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iut , '. ,,.i,.i mi..ln uiitl
! " , , ..wn up
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i the world begun hus
lioro " ""; .u nnrl
Cn wlmt now uppi-MM
t in have OM'II II (Ifspiuiiio
r.;ih imii of our itiiumy.
dfspropiirtionntcly hciivy
' Von KumUtedt.
offered, o( course In Hi
iio UelKli'i". 0111 tl,vro '"
reason to believe ll.ut our
r ulIorMnorc.
c jro lo believe- Moscow's
rci (mid we nnve iiu rc..ii
,1 (lie louses suffered by
I,, iim eastern front
f 8 hove been staggering.
2 any? up io ii'",'in
'ate of the red announce
ih Hussions clnlm lo liuvo
ED nearly StlO.OOO Cienniins
ntgrcd nearly iiu.uuu umiw.
miali Include no wounded
nhulouslv the Nubians cnn
fcow with nny exactness the
fcr of the enemy put oui oy
tj. It must ue inrgc.
Id I on. nil cslliniueu zuu,'
Germans have been sur-
cd ntl cm on m rjuni
l.v Losses such us that
lie laughed off nt nny time,
kirtlcularly not lit tills crl-
use of the wnr.
URAIXY, rending these
fed similar figures, wo
fr whom all the Germans
(rom. Well, lliero were a
Germans to bruin with
a vear and it half into, they
bread all over Europe mid
if Africa. Since then they
been moving back ateodily
Id Germany. As they gel
there, their numbers In
bn to the ground they must
INCREASE, In uddltioil.
fc beginning to find out,
uvc been unusually sue-
1 111 MII KSS1NG COO
and slave peonies Into
armies (an undent practice
vogc peoples which tnoy
revived.)
even nt that their losses
be cutting tremendously
liieir power of resistance.
E they started at the Vls
a, the Russians hnvo
I forward nenrly 200 miles.
is a long rnnd for SUP'
i to follow. Wc hnvc been
in pretty good authority
I Patten's supply hud been
o keep up with him In his
I across franco he might
been able to get over the
I before the Gcrimm rnnlH
hemselves together enough
?him. American bundling
nnsportnllon Is generally
led to be the best in the
Hives us nn Idea of one
roblcm the Russians fnee
ii "ley arc held up, or
for nny considerable
Of time, lit Die flrlnr un
Isumc safely thai they arc.
k iu wan tor supplies, lo
PI the clear vision of hind
Rnt, wc can sec now thnt
rwmsicors nttnek In Del
WS a COS V mlulnkn U..I
F ALSO begin to see WHY
German high command
'be Hussion attack was
Comlnir In nnn..
gmuiueu on page Three)
in The ShasiO'Cattcade Wonderland
eatliorNe
January 31, 1945
Max. (Jan. 30) 39. Min 33
Precipitation last 24 hours 03
Stream year to date 4.98
Normal 6.55 Last year 3.35
Forecasti Snow.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1945
Number 10377
Eighth Army Invades Luzon Above Manila
1st in
5T0RMACR055
NAZI
BORDER
Reds Push to 68
-
Miles of Berlin
By JAMES F. KING
LONDON, Jan. 31 (AP) Marshal Gragary Zhukov't troops today captured Landsberg
68 miles oast of Borlin, Marshal Stalin announced tonight, and Borlin broadcasts said the
red army had plungad to towm only 58 and 62 milos from the reich's capital.
Landsberg, groat roil and road hub on the Berlin-Danzig rail lino, was conquered
along with tho itrong points of Moiorltz, Schwicbui and Zullichau to the southeast ai Zhu
kov'i forces broko through the German defonso guarding Frankfurt on the Oder river 39
milos from Borlin. .
Gorman broadcasts laid soviet columns had ipoared to Soldin, 58 miles from Berlin,
and to Zielonzig, 62 miles from Gormony'i queon city. These would represent gaim north
and south beyond Londsborg by columni'35 milei opart. Ziolenzig ii only 55 miles from the
uburbi Includod in groator Berlin.
A lator German broadcast indicated tho first Ukrainian army to the south may have
ipoared within 85 miles of Berlin on the southeast and 30 miles beyond the Oder in that
area for tho doepest penetration of Germany.
It doclared the front in Silesia had been stabilized "on a line from Sorau through
Breslau to Biclsko in Poland.
If Marshal Ivan Konev's men
Freight Rate Study
-avore
dByC ofC
Klumath chamber of com
merce directors went on record
today In favor of establishment
of a traffic freight rata bureau
here, authorizing nn Investiga
tion of possible methods of fi
nancing tho project for at least
one year. Purpose of the bur
eau would bo to study freight
rates affecting this area and to
battle for fuvoroblo adjust
ments, -
Acting on another Important
TO
I
' LONDON, Jan. 31 P) Some
Germans ore ready to surrender,
the Berlin radio said today, but
declared thnt "those cowardly
crontures who try to desert the
fatherland In Its hour of need
are relatively few among our
people,"
"Germany will fight on no
mutter where or under what
conditions," the broadcast ad
ded, as other German radio re
ports told of millions of refu
gees fleeing toward Berlin from
orens directly threatened by the
surging Russian advance.
Clear Roads
One transmission by Trans
ocean, Nazi news sagency, sold
5,000,000 Germuns were trudg
ing westward from the threaten
ed areas, some of them In col
umns more than 35 miles long.
Another appealed to German
women nnd children to help
clear tho roads of snow and Ice
for tho reinforcements moving
up to the eastern front.
"Remove nil obstacles from
their path," said the appeal, ad
dressed to civilians In eastern
Gormany, "Strew sand and ashes
(Continued on Pago Three)
?ney for Whiskey Deal
investigation Approved
By Senate After Debate
ron hour's hot do-
Si 0 ? 10 nntl s"t t
25Mn7lhc b"l ni'l'roprl
fen Imi iri?xpcnse" ot 11,0
I to iS'lB,1 vu committee
yl "vestigale l,0 1043
feedlh' ,til0 Pproprta.
bs r investigation is
take ni l um 11,0 'nds
rom ? -n Pension rov
ffi ",,e Poop c.
Pubcn'014 S- import. Sn
rith n m' c"C(I tho do-
" on wm ?c "tl,ls ln
'Hih.T'.W'o L" naught."
treKsfcTtn ....
iomm, EwnUnucd. "The
been 'ill. lnvtlRntcd.
"V the iV i UK ,lctl "'
hlch nn, bSnrd ot cn
ynUtte0." tho deal..
,Sena fnnT mony out
I n.ii,J.unjli Instead of
hWywr,Ji R.oycrnor
fc igallnn " f mKmH mr
k whi " fomottilng
"torncy ,fno
Bhj 1 Of Mil hnmiih
fl'lnirn?S"1Ury? Th0
wnllacc, Porttand,
democratic national committee
men, said tho entire commis
sion's activities should be Inves
tigated. Sen. Frank II. Hilton,
Portland republican, said the
senate "ought to bo Investigated
If wo allow this appropriation
of tho old people's money."
After opponents of tho bill
said the deal nlready had been
audited, Sen, E, R. Fotland, Con
don republican, pointed out the
auditors were on the stale pay
roll, and added an Independent
auditor Is needed.
A motion by Sen. Rex Ellis,
Pendleton republican, to send
tho bill to tho senate's alcohol
committee for Investigation
fulled 18 to 11.
"Political Jitters"
Sen.- Thomas R. Mnhoney,
Portland democrat, said "Gover
nor Siiell has an acute case of
political jitters," while Sen. W.
II. Straycr, Baker democrat,
said tho old-age pensioners
would bo deprived of $80,000,
not $25,000, because of matching
federal moneys which would bo
lost.
Supporters of the bill, most of
whom said they had no evidence
the liquor commission acted Il
legally, said tho Investigation
should bo held to clear the commission,
community problem, the cham
ber "directors authorlied em
ployment of technical help and
other steps In tho preparation1
of data to be presented at a
hearing on February 20 on the
proposed diversion of Klamath
waters to the Sacramento river
watershed.
Action on the -traffic bureau
question came after a report by
George P.. Davis, chairman of
the chamber's rates committee.
Ho said tho group had come to
tho conclusion thot effective
freight rate studies end rate
work In behalf of this commun
ity and the surrounding area
must be handled by a bureau
set up for that purpose. Busi
ness men burdened with other
work cannot hope to 'go into
this technical problem deeply
enough to get effective results,
ha said. He stated he believed
the project would be of such
wide benefit that It would re
ceive support from private In
terests, but that a nucleus of fi
nancial aid should bo built up
through the chamber and from
tax sources.
Year's Work Urged
He suggested that one year's
work should prove whether the
bureau would be of sufficient
value for continuance.
The directors voted to adopt
the traffic bureau plan in prin
ciple, and directed tho presi
dent, secretory, rates commit
tee, Industrial deve 1 o p m e n t
committee and finance commit
tee to determine to what extent
the chamber could contribute
to start tho financing program.
It was indicated that several
thousand dollars would be
needed from private sources
after a nucleus Is established.
Richard Hcnzcl gave a report
(Continued on Poge Three)
Midwest Shivers
With Cold Wave
By The Associated Press
Bitter cold kept tho midwest
shivering today and Chicago
weather forecasters said the out
look was for fair and continued
cold for at least another 24
hours.
Tho mercury dropped as low
as 20 below zero at St. Cloud,
Minn, Lone Rock, Wis., reported
10 below and Rochester, Minn.,
18 below. Tho subzero mini
mums extend through tho Da
kotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wiscon
sin to central Illinois and Indl
ano. Chicago had 4 below.
Less Intense cold swept into
tho lower Mississippi valley and
central gulf states. Vlcksburg,
Miss., reported a low of 19 above
zero; Birmingham, Ala.,' and At
lanta, Ga., 21. It was in the 30s
in northern Florida.
War Bulletin
LONDON, Jan. 31 VP) The
first White Russian army thrust
within 63 miles of Berlin today
with the capture of Beyersdrof,
five miles west of Landsberg,
which was taken earlier in the
day, the nightly communique
broadcast from Moscow an
nounced. As has been customary, the
distance from Berlin disclosed
by Moscow was much mora con
servative than reports from the
nails themselves. Earlier to
night the German radio indicat
ed the red army was battling in
the Oder river valley north of
Frankfurt not more than 4S
miles from thejQarman capital.
have driven to Sorau, they arc
45 miles inside Germany and
55 southeast of Frankfurt.
Stalin's order of the day
showed that Zhukov was beat
ing into Germany on the direct
route to Berlin along a 50-mile-wlde
front. .
Heavy armored battles were
reported on the snow-drifted
fields near the Oder.
Mcseritz Is 24 miles southeast
of Landsberg. Schwiebus is an
other 13 miles farther south,
and Zullichau 11 miles still far
ther south, Zullichau, only four
miles from the Oder river at
one of its great bends, . is 89
miles from Berlin. -. , .
The Oder curves within 40
miles of Berlin," 'and" the Ger
man , accounts placed "Russian
tank columns within -20 ' miles
of the great river at that bulge
near the nazl capital. . -
ILL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (P)
In rapid order, the houso today
rejected controversial "anti
closed shop" and fair employ
ment practices amendments to
f lending manpower utilization
cgislation.
The "anti-closed shop" amend
ment was snowed under by a
teller vole of 178 to 142.
A standing vote of 148 to 113
defeated an amendment to give
statutory backing to the program
of the president's fair employ
ment practices committee set up
to discourage discrimination in
employment because of race,
creed or color. s
Remove Controversy
The two amendments removed
virtually all the controversy
from the legislation, designed to
req'.lre men between 18 and 45
to work In essential jobs under
mrcat ot Induction, lino or im
prisonment. The toller count is subject to
a possible roll call vote later.
The "anti-closed shop" amend
ment, offered by Rep. Wads-
worth (R-N. Y.i provided that no
man taking a job in accordance
with the bill's provision should
be required, as a condition of
employment, to join a union.
Vote Likely
It would have permitted a
man assigned to a "closed sIiob"
to go there without joining a un
ion. It further stipulated that
the pending legislation should
not interfere with existing wage,
hour and collective bargaining
laws. A roll-call vote on the
(Continued on Page Three)
Pilot Really Up a Tree
Failing to clear the tree tops In-an attempted jungle landing
in Central Burma, this tiny liaison plane wound up locked in
the branches of this huge tree. With ropes and ladders, rescuers
freed the pilot' and throe infantrymen passengers who escaped
uninjured.
Sixteen Babies, Woman Die
In Fire at Boarding House
" AUBTJRNr'Me., Jan. 3U(P)
Sixteen' young; children and a
woman, trapped after an explod
ing stove sent flames raging
through ' a wooden boarding
home for war and factory work
ers' babies, were suffocated or
burned to death today.
Most of the victims ranged in
age from three months to three
years. They died in their cribs
their -heads, thrust through the
spaces between the slats in their
futile- struggle to escape.
Only eight of thfi 25 occupants
were able to flee the fast-spreading
flames that swept the in
terior of the converted farm
house. "No More Babies"
One of them was Mrs. Eva La
coste, operator of the home, who
sobbed "Wc don't have any
more babies," as she told of try
ing to flee from the burning
FOR SUMMERVILLE
Lewis Summerville, 22-year-old
World War II veteran who
has been held in the Siskiyou
county jail in lieu of $2500 cash
bond charged with assault with
a deadly weapon, was to be re
leased on recommendation of
District Attorney Charles John
son of Yreka, Attorney Joseph
C. O'Neill was advised today.
Summerville was arrested fol
lowing an altercation just over
the California line the night of
December 19, at which time Fer
mon Clinton Evans, chief cook,
Marine Barracks, suffered crit
ical head injuries. Mr, and
Mrs. Evans, Summerville and a
fourth member of their party,
were en route to Klamath Falls
from a northern California road
house at the time.
District Attorney Johnson
(Continued on Page Three)
Grand Jury Returns True
Bills. Secret Indictments
Three true bills and three secret indictments were returned
by tho Klamath county grand jury Wednesday afternoon in a
partial report to Circuit Judge David R. Vandenbcrg.
Judge Vandenbcrg set Monday at 11 a. m, as the time for
arraignment of all persons under Indictment by the Jury, which
includes former Police Chief Earl Heuvel, accused of contributing
to the delinquency of a minor girl. Heuvel has not yet boon
found by officers seeking to arrest him on a warrant issued by
tho court.
Indictments returned Wednesday include: - . .
Robert J. Baker, charged with larceny by embezzlement, in
connection with tho alleged embezzlement of $283 from Thomas
R. Beam, proprietor of tho Malln hotel. -
Clarence Thompson, charged with being an accessory to a
felony, ln connection with tho Baker-Beam case.
Glenn Edward 'DeHat't, charged with larceny of an auto
mobile belonging to Elnar Engen.
.Previously, the grand jury had returned three secret indict
ments and one true bill the Heuvel indictment. That makes a
total of six secret indictments and four true bills returned by
tho Jury in the past few days.
The Jurors will return for further deliberations on February 13.
RESISTANC
E
IT
SECOND
ISLEJDI
Troops Move to Join
Forces of
6th
building "with' two cribs, "of fall
ing, and losing the babies in the
fire.
"I had them in my arms,
lost them when I fell- down.
Mrs. Lacoste cried after telling
Dr. Frederick W. Caron, her
physician, how a stove had ex
ploded. Mrs. Lacoste related that she
fell at the front door of the home
and stumbled out into the snow
filled yard. , "
She was badly burned on both
arms.
Find Remains
Firemen later found the re
mains of the two cribs and the
bodies of the babies at the door
entrance. '
Word spread through Auburn
of the fire and hysterical women
factory workers rushed to the
new Auburn section where the
home was located to learn the
fate of their babies.
pne mother had placed her
eight-month old twins in the
home only last night.
Fire Chief Ralph Harnden,
who, with firemen, stood help
less as sheets of flame barred
them from the building, said
that a heart-rending spectacle
awaited them when they finally
were able to enter.
Sixteen bodies were found and
one by- one identified.
He said it was "a terrific
sight" when he and his men fi
nally battled their way to where
the children had been quartered.
"We found many of them with
their heads through the slats of
their cribs, where they appar
ently tried to escape," he added.
"I carried out six of them my
self, in blankets." .
The boarding home formerly
was a farm. It consisted of a
one and a half story main build
ing, an "el" and a barn.
Health Writer
Found Dead in Bed
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 31 (IP)
Dr. Logan Clendcning, national
ly known writer on health mat
ters, was found dead in his home
this afternoon with his throat
slashed, and the coroner report
ed he apparently died about
midnight last night. Clendening
was 60 years old.
The body was discovered
sprawled across a bed in the
Clendening home in the fashion
able country club district of
southwest Kansas City shortly
after noon.
Clendcning's column, long
syndicated nationally, was called
"Diet and Health."
Wesley Hetrick
Killed in Action
' PFC Wesley Hetrick, 34, for
mer Klamath Falls resident, was
killed in action in Italy Septem
ber 15, 1944, according to word
received here by friends.
Hetrick was with the 133rd
infantry of the United States
army and made his home in this
city for one and one-half years
prior to enterjhg the service..
By C. YATES McDANIEL
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, LUZON, - Jan. 31
CP) Landing unopposed from
iou snips tfU miles northwest of
Manila, strong U. S. eighth army
forces blasted any hopes the
Japanese may have held for a
large scale withdrawal to Ba
taan by driving swiftly east to
day toward a juncture with the
sixth army which would seal off
the historic peninsula.
This second invasion of Luzon,
timed with a sixth army push
now within 30 miles of Manila-
was disclosed in today's com
munique of Gen. Douglas Mac-
ivrinur. ine aatn division and
a combat team of the 9.4th
which fought so heroically on
Leyte in the central Philippines,
were put ashore Monday on
Zambales province in tho 1 n
miles between the Santo Tomas
river mouth and San Antonio
without loss of a man, plane: or
snip. . . .
?- ' "'- , Cheer Invadart
Three American survivors-of
rne ".ueatlr March" from Bataan
Capt, George Crane, Topeka,
vonnnuea on i-age inreej
Germans Report Shift"
In Troops for
New Drive
PARIS. Jan. 31 UP) White-
clad infantry of the American
first army stormed across tha
snowdrifted German border at
two new places today and Lt.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' artil
lery started pouring shells into
the main concrete works of tha
thinly held Siegfried line.
All along a 35-mile assault
front from below St. Vith to tha
Roer river northeast of Monchau,
the first and third armies had a
full scale assault underway with,
gains which carried the first to
the ramparts of the west wall
and broadened the third army's
foothold inside Germany to fiva
miles.
The next few hours, it was be
lieved at supreme headquarters,
might begin to show whether
even with additional cold and de
laying drifts, the Germans would
be able to hold their fortifica
tions with the force they left
behind in their drainout to bol
ster the swaying eastern front.
bnuts Iroopi
(The Germans said Gen. Eisen
hower was shifting his troops in
preparation for an all-out of
fensive and had massed 60 di
visions, nearly half of them
armored, for the attack. They
called the Monschau drive "air
lied preparation to gain offensive
bases.")
Bucking snow and slush third
(Continued on Page Three)
By NOLAND NORGAARD
ROME, Jan. 31 (P) Secretary
of State Stettinius and Harry
Hopkins, who next to President
Roosevelt may have most to do
with shaping the United States'
international policy, conferred
at allied headquarters in Italy
yesterday and today with two
American military leaders and
then departed for undisclosed
destinations.
Their flying visits were said
by Hopkins to be part of the pre
liminaries leading - up to the
Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meet
ing. An official announcement
of the conferences was issued
after Stettinius and Hopkins,
who is the president's personal
representative, boarded planes
and left this war theater.
(The German radio declared
that "certain well-known signs
in the last 24 hours make it fair
ly obvious that a meeting of the
'big three' is imminent.
("Last night Mrs. Roosevelt
(Continued on Page Three) .
IN COMMERCE POST
-' WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l(P) -
Potentially- "vast - political icon
trol" is vested in the cabinet
post for which Henry A. Wallace
has been nominated, a senata
committee said today.
. Reporting on a measure to
split up the powers formerly
held by Jesse Jones as secretary
of commerce, by divesting tho
post of its lending agencies, the
committee said:.
"The man who has charge ot
these agencies could so admin
ister those powers as to deter
mine the economic direction of
the country, and with: that, , its
social and political character."
.. Delivers Rejection
Along with the report, tha
commerce committee formally
delivered to the senate its re
fusal to approve President
Roosevelt's appointment of Wal
lace to succeed Jones. The presi
dent had asked Jones to step
aside so Wallace could have his
job.
The formal reports on both
the nomination and the George
bill to separate the RFC and
other lending agencies from the
commerce department will per
mit the senate to take up the
controversy tomorrow.
Split Indicated
Indications were that the issue
is engendering the biggest demo
cratic split since the 1937 court
fight.
Stripped of its window dress
ing, the battle is fundamentally
one between' those who regard
.- (Continued on Page Three) :
Meat Supply Down; Demand
Up in Both U. S., Europe
By OVID MARTIN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 OP)
A government food official said
today this country may be ln for
"some embarrassing moments in
international relations" through
a foreign demand for more
American meat.
These - moments may arise,
said M. K. Bennett of the foreign
economic administration, if the
United States fails to make a
larger portion of its now declin
ing meat production available
abroad.
Bennett raised the point ln
questioning agriculture depart
ment estimates that Americans
may get from 5 to 50 pounds per
person, less meat in 1945 than in
1944.
May Be Greater
He declared the reduction In
civilian supplies may be much
greater, saying:
"Where it falls depends heav
ily upon what is done in the al
location process and towards
meeting international obliga
tions by restrictive consumer ra
tioning or larger setasides (for
government use.")
The FEA official's remarks
were in an article in the current
issue of the agriculture depart
ments "The Agricultural Situa
tion." 1
"Foreign countries," he added,
"want more of our meat than
they are getting. If you are per
mitted to have it or a substan
tial fraction of what they want
and need, our own per capita
consumption must fall by more
than 5 to 10 pounds. If you are
not permitted to have it, some
embarrassing moments in inter
national relations may arise."
Bennett did not explain what
he meant by "international ob
ligations" . in food, nor did ho
elaborate on the: possible "em
barrassing moments" which
might follow should those obli
gations not be met.
Officials . recalled, however,
that early in the war this coun
try indirectly promised liberat
ed Europe with huge quantities
of food in connection with its
slogan of "American food will
win the war and . write tho
peace."
Production Decline
America's ability to supply Eu
rope with meat has declined
sharply during - the past six
months because of a curtailment
in livdstock production. Pros
pects are not bright for an up
turn in production this year.
About 10 per cent of the Ameri
can production in 1944 went
abroad under lend-lease.
Livestock producers have put
murh of the blame for the situ
ation upon government price pol
icies. The National Livestock
Producers association, in a state
ment today, predicted a recent
government order establishing
ceilings on prices of live cattle
will further retard the produc
tion of good beef. . -
The . agriculture department
agreed with the producer organi
zation in an analysis of the cat
tle ceiling order.