MSI muM fo) AM U (h ri ill . ..u ir NKinD lltB".;infiT.-iifoMi"i iiyu mu , ul their Pi" . "., A .rillllliy UnCOIKllllUll- WIT, iVcriiwni nillllunsiii, Herald at&Xttar In The Shasta-CuHctulc Wonderland February 13, 1845 Max. (Feb. 12) 46 Min 38 Precipitation last 24 houri .58 Stream year to date , ...8.22 Normal 7.26 Lait year 4.58 Forecasts Rain, 'influence " t c,im,Ulo 1 '? ,1 lu' country us long feSr.' lmln.l. rL r.i.nnimv ly li'PU." ' ' rrcrn.n-wl.l' wl11 LKtoclurorr oornw . tr io help Willi uuilrft" , ..,n,0n f PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1945 Number 10388 9-IPoinf Master Plan Sev Up af Big Three Meeting Bherc , S)0C. Tho Big feli- r Wlh in .ho .Ion lo build in c. '?th other peucc-loy conpeni- Inii un cord order under law liiciW. .!? 1 well dora "u, ,"". it has never uecu I " , " Thiit Is 10 miy. pro- , pcco by tliu process of K world In wl.lc h men liv? ,lde by side, with Ics. inn and Irritation. , Suoin centuries of iirv nflvo M1 b y deeds, rather limn .,, but wo "'' "Y he deeds Unit follow i- 'trence may be us mir oi.ik 4, In whleh tt deliberations mniiunccd. 1 that proves to oe iruc, Ibehe-no lor in- imu-. ' fnr I he promised bit soup. All Hint rcmiilns is tatcti the roiimi. llEnews continue to Indicate llhil the rabbit win uiumnw FMeaushl. tin the western front, tlio .irfbnc rtr vo inruiiKii ivicvt-, !h last toll resisted the best could rend aijainst ii. ncu iiuith. I'uttun s 3rd Amcr- i army does iwewino iu im. which In the past has (title resisted the best wo lid bring to ben r. the mint must bo Ihnl the Imins 111 llie west uro (w weaker. . . i between Potion nnu Mom try's Canadians, the Amcr- ilh nd the uriiisn ana in are wnltlni! nl the edge the Roor vnlley lor ll.o floods ucd by the dynamited minis 'Aside. Prtiumably, when they do ade, we con attack across .-alley without fenr of beluK ruhelmed by nnothcr flood. :mc will tell ns to Hint. ' liraswc know, the Russians ire still held un In the center, t:tly east of Uerlln, but lire inn forward on both flanks. :ir plan may be to swirl Jnd Berlin, like an nil en tail flood, as they have 'led around so ninny other g point. he nails are drafting women the delcnse of Berlin. Dc j"ing women is the process by fin peoples ore destroyed, (mil madmen are nnnnrcntly Mined lo stop at nothliiK. e nig icsson or the Crimean iferenco Is that all Gorman E'l to divldo the Din Three e failed, It must be clearly Iral even to disordered nazi as that we and the British the Russians urn imlniy In together to the military end. prman resistance from , out is mere German Me. f the olhcr side of the world "ie jap radio chanii.es lis 'iniirav. ii, .,,, P ellmnx ot the cast Asia L. ". belniys worry that will bo next. 'Jf'nduslrlnllsts are reported " dismnntilnK their blRucst 'a't Dlantq niii,nH .ii i.... I? lher wor.u i I'M I, doln . m By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Kcb. 13 l'l Tlii; lll Three uro In iiKrovmcnl totlay on a nine-point maMcr plan lo Hasten victory over uermuny. ttuuruntce llio sovcrcliinly of btiropcs liberated peoples and lay tlio foundutlons of u secure pi'iicn, Tlio nnttcrn of the ncaco llie Dumbarton Oaks proposal for tho world security orKiinlzallon Is to bo placed before a United Nations conference to be called at San Francisco April 25. Those are the over-all results of President Roosevelt's cliihl clay iiievtinK nt un old czarlsl palace In the Crimea with Pre mier Stalin and Prima Min ister Churchill. Offers Hope By their own word It offers thn world renewed hope, after Germany's unconditional sur render, for Kcncrollons of. inter national security In which men "may live out their lives In free dom from want ond fear." The dark curtains, of secrecy were drawn from the conference late yesterday. This revealed Unit the Bii Three hud agreed not only on mlijhty'new blow3 lo crush nazlsm und permanent ly disarm Germany, but also on several pieces of specific peace machinery to liuaruntec Inde pendence and self-determination to the small countries of Europe. A formula for creating ft new ifovornment in Poland, which will be acceptable to all three powers, Is Included. Compromise The three leaders apparently compromised tho split between the United States and Russia over the votlnit rights of great burton Oaks security plan. This cleared tlio way for the United Nations conference and they de cided to cull It for San Francisco on April 25. That is the duto by which Russia must denounce her non-uKKrcssion treaty with Japan if it is not to run for another five years. Coincidence Diplomatic officials here dis counted the significance of this fact, terming it a coincidence. But it raised all over again speculation that Stalin had now declared to Roosevelt and Chur chill un intention to enter the war in Asia when military con ditions in Europe permit. The Big Three announcement, covering nine major points, was hailed nt the cnpltol by both re publicans and democrats. Jt commits the United States powers In llie proposed Dum-1 to a now ond active role in the settlement of European political affairs a new departure in American foreign policy. To consider these problems as they arise, British, Russian and American foreign secretaries arc to meet every three or four months, beginning after the San Francisco conference. On his way home from the Crimea, Secretary of State Stet tlnlus has gone to Moscow for a brief visit. The whereabout of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt were not disclosed. Presumably Stalin has returned to his ur gent duties as soviet commander in chief and the other two are homeward bound. Military decisions were made early in the conference and the staff chiefs who participated are presumably also en route after issuing the initial orders neces sary to mount the promised new assaults on Germany. LONDON POLES HII E LONDON, Feb. 13 (IT) The Polish government in London to night refused to accept tho deci sions of tho Big Three nnd ac cused them of violating "tho let ter and spirit of Iho Atlantic charter und the right of every nation to defend Its own Inter est." The London Poles bitterly de nounced the Polish decision of President Roosevelt, Primo Min ister Churchill and Marshal Slnlln, giving their answer Just 24 hours uftor the British foreign ofilca .handed tho Polish ambus- (Comlnucd on Pago Three) DeHart Given Seven Years Glenn Edward DeHart, 23, who entered a plea of guilty lo the charge of larceny of an auto mobile, was sentenced to seven yours in the state penitentiary at 10 a, m, Tuesday by Circuit Judgo David R. Vantlchbcrg. DeHart, who was indicted by the Klamath county grand Jury, was represented by Attorney Joseph C. O'Neill, The court wns presented with lengthy evidence concerning DeHart s past record and Judge Vnndenbcrg, prior to pronouncing sentence, termed tho young man an habitual crim inal. DeHart hud previously served two terms in the Oregon stale penitentiary on larceny and burglary convictions. Briions Progress Beyond Keve in Heavy Fighting By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, Feb. 13 (!') British empire troops made "steady progress" east and south of cap tured Klcvc today In the heavi est fighting of tho new offensive while Canadians to the nortli entered Grelthnusen, less than a mile from the flooded Rhine and 20 from llie Ruhr city of Wcsel. The American third army In the center ripped a new hole through tho Siegfried line op posite the Luxembourg frontier when the fifth nnd 80th divisions Joined their Tchlcrnach-Wnllen-dorf bridgeheads into a single salient two miles deep and 10 miles wide. . The west wall Is thin and close to the frontier in that sector. No Progress No further progress was re ported beyond captured Prum, where the third army was 45 miles short of Coblcnz and the Rhine. The Germans committed seven first rate divisions, Including tankers, to the Klevo battle. Allied lines for the first time were thrust within 300 miles west of Berlin at Grelthnusen, two miles across tho Rhine from tho industrial town of Emmer ich. Tlio Russians on the east front aro 31 miles from the capi tal. Gen. H. D. G. Crcrar's Cana dian army beat down numerous counterattacks from the Rhine to below the rcich's forest in a great mudpie created by breaches in tho Rhine dykes, by rainfall nnd a continuing thaw. The battle close to tho Rhine, In deed, was amphibious because tne lowlands were one to four feet under water. Almost for the first time since the offensive started, the air forces were able to supply close ground support to ground troops, despite cold. Some 500 tactical sorties were flown before noon. In Alsace, tho 30th (Texas) division of the U. S. seventh army once more ejected tho Ger mans from Obcrhoffcn, 15 miles north of Strasbourg. A terrific explosion in newly-won Colmar bchw Strasbourg caused consid erable damage. It was believed caused by a German time bomb. Rocr river floodsloosou by ocrman demolitions on the head water dams held up by the American first nnd ninth and llie British second armies. Nazis Term Crimean Talks "Hate Program of Yalta" LONDON, Feb. 13 (VP) Nazi radios poured out a strong blast today to the German people against the Big Three agree ment, terming it "Iho hate-pro-gram of Yalta" nnd "a crime on mnnklnd nnd humanity." The first home consumption reaction to tlio Crimean plan which Berlin blamed directly on "the Jew, the wandering Jew" wns withheld until long nflcr most Gcrmnns had gone to work tills morning. Once started, however, the DNB home servlco pulled out nil stops. Tho Berlin propagandists, who had been busy for n week Pj Holds Many-Marriaged gene Woman for Frauds Bcfeo, Kel, ,3 Won I.., , "lll"i t in Cn ti I'S'" Identified "inn im,.. .-""" wun . lX J'' WOO In Iservico h . 1 V'0" from ki d in bm,ds' She. nlso P civil.?'"0 nnd perhnns L"" agent In ?' Vnn Pch here S 1,1 cl'nrge of the h tin after nT" 0.l;rlcd Salur- thW7n0,,l,,l Venr's W. '"und workino in ""id Irin. 10 Hlfornin 01 her i 1111 invest hh- ,M1. (Iter mc, ,nx' Va" ?ller confessing .h f!, v m various hus- Hair, V 0 her n u Kln nad 10u times a blonde, Milan and brunette during her mntrimoninl enrecr. None of her six service husbands, she told tho FBI, knew of her other mar riages. She married five navy enlisted men nnd one army pri vate. Her first litisbnnd wns Her man Goorimnn, nn army privntc, whom she married ut Galveston, Tex., nnd her second, Herbert Edwin Mnrch, n civllinn, whom she married In Beaumont, Tex., April 13, 1030. Trained As Nurse In 1930, she came to the Pn clfic const and for n yenr nnd n hnlf lived In Snn Diego and trained as a nurse, Vnn Pelt snld. Her subsequent husbands, nil married without resort to the divorce courts, Van Pelt snld, included: Roy Hubert Subcrly, nn elec trician's mntc 1c, whom she married nt Yuma, Ariz., and from whom sho subsequently (Continued on Pago Three) prcpnrlnK tho Gcrmnn people against any "surrender now" ul timatum, apparently were a bit taken aback. "Murdor Plan" "Tho words of the Yalta plan arc spreading through Germany like an nlnrm," said n nnzl com mentator. "Never tills is our sacred oath In this hour In which the enemy has dropped his musk and in which we Ger mans now see tho devilish gri mnce of the Jew never will this murder plan be practiced on our people." Tho Gcrmnns ignored t h n t pnrt of the Crimen plnn which declared "H Is not our purpose to destroy tho people of Ger mnny." This wns the version broadcast by Berlin: "Slave Labor" "Germany should bo smashed with brutnl force, details of Iho statement announce. It will be split up, Gcrmnn industry will bo robbed, so-cnllcd 'courts' will be set up to continue mass daughter of German men, wom en nnd children. Those Germans who live to see. tho 'days of Judgment' will be pressed into slave labor tor tne lorcign ty vnnls " The brondensts nssertcd thnt the "source of this plnn , . . hns to bo looked for In the ranks of international Jewry," nauing; Driving Powor "Only becnuso of this can we understand the unity between Wnshineton. London nnd mos' cow, becnuso the driving power hehlnd Stalin. Churchill nnd nnnsnvnlt is the Jew. the waa dorlng Jew, who, for the last few thousands of years, hns brought so much misery nna cni-muz In tho world." Virtually every allied rndlo cnpnble of roacning tne rcicn hnrl beamed tho text of the con ference communique lo German listeners last njjSht. Yanks Compress Nip Suicide Troops In South Manila Fight TORNADO HITS SOUTH; DEATH TOLL AT 43 Rains Aid Water Situation Here Heavy rains, lashine the Klamath basin, left more than one-half inch of much needed precipitation In a period extend ing from 5:30 p. m. Monday, to 11:30 n. m. Tucsdny, nccording to the U. S. weathcrmnn. The official amount was given as ,oa inch. Country roads were fairly well Dogged down, and the fore, cast of additional rain for south' era Oregon nnd northern Cali fornia offered no respite from tne unusual winter wenther. In the meantime, persons in terested In the wnter storage supply for this section were re lieved to lenrn Hint the normal precipitation figure was rapidly being approached. Normal in this area is 7.26 inches, and it now stands nt 6.22 inches. Lnst rending by the bureau of recla mation was made nt 5 p. m. Mondny. As far north ns Crescent Lake in Klamath county, nnd in the southern section of the basin, rain continued to fall through out Tucsdny. Temperatures were reported modcrnte. By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. SALEM, Feb. 13 (A) The state senate completed action to day on its three-bill program to remedy the community property situation, passing and sending to the house a measure to prevent the state treasurer from levvinc gift taxes on property transferred from husband to wife under the 1943 community prooertv law. The senate already had ap proved bills to repeal the 1943 law, and to permit the 1251 couples who elected to coma un- dor-HMimimmHy-property- to get out irom under It. The 1943 lsw was -assed to permit couples to split" their in comes to get lower federal in come tax rates. The United States supreme court ruled, how ever, they couldn't get lower rates that way, thus nullifying tho purpose of the law. The house now may consider the three bills together. The senate, after prolonged debate, voted 20 to 10 to increase the salary of Harry Schenk, chief deputy secretary of state, from $4200 to $4800 a year, and to change his title to assistant .sec retary of state. . ' Members opposed to the raise said persons in lower brackets should be raised first, and that Schenk was not entitled to it be cause he has served only ; two years. ' By The Associated Press Tornadoes swirling over Mis sissippi and Alabama late yes terday took a toll of at least 43 dead, 200 injured, and prop erty damage running into hun dreds of thoands of dollars. Worst hit was a crescent shaped area on the southern and western outskirts of Mont gomery, Ala., where more than 50 boxcars of a freight were ripped and tossed about like match boxes. Montgomery alone counted its dead at 25, and its injured at more than 100. Two govern ment warehouses were', levelled and in Cliisholm,;a cotton mill community, 35 homes were de molished, and many others dam aged in a 20-block area. -Nine Known Dead ' Nine were known dead at Liv ingston, 125 miles west of Mont gomery, and one at York, nine miles from Livingston. At Liv ingston, as at Montgomery, a freight train was tossed about and one of the Livingston dead was a trainman. One man was killed near Stanton, Ala., about 45 miles northwest of Montgomery. He was identified at a Selma under taking establishment as J. S. Walker. Seven Killed The, storm first hit Meridian, Miss., leaving a path of destruc tion as it cut about the city on (Continued on Page Three) ARMIES FREED FOR ATTACK ON VIENNA, PRAGUE Troops Smashing Line Along Bober Hit 1 Near Dresden MANILA. Feb. 13 (IF) Japanese suicide troops, cornered in south Manila's flaming battle pit by a juncture of three American divisions, were being compressed and liquidated today as tneir only possible havens of refuge, Corregidor and Bataan, smoldered from a record 1000-ton saturation bombing. The final phase of the battle for the Philippine capital was mounting in ferocity as Yanks of the 37th infantry, first cavalry and 11th airborne divisions made contact to pin the Japanese against Manila bay south of the Patig river mouth. while sixth division armored units far to the north rolled to the Pacific coast to cut Luzon in two, the three Yank divisions in Manila's shell-wrecked downtown area braved rockets, heavy artillery, machinegun fire and mined streets in their drive to fin- visn oh tne enemy garrison now confined to less than five square miles. - Across Manila bay. American bombers poured a devastating load of more than 700 tons of bombs on the southern end of Bataan peninsula and over 200 tons on Corregidor fortress, lu a 48-hour period up to Sunday night. The hazard of any Japanese flight across the bay was re flected in Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's communique reporting mat American iignter planes sank .35 barges, loaded with 2500 enemy troops, off Bataan on Sunday.. MacArthur, describing the Manila fight as "extraordinarily fierce,", said the desperate en emy penned up near the south Manila docks "now is closely enclosed and is gradually being compressed into extinction." .-. - He. said every care was being taken to keep American casual ties at a minimum and preserve city property. For that reason, the Yanks were not using costly assault methods but rather thj slower but safer . processes of mine-sweeping, envelopment and uuiiuduuil, . . ;' Pro-Japan Societies Raided Headquarters of two Illegal pro-Japan societies at the Tulelake segregation center were raided last night by internal security police. R. R. Best, center director, announced the raid, which was made on an order of search, seizure and eviction signed by Best. The contents of the office, including records of the society and a hand-made Japanese flag, were removed and held for gov ernment disposal. The records had not been examined sufficiently today to indicato what matters of significance they may contain. Best said. i The societies are Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi Dan and Hokoku Seinen Dan. The raid followed by one day the entrainment of 650 enemy alien colonists, nearly all members of these societies, for removal to a department of justice internment camp. Huge Fires Burn In Heart of Manila .Vi mct'- MSfi""' 16 LONDON, Feb. 13 VP) Buda pest, Hungarian capital and former "jewel of the Danube" fell today to two Russian armies which took 110,000 captives in a month and a half of bitter siege fighting, Marshal Stalin, announced tonight. Fall of Budapest (Pop 1,217,. 000) freed the second and third Ukrainian armies of Marshals Rodion Malinovsky and Feodor Tolbukin for drives on Vienna and Prague in concert with tha first Ukrainian army in Silesia sweeping toward central Ger many and along the Czechoslo vak border. It is the 17th capital taken by the allies since Rome fell June 4. A Berlin broadcast earlier said Budapest was evacuated by its decimated German-Hungarian garrison which attacked at dawn and broke through soviet siege lines "to continue tha fight in the open field." But Stalin declared that tha red army men today "completed the routing" of the encircled enemy', and that more than 110, 000 defenders headed by tha German commander, Col. Gen Peter Wildenbruch and his staff, were captured, along with large stores of arms and booty. Russian troops smashing tha Germans' Bober liver line have sliced to within 70 miles of Dresden, and farther north aro hammering toward Sommerfield, only 17 miles from a junction with Marshal Gregory Zhukov's army : fighting before . Berlin, German - broadcasts declared to day. ;: :t -- A DNB broadcast said troops of Marshal Ivan Konev north of Sagari on the Buber river wero beating toward Sommerfield, 17 miles below the Oder river's southern bank where Zhukov's J jUrst : White - Russian, army is - fighting. i Sommerfield is 7U miles southeast of Berlin. WASHINGTON. - Feb. ' 13 (JP Rep. O'Konski (R-Wis.) inter rupted general house acclaim of the Crimean Big Three agree ment today to denounce it as a sell-out of Poland." The Roosevelt-Churchill-Sta lin conference, O'Konski said, "represents a victory for Goeb bels." He termed the Crimean communique "a stab in the back to freedom' a stab in the back to the most freedom-loving peo ple, tne ir-oies, wno nave done more to crush nazism than any other nation on earth. - O'Konski took the floor after two members of the foreign af fairs committee Rep. Helen Gahagen Douglas (D-Calif.) and Rep. Luther A. Johnson (D-Tex.) had spoken in praise of the Cri mean agreements. Coincidentally, the' belief gained headway in congress that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill' may (Continued on Page Three) Tokyo Pities Great Britain LONDON, Feb. 13 iff) A Tokyo radio commentator today asserted Russia was the "win ner of the Big Three conference and declared "well-informed Tokyo quarters" saw "humilia tion" for both the United States and England in the Crimean communique. "We can indeed pity Great Britain, who is heading toward a tragic end," the commentator concluded. German (-Boat Sunk in Atlantic OTTAWA, Feb. 13 (iP) Sink ing of a German U-boat, prob able sinking of another and at tacks on other undersea raiders in North Atlantic battles in which ' speed torpedoes wera launched at Canadian ships were announced here today by Navy Minister Macdonald. He said the corvette St. Thomas recently sank a U-boat" in the North Atlantic. Austin to Head Nazi PW Camp - WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (IP)- A new commander Lt. Col, Verne Austin has been named for the Papago Park, Ariz., pri soner of war camp from which. 25 nazi officers and soldiers es caped in December. - . Maj." Gen. Archer L. Lerch, provost marshal general, told a news conference today tha change had been made partly as a result of the escape and partly because of the health of the pre vious commander, Col. William A. Holden. All the 25 prisoners were recaptured. .. The new commander is de scribed by Lerch as one of tha best prison camp commanders in, the nation. Lerch said Austin was sent to Tulelake, Calif., to settle a disturbance at a Japa nese relocation camp several months ago. Colonel Austin, whose trans fer was reported here Monday has been succeeded temporarily in command at Tulelake by Major John C. Hazlett, who has been executive officer there. Stories on Spar Cruise Exaggerated, Says Report Dense smoke billows up from large fires started by Jap demolition! in heart of Manila. This photograph wai made from roof of Santo Tomai concentration camp,, liberated by American troops as they drove Into city. t VANCOUVER, B. C; Feb. 13 (CP) The Royal Canadian navy issued a prepared statement to day saying its official inquiry into reports women aboard a navy tug were insulted and mo lested resulted in the conclusion "the facts as published . . . were grossly exaggerated, badly dis torted and far distant from the truth." . The inquiry was ordered fol lowing newspaper reports some girl members of the cast of the United States coast guard trav elling show "Tars and Spars" were Insulted and molested Feb ruary 4 aboard a navy tug dur ing a cruise of Vancouver harbor.- The RCN statement, signed by Rear Admiral V. G. Brodeur, commanding officer, Pacific coast, said: "No evidence was produced by any witness lo indicate there was any intoxicating liquor aboard the ship except that which wns brought on board by a civilian member or members of tho visiting party in contra vention of naval regulations." The statement added: "The so-called 'acts of moles,, tation' appear to have taken place as follows: "Ono rating, helping a Spar into an' overcoat accompanied the action with an unsolicited squeeze.' The Spar shook her self free and the incident end ed. It took place in full view of many on deck. "One rating, attempting tea make a 'date,' held a Spar by the arm. Tho same rating at tempted to draw a civilian lady Into the ship's galley whera drinking was taking place. This rating was dissuaded, without force in both instances.'