in Drive
Shows Nation. State Far
Behind in War Bond Sales
WASHINGTON, Dec.. 2 (P)
With corporations Investing
huge blocks of their Idle-cash
In tho 6lh Wnr Loan, the spot
light switched back to scries E
bonds today.
Scries E, die people's choice,
designed for tho small investor,
is the only bond behind sched
ule. Tho latest grand total of
all classes, Including sales to
corporations, is $3,885,000,000,
a comfortable $1,000,000,000
above advance estimates for
this date. .,
Treasury officials said the
RoM, Col. Wy man
Cleared of Blame
WASHINGTON, Doc. 2 (A1)
Secretnry of War Stlmsons
Pearl Harbor review -disclosed
nothing to show that Hans Wil
hclm Rohl, Gorman-born con
tractor, or Col. Theodore Wy
man Jr., army engineer, In . any
way" contributed to the Decem
ber 7 disaster.
An army board Inquiry, re
porting to Stlmson, considered a
house military committee report
of last Juno in which the two
men figured.
The commltteo had slated
that, on Wyman's recommenda
tion, the wnr department con
tracted with Rohl's firm the
Hawaiian Contractors on De
cember 20, 1940, to Instal de
fense works on Hawaii. It do
clnrcd they wore not completed
In tlmo for use In the attack. The.
committee complained that
army officers responsible, In
cluding Wyman, had failed to
order tho .. work expedited. '
From Mountain Tops
mounted on a wator tower at the
following three regions are fur
thest away from their E bond
quotas;
1. Lagging worst of all, a
segment of the farm belt In
cluding Minnesota, South Da
kota, Nebraska, Iowa and Mis
souri. . .
2. Pacific coast states.
3. Atlantic coast states, . ex
copt Georgia.
Ahead of Schedule
. On the other hand, eight
stntos arc ahead of their scries
E schedules:
. Nevada, New Mexico, Wyo-
mln, Montana, North Dakota,
Indiana, Mississippi and Geor
gia. .
Tho national E bond quota
Is only $2,500,000,000 of the
grand quota of $14,000,000,000
(Continued on fago Tiireel
Medford Man
With Others
By HENRY C. CASSIDY .
' WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (I')
The latest of Lt. Gen. James
Doolittlc's Tokyo raiders in
Russia, "escaped" across one of
the world's best-guarded bor
ders, and have returned safely
to the United States.
The inside story of their ad
venture was learned today from
an authoritative source. Tho talo
was one of pampered "cap
tives," of prolonged boredom
and finally of easy escape.
The fliers were: Mnj. Edward
J. York, Sah Antonio, Tex.; First
Lt. Robert Gabel Emmins, Med
ford, Ore.; Second Lt. Nolnn A.
Hcrndon, Sulphur Springs, Tex.;
Near Here
OFFICES FORFAIT
CENSUS SET UP
Third Oregon district head
quarters for the United States
census of agriculture nave Been
established at 606 Medical
Dental building, it was an
nounced today by R. L. Acker-
man, Lakevtew, supervisor lor
this district. The district com
nrisos Hood River. Wasco. Sher
man. Gilliam, Jefferson, Wheel
er, Deschutes, Urook, liiamam
and Lako counties.
E. M. Iel. Klamath Falls, will
be assistant supervisor, with his
duties starting on-January i.
, Aokerman said that the dis
trict off Icq. will start immediate
ly . on-the.-' 1045-eensus-t)f theH
agriculture of tins area tor ine
department of commerce, bureau
of tho census. The agricultural
census is made every five years
and covers number of farms,
value of crops, number of live
stock, matchinerv on the farm,
and many other details which go
to make up the nation s agricul
tural ctatiatli-c
Ackerman said he Is looking
for enumerators for work in all
parts ot the district. He wants
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New York Ready
For V-3 Weapon
NEW YORK. Dec. 2 (P)
Commenting on the reported
statement by Nazi Labor Chief
Albert Speer that Germany's
V-3 weapon would be ready
soon to blast New York, Deputy
Chief Police Inspector Arthur
W. Wallander, chief of staff of
the city protective forces, said
wctay: "uur services are reaay.
Mayor 1. n. Laiiuaraia warn
ed last November 12 that "Al
though there is no reason for
alarm, we . must be ready.
A Stockholm dispatch quoted
Speer as saying V-3 would be
ready by tho end of December
for use-against- New York.
Declaring that "It is not over
yet, Lautiardia said in n broad
cast to city residents. "It would
be a pity - if, - after .the three
years of hard work- that has
been put In, something unto
ward might happen and . wo
were to be found, unprepared
Great Army Eleven Blasts
Navy 23-7 Before 70,000
, By WILLIAM O. VARN
MUNICIPAL STADIUM, Balt
imore, Dec. 2 (IP) Army's great
eleven turned on speed and pow
er today to defeat Navy's Mid
shipmen, 23 to 7 and complete
an undefeated season.
Tho cadet victory ended the
Middies' five-year domination of
the service classic and gave the
boys from West Point top foot
Escapes From
in Tokyo Raid
Sgt, Theodore H. Laban, Keno
sha, Wis.; Cpl. David W. Pohl,
Wlllcsley, Mass.
. The five formed the crew of
one of the 18 B-25 bombers
which hit Tokyo, April 18, 1042.
This one made a forced landing
on the Russian maritime prov
ince while the others flew on
to China. The crew was interned
in the Soviet Union, and left a
year later.
By a bit of fast talking,-the
fliers almost escaped Internment
when they first came down with
out gasoline at an airport near
Vladivostok.
They told the Russians their
plane should be -accorded - tho
Budapest Menaced
13 y Flanking Move;
Or moc Fight Flares
Soviet Drive
Rips German
Lines Apart
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
LONDON. Dec. 2 UP) Rip
ping German defenses of south
western Hungary wide open, a
Russian avalanche tonight rolled
north and west in a grand scale
double drive to outflank Buda
pest from the rear and push to
ward tho Austrian border.
A triumphant order of the day
from Premier Stalin announced
that in the last 24 hours Marshal
Feodor Tolbukhin's. third Uk
rainian army had -lunged ahead
22 miles north toward Budapest
and 15 miles ' northwest toward
strategic Lake Balaton and en
gulfed more than 300 places in
cluding the strong points of Kas
povar, Dombovar, Paks and
Szegszard.
"The breach aDDears tragic,"
said a Berlin commentator. "The
Russians are out to envelop all
western Hungary and Budapest
on a grand scale." ,-
Military Dictatorship
Simultaneously, the German
radio announced tonight that
Field Marshal Hindv had been
anoolrited military dictator ' of
-beleaguered -Budapest "to keep
internal orderi ; -..-,. ...v
The radio sa d Hlndy. whom
it did not further identify, had
been appointed "supreme- pleni
potentiary" of' the Hungarian
capital.
Line Smashed -
' The capture of these multiple
tiinotinns and bastions smashed
what the Germans had called
t h o i r Kapsovar- Paks line,
stretching from the Danube 58
miles south of Budapest across
Hungary toward strategic Lake
Balaton.
Kapsovar is 28 miles southeast
of the lake's southern end and is
on the Budapest-Zagreb railline,
chief means of communication
to Yugoslavia. Paks is 58 miles
south of Budapest on ine .Dan
ube. Lt. Com. Fleming
Leaves Air Base
i,t'. Comdr. Harvey C. Flem
ing has been transferred to the
staff of the west coast naval air
training station at Oakland.
Calif., from the Klamath naval
air station, it was announced to
day. Lt. Comdr. Fleming has
been executive officer at the sta
tinn here.
Lt. Comdr. S. A. Congdon has
been assigned duties as execu
tive officer Here, penaing arriv
al of a new man assigned to the
duty. Fleming reported here
August 26, after Lt. Comdr. B.
M. Turner, former executive of
ficer, was transferred to Pasco,
wash.
ball, rating of the year In na
tional collegiate standings.
. 70,000 Watch
An estimated 70,000 . fans
watched the Army leave the field
with a 7-0 lead at the half and
then come back to put the game
safely beyond reach in the final
minutes after the Middies had
(Continued on Page Three)
Soviet Union
Bomber Crew
privilege of belligerent ships in
distress to put into a neutral
port, refuel and proceed, The
Russians seemed willing and put
the Americans up for the night.
The next morning, however,
the fliers found they had been
interned under- international
law, and were not permitted to
return to the plane.
The United States embassy,
then headed by Admiral William
H. Stand ley, was notified
through, a message from the
soviet diplomatic agent in the
Far East, and undertook , to
make contact with the men-.
They turned up 1n the central
(Continued on. Page xnreej
BOARDS GLEAR
PE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2 VP)
Any further punishment for the
Pearl Harbor disaster probably
will be visited upon the Japa
nese, alone. . .
The army and navy an
no u n c e d last night that no
grounds had been found for
court martial proceedings
against United States military
personnel.-Boards of Inquiry re
ported, however, that errors in
judgment and lack of skill in
both' Washington and Hawaii
contributed to the tragedy. -
While some demands imme
diately arose in congress for a
separate- investigation there,
Continued on .fage .inree)
Yank Bombers
Smash Railyards
LONDON; Dec. .2 VP) Three
railroad yards in . the Coblenz
area on' the Rhine about '50
miles behind the Western battle-
front . were "smashed today by
more than 250 Americantheavy
bombers and 55d f ightersl ' -
Air raid warnings broadcast
by Berlin indicated that Ameri
can heavy bombers from Italy
struck simultaneously at targets
in southern Germany:
It was the first time in almost
two weeks that weather has per
mitted a synchronized, daylight
operation; '
A O
COMMANDERS
Chnese Forces Capture
Jap-Held Burma Road Town
CHUNGKING, Dec. 2 P)
Chefang, next to the last Japanese-held
town bh the Burma
road to China, has been captured
by Chinese forces, the, Chinese
high command announced today.
American liaison units of the
China training and combat com
mand and U. S. warplanes of the
14th air force assisted Chinese
detachments in the seizure of the
town, which left only about 24
miles of the Burma road to be
taken for assault upon the bor
der city of Wanting.
scant nesisiance
Resistance' was scant. Most of
the defenders had withdrawn be
fore the increasing pressure, : As
they retreated they set fire to
nearby villages and bridges to
delay pursuit.
The occupation came at ' the
end of a J2-day push after the
capture of MangshiH, . November
Meantime the high command
admitted officially tonight that
-the Japanese had penetrated
Kweichow province.
SKirmisn in rass
' The Chinese told of skirmishes
in the Limingkwan (Dawn pass),
through which runs the Kwang-
si-Kweichow railroad. The pass
begins just inside the Kweichow
border north of Lluchai, on the
railroad 110 miles southeast of
Killed
Sgt. Harold W. (Jen, grand
ion of . Mrs. Ella R. Geis of
Dairy, was killed in action-November
7, In Holland.
VVi I- fir
It-V 4 - VV
Jap Suicide
Charges on
Ley te Beaten
GENE RAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS! Philippines,
Dec. 2 (JP) Fanatical . Japanese
made repeated suicide charges
south of Ormoc against the-U.
S. 7th division, closest Ameri
can unit to that vital, port, but
were beaten back after suffer
ing heavy losses, a headquarters
communique-reported- today. -
At the northern end of the
Ormoc corridor, - rain-sodden,
mud-caked troopers of the
American 32nd division -inched
forward for. a slight gain after
three days of absolute stalemate
under tropical deluges..
, Long Fight Looms
' As the battle for Leyte island
entered its seventh week today,
the torrential r a i n s, -coupled
with stubborn Japanese - resist
ance, put, an end to any Ameri
can hopes- for an early conclu
sion to the struggle, considered
of crucial, importance in the
campaign to liberate all the
Philippines. , . , - '.
(A- Japanese imperial commu
nique claimed today that air
borne. Japanese,, assault units
were landed on . eastern, Leyte
island" last - SUndayt near two
American an- fields In the Phil
iDDines and were believed to
have caused considerable dam
age: The' communique, broadcast
and recorded by the federal
com m u nications commission,
was wholly;,unconf irmed). .-,
.' The- Japanese launched .;aev
eral desperate attacks against
the American seventh, ;.wnicn
had' been i advancing ' slowly
northward on the coast below
- (Continued on Page Three)
the Kweichow Burma road capi
tal ox xvweiyang..
The high command . said at
tacking enemy units we r e
thrown back at Limingkwan.
and also claimed to have re-
ulsed Japanese - thrusts, near
iiuchai.
(A commentator for Dome!.
Japanese news aeencv. said to-
day that Japanese forces advanc
ing into Kweichow province in
southern China had seized con
trol of the province's main com
munications arteries, threaten
ing "its very existence.")- . . ...
Sgt. Harold Gess
Dies in Holland
Sgt. Harold W. Gess, United
States army, grandson- of Mrs.
fcila K. uess of uairy, has been
killed in action in Holland, ac
cording to word received from
the war department. His death
occurred. November 7, the mes
sage stated.
Sgt. "Gess had a twin brother,
Gerald, now stationed at Camp
Roberts, and another' brother,
Orville C. Gess Jr., now some
where in the Pacific.
Japanese-American Future i
Battled by State Groups
PORTLAND, Dec' 2 OT The
battle over Japanese-Americans'
future spread in Oregon today,
with churchmen lined up on
one side and American Legion
representatives on another.
Shortly after the Hood River
Legion post scratched from its
war memorial the names of 16
Japanese-American servicemen,
"To let them knew we don't
want them back here," the
Portland Council of Churches
called upon ministers to aid loy
al Japanese-Americans in re
turning to their former homes.
Deny Principles
Discrimination . against c i 1 1
zens of any race, said a formal
council statement, "Would be
to deny tha very principles of
Americanism which our boys
are fighting to preserve."
Roger C. Baldwin, director of
the American C i v 1 1 Liberties
union how visiting ; here, . also,
1st, ?th Armies Wage
Battle For linden, '". .
Linich iT
By JAMES M. LONG r
PARIS, Dec. 2 (JP) American)
third army infantrymen backed
by tank destroyers fought today
into and almost through burning
Saarlautern (pop. 8200), a mailt
prop of the reich's industrially"
wealthy Saar. ;.
Even as the doughboy punch
ed several blocks deep into tha
city 12 miles northwest of Saar.
brucken, other Americans en
tered the outskirts of Saar Un
ion, 21 miles southeast of Saar
brucken. : .-
To the north, men of the first
and ninth armies battled foB
houses in the German rivers
strongholds of Linich and Inden;
and made slight gains southwest
of Furen. . But generally there
was no progress in this costly,
ferocious battle on the Cologn
plain. ' !,;. -y ,. -
Wipe Out Pocket . - ."
i In Strasbourg's outskirts
seventh army men wiped out an.
enemy pocket on the west side
of the Rhine in a spectaculaf
battle of apartment houses. Tha
Germans blew all three bridges
over the Rhine there,' leaving
only- two damaged - railroad
bridges as the sole permanent
spans .over the river -farther
south, a front dispatch said. . ;
The first army was "fought to
a standstill" by savage opposi
tion, and made only insignificant
advances, ' a front' dispatch de
clared.' But in the holocaust Ger
man might was being whittled
down in a decisive test. --
- Divisions Destroyed -..The-
first army has destroyed
four German divisions and has
forced two others to turn baclS
for replacements; while the ,U
S. armies in line against the Ger
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Roads Hazardous '
Over Mountains i
- Mountain roads were in -haz.
ardous condition, according to
an early Saturday morning r&i
port, and ice covered Cbbth the
Suri , mountain stretch of . The
Dalles-California and the Willamette-
pass. ;
- Crews from' the state "highi
way; department were ' gravel
ing" curves throughout the arau
Additional snow fell, late 'Friday-but-roads
were cleared by
plows. Roadbeds remained slick,
however, and . motorists - were
urged to" use caution : and-. to
carry chains. - ; - .- 1 -- . :
.- A number of .minor accidents
were reported to city, police
Saturday morning as early-ris-ers
drove over' streets -covered
with'. a, thin coat of ice- ancj
snow...- - '.. 1 - '.f t
Christmas Trees )
On Way South
Truckloads of Christmas trees,'
bound for the Southern market;
have passed through Klamatii
Falls the past week, some com
ing from as far north as the
Canadian border. : . .. -
First cuttings . in this area
were noticed in late October
and. these trees probably. found
sales- in the deep south'! ,i . . f
Weyerhaeuser , Timber " com
pany, which has sold ,to the
southern market - these past
years, did not follow, that policy
this season in view of the tree
farm program.- -Sales, to local
operators only were; reported
by Weyerhaeuser.' The average
family tree was being" sold at
10 cents in the woods. Most
trees were of the white fir var
iety and were being cut west
of Klamath Talis. The forest
service has been doing some
selling to buyers who ship theif
greens into California. . . ,'
lashed out at the Legion post's
action, which came a few days
after another group organized
Oregon Anti-Japanese, Inc., to
prevent Japanese Americans
from returning to the west.
"Matter of Regret" '. .
"I should presume that the)
American L e g I o n," Baldwia
said, "ns a great patriotic or
ganization, should be the first
to accept all citizens regard
less of race. It is a matter of
profound regret when race
prejudice of any sort takes
precedence over patriotism,"
Tom Mahoney, judge-advocat
of the state Legion, said all ac
tion against Japanese-Americans
was up to local posts, and pre
dicted that other posts might
follow Hood River's lead. Sev
eral posts, he said, have in
quired about possibilities of ex
pelling all Japanese -American
members. ; , ; i : ' ; :.
f :