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
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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
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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
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yrr V XSs.' IMeOS MerkwJ,'bou
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December IS, 1014
M. (Dee. 14) S Mia. .1
freclplUtlon Uit U fa our i
fltream year to dla ....8.
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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. .