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?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
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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-
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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
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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,
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AOSTA
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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. .:
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