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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, !94S
Number 10356
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A I
scision nnnounttu
By Justice of
Peace
;nrl Hcuvel, former chief of
ire, win uuunu uvrr i mo
ui jury 111 u 4
dUWII HI O Clllll, OMimuujr
rains by Jui-lu-o "f ltl,) 1'l""-'u
A. Muhoiiey. i.mivui "
inquency oi .miiui.
lulioncy s okwii
(1 in jusnco ." 'ul"
uvel, IJrfeiwo Attorney -Hi
ll C. Orient biiu
icy Clarence iiuinuio. n .-
Inary hearing nww v
ullernooii hjiiuwihk, u
e mid one-hull 'y otlo.
Explains
icforo hix decision won given,
i v tnlil attorneys ami the
femtunt lhl ho wished o
jjukc a lew explanatory ro-
believe, llko everyone else,
it the girls were giving llc
jilniuny." Mnhoney itntert. re
trim! to torie mid by Willie
e Collin nnd her sister, Mur-
I'Monilly. I "'Ink they, were
HI iilrln but the fuel aim re
Sins Hint the chief knew ot
I ration books iiikI thiil ho
Inilri huvc turned the young
I over to mo juvcniiu bu-
ufcrltie. , . ...
"In the sccona piacc unm
at no limo any .csumony
(Continued on Page Two)
HHEE N1MN STREET
FIRWIS TO EXPAND
cverl changes In tho BOO
irk mi Mu In street were an
mraii Sniurdnv us three firms
iicati-d expansion plana for the
mng Hiring.
rir. nnd Airs, i.oiua rviurmum,
i have been In business hero
12 years as operators of Mur
s store fur women, will Join
nuinattcmcnl of Lol'olntc's.
iinllim to Curt Lion, owner.
jl'ouUe's )lans call for includ-
Hie lirsi limir oi tne r.uricy
el, now occupied by the Town
p, expanding the floor space
jOitlie ruth street corner.
Holds Lease
.Ion has hnd n lease on the
t floor of Iho hotel bultdlnK
Bco Jnminrv 1. 11144.
'I'lio Town Shot), owned bv Mr,
m Mrs. Keith Moon and Alice
,lc Peterson, hns taken a lease
mo space now occupied by
Emporium, 500 Main, and
".onunucd on rugo t wo)
pl.Belden Hail
issing, Report
PENDLETON. Jan. 8 PI
PI. Bcklen II. Hull. 22. nf Klnm,
3. I'-it. ..' -- -
ii r Miu nun ocen missing in ac-
fi over Germany since Decern
2.1. UlO Wnr rieonrtmetit in
fmcd his nurenls. Mr niiri Mr
;crt Hull, hero today.
iiiic parents moved hero from
llimnlll FllIU In K,lnr.il,nx
j. Hall is hi the nlr corns. No
vtieuiurs wcro Riven in the
r Department notice.
iusband of Klamath Woman
Bridges
V story packed with nil tho
UI", a Hollywood movlo up
nred n i , i, n i.... ..
file tnni7 nn 111 ,uKI,., llw.
no of Cuptiiln Stanley A. Still-
. iiii.iuunu oi tne former Jo
in WlKHll'llff nf llilu nllu l
ntloiicd as one of 10 Am'crl-
I SOldlers Who Imlnivl .nun
""I Utter fllillKlni. Ilin H...I ...
fjl in southeast China."
V a pari of tlio story:
for years to comg mi area of
iheiist China for 300 miles
Und Will linn,, tl,. ...o.. nr .1..
fiction left by a bond of 18 U.
"uimcrs. aomewhero In China
veen uio iu grimly added
t he results of their odvcnluro.
y nnd i accounted for somo 150
fgCS. ftO t-niIUt H nn i
P'ts, one tunnel, an assort
ii iof, Jocotnotlvoa, trucks,
I y "'slols, one Catholic mis-
91 alia n mnnhlun Bl,n n..l
!y liad helped slow Iho Jnpa
e ndvnnco on Kwnlchow, liad
Pcd save from ulter disaster
n'1 retrcut in soulhcast
Prs RrVi n .i
n -"-- rraciicas
iroyeis was 2S-vear.old Motor
i, lpns,?" ot Wllkcs-Unrro,
a J 'i ,relhen'll Major aical
III In. . " Hl rlvcd m K.WCI
' i.fl."in,ncr t0 tnnch flomoll-
11 ICChllirilina ln II.. -ii.i
nn tt i . IIIllUSU.
I n fL i PS ,b0K,,n tholr nl"
I? "i cnlvo, ho and his man
! leaching and began do-
F-wciim, Wlh nearby Liu
forms thn hub of sn.ni .
Minnas highways and rail-
NAZIS LAUNCH
SUPREME BID
FDRBUDAPEST
Germans Try to Reach
Isolated Garrison
In Capital
By EDDIE G1LMOHE
MOSCOW, Jan. U W'i Tank,
urtilk-ry und uu battles virtu
ally as fierce as any fought since
Germany ultiickcd lttisslii rngctl
northwest of iiudapest today a
the Cicrninns made a supreme
bid to break through to their
Isolated garrison In the battered
llungnrlun capital.
The fighting has reuched such
o pitch that neither -side bus
given any clear Indication of
how far Iho German penetration
has gone toward the city from
Iho Komarom urea.
Sector Fluid
At last report the Hussions
held a lone possibly 30 miles
deep, but dispatches said tho
whole sector south of the Dan
ube bend now Is most fluid and
places lire changing hands sev
eral times dally.
A Kusslan communique sold
the Germans threw 300 tanks
Into the battle yesterday,.
Tho Germans were said to
havo brought up numerous King
Tigers from the Vienna area.
Theso met u strong foe in tho
red army's new T-34 tanks. Tho
Germans also poured groat num
bers of other mobllo weapons
Into tho urea In tho past two
days.
Strong forces of German air
craft in greater number than
(Continued on I'ago Two)
Job-Changers
May Face
Induction
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 Wl
Capitol sources predicted today
selective service headquarters
would direct local draft boards
within tho next 24 hours to In
duct men between 1 8 and 38 who
change Jobs without board ap
proval. Sources closo to the house mil
itary committee said they were
informed of the new order by
spokesmen for selective service.
These sources also said the
army has agreed to lower its
physical simulants lo accept for
work units men sent lo It by
draft boards under a "work or
fight" regulnlloii.
to Slow Jap
In China
Capt. Stanley A. Slalgar
roads, nrftigces were rushing In
llko animals before a forest Ilro.
Tho 16 Amcricnns among the
thousands of fleeing Chinese
went methodically to work min
ing road junctions, digging cavi
ties under bridges, under abut
ments in tho sides of defiles.
Rank Counts
"They worked In teams of two
or lltroo. One team consisted of
Sgt. Graham Johnston, ex-jockey
t Forces Close lira oi
Maarns T. Gates, third from
snown nerD0ing srecisa of fnn
Mtarni will spaak tonight at tha
U1H1T
CAR ACCIDENT
An elderly man and a young
woman, whom he attempted to
save from injury when she
walked In tho path of a car, were
Injured at 8:38 p. m. Friday near
tho Southern Pacific depot.
C. D. Collins, Kirk, and Nonlc
Hargravcs, 28, 3131 Sunset, were
treated at Klamath Volley hos-
Cltol for head injuries but later
oth were releosed. City police
were called to the depot by
Southern Pacific Officer Todd.
They learned that Miss Hor
graves walked out of tho Depot
cafe toward the station and step-
Ecd In front of a car operated
y Fern Pennington, 1880 Port
land, SP call girl. Collins ran
forward to pull the girl aside
and both wcro struck. They
were moved to the hospital by
Ward's ambulance.
City police said that Miss Pen
nington was exonerated of all
blame.
Demolishes
Drive in China
from New Canaan, Conn,, Sgt.
Paul Todd of Kalamazoo, and a
Chinese boy interpreter called
'Virgil.' When tho sergeants
found it difficult to get coopera
tion they promoted themselves
lo 'colonels.' Chinese civilians,
impressed by their rank, gave
them special food and baths.
"When the greot Jap eam-
Eolgn got up full steam In Octo
er, Glcason's band was ready io
tamp in charges, fuse them and
blow. Waiting until the last pos
sible moment before Iho enemy
advnncc, Glcoson finally slarlcd
tho destruction,
24-Hour Day
"Cnpt. Stanley A. Slniger, of
Portland, and ex-Jockey John
ston, carrying explosives in
sacks, worked for 2'4 hours along
a river bank, never knowing for
sure how near tho Japs were.
One after another they destroyed
bridges along their way. By the
time they reached the last bridge
they had only four inches of fuse
left. They tamped In the charge,
lit the fuse and galloped off with
tho uproar In their cars and de
bris raining around them,
"Tho Jap lido rolled on. It
rolled up to the great air force
baso ot Liuchow. Gionson and his
men did their ruinous best Ihcre,
They wanted to flro the city, too,
but wretched Chinese house
holders, waving guns, refused to
let them." -
(Mrs. Stniger nnd her infant
son, Stanley, Jr., oro hero for tho
duration with her parents, Mr,
and Mrs, R, C.j Woodruff, 1428
Pacific Terrace)?
Jaycee President Greeted
a
0
lait, national president -oi tha
wnsr ii a tars ana Mayor fid Ostendorl, axtram lisbt.
Wlllard hotal for tha local Jsycee f oundersU fcanquat. . i .
Roosevelt Calls for Total : ::
Mobilization to Smash Jap,
German War Machines in '45
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON. Jan. 8 VP)
President Roosevelt today call
ed for "totai mobilization of ali
our human resources" to smash
nzi Germany in 1945 and speed
strangulation of Japan's "malig
nant power."
Once again he called for "un
conditional surrender," but this
time referred specifically to
"the armies of our. enemies" in
apparent distinction - from
"whole peoples.1'
National Servica
By total mobilization, Mr.
Roosevelt said in a message to
congress, he means a national
service act and "at the earliest
possible moment."
Tho president's message on
the state of the Union, which he
Canadians Take
Sant' Alberto
ROME, Jon. 6 OP) Canadian
forces, pushing northward
through Italy's eastern Po valley,
have captured Sant' Aiberto,
eight miies above Ravenna, al
lied headquarters announced' to
day. Climaxing a week long drive
through iho canals and water
ways of the Po estuary, Canad
ian troops nnd armor pushed
over tho Caualc Bonifica In a
move that caught the Germans
iloifooted. The Canadians fanned
rout to the shores of Valli Di Co-
machio, forcing the nazis to with
draw eastward nnd westward un
der tho threat of being cut off.
M'Kellar Named
To Head Senate
WASHINGTON, Jan, 8 W)
Tho Semite formally elected
Scnntor Kenneth D, McKeilar
(D-Tcnn.) its president pro tem
pore today, ratifying the elec
tion made by the democratic
caucus yesterday.
As a matter of form, Minor
ity Leader White moved that
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.)
bo named instead. His motion
lost by a straight parly vote of
37 to 24.
Bulletin
GENERAL MacARTHUR'B
HEADQUARTERS. PHILIP
PINES, Sunday, Jan. 7 VP)
Mitchail bombers and iightar
bombars continuad thair atrikas
against southarn Luion, main
Philippine island, January 4 and
3. Genaral -Douglas Mac Arthur
announced today.
W9'
4V v:'
Junior charober of commerei, ia
will summarize in a nationwide
broadcast tonight, ranged over
me wnoie field of domestic and
world problems.
Broadiy sketched, he . made
these paramount points:
HOME FRONT:
Renewed his demand for .na
tional military service and said
he would ask later for postwar
universal military training; call
ed for the drafting of nurses
for the armed forces; urged an
expanded social security . pro
gram said taxes should be mod
ified after V-E day but deciartd
no general revision can be made
until total victory.
FIGHTING FRONTS! . ,
Disclosed that the army has
developed tho most powerfully
armed tank yet produced and
said "we shall resume the at
tack and . . . continue the at
tack relentlessly until Germany
is completely defeated." Said
we are about to equip large new
French forces for combat against
Ihe na2is, but warned that the
Germans recently have increas
ed their U-boat activity in the
Atlantic. He expressed "com
plete confidence" in General
DwiRhl D, Eisenhower,
FOREIGN POLICY!
"We cannot and will not
shrink from the political respon
(Continued on Pago Two) .
Shift in Western Front
Armies May Be Temporary
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (VP)
Belief that regrouping of the
northern armies in western Eu
rope under British Field Marshal
Montgomery is a temporary ar
rangement was expressed here
today by informed military stu
dents. They agreed, however, that it
was possible the operation might
prove sufficiently satisfactory to
be made permanent. '
Their view wos that Montgom
ery was first given the command
because the allied leaders, at that
time, fenred the Germans would
slash lo the channel and split our
forces.
Not Clear
Whether the assignment
would have been made if the
high command could have
been certain of containing the
break-through was not clear to
those who discussed the matter
here.
In retrospect, some Washing
ton military men described the
situation thusly; '
The Germans, crashing out of
their Siegfried line on January
16. surged forword in a westerly
and northwesterly direction, ?o
Island Invasion
Hinted by Nips
Associated Press War Editor
Amarican assault iercas ara dosing in and "may have landed
on Luton,", moit important island in the Philippines, Tokyo radio
xapoxtad today as coordinated U. S, land, sea and air forces In
vaded, shelled or bombed strategic Japanese-held Islands spread
over more than 1000 miles,
' The quickening tempo oi the Pacific war brought these de
velopments; 1. Tokyo radio reported three new allied codtovs on the
move in Philippines waters, including a heavily guarded Invasion
flotilla west of Luson oa which Manila ia situated.
2. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced the unopposed inva
sion and capture of Merinduque Island, 12 miles south of Lujon
and less than 100 miles front Manila. It was the seventh island
to be retaken in the Philippines.
. 3. Adm. Chester W. Nirnits announced fast V. S. carrier
forces destroyed 111 Japanese planes and 2? ships in their two
day raid on Formosa and the Okinawa islands. Unking Japan
and the Philippines. Sixty-eight other ships were damaged.
4. For the first time sce-serne U. S. planes reached the China
cosst. They searched SOS miles of the coastline from Foochow to
courts eye
Withdrawal
of protest
. The KJamath and Lake.eouniy
courts took under advisement to
day u suggestion that they with
draw their ' protests; against ' a
proposed land exchange between
thtforet,-service and Shevjin
Hlxon Lumber company at Bend;
made . yesterday by WPB and
forest officials in order to assure
continued production of war ma
terials at the Bend plant. -'
January 1? was set at the local
meeting' as a date for further dis
cussion of the proposed with
drawal of protests. The protests
were lotiged by both courts with
the federal land office ana are
holding up an exchange of some
17,000 acres'in northern areas of
the two counties.
Under the land exchange pro
posal, the company wouid deed
the 17.000 acres to the forest
service, in exchange for timber
ot equal value on roresi service
land. The acreage totals 8436.47
in Klamath, county and 8118.89
in Lake county, but the company
and forest, service also have an
impending exchange Involving
(Continued on Page Two)
Superintendent
Of GN Promoted
W. R,: Minton, superintendent
of the Klamath division of the
Great Northern railroad for the
pst year-and-a-half has been
promoted to superintendent of
the- Kalispell division of the
line at White! ish, Mont. Minton
succeeded H, M. Shapleigh here
ins July of 1843, coming from
Wiilmar, Minn. .
T. A. Jarrow will replace
Minton as superintendent of the
Klamath division. . He arrived
here yesterday from Spokane,
Wash., where he held the posi
tion of trainmaster.
rapidly la the first days that the
allied command could not be
even reasonably certain that the
enemy could be stopped before
he reached tho channel. This
wouid have isolated the Canad
ian first, the British second, the
American ninth and. tho bulk of
the American first army from
the remainder of the allied ex
peditionary force in the south. t
, Make Decision :
During these first hectic, un
certain days the allied command
decided separate army group
under a single commander
should be established.
The new setup also was dic
tated In some measure by Ihe ex
isting situation. The swift Ger
man 'advance had so disrupted
communications that Lt, Gen.
Omar .Bradley, commanding the
12th. army group which em
braced the first and ninth arm
ies, had no assurance that he
could maintain direct communi
cations with or could go to his
northern armies. To move his
headquarters northward - would
have entailed several -days of
transferring communie i i o n a
equipment andV-other material at
a critical tirnei ... . . '
Hongkong and reported they
coma nave Mown on to u. S.
air bases in the Interior.
5. Another U. S. task force
shelled major harbors on Haha
Jima and Chichi Jima in the
Bonin islands, 650 miies south
of Tokyo and 1300 miles west
of Formosa.
8. About 7Q or 80 China
based Superforts bombed west
ern Kyushu in the Japanese
homeland, ' apparently hittsne
for the sixth time at the impor-
lam umura aircrait tactory.
Tokyo sasd 12 . other B-23s
bombed Wanking,
7.. Japanese troops in south
west China recaptured Wanting,
Burma-road fortress town near
the Burma-China frontier.
8. The . r.svy announced the
loss of the destroyer Reid in
(Continued on Page Two)
Chinese Lose
Border Town
CHUNGKING. Jan. 8 V
Chinese armed forces have lost
the China-Burma border town
of Wanting after a brief occu
pation, but are expected to as
sume the offensive "within the
almost immediate future," an
American staff officer said to
day. Brig. Gen. Marvin E. Gross,
assistant chief of staff for plans,
United States forces in China,
declared that the Chinese now
"are in position to offer much
grarer resistance than ever be
fore" to the Japanese and pre
dicted the new Ledro-Burma
road - would b e i n operation
soon.'
Famous Coach At Barracks
1 fV
7 V
Taib - atvo
I
mmm
Shown above It Lt. Col. Dick Kanley perusing The Herald
and News while at breakfast at the maris BOQ, Hanlty ia for
mer head football coach of Northwestern university In the Big
Ten conference and ia here on s brief isapeetion tour. Haniy
served as co-coach of tha East gild squad with Andy Ken for a
number el yeara In the annual Eatt-Wett Shrine footbaii classic
and began hit coaching career at Pendleton, (Ore.) high school,
ft i t , I t -t C ! T . - 1 n r,
which Big Frank Ramsey, former KUKS mentor, 1 member,
Hanley slatei that Ramiey It ene of Ihe euUtaBdinglii-m ea
the squad.
By JAMES M. LONG
PARIS, Jan, 8 (P) Fle34
Marshal Montgomery's Britain
and American battle team fought
deeper into Ihe middle at th
north wall of the Belgian wedge
today as a new German offensive
in Aisace threatened Strasboura
wiih a three-way drive.
Late front dispatches said how
ever that danger of a break
through on ihe Alsace front had
been averted by drawing a ring
of steel around trapped Germans
at Wingen, at the apex el a 15.
mile deep wedge 28 miles north-,
west of Strasbourg. . ;
Hemmed In
About 400 Germans who mska
a surprise crossing of the Rhine
at places seven to 14 miies nor'h
of Strasbourg also were being
hemmed in and mopped up, and
a number of villages were re
taken.
The biggest gain of the day
hammered out in the cattle of
the bulge was in Luxembourg by
the third army's Blue Ridge
80th) infantry division which
crossed the Sure 13 miles east
of Bastogne, took Goesdorf and
went on into Dahi to a two-mile
advance. - j .
Gouge Out Gain '-.
Amid a flurry of attacks ami
counter attacks, U. S. first army
units under Montgomery's com
mand gouged out a series of
gains of more than a mile, cap.
luring Odeigne, mopping up
Devantave and advancing to a
crossroads near Fraiture,- where
they were within one-half mils
of the vital . Laroche-St. Vitlt
highway, . - . . . J
Suddenly reversing his ap
parent intention of withdrawing
strength from the western tip
of his bulge, however, .oa
Rundstedt threw a blow
British-held sectors and knocked
them bacK for as rnucn as ivw
yards,- recapturing Bure at tha
deepest point of his present pene
tration into Belgium. - - -...
-Advance. '
The 82nd airborne division-of
the first army - ad vanced along
the ' Salra river below Trols
(Continued on Page Two)
Bridges Blasted ,
By Yank Heavies'
LONDON Jan. 8 VP)V More '
than 800 American heavy bomb
ers, escorted by-nearly 800 Mus
tangs, attaekedr-three. tread and,
rail bridges across the Rhine st
Cologne and Bonn today and
bombed several rail yards-and
other communication centers in
western Germany. -. . .
It was the 15th daylight attack
by Britain-based U. S.. 8th air
force bombers and fighters in 14
days in support of American!
armies battling against the Ger
man attempt to crash through sl
, lied lines and overrun Belgium.
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