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yiijvijy) U mm I ijtigjiQiigjpiQj ' US HAMMERS lav's lews! Lib nootin w',r, 'i,tlu ln' 1 ,l,c liiitkgrouiiu unuy. i iTlCAt warfare (which we're r iho hnblt of referring to loose In 'no II, ,,,,,1 niiwL'r mil- flll.lj.ocluro. I .. r l ..,1,,.) I. nnil. L ,bly n history-making speech, iJ!. Poland ovor lo Russia, to In"1.' ',. " il, nrrnrdlllll to ItllS- ftrZm. lie snys that Hus l K dew as 10 Iol"ntl ta, b0 ffl 'oSrilnm,t liken Lfent, ho asserts mm t no wor . K! (overnmcnt and people ot " united Stales huvo act their l.u will bo FATALLY niupTUnKD by a quarrel bo F iuv nt t in three ureal B" (Hussin, Brit"1 0,,d f'jS', lono thnt borders on ox- i,,rn on, no suyo. ma -Lo ot he United Stulcs Iwi.i l'"a. .i..fin.ri with the lire. hoi p"-'1 ,i. vrn:i V. i. ; Llilnn WHICH I ie Dimon kw,vii- P iTai thought H WISE to : ... iEADING between the linen, ..l thn imnroitslon r,...i.. n wrmiulv) thnt he Is "'," . i ... ihnt If wo don't tilav V .- hr il,h In Iho 1 h? kick ovm Em world security organization ffSltoWIIAT WE'RE FIGHTING OR I" fcurope. . One hopes, ol course, ui mis I MIS1 AIS.1.1J impression uuir hnh nd it nil.' W a nsiinl In these big Inter ..iinnul nffulre. wo hnve to bau. . . , frt hunt 0nPt LS ! i rrK c n tf Phnrrhlll re ltd upon (or nt least HOPED Uor) our nncKiim in mt uin Milr. Falling to got II, he muy In milkft n doill Wltll Hussin while such a dcnl Is still posslblo. He mny be saying to Stalin; GIVE US GREECE, In the Mediterranean, ond you can do is you wish with Poland and lh Baltic." We can be quite ccrtnln that in conceding Poland as shrowd t trader ns Churchill would want wmethlng worth while In return, WHAT R'ussln hag" agreed, lo, " or will ngroo to, we don't know. We probably won't bo lold, In so many words. Russlu is the great Sphynx. She snys aothlnK and saws wood. We'll have to Judge by events as they Iranrolro. , But IF European countries :sueh es Poland and Greece) are lobe handed back and forth over the counter In denls Involving poilwnr spheres of Influence and ilratrgic locations it will be obvious to nil thnt the Atlnntic thartcr hns been kicked into the iisenrd. . ALL this Is admittedly gucss n work In the dnrk. With the riluatlon whnt It Is !n the wor'.d today, we Amrrlcnns SHOULD N'T BE GUESSING IN THE DARK. The risks Involved arc 100 GREAT. Fluhtlnu In F.nrnnn nre mil- linm nt A'nnrlnnnn uhnsn NO. 1 WAR AIM Is to lick the Ger Nns and GET HOME. Their .10. 2 dim is to do the jod so Ml (Including the peace nftcr jlhe Germans are licked) thnt sthelr SONS won't hnve to fight lanH riln In VnrnnA tn Ihift NfimC ld bloody cycle, II we hnve to go on guessing In the dark without enlighten mtnt from our lenders who know whnt It Is nil nbout, wo'll ). kl.i mpiT I ITCinM. "V IIPK1UK II1U UIOlLUUWiv.' MENT of these millions of men tU'kft nt... fl..l.llM l,,l,,rt In l"iiw mi; HKiiiiiiK uiim '.v,"i jtlif mud of Europe and of their ixiaiuus rciniivcs oi noinu. I Thnl tn lllr ...nuM I,a IrniTln. lis consequence's would bo even noro tragic. THIS writer, an Irrepressible believer In tolling the people ' democrncy such as ours the mlU .1 i , ln r "i iiuuiu Wlllll is KuniK fUnks this is the time for our ti"ernmeni to DreiiK nu m--noary old rules of the nnclcnt Jfd' rule-bound profession of diplomacy nnd give tno Amcr- f "u pmpic nn nccurnio picmio ' what lies behind all this dlck ring. ... N the shooting war In Europe, i urn spoiiigm snuis touny iu Itie Amni.nnn Til. n.v... luhlnh I'tne up through Frnnc'e from l,Jho 7lh crosses INTO GER rAY nt the corner north of ""innnn where ino norner ai rignt angles wcstwnru juinuiiicn on I'ngc r iv SHOPPING- WLLNOU? Herald amlt PRICE 5 CENTS Churchill Asks for Unity; Big Three Meeting BRITON BACKS RED DEMANDS Prime Minister Sides With Stalin Against Exiled Poles By the Anoclal.d Prtii LONDON, Dec. 15 (I) Siding with Hussin in the Polish dispute, Prime Minister Churchill todny confessed disappointment at de lays in reconvening the big tnrco nnd bespoke unity among the great powers lest n new structure of world government die in inception. The prime minister virtually nbnndoncd the- London Polish government, nt least as now coil' stltutcd. and supported as rcn sontiblc the Russiun demands for territory in old Poland which tno exiled government has re fused to yield. Maintains Sll.nc The Polish Bovcmmcnt In ex- lie maintained officinl silence on the prime minister's address, but Poles in London expressed be lief It meant that Britain would recognize the Soviet - sponsored Lublin 'committee unless Ex-Pro-mlcr Slnnlslnw Mikolajczyk was brought back into the London government, The, speech spread gloom over Premier Thomasz Arclsczwski s subordinates. - Once Churchill spoke of condi tions "if" the great powers ngrce. Agnin, no mentioned "now much (Continued on Pngo Two) OF VELEZ DEATH ASKED BEVERLY HILLS, Cnllf., Dec. 15 (P) Coroner Frank Nance today demanded that the district attorney begin an im mediate investigation of all the circumstances surrounding the death of Movie Actress Lupe Velez. Nnncc snld he was "not satis fied with the wny the case was handled by the Beverly Hills police. He pointed out that the .suicide notes in which the fiery Latin-American actress dis closed she was to become an unwed mother, wcro not de livered to his office for several hours after they were found.. Unsatisfied "Wo also had to send out I w 1 c o to get the two phials found In Miss Velez' home," snld Nnncc, "and we arc not satisfied with the questioning of the witnesses by the Beverly (Continued on Page Two) FDRTERRITORY Churchill Scraps Atlantic Charter; Backs Red Demand By LOUIS P. LOCHNEH LONDON, Dec. 15 (!') Prime Minister Churchill wittingly or unwittingly rendered Marshal Stulln n three-fold service today by Ills forceful intervention In Polish affairs. First, he supported uncondi tionally the Russian premier s demand for the annexation to the USSR of Polish lands cast of the Curzon line, arens in which Lwow has been the chief bone of contention. Agrees to Annexation Beyond that, he ngrccd by in dication to Russia's annexation !,f a largo slice of East Prussia lying between Konigsberg and Soviet-ized Lithuania, and In cluding a prize nll-year seaport, M Churchill confined his analy sis to staling whnt Polnntl would eel nt Germany's expense as compensation for the loss of lnnds enst of the Curzon line. Ho did not say that Russia, too, would fall heir to German terri tory. Yet no other interprets ton seems possible than lha such portions of Gorman East Prussia as lie north and east of Konigsberg will be awarded to Russia by British consent. Other, wise there would once again arise the problem of German corridor to what would be left of Enst Prussia after tho areas from In The Shanta-Caneade Wonderland 7th Army Invades Reich; Threatens Rhineland Cities By WILLIAM L HYAN Associated Press War Editor Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's U. S. seventh army inradsd Germany today the iourth American army to penetrate the German fatherland. The seventh drove across the northeast tip of Alsace into the German Palatinate, less than seven miles from Karlsruhe and 35 miles from Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. all great Rhineland industrial cities. As the seventh surged forward on a 35-mile front, the sixth army group of which it is a part, threatened envelopment of the whole German Palatinate and Saarland. The Germans threw in fresh troops as Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devon' sixth army group extended its grip along or near the west bank of the Rhine to 105 miles, from Lauterbourg to the Swiss border. The seventh's advance of 15 miles north in less than three days carried the Americans to within less than a mile of the frontier,-Big guns hammered shells into the Siegfried line and - " by. Berlin account some fell in YANK PLANES ATTACK NORTH PHILIPPINES " By ELDON OTTENHEIMER Associated Press War Editor ' 1 Big armadas of American carrier-based planes hnve attacked the Japanese-held northern Phil ippines again today (Japanese time) the Nipponese radio re vealed in an unconfirmed broad cast which followed-disclosure that the American navy was using spectacular new tactics in the area. Thursday (Japanese time) car rier planes kept most of Japan's nnrthorn PhiliDDines air- force pinned to the ground while de stroying 91 enemy planes, set ting two destroyers afire and damnglng other Nipponese ship ping. The Japanese reported 100 planes in today's attack hit the Clark field area near Manila while "some 300 others" assailed targets in Luzon and the Visayan area. From Radio Tokyo came an unconfirmed report that four B-29s flow over the capital be (Continued on Page Two) Bulletin GEM. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. IS UV) A force of the 6th U. S. armv has landed virtually un opposed on the southwest coast nf Mindora island in the Philip pines, headquarters announced today. Gen. Douglas MacArthur also announced aggressive guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in eight major Philippine island groups. Danzig east to Konigsberg have been doled out to Poland. Churchill made lt crystal clenr he desires no new corridor. Heir to Sea Frontage Hussin thus would fall heir to a Baltic sea frontage of about 200 miles, or ns much as Church ill expressly offered to Poland. That section of the Baltic is famed for its summer resorts, to which thousands of Germans rinnirnrl rvprv vcnr. Hitler tri' uinnhantlv entered Mcmcl from the seaside March 23, 1939, after browbentlng Lithuania Into ceding Mcmmclinnn. xne sec iirm nUn Includes as the princi pal inland city of this section, historic Tilsit with au.uuu popa Inllnn This section Is, however, not nearly as valuable ns the por tions of East Prussia offered to Poland, especially noi me coasuu n.na hMwifn the two outstand ing ports of Danzig and Konigs berg! Considering that Poland already has the ultra modern imrhnr nf Gdvnla. Churchill s re arrangement of the European map would make Poland a for midable Bnltlo sea power. , The British prime minister by Impllcntion threw the Atlnntic chnrtcr into the scrap heap thereby, It may be assumed, pleasing Stalin, who never was a declared pa w KLAMATH' FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1944 Karlsruhe. More than a dozen French towns fell to the advance, spear headed by the 78th division.' The 103rd seized Lembach, MaRinot fortress, and on . the seventh army's left, fall of Bltche, another Maginot strong point, seemed imminent. Fighter-bombers pounded the Ger mans in the heavy forest ahead of the doughboy advance. : Southwest of Key Town The Americans were .directly southwest --of--Lauteroourg,- bor der town key to the big Rhine land industrial centers. To the north, three U. S. armies already- on German soil also gained. The first and ninth held a solid joint 15-mile front on the west bank of the Roer river extending north from (Continued on Page Two) Spud Sorters Back at Work Spud sorters and crews in the Klamath basin were back at work 100 per cent Friday after a two-dav layoff due to an al leged reducing of rates for spud sorting by the OPA. Potato graders in the basin asserted tnat the OPA had de manded that they roll back their rate of 18 cents per sack to the 1942 rate of 10 or 12 cents per sack. The Klamath Falls office of tho OPA denied this Thursday, claiming that circulars asking the sorters to file ineir rates ner hundredweight were sent out, but that no further demand was made. According to information re ceived by The Herald and News from the district office of the OPA at Portland an announce ment is expected in a few days, since there has been an applica tion for a change in sorting price from the handlers in the Klamath basin area. However, until the p-w regu lation is announced, tne situa tion still stands tnat tor an amid sortlna off the farms, such as at railroad tracks and ware houses, the date charged by sorters is still frozen at the 1942 level, the OPA office at Portland stated. Cherchez La FemmeSize 34 An exnerlenced thief, with a yen for size 34 lingerie, broke an 8-inch window in the Town Shop vestibule early Friday morning and with the aid of a pole made off with more than $100 worth of merchandise, The break was noticed at about 4 a. m. when the police prowl car made an early morn ing check. No arrests had been made late Friday. Keith Moon, operator of the Town Shop at 6th and Main, said virtually all the garments were of the same size, Including panties, girdles, a nightgown and a pajama suit which was on a figure against the back wall. The figure was knocked down, Moon said. A costume Jewelry set was also taken. ; An elderly shopper walked into tho Town Shop Friday morning and presented a pic ture of a bag which his wife had drawn as a gentle Christ mas hint. The bag was part of the loot moved from the window. Slated LATE JANUARY CONFAB SET FDRjLEADERS Date Definitely Set; Meeting Site Held Secret By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (P) Prime Minister Churchill, Pre mier Stalin and President Roose velt will meet again soon after the latter s fourth-term inaugur ation. Highly placed officials said tho time had been set definitely. They let that much be known after the disclosure London re ports to the contrary notwith standing that late January or even February was the earliest at which another big three con- lerence could taKe place. The president will be inau gurated on January 20. Calls for Parler In London today. Churchill called again for a second parley with the American and Russian leaders as soon as possible. - So did Chairman Connally ' (D-Tex.) . ... lUonunuao sw-Page Two) E Additional housing is definite ly in prospect both for essential civilian workers and military personnel here, it was disclosed at a meeting Friday of the Klam ath chamber of commerce hous ing committee with housing representatives of the navy, ma rine corps and national housing authority. A program for 150 additional civilian houses, similar to the row housing project recently completed here, has been car ried to the point where only a congressional appropriation is necessary to assure its execution, it was announced by James Maxwell, national housing agency representative. increased Shortly after this statement. favorable news came from Washington in the shape of - a teleeram from Senator Guy Cor don, informing the chamber that the deficiency appropriation tor housinc had been increased by the senate appropriations com mittee from 10 million to $zu million. This is the appropria tion from which the money will come for the 150-unit Klamath Meanwnne, it was aisciosea that the navy and marine author ities are today conducting an intensive survey of military housing needs on which to base an application ror aaaiuonai (Continued on Page Two) Breaking through German striking to within seven miles ISiW "-: ":" 'X ' jdJS'- ' - - Ksiierslautein" Y yrr V XSs.' IMeOS MerkwJ,'bou iTarquinipol . -j. '5&ij::3 jL.8;Khwiller? XflTfftflt. JI. SV December IS, 1014 M. (Dee. 14) S Mia. .1 freclplUtlon Uit U fa our i fltream year to dla ....8. Norrnil 8.57 L$t yeir ................-2.: Foracait: Slightly warmer, SkCurdfty Bhootlng lliari Oregon: Open 7:31 Clots ..,....fl: Tulelake: Open ,.....,Tl5J Cloifl Christmas With Homefolks PFC Walter Hozek. Newark. nd with 213 of his buddies, homeward bound for the holidays; The men are leaving the Marine homes ana nave a lu-aay travel with their families. 273 Marines Leave Klamath For Duty Near Home Towns Home for Christmas! Two hundred thirteen leather necks, who have been stationed at the Marine Barracks for tne past three or four months, will leave by troop train this week end, homeward bound. The marines, all veterans or combat duty in the South Pa cific, were presented with a 10 day travel delay, which means that they will spend unrisimas with home folks.. For many this the first Christmas around their own: firesides in three years. . . Line umy Murines.' who leave ithis week- unH will -renort for reeular line xluty -and-through efforts of-ma rine otticiais nere, win oe sta tioned near their homes. They will relieve . men pow in those posts for overseas duty. All are east coast men. ... -. The troop train wnicn puns out of here this weekend will go directly to Chicago. From that nnint the men will proceed to their homes and then report to their new posts. ' ; Korse Marine PFC Walter Hozek. whose home is in Newark, N. J., is one of the 213 men leaving the Ma rine Barracks. "Rockey" has Sandwich Shop Entered at Night r.ltv nnlice. responding to a call advising them that Marie's Sandwich shop at 7th and Klam ath had been entered late Thursday night, arrested PFC Richard E. Thurber, Marine Bar racks, whom they alleged was on tne premises upon men amva,. . Thnrher was lodeed in the city jail and arraigned before Justice nf thR Peace Joseph A. Mahoney at 10 a. m. Friday, .tie asued-ior time to plead.. .mis was granted nnH nt the reauest of Lt. Mitchell Paige, provost marshall, Thur ber was turned over to marine officials By the district attorney's office. : He is now in the Bar racks brig. According to police, a call came in from Mclvin Howie, who operates an awning business next to the sandwich shop. Po lice said $12.75 was missing from the till. : Police also- reported- that window in the small door of the Oldsmobile garage at 7th and ruamatn nad Deen Kicnea uu. This is also being investigated Seventh Army Invades Germany defenses, Americans of the seventh army Invaded Germany, of Karlsiuh,,an :1 menacing other Rhineland cities. Number 10339 N. J., marine, leaves this week- Barracks for duty nearest their aeiay in oraei to apsnu Kiuniw been on "horse marine" detail here since last September when that duty was first authorized during the fall fire season. Young Rozek enlisted at New York on September 11, 1942, shortly after his 21st birthday. He was at Paris island during boot camn and had three weeks at New River, N. C, going from. there to San Diego and men overseas. His first duty was in American Samoa, and then 11 months on Wallis island, back to Samoa and then to Maui in tne Hawaiian, islands for additional training prior to the invasion of tneMarshalls,. --, . l '.. - - ...in i.amDaicine . ,':!HockylIsaw- .action .-in the landings on Kngioi, liwajaiem, Eniwetok and Parry islands, and returned .to. the United States bv way of Guadalcanal last spring.. He spent one week--at Uak Knoll nospitai in uaKiano, Calif., before reporting Jteie June 25. - Two ; days after he : reached , (Continued on. Page Two) Terrific Goe Sweeps Portland PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 15 W A 100-mile-an-hour gale which overturned a moving truck on the Columbia river highway yes terday was expected to continue today except for a slight slack in the earlv moraine. The weather bureau recorded an average velocity of 80 miles an hour at Crown Point last night, with gusts up to loo miles an hour Melvin C. McChesney. 39, Portland, was hospitalized with serious injuries alter a gusi of wind overturned his heavily loaded truck, pinning him be low. Roosevelt Names Qeherals Of Army, Fleet Admirals WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (IP) President Roosevelt signed a bill today creating the ranks of fleet admiral of the navy and general of the army. He then nominated three admirals and four generals for the new rat ings. : To be admirals of the fleet, the first in decades, the presi- BRITISH POST? IN GREEK CITY: Three Main Points In; . Proposal to English ' By STEPHEN BARBER . 'k ATHENS, Dec. 15 () Grteli insurgents have handed the Brit ish terms for ending the 13-day, leftist revolt, the Associated Press was informed by a reliable- source tonight, with the. possir; oiuty the British would accept them as a basis for an armistices . Meanwhile, however, the Elas hammered British defense posi tions 1 in central Athens with fresh bursts ot artillery and rifle fire and attacked. Indian troops- on the mainland north of Patraiir The Elas reply to British pro-. posals for ending the conflict was imported to contain tnree main points amnesty for thej' rebellious political leaders, a na tional government .representing all parties and a regency to rultf. ' until a plebiscite decides whether!. tne country will remain a mono arch;' or become a republic; ; yt Temporarily Withdrawn '..'; 1- The renlv was temporarily' withdrawn to' meet British ins sistence that it be signed by Elas'-' military leaders as well as the -parent organization, the EAM central committee. -' British Ambassador - Reginald- Leeper sent for ThemistoKles Sopnoulis, Greek political leader who is believed acceptable to all-parties,- drawing speculation that negotiations lor a new govern' ' ment were under way. - - p- The possibility that the Arch .(Continued on Page Two) -r Hood River Post f -.-...'..'. ... : To Decide on Restoring Names ' HOOD RIVER, Dec. 15 -Wfe The Hood River' American Le-, I gion 'post -will . decide Monday" ; nigllfe y wuciuei . bu ...Acawxf? - ,140. hameg ' of 1 6 Japanese-American servicemen ; scratched; from, the. post's, honor 'roll. - , . . - -. The ; post, i which '.erased ,-ttisr names "to show them they're not wanted- back here," was ; si-, lent- today before a. barrage ot protests from -other legionnaires and from;Secretary of: War Stim-; son,.; l:r';:s-:i?::'i'y:j;.; ': Pendini6Mldnday meetlngf CommanderVJeseK-Edihgton': said he could"-.:not;say.-'whether the legion woufiTfpIlaw tho demand of Robert, D Cozzens, assistant director of-"-.the; war relocation authority and a legionnaire, that the-names be returned to the rpii.' -"""v..- ..''.-. i Edington -refused, to reply to Cozzens' charge that the Hood River post had "betrayed the legion by a deliberate insult tp our army, its uniform, and the brave men who wear it.". . . : In addition to scratching off Hhe names, the- Hood River Le gion post is backing a move to prevent return - of Japanese Americans by buying up their land and refusing to sell or lease property to them.' " ". .' . .' dent nominated- William "D. Leahy, his personal chief ot ctff! Ernest J. Kinff. command- er-in-chief of the fleet and chief of naval operations; and Chester W. Nlmitz, commanoer-in-cni of the Pacific fleet and of. Pa" cific ocean areas. -.! .-', j To be generals of the army a rank now held only by Gen, John J. Pershing,, who is re tired Mr. Roosevelt named George C. Marshall, army chief of staff; Douglas MacArthur, commander in the southwest Pa cific; Dwight D. Eisenhower, al lied commander-in-chief in western-Europe, and H. H. Arnold, commanding the army air forces. Gen. John J. Pershing, now re tired, holds the . unique rank of general of the armies of the United States, Under the bill passed by con. gress, Mr.. Roosevelt still may. name one more fleet admiral. -, Senate Rejects 7 Harbors Rider WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 () The senate refused today to ap prove a compromise report on a half billion dollar postwar rivers and harbors authorization bill and sent the measure back to a conference committee. The senate's objections were mainly to a rider which would exempt the $360,000,000 Cali fornia Central valley project from a 42-year old reclamation In rejecting the amendment the senate refused to concur in action by the house which had. approved the rider. .