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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
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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
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, 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 . . ;.;;,''.