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Newspaper Page Textin m IM JV ffl nr Ul 0 JV In The Shanta-CaHcatle Wonderland Fehruarv 19. 1D1S Max. (Feb. 18) 34. Min 32 : Precipitation last 24 hours 00 ! Stream year to date .. 6.86 ! Normal 7.58. Last year 4.63 Forecatt Clear and cold. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1944 Number 10393 r . 11 T?ij. ,.,,V iTrnlilhlnu Rrlri.nd battle L- possibly the toughest If I.. .!, Pacific. L1utlT ompicld ufiold. I !.j ...,A,!r construction. '"".Ti (...... Tnkvn. Ill in fcn'j INNER H'NO of do t"11 if." i..r,.u.ri.ln uur- rjer orders to fight to lut man, " uv'"' i, typical Joy Jiuiiicini. Le horc, wllh o bench- IhMdSDOUlZl mm:" iwu m..u , 600 yards wide, and have ( tlWr , Jnfun.i., nf mill ,f Li our landlim bombardment ,lin bacK Willi urwiiuij, 'un, machine nuns und i familiar lory, and a iy, bloody one. h Manila, we're mopping up the bay. we comrui wo wir olCorregmor, oui sun nv ,t the Japs out of Its tunnels. f... t- Mnui,h nlrwrnrl nf I . .i.., ...... utnnhtn nrn llhln En uwk vwi - ...m un to Its entrance und II the Japs on the Cnvlte t, A few suicide pockets re on Balaeu. He fighting In tho old walled tftlll BOCS Oil. nuu., 7- nn Itm Plilllnnlilfl Ifial hospital ot the edge of Ih..Um1 fli-nn. llhnruto under fire 7000 civilians, Including I Americans. a b.MIRAL HALSEY shows up In Washington and expresses m n on t hut the remnants ot Jm fleet won't como out and iil in the current operations. ys ('were going to nave lilt thorn out. They've got h- little to Unlit with and what t hivo is in none too goou kcd what It will ItiKO to h the JaD navy to a show kn, ho answers: "1 can't got bell Into a rat's frnmo of mind I don t know what It will t. . Be adds: The stupid, bestial jap sees me is losing control ol mo SViKYWHKRE .: t Shearing on Ilnlscv's "brutal. nesiur cstimnto of our illc enemy. Our troops fight- their WAV Inln Mnnlln'a nlH led eilv fniin llln Urtrllnn nf iuuiioiic priests, and women I Chlldron In uihnm ll.nu l,n,l h shelter. In Do La Salle 'ie. All hod been shot and luneiea a week aso bv a lllCd Jan nfflrnr nrl 9n mnn he Jans b rftltA In nn that nrtim p noon lunch hour and at n command from the of nca shooting and alash TO Halscy talks, what he ra say is always Interest- Ul Wa.tilnnl 1.. . il ml ai i "one of the few who G f. He ad(ls: "Tho J"p ' lu erumoie. A dol- h nd of the BEASTS In SaeV Zy. w' Put &J,nf& will bo tho lonu,,..."Jl.ac.man.a "ncon- bleit 7ri:i w'.u. b0 cour "L I',.0 nIslory 01 i d h . . t" u move !lo dcafh nC"lg our grand- No wcalern European front rinh if. "nvo on Germi. l""B'ess BgaillSl ornhK8' Tho weather . Is (lr! Z un.. swirling mist fh. U s " . I0ps 11,0 Planes, i 2nrt J5l ?nd Bth nni tho M ?ocr' O" to the llln hni S' 'Vd and It V'1' "ot on a major ling on ih.Tf illns nro 84111 front 'Jl? bu'k of tho west- lend if .K. 2?'.1'0.i?r north- fontnom"'" Olc'rod "no. Ngomcry Mya today: n '"I round nf iv.. ui The last V mP 1 G 'ast found of ny Is on, i, hi ln8 torecel, tho hnffln nnH 4Vim n. WoS 1 rccolvo a knock- dcllr..50m.ewr"t unusual lions." , lrom TWO dl- Scots Attack Goch, Find Nazi CO in Bed .?ABIS' ob 19 W) Scottish Infantry and tanks mopped up two-thlrda ol the strategic Slegfrlod line dofenae hub of Goch tonight alter a surprise attack which caught the German com mander and his ataff In bed. At bayonot point, the Scots rootod out savagely fighting Gor mans firing from cellars and rubbled ruins of the stronghold where eight military highways meet. Casualties were heavy on both aldea, ' To the eaat on the churning 17 mile Kleve-Goch front, Brit lah empire troopa were fighting within 25 miles of the great Ruhr valley Inland port of Dulsburg and within 16 miles of Weael, neoreat Ruhr railhead. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton'a U. S. third army advancod up to a half mile on a 32-mile front In western Germany between Ech tornach and north of Pruem, clearing tho Germane from the Sure and Our rlvera which form the boundary of northern Luxem bourg. His Infantry had knocked a hole clear through the Sieg- "irica line ior seven macs be tween Imzcn and Cruchten. REELING TOKYO HIT BY FLEET OF B-29S KoMErVVw Halsov. au!5"... " intcrcstlnn fnilt getter. Halsoy' "o is ki r.re light nir nit u tS ;vak,atptheBa"iy Wnort,"h tnor center Jn U at ti T Tne hardest - xurec; WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 Ml Tokyo, still reeling from a two day carrier plane assault, was pounded again today by a big fleet of Superfortresses while other B 29s hit Japanese In stallation at Kaula Lumpur, Malay. Preliminary Information, 20th air forca headquarters, report ed, Indicates that upwards of 130 Supcrforts, winging from tho Marianas, plastered indus trial plants In the enemy capi tal with the use of precision in struments. Full results of the hammering have not been tab ulated. It was the eighth strike at Tokyo by the big bombers. "Good rosults" were reported from tho strike of , about HO India-based 13-29.1 against rail yards and repair shops at Kaula Lumpur. The attack on Kaula Lum pur, tho first by tho sky drcad nuughts, was one of a scries aimed 'at cracking enemy com munications between Inclo-Chlna and Burma. Kail and communi cations facilities elsewhere along tho roulo have been hammered previously. Four enemy fighter planes were destroyed or damaged by tho Kaula Lumpur raiders, who reported that enemy fighter op position was weak and that they encountered no anti-aircraft fire. All of the Superfortresses returned from the Kaula Lum pur mission. Tokyo broadcasts placed the number of raiders ot approxi mately 100 and claimed 10 were shot down.' Tho enemy broad casts insisted, as usual, that dam age was light. Rail Centers in Germany Bombed LONDON, Feb. 19 (P) A dozen rail centers and Industrial targets In western Germany, in cluding tho big freight yards at Mucnstcr, Osnabrucck, Rhcine' and Slcgcn were bombed by 1100 Amcrlcon heavy bombers From Italy, Liberators and Fortresses of the 15th air force bombed rnllyards at Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt in Austria and naval installations along the Adriatic coast. Contracts for Work Awarded Two additional contracts, to taling more than $100,000, have been awarded for construction work at the Klamath naval air station. P. S. Lord, Portland, has been given a contract to con struct a 2150-foot water supply lino from tho now storage tank to tho now hangar. The bid was 107,712. Grlnnell company of the Pa cific, a Seattlo firm, will Install a sprinkler system at tho air base at a cost of $37,074. As a part of tho Lord con tract, tho Electric company, Portland, will install a fire alarm signal system, Gene Brown Hurt In Luzon Battle PFC Harold E. (Gene) Brown, sen of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Brown, 2323 White, was In jured In action on Luzon Janu ary 17. his narcnts were noti fied by the war department. Brown, wltn tne mist iiuhii try. has been overseas since January, 1944. Ho is a 1941 graduato of Klamath Union high school and worked for Big Lakes Box company before en tering the service. His wife, wnom ne marriuu shortly before going overseas, lives in Placorvme, (Jain, iney have a year-old son, R o n n y, whom Brown has never seen. Further south, the U. S. seventh ormy drove two miles into the German Saarland from Alsace In tho area within can non shot of Saarbrucckcn. Scotch reports slipped Into Goch "by the back door" after breaching difficult defenses to the north of the ruined old city of 13,500. The southern part of Goch was almost completely cleared. The enemy clung to about a fourth ot the nordi portion in which margarine and other fac tories arc located. The German commander, Col. Paul M a t u s s e k, was found wounded In tho leg. Scotch commanders expressed belief that he inflicted the wound himself, so that reprisals would not bo visited upon his family for his "disgrocetul" capture In bed. Caught with him In the , same building were a scholarly appearing major and two lieu-tenants. LONDON, Feb. 19 (P) The Japanese press is clamoring for a home guard to meet American invasion of the homeland, the Tokyo correspondent of the Ger man news agency Transocean re ported today. ; "The Japanese people," he said, "have suddenly come to realize that the enemy Is at the gates. Tho press is urgently de manding formation of a Japanese folgsstrum In order to success fully meet the American assault on Japan." Ho declared 1600 .American carrier-based planes attacked the Japanese main Island over the weekend and predicted even heavier attacks In the future. An American air force based on Iwo Jima, he said, could "completely cut off Japan's com munications with the southern Pacific regions." CHUNGKING, Feb. 19 '(P) The Central News agency quoted Gen. Ho Yin Chilian, China's chief of staff, as saying today that the Japanese were employ ing up to 50 divisions on the Chinese mainland In a bid to stem a possible American land ing On tho coast. "We are making a new dis position of troops and planning an effective offensive to collabor ate with allied movements toward victory" said Ho, who commands the new Chinese field headquarters at Kunming. The Chlncso high command said that in the border region of Hunan and Kwangtung prov inces the Japanese continued their efforts to seal the gap re cently punched in tho Canton Hankow railway by the Chinese. Action in the Pacific UgbynjJl .'"$ JAP A Tokyo ? CHINA roocnow YjiwalJ ijjjKYUSHU tlWOjIMA CHICHI SOWN ISIAHOS HAHA St?t'hS5$? PHILIPPINES 1? VOICAMO Cult J lUZON" v MnnilV MARIANAS ISLANDS AlPAM .7:' CAROLINE ISLANDS S1ATUTE MUM Triple blows added to Japan's growing fear of defeat when American carrier-baaed planes struck at the Tokyo area. United States army troops landed on Corregidor, and marlu-s invaded Iwo Jima. important Nipponese island air base. Argentina Plans to Issue Declaration of War on Axis By NORMAN CARIGN AN ' MtSXICO CITY, Feb. 19 (P) Reports that Argentina is plan ning to declare war on Germany in an attempt to repair relations with other western hemisphere nations stirred preliminary skir mishes today on a political Issue that may develop Into a full scale, open debate when the Inter-American ' conference opens ncrc wennesaay. -The -reports slommed "irom a ' People of the Klamath drain age" basin frorri the upper reaches ot the Sycan and the Sprague to the place where Klamath river empties into the sea will concentrate their at tention Tuesday upon the first of three hearings to be held by U. S. engineers on the proposed diversion of Klamath waters to the Central Valleys project. The Tuesday hearing will be held in the American Legion hall, starting at 10 a. m., and is expected to continue through most of the day. Numerous or ganizations of the upper Klam ath basin will make representa tions at the engineers, all or most of them opposed to the plan to remove water from this basin through a channel either (Continued on Page Three) Back-to-Work Trend Begins SEATTLE, Feb. 19 OP) Striking welders established picket lines for two Harbor island shipyards early today and turned back some workers but failed to halt entirely a back-to-work trend among the unionists. Tho personnel departments of the Todd Pacific shipyards and the Todd drydocks reported 31 more welders at work on the day shift than on Saturday when 304 of a normal 850 reported for work. weekend announcement that the Buenos Aires government had sent a sharply worded note to Berlin protesting a German "threat to deny safe conduct to certain Argentine diplomats en route home from Germany. Until now a ' declaration of war nas been a passport of ad mission into the United Nations family," Hut 'whether' it wduld prove so In the case of Argentina is open to question in view of the attitude taKen toward her mili tant government by the more in fluential American government. There" v is an unmistakable trend among the Latin American delegations here to do something about the Argentine- situation, however, and her entry Into the war might well bring matters to a head. Other' strong Issues awaiting settlement include a demand by some Latin American countries that all of the Americas break with the Franco regime in Spain and Guatamala's insistance that she will not come to the confer ence if El Salvador is invited be fore the letter's newly-elected president takes office March 1. Attempt Made To Snatch Purse A sneak thief -attempted to strike again last night when "It was reported to city police by Dolores Harris, 1345 Martin, that a young boy tried to snatch her purse while she was walking up N. 9th. She said she saw the boy fol lowing her and kept a tight grip on her bag as she had about $80 in currency. The attempted theft failed and the boy ran through the Texaco filling sta tion at Prospect and Upham and she lost track of him at that point. ' Miss Harris obtained a fairly accurate description of the cul prit and it was thought by city police that the thief might have been one of the boys who snatched the purse' of Mrs. Kath ryn Hankins last week as she en tered the Evans apartment build ing, and who also made an un successful attempt to make off with the bag of Mrs. Frank Ol son Friday night. REDS BATTLE FIERCE NAZI GOUNTERB LOWS Soviets Continue Push On Dresden, Flank of Berlin By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 19 The red army battled sharp German counterattacks in some sectors up and down the ice-covered eastern front today, but contin ued to forge ahead toward Dres den and on Berlin's southeast ern flank. While Moscow dispatches said the German counterstabs were not in the proportions of a counteroffensive, they were mounted by veterans of the German regular army and Hein rich Himmler's home army units in the greatest numbers yet and were part icularly strong from places in Pomeran ia and Silesia where the Ger mans had entrenched artillery positions dug into the frozen earth. :' : Nazis Reinforce Despite the fierce hammering of their crowded communica tion lines by allied planes last week the Germans had been able to rush reserves up to the front. The German communique said Marshal Ivan Konev's first Ukrainian army was forging ahead, however, and compelling the Germans to engage in "vio lent ; defensive fighting" all the way frorri the Czech border to the--Oder bend southeast of Berlin. ,. '''"''':' & Near Laub'an . Konev's tanks have reached the area southeast of Lauban on (Continued on Page Three) 'S BILL NOW !!V SENATE By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. SALEM, Feb. 19 (F) The house voted 37 to 21 today to send the firemen's pension bill to the senate, after a vigorous hour's debate in. which oppon ents charged the bill was poorly drawn and that the state couldn't afford it. The bill provides accident and death compensation and retire ment benefits for paid -and vol unteer firemen. It does not set up. a schedule of benefits, and would be financed by a tax on insurance premiums and contri butions by the firemen and mu nicipalities. Its reception in the senate, which killed a similar bill last session, is doubtful. Similar bills have been killed at the last five or six sessions. Sponsors said the state has a duty toward the firemen, but the opponents contended that it would cost the state $312,000 a biennium, which the state can not afford to spend. Game and commercial fisher men started their -biennial dis pute today, with the game fish ermen losing their first test 34 to 23 on a motion to table a senate-approved bill to put the state fish commission on an appro priation basis. The commission now depends on poundage fees. Japs Figh? Sa vcogeDy oim? Dslariid IBose Invasion Commander UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS GUAM, Feb. 19 OP) United States marines invaded Tokyo' "lookout" ialand of Iwo today and pushed 800 yards up rugged slopes from the beachhead to penetrate the important bomber ai strip. ........ i .... The Japanese resisted furiously from heavily fortified posi tions, despite the continuing bombardment by warships of Amer ica's fifth fleet. ' First eyewitness accounts from the flagship of Vice Adnu Richmond Kelly Turner, commanding the amphibious operation, said casualties among the marines were "considerable." The tiny, porkchop-shaped island, invaded at 9 a. m. Monday1' (Guam time), was a prize the Japanese defended- with all their; fanatical fury. Invading marines of the fifth corps, America' oldest am phibious outfit, advanced from the south and east beaches. They reached the bomber strip, most important of Iwo' three airfields (one still under construction) in the first day struggle. ' v Japanese' artillery, mortar, machinegun and rifle fire raked the ranks of the veteran fourth marine division and the new fifth division, . making up ' the invading force, ' throughout the day. " Lt. Gen.' Holland M. Smitlu commanding " the fifth corps ' said from bis command post aboard Turner's flagship: "Our" men are spread, all over hell's acre out there. And they're go-- ing after those hidden Jap guns,; which are mighty , hard to. lo. cate." . "Satisfactory'- Turner said the "overall pro gress is satisfactory." He de clared that , the , pre-invasioa bombardment by warships ot the -United States fifth fleet had, cleaned out-some heavier-JajH. anese guns but "by no means all of them." : .- Fleet- Adm. -Chester ,W, Nimitz' . communique announ cing the invasion said' "the opc eration is proceeding satisfac torily." He said casualties were) ."moderate," by early reports. . The : beachhead - extends for', nearly two - and a - half mile northward from the volcano, at the southern tip of the air-bast island. :.':';:.:',;' : 1 Pavei the Way ,. " Nimitz- credited B-29s : an4 submarines with' helping -pav: the way- for the morning's.: in vasioh of the island -whose-selz ure will- step up the air : of fen SiVe against Tokyo where the fifth fleet air:arm' destroyed or damaged. 36 ships and 759 planes in two days before with drawing. '. - ':(. Thousands of rockets - raked the southern Iwo beaches cli maxing the heavy naval bom bardment which included bat teries of such ancient battleships as the Nevada,-sunk at. Pearl Harbor and resurrected to help pave the way for- the ; invasion of Normandy and now a . step ping stone island to Tokyo - i: Two "light units" . of tb heavy supporting fleet of morfe than 800 ships which prepares (Continued on Page Three) Lt, Gen. Holland "Mad" Smith, is . commanding men of the - marine fifth-. . amphibious corps, whose men are "spread all over hell's acre but there" on Iwo Jima, latest ' Jap island to be invaded in the Pacific. y FIGHT IN H , MANILA, Feb. 19 (JP) Manila bay was all but back in Amer ican hands today but in the city itself, where some 7000 civilians were released in a new dra matic rescue, the Japanese still clung grimly to the walled In tramuros section. Mopping up continued on Cor 'regidor, where Yanks control the topside. Liberated The 7000, including 100 Amer icans, were liberated under gun fire as American troops storm ed into the ruins of the Philip pine hospital, a few blocks south of the Intramuros walls. Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold, commander of the 14th corps, still delayed a showdown battle for the walled . Intramuros dis trict in the hope other thou sands of civilians would be vol untarily released by the Jap anese. ' Discover Bodies . Troops of the same regiment which liberated the hospital came upon the bodies of 60 Catholic priests and women and children to whom they had given shelter in the ruins of a De La Salle college in the nearby Mal ate district. The 60 were, shot and bay oneted to death a week ago to day by a frenzied Japanese offi cer and 20 enlisted fhen. Rev. Francis J. Cosgrave of Sydney, Australia, one of 10 sur vivors, said the Japanese broke in upon the helpless group dur ing noon lunch and, at a shriek from the officer, started shoot ine and slashing. - The navy's seventh fleet war continued on Page Three) Admira. Halsey Predicts Japanese Navy Will Lay Low in Pacific WASHINGTON,; Feb. 10 (VP) Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., paying a surprise visit to Wash ington, predicted today that tho remnants of the Japanese fleet will not como out and fight in the current Pacific operations. "We are going to have to dig them out," the commander of the third fleet told a news con ference. "They have got very little left to fight with and what they have Is in none too good shape. . ' , Halsey said he hos not yet re ceived all the facts of the Tokyo and Iwo Jima operations but that all Indications are that it was "another magnificent show against the deteriorated and deteriorating ex-Japanese navy." Unpredictable Rats Asked what in his opinion Iri Iir necessary to force the Japanese navy to a showdown, Halsey, in typical iusiuun, ic plied: , "I .can't get myself In a rat's frame of mind. I don't know what it would take.". " - Asked about his presence in Washington, Halsey said with a laugh "I am here under orders of Admiral King," chief of na val operations. "It Is evident," Halsey said, "that even the stupid, bestial Jap sees that he is losing con trol of the sea everywhere."; Plans Shifted ' The veteran of many Pacific actions disclosed that informa tion brought out of the Philip pines by a downed American flier furnished him the infor mation that led to' the decision to make a sudden change in plans for the invasion of the Philippines. Halsey said his forces were steaming off the coast of the Philippines with practically no opposition. Strategic - Value "We were knocking down Japanese planes right and left. One American pilot was shot down. The guerrillas took care of him, and the next day we sent in and got him. He gave us information which led me to believe the time was ripe to go in." : That occurred, he said, on September 13, and he reported his recommendations to Ad miral Nimitz and General Mac Arthur. "Admiral Nimitz ' and Gen eral MacArthur picked up tlje ball and ran with it," he said, shifting their ' plans to permit Hold-up Man Wants Smokes WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 19 (TP) Last night a man "pushed a gun In my ribs," George Lawson told police. "I reached-for my wallet and offered It to him." "He declined tho wallet," Lawson said, "muttering 'let's have the cigarettes.' "He took a pack and walk ed off." the landing on Leyte on Octo ber 20. Halsey predicted that the landing on Iwo Jima, begun to day, would not be as tough as the amphibious assault on Ta rawa. , . "We have lep.rned a lot since thai time," he laid. . Iwo Jima, he said, will be of tremendous strategic value, af fording a base from which to bomb the Japanese homeland with medium bombers with fighter cover. The island, which now has two airfields, can accommodate three, he said, and "if neces sary the Seabees will build an other island and put four or five on it." . - Halsey said he is one of the few people who believe the Japanese .will "break" even tually. Asserting that Japanese industrialists see their empire getting into a position to crum ble, he added: "A dollar means as much to them as anyone. When they get the upper hand of the beasts in charge of. the army they will put out peace feelers, that will be our most dangerous threat until peace is actual 1 y de clared." . .;.' , Greatest Crime " "If we allow a negotiated peace now and do not demand absolute and unconditional sur render it would be the . greatest crime in the history .of the country. "The press can do' more to help that than anyone, to per suade .the mothers and fathers of America that such a move would be sentencing th.elr grandsons to death."' Asked whether the Japanese would plan another . war even though unconditional surrender were exacted, Halsey replied: "Not if we are smart." ' "It behooves us to make plans for the future and en force them to be sure they will not start another.". The admiral . cautioned that we "better keep our fleet re gardless of what happens, in a world league." . . , . .. Hitter Orders Evacuation of . f: Northern Italy BERN, Switzerland, Feb. . 19) (A) The newspaper Der Bund reported from Chiasso today that Adolf Hitler has ordered Marshal Albert Kesselring to evacuate northern Italy and the withdrawal is in progress. ' The newspaper : said . Italian fascists, whom it quoted, were in panic and were seeking to medi ate for their own safety. rr - Der Bund said four divisions already were leaving by way ol the Brenner.pass. Some are mo torized and others are leaving by horse and foot. Heavy mate, rial is being, sent by train to, Graz, Austria, it was said. . Cherniqkhovsky Dies of Wounds i' ' LONDON, Feb; 19 (P) Gen, Ivan D. "Cherniakhovsky, Rus sia's youngest general and the man who was first to invade Ger man soil, died . on Sunday of wounds suffered on the battle field of East Prussia, , Moscow announced today. :: - J" The. brilliant . 37-year-old -tans commander of the third White Russian army was the conquerdt ' of. Minsk, Wilno, Kaunas and most of East Prussia. A broadcast from Moscow said he would be given a hero's fu neral at.'. Wilno.'. : The general was a student and protege of the late Gen. Nikolai Vatutin. He was born in the Ukraine, son of a railway work er, , iu Former Nazi Air ? Chief Kills Self r LONDON, Feb. 19 (VP) X neutral source reported today that Col. . . Gen. .Hubert Weise, former commander in chief cf Germany's air defense, shot and killed himself in his Berlh) apartment-., a few days . ago. Weise was made the scapegoat for the collapse of . the . relch8 air defenses and was ousted from his post a year ago.., j'