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n Nl fi. 6)15) rtn a' on YANKS SEIZE- fnifP Sews ... pn&NK JENKINS .. ,.. iiiilnhcll. la ii'in i , i ",,7, , i ,.iinU ITv on Uio Cionnnns. ;'l'"t liNS iwr week. iKKI'l' U1'' lll"t wolll1 l""ou"t 250 uIVim;""," Ims remember, Is on I T"' '. .... nlnnn. Arid I WC?"' ... .ltln !1,..t hat on im-- KUj.v... ,0w comes "ie roue-ring It ol ftarfn. ATTACK coals bo tho the nf null) up !i iVEFENSK. So ilfol WlSHOH. tOO, tllUHt i - thill OUT IflSSCII luu, inwnt ww jiyJL probably hockii.ly ?That l I''0 wnr f ATTHI HON that tho dispatches aro talking auum. , , i.,c n.-,niin know nil Ibis, T ,ln So. vou orob 4X why lo ' 00 ON Kv'uic'Gcrmnn". know. Dut Is it 't ,1JLAUS113LE fewer: Germany is cuimm:ii.-i Kluiiuls of ItH mul leader ArsiT niil lenders know Unit I ?cic 1 I t. iw.n Hipv cm tffh.y'wllTUITLlVlWG sK bwi Ecricims, unci to u fomcwhat Jumcnlallsts. Wc talked about T. u".i.(..ii in lie ast war $ did nothing about them alter m Russians arc a different itd of cats. When they talk i puniflimcnl of war cnimnu ! .crm itumNKSH. Win1 try think of war criminals, they 5,,k not only of those who SSUED the criminal orders out flhc vastly larger number who . i.u Hi Hk of ounlsh- they lire apt to think In 11U0I SIlOmillH fe, you;cc, when the Germnn lenders linn oi iv think next of wluit w 1 rrr,i. ii,i,.u nf i ipso lirlm IjKlc-mliulcil Hussions moving L5?? Ml'- . Inlnlr . thOV ht be able to HANDLE us si the llrlllsii in mis mum-i -jiishmcnt of war criminals, fev're nulte certain they !4NT handle tho Russians. If they're to dlo anyway, they ifclil ns well die fighting and iry Germany down with thorn Xl.ll.-ln,. r . . . JlND you, all this Is only this ? writer's guess. But It Ands reasonable. It seems to plain why the Germans go on Ihlinc in i ic inco 01 Lliunui tomato defeat. 4lIS munitions shortage, ol which wc read from day to , is probably on your minu. Sfou wonder why It is. If you o normal Amerlcnn, you fit to find a scapegoat. You iit to (hid somebody you can m IT UN. thnn vn,i wnnf (n crlvc hlnl Mi's coming to him, 130IL ft! IN Oil.. If need be. 1 cluinrrg nrf THERE IS 1IN0 SCAPEGOAT. b 1 A ,n!nn vj uiivi nil k-i xm Atry has clone n fine job of nwucuon in mis war. iu uy torKe, Amoricnn labor has n mnKii.riccnl Job. There IV hnvn lionn a rfrnsntnD ItV itrlalist lioro and there. There t nnvo been a Tew racKciccr- lahnn Innrlnxa Unrn nnH tfi Itwlli. t,l..l ...ni-lrnra mnV uuoniinucd on Pago two; p Freighters nk bv yanks t t FllUNGKINC, Dec. 6 (IP) jP'm nir lorco fliers iinve probably Runk or dam J", 10 nddltlonnl Japanese jRitcrs In far-flung attacks, ?" me loss of tnclr uesi m io the Japanese drive In Ij. Clicnnnulls hcadquar- unnouneod today, communique said tho blg- 'ou was taken Monday in 8J ntlnck on a concontra- ?l(lzo river, where one freight- r" oosiroyed, two were lcit " onn eight wero dam- t 'SHOPPING- PRICE 5 CENTS in The Shunta-Cascade Wonderland u .Dtctmbtr , mi M. (Deo. S 40 Mln. Precipitation latt 21 tiouri HI ream ytaf dale forecast: ClearJnr. ; """" Xhuraday Shoollnf llaura - Oreron: Open 7:7 Cloa Tulelaket Open ,f..7:W " Claa nirin.arLnjui-r. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1944 Britons Seize EAM Off ices; Fight Spreads Number 10331 of ATHENS. D.c. 8 I, British soldiers salitd By STEPHEN BARBER IP) A British Sherman tank and nlNtnnn hoadauartar. nf Iha U(i....u. E . u party by storm today as lighting spread through wlda araas of m. Th commU"lt party building on Constitution square also or.n.rf... 5rch troopers forced the main entrance with armed prisoners. Including women. Some were ovefom!. ",h.rlU" ,,ld, ,hir b" distance would be overcome by tomorrow. In Piraeus, port of Athens, the clash! reportedly had subsided this afternoon. " of th. El.".' Ynihn!m!" "1 a,:h.lneguns broke out after snipers llr.5 -T ,h "lly of th. EAM, national liberation front iwjuna'srvh.",: Briu,h uoop' be," dwn' kiin - A Sherman tank was sent In to batter in the door of EAM headquarters, and British troop, charged the .cattortn" EAM defenders with half a dozen bursts of fire, and clean ing up floor by floor. One British soldier was killed by a bullet through the head while searching the building. A dying Elas soldier lay on the roof. Quantities of grenades, provisions, ammunition and rifles were strewn about the building, . but most of the de fenders apparently escaped. ; Establish Control ' British troops were establish ing control over the center of Athens by degrees, working out in- concentric rings. Sniping continued- Incessantly .through out the city, with occasional bigger thumps from grenades and machincguns. EAM refusal to disband its militia brought on the crisis, In which Britain has supported the shaken government of Pre mier George Papandreou. : Battla Aran '"' Thc point at which the'maln Athcns-Plracus road enters tho capital was the scene of con tinuous fighting. British troops, angered as casualties occur, are (Continued on Pago Two) By The Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 6 Soviet tanks sweeping past Lake Bala ton have plunged within 40 mile oi me Austrian border Moscow dispatches said today, while the ucrmans acknowledged a new threat to the Hungarian capital, Budapest. The soviet sweep, curling around the lower end of the great Hungarian lake, was boat ing through the final defense zone guarding the southeast door to ucrmany. Cross Danube The Berlin radio said Rus sians had crossed to the west bunk of the Danube below1 Buda pest from ..30-mile long Csepel Island, establishing: a now brldae. head and winning the town of cresi, zu miles south or the cap ital. Budancst was undor. large.. scale attack from both sides, the German high command declared, and fighting In Hungary was rising In violence, Ono Berlin broadcast said the main soviet blows were thrown In between the Danube and Lake Balaton, and that the Soviets gained ground toward the north and northwest. The German communique, however, declared these thrusts were largely halted. The race toward Austria en dangered rear communications of the large Yugoslav city of Zagreb. . . Doughboy Held In Gunshot Death Of Englishman HONINGHAM, Eng., Dec. 6 (yi) Detective Inspector Garner announced today the arrest of a U. S. soldier in tho gunshot death of Sir Eric Tcichman, 60, former British embassy counsel lor at Chungking, ' Tho soldier's name was not disclosed. Garner said the charge was of a serious nature," but did not define it. He said the sol dier was arrested at a U. S. camp, and remains In American custody, to appear before an American court, Sir Eric was found dead on the grounds of Honingham hall Sunday night after he had gone out in search of a poacher. At the inquest, Garner said Sir Eric had been slain by a 30-cnllbcr bullet similar to those used by U, S. troops. japs m FN L FDHVICTORY I n t e n s i f ication of Action On Leyte Expected By ELMONT WAITE GEln. MacAKTHXJK'S HEAD QUauTEKS, Pnilippines, Dec, 6 (H') Leyte island's muddy bat ilefronts may soon flare into the hottest fighting o the Philip pines campaign as 25,000 Jap anese in Ormoc valley begin a final desperate bid for victory or death. Clear indications that fighting may reach a new intensity with a break in the weather came to day on the eve of the Pacific war's third anniversary as Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced bazooka-firing American infan trymen crushed a tank-supported Japanese drive to break out of a vice at the northern end of Or moc corridor Sunday night. Rain Delays Action Rains still held back full-scale action as U. S. airmen and PT boats sank another destroyer, six small freighters and a tanker in wide sweeps through Philip pine waters. The enemy's relatively feeble information - seeking thrusts by small, scattered bands have been replaced by larger scale attacks. Frontline reports from all sec tors reveal solidly entrenched, well-trained, well-equipped large units ot Japanese instead oi ine former' straggling or , rearguard, units. . . . Well Dug-In ... First ' division - cavalrymen, harassed by artillery fire- and re peated tnrusts at tneir advanced ; .(Continued on Page Wo) Americans, British Disagree on Policy For Freed Countries DEN IC ES BRfTISH HIGH T TO INTERVENE Secretary Stands by English Veto On Carlo Sforza Huge Cost of War Against Japan Told by Somervell NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (P) Conquest of the Japanese will cost us $71,000,000,000 a year after ucrmany Is defeated, Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell pre dieted today. "The war against the jap alone will be the biggest war this country or this world ever fought before the present war," asserted the commanding gen eral of tho army service forces. Workers Needed Somervell declared 300,000 more war workers are needed at once on critical programs as he appealed for an "upsurge of production" in a speech pre pared for delivery before the National Association of Manu facturers. Secret weapons are being pro duced that "must be ready in large quantities for the Pacific pushes," the speaker declared. The devices are "not yet in use in Europe. use Tops uutput For tho first time munitions arc being used up faster than they are being produced, said Somervell, warning that the full fury of the war in Europe may not even have been reached and "wevare certainly not yet all out against Japan." Germany "with its undeni able fiendish skill and efficien cy is right now training thou sands of fresh troops and turn ing out millions of tons of GOP Maneuvers for Time To Nullify Expected Veto On Security Tax Freeze By JACK BSLL WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (IF) Republicans maneuvered today to keep congress on hand it the senate passes and the president vetoes legislation to ireeze so cial security taxes. With this season's time run ning short, the senate finance committee Is expected to ap prove, probably tomorrow, a measure Dasscd by a resounding 202 to 72 house vote yesterday. The bill would keep the payroll tax at 1 per cent each on em ployer and employe for another year, forestalling an oinerwiY automatic Increase to 2 per cent on January 1. ' Exoect veio Because tliey expect a presi dential veto, . republicans are anxious for congress to stay here on the possibility that the presi dent's action might be overridden. Wit l that in mum, ocnmui Vandenberg (R-Mich.) ;hai ; de clined an informal administra tion request for unanimous con sent that the senate lay asido a rivers and harbors bill, which it is now debating, to take up the war powers extension. Demands Promise He has demanded before agreeing to this that democratic leaders promise to keep the ses sion going long enough to keep the legislators in Washington for the 10 days after passage during which a veto may bo voted on. The administration wants the house approved war powers measure passed soon, because the extraordinary authority It gives the president otherwise would expire on December 31. But Senator Hill of Alabama, (he acting democratic leader, is having difficulty arranging any assurances such as Vandenberg wants. Other senators pointed out that despite any promises, congress might adjourn Itself for lack of a quorjim. equipment for them," the' man ufacturers were told. Up Estimate ' "Within the past 90 days we nave had to increase by 25 pel cent our estimate of the pro duction we believed we would neectrio fight the Japs after Getmfiny- is defeated," said Somervell, S wn e r v e 1 1 acknowledged heavy cost in ammunition and equipment, while reminding that "this nation has committed its troops to fighting the war in one. specific fashion with an overwhelming superiority of materiel . . . We would rather fire a ton of munitions than lose a single American soldier," By JAMES F. KING LONDON. Dec. 6 (IP) For eign Secretary Anthony fcden asserted flatly today that Brit ain was within her rights in try ing to shape the governments of liberated countries, and tnereby split completely with the Ameri can declaration ol a 1 nands-oit policy in Italy. Eden stood by the British gov ernment's veto of the proposed appointment of Carlo Sforza -' as Italian loreign minister, secre tary of State Stettinius had an nounced yesterday the United States did not oppose Sforza and felt the Italians should be al lowed to form their own govern ment j without outside interfer ence, - , House Divided . Eden's stand clearly ,; of sig nificance In the reshaping of; a post-war Europe brought divid ed sentiment in the-house. - Cries of "no" met a sugges tion of Ivor Thomas, laborite, that Britain, "withdrew graceful (Continued on Page Two) : Barracks Road Bids Scheduled ; The Oregon state.-highway commission announced Wednes day that it would open bids in Portland December 19 on 10 road jobs in the state including the grading and surfacing of the Alameda-Klamath Falls section of the Marine Barracks access road. ; .. '...' The stretch on which bids will be opened Is from Alameda street along the Old Fort road to where the Marine Barracks road pavement begins, a stretch some 1800 yards, long. . Supports Action Anthony Eden, foreign secre tary- of Britain, supports tne rignt ot England to voice opin ions on ministers in other coun tries.. TRUE eftje" 'true bills, two"'' riot-true bills and one secret indictment, were returned by the Klamath county grand jury late Tuesday afternoon following a' two-day session. etc. -True bills were returned-on investigation of the following and those' involved appeared for arraignment before uircuit Judge David R. Vandenberg at 10 a. m. Wednesday, i ' ' Time to Plead .'. Manson James Young, charg ed with negligent homicide -in connection with the death of William H. McPherren, Klamath Falls merchant. J. C. O'Neill is Young's attorney. Young asked for time to plead and the court set Saturday, .December a, at n a. m. . . Otto Ferroni, charged with as sault with a dangerous weapon on the Derson of Bruce Steppe, Big Lakes employe, on Novem ber .7. ierroni asKeo lor time to plead in court, date set for December 9. at 11 a. m. A. C Yaden is attorney . for Ferroni. nanes Bennett served as. inter preter for Ferroni, an Italian. Forgery Chars Donald Leon Johnson, charged with forgery, entered a plea of . (Continued on rage two; Action on the Italian Front SWITZERLAND, gt.st.'bernardX MU AOSTA rfU.eV. " '" 3SEW SltNiiMACERATSy - -.imijjimLI ,v ff l l.VeU' PTO CIVITANOVAm W)4 I eM ' WVT' JIS.',"NW,.eOP.TO 8. CIOROIO), TMnf "T'c D ASCOi pjf 'r Ravenna, Important German stronghold on the Adriatic, fell yesterday to units of the allied eighth army, now cleaning out isolated enemy troops. The front line extends roughly from Ra venna across th peninsula to Massa on th Llgurlan . ' ' ' f HANDSOFF POLICY EYED FOR GREECE Right to Choose Own Government Backed By Stettinius By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (IP) The United States is considering active application of its - Euro pean "hands-off" policy to Greece. The hope of officials here is that it may help to end me iignting Detween British troops and Greek EAM forces. - Uncertainty over exactly what course may be most effective in winning for the Greek people ireeaom oi political -action has stayed the hands of Secretary of State Stettinius for the time be ing. But it was :said. that the basic .policy , enunciated yester day for Itfllv flnH "pvpn mnro" for the liberated European coun tries snomo i apply particularly ;w -sime-ntiaen oreece. ..- ,- No Interference -1 The state'denartment rfppinrpH m. its policy statement ihat all liberated peoples should have the right to choose - their own governments without outside in- tuonunued on Page Two) PFC Levi Reeves Killed in Action PFC Levi T. Reeves. 32. Unit ed States army infantryman, died ucioDer zb irom wounds re ceived in action on Levte. The Philippines, according to a wire from the. war department sent the soldier's wife, Mrs. LeVerne Reeves, 1229 E. Main, early Wed nesday. Reeves was wounded October 26, and his family was advised at that time that his condition was serious. He leaves his wife and four children, the eldest 10 years of age. his mother. Mrs. James Reeves and a sister, Mrs. Jennie Hubbard both of S. 5th street. Two brothers are in the service, Bill of the U. S. army, stationed in Texas, and Milton of the U. S. marine corps, San Diego. Born in Eugene, Reeves moved to Klamath Falls as a young boy. For four years he was employed by Patterson Paint store and one year ago he enlisted in the service. His widow is the form er LeVerne Gherkin. Troops Beat Down Six Miles Toward : ; Saarbrucken V ' By JAMES M. LONG ' i PAIS. Dec. 6 (p) Amer. leans of the third army forde4 the Saar river at six places and won two-thirds of the French border town of Sarregueminea today. Artillery vas turned on the Germans withdrawing north ward into the Saarland. Other assault teams beat down the last six miles toward burn, ing Saarbrucken, little Pitts burgh of the rich coal and iron basin and the kpv in noinnn defenses. faJ; ,Gen' Paul w- Baade'" dOth infantry division nvnmn the major part of Sarreguemine vpup. i,uuu), against light rei sistance. The lareest Fronnti town on the river, it was enter ed this morning. i . . The Germans blew nn nil n bridges across the Saar in with arawmg into the third of th town they still held. . ' , Cress River " ' '. Patrols crossed the river, nf a seventh place, at Merzig, 18 miles northwest of invested Saar. lautern. where Gprmane dm held out in strong knots around concrete advance posts of that Siegfried line. M. Gen. George S. Patton'a assault trooDs foueht intr th Siegfried line itself at two places beyond the river in the Saar lautern area. . Squeeie Hold Patton's rieht and the flank. ing U. S. seventh army squeez. ed down the German hold on northern Lorraine the Karls ruhe corner to a strip no mora than 50 miles long and only five to 20 miles' deep. His troops aim poureo tnrougn tne ong. li-ontmued . on Page Two) ;; f Truscott Named Leader of Fifth ROME. Dec. 6 (IP) Lt. Gen. Luclan K. Truscott Jr., 49, who commanded allied forces on the Anzio beachhead and later led assault troops in the invasion of southern France, was appointed commander of the U.. S.. fifth army today. -Truscott succeeds Lt. ' Gen. Mark W. Clark, recently named commander of the loth army group. Clark, as commander of all allied ground forces In Italy, succeeds Field Marshal Sir Har old Alexander, - who was ap pointed - allied commander-in- chief in the Mediterranean. ' Carl found unconscious on the pave. mem in iromr oi rterns imple ment company, 734 S: 6th, early Wednesday morning, victim of a severe beating. : Bold" was still unconscious at a late hour this afternoon - at " Klamath; Valley hospital. He is suffering from head injuries, a possible skull fracture and other injuries, aej cording to the attending physi. cian. r City police were called' at 7:30 a. m.. bv W. W. Lonmis. 124 Jefferson, Kerns' employe, who found Bold lying at the' right side of his car with his head un. der the running board. Loomis wraPDed the man in a canvasL . If nntinnoH on PaM TVirt '""' ; -., ,. wwr iiiiiiiiiww Hears Reports ; - With most of the members' present, the USO operations committee held its first major meeting at chamber of com. merce rooms last night, heard reports and received assign ments for division of work in operating the -big hospitality program for service men here. Members of the committee are: Clarence A. Humble, chair man; Lynn Roycroft, ' vice-chairman; Lt.' Col. Verne Austin, Lt: Col. George Van Orden, Com mander R. R. Darron, Major Joe Foss, Major Henry Faus, Lt. Humphries, Lt. Wayne Holmes, Chaplain S. D. Crothers, Chap lain O. W. Jones. Isabel Bnxner, Myrtle Elling. son, Virginia Schubert, Martha McCollum, Malcolm Epley, Charles Stark, Esther Lawlerj John Sandemeyer, Arnold Gra-t lapp, G. C. Lorenz, U. E. Reed er, John Houston, A. M. Collier; Nelson Reed, Rose Poole, i and Mrs, Barbara Jackman. Members of the USO staff are Gregory Foley, director; Richard Meyers, Alice Miles, May Conrad! and Fannie Mushen. ' , . - Pilot Runs Amok in Plane. Finally Dives to Death; VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 6 (CP) A pilot under training ran amok in a twin-engine bomber today and for four and a half hours endangered lives of civil ians and servicemen as he dived and performed seemingly impos sible maneuvers before finally plunging to his death. An attempt was made to drive him down to an aerodrome by using . fighter planes. ; Pilots were instructed not to fire on him, but to try to maneuver him down, but he paid no attention to tneir etiorts and continued nis wild acrobatics. Time after time ho put his big craft intq dives, pulling up below hangar height. The bomber missed persons, buildings and parked aircraft by scant inches. Finally, from a height of about 1000 feet he went Into a roll and dived straight Into tha ground at Tilsbury island, six miles south of Vancouver. The pilot was Instantly killed and the aircraft wrecked. Name of the pilot will not b released until next-of-kin has been notified. .: . . . ,p . . .....