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,,, niilit-r unexpectedly,
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' Tim!.'! who listened
" H0 9B"!0 HI""111 "')UBU
vocct every Geriiinii tti (In
MB
"ftS .ml , infirm or
i,o lll.s..-iiHiiblo must
,o Ibc lut ounce of their
ith."
f'i&rli'K our enemies
Lk'l Onnnil town
, rvsldw mill citpochilly
""" pi,, are nothing beside
;r :,Lr . . ,ble Hi.rf.-r UK und
' which would f:'""w.';
,y the plutocratic bolsho
nuplrncy.'l f
I pn rounds Hint German
r'rtndcr would menn tho
him nod His iiiml row.
nmbnbly co d hhoukIi t
t'S rSy Into ''I"'-'
,c ruin In order to POh l -;
Hint catastrophe a Mile
'don't dinrmint thin strungo
mi wllli Hi" forelock. Hi
the Gormim people must
per Hum II." four Inspired
ecrct police. Ho must
cro to them. 1 o must bo
t a supernatural being In
'must' know Um n n
it known tho strings of his
mcnl. Otherwise ho could
ay so surely on their hopes
their fei.ru. Tho way n
they ore following him to
,, nnllonnl ruin hint In It
hlng of the quality of wor-
pooh-poohed Hitler too
We'll be wiser from here
t K wc Blvo him credit for
l.o hi..-. , ,
bis question In Kuropo Is
iiv lonB enn the Russian
lioliii!. fllow long enn they
themselves supplied? Will
luim enough to luku them
rlliiJ
le only enn tell.
IED on the western front
ml be at least two million
loins, Drltlsh und Cnnu-
They lout no sluggerlng
of supplies In Von Rund
i drive. They hiivo boon
ng up supplies over relu
sliurt lines for a lontl time.
linicliiblo seems to hi.ve
not too tmdly upset by the
of the Belgian bulge. The
ches intlnintc strongly that
ire rendy again to tiiko the
ilvo.
y ore they wnltliiK?
y our hitlh comiiumd enn
ir that question. Wo out
enn only guess,
ccnu a fair guess that they
nltlnn for Uu) Germans to
EN TIIElll WESTERN
S In order to .Mlreuitlhcn
rcslstnncc to tho Russians,
n would be tho decisive
nt for Elsenhower to" hit
:verytlilng he hns.
RE Is another possibility,
ir purpose (by "our" menn
IX tho nlllcs) Is to glvo tho
d Gcrinons no rest no
o re form und re-group. Wc
lie British mny bo waiting
the Russians reach tho
;t limit nt which they will
10 to supply themselves,
would then tnka the often
hi tlio west.
'
SE tiro only Idle guesses,
hoy mny bo wldo of tho
They nro rnther obvious
ivnste of time. Hut wo on
mo (rout ain't help spocu
! to whnt it Is nil ubuut.
Mgcr minds simply won't
for limo und events to tell
"bout It.
ninke n new landing on
uzon-on the west side of
II nun ponlnsuln. Whnt it
l Hint wn hnvn tho neccs
'wee to do whnt we need
to Insure victory.
11 reassuring.
now fairly snfo lo ns'sume
Jans Imve nbnndoned
M holding the Philippines.
" 111 .Possession of tho
'i' '. Iosj of tlieir Hand
1 1 "'."J" question of tlmo.
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Henry Strnloy, MAM 3c, and Jim Amadeo, MAM 3c. pick
up mail at the Klamath poit office to be transferred to the Klam
ath navel air itation. Both the air station and the Marina Bar
racks have their own post office and mail li picked up and
brought in three times dally.
Mi li tary Installations
Handle Own Mail Problem
By PAUL HAINES
Tho servicemen stationed at
the Klnmuth naval ulr station
and Mnrlno Bnrn.eks get plenty
of mall from home. The Burracks
und tho naval air stutlon have
their own post offices and their
own postal employes and arc
branches of tho Klamath post of
fice, i
The mnll for theso mllitnry In
stallations is picked up. at the
Klamath post office three times
U. S. STILL HOLDS
Tho United States has not
abandoned lis plans for power
development on the Klamath
river, It was Indlcntcd today in
a letter from Abe Forlns, power
chief of the U. S. department of
tho Interior, lo A. M. Thomas,
secretary of tho Enlerpriso Irri
gation district.
Thomas wrote lo Forlos In In
quiry after tho California Ore
gon Power company had In
formed tho state hydroelectric
commission It is seeking permis
sion lo build a power plant nt
the Grant site near Kono.
Said I'orlas' letter:
"Tho hydroelectric commis
sion of Oregon Is being advised
Hint the United States hns not
abandoned its rights on the
Klnmalh river, nor is nny such
abandonment In' contemplation,
and that the d o p a r t m e n t,
through tho bureau of reclama
tion, expects to cover tho entire
Klamath basin in a study to be
(Continued on Pago Two)
Summerville
Charge Dismissed
A chnrgo of assault with a
deadly weapon, ponding against
Lewis Summcrvllle, 22-ycnr-old
veternn of World Wnr 2, wns
dismissed Saturday in Siskiyou
county, according to word re
ceived by Attorney Joseph C.
O'Neill from tho man's brother,
Sgt. Luther Summcrvlllo of the
Mnrlno Bnrracks.
Summcrvlllo had been held
under $2!i00 cash bond follow
ing an ullorcnlion which result
ed In serious injury to Fcrmon
Clinton Evans, chief cook, Mar
ino Bnrrncks, on December in.
Sgt. Summcrvlllo told O Nelll
that ho was leaving Yrcka,
Calif., Immediately to accom
pany Lewis to Loltcrmnn hos
pital. Son Frnncisco. Lewis suf
fered injuries In n plnno crash
which brought about a medical
dischargo this past year. This
was considered the basis of a
recommendation from District
Attorney Charles Johnson,
Yreko, that Summcrvlllo bo ro
leased for hospitalization. Evans
has returned to duty
a day and taken to the branch
offices, where It Is distributed.
Five pouches of mall a day go to
tho Marine Barracks and about
four pouches arc taken to the air
station daily,
Mail going out of- Klamath
Falls, from these installations is
brought in three times a day and
is sorted and dispatched by tho
Klamath post office. Tho great
majority of outgoing military
mail is scntulrmail, and all these
letters nro sent to Medford by
stage, where- they Bre dispatched
by plane.
Other mall is scnt out by train
and lenves here twice dally, ar
riving in Portland and San Fran
cisco in the evening and morn
ing and Is Los Angeles and Scat
tic at the same times.
Decision on
Manpower
Delayed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (TP)
The senate military committee
today was reported to have de
ferred decision on a limited na
tional service, bill until Mon
day. Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.),
emerging from a closed session,
said lie had a number of objec
tions to the bill as tentatively
amended by tho committee. Not
tho least of his criticisms was
tho placing of overall control
of tho manpower program In
James F. Byrnes' office of war
mobilization and reconversion.
The legislation passed the
house in such form as to give
local selective service boards
tho say about who would be
shifted to war jobs. Under the
senate committee's first draft,
Byrnes' office w o u 1 d bo in
charge, but could delegate the
actual placement authority to
any other agency of government.
Nazis Say Red
Drive On Oder
River Repulsed
By JAMES F. KING
LONDON, Feb. 3 W) Russian attacks on the Odor river have
been repulsed, the German high command declared today as
American air fleets rocked Berlin with 3000 tons of bombs in aid
of soviet troops massing along the river 40 miles east of the
capital. "
One Berlin broadcast said Marshal Gregory Zhukov's troops
had won but later lost a bridgehead over the Oder near Kustrin.
The Moscow radio declared one of Zhukov's columns had
speared to within 11 M miles of Stettin on the Baltic. A plunge
tu Dtortln would loo off 13,500 square miles of northeastern
Germany, the Polish corridor, and the Danzig area.
Kustrin is on the Oder 40 miles east of Berlin. A huge battle
was reported raging farther south, four miles east of Frankfurt
on the historic Kundersdorf bat
tlefield, first bloodied in the
GERMANS APPEAL
LONDON, Feb. 3 m The
German press and radio sound
ed the theme of "Remember
1018" In appeals today to Ger
mans to stand firm against bat
tlefront setbacks and any allied
calls t surrender.
Promising nothing, German
newspapers declared "all enemy
alms cannot be achieved if the
German people have tho firm
will not to capitulate."
Dispatches from neutral capi
tals and allied broadcasts said
anti-Hitler posters and slogans
are appearing on-wulls in largo
German cities. Moscow radio
said "Thcro is no doubt of panic
reigning In many sections of
Germany." :
Famine Menaces
Berlin was reported In var
ious dispatches as teeming with
refugees, with armed guards try
ing to shuttle them hurriedly
from the ' capital. Ono Swiss
newspaper's Berlin dispatch said
the city was threatened with
(Continued on Pago Two)
Conductor Held
On Bigamy
Charge
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3 (P)
With three counts of bigamy
against him, 58-year-old Francis
Van Wio today was held to an
swer to superior court, i The
district attorney said it might
bo a month before the case goes
lo trial. Police say Van Wie
has had at least 12 wives.
Judge Leo Cunningham In
creased bail from $500 to $3000
cash or $7500 bond., .
When the attorney for the
5-foot 2-lnch streetcar conductor
objected that Van Wlo might
not bo able to produce such
bail, Judge Cunningham remark
ed: "It would bo wise, perhaps,
If he spent some days in jail,
for some serious thinking."
era of Frederick the Great.
The rain of bombs from more
than 1000 U. S. Flying Fort
resses crashed on the refugee
choked capital, which Is within
sound of soviet guns shelling
nozi defenses on the western
side of the Oder.
Zhukov's drive on Stettin, 74
miles northeast of Berlin, threat
ened to cut off great German
forces and to open Berlin for
an attack from the north.
The Germans rushed fresh
(Continued on Page Two) .
EOF
Fear of a barking dog prob
ably caused the death of Mrs.
Alma Belle Hatten, 58, who died
early this morning' at the East
Main and Wantlartd corner bus
stop after she had been pursued
for half a block by the" animal.'
Deputy Coroner Marvin Al
bec, called with Ward's ambu
lance to the scene at 6:45 a. m
said Mrs. Hatten was dead on
his arrival. Relatives of the
wom'.in said she left her home
at 2323 Wantland at 6:30 a. m.,
en route to work at the Cascade
laundry where she is employed
as an ironcr. The dog, a harm
less pup, said by Mrs. Hatten's
relatives to be owned by Fred
Rider, 2223 Wantland, ran from
the house and barked at the
woman as she passed.
Mrs. Hatten became fright
ened by the animal and started
to run to the bus stop. When she
readied the corner she collapsed.
A fellow worker, Mrs. Ann Rog
ers, 2241 Wantland, was on her
way lo the laundry and saw Mrs.
Hntlen fall. She ran back to
summon Mrs. Hatten's sister,
Mrs. Albert L. Bruley, 2233
Wantland, and from there called
the Ambulance.
When Mrs. Bruley and Mrs.
Rogers returned to the corner,
Mrs. Hatten had expired. Mrs.
Hatten made her home with hor
mother, Mrs. Belle Monroe. An
obituary appears elsewhere in
this issue. The remains are at
Ward's.
Nazis Offer No Opposition
To Bombers Blasting Berlin
By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN
LONDON, Feb. 3 (fls) More
than 1000 U. S. Flying Fortresses
blasted and burned the heart of
Berlin today in the greatest air
blow over dealt tho German
capital, and not a single nazi
fighter opposed tho deadly bomb
er runs.
Nearly 3000 tons of bombs
Military Occupation Idea
Grows in American Circles
By JOHN M, HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Feb, 3 Wi
lli American government circles
the idea of keeping at least small
military occupation forces In
Germany for many years Is gain
ing Increasing support.
Information reaching Wash
ington about conditions hisldc
Germany is generally interpret
ed by officials as holding little
hopo of a unified enemy surren
del. Instead, tho belief Is that Ger
man military forces will disin
tegrate under pressure of Rus
sian and Anglo-American armies,
leaving tho country in a state of
chaos, .
Allied Rule Possible
Since this prospect, If realized,
likewise means tho complete dis
integration of Germany political-
. .4
1y, there is Increasing discussion
here of the possibility that the
defeated people may have to bo
ruled by an allied commission
for an Indefinitely prolonged pe
riod. There Is some belief that dis
cussion of n plan along this line
mav bo taken ud bv Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin at tholr-
meeting. Tho possibility Is not
entirely discounted that Premier
Stalin may suggest eventually
building up tho free Germany
committee of captured German
fiencrals at Moscow as an admin
strattVG group with which to
work Inside Germany.
. Split Virtually Impossible
Persons fnmillur with German
affairs Incline to the view that
all effective power has passed
(Continued on Page Two)
were poured down In 45 minutes
on the capital teeming with ref
ugees and now almost in the
frontline of land war.
For tho first time in a major
attack, no German planes fought
in the air over Berlin Itself to
disrupt the bombers' aim. But
In dogfights near tho city, 20
nazl fighters were shot down and
13 more were wrecked aground.
Targets Blasted
The record attack was aimed
directly at military and commun
ications targets in the center of
the city- menaced by soviet
(Continued on Pago Two)
Marines Damage
73 Jap Ships ,
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Forward Area,
Feb. 3 (iT) Low-flying marine
Mitchells have damaged 13 Jap
anese ships, probably sinking
one of them, in nightly harass
ing attacks since December 6
on the Bonln and Volcano is
lands,. Adm, Chester W. Nlmitz
reported today.
His communique told also of
fresh air strikes Wednesday and
Thursday against Iwo Jima in
the Volconos, protecting the ap
proaches to the Japanese main
land from the Tokyo-raiding
Superfortress base at Salpan.
Led Luzon Rescue
1 ' '-"rTlTaSf w
Lt. Col. Henry S, Mucci,
Bridgeport, Conn., commander
of U. S. Rangers and Filipino
guerrillas who rescued 510 al
lied war prisoners, many or
them men of Bataan and Cor
regidor, in daring foray 25 miles
inside Jap lines on Luzon. -
ON WALLACE POST
By JACK BELL .
WASHINGTON, Feb; 3 UP)
A republican move, -to freeze
government agencies against a
presidential transfer cast a new
snaaow waay over'-nenry- Wal
lace's nomination for secretary
of commerce., "" --- " -Just.
. whpn ; Wallace's .adher
ents were settling back. to . await
expected confirmation of the
appointment after' March 1,- the
h o u s e republican' leadership
popped a' proposal to .alter the
senate-approved George bill-f.
Control Transferred
This Wallace-saving measure
would transfer the $45,000,000.
000 reconstruction finance cor
poration and similar agencies
from the commerce department
to a separate federal loan admin
istrator.
President Roosevelt said he
would approve legislation to af
fect this change and on that note
the senate put the cabinet nom
ination on the shelf until March
1. Wallaces friends conceded
he had no chance to win confir
mation without divorcement of
the lending powers. With it, they
felt the nomination was safe.
Clincher Message
But Mr. Roosevelt's clincher
message to Senate Majority
Leader Berkley (Ky.) said only
(Continued on f age Two) ,
Zombies Believed
In Seattle
SEATTLE,' Feb. S (IP) The
Seattle Post Intelligencer said
yesterday an "undetermined
number of Canadian soldiers are
believed absent without leave
in ' Seattle - and neighboring
American Pacific northwest
cities and added the men "face
court martial upon arrest." .
The article said Maj. Gen. G.
R. Perkes, general officer commanding-in-chief
of the Pacific
command at Vancouver, B. C,
refused comment about tho sol
diers, "known in Canada as
'zombies' ". ; v -
"But it is known in Vancou
ver that Canadian military au
thorities have been apprised of
tho presence at Seattle of Ca
nadian soldiers suspected of
'zombie' status, and it is report
ed that an Immediate effort will
be made to return them to Can
ada In custody," the article said.
LAST PILLBOX
BELT NEARED
B 1ST m
Doughboys Poke Way
Into Town of
Bronsfeld ;
By JAMES M. LONG
PARIS, Feb. 3 (P) U. S. first
army doughboys, smashing into
the final westwall defenses to
day in the Monschau sector,
reached points little more than a
mile from the last concrete forti
fications. They had burst com
pletely through the first piiioox
belt of the double Siegfried line.
The Americans punched their
way into Bronsfeld, slightly.
more than a mile from bchlei
den, which is on the eastern
fringe of the Siegfried defenses.
They occupied Bronsfeld, nine
miles southeast of Monschau,
Berescheid and Dreiborn, 7i
miles east of Monschau, towns
controlling the main highways to
the communications center of
Schleiden. , . ,
Gains Reported ''-''
' Gains of three miles and more
were registered ' as ; the second
and , ninth divisions ,'p u s h e d
through open country into the
final Siegfried belt; '
'' ' The German High command
reported lively air. activity and
(Continued on -r age rww
IADS SOLUTION
Bv PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
SALEM, Feb. 3 (IP) Oregon's
community property muddle was
nearer solution today w n e n
the senate passed unanimously
and sent to the house two bills
to repeal the 1943 community
property law and to permit the
1251 couples who took advantage
of the law to get out from un
der it by paying a $15 filing fee.
The 1943 community property
law. cooied from an Oklahoma
statute, was passed to let wealthy
couoies soiit tneir incomes ana
thus get . lower federal income
tax rates, giving Oregon equal
ity with her neighboring states
which nave community property
systems. There are eight com
munity property states.
The United States supreme
court held the Oklahoma law
(Continued on Page Two)
Bob Roy Burgess
Reported M issing
' Bob Roy ; Burgess, RM 3c,
USN, has been reported missing
in action in the Philippines, ac
cording to word received from
the war department by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. William John
Burgess, route 3 in Klamath
Falls, . ' . ' w
Young Burgess attended Peli
can grade school and was grad
uated from Klamath Union high
school in 1943. Prior to enter
ing the service in August of
1943, he was employed by the
J. C. Penney company and West
ern, Union Telegraph company.
Burgess received his boot
training at Farragut, Idaho, and
was then sent overseas to the
Central Pacific theater of war.
Big Three Meeting Rumored
Underway at Romanian Site
TO ENTER GITY
Little Jap Resistance
Met by Advancing
; Americans
LONDON, Feb. 3 The Brit
ish Broadcasting Corporation ze
ported tonight that American pa
trols had pushed within two
miles of Manila. It quoted an
American radio correspondent on
Luzon as broadcasting:
"We got within a couple of
miles of Manila and while we
knew there were a certain num.
ber of Japanese in the vicinity
they did not challenge our pa
trol. I don't think there is mucb.
between us and Manila."
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb.
3 (IP) Two powerful American
armored columns raced toward
Manila from the north today in.
dicating the Philippine capital
would soon be liberated without
a major fight. One U. S. forces
was less than 18 air miles away.
Battle-hardened first cavalry
(dismounted) division troops
drove a new arrow toward Man
ila Thursday by sweeping 57
miles in 24 hours down the east
flank of the central Luzon plain
to Sabang, within 24 miles of
Manila, and beyond. &
Severs Forces ''': -
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
today this sensational thrust
completely severed Japanese
forces in the north and south of
Luzon.
Even closer to MacArthur's
prime objective were -elements
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oseofIlseI '
i
' The Klamath heating. company
will be forced to convert to oil
for --one boiler in -order -to have
a- margin of safety on fuel sup
ply. This will necessitate a raise
in rates to Klamath consumers.
These facts were brought out at
a. meeting of the housing .com
mittee of the chamber of com
merce,' of which L. L. Lombard
is the chairman, OPA and ODT
representatives, fuel dealers, rep
sentatives of both military in
stallations here,' railroads, and
other interested parties at the
chamber of commerce Friday af
ternoon. i-
- Ralph Westring, general pro
ducts price- specialist for the
OPA from Portland, said that
(Continued on Page Two)
British Drive
Nearer M andalay
SOUTHEAST ASIA COM.
MAND HEADQUARTERS,
KANDY, Ceylon, Feb. 3. (IP) '
British troops driving on Man
dalay have completed occupa
tion of Ywathitgyi, on the north
bank of the Irrawaddy . river
about 17 miles west of the city.
The Southeast Asia command
announced today that stubborn
Japanese resistance was encoun
tered after the village had been
penetrated in strength yester
day. . - i i ........ ..
Meanwhile on Burma's west
coast a furious fight Is still rag
ing at Kangaw, 30 miles east ox
Akyab, as the Japanese attempt
to keep open their escape route
southwards. ... ....
By The Associated Press
A security blackout veiled
tho movements of President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin
today as axis capitals speculated
that the Big Three conference
was underway in Romania.
A dispatch from tho . Swiss
border town of Chlasso to the
Geneva newspaper La Suisse
quoted fascist sources in Italy
as saying that the conference
had begun in the Romanian
Black sea port of Constanta.
One German broadcast had
fixed the site as Bucharest, the
Romanian capital, V while the
German Transocean agency said
the allied leaders were confer
ring at a Romanian port on the
Black sea.
Recent dispatches from Lon
don and Rome passed through
censorship had speculated that
the meeting would be held close
to or within the border of the
soviet union, since Stalin Is per
sonally directing the Russian of
fensive. A dispatch from London last
night said there was every in
dication that "the fate of Ger
many was being decided by the
Big Three somewhere east of
London." -
Workers returning to the
Spanish town of La Llnea from
Gibraltar brought rumors that
Churchill arrived there by plane
Wednesday night, a Madrid dis
patch ald. . . ,.v
taller Held In
Shooting Case "
John Hayter, 27, timber falter,
was lodged In the Klamath coun
ty jail at 10 o'clock . Friday
night, held in connection with
the shooting of nts . partner,
Claude Powell, early Friday
morning at the logging town of
Shevlin, 55 miles south of Bend.
No charge had been placed
against Hayter, pending the out
come of Powell s condition. No
change had been reported from
Lumbermen's hospital in Bend
wnere Powell is being treated
for gunshot wounds in the groin
and arm. , ,
Sheriff Lloyd L. Low and
Sgt. E. W. Tichenor of state po
lice, returned Hayter to Klam
ath Falls last night. Low said
Hayter admitted shooting Pow
ell as they stood In front of the
latter's home. Hayter said he
walked to the Shevlln store and
called Deschutes county state
police, advising them he had shot
a man and to come and get him,
He then said he asked tho store
keeper to advise Powell's rela
tives In Mitchell.
Hayter then told officers he
returned to his home and when
the Shevlin company ambulance
arrived, he assisted Powell on
the stretcher and into the ''am
bulance.
The shooting wag the result of
"differences" between the two
families, officers were told. Both
Powell and Hayter are 27, thelt
wivos 23 years of age, and both
have four young children. ::
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