TOM n A o) Ml i J m till ' rntNK JENKINB L Francisco, whom thosii J,tU nru written, tho woatli tfwhul would be "'"rred lo ji. north n blueing. Hero luce mi uiljecllvu before L'.llj.. occ.il..im y no mi- y dun t HKO Ciuny wwra Here. , , T before last tho mercury ,1 lloWII I" II uiiuvv, .MMiril iiiuiiurtiiiiiBnllkii of '.ullicr ma". Tlmt wild on .. ............ -I.I.. flUMI rill in r milL-iin." i..iv, ,st buy, In Oakland, II drop. , ;n Willi", Ul i-uuinv, ,1 no "" i'L're' .B ' 1 ilio uiiili'iiiinno-" wiiii Xr forlllurto If wo c JuM ,2 Hun somebody cl In hav i S n llltlo worne. J,. ni-wKp-rM dun buck In liorv mid ilisrliwrd llml once iuiiir in i tu ZU. . " ,T my H 1)0 ruo nuh' 1 thin wmffr romumuuin 1 .... -.-i..... .. wliri) ,oiim(I clciir down to 17 i .i... lttltftM ntit In )Ji a ciato park froze over. In? wan Kli'y mnooth, ilvlien the duck, would conio ' i 1.....1 II lluiv .1 nil nun iiiii" ii i ..- -- I.....I- In 11 HltlKt IIVI'I uivm - 'rutin iiiuiiiier. Hul eve It or Hit) first tiling tncjr u " ,.rl.iH IliMitimilvf-ri r reiru. i n i i... i.i limit nrountl to tee voiie wn watching. Upon Ivrrlnu tltitt they bnd brtm tvttl. llley were khhkimi- i nullum oemiin wuum wtinn't n far back as ii ml It may noi navo utyi lumiiiry which iuhvch mv nper wcnllier reiteurciicr-'li'iir. It It wtiii cold. as nhend of general oil heat- which hu done no much ilko Citllfornln cities habit- ... ii.. i i.lnli.r mnnltll. ThO -ll l.nrl llu.lr own tllllllts. ill was their thrifty custom 4 down In the basement and - n chip In tho furnuce it 5 In tint liitcrnoon, wiiitn Id rolc tho tcmpt-rtiture up in roomn tor an uuiir i . un It .iiink aRiiln, therri wa ng lo do out KO 10 . vourittMI till wari'TOiir I., .l.ilil nml tmnA tho Itlin Id be In ii kindlier mood In liHirnliiK. IJiiniiK una ir lipcll, It was ntiviiitie 10 :ho run on lop of, whatever ... ih.. nv (if cover you been able lo find. world lit cltanKlnu, and .r.ilr.n nVl f'hlltllj lllll Willi I.. ll...a.l rlllUK iulll.ll VOI1 KtltTl Ire by ttirnlnn n itwllch or, belter, netting tno mei- ut and It'ttlnK It do the ninny of them admit can- that it llltlo neat id a nice to hnvo around In the r months. t ARETTES here may bo ex miiiv mri'it Thev arc "nit. linr.l r.ip n iflrimifpr to I Mosl nf the tobacco lorc "no CIKarcties munii con loiuly dlrinlaycd. Tliero arc i .. ..i iKiirvues in tno grocery miu stoics that Id. none aro lo. tplc arc Mill latmhlnK over Jtory of a crowded street car tun linn.lln.f rlmuiilnuill ...... ........K it tiliKsed n elffnrelto lino font oi a store, ino car cd and the conductor and iiotorinnn not into tnc line SS wrller got caught short , day. and bucked tho tiger e tooncco counter of ono of urger hotels. re you stonulnc here?" tho f'tte itil'l llNlterl RWnntlv. I'll, at tho moment wo were yliiR there stopping right urn oi tno looaeco sliuul. so nswered, a trifle too shecp . it annearcd. "ves." flint Is your room number?" inie Pack. it's tho trouble with sin. tnko the first toony-ween.v step along tho downward kidding your conscience -with specious reasoning as telling yourself that you stopping thoro right In nf her where tho poor boll otieht in ho nhln In nefi 9i u wasn't for her ast umal miu ii really docsn t seem id. I you always got auckod In feeling tho breath of tho in not on our neck, wo icrt on In. It was too lato 'iilinucd on Pago Four) lures for 6th m Tabulated "1 fiKurcH for tho fith Wnr fir Ittn ltt.. 1 l..t...tl 1 iK nmii i ....iJ P?''"'"! exccodetl IU quota "i ' loiai purcnascs 01 WZZa"1 bnl"11' amounted to ..ill ""cording to Andrew IN llltl 1 liitil. . . J ' ""limn county war chairman. chases of various typos of . nn'0;'nt to tho following: I ?, """lis 9YI.I1D1. E n. 9 bondB $ini.,ioo. cent bonds $31.4,. BO. nor rnni k i- -. n k .1. . . '"'"" .TKO.OUII. f'ct,uonds$:.ni,000. "in ijuiicis 51)0,000. I in The Shata-Cavadi Wonderland ljfllll!lll!!l!ii!!ff Weatneili January 6. 1945 lax. (Jan. 7) 53 Mln 30 ?rcipitation last 24 hours .01 Itraam year to date 4.35 formal 5.05 Last year 2.90 Foracasti Ovarcait. BATTLE REPORT UNCONFIRMED PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1944 Number 10357 REDS REPULSE Honored NAZI ATTEMPT TO AID TROOPS 90 Tanks Knocked Out By Soviets South Of Danube LONDON, Jan. 8 () Red army forces again repulsed the German drlvo to relievo tho en trapped mi y. I garrison In Uuda pest, knocking out DO German tanks south of tho Danube, and continued their own advance westward north of tho Danube today, Moscow announced tonight. The German high command earlier declared Its counter. offensive northwest of Dudapcst had gained up to 23 miles and that the garrison of tho Hun gnrian capital was still holding us own. Major Operation Berlin commentators. hoW' over, said tho "beginning of a major military operation" might uc loresiiiidowcd in lUilillng ac tivity revived In tho Surrian bridgehead at Daranov and San domierr about. 120 milea south of Warsaw where tho Russians several months ago punched to within 33 miles northeast of Krakow. Russian forces hnvo been ousted from tlio key Danube bastion of Ksntcrgom by power ful unit counterattacks bent on relieving the trapped axis gar rl.soii at Uudapest, 20 miles to the south, but have registered a 12'. -mile gain north of tho , . ((.untlnucd on fag. Two) . . i i i i Alfred Carlson Hurt in Action ' SSgt. Alfred M. Carlson, who has been through tho Tunisian campaign in Africa, who was with tho first troops to arrlva in Homo, and who continued on to tako part In tho Invasion of soiniiern rranco with General I'alch, has been wounded In ac tion In Germany. Word of Carlson's Injuries was received Saturday night bv his sister, Mrs. Fred Gocller, Jr., 406 S. Riverside. Tho war depart ment advised Mrs. Gocller that Alfred s wounds wcro not scri mis and that Information would be forwarded, Tho action took Place December 20. Carlson went overseas three years ago and has served as a General bhorman tank com mander and platoon sergeant. He had Just recently been awarded n medal for "heroic achievement In action August 28 at Loriol France, when a man was wound od some distance from him, Carl son exposed nimseir lo heavy fire In order to reach tho casual ty. After administering first aid, ho cnrrled the wounded man through tho hostllo firo to an aid station. Carlson was nradnated from Klamath Union high school and was inter employed In tho ongl. ncerlng department of Wcyer hncuscr. i Two Klamath Men Hurt in Action Official notification that two Klamath men had been wound ed In tho Mediterranean area was issued Monday by tho war department. Next of kin havo boon advised as to any chango In status, Ono of tho two, 1st Lt, Ron nld H, Hutchcns, son of Mrs. Lula B. Hutchcns, Klamath Fnlls postoffico employe, suf fered shrapnel wounds li tho arm while In combat in Italy with tho 004th tank destroyer battalion. Since that time ho has returned to his outfit, Mrs. Hutchcns has boon advised. Captain Josso L. Cohen Jr., whoso wife. Juno, lives In tho Bonanzn area, was tho second man listed as wounded. Crash Kills Two Pilots Near Bend PORTLAND, Jan. 8 (P) A nlanc crash 10 milos southeast of Rend Saturday was fatal to Lt. Max R. Smith. Eugene, and Capt. Ralph A. Thlcsscn, Ham burg. Fla.. Col. S. B. Knowlcs Jr., Portland alrbaso commander, reported today. Tho B-T-13 piano was on a routlno training flight from tho Redmond army airfield. Rugged terrain dolnycd a searching party from reaching the scene until j lato yesterday. p; ' 1 1- t - i , i i j ) 'TV fy '' John Bandmeyer, local Insur ance company manager, was named outstanding young man In civic work here in 1944, at the annual Junior chamber of commerce Founders' Day meet ing Saturday. John Sandmcyer. local insur ance agency manager, was desig nated Klamath's outstanding young man in civic activity In 1944 at the annual Junior cham ber of commorco founders', day banmict Saturdny night. The honor for Sandmcyop was an nounced at a woll-allended meet ing featured by an official visit by Mearns Gates, Pomsroy, Wash., president of the United States Junior chamber. . : Sandmcyer has beer, chairman of the city traffic safety council, director of the Quarterback club, Lion Tamer of the Lions club, vlco president of tho junior chamber in charge of external affairs, and has been active in Junior chamber enterprises and the war bond programs. He was master of ceremonies at tho Miss Klamnth contest finnlc. and M. C. also at tho big Merrill war bond Jamboree. He Is a mombcr of the Christian church. Six Years Here Ho came to Klamath Falls six yenrs ago and is manager of the (Continued on Page Two) Meteor Reported Seen in Oregon PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 8 P) Numerous persons in Oregon and southwest Washington today reported seeing a fiery meteor In the southwest sky shortly aft er 0 o'clock Inst night. The meteor probably streaked over southern Oregon or north ern California and may have lanncci inr nt sen, said J. Hugh Prtiett. Kttgono astronomer. A grcnt glow of light was sent up when the meteor struck, witness es said. U.S.TIGHTEfiS MANPOWER GONTROLRULES Essential Activity List Reviewed by Government WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 VP) To find a way of grinding thz Job - control -and manpower screws tighter, tho government is reviewing tho entire list of essential activities. And this may be tho remit, it appeared today, although no decision has been reached yet: 1. Some activities, now classi fied as essential, will bo dropped from the list. 2. Most activities, now classi fied as essential, will remain that way. 3. Some activities such as those munitions industries which badly need manpower will be listed not only as essential but critical. To Essential Work The whole purpose of this would be to force draft-age men Into essential- work but partic ularly into the critical industries. It would be another step in nailing down tho government's intensified, effort to stop Job shifting and. labor turnover. Latest Step Tho latest step In that direc tion came from selective service which told draft boards: 1. To draft men up to 38 if thoy change, Jobs without board permission. ' Lower than usual physical standards will be set for such "Job-skippers." How much lower was. not divulged. 2. To tighten up oh the de ferments already granted. - Memorandum . ' Selective, service said in its memorandum to the boards: "In applying the testa for oc cupational .deferment for reg istrants ages 26 . through 37, greater' consideration will be given to. registrants . now en- (Continued. on Page Two) Robomb Attacks On U. S. Probable, Warns Admiral AN EAST .COAST PORT, Jan. 8 (P) Admiral Jonas H. In gram, commander-in-chief of the United States Atlantic fleet, said today that enemy robot bomb action against New York and other Atlantic points "is possible and probable within tho - next 30 or 60 days, but effective steps to meet this throat nave Deen taken." "If such an attempt is made," Admiral Ingram told a press conference, "it would probably bo limited to 10 or 12 bombs. These would not be of the 'block buster' type. They might strike a building and destroy it, but the casualties would be nothing like those which the people, of London are suffering under." ' Nazi Bulge deduced By Yank First, Third Appointed Henry Semon. Teteran Klam ath Falls legislator, assumed the chairmanship of the powerful house ways and means commit tee in the state legislature. S COMI SALEM. Jan. 8 (JP Chair. manship of the powerful house ways and means committee. which controls all state appro printloiis,wcitttQdax.io a democrat;- Rep. Henry SemOn of rviamatn rails, speaker Of, trie nouse tugene i-. Marsh an nounced. , i It Is, considered unusual for such an important post to-go to a member of a minority party, but Semon, a legislator for the past six sessions, was the most experienced of the men held over from last session s ways ana means committee. , , . Marshall E. Cornett, state senator from Klamath Falls, was appointed chairman of the roads and highways committee of tho senate, vice chairman of the forestry committee, and named to the senate's game, irrigation, and resolutions groups. Rose M. Poole, also of Klam ath Falls, was named vice presi dent of the forestry committee, and was appointed to the bills and mailing, game, highways, and livestock committees. In addition to his post on the ways and means committee, Semon was appointed to the agriculture, health and public i morals, and Irrigation com mittees. 9Hl -Vl-. : . - V. i Kit kf.V ""I. Vf eta. Allied Drive Slugs Ahead jkoilINX fcttittittiefce ': LUX. Miff Tftlenvillt) U FRANCE llunliu MITZ ii-nMV.. awnMitii. ' KllNftwtMl ...w Srvmlnif eiibk-k 7th Army a)t( liters HcftMiie ItrtiitH-it MIlH 0 10 i 10 0 The waist of the Belgian bulge was narrowed to 10 miles to day by Lt. Gen. Hodgos' first army, which also won domination of IS miles of the vital road from St. Vlth to Laroehe, one of two escape routes left to German iorces. Von Rundstedt was reportedly withdrawing ' his troops from' the tip of the salient. Motorists Told To Get Stickers State police Issued a warning Monday to all motorists driving cars without the 1945 license sticker. Deadline for purchasing tho 1045 license was January 1. Of ficers started checking Saturday after giving tho public sufficient leeway to obtain the stickers. Those picked up for operating without a vehicle license will be brought into justice court where the average fine is $5.50, as compared to the license of $5 from the secretary of state, or $5.25 if purchased from the sec retary of state .through the Klamath office. Klamath People See Execution Six Klamath residents wit nessed the execution of Robert E. Lee Folkcs, negro dining car cook, at tho state penitentiary Friday morning, January 5, all returning here this weekend. Sgt. E. W. Tichonor of state police and Constable Gary Cozad returned Sunday afternoon. Sheriff Lloyd L. Low, State Po lice Officer Larry , Bergmann, Dick Rccder and Otto Sari re turned over the weekend. Flying Resumed Briefly at NAS Flvlna at the Klamath naval air station, curtailed by heavy fogs since January 1, was re sumed for approximately one and one-half hours Sunday af ternoon starting at 4 o'clock. Poor visibility again grounded the planes Monday morning. Of ficials said tho planes would be up Monday afternoon If the weather cleared sufficiently. . By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, Jan. 8 (fF) Mile or more advances by the American first and third armies in the worst blizzard of the winter nar rowed the waist of the Belgian salient to less than 10 miles tonight and caused Field Marshal Von Rundstedt to speed the withdrawal of his survivors from the western tip of the salient. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' first army captured five vil lages and won domination of 15 miles of the St. Vith-Laroche highway, one of the two last escape routes for three crack panzer divisions in the toe of the sock of the bulge. The other, road, leading up through Houffaliz was under artillery fire from both sides of the salient. The German diversionary threat to Strasbourg was described officially as apparently lessened as the allies hurled in counter attacks against German armor which speared north upon the Rhine city from the Colmar pocket. The allies wrested back some of the ground lost eight miles north of the city on the west bank of the Rhine. In the Ardennes salient in Belgium and Luxembourg, a two way American attack from north and south not only cut one of the last two German supply and retreat routes in the bulge,, but brought the other under close range artillery fire in the area west of Bastogne on the south. Capture Flamierge The third army on the south captured Flamierge, only two miles from the last German road leading from Libramont through Houffalize to St. Vith. American and British assault teams on the 30-mile attack front on the northern side of the bulge kept up their slow, measured gains and the British sixth- airborne division, veterans of Normandy, kept three crack German armored divisions tied up in heavy battle at the toe of the sock. ' Supreme headquarters was silent- concerning the German bridgehead thrust across the Maas (Meuse) river in Holland north of Venlo. The most important gain on the first army front was made by the 82nd airborne division, led by 37-year-old Maj. Gen. James N. Gavin. The sky troops seized the Thierdumont ridge nr'"Iwest of Salmchateau, which commands much of the St Vith-Laroche road. Yanks Dominate The highway was under American domination from Vielsalm, north of Salmchateau to a point beyond Dochamps. The hell on wheels 2nd armored division occupied Dochamps itself. - The highway was cut in numerous places and under artillery, range for the rest of the 15-mile gap. ... -. , . Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose's third armored division -completed ia?aon t ouhv?1 on the highway three miles west of Salmchateau and fought into nearby Herbronval. . 5i!niftfds "tehMrom the Rochefort area-gave a clear Jndi 2rtiM..ti'.ati.heKGc Vt-." m?rshal had abandoned further hope of L!?:CsiZtance w?s scattercd and light at the western tib and pul?61 SS 8nd tenk troops.Pwaenre defe SAST'S, S 3?nCe into ermay;,At last rePorts,. Rundstedt had thr armies composed of 20 divisions in the bulge. Half were panzer or panzer grenadier divisions. . panzer JAPS LID FRESH CHUNGKING. Jan. 8 (P Japanese forces have landed fresh troops on the coast of northeastern Fukien province in an obvious preparation to coun ter any American attempt to establish bridgeheads on the Asiatic mainland, the Chinese high command announced to night. The Japanese landed Decem ber 26 and advanced inland, oc cupying the town of Siapu about 70 miles northeast of Japanese-held Foochow. A Chi nese counterattack re-won Siapu January 3, and the enemy re treated to the east, the high command said. (Last Tuesday and Wednes day planes of the U. S. third fleet swept 700 miles over the China coast for the first time from north of Foochow to Hong kong. Dispatches indicated the planes were on a reconnaissance mission at the time). The landing was considered as one in a series of enemy measures to gird against Ameri can landings on the China coast. Although the Japanese have lib crated China with a corridor to Indo-China, much of the terri tory east of their line between Hankow and Indo-China re mains in Chinese hands. The Chinese held' most of the stretch from Hangchow bay southward. The Japanese apparently want to be In position to rush troops to any point where American forces might secure lodgment. Farmer Ends Life Near Roseburg ROSEBURG, Ore., Jan. 8 (P) Despondent over financial re verses and physical disabilities resulting from a loa-ina acci dent, which kept him from Join ing two brothers In military service, Harry Paul Durch, 25, engaged In farming at Elgarose, 12 miles west of Roscbure. end ed his life with a gunshot wound in the head early Sunday morning,- Coroner H. C. Stearns re ported today. Relatives told officers that a search made when Durch's bed was found empty Sunday morn ing resulted In finding his body in the Darn, u Interference of f Ward Charged CHICAGO, Jan. 8 IP) The government asked the federal court today to restrain Mont gomery Ward and company from alleged interference with army operations of 18 company pro perties in seven cities, contend ing, a situation existed which "threatens the outcome of the war." Hugh B. Cox, assistant sol icitor general, began the govern ment arguments for an Injunc tion in the courtroom of Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan, packed with leading Chicago lawyers and virtually all the principals in the company-labor-government controversy. At the outset government and company council agreed to defer" temporarily argument on the merits of the case in which the government seeks a declaratory judgment to establish legality of the seizure December 28. They proceeded on the injunction ques tion itself. BY AMERICANS Tokyo Says 450 Ships Stream Toward Island . . By The Associated Preit Tokyo radio reported today more than 450 American trans-, ports "are streaming north to-, wards Luzon" island in the' Philippines where Japanese broadcasts said more than 70" warships and swarms of carrier planes bombarded Lingayeit gulf, 120 miles north of Manila, continuously for two days. The Tokyo broadcast, record ed by the federal communica tions commission, said that whether the transports would be "poured into Lingayen or in the vicinity of Manila remains a question, but in either case it is a surety that the enemy will play right into the waiting Jap anese hands." "Hot Beception" . In the two-day duel between warships and shore batteries at Lingayen gulf, Japanese broad casts said defending batteries gave the American flotilla "the hottest reception ever recorded in the annals of war." Propaganda broadcasts de scribed the air and naval bom bardment as "the enemy's usuaf tactics preceding a landing" and forecast. Yank assault troops might storm "the shore at an time." . ...... i : "Gulf Hoared" "The whole gulf roared with,'' the blasts of gunfire from both, sides" throughout Saturday and Sunday, said a frontline dispatch (Continued on Page Two) COLD WAVE BLOWS By The Associated Press. , - A now cold wave was blowing in from - central Canada to d a y and forecasters said it would spread over the entire midwest by night and bring zero or low er temperatures to several states. It was 25 below zero in north ern Minnesota: this morning, al most as frigid .in South Dakota and eastern Montana, and slight ly below zeroi- in North Dakota. The cold snap. will spread as far eastward, as Ohio by- tomorrow morning, Howard Kenny (of the Chicago weather bureau) pre dicted. Only slight snow flurries no heavy snows or blizzards are expected to accompany the temperature drop, he said. Bundles Up Minnesota was bundling up for 20 to. 30 below In the north west and 10 to 20 below In the south and east portions tonight. Iowa probably will get 5 to 10 (Continued on Page Two) Bombers Blast German Supplies LONDON, Jan. 8 (P) More than 700 American heavy bomb ers escorted by 200 Mustangs hammered German transport, fa cilities supplying nazi troops in the Belgian bulge today. Making their 16th attack in 17 days on nazi traffic routes the eighth airforce fleet hit freight yards at Frankfurt, then went 150 miles west and smashed road and rail junctions in and around the Ardennes bulge. . Railyards farther south supplying nazi troops on the Saar front also were attacked. Compensation for National Park Losses Eyed by Senate By JACKSON S. ELLIOTT WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (if) Should states be paid back if the government comes in and takes over lands for national parks or monuments, wiping out chunks of tax Income? President Roosevelt thinks so, as does Secretary of the In terior Ickes. And, in line with their recommendations, Rep. Peterson (D-Fla.) will introduce within tho next few days a bill to pay back up to 25 per cent of the revenue from parks, an nually, where the state or other taxing unit, loses on the deal. The measure will not be retro active. FDR Sympathetic In his message vetoing a bill which would have killed the Jackson Hole national m o n u ment, Mr. Roosevelt said he would be sympathetic to such tax-loss legislation, And, in a message to con gress last year, which was giv en little public attention at that time, President Roosevelt pro posed that compensation be paid the non-federal taxing units, such as states, counties, munici palities, etc. The problem of compensating such taxing units however, is complex, chiefly because in many instances, a county, for instance, while losing tax rev enue, might benefit from the federal acquisition. Possible Benefits Such benefits might accrue, out of tourist trade to the area of a national park, out of a freedom of responsibility on the part of the county from car ing for roads and schools, and out of many other developments Incident to the acquisition. In addition there have been, such instances as a county suf fering because of a loss of tax. lands while a town In an ad joining county but in the same state reaped great benefits be cause of the population boom. Since tho legislation now be ing charted would apply only to new parks It probably will include Jackson Hole, however there are no figures now available , by. which Income could be estimated, and possi ble maximum compensation ar rived at.. .