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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1944)
IMS CLEAR PEARLHAnBOR GOHNDERS (Conliiuiccl from Vauo One) uh In 'l'elr vlndlcutlon was (red In behalf of tho two men ' - mmid at Pearl Hnrbor ,,. tho Japanese 'uti'uck tholr Ucherou. blow December 7, fV-' Sun of Vindication llr utorv in tin- LZl 1 am certain of complete ld?V,."" i lh.. nvnii of 1 10 ": r " m i. con. E Short wild In n state Lt Issued to the I"'"" nt I"""' Tf.X.'. nf SL.-n.lnrv 'Tho Sinn-'"1""' . : , t. r ilmmnl Iiiih been' P" E : klmmcl. In an oral nnmcni at Btory Kept Secret Meanwhile, the Inside story i why the United States min i. 1... wllh rasnltlint floollnil blown to tho fleet and If lOrCeSi IWIIMiino - Isly by Wnr Secretary Stim Erf and Navy Secretary For- r iii -m i hnnrHs' rnnoris m 'h.ei.""T"i::r1, 'cu,,,1 Si.- tlm war. for reasons of Lllllry cnrlty. jntvnu vwiitti"""' -,,. ..........lot-ina, titiirl tllOV 111. fnded to continue personal In- Demands ior u l-uiikii.-ii"ihu ombor 2, 1944 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON InvcHtlKiillun cnine chiefly from uiu ii-muiiuiii siue, Senator Ferguson (fl-Mlch.) pressed for adoption of Ills res olntlun for a senate Inquiry mid also demanded linnu-dliili., sub mission nf the evidence obtained by the army and navy boards to both houses of congress, Not Much Chance Senator Chandler (D-Ky.), a member of the military affairs committee, thought that In view of the army and navy decisions, I'Vikluson's resolution did not have a very good chance of adoption, Chairman May (D-Ky.) of the house military committee said the army report "ends tho mat ter" so far as be Is concerned. Tho statulu of limitations, three limes extended as to Short and Klmmcl, expires. December 7 unless again renewed. A reso lution which would extend It another six months was offered earlier this week by Hep. Short (HMo.) Former Arkansas Private Poses As First Lieutenant PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 2 (VP) A groom married at a Vancou ver military a installation last October his first lieutenant's bars shining beside the uniform of his army nurse bride was charged today with impersonat ing an officer, FBI Head Clinton W. Stein said the man who went through an elaborate military wedding was actually a Vlmy Hidge, Ark., private discharged from the army n year ago. Stein said the 23-year-old youth, identified as Thomas But ler, posed so successfully that no one questioned him until an army captain became suspicious of Butler's actions in a tavern and asked for credentials. Butler was held in jail here in lieu of bond. PACE THREE ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 fP) Fifty thousand new housing units aro "critically needed" to help in recruiting new war workers and keeping present workers on the Job, tho nation al housing agency reported to day. Tho need is a pressing ono in 20 or more ordnance, shipyard and oilier heavy war Industry centers, NHA Administrator John B. Blandfurd Jr., said in a statement. Although the need has been met In most production centers and (11,000 units arc under con struction, Ulandford said the situation is "extremely critical" in such spots as Flagstaff, Ariz.; Fairbanks, Alaska; Tulsa, Okla.; Bremerton, Wash., and in such larger industrial centers as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Se attle. New construction cannot meet the entire demand, Blandford stated, declaring: "New stress must be laid on the necessity for citizens in scores of commu nities to open their homes to tho workers needed to keep our war plants operating at capaci ty." Jap Church Turned Into Play Center PORTLAND, Dec. 2 (VP) The former Japanese Church of Nichirin here, a Buddhist order, has been turned into a recrea tional center for children and adults, Dorothea Lcnsch, park bureau recreational director, said today. The tlirec-story building has been leased from its Japanese owners for badminton, ping pong, dancing and community party facilities. Today On The Western Front By Tho Associated Press Canadian 1st Army: Lust reported in Germany cast of Nljmegcn. British 2nd Army: Presses against Venlo on Moaj in Hol land. U. S. 9th Army: Penetrates Munich; retakes Roer posi tions in furious, fluctuating battle, U. S. 1st Armyi Held at a standstill by nazis on Roer river front. U. B. 3rd Army: Dominates positions near Mcrzig along Saar river. U. S. 7th Army: Smashes German attempt to reinforce bridgehead units on Rhine west bonk at Strasbourg, en ters Haguenau outskirts north of Strasbourg. French 1st Army: Drives north from Mulhouso, within 30 miles of Juncture with seventh. Young Boy Does Part In 6th War Loan Twelve-year-old Dick Winters has done more than his part in this 6th War Loan drive, because a few days ago, Dick called on his neighbor, Oscar Lovenborg, and with no help or advice from anyone, sold him a $1000 war bond. Lovenborg is a lumber piler ol Big Lakes Box company, where he has been employed for 20 years. So for this year, he has put $2700 of cold, hard cash into war bonds, part of which he used to purchase three $1000 bonds. In addition, Lovenborg has had two $25 bonds taken out of his check on the payroll de duction program. Classified Arts Bring Results. Mil SAARLAUTERN HIT IN DRIVE (Continued from Page One) mans in the west have taken more than 33,000 prisoners since November 16, front dispatches said, . Southwest of Strasbourg, al lied troops penetrated Into bale stat, a Berlin broadcast said.) Planes Rake Tanks Battle planes raked German tanks and defenses along the Cologne plain front. On tho British front in Hol land, all was quiet save for pa trol activities. Below Strasbourg, armored units wheeled steadily down the Alsatian plain and liberated a dozen or more villages, among them Boofzhcim, 16 miles south of Strasbourg, and Sermershoim and Kogenhcim 18 miles south west of tho city. Infantrymen pushing into the Rhine plain through the Vosges cleared Chatenois and Kinlz heim -in thrusts to within two miles of the road Junction of Selestat. On the upper Rhine near tho Swiss border, French troops occupied Rosenau. Returns Mrs. R. O. Hoyt has returned to her home after spending the past three weeks in Los Angeles with her mother, Mrs. F. A. Klegg, and other relatives there. The principal exports of the Philippines are sugar, coconut products, abaca or manila hemp, tobacco products and lumber. Saturday Midnight PLENTY OF THIS lt' tho "Cherry Blonde" . . . , zooming to new, sensational . i heights of musical stardom I AND THIS There's happiness ahead . . . with love, laughter and Cole Porter lyrics I r TP'S? A . ' ESPECIALLY . An "E" for entertainment v II ' I H 1 Olfw . . . and on "A-h-h-h" ' fJ I I " H ' ' foramour' TxSSi Ly Catiiiet yPticiael Vivian ( I MIRANDA O'SHEA BLAINE l UV . - (The "Cherry Blonde") "k ''' FROM THE SENSATIONAL BROADWAY STAGE HITI Centuy-fox l. nil m ; picture i , n &W f&'t PHIt.SILVERS -SHEILA RYAN-PERRY COMO -GLENN LANGAN V Continuous Show Sat. - Sun. -A- Open 12:30 ENDS TODAY ' " ' ? f iDRfhnftnfil 1 "ALASKA" It I r I ill J) Kent Taylor - Margaret Lindsay VVr VWV W I M IL 2nd Hit, "That's My Baby" PHONE 4572 , , 7 7 itwn- p mm n rutin n n n n nn n m nit n mint Jap Charges Beaten Back On Leyte (Continued from Page One) Ormoc, the strategic' Japanese held port on western Leyte is land. The ' Nipponese have hurled many night counterat tacks against the 7th in that sector, . . : Pace Slowed The 32nd's pace was slowed by quagmire conditions as it pushed to a point one mile and a quarter south of Llmon, which it captured last week. It was at Llmon that the enemy had elected to make a deter mined stand. .... The weather also retarded air operations by both sides. Leyte - based American . fighter planes roared : through the murky overcast to bomb Japa nese supply depots in the Or moc bay area, and others at tacked enemy supply . lines in the Ormoc valley and a sus pected barge hideOut at nearby Cebu island. Medford Man Escapes From Soviet Union (Continued fro-.i Page One) Russian town of Penza, between Moscow and Kuibyshev,, where they were given a "dacha," or country house.- The U. S. mili tary attache, Col. Joseph - A. Michcla, and Second Secretary of Embassy Edward Page were permitted to visit them. When the Get-man advance to Stalingrad, that summer threat ened central Russia, 'the fliers were moved east to Ohansk, on the Kama river near Molotov, where they were given a large house. . . Adm. Standlev visited them September 12, - 1942, inspected their quarters and took them for a boat excursion on the Kama, complete with caterers, musi cians and an English-speaking hostess. Freedom of Town The fliers had comfortable rooms, plenty of food, 1 servants and an interpreter-guard who taught them Russian. They had me ireeaom of tne river-port town, went swimmine and were promised hunting in the fall. But they were chafing at their inactivity. They could talk free ly, because all. Russians left the room while Adm. Standley lis tened to them; and they said they wanted to get back into action. That winter thev weri . trans. ferred to Ashkhabad where, as the Russians, put it, they would be warmer and could be "use fully employed." . Ashkhabad is on the SovieHranian . border, just east of the Caspian sea. One day they drove to the bor der in a truck to the Iranian city or raesnea, ana never returned. Soviet officials never drew the attention -of the United States embassy- to the "escape," and -the- Americans- Tiever"men tioned it to the Russians. Bates Jailed On , Drunk Driving Charge was' in thn .oitv: 4ail In lfa,. fine following his appearance in wuii oaiuraay morning where he entered , a plea ; of guilty to driving while under the influence ot, liquor.. Bates was fined $100 and 30 days on that charge, and $5 .each: on two eonnfj!. nn nnpratnr'a lipancaanj no red light. ' - .. . Bates was arrested by city police at 9:30 p. m. Friday at fith nnrf Main- nftot- h struck a machine operated -by Alma Sweetman; '749 N. 8th. There .were no . injuries. : . Two . drunks appeared, in court, two drunks bailed out, and one drunk and disorderly was fined by Police Judge Har old Franey. When a moose cannot reach the tender leaves of a tree-top, he merely walks astride the tree, and rides it down.. . ; , CENSUS SET UP (Continued from Page One) enumerators who live in the dif ferent countieB to work in their home counties. Anyone interest ed should write to the district office here, 606 Medical Dental building, and local people may call or telephone. Members of the office staff are Mrs. Lois Thomas, reviewing clerk, and Mrs. Margaret Brown, secretary. Mrs. Thomas will have charge of the office in the absence of the supervisor and assistant supervisor. Seaman's Death Raises Crash Toll LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 P) The death of Merchant Seaman Harry Elmer Gay, 30, Long Beach, Calif., today brought to eight the death toll in the crash of a Transcontinental and West ern Airlines plane crash yester day. The plane, en route from San Francisco, crashed into the soft ground of a walnut grove near Van Nuys during a dense fog when it was just six miles from the Lockheed air terminal at Burbank. Twenty-three were aboard. - Fifteen were injured, including Mayor- Harley Know of San Diego, and one man came out unscathed except for shock. The airliner ripped through utility lines, knocked down a dozen trees and its wreckage was strewn for 300 yards. - The coroner's office said an in quest will be held as soon as sur vivors are in condition to testify. EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued from Page One) . ping the Burma end of the road ior the CHUNGKING end. Intimations continue that they are getting out of Burma; -" - AS a sidelight, pity the poor devils oh our side who are fighting in mud; and rain and snow in Italy, which has become a side issue., But don't forget that they are PINNING DOWN GERMANS who otherwise would be - free to fight us at other places. They aren't fighting in vain. A STOCKHOLM dispatch today " quotes Nazi Labor Chief Speer as asserting that the Ger man V-3 will be ready to FIRE AT NEW YORK by the end of December. . . t One's inclination is to offer a cynical wisecrack, but it might .be justas. well, to- keep, stULand wait to see., rnose nuge plat forms, containing as much con crete as Bonneville dam, which we found at. Cherbourg are still unexplained. , . e - N the Washington home front, " the Pearl Harbor disaster has been whitewashed for the dura tion. When the historians t of the future dig out the facts it will be an interesting story. - TODAY'S dispatches tell us that RECONVERSION is go ing back onto the shelf for the present. ': . That is as it should be.: From here on out, the reconversion Dlanners should, do their plan ning IN SILENCE. The thing to do is to get tne war over tirst. Reconversion talk more or less upsets us all and gets our minds nff the. BIG PRESENT JOB. . The brave new world can't come until the Japs and the Germans are licked. ; "At the outbreak of the war, the Chinese in the Philippines were mostly small shopkeepers; the Japanese, were- farmers, craftsmen ana fisnermen. English Princess Launches Mighty British Battleship LONDON, Dec. 2 VOT Prin cess. Elizabeth, carrying out her first important public duty alone, has launched Britain's mightiest battleship. . . . ... The ceremony marked the first appearance of -the - I8-year- uiu pniiL-ess pert-unui siuiiaura, made' for her' by the royal navy. The size, armament, date of the launching and even the name of the ship remained1 a secret. The place was described only as "a northern shipyard in Britain." Target of the battleship will be the Japanese navy. A. V. Alexander, first lord of the ad miralty, said "she will sail in tropical waters against an enemy WEATHER Friday, December Max. Eugene 47 . Klamath Falls 36 Sacramento ....58 . North Bend 49 Portland . 49 San Francisco .47 Seattle ...48 1, 1044 Min. Prectp. . 38 Trace 38 Trace ,19 .00 OBITUARY SCOTT HARTFORD BARBOUR , scon HRrtiora uRroour, ior ine msi ft4 years a resident of Klamath FaUn, oreffon. panged away in tnis city on Saturday, December 2,' 1944 at 2 a. m. following an Ulnest of several day. He -A-aa a native of Ottumwa, tcm-a. and at the time of hla death was aged 79. years 1 month and IS days. Surviving are hU wife, Mrs. Nina Barbour of this city; one son, Jack Barbour. Yeoman 2-c lr. s. navy -and one brother, Martin Barbour of Los Angeles, California. The remains rest In the Earl Whitlock Fu. neral .home, Pine, at .Sixth.. ..Notice, .of funeral to ba announced In the .next Issue of this paper. CARD OF THANKS ' . We wish tn exnress our sincere thanks and appreciation to friends and neigh bors for their sympathy ' and beautiful floral offerings lit our recent bereave ment. 1 ' ' Mrs. William J. Nichols and daugh ter, Carole -Ann.. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Daniel . . .. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Halousek : Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols . , Bennle H. Daniel S. 1c. 1 we particularly want to beat.'' Jane's "Fighting Ships" listed as under construction the laon, Temeraire and two unnamed battleshios. ' each "Over 40,000 tons,", designed for. 30 Knots or more and probably to have nine is-incn guns.. . , ' (Britain's previous largest warship was the 42,100-ton Hood, sunk bv the Bismarck in. May, 1941. The American Iowa class Is rated at 45,000 tons.) Hans Norland Insurance. Ph 6060. ' : Holf-Way Mark In Drive Shows Nation ' Behind In Sales , (Continued from Page One) for all securities. But Ted R, " Gamble, director of the drive, gavo an idea of tho size of tho E, bond job when he estimated that 50.000.000 individuals will,' buy more than 70,000,000 sepa rate E bonds if the goal is reached, The 6th War Loan at glance: The latest E bond figure is $686,000,000: total sales to in dividuals $1,409,000,000; sales to corporations $2,476,000,000: grand total $3,885,000,000. In Portland, it was reported that Oregon's war bond sales, nearly doubled by giant corpor ation sales, leaped to $44,377, 083 today from yesterday's total of $25,128,243. The state s sales still laeeetl behind the schedule, however, with only 41 per cent of the quota sold at the end of the half-way mark in the drive. I bales of E bonds also fell far short of the half-way goal which ' should have been , reached to-. day; War bond officials report ed sales of $9,893,093. against a $34,000,000 quota. Great Army Eleven Blasts Navy, 23-7 (Continued from Page One) threatened to make a battle of it in the third quarter. Max Hall's 24-yard sprint four minutes before the end of the first half put the Cadets in front. 1 They added two more points In the third when John . Hansen's punt was blocked and , Hansen Barely managed to cover -the ball in the Middies' end zone. Navy Strikes Hal' Hamberg, Navy's 150 oound backfield star, passed and ran Navy to striking position and Clyde Scott plunged over to leave tne uadets witn a )-t lead. Navy roared back with another drive . to Army territory Due Glenn Davis, Army's top scorer, broke it up on his 30 to set the Cadets off on their game winning streak. Almost single-handedly Felix Blanchard, Cadet fullback, powered down toward pay dirt and then plunged over for the touchdown, rne nuge crowd. hardly had settled again before Davis was off on a magnificent waltz down the sidelines, after taking a lateral from Tom Lorn--bardo, to travel 50 yards for the last counter. Dick Walterhouse converted after each Army touchdown to , bring his total points after touch- downs for the season to 47,, a , new national collegiate record. ; Vic Finos made the placement , after Navy's score. . ...-. "rot-tHer .swwwjowinnfair"' of candy produced in 1943, about 20 per cent was shipped to arm-' ed forces in the . United States and abroad.- '. INCOME TAX INFORMATION;;;; . This is to advise all my farm- er clients,-and others who; may'i;; wish my services; that the" time :' for' filing "farm income-declara- tions" has been extended to "on . or before. Jan.. 15,. 1945,','; at , which time you may Jfile- your J regular complete return in lieu of said declaration if you so de- -sire and pay the full tax there-,; OHi' - ti-r h. However, in order tq give us time to make the complete arid final return for you we should have your data in this, office not later than December 15, so i that it may' be completed - on 1 time. ' i. . '' " ... ' ' . v, And to all others whose tax' is not being withheld by em ployers, and who have not filed any declaration'1 for this - year for your 1944 income, that theyi should make their declaration on or before December 15, as, this is the last chance. The new' law, while simplified, does not, excuse any of these from mak ing such declaration and paying the approximate tax within tho current year. . : ' Yours respectfully, ' WM. F. B. CHASE. " ' i Zhz) z Jj MADELINE MAHONEY fSsi- ond - PAUL SWIGART To o Moke the Holidays Coming Dee. 20 More Feitivo ,
