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By FRANK JENKINS
OMETHING thrilling hoppcns
(JpkabL HARBOR DAY un
f ,Zm end through the mine
s'1 ,Ii Surlguyo strait and the
I'Z jd wS or. to the west of
Lro Sl'UTTINU their lino.
I1' ,.nlnnl((.,G... nun
I !oy thut win bringing enemy
I Xrcoi-nls to Ormoc ami
I'lHKS IT OUT. along wilh Uw
1110 JUI bu"-' "V ,
ulpmci.t H was carrying!
f. Wns n during operation, cur
ried out In tc "full "Peed
lead n" """ 1110 l".' v., . "
f ,,7i.. nr Farrugul. Thcsi
E men of ours HAVE
JilA'l IT TAKES.,
2 .if A n
!T tho iaino lime, our nm
SHIPS und uriny and navy
,d'-busccl liouvy bombers (In
ding -2lJ) hit tho JP Bir
ds on lwo Jlmn (In tho Vol-
Io group; uum .' t
mbcrs have been uttacklnt
r B-2 bases In the Marianas.
The wording of Nlmltz' com
, i.wli....l..a Ihtit ihn tit
' itir: ,mnnutvho nur
r . " .. "." . vv-p v.;
E Pacific. . .
fi. mm a l nnl nnlv near
enough lo make more or less
uitaiit nuisance attacks on our
orlsnns bases It is halfway to
,kyo ON THE ROUTE of our
Wt. JI planes rising from
IICHIS mil wm"-" " "
fcp to that. f
rHE Tokyo radio today admits
1 iu -.-tl,inlr,v
IXhe lone of the admission Is
fit It was a liUUM vi in A i urn.
lldnl waves washing Nippon's
.nnnet ltlne tron n( filth and
feving them clean and sanitary
id earth shocks DrooKing win
Im and letting In the pure out-
Eoair to Keep me uups iicn
r ...
rUVM If rnMM to nUttinff
I good face on affairs, you
ve to hand it to the llttlo vol-
men. -Do you suppose they
illy arc sappy enough to swul-
tw mat Kind or gnu i
TIN 1
r an
iN Lcytc, we're hunting down
' ni l-iiiimm n, 9nn Kiilrldn
ll.n .l.n. Innrlprl to
S ,.i ll,.,ln., nur nlrflnlH
icrc. Wo'vo finished oft most
i them
AN thp wpstprn front, tho Ger
U A,. .r. t.AVlNP.
Iinirp srnpPNd nn tlip pnst
Ink of the Roer river possibly
I , i i . i r n,nu
Ithdrawnl to tho lino of the
tit.
i
(N the Cologne plain, we're
II n n n n . irlkt ntlMH
tP.riT Tf Fini-IT. Hnvlntt
hicrior power, wc can choose
i nlapp mirt thn time. We'VO
loscn Aachcn-Cologno . ns the
lice and NOW as the time.
Having tho WEAKER torce,
pn Hundstcdt lias to necepi our
oleo. If ho weakens himself
fight somewhere else, wc 11
lasn mm at uotognc
SaTTON'S 3rd is biting deeper
1 day by day Into the Snar,
filch provides 10 per cent of
frmnny s iron nnd sicoi. waicn
You never can toll wnai
II do next-
and neither can
'. Germans.
HE Russians arc squeezing
Budnncst In n constantly
IMenins grip. The Germans
lb rnchimr 1,. rnlnfnrppmpnts
Jim Vienna. The fighting thcro
am
urnwlnir in ftirv
SLA
HE Germans nro reported to
day to bo show nn signs oi
Vvousnoss about WINTER de-
f llopmenls In East Prussia and
111 lland rnidlng the Russian
I'l HOI! fni nrlonnnKe en Bo In 0pt
r .v. ..li.ulV(j OU " ,
ormntion ns to disposition oi
f iroops, etc.
'HE British seem to bo got-
"ng tho unncr hand in
ccce. Arnnnri mnn F.lns have
premiered, neeord nn to today
piwicncs. Athens' . hosDiini;
! reported swamped with
ualtlcs of tho fighting.
' the house of commons, Chur-
:n II dpmnnrlc ANH flFTS I
C Of eonflHnnpp nn his pnn
ft of the Greek affair the
iins lit 9'in tn fin
l-haraetcrlstlcally, he wades
fists swinging. Ho says
lontmiiert on Pngo Two)
iSHOPPING-
ttTVP m GET
PRICE 5 CENTS
Third Bores Deeper
Into Siegfried Line;
Rips Saarbrucken
By JAMES M. LONG
PARIS, Doc. 8 (PI The third armv bored mils and half
Into th SUafrUd lint at points
under Intense German fire today
brucken and Its steel mills with long toms and heavy howitsers
firing three miles or so from that capital.
The 90th division advancing steadily past Dllllngen knocked
out a number of thick pillboxes In the wooded area three miles
north of Saarlautern.
(The Paris radio broadcast that the third army had captured
Forbach, rail city of 11,500, three and a half miles southwest of
Saarbrucken.)
The 11th regiment of the fifth division which began an attack
two months ago upon the underground labyrinth of Fort Driant,
five miles southwest of Mels, finally captured that stronghold
INTERVENTION
POLICY BACKED
BY CHURCHILL
LONDON, Dec. 8 (IP) In
fighting mood today, Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill defend
ed Britain's intervention in
Greece ond Italy and won a
resounding 279-30 vote of confi
dence from the house of com
mons. The 70-vcar-old leader recelv
cd his ninth vote . of confidence
after declaring that. Britain had
acted in uraeoo only to ' avert
gongstcr rule. Ho stood by the
British government's opposition
to Count Carlo Sforza, whom
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By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (P)
A top-ranking manpower offi
cial sharply told senate investi
gators today that a solution to
tho labor shortage cannot await
prolonged debate.
Charles M. Hay, deputy chair
man of the war manpower com
mission, said legislation giving
tho commission authority to en
force its ceilings on civilian em
ployment would be "very help
ful," but added:
Unfortunate Attention'
"If time is taken up in dis
cussing whether it should be
Dasscd. it would get the public
attention centered on the lack of
teeth In our enforcement pro
(Continued on Pago Two)
fee Impedes
Diving Work
A heavy sheet of Ice was in
pedlng operations at Clear lake
in northern California, where
divers were attempting to lo
cate tho wreckage of a medium
bomber which crashed with the
pilot and a passenger early Mon
day while on a routine training
flleht from the Klamath naval
air station. Neither the plane
nor bodies of the two had been
recovered late Thursday,
Naval air station officials
said thot every effort to locato
the wreckage would contlnuo
despito weather conditions.
B-29 Bombings
Cause of Quake In
HAMILTON, N. Y Dec. 8 (m
A Colgate university geologist
said today B-29 bombings of the
Tokvo area may have caused
Thursday's earthquake and tidal
waves In Japan. . " ,
Dr. Horold O. Whltnall main
tained that giant bombs dropped
In or near Japanese volcanoes
"should produce not only cata
clysmic eruptions but also earth
quakes and tidal waves.'
Cites Examples
"Let's look at .happenings
which seem to support my he
on," ho sold. "Soon after Doo
llttlo raided Tokyo in April,
1042, Mt. Asama erupted. In
March, 1943, after our flyers
had given the surrounding area
a terrific pounding, Mt. Vesu
vius erupted. Now an earth
quake and tidal waves of the
typo I said could be produced
by bombing have occurred af
ter repeated attacks on Japan.
Such a chain of coincidences
In The Shanta-CaHcade Wonderland
light miles Inside the Saarland
and steadily reduced Saar
along with 670 prisoners.
On. the third army s right,
the seventh army of Lt. Gen.
Alexander M. Patch rolled the
Germans toward the Soar and
Palatinate on a 35-milc front
and advanced within 4V4 miles
of the frontier.
Rinoed Anart
Saarbrucken, capital of the
Saarland and center of its in
dustry, was being ripped to
pieces by artillery within sight
of the burning city of 135,000,
for the ninth consecutive day.
The Germans themselves were
wrecking Saarlautern with their
own artillery, trying to hamper
the American buildup of as
sault forces in the arsenal val
lev. ' '
The ninth army to the north
reported new signs of enemy
movement in little villages east
of the Roer, east and southeast
of Julich. Thunderbolts bomb
ed two bridges on the Erft river
and canal which the Germans
are likely' to defend outside Col
ogne and other ttnineiana cities
snouia me nines lores me tiuuu-
-ed Roer. '
, Captures Mouterhouse
The seventh army captured
Mouterhouse, four miles south
of the Maginot stronghold oi
nitehe which was attacked by
75 planes.. Patch moved nis
center ihto Gainbsheim, a mile
from the Rhine and eight north-
pout of Strasbourg.
It was wet and cold along
tho whole front, restricting fly-
inff.
Infantry or it. uen. touruiey
H. Hodges' first army seized
high ground between Inden and
(Continued on -age iwoj
Turkey Supply
Ample for Area
The federal government has
set aside 13,000 pounds of tur
key for service consumption in
Klamath Falls over tho holidays,
according to word received from
the Marine BarracKs.
All marines wno live In town
may submit their names to the
post quartermaster by December
20th requesting a turkey. Each
marine will be allowed only
enough for his Immediate fom
lly.
This program includes the
Klamath naval air station and
possibly the soldiers stationed at
the Tulelake segregation center.
There should be ample tur
keys for all civilian demands
over the forthcoming holidays,
according to C. A. Henderson,
county agent, although a part of
the Klamath turkey crop was
marketed for the Thanksgiving
trade.
The total turkey crop for the
year is estimated from 25,000 to
30,000 birds, Henderson said,
which is somewhat smaller than
normal. Two mnjor reasons for
this decrease are feed costs and
the shortage of competent help.
There is yet no detinue miorma
tlon as to the quota and supply
of turkeys avaiianie.
Cited as
Japan
great 'quake area, Japanese offl-
seems at least strong circum
stantial evidence."
Pointing out that Japan was
the greatest earthquake center
in the world, the geologist ex
pressed the opinion that earth
structure around Tokyo was so
badly fractured that almost any
bombing mignt cause a is loca
tions leading to 'quakes.
Dread Indirect Damaae
"In my opinion," Whitnall
said, "the Japanese are fully
aware of the possibilities and
Hva in constant dread of air at
tacks, not so much for the direct
damage they would do as for
the possibility they might cause
cataclysmic earthquakes and
eruptions among hundreds- of
slumbering volcanos In the em-
nlr(.
"Twenty years ago when our
fleet- entered tne nay oeiween
Tokvo and Yokohama, also
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1944
L$-29s iBomb Dwo Jima;
Quake Damage Admired
MIME
FLOODS JAP
BUILDINGS
Landslide Started
Shake, Dorinei
Reports
by
By The Associated Press
Radio Tokyo admitted today
that the earthquake yesterday
caused a tidal wave which cov
ered houses with water, started
a landslide and damaged build
ings. . .
After almost a day of denials
of major damage, the Japanese
news agency Domei admitted
that Tokyo was shaken and that
a tidal wave inundated nouses,
The Domcl : dispatch, inter
cepted by the federal communi
cations commission, said:
Center in Ansbu
"The seismic center of the
earthquake which hit the Tokyo
district yesterday afternoon was
in the sea of Anshu.
"The districts affected by the
(Continue po. f age Two)
Christmas buying from, gift
shops to grocery stores was re
ported going great guns fn the
shopping section and merchants
anticipated tomorrow, Saturday,
would dc one oi tne rjusiest aays
on record.
With only 13 more shopping
days left until Christmas, stores
were reportedly selling mer
chandise as fast as it was mark
ed and Dut on the shelves, and
one merchant said Friday that
only constant small shipments
of gift articles Kept tne counters
stocked.
Desmto the fact that this year
is expected to top last year's
record buying spree, stocks were
holding up fairly well even in
the face of a war-time shortage.
One of the "dime" stores re
ported the toy section virtually
tuontmuea on r age i wo;
Bold's Condition
Critical, Report
Carl Bold. Henley farmer who
was found early Wednesday on
South Sixth street, had not re
gained consciousness at Klam
ath Valley hosmtal late Friday.
His condition remained critical.
No charge had been filed in
the case and. according to the
district attorney's office, no ac
tion would be taken until uoia s
condition changed. -
Red Army's
I ' 1 T"T 5
i .I . j j u
Tinlj v"Pr" f-e jpFy
: S"UWGY El
jSin
YUGOSLAVIA
STATUTf MlLfS
Black arrows locate red army advances with large shaded
arrow Indicating possible continuation ot tnese drives towora
Austria. Pushing along Lake Balaton, the Russians took Balaton
Boglar and to the south captured Marcall and Siigctvar, Heavy
line is approximate came iront.
Wounded Arrive From Leyte
- Being wheeled from the train- platform by attendants it ihi
army's general hosoital at Van Nuys, Calif.. ta the first tw
casualties to arrive from the Philippine's inrasion. Sgfe. George
A. McFall (left), Willamette. Ore.,-- and PFC Charles B. :Tucker
(right). Orrick,, Mo.; both suff ered shrapnel wounds from Japa
nese mortars on Leyte. (AP wirephoto). 5 :- ::!,
British Rush to Intercept
700 Advancing Elas Troops
By STEPHEN BARBER
ATHENS, Dec. 8 (P) British
patrols in tanks and armored
cars pushed out from Athens to
day to meet 700 insurgent Elas
militiamen advancing trom the
northeast on the Greek capital,
King Given Vote
Of Confidence
OTTAWA, Dee. 8 (IP) The
Canadian parliament gave
Prime Minister W. i. MacKen
zle King a decisive vote of con
fidence today in a move endors
ing his decision to conscript
troops for replacements in Eur
ope and apparentU- burying the
nation-splitting conscription is
sue for the duration of the war.
The vote was 143 to 70, with
nationalistic French. Canada,
traditionally opposed to con
scription for 'fighting overseas,
dividing to give tho government
a measure of support regarded
as a riersonal triumph for the
'veteran prime minister. .
Advance
CZECHOStOVWA
ia- wirepnoio mpi.
lliwpiiii
Dtomtir 9, 1944
Mix. (Dec. 7) 44 Mln,
PreclplUtioa Ut 84 boa ft
fttrcim year to dal
Normal 3.2t LH ytt .
Forecaal: Clear and Cold. -
Batarday Bhootlnr Hoara
Orefont Open 7:40 Close
Tnlclake: Open Close
where general firing was re
sumed. Clearing skies broke the over
night lull in the civil strife, i
irom neavy macninegun posi
tions atop the royal palace and
captured communist headquar
ters in Constitution square, Brit
ish Darachute -trooos covered pa
trols fanning out through the
wooded park behind and east of
the palace.-
intimate-wooas
Elas patrols infiltrated the
woods and took up new posi
tions during the night, despite
constant ' fire. The . Elas . .were
reported dug in strongly around
five ' concrete stadia deeper in
the nark. . '.; '
.Parachute troons mirsued the
house to "house cleanup., in,' the
residential section across the
main road to Pireaus from the
park to the foot of the Acro
polis. Farachuters - held . the
heights of the Acropolis.
tias strategy
The Elas strategy appeared to
be to bring up forces, from the
southeast suburbs, around back
of the royal palace to reinforce
insurgents - engaging ' a Greek
mountain brigade barracks to
the northwest.' Reserves also
were reported coming in from
the northwest to join the en
gagement.
British tieaungnter pianes
stood by with propellers wniri-
ing for use if needed. An Elas
wounded man saia in a hospital
that Spitfire and Beaufighter
fire caused a number of Elas
casualties yesterday.
snmers were reported giving
considerable trouble in some
residential quarters, however,
and occasional bullets still whip
ped over the former royal palace
In Constitution sauare. where
Greek civil police were holding
rooftop positions.
Layton Executed; Protests
Innocence to Time of Death
SALEM, Dec. 8 (Protest
ing his innocence until poison
gas reached his nostrils,' Rich
ard Harry Layton died- in tne
lethal gas chamber today for
the rape-slaying of 17-year-old
Ruth Hlldebrand in June, 1943.
The poison pellets were
dropped at 9:09 a. m., and Lay
ton was pronounced dead a
minute later as 75 - persons
crowded around the tiny cham
ber. , i ,
Seventh to Die
The former Monmouth police
Officer was the seventh man to
die in this chamber, and the
Number 10333
mm
L
Shizuoka Blasted
Reconnaissance
- Plane .
by
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8; (IP)
A sizeable task force of B-29 s
dropped : a "record load of
bombs" on. Iwo Jima, in the
Japanese Bonin-Volcano - islands
yesterday. - . ; , .
SHIZUOKA BOMBED
TWENTY-FIRST U.S. BOMB
ER COMMAND. Sainan, Dec. 8
(P) One American Superfort
ress Dorarjer on a weatner- rec
onnaissance dropped incendiary
bombs on - Shizuoka, important
Japanese rail cenfer. 100 . miles
southwest of Tokyo, early to
day.
The crew returning to their
balpan base reported their in
cendiaries started four fires, vis-
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I OF
SPEARS NEAR CITY
By DANIEL de LUCE.
MOSCOW,- Dec. 8 :(IP) The
heavily armored right wing of
the Russian third Ukraine .army
was reported little more, than 15
miles from Budapest today in
the fiercely sustained drive to
cut off - the Hungarian capital
from Austrian communications.
Field dispatches said the forces
of-Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin
were pounding, a big wedge in
the enemy s flank; west of the
Danube, but resistance by the
nazis, reinforced by troops rush
ed from Vienna, increased as the
battle- surged toward Budapest.
Szekesfeheryar, junction of
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i
Redeliver Lumber Company,
Sold to Big Co-Op, Part of
Fabulous Wal ker Empire
-Red River Lumber company
properties at Westwood, Calif.,
230 miles south of here, which
were announced as sold yester
day to the Fruit Growers Supply
company of Los Angeles, are a
part of the fabulous lumbering
empire built by T. B. Walker,
once listed as one of America's
eight richest men.
In the deal announced at Min
neapolis yesterday, the Walker
interests sold the sawmill and
its satellite manufact ur i n g
plants, railroads, lumber inven
tories, etc., as well as about 100,
000 acres of timber land. In the
deal, also, was the town of
Westwood, familiar to hundreds
of Klamath people; The consid
eration was reported at approxi
mately $11,000,000. and Decem
ber 15 is the effective date of
sale. ,
- . Coooeratlve
The California Fruit Growers
supplv comoanv is a coorjerative,
and is the simolv agency for the
huge California Fruitgrowers
first to expire insisting he was
innocent. " '
In a long statement given to
reporters before leaving the
death cell, Layton insisted that
a soldier pushed the girl into
the stream, and that he tried to
save her. He had given the girl
and the soldier a ride from
Rlrlrronl. hi said.
"If this is looked up It will
ho found to be so." he said. "I
had no relations with the girl,
but the soldier did.
- "I wanted a lie detector tost
and they refused to give lt to
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YANKS SLAS
JAP DEFENSES
TRHJO
13 -Ship Convoy Sunk
: With 4000 Troops '-5
Off Leyte .
By C. YATES McDANIEL
GENERAL M a c A RTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Philippines,'
Dec. 8 (IP) Veteran 77th divisJ
ion Yanks from Guam, daringly
put asnore Dy tne navy to the
rear .of more than 25,000 trap,
ped Japanese, rolled rabidly
north today toward the enemy' .
west Leyte reinforcement port
of Ormoc, less than three miles'
away. . ."
The surprise landing Thurs,
day in Ormoc harbor, under the)
guns of seventh fleet destroyers
and swarms of fighter planes,
cut in half the heavily defend
ed Yamashita defense line. .-
Anniversary Blow .. y
Coming on the third anni.
versary of Pearl Harbor th
Ormoc attack was a bloody and
grim reminder to the Japanese)
that American arms have grown'
powerful . and -lethal since- that
day which plunged the .United
States into war. -
This bold penetration of th1
Philippines inland seas to west
Leyte, made while Yanks - on"
east Leyte were, hunting down?
and killing the bulk of 200:
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' Directors of the Klamath lrris
gation district were on record,
today as favoring an investigaV .
tion by the state hydro-electric
commission , of the advisability
of -creating, a people's utility disJ
trict in Klamath county. , -, '
The- board pointed out ' that
Bonneville representatives have
claimed cheaper power could ba
brought here through a Bonne,
vill transmission -line and a,
PUD. A "probe -by the - stata
hydro commission, brought about
by petitions should settle, that
question, the district board said.
-- Action of the irrigation board,
differed from- that taken recent
ly by the county court and tha
city council, both of which -re
solved in favor of bringing Bon
neville power into Klamath
county.1 - j..- -.-. ....
" The irrigation district board,
also went on record as opposed
to: "any proposal to limit. . Bpn
neville. power to the place oi
production," 1 taking note of -an
effort in congress to limit gov
ernment power sales to the gen
erating points, rather than on
transmission lines. The- irrlga'
tion board's action in this' mafi
ter is in accord with that of tha
directors of the Klamath county
chamber of commerce. 1
Exchange, marketing and pack
ing agency tor trom ao.uuu ta
60,000 fruit growers. It is tha
famed Sunklst citrus fruit out
fit. " . .'
California Fruitgrowers sum
ply has long operated a big mill-
and box factory at Susanvills,
near Westwood, and also has a
plant at Hilt, near the California-Oregon
line" north of Yreka.
It- manufactures boxes for the
packing and shipping of fruit
for the huge cooperative it
serves, "s ' i
, Began About 1915
The Walker interests began
purchasing and consolidating
timber holdings In the nearby
areas of northern California
many years ago, finally extend
ing control over approximately
1,000,000 acres. The operations
at Westwood by the Red River
Lumber company, owned by tha
waixer people, began in apout
laia. -,
Active in timber operations in
this territory for many years
was the Walker-Hovey company.
iounciea Dy wiins wainer, son
of T. B. Walker and one-tlma
president of the Red River Lum
ber company, and Richard
Hovcy, long a prominent resi.
dent of Klamath Falls. Both
men died some years ago, but
some timber holdings in this
area are still familiarly known
as Walker-Hovey timber. "
T. B. Walker's entry into tH
timber business dates back to
1862, when he went to Mlnne
apolls. He was long the largest
operator in Minnesota timber
lands and lumbering, extending
his realm later to California.
A patron of the arts, he cov
lected a huge array of objects,
and long maintained the only
actually free art gallery tn
either Europe or America at
tached to his home in Minnea
polis. He died about 20 yean
ago. ' . : ; v.';-