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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1944
Number 10359
iy FHANK JENKINS
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pnriicuuiriy iikii "in
Tur ui'Wii ut tlio tlmu IhU in
an (Juiiunry H) Urn Pacific
iolnii well nnd Kuropo still
.i i.. II iiimillii iif rim.
....r.-rv one In templed to
Vlttlo iimro iiiuriill.ing mi
,,,.. front uluu'lnges (inil
litU'iiiliuit rationing.
UK uro two kinds of short-
Irs (hose that uro off Iclull v
Ird mid thono tniii uro not.
mutter hi Iimro or toss
knowledge tlwtt tho pub.
inlimiile toward tho un
it scarce comiiiniiiiies
Itlcs, cmiiiy, chewing gum.
Hi one or tiiii'ruiicu mm
humor, rnrro con oo umo
llml Inn general iimtmio
I offk'iiil rutlonlnil In one
slslenl exasperation.
Hint I.' n question Unit enn't
iswrrrd llnlly. Une can
lirotilntc But II Is lit H'lit.l
.ling Unit Urn American
IkiiiIiI accent with toler.
mul good Imnior riitlonliiK
Imposed oy me ordinary
millliir processes of private
irlso nnil sliouiti do ex
ilrd by tlio rationing lm
bv government.
IAPS efficiency In the tent
which wc should Indue
two form of rationing
lofflrlnl. nrlvnlc cntnriirise
ic official, public kind.
fj Inkc a look Ml cigarettes,
uro scarce there can he
iibt of Unit, They uro In-
jnsly hard to come by. Tho
ickn-a-ciny consumer una to
n lot of time digging up
n nnrk.
ilnubtedly there In n lot of
ling, Preventing hoarding
Irnnlcclng to everybody mil
of that which -in acurco
announced purpose of of-run-by-thc-Koveinmeiil
r-
It hove ymi scon ANYBODY
limit COULDN'T conio by
I cigarettes? 'i'hlii wilier
8. nnil It In his firm convlc
glint the cliliiretlc (iliortnuc
Blurting nnvbody.
I
iAnETTES uro rationed
it there bo no doubt nil to
I They tiro rationed by tills
I armed services and may
IndleiiKc) TAKE AT THE
itCE what they need. What
t over is distributed to t no
: by the ordinary processes
vale commerce. Tlio nuiiiu
:cr divides his supply up
Si! the distributors. Tho dls
ijnrs divide up with the
solcrs. Tho wholesalers
K up with tho retailers,
it retailers APPOSITION
I.OUT to tho consumers.
ills final process of nppor-
ment by tho retnller there
'ontlmicd on Pngo Two)
45INDUGTI0N
RATE DOUBLED,
LD
CONGRESS TO
900,000 Men Needed
In First Six
Months
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (I')
Undersecretary of War Hubert
P. Piitterson told coiiKress today
thiil InduclioMS for thu nrmed
forcea lor the first six months of
1U4.1 will total 900,000 men, us
u lulnlmuin.
On this basis, the Induction
ratn would bo 130,000 men
monthly about twice tho ratu
previously indicated for tho ear
ly months of this year. The war
department recently Indicated
thiil army and nnvy were taking
about (10.000 a month in Into
11144 and that thlr would be
Jumped to around 80,000 this
month.
Cnactmant Urgad
Urging quick enactment of na
tional service legislation, Patter
son advised tho house military
committee thnt only through
some form of nutloual service
could Iho manpower needs for
tho war effort bo met during the
next six months.
These needs, ho declared, In
clude 1100.000 men for tho armed
services and 700,000 others for
war production and war-support-ItiX
activities.
Would Shorten War
"Tho only complcto und ade
quate loKlnlullon," ho sold,
would bo national war torvlca
leglnliitlon "at tho most compre
hensive.; nature," Such- leftisln
lion, ho slated,' would shorten
the war and minimize tho loss of
llfo.
Pending ennctment of nn over,
all statute, Patterson said, the
war department favored "work
or fight" legislation for nil men
between the ages of 18 and 43.
(Continued on Pago Two)
Cold Wave Numbs
East, Midwest
By Tha Associated Praia
Little relief was In prospect
today from a numbing cold wave
which blanketed most of the
midwest, and moved eastward to
chill New England with temper
atures as low as 18 below. Water
town, N. Y., reported 34 below.
Tho United Stntcs wenther
bureau In Chicago forecast clear
ing skies, with a little snow
around the fringes of the Great
Lakes, but added that tempera
tures would remain nt or near
their present murk.
esidential Power to
Demilitarize Germany,
Japan Urged by Senator
By JACK BELL
S1I1NGTON, Jan. 10 (P)
l'ir vnmicnuerg (lt-Mlcli.)
piod today that congress
the president power Inimo
y to use force to keep
lany and Japan dcmllltnr
'lter tho war.
ling on the major allies to
jiatu a treaty now for Joint
b to "achieve this depend
'd," Vandcnbcrg told tho
p that this nation ought to
I1 that any unilateral
intents made on world po
I questions bo subleeted to
fv by a proposed peace or-illon.
Urges Roitotoment
chairman of tho senate
Mean conference look the
to urgo a restatement of
lc American International
after II linn,.. b.n,..
rreslcl out Tioosevclt had as-
congressional leaders ho
carry no prior commlt-
on European political
"'lis Into it forthcoming
lee conference,
liclputlng senate, discussion
whole lulcrniilloniil situ
Scniitor Kcrguson (R
proposed in n sliitemont
'no semilo wrllo its own
pillon of foreign policy.
ffered n resolution colllna
niorlcan participation In a
ucumy organization pro
to tiso orco to preserve
co and roemphaslzlng
oiintry's dotcrmlnatlon to
by tho principles of tho
10 ehnrloi.
Participation Doubtod
'cwlng tho trend of world
P. VandonborR told his col-
" "iai mo olno point on
which our allies mny become
suspicious of tho effectiveness
of collective security lies In
their doubts about American
participation.
Russia, he said, had a right to
say: "How can you expect us
to reply on nn enlgmn?"
Ho contended that utmost
every action being undertaken
separately by lirltnln and Rus
sia was built on n fenr thnt Ger
many again might riso ns a
military power. '
Pre-war Road Scene On Lingayen
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This is a pre-war view of the road leading south from Lingayen gulf and Lingayen town to
Manila in the Philippines. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur yesterday announced landings on Luaon.
(AP wirephoto)
Coup de Grace to Budapest Looms as
Red Army Controls Major Part of City
21
KILLED IN CRASH
NBW-YOKK, Jun, 10 W)
Twenly-ono passengers, nil mem
bers of tho armed services, and
a crew of three died today In
the crash of nn Amerlcnn Air
lines plane near Burbank, Cnlif.,
tho company offices hero an
nounced. Tho plane crasned about 4:10
a. m. (PWT) today libout five
miles from the Lockheed air
terminal lit Burbank, Chnrlcs A.
Ithclnstrom, vice president in
charge of traffic, snld.
Names Withheld
Names of passengers are be
ing withheld by the nrmy and
nnvy until next of kin aro noti
fied. The crew consisted of Cnpt.
James R. McCnuley, First Offi
cer Robert G. Eitner, und Stew
ardess Llla A. Docken, all of
Burbank.
"The piano when it crashed
(Continued on Pngo Two)
OP A Stamp Act
Validity Queried
PORTLAND, Jan. 10 P)
The vnlldity of national OPA ac
tion In cancelling ration stumps
Christmas Duy "uftcr repeatedly
snylng such action would not be
taken," was challenged todny at
the hearing of 14 stores charged
with violations of tho order. -
Tho stand was voiced by Rob
ert L. Snbin, attorney for four
Fred Meyer stores, at a hearing
conducted by Robert M. Dulin
of the San Francisco office of
administrative hearings. The
stores allegedly ncccpted enn
ccllcd stamps and failed to apply
new rntion requirements on De
cember 20.
Sabln accused the district
OPA of acting "with lethargy, if
not negligence" in relaying of
ficial information on tho changes
to the stores. Ho said newspaper
charts, which the OPA advised
stores to use, contained errors.
Seattle to Capital Trip
Takes Little Over 6 Hours
WASHINGTON. Jnn, 10 (P)
A transcontinental flying record
was claimed today with war de
partment announcement that one
or Us big new transport planes
had flown from Scuttle to Wash
ington In llltlo over six hours.
Acluul flying tlmo for the
2:)2.')-mllo non-slop trip, tho de
partment snld, wns six hours,
three minutes, BO seconds. Aver
nge speed of tho plane, a double
decked transport version of tho
B-20 Superfortress, wns listed as
38H miles an hour.
Tho big plnno, known ns tho
C-07, left Soattlo yesterday nt
11:31) a. m. Pacific war tlmo
(2:38 p. m., eastern lime) and ar
rived hero nt 8:41 p. m, It wns
piloted by Elliott Merrill, a Boo
ing aircraft test pilot,
Present official records for
const-to-consl flights were mndo
Inst spring by AAA pilots In P-51
Mustang fighters, Col. C. A. Pet
erson and Lt. Col. Jack Cnrtor
then spanned the continent from
Los Angeles to Now York with
respective records of six hours,
31 minutes, 30 seconds nnd six
hours, 3D minutes, 30 seconds.
Lnsl Mny tho Lockheed Con
stellation flew from Los Angeles
to Washington in six hours and
58 minutes, '
Strato-Cruiser
The first bomber converted to
a transport which fits Into post
wnr plans while meeting mili
tary needs during tho war, the
Boeing-built C-07 In a commer
cial postwar model wUl be
known us the StratoCrulscr.
It has n 13-21) fusclngo without
tho armor, armament, bomb bays
nnd othor mililnry equipment,
with n second fusclngo superim
posed on the first. In its postwar
version It has been described
rather fully but details of the
present model designed for army
transport scrvlco hnvo not boon
disclosed,
LONDON. Jan. 10 lP) The
red army virtually delivered the
coup dc grace to Budapest to
day, capturing more than 1000
square blocks, which gave them
3300 of th Hungarian capital's
800 'blbcka.'-' l '
' Tho night soviet communique
broadcast from Moscow,'' an
nouncing these gatns.-indlcolcd
the stubborn but dwindling German-Hungarian
garrison was at
the point of exhaustion, stating
that 3000 had been captured yes
terday. Today's prisoner count
remains to bo tabulated.
' Near Komarom
At the samo time tho soviet
communique announced .that a
Russian tank and Infantry col
umn had smashed within a mile
(Continued on Pago Two)
SET FOR JAM. 20
The 11th annual meeting of
tho .Klamath Production Credit
association is slated for Satur
day, January 20, in the Willard
hotel. William Kittredgc, presi
dent, and Lee S. McMullcn, sec
retary and treasurer, will pre
side. This is "farmers' day" and
McMullen announced that 4 per
cent dividend checks will be
distributed at this time. There
(Continued on Page Two)
Donald Leslie
Reported Missing
Word has been received re
cently that 1st Lt. Donnld V.
Leslie, 27, has been missing in
action over Franco since De
cember 13. Lt.
Leslie Is the son
of Mr. and Mrs.
J. G. Leslie of
Complon, Calif.,
and formerly of
Klamath Falls.
He was the pilot
of a B-28 and
the cousin of 1
2nd Lt. Robert!
T. Leslie, who
was killed in ac
tion October- 1,
1944. in Italy.
Lt. Leslie
graduated irom
Klamath Union
IllgU SCIIOOl 111
1037 and wasted
employed at Shaw's stationery
before enlisting In the service
In October of 1941. He has been
overseas eight months and com
pleted 33 missions' over the Eu
ropean theater. His brother, Pvt.
Roy Leslie, is stationed at Camp
Roberts, Calif.
Universal Draft
Action Deferred
' WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (ff")
The house postwar , military
policy committee today defer
red action on a universal military
training law requested by Pres
ident Roosevelt. -
Tho postponement was decided
on to enable the house to dovoto
its full attention to war man
power legislation. ,
TANK BATTLE
BY 1ST;
1
SAME TAKEN
Third Wins Ground
On 20-Mile'
Front
ys i
mSUm, LL&Ji
ENTERS SECOND DAY
VANCOUVER, Jan. 10 (CP)-
A strike of street railwayman s
union (At l,; mem Dors m Van
couver. Victoria and Westmin
ster, B. C, today went into its
second dny and workers in the
three coast cities repeated the
scramble to get to their jobs on
foot, in jammed car pools and in
vehicles hailed along the silent
streets.
There was no indication from
union officials, British Columbia
Electric company representa
tives, or from federal spokesmen
In minu.a tl,in tha it..ntlAn
that an early return to work of
uyou striking railwaymcn could
be expected.
Threats Reported
Veiled threats were heard
from some of the strikers that
company workers in the power
plants in the area would join in
a sympathy strike nnd plunge the
three cities into darkness if the
(Continued on Pnge Two)
Woman Injured
In Car Crash
A two-car collision at S. 6th
and Shasta way sent Mrs. Win
frcd E. Ralston, 19, route 2, box
432, city, to Klamath Valley hos
pital, state police reported fol
lowing an investigation at the
cf-nn ii nf Ihn rf-ncii aorlv Time-
. ...w v . .w ...... ,7 au.c
I rinv nleht
A car operated by J. M. Hil
ton, 2019 Main, was proceeding
toward the Tower theatre on S.
6th, when the car In which Mrs.
Ralston and two other women
were riding, entered S. 6th. Both
cars were badly damaged and
occupants were shocked and
bruised. Mrs. Hilton was a pas
senger in her husband's cnr. Wo
men in the Ralston machine
were moved to Klamath Valley
hospital by Ward's ambulance.
Two were treated and released
and Mrs. Raiston was dismissed
Wednesday.
By JAMES M. LONG
PARIS, Jan. 10 VP) Lt. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges' first army
won the biggest tank battle of
the Belgian bulge campaign to
day, capturing the secondary
road center of Samree after 30
hours of violent fighting in deep
snow which included an all
night artillery barrage.
On the south of the salient,
now less than nine' miles wide
at its neck, the seasoned Amer
ican third army o Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton Jr., gained up
to a mile and a half in an ad
vance along a 20-mile front
above Bastogne.
Near Center
His 101st screaming eagle air
borne division moved to within
four and a half miles of Houf
falize, key road center near the
center of the bulge. ; - '
The Germans were" withdraw
ing from the western tip of the
salient, and their peril- was in
creased appreciably by the loss
of stoutly defended ' Samree,
whence a spiderweb of secondary
roads lead into the salient.'
Disengaging
'The Germans are disengag
ing most sectors along the north
weit t'P of the salient, and fall,
ing back ip what appears to be
a general withdrawal." a British
staff officer said. "There are
few 'contacts and the enemy is
i (Continued on Page Two) ;
Losses Light
In Lingayen
Gulf Landing
Br The Associated Press
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS ON LUZON,
PHILIPPINES Tens of thousands of American troops, landing
with Gen. Douglaa MacArthur yesterday in Lingayen gulf on
western Luson island, drove tank-led spearheads south acroia
flatlands toward Manila today in the climactic showdown fight
for the Philippines.
Manila was lets than 120 miles away through low. dry court
try excellently suited for the enormous quantities of mechanise
equipment landed with the reteran fighting men from an 800.
ship conroy which stretched out for 70 miles. (Jap reports said
60.000 men invaded the island).
Twenty-four hours after the Initial landings, made against
amaiingly light opposition at 8:30 a. m the sixth army Vanka
till were pouring ashore and oyer the same crescent of sand
dunes the Japanese invaders used three years ago.
LOSSES SAID LIGHT
Landing losses were officially reported as rery light ,
. .n,r,l MscArthur' wdiff ashore with an assault wave, es
tablished headquarters on the island where his outnumbered
men fought raliantly in defeat at Bataan and Corregidor.
With the support of a blistering dawn naval and air barrage,
of shells, bombs and rockets, Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger's sixth
army veterans landed along 15 miles of Lingayen gulf, found
inUnd virtually cleared of defenders and quickly pushed
The beachhead extended from near Lingayen city-on -that
southern shore eastward to San Fabian. .
Refutes Jap Warnings 4
The low American casualties refuted enemy warnings that ait
invasion of Luzon would be a costly undertaking from the start.
Japanese defenses ashore were woefully inadequate. Soma,
trenches were only a foot deep
Associated rress uorrespon-
IVCJ.EASES
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM, Jan. 10 VP) Bills to
give state elective officials sal
ary increases of 13 to 50 per
cent, adding $22,000 to the
state's annual payroll, are be
fore ' the house administration
and reorganization committee,
the committee disclosed today.
The . increases range from
$1000 a year for each of the
seven state supreme court jus
tices, to $4500 for the governor.
The lowest salary would be
$6000 a year..-
Changes Proposed ...
The present and proposed sal
aries follow: ...
Governor, $7500 to $12,000;
secretary - of state, $5400 to
$8500; - treasurer,' $5400 t o
(Continued on Page Two)
Norwegians Cut
Mam Railway
LONDON, Jan.' 10 (ff) Nor
wegian parachutists dropped in
to Norway have cut the main
railway between Trondheim and
Oslo, over which Germans were
being evacuated to Germany, a
Norwegian government official
disclosed today.
He said two German divisions
recently in Norway now are
fighting with Field Marshal Karl
von Rundstedt on the western
front, and that the Germans are
trying to get eight other divis
ions out of ivorway.
Government Slaps Ceiling
On Prices for Live Cattle
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (P)
The' government today slapped
a flat price celling on live cattle.
The action, widely op-
fioscd by stockmen, carried with
t n move to soothe opposition.
The original ceiling was set nt
$18 a hundred weight instead of
$17.50 as originally proposed.
Announced by Stabilization
Director Vinson, the measure be
comes effective January 29,
The new overall ceiling, cov
ering culves as well as cattle,
will be lowered to $17.55 on
July 2.
Vinson also directed:
1. Tho defense supplies cor
poration to Increase subsidy pay
ments on choice beef from $1 to
$2 a hundred weight, and on
good beef from $1.45 to $1.95 a
hundred weight, Chicago basis.
The subsidy payment on choice
cattle will bo cut by 50 cents
July 2.
2. OPA and the war food ad
ministration to increase the price
of the present stabilization range
for choice cattle by $1 and for
good cattle by 50 cents a hundred
pounds, live weight, over the
entire country. On July 2 the
maximum and minimum of the
stabilization range for choice
cattle . will be reduced by 50
cents a hundred pounds. .
. , OPA Violation
3. OPA and WFA to Issue a
regulation "making it an OPA
violation for a slaughterer to pay
more, on the average grade and
yield considered than the max
imum prices of the stabilization
range for cattle purchased and
slaughtered over a month's per
iod. This provision does not in
clude calves, .
4. WFA to delegate 'authority
to OPA to issue an order estab
lishing the maximum percentage
of good and choice cattle that
any slaughterer may kill or de
liver over t month's time.
dent.C. Yates McDaniel, who ac
companied MacArthur ashore,
reported that when the smoke of
the bombardment lifted Filipino
civilians were on hand to greet
the Americans.
"We found no booby traps or;
land mines such as we encount
ered on Leyte," McDaniel said.
"If the Japanese ever had any
dugouts or pillboxes they were
buried in sand by our bombard
ments. We didn't see any."
Frantic Japs
; (Broadcasts from the scene
said the Japanese were so frantic
with rage some swam out and
threw hand grenades at the
American jjhlps, "like throwing
a snowball at a hot stove.")
Of momentous -importance in
tightening a military noose on
Japan, the invasion was orderly.
There was no bloody battle on
me Deacnes. rne Americans
merely ploughed ud the inva
sion ground with a fearsome pre
liminary oarrage oi nunareas oi
tons of metal '' and swarmed
ashore calmly. At one point only
11 snipers oould be found in an
hour's search. "
General 'MacArthur triumph
antly announced the landing had
severed Japan's lines of rein
forcement and: supply, . forcing
the enemy to fight with such re
sources as he has on the island.
'His back door is closed."
MacArthur said in today's communique.
ine decisive battle for the
liberation of the Philippines and
control of the Southwest Pacific
is at hand."
The general said the Japanese
evidently did not expect the in
vasion at the Lingayen sector,
and attributed the light Ameri-
(.cominued on rage Two)
FBI Arrests Two
For Bond Thefts
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10 (1
The federal. bureau of investiga
tion today announced the arrest
of two persons charged with
stealing $100,225 in Home Own
ers Loan corporation bonds from
the Bank of America, Los An
geles. .
The theft occurred May z.
The announcement said that
because of similar methods of
operation the FBI was endeav
oring to learn if the two in
dividuals were connected - also
with thefts of more than $6000
from banks in Phoenix, Ariz.;
Seattle, Wash.; Portland, Ore.,
and San Francisco.
T
Circuit Judge David R. Van.
denberg gave his instructions to
me jury early Wednesday after,
noon in the case of Dale Davis
vs. M. P. Lavenik, as the defense
and prosecution completed argu
ments in one of the largest dam.
age suits ever brought in Klam.
ath county courts.
Young Davis, 16-year-old
Klamath Union high school stu
dent, brought suit through his
father, Allen Davis, guardian ad
litem, for $50,000 against Lave
nik, Klamath Falls business man,
charging that as a result of an
accident last April 19, Davis be
came permanently Injured
through, the loss of his right leg.
Hear Details . f
Jurors heard details of the ac
cldent which took place at. the
intersection of Alameda and
Monclaire -as young Davis was
(Continued on Page Two)-
Hollywood Legion
Admits Jap-Yank
HOLLYWOOD, Jan.' 10 VP)
A spokesman asserted today that
Hollywood Post No. 591 of the
American Legion, composed en
tirely of World War II veterans
was the first Legion post in the
nation to admit a Japanese-Amerl
ican to membership.
Harley M. Oka, 28, native o!
Santa Ana, Calif., who received
a medical discharge last month
from the army, joined the or
ganization last night, Milton
Luban, publicity chairman, an.
nounced. ' i
Britons Drive j
Patrol From Reno
ROME, Jan. 10 (M British
troops have driven a nazi com
bat patrol back from the south
bank of the Reno river, along
which the Germans have dug in
for a stand at the extreme east
ern end of the Italian battlefront,
allied headquarters said today. -
Severe winter . weather kept
activity on the entire front re
stricted to patrol sorties, a head
quarters communique said.
Yanks Return to Luzon
v '
tfneoyen Guf J'Patinan
I 1 IS" FernendoT if t-'iy -. iv
LUZON
South China . SsiYf"--:
aSMANl'lA )
TAN3 yNfij lomon Bay ,
ialniins, Naqa Syj
.V.-l'MARINDUQUl'Afcies;
l MINDOROR- BURIASKj
philippTnes. 'J , j?
' Jap reports Indicated that 60,000 Americana had made the
initial landings on Luton island. Lingayen gulf, indicated by
black arrow, waa the scene of invasion. Lower black arrow shows
Paluan, captured recently by American forces fighting ea Mln
doro. south oi the main Philippine island.