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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1S45
Number 10379
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TROOPS FORM
PIER GRIP
OH CAPITAL
, . ... and mark
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f h,. murk on It l'l7 '
o( tho Oermu" unm
Wlllot,lnocomme..ttor
you may wy, how ore- wo
know that when tho Cor
Juried buck from El
tin onii n.ii.wiH"'"
Fu) . 11... I M.iimtiil ftillHt
"not foUowhm T
d dark stiut.-wlt; pin" In-
Si return lo the German
m from which Inter they
,'i'iy torlh to mnltu in?
I you y ' with ho
some i ......
LMOST ready lo bo
f- . . .
!0SE, m nn wmwer to Hint,
r -i ... iw,.i (iniiv
rem. in" ""v. V i
apparently well vouched
Ll the Ciermnn scorcnou
no CV illlll Liinuiniv
rPnN INTO GKHMANY.
Che Ccrmnii lenders think
ililivc Ari l-iiiiiivu w "...
,.,r why urn wiey imi.u'
Industrial pliinl
fry retire before u on the
ana we iu.m.hi u
trcklng an answer to Uint
Hon. vou will una ll nara
(old till thought: "They
be saylnii lo incmicivve,
with the cynlnil Hourbon
lot France: "After Ui me
m..jt he adding: "If WE
rule Ccrmnny, we'll lenvo
Ll us a Germany thut won't
frill ruling."
other day Dr. Robert Ley,
edcr of the Gerniiin lubor
(such us It ll summoned
Germans to resist "In the
hand" If Berlin should
lie said (via Cicrmun radio):
wl fluht before Berlin,
d Berlin ond behind Bor-
k ure of Hie pronoun "we"
purely oratorical, of course,
rlln Is tuken nflrr n insl-
defense, the ' nnzl lenders
bo among tho Inst men.
aro already reported to bo
rlns lo move to Munich,
Ir In the Interior, to con-
the struggle from there.
Linich Is tuken, and after
rn the next center or resist
and so on until ALL, of
any has been reduced to
k. where will tlioso nnzl
ft be? They'll doubtless be
psc airplanes tlint uro ro
n to oc wultlnK on tho nir-
wilh motors runn nil
hen ANYWHERE will bo
for them thnn Germany.)
, for the sake of tho nra.i
lcl us aum! that first
i and I lien Munich nnil
that ALL of Germany aro
by assault und left In ruin,
at then?
i LOGICAL answer Is Hint
Germans their rmmlrv rti.
fcdcltyby city, Its Industrial
rmncci w 1 be eft with.
fope and will TURN TO
WUNISM for communism
last resort of tho hope-
VM after they had lost all
r"""uon on mso Five)
Reds Affemp? tfo
Cross Oder River
By JAMES F. KING
LONDON, Fob, 2 (AP) Russian forces have made one attempt to storm across the
Odor in their onslaught toward Berlin, a Gorman broadcast said today, and other Berlin
reports indicatod soviet patrols might already have crossed.
Tho Gorman high command clampod a blackout on news from the sector as one mili
tary commontotor told of tho attempted crossing in the area of Kustrin, 40 miles east of
Berlin.
Berlin radio accounts said Marshal Gregory Zhukov had brought up strong forces along
tho Odor on both sides of Frankfurt and that assaults to reduce the fortress of Kustrin
woro undorway.
, Tho Gorman communique, however, completely omitting mention of the soctor, said the
Russians everywhere elso except in East Prussia, had been checked after hard fighting and
Moscow diipotchos said Zhukov had run into thick minefields and a hard shell of German
armor along tho 90-mile front threatening the Gorman capital.
Zhukov's tanks have sliced botwoen Gorman strongpoints to within sight of the Oder and
have reached highly Important operational areas in the region of Frankfurt and Kustrin,
Moscow disoatchoi said. T
16 Babies Die In Maine Fire
STATE HEADS
NOTIFIED OF'
PIT DIVERSION
Rising concern In tho Klam
nth basin over the proposed
Klamath water diversion to the
Sucramento watershed was called
to the attention ot sti.to authori
ties In Si.lem tmluy. while here
work went nhcud on preparation i
of a brief In behalf of this basin
In connection with tho proposal.
Stnto Senator Marshal Cor
nelt and Representative Henry
Soman conferred with Gover
nor Earl Snoll, Informing him
of tho seriousness with, which
tha proposal : viewed. In this
bust it. Tho land uso committee
of the Klamath county chamber
of commerce, which is collecting
Information for tho brief, con
ferred by telephone with State
Enilinccr Charlos Strlcklln, and
ho oRrced to spend at least one
day here prior to the army en
gineers' hearing on February 20.
Snell Interested
Governor Snell Indicated
warm interest In the situation
and sulci tic will discuss it with
army engineers immediately.
General Robin, head of tho
army engineers, Is expected In
Salem February 12, and It is
expected tho engineers' activities
In this project will be discussed
with him at that time.
Tho land uso committee of the
chamber, which is headed by
Frank Jenkins with Richard
Henzcl as director in charge, met
yesterday and obtained the serv
ices of William Wains, well
known local engineer, In pre-
Enring data for tho Klamath
rlef. The brief, tentntlvely, is
expected to take tho form of a
declaration ngulnst any proposal
that might deprive this basin of
(Continued on Pago Three)
Vo Movie Unions Squabble
yer Jurisdictional Rights
LLYWOOD. Feb 2 m 1
Screen Players union threw
, nrotinrt ntnlor plc-
T' ""my in n jurlsdlc-
UlSDUtf! will, I... u
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S Oil tl nvor ...
psesman for tin. ti.i ..m
the pickets pnlrolled their
m dr u hng rnln, Mlehncl
Sl Ol'U IIKlllln..
tClCn'Jl"Kr,"nl vlolntlon of
pi. law and rom.Hiniin,, t
Plaining ngent for ex-
producer., lost nnt r0.
nil inlfirlni
lsl by ih, soi "
lrlno?f 2?.SI .U favoring
IVVPI-n ,. """"".BIB BHIU
R, r'"11" dolormlnn-
rl n j i . t"iroi or i no
K 1',I!!CIit' '
f 0lld (A KL) m aCrCn
rne nt . .
h.!t Keen her"
ly hi, ,01' '"onibors," os
J Bit players and stunt-
leffL,"01.1!"" cxtr
law.olScr '"'"tl SPU ex-
Ft or stnT1 KPtlln" ny
I a Vlnln.l WOrk 1,1,(1 thnt
L Vlolalil"l of tho NLRB
In Dntn.
W thn QAn CUHV0 S0crc-
I .? ?AQ -- which .mi
fprctnri ii ?, ur mums
n nv, ,, lu wroai iir
ovr ncting work Irom
the' guild." Guild members,
Dales snld, have been Instructed
to pass through picket lines.
Producers declined to say
what immcdinlo effect the sched
uled walkout would have on mo
tion picture production. It would
bo tho second mnjor movie walk
out recently. Set painters and
decorators wore out eight days
last October In a Jurisdictional
dispute involving two AFL
unions.
Missing
G
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Nell Mayfleld
Stalin's acc field commander
shoved his heaviest artillery up
closo behind the front to shell
Frankfurt. Moscow snld Kustrin
had been under an nil-day bom
hnrdmont. Berlin declared the
Kustrin garrison was "at grips
with the enemy ut close quar
ters, but we still hold the town."
Reserves Drawn Up
Across tho river fresh re
serves of Volkssturmors and
Voikssturm grenadiers, along
with "alarm battalions" from
Stettin, were reported taking
their place in deep fortifica
tions. Declaring the capital could
and would be defended, Hitler's
newspaper said "German armed
forces arc in a position to build
barriers which tho enemy, who
has crossed the Oder with very
small forces only, cannot even
threaten."
Heavy fighting raged on a
lino from the area of Glogau, on
the Oder 115 miles southeast of
Berlin, to Kustrin, In tho angle
of the Odor and Wartho east
and slightly north of Berlin.
. . .' -ii-n rtmhed'-to Eeit r -
Tho Germans declared they
had thrown tho Russians out. ot
Kustrin, and that thousands of
German men, women and chil
dren wcro being rushed to the
east to dig a rotrcot system of
trenches to make Berlin a
"bloody disappointment" for the
Russians. '
Moscow dispatches reported,
however, that Zhukov was
working to bring up stronger
forces, wos massing his Infantry
and storm guns close behind his
tank spearheads and that the
"storming ot the Oder is not
too distant a project."
FULL
ASKED OF raiRS
Klnmnth county fnrms and
ranches will be called on for an
other year ot full production to
help fill the national food pro
duction needs which woro re
viewed Thursday by local farm
leaders at a county goal confer
ence held in tho chamber of com
merce rooms. '
Representatives of ' all the
county's farm communities and
of all agricultural groups -gavo
consideration to the county's ca
pacity to produce under expect
ed conditions. Goals set reflect
this capacity to produce and nro
believed possible of attainment.
Klnmnth county plantings of
main crops equal to 1944 acre
ages will in general fulfill goals
set.
Crop Increase
Increases of 75 to 125 In
seed crops such as nlslke clover,
alfnlfn and Austrian pen seed
harvested, are needed on a stntc
and national bnsis and should be
considered by local farmers in
making their plans. Potatoes,
hay and grain acreages should
show very slight gains to achieve
goals set.
The 1945 labor supply bill pro
vllos for all phases of tho form
labor programs ns in 1B44, par
ticularly tho importation ot
(Continued on Pago Three)
Nell Mayfield
Reported Missing
PFC Nell W. Mayfleld, son ot
Mr. and Mrs. W. Mayiicia oi
2043 Hope, has been listed as
missing in action In France since
January 8, according to a tele
gram received by the war de
partment on Tuesday, January
30.
Young Mayfleld, 1P43 grad
uate of Klamath Union high
school, was a toolball all-star.
Ho entered tho service in June,
1943, and was sent first to Camp
Roberts, and then stationed at
Buckley field, Colorado. May
field was then transferred to EI
lensburg, Washington, and final
ly to Camp Adair for further
training. In December, 1944, he
received overseas orders, and has
beon In Franco since that time.
ou
TO APPROVE
GEORGE BILL
conceded tho former vice presi-
acnts nomination coma not dc
confirmed if he were to have
control over the RFC and other
nscal agencies wmcn Jones su
pervised. ...
Chairman Soence (D-Ky.) told
the banking committee "I hope
we can report out the bill by
Senator George (D-Ga.) without
a hearing. Tho committeemen
seem to- nave made up their
minds on the matter." -
Friends and foes of Wallace
predicted privately that the bill
of separation would slide
through the house with a huge
majority. . . . .
But Republican Leader Mar
tin (Mass.) gave notice he will
try to amend the bill to restrict
the president s control over lend
(Continued on Page Three)
Timber Faller
In Shevlin Shot
Claude Powell, 27, timber
faller. was in a critical condition
in . Lumbermen's hospital at
Bend from gunshot wounds, in
the right groin and arm, and
John Hayter, his partner, ' was
held by Deschutes county state
fiollce in connection wim tne at'
eacd attack.
Officers said -that Hayter
would be turned over lo Klanv
ath county outlrbrlties. The
shooting was said to have occur
red at the logging town of Shcv
lin, 55 miles south of Bend and
in Klamath county, at 9:30 a. m.
Frldav.
' Powell has a wife and four
children and has been employed
by the Shevlin-Hlxon Lumber
company at Bend which operates
a logging camp at snevini. omie
police at Bend said Hayter and
Powell had come to Shovlin re
cently from the John Day com-
;v-; i
Scene at the fire in Auburn, Me., whero 16 babies died in smoke and flame when fire swept
a boarding house for war workers' children. On the porch is a crib in which one of the babies
burned to death, with charred timbers of the house in the background.
Americans, French
Break Into Colmar;
Clear Rhine Bank
the
By JAMES M. LONG
PARIS, Feb. 2 (P) American and French troops broke Into
i... eau o. iolma.'. provincial Frencn capital 40 miles
south of Strasbourg, at noon today after clearing 30 miles of the
left bank of the Rhine and laying siege to the Neufbrisach.
bridge from a mile away.
(The Paris radio interrupted a broadcast early tonight to
announce that French troops had captured Colmar.)
At 6 p. m., supreme headquarters said the allies had reached
the center of Colmar and were fighting in the streets. -
On the centra, iiont w.iere ihe .-imerican first and third
armies were assaulting a 40-mile sector of the Siegfried line,
ih inmnH division advanced three miles eastward toward the
village of Schoonoseiffen, 10 miles inside Germany and ?0 miles
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 (Pi
The house banking committee in
dicated today it wilt approve,
virtually unanimously, the scn-ate-aunroved
bill divorcing fed
eral lending agencies from the
commorce department.
The committeemen decided
tentatively to vote on the bill
Monday or Tuesday, without
calling cither Henry A. Wallace
or Jesse Jones as witnesses.
President Roosevelt ousted
Jones as secretary of commerce
iacCbudK important traffic center- of Euskirchen,-.,
German defenses however were stiffening.
The ddughboys crossed the German ' border south of Mons
chau and fought into the streets of Undenbreth, a village m the
Siegfried line itself. Nearby Ramstheid and Neuhof were cap
tured. The Germans started fighting from some of the thick
concrete pillboxes, many of which had been abandoned.
The best weather in 10 days allowed hundreds of fighter
bombers to batter German railroads from the Buhr to the Black
forest opposite the Colmar pocket.
Complete Conference ...... ,
" While the Americans were hammering the main Siegfried
fortifications at several points south of the 37-mile Aachen- gap,
Gen. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, commander of
the 12th armv group, completed a mysterious 24-hour conference
on "current operations." The fact that supreme headquarters
made the announcement appeared to be a tip that something was
brewing. ,
A dispatch from Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st army
group headquarters in the north said there were : "indications
the battle for the Siegfried defenses in the Monschau sector
would bo heavy and long." 1 ;'
German guns in the double line of fortifications increased
shelling of the Americans, who were advancing through deep
slush. The guns had been mostly quiet until the assault troops
reached the main defenses, which were under incessant bom
bardment from large American cannon.
Rescued Prisoners Want
Health, Home, Chance to
Strike Again qt Japs
Japs Caught Unaware
By Landing On
Batangas
By FRED HAMPSON
EVACUATION HOSPITAL,
Luzon, Philippines. Feb. 2 (if)
They want their health back.
They want to see their folks.
Then they want to come back
and fight the Japanese.
Those are the prevailing sen
timents of the 486 Americans
end more than a score of allied
pany and worked together as prisoners who were rescued by
toilers. la picked band of fighting men
Immediate Approval Urged
For Plans to Rule Reich
BY JOHN A. PARRIS
LONDON, Feb. 2 W1) On the
basis of reports Indicating the
possibility ot ear'ly political and
perhaps military disintegration
of large sections of northern
Germany, Prime Minister
Churchill will urge immediate
approval at the Big Three meet
ing of plans for ruling the relch.
Tbis information came today
from an entirely reliable Lon
don source. It was emphasized
that this statement should not be
interpreted to mean that Ger
many as a whole would collapse
in a mattbr of weeks, or that a
quick surrender of nazl diehards
could be expected.
Nevertheless it was made
clear that a sense ot real ur
gency has been lent to the Big
Three session.
Inside Reports
This source said Churchill
was operating on the basis of re
ports from inside Germany that
much of the political machinery
already had broken down in the
northern areas and that the pro
cess of decay would be accelerat
ed by war developments.
These reports came from
sources which hitherto have in
sisted that the gestapo grip was
too powerful to allow a political
breakup.
But there seemed every rea
son to believe large portions of
the German army would fight
on, even if the civil population
went to pieces.
Hedgehog Strongholds
The reports reaching Church
Ill were understood to indicate
that the German military forces
were planning to retreat If nec
essary to the south and fight In
an organized way from hedge
hog strongholds that would be
geographically and, In part, in-,
dustrially self-sufficient.
For such a last-ditch stand the
, ..(Continued on Page .Three)
Tuesday night from a stockade
near Cabanatuan.
They have bitter memories of
capitulation at Bataan and Cor
rcgidor. Many had to undergo
the "Death March" from Bataan.
For nearly three years as pri
soners of the Japanese, they sub
sisted largely on a rice diet.
. Want to Fisht
Yes, many would like to fight
again.
Their memories goad them.
"The Japs always liked to slap
us and sometimes they'd give us
a pretty stiff beating," recalled
Pvt. Travis W. Flowers, of Scran
ton, N. C, an aviation engineer
captured on Corregidor.
Another prisoner recalled how
the Japanese guards tried to lure
the Yanks to the fence with of
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Fire Partially
Destroys House
A two-family dwelling was
partially destroyed by fire early
Friday morning as flames swept
through a residence at 8th and
Lincoln and quickly consumed
the entire roof.
The property is owned by Mrs,
J. I. Beard, and occupied on one
side by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wilson, and on the other by Cal
vin Simms and Noel Stoddard.
The fire department, called at
7:47 a. m., reported the flames
apparently started from a defec
tive flue, burned through the
partition and spread to the attic.
The Wilsons, roused from bed by
the cries of neighbors, said there
was no tire in their apartment at
tne time. .
SENT TO SENATE
By PAUL W. HARVEY. JR.
SALEM, Feb. 2 W) The state
beard of higher education's pro
gram to buud sz,Z37,uuu. worm
of new buildings in the two
years beginning July 1 was in
troduced in. the senate today by
Sens. Rex Ellis, Pendleton,, and
Earl T. Newbry. Ashland, and
Rep. C. L. Lieuallen, Pendleton.
The programj-w h i c h-is the
starter of the board's 10-year
building program, was pruned to
$1,000,000 in the governor's
budget.
The bill provides that the $2,
237,000 be taken from the. $5,
000,000 property itax reduction
account of the state general
fund. Under the 1943 .Walker
plan which reduces income taxes
and gives money Wichools; $5,
000,000 is set aside for eventual
reduction -of property taxes.
None of this money - has been
spent. -
The new. "buildings provided
by the bill and the costs follow:
University of Oregon Class
room and laboratory building,
5600.000.
Oregon . State college Agri
culture building, $370,000: elec
trical engineering building,
5200,000; industrial building,
$100,000. - -
University of Oregon medical
school General hospital, $750,
000: heating plant and laundry,
$100,000. . ' .
Oregon College of Education
Finish third floor of adminis
tration building, $17,000.
Southern Oregon College of
Education Women's dormitory,
$100,000.
Duane Cassidy
Held Prisoner
BLY, Relatives and friends
were happy to receive an official
announcement from the prisoner
of war information bureau, that
SSgt. Duane A. Oassidy, report
ed missing in action on Novem
ber 2, is now a prisoner of war
in Germany. ., .
Cassidy was a gunner on a
B-17 with the eighth' air. force,
and his official address is:
United States prisoner of war,
number 4416.
Stalag Luft 4, Germany.
This camo is located some
where near the Baltic sea, in ter
ritory believed to be overrun by
the Russians and it is presumed
that the prisoners of war have
been moved deeper into Ger
many.
Young Cassidy is a former em
ploye of the Ivory Pine Lumber
company at Bly, and enlisted at
Klamath Falls in December of
1941. His first of kin is Mrs.
Florence Cassidy of Gooding,
Idaho. .
Prisoner
V W fff;
lxo V ,
Duane Ctssldy
Br RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb,
2 (iP) Manila was in a deadly
American trap today.
U. S. eighth army invasion'
troops fashioned a pincers on
the Philippines capital Wednes
day morning by landing on tho
Batangas province coast 87 road
miles southwest of the city while
sixth army spearheads drove to
within a bare 20 miles on the
north.
Sweep Ashore
The eleventh airborne divis
ion swept ashore from landing
craft virtually unopposed along
five miles of Batangas beach
near Nasugbu and quickly
pressed eastward toward 2000
foot Tagaytay ridge, which com
mands fine highways leading to
Manila and the Cavite naval base
in Manila bay,- 32 miles away.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur re-
Eorted today that this third
uzon invasion the second by
the newly-formed eighth army in
48 hours again caught the Jap
anese by surprise.
. No- Losses
"We landed without loss," ha
announced, explaining that the
landing "largely seals off the
possibility of the enemy troops
south of Manila joining those in
the north, and definitely out
flanks the enemy's defense lines
in southern Luzon." . ;
The first wave of Maj. Gen.
J. M. Swing's eleventh division
troops hit the shore without fir
ing a shot at 8:30 a. m. and took
the town of Nasugbu where
happy Filipinos welcomed them
with offers of hot coffee, wine
and rum.
Not Bloodless
It wasn't a totally bloodless
landing as was Monday's in
vasion of the Zambales. coastline
to the north. A half hour after
the first Yanks were ashore,
Japanese in caves to the north
brought machine-gun and 77
mm fire to bear on the landing
beach. This was quickly sil
enced by naval gunfire and mo
bile artillery.
Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelberger,
the eighth army commander,
originally planned the Batangas
foray as a reconnaissance move,
planning to pull out if the op
position proved great. Three
hours later, he changed it to a
full-scale invasion.
On Good Road
Nasugbu is on a good road 21
miles west of Tagaytay ridge,
from which an excellent hign
way leads to the- Cavite naval
base and Manila itself.
The invasion, fashioning the
jaws of a trap north and south
ot Manila, came as the fast
rolling American sixth army
spearhead still unchecked
reached the Angat river 25 road
miles north of the capital city.
Willis Vincent
Among Rescued
Jap Prisoners K
' As names of American pris
oners, released in the daring
commando raid ordered by '
General Douglas . MacArthur '
lest Tuesday night, filtered.;
over the wire, another Klam
ath county man was listed
as freed.
Pvt. Willis C. Vincent,
nephew of Walter Vincent.
DiGiorgio Fruit corporation
employe, was one of the in
fantrymen who was moved
from the Jap camp and his
uncle, when advised Friday
morning by the Herald and
News, said he was "happy to
hear the news," ,
Vincent was born in Klam
ath Falls in 1915. His fathor,
Harvey C. Vincent, was killed
while employed by The Cali
fornia Oregon Power company
in 1918. The mother died in
1917. Vincent, left an orphan,
was sent to his paternal,
grandmother, Mrs. Lottie Vin
cent of Medford, with whom
he lived until her death in
1937. Vincent returned to
Klamath Falls and lived with
his uncle. He farmed in Malin.
and other parts of the county
and entered the army In
fantry one year before Pearl
Harbor. 4
Walter ' Vincent received a
card from his nephew 10
days ago, ihe message dated
May 6, 1944. At that time
Willis was at Japanese mili
tary prison camp. No. I. .
First word that a Klamath,
man was among those rescued
came yesterday with an
nouncement of the release of
Capt. Denton J. Rees, former
local dentist who was taken
prisoner at the fall of Bataan.
Mrs. Rees, in Mllwaukle, Ore.,
, was officially advised late
yesterday by the International
Red Cross that her husband
was "well and in good shape."