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Newspaper Page Text"Pun xl ft WE MW n rnri WnfflflMfnEfnl ' ; 1 : : ; 0 fill .FRANK JENKINS for iwo Jima still 'n.hic or IntorcKt for ll ""i if it will b " ol 1110 "J. ot mo rifle WI,r- PH " . i, OUR war. lhe i bloody fight. ,,, huvo uboul a third of h, tiny Ulimd. Olio air raU bta one. from which I . con operate) is m ' r P". .l "...i i.n ii ro moving r; '".bout 700 yard. . it miii'lnnti lind 'h un tcop cliffs through tZltlU expend ll ta, to enemy tlru rituvi VB Mni.y Jill "v LthOlopcs. Lnyofoi.rnho. ha brief pn.(frnph from n ilMtch today Kvc" " of what our men nrc wltli11f'A I unaer ,ne gun, moruir. imu fire over wet, rocky slopes rwsccl with revetments, oe. blockhouse nnd rein d sniper holes. Mines "' trips y""'- the loiillicrn tip of the L,,w-5tamp Island, btiri- ibovo the rciutiiI level of ...rrnilllrilnL' IIITH. It I B ITRESS MOUNTAIN from h JP juni snoot auwii r Inch ol grounu om ... hick them up. our marines lilt evfrythl.il! our mighty Lmichlne con give mem, i nu llland Is niirrouiinea oy one t greatest flcft.i In the his ii navnl warfare. Our ,i tuns enn nnd DO rcncl v square fool of It. The nir r provided by the fleet's planes Is'so complcto that ilnjlo Jnp plane hns yet Ible to get over iwu. . JH! In the Klamath country, thirc In the Modoc Invn S9 Indian warriors stooct oil fcionlhs the best tho United fa army could send against t we have perhaps n better trstandlnR man anynooy eise toughness of the iwo dima tli llltln volcanic Island Is Modoc lava beds over again. Uup by. tho. be.-Uthat.Jap- (e military skih, over n per U 20 years or more, hns been (to do In the way of intricate iiirauon nun prrpmuuuii. u battle of Iwo Jlmn is In a iy a TOKEN battle. If wo like Iwo. we can take ANY fiC THE JAPS HAVE In o the island of Honshu. .... the first 4B hours of tho Iwo Ittle, 3650 marines were M or wounded. Wo are told morning that 3(1011 wounded 1 been cvncualcd Indicating Vi sua killed. Ell Is better than expected, high tribute to tho fighting L of tho veteran marine f Is that are doing tho job. Corrcsltlor (In tho Philip- bines) both entrances of tho fi tunnel havo been blocked explosions, and on tho top- we are nok ne tlirnniili t in lie for tho VENTILATION I. When wo find It, the Japs pc wm do none tor. ... P walls of Manila's medieval pner citadel are 40 feet thick. IC ballerina llinm rlmun uillh Jy, rather than pulverizing I Continued on Pago Two) W - " j I Korm.l 7.BB T... A 75 J. , WhllWll lllH.nl In The Shasta-Cascade Wonderland PHICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945 Numbar 10395 Wales Testifies At Diversion Hearing William L. Wales, standing, englnoer employed by the Klamath county chamber of commerce to make survey of the proposed Central Valloy diversion, testifies at the hearing with the U. S. army engineers held at the American Legion hall yosterday. The meeting was described as being "satisfactory and favorable" to Klamath basin interosts. Col. Kenneth Moore, seated far left in uniform, is the head district englneor of the U...S. army engineer corps. Basin Interests Point Out Diversion Would Cause 'Intolerable Injustice' Klnmnth basin interests pol llshcd off their anti-diversion representations yesterday after noon with a barrage of factual Information. They literally load cd down the U. S. engineers with statistics nnd other dntu designed to show that the Klamath basin has ultimata need for all ot its water, and that any diversion that threatens its full use here Is nn intolerable Injustice. A solid front ot antl-diverslon sentiment was in evidence at the engineers' hearing, first ot three to bo held on a report on water use in tho Klamath river drain age arcn and suggesting a scheme SIEGE EMPLOYED imath Woman erated From jnto Tomas f' hd Mrs. Guv Bnllnnt. ' ihompson, wcro ndvlscd Uiesdnv nri., rKi- r, ' ,,ul,n i-iun ini'i r &iEs hcr BH 111,11 Scvclk, ,7 ' Sunto Tomns Mnnlln but Hint her In nJntnnl s"" A'n Lnird, L,. -'.iJO III UlU i'Ull- teen a prisoner of r-.. IOr ,1e(lrly t,rcC of va. 'i1 Scvclk was tho .'Mr. nnd Mn T n c.. Adam,. ' By FRED HAMPSON MANILA, Feb. 21 ((Medi eval siege tactics In modern guise wcro employed against trapped Japanese garrisons In Manila's thick - walled Intra muros and on Corrcgldor today as Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced the past week's fighting has cast tho Nipponese 24,000 casualties. Cannon ancl howitzers gnawed steadily at tho 40-foot-thick outer wall of tho Intra muros to cut an entrance way for tanks and infantry seeking to eliminate tho cornered enemy nnd liberate an estimated 7000 civilians, Futile Costure Tho Yanks could pulverize the Intramuros and everybody in side with air power, but they nre trying to save the civilians. Arthur Fcldman of tho Blue net work termed this a possibly fu tilo gesture. Ho was of the opin ion tho Japanese already have killed most of the civilians. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said In his communique today that tho enemy garrison in South Ma nila, now compressed into an (Continued on Pago Two) Offices Cose For Birthday Banks, both the city hall and Klamath county courthouse, and tho Oregon State liquor store, will bo closed tomorrow, Thurs day, in observance of Washing ton's birthday, February 22. Timrn will ho no carrier de livery from tho U. S. postofflce Thursday nnd no window serv ice, although tho lobby will bo open, Postmaster nun r,. Mnuflrlnn elntnd. Both county and city libraries will remain open as usual. dentine Issue Delayed Until End of Conference f tfULTEPEc CASTLE, 21 tlTYi T ti lino I """guay, tno Ar- Uln. onrl n 'HUBica ,0 Sc 'nt,.It1,-Amerlcfl F oo nlvniV , u ii im t mo Ihot "uiim ii a v o : mat thG OXDlo , A. h'ovni0 0,,l.t! tnko prece- iPo'lltcal Tssuos eCn0mlC !.'."' I-Olso R. Vnln. 1 ,h0 wnferenco agen- a'onlio,T n, l"-cllml-01 u,o heads of dele- gatlons to agree upon an agon da, elect a president, -and pass on rules for the conference. : Bolivia nominated Mexican Foreign Minister Ezcqulel Fa dllln as president.. U. S. Secre tary of Stale Edward B. Stct tlnlus seconded the nomination and Padllla was elected. ' Paraguay demanded that the Argentina issue bo given imme diate consideration, which would have meant that It would take precedorito over security, eco nomic and political issues. This was turned down, how ever, and Argentina is left for discussion after all the other points are cleared away, a pro cedure which Padllla said would contribute enormously to the success of the. conference,. - for delivering 600 second feet of Klnmnth water into tho Pit or McCloud rivers for nowcr and ir rigation use in California's Cen tral valley project at an estimat ed cost of $108,000,000. No Conclusion Colonel Kenneth Moore, dis trict engineer from San Francis co, closed the hearing with a statement that while no conclu sions will be reached immediate ly, the new information offered by Klnmnth people would be full consideration in a possible re vision of estimates on the sug gested scheme. Tho I engineers left for Yrekn, where they wore expected today to encounter down-river sentiment that is frankly hostile over tho fact that the engineers arc studying any rilvprslnn nlnn. v Hint ui iircwui Ks in uiv yuit- rornia ncaring was seen in an incident- yesterday in which Colonel Moore stated that Sena tor Randolph Collier, Yreka, had implied the engineers had ulter ior motives in studying the diversion scheme. "Any such implication is false," he said, adding that no one is telling him what to report. Firm Power Motive Senator Collier had said earlier that he had reason to be lieve firm power is the principal motive in the study, and that a Robert Muskrat Reported Missing First Lt. Harvey Robert Musk rat, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Muskrat of Cheyenne Agency, S. D., formerly o f Klamath Agency, is reported missing in action over Germany since Janu ary 28, according to word sent here by the youth's parents, Muskrat wns a graduate of Chiloquin high school, class of 1940, where he was outstanding In athletics. He attended Ore gon State college for two years, received his commission and called into service Juno 1, 1942. Stationed at Camp Roberts, Calif., Muskrat was later sent to Camp Swift, Tex., and . in December, 1943, transferred to the army air corps as navigator, receiving his wings at Ellington Field, Tex., July 1, 1944. Ho left for overseas service in October and was stationed in England with the 38flth bomb group, flying in a B-24 Liber ator bomber from that base. Mr. . and Mrs. Muskrat left Klamath Agency for their pres ent homo in May, 1943. Missing lit Lt. Robert Muskrat " 4 valley authority like TVA may oc under bureaucratic contem plation for the Klamath region. Klamath chamber of com merce, representing 30 organiza tions in the unoer Klamath ba. sin, opened tho afternoon hear ing with the testimony of Wil liam Wales, civil engineer and state watermaster, who made the engineering study lor the cham ber. . Wales said that Instead' of 535,000 acres of ultimate irriga tion development in the Klamath Falls area, as estimated by the engineers, he found a possible onimuea on rage two) HIT f N YREKA MEET YREKA, Calif., Feb. 21 (JP) Any taking of water from the Klamath river watershed would harm the area's recreational, agricultural, mineral, naviga tion, timber and power re sources, Superior Judge James A. Alien of bisKiyou county as serted today at the United States army engineers' traveling hear ing Into three diversion proposals. Representing the northern California resources protection committee, he was the first speaker in opposition to the plan before an audience that crowded his courtroom to caoac- ity. Waiting to be heard were State Senator Randolph Carter of. Yrekn, Assemblyman - Paul Denny of Etna and State Sen ator Oliver Carter of Redding. Col. K. M. Moore, San Fran cisco district army engineer, said Mjontinuca on f age two) Tulelake Office Razed by Fire . TULELAKE Fire completely destroyed the real estate office of Charles K. Wicse at 1 p. m. Tuesday and also gutted the in terior of a music studio operated by Mrs. Lynn Kelleher and lo cated in the same building. Fire is thought to have started from the explosion of an oil stove, and was discovered by John. Kandra Jr., whose truck was parked in front of the build ing. Wlese's office is located cm Main street between Carlisle's barber shop and the Tulelake Hardware company. Both build ings wore saved by tho Tulelake fire department. The frame structure housing the Wiese of fice and Kelleher studio was owned by J. W. Carlisle. BO-YEAR OiD RAPED BEAIENHERE Merle Crawford Held In County Jail On Charge A 60-year-old Klamath Falls woman was in a serious condi tion at Klamath Valley hospital, victim of an attack which offi cers said occurred at hcr Mills addition home early Tuesday night. In the Klamath county jail is Merle Malcolm Crawford, 31, 2027 Eberlein, against whom District Attorney Clarence Humble filed a charge of rape early this morning. Crawford was arraigned at 11:45 o'clock before justice of the peace J. A. Mahoney, was granted time to plead and, his cash bond set at $5000. At a late hour he was in custody in lieu of bond. . Police Called City police were, called by Louis Reed. 2028 Wantland. at 9:25 o'clock last night, to the (Continued on Page Two) Hitler's Hideout Hit By American Planes By The Associated Press ROME, Feb. 21 Wi Rocket-firing Thunderbolts of the U. S. 12th air force made the first attack of the war yesterday on Hit ler's private city of Berchtesgaden, the mountain hideout high in the snow-capped Bavarian Alps, it was announced today. The planes, sweeping in from Italian bases, pumped rockets into railyards at low levels, ripped rail tracks, cars and locomo tives and smashed at other targets in and near Berchtesgaden, which may be the most heavily fortified spot in all the reich. They ran into intense flak and small arms fire. . While there was no official comment on the attack, it was speculated that the surprise strike was directed against the move ment of top priority personnel, supplies and nazi files from Berlin. . . . . . ... "It is supposed to be Hitler's hideout." an air force officer said, adding that if the raiders found railway cars there, "one guess is as good as another as to what they might contain." rne assault fit into a pattern with two attacks yesterday and today from British and French bases by the U. S. -eighth air force on the packed rail yards and locomotive repair shops at Nuern berg, 90 miles north of Munich, the center of former nazi propa ganda spectacles and an important rail junction. The extraordi narily heavy concentration of traffic at Nuernberg led to specu lation that it might be a movement of government offices from Berlin or a Duildup for the defense of Vienna; ' -' . ' - Hitler's retreat is at Obersalzberg (upper Salt -mountain) bh the edge of Berchtesgaden. The only previous attack on the im mediate vicinity (other top nazi leaders have homes in the area, too), occurred several months ago when a force of American heavies hit Salzburg, Austrian border town just across from Berchtesgaden. GUT BY RUSSIANS By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press War Editor Marshal Gregory K.; Zhukov's first White Russian army "tern poraTny'aSrfruhk' rail road and the main highway con necting Frankfurt on the Oder with. Benin, tne uerman mgn command announced today. - A German broadcast said Frank furt, on the Oder's west bank, 38 miles from the capital,, was hammered constantly by red armv artillery and bombers. On the western front Scottish troops have captured Goch, a northern bastion of the Sieg fried line. Other empire troops hammered nazi defenses before besieged Calcar, and to the (Continued on Page Two) John Lybrand Held by Nazis BLY After having, twice been reported as missing in ac tion. Pvt. John W. Lybrand, US army infantry, has been listed as a prisoner of war in Germany. Young Lybrand was injured August 27 of last year, return ing to duty two weeks after that time. He was first reported miss ing on October 4, and rejoined His unit on October 16. He was again reported missing October 18, and no further information was available prior to a letter from Lybrand which was re ceived by his parents on Febru ary 19. The letter, dated October 29, said that he hoped to be getting around on crutches in three weeks. . Pvt. Lybrand entered the service February 3, 1944. He re ceived his basic training at Fort McClellan, Ala., and has been overseas since July of 1944. His wife, the former Barbara Hall, and their 17-months-old daughter, Sharon, live with his parents, Mr. ana Mrs.-u. v, ly brand. at Bly. - Lyband's address is: Pvt. John W. Lybrand, Prisoner of War No. 13001, Stalag VI G. Ger- many. , - U. S. Ambassador Schedules Conference With De Gaulle PARIS, Feb. 21 (fP) U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery prepared today to confer with Gen. De- Gaulle, who refused to meet with President Roosevelt, on the decisions made by the Big Throe in the Crimea. Tho American embassy de plored as "unfortunate" the wording of a White House state ment summarizing Roosevelt's activities, after . leaving -Yalta which said the president invited De Gaulle to meet him in Al giers, French- North . African port. ' v Roosevelt had planned to hold a quick "business session" with De Gaulle to inform France of the details of the Crimean con ference and to obviate lengthy diplomatic correspondence, an embassy official said. It was learned that De Gaulle either wrote or personally edited the statement issued by his of fice in which he turned down the invitation. The sentence say ing that De Gaulle was "happy to learn that President Roose velt intended to visit a French port" was cited as reflecting the general's bitterness at being "in vited" to confer on French soil. Off Algiers The American embassy ex plained that the proposal never mentioned Algiers as such but only a warship off the North African coast, presumably near Algiers. Caffery did meet the president off Algiers. . Roosevelt - intended, embassy officials said, to return to Wash- ingtpn as soon as possible and then make a ceremonious state visit to France and England 'in the late spring after the United Nations conference in san rran- ciscr .... SLASH TDjURFIELD( Devildogs Hold ThircJ Of Iwo Jima, r Make Gains Atlantic Charter Broken In Big Three Decisions, Says Commons Member LONDON. Feb. 21 IP) A crvl of "power politics" and a charge that the Atlantic Charter. was violated in the Big Three's treats ment of the Polish issue were raised in commons today amid reports Prime Minister Church- ui wouia demand a confidence vote next week in connection with the Crimea conference (le- cisions. -. . - . ' ' - - i Churchill iold. commons- that the Atlantic Charter "is a guide, not a rule." . ..-;..-'':.''.. ;if -. i-Kt. " - -Queried He made the statement in re ply to a - query from MauriceJ DIRECTOR OF VETS' AFFAIRS CREATED By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, Feb. 21 W) -;The Oregon house of representatives, which had . been almost . at a standstill for two days, was back to normal today after demo cratic demands that bills on final passage be read in full were discontinued.. In short order, the house then passed unanimously and sent to the senate two bills to create the office of state director of veterans' affairs, and to estab lish a $100,000 revolving fund to buy and exchange lands for reforestation. Both were re quested by the governor.. Rep. M. James Gleason, Port land, one of a small group of democrats who was attempting to force reconsideration of the house-approved bill providing for the office of election reg istrar for Multnomah county, had made it almost impossible for the house to transact busi ness for two days by demanding that bills be read in full accord- continued on Page Two) FetnencK, a conservative, - on whether article two of the chart er applied to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. That ar ticle records the powers as desir ing to see no territorial changes that do not .accord .with- the wishes, ot the people, concerned. Douglas Lloyd : Savory, con. s e r.v a.ti.ve oarty member. touched off a brief exchange on tliewernpjent's'cirelgrr iSolfcy- ...U . - ) i T7- .1 .' i - tary Anthony Eden: .. ivJ. u . .'.'What Evidence?" ' L . ;"in view'Of the fact that Cast-. ern'.Gallcia" has- never beeni'ih," possession '.'of Russia, what : evi dence does' he (Churchill) have that inhabitants to the east of Poland's -Curzon line have , any desire -to5.;be. incorporated into Russia"?":-: . . . .. Eden ' replied ' to Savory's query with the assertion that, the house knew the strength of the Ukrainian national movement "which has existed for many ysars in this territory," but addl ed that the government "could not be expected to have detailed, factual and up-to-date evidence on the question." -;' Churchill is scheduled to give a first hand report in commons next Tuesday and Wednesday on the Crimean conference. . ' . Oregon May Draft Men Over 30 PORTLAND, Feb. 21 (JP) The state selective service di rector warned today that Ore gon might be forced to .draft men over 30 years of age. Col. Elmer V. Wooten told a conference of transportation representatives here that the na tional armed 'forces' demand might, not continue to be filled with only the pool of young men. . . . , . . . By AL DOPKINO " U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 21 (P) Approximately 3650 marines were killed or wounded in the first 48 hours of the battle for Iwo Jima, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today as ha reported the leathernecks mads general advances ranging up to 1000 yards on the island's central air field. Nimitz listed approximately 3500 enlisted men and 150 off cers as casualties killed, wounded and missing. He said 3063 of the wounded have been evacuated, indicating about 600 were KUied or missing. ; No Estimate . , . There was no estimate of Jar anese losses.- Tank-led marines, holding firm control of more than a third of the island, began an enveloping drive against the fighter field, known as Motoyama No. 2. The fifth, marine division by-passed the southern' tip of the field in flanking move, preparatory to striking at it from the west, while the fourth division pushed directly toward the center of thai airdrome. .-' Steady Hail Every yard of the advance wal made under a steady hail of Jap. anese machine gun mortar, rifle and rocket fire over wet, rocky (Continued on Page Two) Pro-Jap Officials, Serve Sentences j NEWELL-The presidents of Tulelake center's two pro-Japan societies, Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi Dan, and Hokoku Seinen Dan, today began serving sentence of 30 days' - confinement in tha war relocation authority project jail for involvement in unlawful assembly.- - ; . -: ... hn. MiimM-aflMLttialwltfaM . from'.jail, they will be oh pro bation. The men, Shigeyoshl Ka wabata and Minoru Hinoki, were) sentenced by a- project hearing officer- after a trial following a laid by - center police on a meet ing , of leaders of the two socle ties.' - v - . . ." The men arrested, who wera in' charge of the meeting, had been presidents of the societies' only since February 11, when all of the officers of the two groups were included in a. contingent of 650 men sent to the department of justice enemy alien intern ment camp at Bismark, N. D. .-V The.-week before , the arrest, the , .headquarters used by the two societies 'had been raided by center police, its contents im pounded by the government and the societies warned . to dissolve. Ringling Heads Given Jail Terms ' HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 21 (,P) Six officers or key men of the Ringling Brothers and Bar num and Bailey circus were sen tenced to terms, three of theih in state prison, today on charge of involuntary manslaughter for the big top fire which cost the lives of 168 persons here last July, but the court stayed exe cution of sentence for all but one to permit them to- get the .'45 show started. -: - Execution was stayed - until noon on April 6, two days after the circus is due to open in Madi son Square Garden, New York. Leathernecks Charge Ahead At Iwo wi-i-w'cy)r - '.'. sf 5--' s ; h - x .5. ' vx xV !? -J:---" I . - -I- ,. . Vs)' jiirfiiiw'ii ',i&..:: '4ms-'S , Marines charge over a rise on the beach at Iwo Jima where Japanese defenders are giving the leathernecks their toughest fight In 168 years. This picture, by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographer with the still picture pool, was radioed from Guera to San Francisco by the navy. (AP wirephoto), : . .- - - ."y-i-ij, - i . . ;.;;,''.