TWO HERALD AND MEWS
Thursday, Feb. IS, 1145
OUTFLANKING
MENACES RUHR
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jaunt with hunger. All their
light was gone.
Ovtrrum 120 Milei
Nowhere was there evidence
that the Canadians were at
tempting to cross the wide
Rhine. The offense already has
overrun 120 square miles, most
o it in Germany.
lAt the edge of the Cologne
plain to the south where three
allied armies have been stymied
bj( Roer river floods, the stream
level fell 16 inches from mid
night to daybreak, bringing
nearer the time when American
aijd British armies may join the
offensive.
"More and more Germans were
drhwn into the semi-aquatic bat
tit which steadily was turning
the German flank in the north.
Barrages from hundreds upon
hundreds of Field Marshal
Montgomery's big guns and huge
fltets of allied planes paralyzed
any enemy attempt to regain
gtfound and exacted terrible
casualties. Nonetheless, the
trfreat was so real to the Ruhr
aid Rhineland, the very heart
oi the German war effort, that
Field MarshBl Walter von Model
mastered every reserve he could
sqrape for his defending army
goup.
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lie plants are being moved to
Iilanchuria.
Not Weakened
A week ago Stimson told re
porters that although air at
tacks had been doing damage
tg enemy war industry, "Japan s
productiveness has not yet been
fundamentally weakened."
Tnrinv hn raid rinmaep fnfllrt.
e$ on an aircraft factory at Ota
jast weeK was "serious. -
Man Held on Charge
$f Petty Larceny
i William Todish, Crescent resi
dent, was in the county jail in
lfeu of $100 bail on a charge of
petty larceny. Todish entered a
plea of innocence before Justice
of the Peace J. A. Mahoney
jiursaay morning. .
a Officers said Todish was
charged with the theft of 527
fiom a Pacific Telephone and
Tjelegraph company fund in a
Orescent store.
Asahel Bush Given
posthumous Awards '
Asahel Bush, Associated Press
ifrar correspondent and formerly
f The Herald and News news
; staff, who was killed by a Jap
anese bomb on Levte island in
"the Philippines, has been post
humously awarded the Purple
Heart and a Presidential cita
tion.
t The awards were received
Wednesday by Bush's widow,
aye, who lives at Salem with
h)er young daughter.
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Problems
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available fuel we have,
and deliveries of bulk
coal are delayed only
one day.
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EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
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fire in every block. It is Buda
pest over again.
On both sides of the world,
our enemies are fighting a de
laying war, without hope of ulti
mate victory.
Such is war by INDOCTRI
NATED peoples.
IN Washington, War Secretary
Stimson REASSESSES his
views of the damage our big
bombers are doing to Jap war
industry.
A week ago, he said: "Japan's
war production has not yet been
fundamentally weakened." To
day, obviously impressed by
seemingly dependable reports
that the enemy is moving big
airplane and other vital war
plants to Manchuria, he says:
"When the Japs tell of moving
their heavy industry to the main
land, they ADMIT PRESENT
DAMAGE and the certainty of
MUCH GREATER DAM AGS IN
THE FUTURE."
That appears to be sound
logic. . I
mately two divisions of troops
""HURCHILL, fresh from the : man regular defense posts in this
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brothers, grain end potato growers In the basin. ' '
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Crimea conference, shows
up in Athens. He gets a big
ovation indicating that there
are Greeks who approve what the
British have done.
He says: "We are proud of
the part the British army has
played in protecting the im
mortal city of Athens from
violence and anarchy." He adds:
"There has been much misunder
standing and ignorance of our
common cause and much mis
representation of the issues that
have been fought out here."
a . e
T F there had been more enlight
enment of the public . in
Britain and the United States
from responsible, accurately informed-
sources, . there would
have been LESS misunderstand
ing and ignorance.
Secret diplomacy originated
centuries ago when the common,
average public was intellectual
ly, incapable of- understanding
such things. That time is past
in Britain and the .United States.
In these days of better edu
cated peoples and ample com
munications facilities, opener,
franker diplomacy would pay
big dividends in the way of in
formed public opinion.
Former Klamath Man
Dies In Portland
A. W. Smith, father of Chet
Smith, former resident of Klam
ath Falls and now making his
home in Portland, died in that
city February 13, friends were
advised last night.
Mr. Smith had many friends
here where he had visited fre
quently at his son's home. Final
rites wllL be held Friday at 2:30
p. m. from Holman and Lutz,
Portland, with interment in that
city.
country.
About half the troops in the
United States are taking care of
supplies aid reserves.
Furlough Policy
The army's liberal furlough
policy before a man goes over
seas and after he returns might
give an untrue impression of sol
diers without apparent duties.
A republican senator joined
two democratic colleagues in
proposing to substitute for the
disputed work-or-jail bill legisla
tion strengthening the war man
power commission's efforts to
deal with labor shortages.
Terms of the proposed substi.
tute were made public late yes.
terday by Senators Kilgore (D
W. Va.) and Wagner (D-N. Y.).
Kilgore's office announced later
that Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.)
had asked to be listed as a co
author. The two democrats are
members of the military affairs
committee wmcn nas nad control
of the house-approved limited
national service bill for more
than two weeks.
8 Marine Fliers
Die in Crashes
SAN DIEGO, Calif.. Feb. 13
(JP) Eieht marine fliers were
killed last night and three others
were missing when seven planes
in a flight of 18 fighters and tor
pedo bombers crashed in widely
separated sections in southern
California, the 11th naval dis
trict reported today.
Two fighter pilots perished
when their planes crashed while
attempting emergency landings
on one ot tne cnannel islands,
three others were killed as their
bomber drove into the sea just
on tne island, and tne tnree oc
cupants of another bomber died
in a crash near flakersfield.
Nazi Industrial Areas Threatened
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Shaded arrows ihow possible illled drives into German indus
trial areas in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. Canadian first army
forces advanced on Emmerich in their offensive at the northern
end of the front (broken line), while U. 8. third army troops
drove through Pruem. (AP. wirephoto).
Relaxation of Italian
Armistice Terms;
Query Into Relief
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Elmer Davis said he assumed
the reference was to the failure
to ship as much civilian sup
plies into France as planned be
fore the invasion.
"However 1 this government
made no promise that I know
of," Davis said. "The estimate
of shipping planned following
D-day was our guess rather than
any pledge of performance."
AT NAZI TARGETS
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escorts was making these at-;
tacks, the German radio sound
ed new alarms. Fresh forma
tions of allied bombers were re-;
ported flying in over Holland i
and also from the south over ,
Austria.
The attacks brought to about
11,000 thus far the number of
planes which have linked the
eastern and western battlcfronts
under a blanket of explosives
and incendiaries in the last 48
hours.
Frontline reports said tactical
aircraft, also, were having an
other great field day against
nazi road movements.
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tion "not always the answer."
He said:
"The government is reluctant
to seize . : . The government
can not run numerous plants.
In some cases the seizure
method is easy: It can be quick:
it can bypass painstaking work
in trying to figure out sonic
other moans of securing com
pliance, but so far it has not
and it must not become an
opiate for all of our non-com-plinnce
troubles."
He suggested a congressional
act providing for penalties on
forcable to the judiciary for
non-compliance with WLB
orders.
Chinese to Draft
For Counterblow
CHUNGKING, Feb. 15 (P)
More than 500,000 men will be
conscripted before the end of
March "to meet the demand for
the all-out Chinese counteroffen
sive in conjunction with the com
ing landing of American forces
on the China coast," Gen. Lu
Chung-Liu, conscription minis
ter, announced today.
This was the first announce
ment that a counteroffensive
would be synchronized with
American landings.
Gen. Lu said 300.000 of the
new conscripts would be drafted
from Szechwan province, in
which this wartime capital is sit-1
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Edington Asks
No Japs on Coast
SALEM, -Feb. 15 (P) J. B.
Edington, commander of the
Hood River American Legion
post, asked the legislature to
memorialize congress to prevent
the return of Japanese to the
west coast until after the war.
- Edington sent letters to each
member of the house. The state
ment explained why the post
erased from its honor roll the
names of Japanese-Americans in
the armed forces.
40 Burglaries Listed
In Police Report
During the month of January
of this year, there was a total of
40 burglaries in Klamath Falls,
according to a report submitted
by Acting Police Chief Orville
Hamilton. Of these, seven were
$30 and over in value and 33
were under $50 in value. There
were also 12 auto thefts In Klam
ath Falls during last month.
mere were 114 drunk cases
during January, of which 92
were male and 22 female. There
were also 41 traffic violations,
two liquor violations, eight dis
orderly conduct cases, 10 vagran
cy cases, one auto theft, one es
cape, one. carrying a concealed
weapon, one drunk driving, and
one breaking and entering case.
There were 181 arrests made
throughout the month, according
to the monthly report.
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The committee look out a pro- j
vision culling for minimum $10
pensions. ;
Rep, Frank J. Vim Dyke. Ash' j
land, chaiinmii of the houso ,
utilities committee, which uiuin- ,
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the municipal power measure. ;
told (he house "it is not good
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Booth, Lebanon republican, said !
ho had petitions bearing more
than 500 names -asking for puss
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cd by State Son. Lew Wallace, j
Portland, democratic nntlonal !
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petitions were circulated bv ;
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