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mm mm mm It . - ' ' 1 ' : : '' 4 1 Hitler's Hideout Bombed JZChf X. Jw ran TROOPSPUSH BEYOND f J PRICE FIVE CENTS . ! l H Western TANK BATTLE l Ib, RAGES IN NO i mmmzd man's land b Adolf Hitler's mountain fortress at Berchtesgaden. v. lulisn-bassd force ol American bombers. The attack gilr wu directed mainly agalnat the railway yards in P Illane. but first raporti laid rocket-firlna Thun- ill roird across tha fortress Itself at low laval. In The Shasta-Cascade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1945 Number 10398 m ive Smashes Forward (ler Calls for Suicide Fight to Finish by Nazis L JOHN r. CHESTER KDON, Feb. 24 (!) Adolf tilled on ucrmany ,MHr. iinht ond warned whoever Is wenk falls nnd n,rih." In lent this message to n CClCDrnuon innrKiiiK "i" EQUAL PAY BLL PAUL W. HARVEY. JR. .EM, Feb. 24 W'l The Mealed 15 to 13 today a Isponsored bill to prevent lytn irom paying women !in men when tho women lik equal to men's work.' Emcnls or llio measure, irould hnvc mnda It a mis. nor for an employer to dla- ntt against women, ar ftit the bill would not ao Mi Its purpose, would iibor disputes, Is impractl- :d li nebulous. bill's sponsors, however. lie measure would hnvc il Impossible for employ hire women just bcenu.se work for less, and that to In Industry arc entitled il pay. xnatc passed and sent to loure a bill to crcntc a spc- una in the Industrial accl tommlislon to compensate :n who aro Injured a sce nt. The house sent to tho mils to Rive the supcrin it of public Instruction nu ll tnd $26,000 to promote I programs In schools, and We for a committee to f two Oregon citizens as ft) lor statues to bo placed imry nan in Washington, The annronrlatlon. how- u deleted from tho latter Minued on Pago Four) wr Named mtyD.A rtawklns Napier, Klamath j,rI"!,y' nn, becn named i District attorney on ap- ' the Klnmath county Jr will tako over his du dsy, according to Dls- Wtorney Clarenco A. Hum- ''per received his degree t Southern Normal unl- J Huntington, Tcnn. He .fowduate course in the University of Arkan . number of years m southern :Mlsslsslp- P'rcame to Klamath Falls and Is well-known to "i of the profession hero. e pers Strike 2flth anniversary of the forma tion of his national sociullst pro gram, the Borlln radio said. He made no personal appearance, pleading pressure of affairs. Ho told the party old guard: Pleads Fanaticism "The very last ounce of strength must be thrown into the battle with utmost fanaticism and stubborn steadfastness." The message said this was the "only answer" to the mighty al lied blows from the cast and west. Hitler described Germany as an "unshakable community 'of people" and predicted nn "his torical turning point" in the war would come this year. He was vogue on this subject. "Can't Leave" 'Hitler sent a message saying he could not be with' the pnrty stalwarts" s-"my sense of duty and work prevent my leaving headquarters even for a mo ment, . , The German news agency DNB said Hitler's message was read by Secretary of Slate Her munn Esser at the "festive hour held at Munich." "Providence shows no mercy to weak nations but only recog nizes the right of existence of sound and strong nations," the message said. It declared that without the "national socialist reconstruction there would nor thcr bo a German rclch nor a German people today." Donald Tucker Reported Missing SSgt. Donald R. Tucker, 22 son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tuck. or of route 3 box 917, Klamath Fal s. has been m using In action over Austria since February 7, tho war department advised his parents Thursday. Tucker served as lop-turret onnnrr ttn a B-17 Flying Fort ress. He enlisted In the army air corps early in May, i4J, ana went overseas May 15, 1944. Tucker attended Pellcnn City ornrin rhnnt nnd before entering tho service wns employed by the DiGlorglo Fruit corporation. .- .The airman has two brothers In the armed lorcos, itaymona DcCosta In England and Glenn Tucker, now serving on Luzon, tho Philippines. fcl'w-v"-'"- ElnS"5 Production in the C ?,idgo plant nf rhru.in "0n Censor! rf. "... m censnri tr... . .1.,. Ike Ai- out on "Tike urlng of eight em- Ptorliir.il. '"using to ft rK'n ,mc?- Spotes- B 'ho coring." 'ChA whlch began for H.?ktc Production of "Craft m-uc"iDor engines, CLc!nnon, rockets anri LWork reaiir.t C'0 .!'"" of & ituslrltL ,reJected last "'1 Wo mill i WUUB EJwy ink"1 8tl,y out r to, ke over or un- e JXJ, "mmlttce lnvestl , wnole Chrysler setup." Reds Beaten Back Try to Secure Bridgehead in By JAMES F, KING LONDON. Feb. 24 Pi Mar- shul Ivan S. Koncv's first Ukrainian army engaged the Germans In a large-scale tank battle today in the no man's land region of Gocrlitz southeast of Berlin as the Russians assaulted in force the enemy's Ncisse and Spree river lines. Russian attcmnts to establish bridgeheads on the west bank of the Nelsse were beaten back, the German communique said. A Moscow dispatch declared that Konev's troops were bucking a defense system some eight to 12 miles deep in trenches and ami. tank ditches. While soviet dispatches did not fiut Koncv's troops for beyond he Ncisse It seemed they might dc holding several salients welt on the Berlin side. . vvlpe Out Resistance Clearing their suddIv lines along the direct-line route to Berlin, Russian troops wiped out (Continued on Page Two; IKE SEES NO QUICK END TO NAZI FIGHT By EDWARD KENNEDY PARIS,' Feb. 24 OP) Gen Eisenhower today declared the Gormans might fight on even with, small arms.nfter their war plants are lost until the west ern allies and Russians meet "in tho center of Germany." The new allied offensive is aimed at reaching the Rhine and destroying all Germans be fore that river, he said, and it is progressing satisfactorily. But the allied supreme com' mander made it clear that he had no hope of any imminent German collapse, declaring: "If the German continues to show the spirit he has now, there is only one way he can be beaten the allied armies must meet the Russian armies in the center of Germany. . The enemy's loss of Silesia, the Ruhr and the Saar would deprive It of means to carry on organized modern war, Eisen hower added, but even then the Germans might still obtain small arms. "We expect to destroy every German ycst of the Rhine and in tne area in wnicn we arc at tacking," he told correspond' onts. "There is going to be no ces' sation of aggressive action any where on the western iront Last Japs Cleared Lfrbim Manila Area - By FRED HAMPSON ', i MANILA. Feb. 24 (AP) Three regiments of 37th division infantrymen fought from building to building inside the ancient Intra muroi today, clearing the last Japanese from Manila amid tragic scenes of Nipponese brutality. ' Fierce fighting in .this doting phase or .the three-week battle for the Philippine capital bv ( ed a second small island. Bin', to complete control of San Bernardino straits between Luzon and Samar. - Half-starved boyonerted, beaten and raped civilians, held by the doomed Japanese gar rison inside the centuries-old Intramuros during the two-week American siege, were treated at field hospitals, but many non-combatant dead remained among the rubble. , The Japanese commander of the old walled city had not replied to an American otter that, he and his men would be permitted honorable surrender il- me civilians, neia as virtual nosiages, wuru rciuascu. The enemy, appeared determined to fight and die there. Three days of shelling the 20-foot thick northeast wall came to a thundering climax early yesterday. In one hour 7000 shells thudded into the medieval masonry. The wall was breached in two places after this most con centrated ground shelling of the Pacific war. An nour alter tne troops entered, tne tirst oi tne civilians began to trickle out. In a half hour about 30 civilians were huddled near the wall of Letran university. The first civilians to reach safety were 11 nuns three of them on stretchers. Thirty-one other nuns chose to remain behind in a convent.' George Thbnias Folstcr of NBC, terming the Intramuros "a wrecked place-of murder," reported finding a large pile of dead Filipinos, hands tied behind their backs. The Japanese, he said, had .tried to burn the bodies but failed. In the rnrelenting air war, U. S. bombers dumped 95 tons of explosives on airdromes along northern Borneo, 62 tons on Min danao airfields and swept the China sea, damaging four freighters. Land, Sea r Air Attackers Free 2 J 46 Allied Internees By C. YATES MeDANTEf ' MANILA, P. I., Feb.' 24 (F) Striking with, quick precision from the sky, by. land and over water deep into, enemy territory at dawn : yesterday, American troops . and Filipino guerrillas brought relief and freedom ' to 2146 allied and co-belligerent captives' in the civilian Intern ment camp : at Los : Bands, 30 miles south of Manila. 1 ' In writing the fourth heroic act jn the drama of liberation in the Philippines, 1500 men of the 11th airborne division and American-led Filipinos slew the Jap anese camp guard to the last man and-w i t h i n a matter of hours carried ' to safety 1589 Americans, 329 Britons, 56 Ca nadians, 33 Australians, 89 Dutch, 22 Poles, 10 Norwegians, 16 Italians, 1 Frenchman and 1 Nicaraguan.'. Two Wounded Only two of the captives were wounded. In the brief battle at the camp and in the running fight with snipers: wh ich -followed., Two of the rescuing force were killed and two wounded. The attack was . opened when, the paratroopers under the com mand of Col. -Robert H. Soule dropped .directly- on' the camp, surprising the Japanese garrison at its mornlpg calisthenics. At the same time, the guerrilla forc es which had quietly: infiltrated the area surrounding the camp for several days, attacked by land.- Evacuate Prisoners : By the time the Japanese com mander, his staff and 243 guards Marines Are Tough, Even in Stiff est, Bloodiest Battle of Devildog History (Editor's Note: Bonnie Wiley, first-woman war correspondent to : accompany the amphibious operation in tho Pacific, was aboard a hospital ship' at Iwo Jima on D-day plus one. Land ing operations still wore proceed. Ing and the island was obscured by the smoke of battle when Miss Wiley, Associated - Press news-feature writer, wroto her story.) . By BONNIE WILEY .ABOARD A U. S. HOSPITAL SHIP RETURNING FROM IWO JIMA, Feb.. 24 (P) Marines are vory tough. ', . . ' I found that out on this trip a trip that carried the uncon cerned nnvy doctors and nurses so close to Iwo Jima it looked as though I could have tossed a rock onto the beach. ' There is no whimpering aboard this ship where the wounded of this bloodiest, stif fest battle in all 188 years of ma rine corps history are being treated. . ' Even the worst cases are more Interested in what happened ashore than in their own wounds. Many are not badly injured. One group, all of whom suffered only slight wounds, got together on our ship's decks the afternoons of February 21 nnd 22 to .com pare . stories of their lucky es-MP"'- voggone r "Those Jbds acted like a bunch of doggone fools," said one ma rine, who was wounded by shrapnel In his leg as he tossed grenades into an enemy pillbox. "W would toss in a few gren ades and out would come these doggone Japs in a frantic charge. They acted like they were doped. They weren't yelling, though . ii 1 .1 ...a.a hit " T-To f ATI. IlUfc U1IMI HICJ VY. " tinued: . "I dropped two grenades right in their fire trench and they sure started yelling then." War duns Booming Our hospital ship, greeted by the boom of war guns, plowed Into the Iwo Jinta battleground the morning of D-day plus one. Doctors and nurses lined the rails watching flares from the ships' guns of the amphibious fleet and answering puffs from the island. Smoke was blasting tip from hits ashore, ringing the loUnrl lllrn a Snn Francisco fog. We watched waves of marines waiting in small boats to back up their buddies who already made beach landings. If I weren't too dumb I would nave been ier vlMr nfrnM At. first I used binoculars to watch gun flares on the horizon as ' we rieared the little Island. Later I didn't need any glasses. Interruption We were interrupted soon very soon by a new voice blar ing forth on the loudspeaker: "All stretcher : Bearers atten tion!" . '' . Over the side come the shio's first wounded. War is not unreal. These are real men and they are wounded. ..They are : not com' Diamine?. . "Help these other fellows. I'm not nurt Dact," one Deggea, Leaves Stretcher For hours I watched the wounded 'lifted carefully, by' stretcher bearers up the swaying gangway into this white ship. 1 saw one youthful marine, face drawn in pain,--jump off a stretcher protesting . somebody worse off than he should be car ried aboard, "Don't let them carry me. Don't let them, f I can walk, see?" and off across the deck he went, limping badly, but walk ing. proudly. ,'. . - -. 1 seetn to . have ' . made quite a surprise myself.- ' . "Well, I'll be doggonedl" one wounded man called - from- a stretcher. - You . old '. womanl What in -thunder are you doing here?" (Editor's note: Bonnie is had "Tjceri" killed, " amjpHibidus troops reached the nearby beach. es of Laguna De Bay and began evacuating the internees in Om-tracks; The internees, lined up for morning roll call, were quickly surrounded by a defense cordon and motor vehicles rolled up to (continued on .rage, two) The Klamath Billiards, which announced this week it would close its restaurant counter Sun day night, Saturday set the closing date as March 15, it was learned from A. W. Schaupp, at torney for the firm. Hershber ger's restaurant will close Mon day, February 28. Both the Klamath Billiards and Hershberger's are being pen alized bv the UFA tor using meat without the exchange of red points. SchauDD . said today he had filed a petition for review and modification of the charge with the OPA hearing commissioner in San Francisco. Late Saturday ho had received no response from that office. The petition has been opposed by the Portland office, Schaupp was advised by Cecilia Gallag her, upa attorney, wno con ducted the hearing here. - C" -1 nJ 4Ka .B,l..,Mnl. especially Hershberger's, had considered operating without the use of red point foods but had aeciueu against auui a tuiuat:. Nowef Awarded First in Contest " Dick Nowell, manager of the Klamath Falls F. W. Woolworth company store, today was ad vised that he was winner of first place in- the statewide contest sponsored by the United States treasury department during the otn war i,oan. noweu, as win ner in the variety store division, qualifies as an entrant in the sec tional contest which will include Oregon, Washington and Califor nia. . ; ' Nowell's exhibit featured miniature obelisk, replica of the memorial on the . courthouse lawn, on which appeared names of . World War II dead. At the base of the obelisk appeared all available pictures ot tne men. The obelisk was made and donat ed by Paul Fusill of the Carpen ters union, the Gilmore Sign company printed the names and legend, Kennell-Ellis provided pictures and Mrs. Esther Lawler the information. Nowell's prize was a $25 war bond, he was' advised. . The obelisk has been turned over to the Klamath Memorial commit tee. - EUREKA. Calif.. Feb. 24 (Pi- United States army . engineers considering three " alternative proposals to divert, water'from the Klamath and Trinity-rivers were told that any' such action would depreciate Indian rights and might be a death blow to commercial fismng. O. M. Boggus. superintendent of the Hoopah . Indian agency, said the 1500 Indians along the is.iamath river had been guaran teed by the federal government tneir water and fishing rights and that any diversion ' would depreciate, if it did not entirely oesiroy, tneir iisnmg. ' -, - Fishermen OoDose Llovd -Byrne.. Crescent-- Citvi testified at a hearing yesterday that 1100 commercial fishermen along the north coast would .be put virtually , out of business, and many would have to scuttle their salmon fishing boats. i He said diversion would de stroy the Klamathriver salmon spawning beds. . i : Against Diversion Leonard Yocum. Humboldt county supervisor." declared: . "If our friend in Washinctbn has made up his mind - to. take our water to irrigate land in the Central valley so that he may pay farmers to - plow under wheat and little pigs, whjrwe are all against it." evidence and testimony by more - than 40 sneakers from Trinity, Del Norte and Humboldt counties representing fishine. sports, Indian rights, lumberine ana omer interests -in opposition to diversion were marshalled by H. L. Ricks of Eureka, chairman of the state fish and game commission. The hearing , was the last of inree. - . 8th Air Force Blasts Germany; LONDON.. Feb. 24 fm More than 1100 U. S. eighth air force bombers - swarmed' over north west Germany today in a series oi naming attacks on rail yards, oil refineries and submarine bases, as the record allied aerial offensive against the relch con tinued unabated into its twelfth straight day. , v In support of Gen. Eisenhow er's mighty new offensive, rail targets behind the western front were attacked heavily, as the airmen kept 'up their knockout effort against the nazl transpor tation network launched . two days ago. ' - ' K GAINS SLOW GAINS T JnipiGS Devildogs Mop Up On Mr..." Suribachi -.,V . :. r Garrison. . NEARCOLOGNE No Signs of German Stand Against . . , : Drive- ; PARIS. Feb. 24 (Ameri can troops smashed more than four miles beyond the Roer river today, and there still were no signs of a German stand against the huge offensive now within 19 miles ot Cologne and 12 of Muenchen Gladbach. General Eisenhower asserted the goal of this two-army push was to destroy the German army west of the Hhine on this north ern end -of .the western front, and thai he expected to be able to:do It. " He termed progress of the-first and ninth armies "cer tainly, satisfactory. - Prisoners Bagged U. S. infantrymen overran 17 towns and the prisoner toll soar ed above 1400 as they fought forward across . the. Cologne plain. ' Ail ' objectives . are Being taken ahead of schedule, par ticularly north of Linnich on the ninth army front wnere tne soeed of advance showed marked increase,". - AP Corres pondent -Wes-Gallagher wrote tonient worn tne iront. Tnese men were a-dozen-miles or less from industrial Muenchen Glad' bach, and 24 from Duesseldorf. Bridgeheads had been secured along- a 22-mile front, and had been 'pushed more than four miles beyond the flood-muddied Roer. - '.Troons crossing between fallen Juelich and besieged Dueren cantured Niederzeir. 19 miles short-of -bomb-rubbled Cologne. Farther north the U. S. ninth army's "deepest surge toppled Baal, 12 miles from . Muenchen Gladbach: '- '.- .' Line Advances The' American battle line -was being pressed forward over the trench-slit Cologne plain against an enemy who was stunned by the. first shock of the assault. Indian Charged With Sodomy -Merle Malcolm Crawford, 31-year-old Klamath Indian charged with the rape of a 60-year-old Mills addition white woman last Tuesday night, also faced a sod omy lodged against him by Dis trict Attorney Clarence A. Hum. ble today. Crawford. . held in the county jail; in lieu xi $5000 bond, was brought before Justice of the Peace-J. A;-Mahoney at 1:30 o'clock today and again he took time to- plead and his second bond placed at $5000. He was re turned to tne county jau., . In both charges', - the com plaints were signed by V. L. Wagner, city police officer, called to the victim's home by neighbors at the time of the al leged attack. The woman was able to leave Klamath, Valley hosDital this week after receiv ing medical care for multiple bruises, - abrasions and severe shock. - . -y ELMONT WAITE -U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADY QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb, 2i,Uf) Backed by a terrific bombard ment from heavy artillery,' air. craft and naval guns - of fleet units standing offshore, marines on iwo island opened their most concentrated attack of the - six.. day battle today-but were only inching forward against, virtual": ly unyielding enemy opposition-,. The- tank-sunnortedatfack was launched. from the southwestern' tip of the airdrome in the morn ing arid -by noort was making; slow progress,' Admiral Chester Costly Battle . '.'.'.' ." . Terrific resistance from " Jap-' anese artillery, small arms and, automatic weapons made -every- 1 inch of ground gained a 'bitter, : costly affair. . - - - '.' ' :.' The marines appeared, .how.- ever, to have reached' the turn, ing point in their conquest ,of tha island, having taken Mt,'. Suri bachi at the southern end of the island and now being engaged in mopping up operations against remnants of the garrison at that' one-time enemy strongpoint. Unloading Underway, ' "-; ' Conditions on the beaches are generally improving and unload. ing ot cargo is proceeding. .-. ; "'At the 'island's south "tilt. after scaling Mt. Suribachi 10 -sty Lum mt?ir rem , ine marines Bye. tematically dug out Japanese! from pillboxes and blockhouse extending even inside Ihe cratelr of the- volcano. More- than - 700 already have been killed.' -.r.-- "rrrnk ' BLH.D INDIAN DIES a IN BURNING CfvBiri Eli George,, 68-year-Olr! Modofi Indian, -was burned tqt- death laJaV Friday, afternoon when fire con sumed a four:room cabin -on the). Dice Crane -ranch four .miles south of Beatty. - George; had, been employed at the U r a n-a place feeding cattle;, - ;; - - r : George's body, burned beyond; . recognition, - was - found in ' tha charred timbers of the ranch, ; house' just 10 feet from where the rear door had stood. The' in - dian, who was totally blind; was) ? last seen lying on a cot in tha ' living room and it is thought h fell asleep while smoking a cig- arette. The names were-noticed ; at 5:40 p. m. by "Jim Chocktoot but he was unable to enter-tha burning' structure. - " -- :-, The Indian was a' member-, ot ';' a well-known Modoc family. His father, listed on agency records as Doctor George, -was a -medi. cine man. mi tieorge s wife died : a number of years ago.. They had no children. His only surviving! relative is a sister, , Rosella Go. dowa. ;.- , .- -i ..- Final rites will be held front Ward's Klamath Funeral homo at 10 a. m, Tuesday with burial ' services at 2 p. m. In .the Chief . Schonchin c e m e t e r y -.'near Beatty. '. - - :.' - ; . . Superforis Hit Singapore Base f i ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 &P)-i Superfortresses - from India struck- in. force . again today ?-t. Singapore, huge naval base the Japanese seized from the British three years ago.' M Results of tne bombing by tho upwards of 150 B-29s" were hot disclosed immediately- by .head quarters of - the 20th airf orco here, which announced the Taid. ' Celebration Eyed in Honor of First Party to Enter Klamath Basin Area It will be exactly 100 years ago on July,4, 1946, since mem bers of the famed Applegate party crossed the Klamath river just below Keno and entered into what is now termed the Klamath, basin area. . . . The germ of an idea, to cele brate this momentous occasion in Klamath history, was plant ed today by Don C. Fisher, cus todian .- of Lava Beds national monument and long interested in data of this period, when he called on Charles Stark, ' secre tary of the . Klamath County chamber of commerce and sug gested "some sort of a celebra tion." . . . ; . The. idea was favorably re ceived by. Stark," who said he would refer the matter to: the Klamath C o u n t y chamber of commerce community advertis ing, committee.- f. "' J , -':'; Txavala Recorded i ' f; ' History records the travels at the Applegate - parly r and : at tributes much of the early his tory of southern uregon to tnis group of pioneers. The party settled in the Yoncolla area of the Willamette valley, accord ing to Fisher, and decided to organize a group to seek a new route southeast in the event of trouble . between the United States and England. Led by Levi Scott, elected captain by the group, 15 experi enced . men left Yoncolla and followed down through the Rogue river valley what was known at that time as the Cali fornia trail. The- party decided to branch off at Emigrant creek, near Ashland. and proceeded across what is now known as the Greensprings mountains. The Applegate party, includ ing. Jesse and Ivan Applegate, reached the Klamath river on July 4, 1846, and stopped at . a riffle; just below- Keno. There William Parker is said to have explored the river to-see It it, was feasible to cross at - thai point. . t - t ueiebata x ourtn ' In the History of Klamath County, there is a story wfilch tells of the "whooping and hbW taring" of the pioneers in:xele bration of Independence Day. '; . From Klamath river, i tha party crossed over, and con tinued on to Hot creek whera it empties into Lower Klamath lake. There the mem spent : tha . night and tho next morning proceeded along the ridge -ttt the east and from there the pio neers saw a timbered-mountain which is now" thought to be Blue . mountain. 1 . - -- ; . Going .Too' Rough ; '.' ;. ' Us'irig Blue mountain ', as .-A guide, the Applegate party went on to the vicinity of X,ava Bed national monument where they found the. going too rough for the horses. They turned back to the ridge and followed that (Continued on Page. FourK -i
