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Newspaper Page Textmm 1A1 111 Her POLISH iWeatherNej U'il Ml ' V.N - lUllOi January 17. 1945 Max. (Jan. 16) 40 Min 26 Precipitation last 24 hours 01 Stream yaar to data 4.67 Normal 5.64 Last year ... 2.90 Forecast: Clearing. T FOLDS ByrJEN?1N814 " ' ui'ii. Jim. H in The Shasta-Cascade Wonderland CM alb ana 1 vm FIN UNDERATTACK !'1 f.f . Si "ri. 1'olui.tl PniCC FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1845 Number 10365 k fell w"v mwiy-. . u, on 1 10 homo rout- Bi'l u "lv censored new of ml 0,lly ..... ..r HAS luii). It IS IWI'V""?, --,.,, Il.ul IOT or nothing "Mho frIU"V .. !,,,, IIIUl ll( I 10 "Til, bron unconscionably it wmw " " . . Doubtless - n?lilirl In curryli.K out r"'.T. n,. I'lii-inii'iiii bar- pari oi - ' ... 1... 11.14 tllllt that cr in... "r..i. i. iiw, i,.i.u. KiMtan whiter push it .lii'llmve uicu u.h f '' . 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Thcru otn mo in ... u..nn.i i that Indicates imylhliig to SSIA is doing many things ii eastern Europe Hint wo "wy home-fronters do not iiui me sum ot nil th nun n..iniu ... .. .'"""a .u inu tuit ion tuil ... II m oi ii llll"K upper " s,llln s mind is mnklng '10 KHll.n 1 . .." hi,,. .. "Lr wcsicrn f"'. If rtimnli.'i Cont? l "i "ccur. Oeriinany " I-llKO TWO) British Units Bayonet Way Into Dutch Town Truce In Athens J. I : :i J LjIZS sal Slanlng a truce between the Elas, armed organisation of the loftwinn Greek party EAM, and British forces in Athens are l,t. Gen, Ronald Seobie (lop, seated), British commander..' and John Zevgos (bottom, seated), and Elas representative. This is an official British, photo.. (AP. wlrephoto. vU.OWJ radio).. - Small Jap Counterattack 5 Slows 6th Army's Flank Wies Hammer mfaurg Area rrcdnu ,Sl.l,onvy bombers k, L01 l,ll'lsnndsubmarlno lotlnv 0 K,rc"tr Hnmbura i ru? ;w l,0"r after rk ihro nlK !1 bmbers hud oustrlal center of Mngde- ,L cKnth a r force Plvlnu rfc'l refinery at "on? ,i',,lnl nllnn "'id fnellltles In oft u Hamburg itsolf. jQtienceof a i axed Fnniit i .. K1?. Jnn. 17 m- nrrr",,.5d hi i 'n n clff ii nii 1 y 101,8 ''I ClBnrV.It1,K WOr ,0ltl ir in W lino wo'ro ",u '"coma tax of- By C. YATES McDANIEL t GENERAL MatARTHUR'S HEADlJUAH'i'EltS, LUZON, Jan. 17 (!) A smnll-scalo Japa nese rounternltnck slowed the left flank of tho broad sixth army sweep down, the central Luzon valley but ndvaneo units rolling along n central highway E By JACK BELL. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 fP) President Roosevelt may coun ter any Russian demund for multiple representation in the proposed world security assem bly with a proposal for nn American dclegntion of 48, one for each state. ' The question of representa tion In the gcncrnl peace organ ization and also tho voting methods of Its projected 1 1 mombor directing council arc expected to come under discus slun nt Mr. Roosevelt's Immi nent meeting with Prlmo Min ister Churchill and Premier Stuliii. Possible Topics Thcro were indications also Hint tho agenda will Include n discussion of proposals advanced by S o n n t o r Vnndenberg (R (Continued on Pngo Two) already are one-third of the way to Manila, still finding only token resistance. Gen. Douglas MncArthur an nounced the Yanks reached Mon cada, 32 rond miles from Llngay civ gulf, Monday, but a head quarters spokesman conserva tively placed tho deepest point of penetration nlong the mnln north-south highway- ns 45 high way miles from the gulf and 83 from Manila, . . Beyond Moncada . (Thcso mileage figures might nut ndvnnce units well beyond Moncada, perhaps on the ap proaches to tno imporvoni cuy oi Tarloc.) i ' Another lank-led spearhead on ihn west side of the plain was past captured Camillng, moving south and easi. i nc somnern arm of this group was traveling a mountain rond which joins the (Continued on Page Two) , . 1 , ( Leading Yank Ace Shot Down SAN ANlumu, uex., jiin. ii (P)MnJor Thomas B. McGuirc Jr., of San AlHonio nnci niagc wood, N. J., the nation's lending nctivo nee with 38 Japanese planes to his credit, wns shot down and killed in the Philip pines Jnnunry 7, Lieut. Gen. George C. Kcnncy, commanding allied nlr forces in the Pncific, informed Mrs. McGulro In a let ter dated Jnnunry 8. ' Roosevelt Dog's Priority Holds Up Return, Says Gob ANTIOCH, Cnlif., Jnn. 17 (P) Senmnn First Clnss Leon LcRoy, 18, wns homo on nn emergency lenvo todny with tho story Hint his return was held up because ho, nn army sergennt nnd n Sen bee were "bumped off" nn army plnno nt Memphis, ,Tonn., to make room for n clog consigned to Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, daugh-tcr-ln-lnw of the president and known lo the Hollywood screen ns Fnyo Emerson, nctress. . LcHoy, n gunner on a nnyy tnnker, said tho dog had nn "A . prlorlly rating while he hnd only a "C." Father Dead Ho said ho was grnnlod the emergency lenve nnd tho priority putting him nbonrd tho nrmy enrgo pinna nt Newark, N.- J., becnuse, on his arrival nt New York Jnnunry 4, ho learned his father, Al LeRoy, former Anti och police chief, had died De cember 0, . . . ' LeRoy said Instructions which went with the dog's crate, "which was so largo It required threo scnts," snld the nnlmnl was tho property of Col. Elliott Roosevelt and was consigned to his wifo nt Los Angeles. Confirms "Bumolna , ' In Washington, the wnr do- pnrtmcnt snlcl thai a wosiuounci nrmy cargo plane on January 1 1 took on a dog nt Dayton, Dliln. nnri later at Memphis, Tenn., n soldier, n snllor nnd a Scnbce were put off the plnne to lighten the lond so that 300 pounds of high priority freight could be put aboard. Tho dog renin nod in the Dinnc. Putting off the dog, the de partment spokesman said, would not have given the desired weight. Ho snld that it wns the weight nnd not space that was needed. ,, ' , .The spokesman said It was not customnry to enrry pets on army cargo planes, but ho emphasized that no information was avail able here on the nature of tho shipment. Presumably, ho said, tho dog had a travel .priority (Continued on Pnge Two) First Army Pushes To Within 5 Miles Of Last Road Post By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, Jan. 17 (!') Bayonet-wielding Britons of the second nrmy drove today Into the Dutch village of Dictcren, between tho Maas (Meusc) and Rocr rivers 23 miles above Anchcn, in ad vances up to 1000 yards in a resumption of Gen. Eisenhower's winter oifensivc. The rested troops crossed the little Roode river at two places und pushed steadily on over glassy roads and snow-drlftcd farm lands on the fringe of Germany. The attack was aimed at straightening the allied line to the upper Rocr, whose west bank is held by the U. S. ninth army from Linnich to Schmidt. The U. S. first army, further reducing the Belgian bulge, drove to within five miles of St. Vith, last major road center which the Germans held in the salient. Capture Vielsalm LI. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' troops also captured Vielsalm, nine miles west of St. Vith, as Field Marshal Von Rundstedt attempted strenuously to halt his retreat from the bulge. Viel salm, a town of 3000, had been entered a week ago by ihe 82nd infnntry division. The week-long battle flared along the Salm rivet and the ruined castle of Salm nearby. Inside Germany to the south, an undisclosed number of enemy troops wcro trapped near captured Butzdorf by third army tanks. The British lorccs progressed in an icy ground haze. Their attack, started with a massive artillery barrage Field Marshal Montgomery's military trademark apparently caught the Germans napping. Capture Bridge The Tommies capture at least one bridge over the Roode intact as they 'advanced, ghostly in white copes, through a rela tively soft spot In German defenses. British divisions in the at tack had not been engaged in the battle of the Belgian bulge, now reduced to about a fourth its original size. The littlo Dutch town of Dieteren is two miles from the Ger man frontier and six north of Sittard. The fog which shrouded the attack of infantry and tanks also slowed the progress of the British,, who could hardly see their buddies along Uio assault line. Roads. were glazed with, ice and slcot this inornlng and kept them slippery. Underneath all were massive German mine fields,-planted during three months bf lull.' w.:. . Backed By Raids rw-i,... - . "."Tne-'tta6"wai"ba'ckeu"uiJ ovcriigli .bV-JtHMie,--'i' raids on German billet areas in the towns of Wassemburg and Wegberg Just east ot tho Roar.. ' To the- SOUlh, we .uerman sanenv..in me niucura m -tencd back until nowhere was it more than 15 miles deep. The i). S. first army was battering relentlessly down from the north ci villi ind nmin rnnri onto buck to the Siegfried line. A few German snipers wcro being hunted down in the ruins, of fallen Houffnlize. . - -, - In the Mnginot line battle north of the Haguonau -forest, the U. S. 7th army had withstood three days of an Increasingly paw crful German attack against the village of Hattcn and was slowly beating the nazis back from the town. Three-fourths of it was in allied hands; some 2200 Germans with flame-throwing tanks Were in tho other fourth. .. The cross-Rhine German stand north of Strasbourg was under two-way attack by Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's troops for the first time. The seventh army gained a mile at both ends of the pocket despite German reinforcements which built nazi strength to 2500 men and a dozen tanks. . ' ODT Asks Halt on Passenger Service on Rails If Needed WACHtNr.TON. ' Jan.' 17 OP) Tho office of defense transpor tation today directed railroads to discontinue passenger serv iM immAiaiiilv "whprever re- IHIIIIUU.W.k., " quired" to assure the movement of war freight. ODT Director j. muiuue U Hurt in Fire In Norfolk Yard NORFOLK, Vn Jan. 17 OP) Fourteen persons wcro burned or ovcrcomo by smoke, two piers were damaged and at least four ships caught fire when a two-alarm blaze swept through the Norfolk navy yard annex at St. Helena this afternoon, , ac cording to unofficial reports. The bloze, unofficially report ed to .have started from spnrks from a welder's torch, swept so H.,n1.lii n.r n smnll nlPI tfl the mnin pior that ships tied up at ine lauer pier couiu nut un moved before the. flames reached them. .,' Salary Increase BUI Introduced SALEM, Jan. 17 (P) The Klamath county1 legislative dele gation Introduced a bill in the house today to give $300 annual salary Increases for 1945- and lf)4 tn the Klamath county shcrlCf. judge,' assessor, clerk, treasurer and commissioners, nnd to the Llnkville Justice of the peace, Tho increases nre a continu ance of Increases put into effect in 1843. WORKER MISSING ' ASTORIA, Jarr. 17 (P) Jcong Lum, whom friends reported de spondent over news that his wife and children had been cap tured by tho Japanese in. China, was mlsslnct today. The 65-ycar-old cannery work er was last seen Saturday. Coast guardsmen are dragging tnc river. . Johnson said the railroads were currently suffering from severe weather conditions, but that he hoped the .situation would be cleared up shortly. In a letter to J. J. Pelley, president o the Association of American Railroads, Johnson as serted that there are now thou sands of freight cars of all kinds that cannot be moved. Because of these conditions, he added, the railroads should: 1. Prohibit, for the next 96 hours, all commercial loading, except war material nnd fuel, which is to be moved through congested areas. 2. Intensify the steps already taken to move solid blocks of empty cars out of congested areas. 3. Discontinue passenger serv ice and use the full energies an equipment of the railroads to haul desperately needed freight wherever such action is necessary to keep essential war traffic rolling. Nazis Retreat Under Attacks Tbelgium HtiiPfv I j l V S l f lt3 '"' w J; " III ? ""' ' OvXr-L, , 'A Ih,r,mont . - Further flattening the Belgian bulge, Yanks of the first army drove to - within five miles of St. Vith, after capturing the im portant road center of Houffalize. The map indicates allied prog ress before Houffalise was captured, and fails to show latest gains in the Ardennes, where the German have been driven back, now holding only 15 miles at the deepest point. Three-Dqy Bfows oSCfino, ''Formosa Costly to Enemy ' By LEIF ERICKSON U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Peart Harbor, Jan. 17 (p) Third fleet planes brushed aside . weak Japanese sir cover along 350. miles of he. south China coast, sank or dam aged at least 30-,-enemy ships and '. -spread bomb .destruction through ' the . big Takao naval base on Formosa, spacious docks at Hongkong and - the harbor at. Canton Saturday, Sunday . and .Monday. - . 1 Upwards: of . loo superfort resses dealt fresh blows to For mosa today. The strike appar ently was coordinated with car rier plane attacks against that island and . the southeast coast of China. t . . ; . . The targets of the China-based B-29s were military air installa- El First Casualty t o 8 By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (P) President Roosevelt called on congress today to enact limited national service legislation, with out quibbling over details. Assertine it is "vital that total offense should not slacken," Mr. Roosevelt accompanied his own urgent request with that of the nation's top military chiefs, in which they disclosed mat; Tax ReDlacements 1. Army rjersonnel losses suf fered in Europe in the last two months have "taxed the replace ment system ! to the breaking point." . z. ine stepped up tempo oi Pacific warfare has brought heavy damage to naval vessels, "manv of which will require ma jor repairs." The repair load has slowed down new construc tion. ' Eouipment Needed 3. Eight French divisions are to be mit into the field against Germany and equipment for them as well as to build up re serves is urgently needed. V A mi S... J ...... ...nt . X lie Iflll.J Mini un,j need a total of 900,000 induc tions bv June 30. Chairman May (D-Ky.) of the house military committee, to whom Mr, Roosevelt addressed his appeal, predicted the legisla tion will be approved "by to morrow nieht." "We have discussed it long enough," he said. "It is time now to. act." First member of the Klamath Indian tribes to be reported missing in action is pvt. Rich ard Biis, . Klamath Indian Reported Missing Mrs. Delia C. Biss, Beatty. Ore., has lust received word from the war department that her son, Pvt. Richard Biss, 22, 310th infantry, has been missina in action in Germany since De cember IB. This is the first member of the Klamath tribe of Indians to be reported missing, and there have been so far, no casualties of any kind reported. A total of 138 Klamath Indians are now in the armed forces at this time, and a few more expect to be called during January. Richard Biss is a graduate .of Saint Mary's academy of Albany, Offensive Carries Reds Within 15 Miles ! Of Germany tions in the vicinity of Shinch iku on the northwest coast of Formosa, which is about 225 miles north of Luzon in the Philippines. Not a Japanese plane appear ed over Hongkong, a city of more-than 1.000,000 people, as tifellcats, Helldivers and Aveng ers tore into the royal naval and Taikoo docks Monday. No Defense Not' a Japanese plane defend ed Canton.. . . . ... At least 104.000 tons of enemy shipping was sunk or damaged. Among these, a destroyer and destroyer-escort were sunk and a. 17,000-ton tanker left listing. That only, begins to tell the story. The- navy has yet to report any of the results for Saturday when the air arm of Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey s third fleet struck Formosa and the south China ports of Amoy, Swatow and Hongkong. That raid was disclosed Monday. Continue Attacks Yesterday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said the carrier planes continued the attacks Sunday and Monday on Formosa and the China coast, including Can ton, Swatow and Hongkong. (Continued on Page Two) Yank Patrols In Italy Retreat ROME. Jan: 17 W) American patrols attempting to reach San Ansona just west of the Florence Bologna highway were turned back yesterday by bitter enemy small farms fire, allied head ouartcrs announced today. Sharp skirmishes occurred at several otner sectors ot tne Ital ian front as patrols probed en emy positions in poor visibility caused by snow and rain, but there were no changes in any fifth or eighth army forward positions. By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 17 Russian troops captured burned and bat tered Warsaw today as the Ger mans whole Polish front col lapsed under three mammoth of fensives one of which carried to within 15 miles of Germany itself. v ,- Warsaw fell with amazing swiftness in a pincers push, and a tnird Russian ollensive to the north toward East Prussia broke, through nazi defenses for 25 miles on a 63-mile front, Pre mier-Marshal Stalin announced. Czestochowa Taken ' In a third order of the day he announced capture of Cze stochowa, only 15 miles from German Silesia, by red armies which have slashed 110 miles westward in six days from the Vistula river bridgehead below. Warsaw. f The provisional Polish govern ment at Lublin which first dis closed the liberation of Warsaw said the bastion city of Kra kow, ancient seat of Polish, kings, also had fallen. Berlin 260 Miles ' -. At Czestochowa, one of the: first Polish citiesh announced as captured by the German high command in 1939, the Russians were 260 miles from Berlin. i Red army men piercing west of Warsaw now stood 290 miles from the reich capital. Fourth Offensive ' : Berlin reports still a fourth great offensive is beating into East Prussia farther north. The newly-disclosed push above Warsaw is the third dis tinct phase of Stalin's gigantic winter offensive in Poland whichi rapidly was liberating all Poland. Warsaw, the first European,' capitai taken by the Germans in, this war, was toppled by Marshal Gregory -K. . Zhukov's powerful offensive beating up. from the south, and then swirl ing behind the city, slicing es cape, roads to the west.; His troops closed in from both di rections, in concert with forces which forced the Vistula north of Warsaw. The city's fall was announced by Marshal Joseph Stalin in an order of the day. Jumping off Sunday from two (Continued on Page Two) Blohm Resigns Bank Position Godfrey C. Blohm, manager oi the Klamath Falls branch of the United States National bank of Portland, and since 1906 active in Oregon banking circles, an nounced Wednesday that he had resigned his position and at the ' end of this month planned to de vote his time to ranching in the Malin area. Elton H. Thompson, assistant manager of Ladd and Bush, Sa lem branch of the U. S. National bank, will arrive here this week; to assume the position left va cant by Blohm's resignation. Blohm came to Klamath Falls December 16, 1936, when the United States National took over the American National bank. Some six years ago he acquired two ranches in the Malin area where he plans to reside by late spring. Blohm is serving at the present time as a member of the school board of district No. 1; draft board, No. 1: president of Klamath Falls Rotary club, and is a member of the board of di rectors of the Klamath county chamber of. commerce and the city budget committee. 'Petty Polities' Charged By Demos as Bill Passes By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. 1 SALEM, Jan. 17 P) The house, over bitter democratic charges of "petty politicsi" passed and sent to the senate today by 54 to 5 margins two bills which would allow more time for soldier voting, and pre vent the use of mobile trailer units for obtaining voters' reg istrations. The soldier vote bill, which extends from 45 to 70 days the period allowed for getting bal lots to- and from servicemen, also limits pictures in the vot ers' pamphlets to portraits, and it was this latter provision that roused the democratic ire. "False, - Misleading" Rep. John Stcelhammer, Salem republican, said uniform portraits in the pamphlet are needed to "prevent false and misleading advertising, and to slop candidates from riding on tnc coattaus ot a popular candidate." Steelhammer cited the picture in the 1944 election pnmphlet of Willis Mahoney, Klamath Falls democratic candidate for the U. S., senate. The picture showed Mahoney walking down the steps of tnc White House. uncalled for Rep. Warren Erwin, Portland democrat, said the bill Is "un? called for, untimely, and any characteristic photograph should be permuted. nop. kyie v. rnomas, uauas republican, said "the bill would help eliminate Indignity of gov. crnment, and if it would do anything to curb the activities of Willis Manoncy, men proc ably it Is a good bill." Duniway For Bill Speaking for the registration bill, Rep." Robert E, Duniway, Portland republican, said that operators of m o b i 1 o units in Portland have been "loose and lax in investigating qualifica tions of voters," and that war workers could be registered at fixed places. - ' Erwin said the bill Is "petty politics, most unkindly, unfair and discriminate against the democrats." Rep. Phil Brady. Portland democrat, said the bill would disenfranchise thousands of war workers who wouldn't have time to go to. register.