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RUSSIANS
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. rjomllrovlch, southpaw guard lor th Lea thsrnvcki, will bo In thore looping 'em In wiih his
k Htd duiIi allot Saturday nigni wnen ine marines iinnit wim Bnannon s, top independent
; o( porllnd. on the KUHS
nil Manilla pralyli fund
. ..,i.,i n lhs KUHS hardwood. All proceeds of lhia tilt will ba turnod ovar to tha
uperforts Hit Japanese Bases;
Yanks Approaching Clark Field
mm
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ASIIINGTON. Jan. 24 fI'l
both YuKo.'lnvin and Chlnn
this thutiRht from the Unit
States today: Wo wish you
uld ltd your domestic
blcs .willed.
tine troubles Itnvc become
jr allied worries. They nro
i on tho list of political prnb
i facing President Roosevelt,
ic Minister Churchill unci
nler Slnlln.
fph C. Grow, nctlnK sccro
ol lnlc. In two statements
ri ycslerdny cnllrd on rival
ion in Chlnn and Yugoslavia
rach aiin-cntr-nts.
una, however, wns reminded
Continued on Piute Two)
imes Huffman
ild Prisoner
'Sjt, James J. Huffmnn, 23,
it minncr on n 11-17 Flying
;rcs, is a prisoner of war In
nany, accordliiK to word re
ed Tuesday by t lie nlrmnn's
i, U-ono, 317 Lincoln,
iilfman was reported missing
rmbcr 21, and at Hint tlmo
completed more than :t0 mis-
over Europe from big bnsc
.neland. He enlisted in Oclo-19-13,
trained at Sheppard
I, Tex., Kingman, Ariz., and
inadrla, La., before going
was, August 1, 11)4.1, to Join
"in air force,
ic airman lias n Iwo-ycnr-old
inter Nancy who lives with
'Wilier at the 10me of the
n father, William Schmltz.
n Is n former Crater
5 i-umber and Box compnny
loyu' ?KaM I'iver, nncl
c Ms home there for more
I three years. He Is the on
Rinfn1,? J- E- Huffmnn.
Bluff, Cal f. Mrs. Huffman
Si ",rtY sctl cn
crew of the U-17 wl,ch
ttSj. w"5 Klim,cr-1,,Kl
Rooms List ed
HyCoC
1,7. ha, "jeen a flood of np
'lions bu room sl, J
chamber of commerce
lhr ?"'" of the now
"K'jlrallon division on
Ming to Charles Stork
iber sccrelnrv,
dt' A.,Kl.r.a,h Fa,la aro
cemLP VlS"n houslnR for
I T, "m l,clr families,
J" "essential war workers
bee??'1'? 10 ! city
holei'.i01'001, 10 "'''ft from
S 1,i0nn."";r l5"so of
eLte 1 mlt which has
avy a J HUT 11,0 "Tlvnl
I .&,nnrln,(i Peraonnol.
ler, win, T"11' crnmpecl
: Jy. Kl examples of
have lon! nl"n lhl
la" Ma, ? n,own bV Slnt0
'RcnroSn Cornott n,ltl
' hnCn i '! lvo Woso Poo'.
p l fe risss
'"o'fClhe",,l,CT,' of 11,0 I'""
illons nro i ,nilllll"'.V I"
inlty ,nnrol,"vlK tho op.
lies for mIIvc wl11'
is, n8 ' nn liousliiH con
it Ihn y oxlst Klamath
"8 to h',ri,sonl 'no, aro
pm, ami o n ,very serious
"nluHoS ? 10 whleh "'0
ition on, iC!! with tho co.
01 tl'o locnl rcsidcnla.
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Aiioclatsd Preu War Editor
Amtrlcnn SuperforUi harried
Tokyo and boinb-wrncked Nuko
ya, reeoniioltered three Korean
Industrial cities, mid Joined cn
niiisse In aoftenliiK up Iwo Jlmn,
Island outpost on Tokyo's south
ern approaches which Jupancse
broaclcasUi have ILilcd na a poten
tial U. S. Invasion objective.
The strlko nt lwo, 730 miles
south of Tokyo, was announced
In Washington by the 2Uth nir
force. Tokyo reported three
Chlna-btisril Supcrfort.-i scouted
Kctijo, Kanko and Kalian In
Korea (Imlim dayllKht after two
nlKht attacks by Mnrlnnns-bascd
I1-2DS on NiiKoya ond one on
Tokyo,
Nipponese broadcasts also In
tlnioled tho U. S. third fleet enr
rlor raid on Formosa nnd tho
Hyukyu Islands. HnkiiiR Japan
and Hie Philippines, was carried
into tho third consecutive day.
Near Clark Flold
U. S. Hth corps spearheads
drlvlnii on Mnnlln cautiously
ncarcd Clark field, one of tho
Krcatoat military prizes In the
Philippines, after recapturing
Cnmp O'Doiincll which the Jap.
nneso turned Into a concentra
tion cnmp nnd mass cemetery
for the heroes of Batumi.
lli'lllati forces made their
fourth amphibious landing this
month on (he western Burnin
coast, AntlclpntliiR an Ameri
can invasion of occupied China,
Japan sent sen-borno troops
storming ashore on the coast
north of Formosn while land col
umns nrcssod dual campaigns in
coastal ureas.
Accepts Plan
Spurred by yesterday's B-20
raid on the aircraft city of Nngo
yu, Japanese intensified their clc
(Continued on Pago Two)
Instructions
Set for Jury
Circuit Judgo David It. Vnn
denberg will give special In
structions to the Klamath coun
ty grand Jury n t 10 o'clock
Thursday morning when that
body convenes to consider one
of the heaviest schedules In
several years.
Members of tho Jury Include
B. S. Grlgsby, foreman: Mar
giirct W. Blohm, Linda P. Put
man. Edward G. Murphy, John
M. Anderson, Charles A. Vogt,
and Anna M. Funk.
By Tha Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 OP)
Sixteen new members of the
United States sennte advised
President Roosevelt today that
they will back formation of a
United Nations organization to
preserve world peace,
Tha 10 new democratic and
six new republican members
got together on their own In
itiative and sent their assurance
In u letter to the White House.
Wishing Mr. Roosevelt success
In conferences with Marshal
Stalin und Prima Minister
Churchill, the freshmen sena
tors said:
"We believe this government
should use all reasonable means
to assure our allies and the
other nations of the world that
wo intend to shnro In the direc
tion of and the responsibility
for tho settlement ot this war
and tho maintenance of peace."
They suggested further that
"an agreement among the major
allies bo concluded as soon as
possible, to demilitarize Ger
many und to keep It demilitar
ized." Lear Appointed
Deputy
Commander
PARIS, Jan. 24 (VP) Lt.
Gen. Ben Lear has been' ap
pointed deputy commander in
the European theater charged
with administrative matters of
United Stoics troops, supreme
headquarters announced today.
Lear's new assignment per
tains purely to American ad
mlnlstrntion nnd Is not connect
ed with the direction of the
campaign, which Is on an allied
basis. I
He had been In command of
U. S. army ground forces. Ho
was appointed to that post In
July, 1944, succeeding Lt. Gen.
Lesley McNnir, who was killed
In action, ,
"March of Dimes7' Game Set
SHON'STO
PLAY MARINES
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Strong Portland Club
Sets Pace In City
League
By PAUL HAINES
Here it corneal On Saturday,
January 27, Shannon's, a top in
dependent ball club in Portland,
will swap buckets with Coach
Lcs Israel's Leathernecks from
the Marine Barracks on the
KUHS hardwood at 8 p. m. All
INFO ON HERALD-NEWS
MARINE BARRACKS
BENEFIT GAME
Time: Saturday, 8 p. m.
Place: KUHS gym.
' Teams: Klamath Marine
Barracks and Shannon's, out
standing Portland indepen
dent club.
Tickets: $1.20 for adult
civilians; 60 cents for mili
tary personnel and students,
Including tax.
Buy your tickets now for
tho benefit of the infantile
paralysis fund at The Herald
and News, marine personnel,
Dick Rccder's, Hibbs' Cloth,
lug company, or Matt Flnnl
gan's. ,i.. ', 1
proceeds from this (llfwlll bo
turned over to the current
"March of Dimes" infantile par
alysis fund.
The Portland club Is a classy
outfit that will extend the Leath
ernecks to their utmost. . At pre
sent, Shannon's Is tied for a top
perch on the Portland league
basketball ladder with Fee s Music-Makers
and,-as the merry
(Continued on Page Two)
IT
Location of the new 50-unlt
row housing project in the same
general area where public
housing projects are now situ
ated wa9 rccommcnaea Dy ine
city planning commission Wed
nesday morning. This area is
in the vicinity of Washburn way
ond Eberleln street, where there
is now a 45-unlt row housing set
up, a trailer project, and a pro
ject for homes for . families of
military personnel.
Howard Pcrrln, architect who
Is working on Dlans for the new
50-unlt program, suggested the
possibility of locating it in a
40-acro tract east of the canal
near the Evans road and the Old
Fort road. Ho pointed out that
a footbridge across the canal to
Home avenue would put this
area in close contact with Mills
school and the business district
in the Mills school area.
. Tho commission, however, do
(Continued on Pago Two)
Allied Planes
Blast Exodus
Of Nazi Troops
By Tha Associated Press '
PARIS, Jan. 24 Alliod warplanea blasted anew today at a
great exodus of German troops and tanks moving northeast by
rail and road from the flattened Ardennes salient on the western
front toward the convulsed Russian battlefields.
Tho mystery move still lacked official clarification, AP Cor
respondent Roger D. Groone roported from the northern part of
the western front.
British armies captured Heinsberg (pop. 5000), last important
road center west of the Roer through the Cologne plain. They
also took Haaren and Weerd to the north in' Holland and fought
into the southern section of Linne, three miles below the German
Maas (Mcusc) river bastion of
Roermond. Heinsberg, where
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 iP)
Jesse Jones, ousted to give
Henry A. Wallace a cabinet job,
bluntly asserted today that
"amateur experimentation" in
running huge federal lending
agencies might "jeopardize the
country's future."
"The lending agencies of the
government can be adminis
tered, as they have been, on a
non-partisan basis for the bene
fit of all the people," Jones said,
"or they can be used to destroy
what we have built up in. this
nation, in 170 years."' ;
' ' Emphatic Phrases ... j
" Tho' statement by" the' secre
tary of commerce, bristling with
such phrases as "untried ideas
and idealistic schemes" and "in
experience, visionary planning"
was prepared for presentation
to the senate commerce commit
tee before a jammed caucus
room. ,
Even before he appeared, the
Texan had made known in a
letter to Mr. Roosevelt that he
considered Wallace, who was
vice president until last Satur
day, unfit for the multiple du
ties Jones has exercised over
government lending.
Directed At Bill
His testimony was directed at
a bill by Senator George (D-Ga.)
to divorce the reconstruction fi
nance corporation and its sub
sidiaries from the commerce de
partment and reestablish them
as independent agencies.'
"The man who is. given the
(Continued on Page Two)
Tenth Day of
Cold Reported '
The tenth consecutive day of
below freezing weather was re
ported Wednesday by the U. S.
weatherman, who announced the
minimum temperature this
morning as 12 degrees above
zero.
Ideal flying weather existed
with clear, bright skies covering
the basin the past several, days
ant', planes were overhead from
the Klamath naval air station.
Heavy fogs the early part of
January grounded planes and
curtailed actual flying for a
number of days.
Klamath Men Form Only 'Br
In B-29 Superfortress
other Team' Taking Part
Raids on Japanese Homeland
sail
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'f "
Doran Lewis
By VERN HAUGLAND
B-2U BASIC, SAIPAN (fl'f Su
pcrfort Sidelights: The only
brother learn taking part in B-20
raids upon Japan, so far as is
known hero, Is that of Oren C,
Lewis, 21, nnd Doran C. Lewis,
20, sons of Mr. nnd Mrs. Fred N.
Lewis, 1838 Wlard, Klamath
Oren was born In Salt Lake
City, and Doran Is a notlvo of
Preston, Idaho. They fly side by
side In a Superfortress waist, and
at this writing they have made
five bombing missions to Japan.
Oren is tho right gunner, and
Doran mans tho left gun Just a
few feet away.
Best in Business
Their alrplano commander, a
young Tcxnn, 1st. Lt. Luther M,
Thompson, and their navigator,
Capt. Enrl A. Snyder of Craw
fordsvlllc, Ind., sny they are two
of tho best gunners in the busi
ness. . .
They learned aerial gunnery
nt schools In Amarlllo, Tex.,
where they wcro graduated from
B-17 mechanics school October
17, 1043; Scatty, where they re
ceived their certificate of techni
cal aircraft training of the B-29
division, Boeing's Flying Fort
ress school, January 28, 1944;
Denver, Colo., where they were
given their diploma from the
B-29 armament school on March
19, 1944, and from there went to
Salinas, Kans., where they gain
ed actual flying experience.
In Marines
An older brother, Kellh, is In
the marines.
"We look and act so much
alike that many of our friends
think wo aro twins," says Oren.
"I flunked the first grade so
that Doran, caught up with me.
Except for ono class In high
school wo were together all the
way through grudo and high
school.
Played, Worked Together
"We'vo always played and
worked and fought together.
When It came time, we wanted
tp servo our country together,
But wo , got Into the army
through different draft boards
and Induction stations.
"Our mothor wrote and got
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v hi v
Oren Lewis
seven traffic arteries meet, is
31 miles from Duesscldorf and
16 from Munchcn Gladback.
The American first and third
armies hammered through thick
snowfields against the slender
strip of Belgium and Luxem
bourg still in German hands.
Weather prevented all but
scattered flights in the center,
but in the north, RAF Spitfires
and Tempests bombed and shot
up scores of packed troop trains
with rockets, cannons and ma
chineguns. The Britons, too,
flew in wretched weather.
Roads Clogged
Roads and rails were clogged;
the Germans moved by day as
well as night despite allied air
(Continued on Page Two)
I
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM, Jan.- 24 (P) The
Oregon senate, after voting 14
to 12 to table Governor Earl
Snell's requested tax investiga
tion, changed Its mind today
and voted to send the measure
back to its tax committee.
The governor recommended
in his opening message that a
firm of tax experts be hired to
investigate the state's tax struc
ture. Today's resolution called
for a 15-man committee which
would be authorized to hire ex
perts. To Remove Mention
The senate instructed the
committee today to remove any
mention of the experts.
The senate first voted 20 to
S against accepting the tax com
mittee S' to a recommenuaiiuii.
that the resolution be passed.
Then it passed, 12 to 14 a
motion by Sen. Thomas R. Ma
honey, Portland democrat, to
table the resolution.
Un-Tabled
The senate, on motion by Mc
Kenna, then voted 23 to 5 to
take the- measure off the table.
Mahoney, making a new at
tempt to kill the resolution,
mdved to postpone it indefinite
lv. but the motion was defeat
ed 21 to 7. Then it was sent
harlr tn committee.
Mahoney told the senate he
believed a firm of tax experts
wouldn't do any good.
Li. Benny Angus
Returns Wounded
T.t. Rnnv Annus. Klamath
Falls, has been flown back to
this country from the European
war theater for treatment of
tixta ehrannpl wounds In his body
and is now a patient at McCall
General hospital In Walla Walla,
Wash., according to wora re
rnivnrl Vv rplntlvPK.
s Lt. Angus received a shrapnel
wound in ono arm on Decem
ber 6, but had gone back Into
aetlnn with the wound still un
healed. Soon after that he was
wminried acaln. and was placed
on a States-bound plane. Ho had
been on the war front since
Auatist.
His wife, Dorctha Anmis, and
vounu son left Tuesday ior
Walla Walla to be with tho
lieutenant while he Is in the
hostiltal. He expects to visit his
home here as soon as he is able
to leavfi the hospital. He is the
son of Mrs. L la Angus. 3909
Boardman, and of Ben Angus of
WEATHER
" January 24, 1945
Max. (Jan. 23) . 35 Mim ...12
Precipitation last 24 hours ... .00
Stream year to data, 4.84
Normal ... 8.10 Last year ....3.14
Forecast: Overcast
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HELDTHREAT
Optimism Over Soviet
Win's Tempered
By Menace
By JUDSON O'QUINN
LONDON, Jan. 24 (VP) While
the red army's swift advances
have resulted in a great upswing
of optimism here, the possibility
is not being overlooked that the
retreating dermans may be ex
tricating large numbers of troops
for desperate stand inside the
reich in the hope of prolonging
the war. .
Speculation along these lines
is heightened by the absence of
official Russian reports of over
whelming enemy casualties a
fact suggesting that the Germans
may be withdrawing under so
viet pressure in accordance with
a well-conceived strategic plan.
Not Necessarily So
This is not necessarily so. It
may be that the Russians, intent
upon cutting tne enemy to pieces
with their armored columns, are
not stopping to mop up pockets
hopelessly cut off by their swift
advance or to total up casualties.
Yet. there have been no offi
cial -Moscow -reports p -the- -en
trapment of large German
forces. The only total of German
losses announced by Moscow
was contained in the soviet com
munique of January 21, which
said tnat 65,000 nazis had - been
killed' and 25,000 captured - by
three Russian armies in Poland
(Continued on Page Two) .
Robert Coleman
Reported Missing
Pvt. Robert B. Coleman has
been reported missing in action
in Luxembourg, since December
18, according to
word received
from the war
department o n
January 16 by
his wife, Mrs.
Alice L. Cole
man of 1338
Wiard. No fur
ther details
were given at
this time.
Coleman is
the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. B.
Coleman of 517 Upham, and has
lived in Klamatn tails most ot
his life. Before entering" the
service, he was employed by
the Arrow transit. Mr. and Mrs.
Coleman are the parents of two
young boys, Ronald and Dennis.
Reds Capture Towns
Along Polish
Hinge 7
By The Associated Preu -
LONDON. Jan. 24 (PI Tha
first White Russian army today
captured Oppeln. upper Silesiaa
capital on the Oder river, and
smashed northwest of Breslau
to within 149 miles of Berlin,
Marshal Stalin announced to
night.
The flanking drive abova
Breslau, lower Silesian capital.
toppled Traeenoerg, 27 miles
northwest in Silesia, and Ra'-
wicz, 10 miles farther north in
Polish territory and 149 miles
from the reich capital.
Cross Oder
A Berlin broadcast tonight
said Russian troops had crossed
the Oder river in Silesia, but
were wiped out.
"Single soviet units and ad-
vance tank spearheads crossed
the Oder but they all were
speedily thrown back or wiped
out," the broadcast added. :
Make Breakthrough .
Stalin in two earlier orders
of the day proclaimed capture
of tne central Poland ninee
stronghold of Kalisz after a
four-day tank battle, and dis
closed a sixth Russian army
group had lunged into the win
tor offensive and made a 25-mile-
wide breakthrough i rt
Czechoslovakia.
Oppeln (Pop. 44,000) on tha
east bank of the Oder 47 miles
. (Continued on Page Two) . .;
GUY PDRTERFIELD ;
KILLED NEAR DOiS
Guy Porterfield, 48, promt
nent Tulelake rancher, and ona
of the original homesteaders in
that section, was killed at 2:40
p. m. : Tuesday when a truck
rolled down an incline and
crushed Porterfield against a po
tato cellar door at the ,"JF"
ranch in the Oklahoma district,
six miles east of Dorris. Calif.
Porterfield was found by hia
brother, Lester, and an employe,
Theo Johnson, as they returned
from Dorris where they had
loaded potatoes at the railroad
yard there; Porterfield had ap
parently extricated himself from
between the door and the truck:
arid was found lying on tha
ground. He was rushed to Dorria
and given first aid, but when
Ward's ambulence met the car
carrying Porterfield to Klamath
Falls, the rancher was pro
nounced dead.
Porterfield, a native of Gold
Beach, Ore., homesteaded in
Tulelake in 1928. He operated
one of the largest dairy ranches
on the west side of the lake but
had sold the place last summer
to Bert-Johnson of Merrill.
1 Alois Turner, Siskiyou county
coroner, was called to Dorris to
make an investigation and Wed
nesday was at the Porterfield
home in Tulelake. The remains
are at Ward's Klamath Funeral
home and final rites will be an
nounced later.
An obituary is given else
where in this issue. r
Lodgepole Pine Uses Set
For Research at Oregon
State, Soys Forestry Dean
A study of possible uses of
lodgepole 4) i n e, which covers
thousands of acres of Klamath
county, will be the first new
project of the forthcoming bicn
nium at tho Oregon forest prod
ucts laboratory at Oregon State
college, Dean Paul Dunn of the
school of forestry at OSC told a
Klamath chamber of commerce
gathering last night.
He said that the next year's
activities depend upon passage
of the laboratory's proposed
budget, but indicated that the
budget adoption at the legisla
ture Is expected. Possible uses
of lodgepole pine Include pulp,
pressed wood boards, hogged
material, and n number of oth
ers, he said.
Postwar Planning . .
Dean Dunn spoke at a meet
ing sponsored by the post-war
p 1 a n n i n g committee of the
chamber, headed by Wallace
Bruce. A large number of lum
bermen and others Interested in
industrial development here at
tended the session.
The dean said nt the outset
that the "second 100 years are
the hardest" in the lumber in
dustry. The main problem now
facing tho Industry is proper
utilization ot material available.
The importance of research
was emphasized by the speaker,
who told of Investigations made
by the Oregon laboratory, and
also praised research programs
of the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company, Western Pine associa
tion, and the forest service la
boratory at Madison, Wis.
Shows Samples
He discussed destructive dis
tillation of wood waste, and
showed samples of charcoal bri
quettes which he said may be
used extensively for fuel in tho
Portland area, especially if
there is electro-mctalurgical de
velopment in that region. Saw
dust plaster, shredded wood
fiber boards, similar to Mason
Ite, and other products were
discussed by the dean, who had
a" number of samples with him.
He mentioned the Springfield
plant where production of ethyl
alcohol will be started by June,
and said this plant should con
tinue nftcr the war if economl
cal uses of the by-producls can
be developed.' Among these ia
lignln, which will come out of
the plant at tho rate of 50 tons
a day, and sugar which may b(s
used for, livestock feeding yeast.
.' After ' the talk,- numerous
questions, were directed at tha
Corvallis man, especially with
regard to use of such species n(
lodgepole pine and balsam fit
The dinner was held at tha Pel
.ican cafe. .. - -