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British Units Bayonet Way Into Dutch Town
Truce In Athens
J. I
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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
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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
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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
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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.