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MM Mil IS TIKia m dab m mm m M ' : : : : - ', Strata s in The Shanta-Cascadc Wonderland Februarv 18. 1945 Max. (Feb. 15) 47 Min. 24 Precipitation last 24 hours... 00 Stream yaar to data 6.75 Normal 7.42 Lait yaar 4.63 Forecait: Overcast, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1945 Number 10391 fsJcws news hit Jnii JAI AND mor to nlr. keep FBANK JENKINS IXW. , Ivi u. S. carrier pinucs mv ... c.n llntit-f 111 8 urmnr hi from ArYl gri-uivnv fje carriers tho plum camo, only """i. v & TO COMB OUT lllTI l"' ...1.11. luiwum A (IIWIUIl-, nn'""" - I licet, nunorcua ui uiiwa Miiln, snciu iiu "v V, on Iwo J min w planes nl Home. . IP Jan fleet III SUDDOSCdly Linf held for llio defenco of Uio nomoinmi. f.it unws the TIME. b'jop homclund is under rrtui ana uircci uiuii-iw Isn't Just high-level, precision imixr atincK. inn jod is kr. WORK bv Hellcats and fl ind Avengers the snmo I nf n nnri wo nee in ine feuth skies every uny. ry re getting rigm uown un urged. - ICORDING to tho Jnp ac- count, we seem to be bitting Kit at tho nlrflclds from kh Jip Interceptors take off luck our u-ziu. uur own aiches Inttmnlo Hint our liry objective nppenrs to bo KNUUIINU OUT uf the ol Japan's homc-bnscd air . t blENDOUS possibilities arc Enfolrflnc . a m n n a i thrm pCKADING nil Japan to ben It for final invasion, p continuous pounding of IJip sirplnno foclories until i c ruinca. the TIMTNO nf Ihn hlniu mt llttlp vpllnw mnn nrn iiii. IitobcgetthiK ready to move aircraft Industry to Man u. We hit in all-out Hh BEFORE they can get OTHER noint: While the Jnps arc fighting o her lvnlm.1 i,i actions on Luzon wo leave n behind to be mopped up un nnu hit TUK.YU Die .tan ,vinl.,ln..J II.... J'nng useless their bloody r-vi ui-itiv. pit's POWER! JTURED enemy plans In wale thnl ihn in.... i-i j uuW UlieilU- f make an all-out defense of . niV!. Rrent bRy but f OVPRWUL-I Hire-, 7''Y. where they didn't nunvy conccntra- Of ihn i- ni.illi , i. ,i . . . lI,1y around - J field Indicates that they Ik - iu tuinu irom me feOUT.TIIriTTr-lrm !(,-. i mem ana IV""" me nortli, in0;" 5 "k )om ngnln f'iodXlj;.in n hopeies8 'his li luriii. 111. i it. , wo navo iiii. hut . WI,y of tr fcf i j .. sn'oiy wko KreKd,lhat when 1500 nued on Pago Three) " w work Out PePenofies Wt Hardsh nn cn. r -".men Bro,., JI.....1 t the Penaliu . lno restaur. 2 SL-1""' hew with. " the coany Sorlous hard 10Pa""1 ' Foils. , ana totha-Aw"! seek a solu. "'t aSri . y problem HuatS? cornPHcatloni Nn rll.i' . i indicai"riotCIaborate1 arelnJfthat lf the ,. bo e bsort D otter thp,ens.lons were r'dr08taurants al Peats. ,0 Pay red Dolntu I ----- that a to but res- one BRESLAU HE LD IN NOOSE BY soviet ray Crossen Captured by Red Troops in Advance LONDON, Feb. 16 fP) Rus sian troops have completely sur rounded Breslnti, Moscow an nounced tonluht. The Germans previously had announced encirclement of the city, w It Ic h Marshal Ivan Koncv s vanguards already had left far behind. Tho broadcast soviet commun iquo said red army forces in this area captured more than 200 populated places today. Tho Russians have captured irosscn, ucrman mngc-poinl on the south bank of the Oder 67 miles southeast of Berlin, a Ger man commentator announced to night. Bears Down on Spree An armored mass of Marshal Koncv's first Ukranlan. army boro down on Berlin's Spree river aoicnse from tho south east today,' smashing toward (Continued on.PagoTwqi.,,., M FAILS TO GET By HAROLD WARD Associated Press Labor Writer MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16 (TP) John L. Lewis was still outside the American Federation of La bor today but he couldn't miss tho main entrance if he fol lowed the signs. The AFL executive council adjourned Its mid-winter ses sions last night with tho decla ration by President William Green that negotiations toward bringing the United Mine Work ers back to the federation had failed for tho time being. Tho council unanimously vot ed to bring the miners back in to tho fold "with all the rights and privileges of affiliation en joyed by all organizations," but It added gratuitously that "such rc-nfflllnllon carries with it as sumption of the obligations or (Continued on Pago Two) Plans for USO Now Underway Plans for the new USO head quarters to bo located in the old Arcado garago at 11th and Wal nut wero begun Tuesday, ac cording to Howard Porrln, arch itect in charge of tho project. It was hoped that tho plans would all be drawn by the lat ter part of next-week. After tho nlnnr. are comrjlctcd thev must be submitted to USO officials for final approval. No actual construction, work nas begun as yet, but it was thought that bulldlnn would get under way tho second week in March. Battle-Scarred Manila Still Aflame .." "' ' S Sn. ....... 1 A picture of destruction and desolation in this air riew of Manila, capital of the Philippines. Smoke rises from buildings still aflame on both sides of the Pasig river, seen flowing through the city's center. All bridges across river have been destroyed and a huge column of smoke bil lows upward from dock area. Many blocks have been completely destroyed while the district Just beyond seems fairly unharmed. BUibid .pri son, forming a .large cartwheel . in; . foreground, housed more than 1000 prisoners interned by the Japs. A large number of sunken ships' can be seen, la tho harbor- Signal. corps photo. . - - Japs Expected to Turn Tide at Manila, Report MANILA. Feb. 16 (P) Docu ments showing that a large Japanese force expected to turn the tide of the Luzon campaign at Manila come to light today as the cornered remnant of that out-smarted garrison fought with new fury in its blazing south Manila trap. Gen. Douglas MncArthur, an- SUM SELLS TIMBER IN ALTURAS AREA ALTURAS. Feb. 16 An nouncement was made today by Forest SiiDervisor Mel Barron that J. R. Shaw of Klamath Falls has sold 93,000,000 feet of tim ber to Sam Jaksick, of Reno, and that a new sawmill, box factory, planing mill and prestolog plant will be consirucica in Aiiurus immediately. The sale involves all timber in the Badger unit northwest of this city which has been under contract to -S h a w for the past year. wnen tno tour mm uniis arc in operation approximately 150 men will bo employed. The en tire operntion will involve an expenditure of approximately $750,000, according to Barron. Bv operating on a sustained yield basis, cutting 15,000,000 feet of forest timber per year, Barron says that the forest will not be depleted in spite of the fact the operation is expected to continue for more than 50 years. Present Dlnns call for the mill to be in operation by July 1 un- (Contlnucd on rage iwoj Move to Legalize Gambling Underway in Legislature By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. sAr.RM iToh 1 0 Amove to legalize gambling was begun in tno legislature loaay wnnu Rod. Giles L. French, Mbro re publican, chairman of the house tax committee,- inu-oauceu proposed constitutional amend- ment to give ine legislature au thority to make gambling legal. Thn amiinrimnnt urhlrll Would alHnrnrl hv thf? neonle &t the general election In Novem- Der, 1U4B, it it passes me luuia laturc, would allow the legisla ture to lesalize any form - of gambling, Including slot ma chines. The legislature could license devices which now are illegal, and thus raise additional revenue. . Fish Fight Looms. .. Tho .Inrtlolntnt-A'e hlplilllnl fish f Ight w a s i n prospect . today when ' Rep. wiuiam iNisxaneu, Bend, Introduced a bill to ban sot nets in most coastal streams, and to shorten tho commercial fishing seasons In those streams. Tho bill is sponsored by game fishermen, and commercial fish ermen will fight it. The houso highway commit tee recommended passage of tho senate-approved bill to extend increased' wartime limits for truck weights and lengths, while the senate state affairs committee refused to give a recommendation on the house bill to increase the state labor commissioner's .salary from $4000 to $5000 a year. Expected to Pass The bill to remove the $40 monthly old age pension ceiling is expeotcd to pass the house Into today without opposition. It will go to tho senate, where (Continued on, Pago Three) nounclng a deeper penetration of Bataan peninsula, a 112-ton bombing of Corrogidor and tho steady reduction of "the enemy's final pocket" in the rubble of the once-proud capital, disclosed also the seizure of the Nip ponese documents. These indicated that the enemy "contemplated a major and successful defense of Man ila." MacArthur reported the Jap anese, prior to his Luzon land ing, had a garrison of more than 20,000 men in Manila with great quantities of guns, mines, pillboxes and fortifications, ex pecting an attack from the south and from Manila bay. "The enemy apparently tried to hold Manila and Manila bay, thus making this the turning point of the Luzon campaign," MacArthur said. "These plans were defeated by the rapidity of the envelop ment by our forces and the dis location and unbalance caused by our unanticipated advance and the attack from north and east." . Staff of fleers . o f t h e 14th army corps estimated that per haps 10,000 Japanese originally manned tho masterfully-devised defenses of south Manila. Thousands Left Several thousand may be left in tho Intrnmuros district, along the bay shore just south of. the Purit river mouth, and in the adjacent Kamita and Malatc districts. These Japanese, confined to an area about 5000 yards by 1500 yards, opened up at dawn yesterday with murderous fire and limited American gains to a matter of yards. This renewed Japanese vigor blunted the 37th infantry divis ion spearhead which had pushed through the' University of the Philippines campus toward the bay shore. Chemult to Get Power System The little village of Chemult, 80 miles north of Klamath Falls on The Dalles-California high way, will have lights of its own with completion of a power plant to be installed by Arthur Faria.- : r- The' county court, at the Fri day morning session, approved Farla's request to establish a power -plant which will give light to the community. At this time homes and stores in the village use either lamps or small generators. Permission was obtained through the court in view of the fact that Che mult is not an incorporated town. Faria told County Judge U. K. Reeder he planned to in stall the plant immediately, ' FIFTH WITHDRAWS FURTHER li ITALY ROME, Feb... 16. (Ameri can fifth army troops in the Tyrrhenian- coastal sector- were dis closed by the allied command to day to have made further, with drawals following German infil trations in positions at Monte Canala. Headquarters of Lt. ' Gen. Mark W. Clark said enemy pres sure on Monte Canala, four miles inland and the same distance southeast of Massa, "caused our troops to withdraw to the south ern slopes of this feature." "These aro the positions held prior to the recent attack by our forces in the coastal sector," it was added. This is the area In which-the U. S. 92nd infantry division at tacked last week, but subse quently was forced to retire. . Several enemy infiltration par tics were engaged yesterday. It seemed probable that the infiltration was directed against fairly lightly-held forward American outpost3. An earlier announcement had shown that the 92nd, after advancing last week to the northern slopes of Monte Canala, had tried to dig in there last Saturday. . Todd Workers Ordered to Jobs WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 MP) The WLB today ordered striking welders at the Todd Shipyards in Seattle to return to work im mediately. "Every facility of west coast shipyards is required to support the efforts of the army and navy against Japan." WLB Chairman William H. Davis wired H. A. Doty, busi ness representative of the Inde pendent Welders Union. About 650 members of. the union have been on strike over the dis charge of six welders. Sailor Killed At Lakeview Base Paul D. Rogers, motor machin ist's mate, first class, Lakeview naval auxiliary facility, was killed instantly at the Lakeview fie'd at 10:30 a. m. Thursday when he was electrocuted While working with a crane. Rogers was born in Sutton, W. Va., February 9, 1907, and enlisted' in the United States navy on February 7,'-1942. He serv-'d in the Aleutians and Alas ka during the campaigns - of June, 1942, to March, 1644. Rog ers is survived by his wife, Ber nice S. Rogers, who also lives at Lakeview.' The body is &.t Ward's Funeral home. CANUCKS MOVE MILE DEEPER ft IN RHINE AF Troops Hold 20 Miles Along Bank of - Rhine By The Associated Press . PARIS, Feb. 16 The Canad ian first army, aimed toward the heart of the industrial Ruhr, thrust almost a mile deeper into the lower Rhine valley of north west Germany today through storms of heavy artillery and mortar fire thrown by an ever increasing flood of .enemy re serves. . ... ; " : The Canadians held 20 :iniles of the south bank of the flooded Rhine from the Nijmegen sector to opposite Emmerich but made no threats at crossing the wide waterway. They stormed and captured waterhemmed Huis berden, four miles east of Kleve and 19 from the Ruhr gateway city of Wesel. . .Inch Toward Goch . Scots. Britons and Welshmen under 'Gen.'. Henery .. Grerar's command inched toward the de fense keystones-of Goch and Col car in the center of; the bulging 20-mile , front. . One front dis patch, said the British empire troops spread out south of Moy- land,-indicating an advance into the area less than two miles from Colcar. Scots swinging down" the highway from Kleve moved to within 1000 yards of Moyland. . - Other troops' closed slowly tbward Goch from three direc tions and were within easy artillery range. Goch and Col car both are important military .highway hubs. The Germans committed ele ' . (Continued on Page Two) GEORGE BILL SENT TO FDR BY HOUSE By FRANCIS M. LeMay WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (Pi The house passed and sent to President Roosevelt today legis lation intended to clear the way for Henry A. Wallace to become secretary of a trimmed-down. commerce department. . Passage came on a vote of 399 to 2 after democrats narrowly turned back, 204 to 196, a re publican effort to send the sen-ate-passed George . bill back to the house banking committee. This would have shelved the bill and Wallace opponents hoped, result in outright rejec tion of the former vice presi dent, by forcing the senate to vote on his confirmation as not only commerce secretary but head of the reconstruction fi nance corporation. The house passed the bill just as it came from the senate. The two negative votes were (Continued on Page Two) Californians to Attend Hearing A California senate commit tee, investigating the proposal to divert - Klamath watershed waters to the Central Valleys watershed, "will be here for the U. S. engineers' hearing on the proposal next Tuesday, accord ing to State Senator Randolph Collier of California, chairman of the committee. Collier has asked State Sen ator Marshall Cornett, and State Representatives Henry Semon and Rose Poole, c! Oregon, to be here for a conference on Mon day on-the diversion scheme. The Oregon legislators, however. will be held at Salem by their duties there. California legis lators are now in recess. Klamath chamber of com merce officials said-today that the Oregon representatives nave Indicated their willingness to co operate in protection of the Klamath watershed, and that the Suestioh may be taken up fur ler between the Klamath dele gation and the Californians by mail. SmokeOveir; Cify MaM YcanEc GooDs '';'..!"." By AL DOPKING ' ;' '.:' , '.v '; U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Saturday; Feb. 17 (JP) Smoke columns 7000 feet high plumed oyer the Tokyo-Yokohama area today marking targets blasted by more than 1500 American carrier planes in yesterday's daring strike at the heart of Japan. -: ; . . v Returning fliers who rode B-29 over the targets while the navy Hellcats and Avengers spit bombs and bullets at the Nip ponese capital district said that aside from other damage, scores of enemy planes were caught on the ground. i The raid lasted mora than nine hours while the greatest naTal armada ever assembled challenged the Japanese fleet withia 300) miles of Nippon's shores. ... '. , ... ... , ... . (Carrier attacks of this type usually last for two or three days. The power of the American force indicated this pattern would be followed against Tokyo). .. w i j: .Dares Jap Fleet ' ': A? Protecting Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's' carrier force's, -bat tleships, cruisers and destroyers of Adm. Raymond A. Spruance's fifth fleet spread out in a 200-mile column in Japanese waters" daring the enemy fleet to come out. , Seven hundred miles. to the south, another task force, which Tokyo said was comprised of more than 30 warships, including- wtwt.;nn : -i. ..ii j t t: I i : . . , uaviiuiujja ciibi- uuiicia, aucucu xwu-ulllltt JI( . uuuruiliauon. Wlin land-based bombers which have been attacking the island, outpost daily for. more than two months. ..:.... . t (A naval spokesman in Washington said "now is the time for the Japanese fleet to meet the challenge of the American armada which, he added, is more than a match for anything th enemy can bring out. The navy is capable of effecting a -landing; anywhere, he-said, when asked about prospects of an invasion! of oft-bombed Iwo Jima). ".- - trr.Vc A Japanese imperial communique' reported that "carrier-based.' planes of a powerful enemy task force "which appeared 'jln the; seas adjacent to our shores" attacked-air fields in' and .around? Tokyo in successive waves from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. (Japanese time). The enemy Domei news agency added that heaviest blows were.' rained on bases from which interceptors- take off against Super fortresses raiding the Nipponese capital. , . .. . , ; ,:;. v: iSjfi . j '.' . Unprecedented Raid i i.v t, Tokyo's seven millions, long familiar with SuperiortreM;rtVdsi.. had never seen anything like .today's carrier attack... .. ;,;'.'i::-;.;, . London-reported that Tokyo radio warned the American 'tasjc force .was still operating in. Japan's front yard- and carrier bornec planes would probably renew the attack Saturday. The broadcast said 10 carriers with at least . 1000 planes formed the backbone of the U..S. force. .... .: : V. .' '-. y,:i Tokyo broadcasts intercepted by. the federal communications commission in San Francisco predicted -an imminent invasion iof . Iwo Jima island to knock out the Japanese air-raid warnmg: out post against B-29 attacks. : Iwo: Jima would be an excellent .basa from which to initiate frequent land-based bombing :,:raids?d Japan, an announced goal of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz.l '; -i Something tremendous is unfolding.: .' . ' Japs Menaced . . ..... The long-planned and extensive operations threatened the. heart of the Japanese empire with: - . o 1. - The probability of blockading it into a condition for eventu al' Invasion. - ' - . - - 2. Continuous pounding- to -reduce its -airplane' factories'-to ruins. - - - "' - "' ' ' ' Rocket and bomb-bearing Hellcats and Helldivers and Aven ger torpedo planes," swinging over Tokyo's 214 square miles-, tore into air fields and military defense zones-at 7 a. m. Japanese. time: They tangled over the city with the Japanese ah- force in fierce sky fights. ' . ' - '---. ' Mitscher appeared bent on knocking out the bulk of Japan's home-based air force as his - immediate objective; How well, ine can do that is suggested by the carrier air arm's achievements in January in destroying nearly .800 Nipponese aircraft in sweeps from Saigon, French Indo-China, to Amoy, China. During 1944, carrier planes destroyed 6650 enemy aircraft. 7- Long-Planned Operation i "This operation has long been planned and the opportunity' to accomplish it fulfills the deeply cherished desire of every of ficer and man of the Pacific fleet," exultantly announced Five Star Adm. Chester W.- Nimitz at his new : Guam headquartersi within 1500 miles of Tokyo.' . ' . ' . ' ': .'J v' : ; , ' ' To Mitscher," whose carriers began- the western sweep-In January, 1944, in the Marshalls,-went the honor of' completing the last, mile of the 4000 1o Tokyo-from Pearl Harbor where Japanese carriers opened the war December 7, 1941. " " The close approach to Japan by the largest mass of American warships and carriers ever assembled flung a challenge at the Nipponese fleet. There was no indication it had been-accepted. .- Tokyo radio, confirming the attack, gave;-the homeland-)he shaky assurance that their air force was parrying the .assault. By Tokyo's own admission, the Japanese fleet had full opportunity to move out and meet the American armada. Broadcasts acknowV edged "enemy surface movements have been observed . during the past few days." . Reclamation Bureau, Power Commission Deny Proposing Klamath River Diversion7 The U. S. reclamation bureau 1 and the federal power commis sion were reported today as stoutly denying parenthood of. mc .EVlHllluiu livvi uivciwyii yiu posal, which will be the subject: of a U. S. engineers' hearing here next Tuesday. R. S. Calland, assistant re gional director of the reclama tion bureau,, wrote The Herald and News that the bureau is not making an investigation to de velop a plan for the diversion, and that it considers the need for the diversion as "extremely remote." . . ' No Connection. : Meanwhile the federal power commission, another agency that has been mentioned in the dis cussion of the scheme, told Con gressman Clair Engle. of Cali fornia that it has no connection whatever, with the U. S. engineers-' activities In this matter.. . The e n g 1 n e e r 8 themselves have repeatedly declared they are not proposing the diversion scheme but are merely studying its feasibility. One U. S. engi neer was quoted from California to the affect that if the people of the "affected area" are. op posed, the plan will not be car ried out. . ' '':': "'. , -.:.!? '.' . .Opposition Looms . 1 'Vf And - it appeared ' today that opposition sentiment will be strongly demonstrated ' at - the hearings to be held next weeki beginning with the one at the American Legion hall here Tile day morning. Klamath chamber of commerce land use commits mittee today was completing plans for the chamber brief and presentation of oral- (testimony on: the matter, and representa tives. of- several other organiza tions met with the committee this' afternoon, to discuss, plans', for the. hearing. . ; '. - ' California State Senator Ran dolph - Collier, Yreka,- reported that his California legislative committee; named to investigate the diversion:. scheme, will be here for the hearing.' They. -wi)l arrive Monday. ;- - 5 Study Diversion - , . ; i : In brief, the .engineers" are studying the possibilities of di verting Klamath basin water to the Central-valleys watershed - . (Continued on Page Two) :!.,
