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Newspaper Page TextVs Jews nW" TprANK JENKINS ,Vi?m "unusually quiet. ik.iinved trainman 01 d'6 L'SJf i. HimL n trlfto out N.".dl tlo homo front. toil you know. t mure often r,ol be- W5.tr .o Tfi '.'imIS TOO EXPENSIVE u...,io woro innately Herald Itto In Tfce Shanta-CaHcadc Wonderland February 28, 1945 Max. (Feb. 27) 44 Min 24 Precipitation last 24 houra Trace Stream year to date 6.91 Normal 8.0B Lait year 4.80 Forecast: . Fair and warmer. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 184S Number 10401 r nanongcr list runs heavily 'P";, ,,it cm and ma- tlS k from the j'aciflc, ribbon heavily L,7 T with battle stars ami krea "i. ii, look of men 1U war I IhCV 11 10 BUKJ l uiuw Pler ,nc.y .,t(iv it. Now 1' nt to get homo and find l Together, .aid quietly: I, land didn't used to look fch much to me; now I know ,1, worth fighting 'or i meant H., , lERB aren't many characters aboard, ui" " , l Inn tffrif.int. tlx hash marks on Ills hit, ana iii" j ". - --p- , "leatherneck" comes from firmcnt the cany marines r ut. nu.. II ,-niilH enmo in niw v "- , u. kln. tiroccsxcd and Ihencd by the wind and tho land Uio sun of every zomi. L ii reputed to havo a store Cotch in his grip and to con- r ' I gcnueiiiiiii a unuiv w Ci fu nl 11. taken slrnluht. fl toward evening ho gets In k mood to go places and do Ulf airminKiy nww " -about all ho can find to do 'li devilish Is to head for Liiniir. order a copious meal, land leave It and come back lie later and oracr anoincr. to on until tho timer closes, mint bo a pretty dull trip Um, ... . i . . - - 'Is becoming reasonably ap- rentby this thno tnal wncn war ends we won't bo able rlnj our boys homo from all the world and dust off our li and say: "That that," as Mid Uio last time. t'n beginning to realize that ttohger than we're wIIIIiik to about now American boys have to walk military posts Ivrrthe earth. l( this worm be run right, or anything right, we'ro going to have ike a hand In tho running of Taking a hand In tho run- ol tho world of tho futtiro Is 10 keep a LOT of Amcr- In uniform. til's where the sergeant will In. You don t have to at his tlx hush marks to that civilian life in a peace- world would bore lilm to a hell Dink, Tho look on lice when ho wants to ploy cam unci anybody in tins i lo piny with tells the pirn tha time comes for us ilea hand in the runninn ot ft'orld. ho and his kind will ilht in there pitching and ! It. By ond large, thero be aulto a lot of them In 1130 million people. P train tons the Rockies and pla gently down their cast- ""pes, through eastern ng and out onto tho plains ern Nebraska. All around naian names most of them. yttc parts. Sioux Indian On all sides urn Indian Jiroundj. Tho scene of FrftlBSt Atflnri Isn't fnr fi-nm p Ihla is written. ;io mat wo don't got TOO "uiuiuea on page Two) FOR Returns Home From Yalta Conferences BRIDGEHEADS THROWN OVER ERFTJIVER Ninth Army Imperils Ruhr Bastion of Duesseldorf He Cheated the Japs! t F. Daniel ft in Action N has been received by Mr. Z Daniel, that Li:"'S'1' r'Od unnlol, FHacriniiR u iirn..j i tflB ft. J "U"UU III n February 16. According U - fl willtll WHS If LlufscIny n'Kl't from Par depariment young Don- Inlal . " uuAUIIIUUUIK. el Wd l V 1 if. "erf nduntcd from grado 77 t QCji a M s t Mca nr.es Keep J ca ps Under IFire n Dvo w By LEIF ERICKSON U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 28 (AP) Marines along a line bisecting Iwo kept terrific pressure today on the Japanese in a supreme effort to crack a foe known to be short of water and believed to be husbanding ammunition. After noticeably slackening artillery and mortar fire Monday, the Japanese loosed a heavy barrage Tuesday at leathernecks straightening out their line with slight advances north up high ground blanketed by pillboxes and blockhouses. The marine line, manned by three divisions, cuts across the island's center at the north end of the fighter airfield where tho Nipponese still hold a fingertip's grasp after a week of battling over that base. As the fight for the island entered its 10 th day, Japanese dug in on the higher north ern half still showed a marked power to resi st, although they have been shelled incessantly from the sea, bombed from the ROOSEVELT TO E TO MSgt. Charlea F. Hunt, former Woyerhaeuaor employe, was one of that band of American horoos who fought the Japanese until the (all of the Philipplnos, endurod long captivity under the Nips and finally eacaped. Ho's back home in Klamath Falls on a 90-day furlough visiting his step-iather. P. M. Kennedy of Weyerhaeuser, and other relatives. The sergeant, a regular army coast artilleryman, was a member of the garrison at Fort Drum in Manila bay, U. S. Army Signal Corps photo. Klamath Man Returns Here After Seeing Bataan Fall, Escaping From Jap Prison n Klamath Falls boy MSgt. Charles K. Hunt. Is back In the United Slates and, Incidentally, his homo town of Klomnlh Falls, after a ringside seat at the fall of Bataan, long months of cap tivity as n prisoner of tho Jap anese, and finally an epic escape from a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines, The sergeant is a step-son of P. M. Kennedy, well-known Weyerhaeuser employe, ond was himself an cmnloyc of that com- any for nearly a year ueioro cnusimcni in mc iixniy m fian; lis 10 ROME, Feb. 28 (fT) Ten per sons, including three officers of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's staff, were killed February 10 while en route home on leave when their transport, plane crashed upon taking off from an Italian field, it was disclosed today. Tho piano fell from a height of 400 feet. Clark's Pilot One of the three staff officers killed was LI. Col. John T. Walker, 32, nlr liaison officer ot tho 15th army group, who frequently piloted Clark on in spection trips. Walker, from Washington, Ind., received the Legion of Merit only last week. Tho other two were Lt. Col. John Howard Faust, 32, assist ant artillery officer of the 15th (Continued on Page Two) frines Protest Editorial flying Iwo Cost Too Heavy l FRANCISCO, Feb. 28 LV'ot jail last night sent fcta ,noVy 8horo Pntrl E, 10 'ho San Francisco Ex- iZ i1 Sroup of 60 to ,T Is paying "perhaps too - m casualties for Iwo Wltnn.. ,. h the IK on ?r r'8ht to len rixmincr s Proposal K?rSalMArtlr.be war" u Lmmand in tho Pes nf 'ui. MUSC ho saves hue 8 ow'i mon." faS"f? thwo was no vlo- nTan' Va"sts. William R Sanrini u c,allor of the temort Hearst "ews ly unnCl.tho Hot cd as -",uuii . sum iwo of the leathernecks were closet ed with Wren, but the editor said "no comment" when asked the nature of tho talks. "Wo had a very pleasant talk, ho explained, "and everybody was satisfied. Tiero was no violence of any kind whatso ever." Tho riot call was unnec essary, he said. No Comment Wren did not identify the ma rine spokesmen, but added, I would say that they all were their own spokesmen." No mem ber of tho group wns available for comment. , A marine officer Investlgat infi tho incident said ho did not believe the group would be cen sured since they were off duty and acting as individuals.' "Ap parently," he said,, "they had read the editorial and didn t liko It." . August, 1041. This is Hunt's first visit to Klamath in seven years. In regard to the recent libera tion of parts of the Philippines, Hunt said in an interview: "Wo knew tho Americans would be back somo day but we realized the road would be long and rough." 90-Day Furlough Soon after arrival at the Fort Lewis, Wash., war department personnel reception station, the slight, blond, blue-eyed regular army sergeant wa s outfitted with new clothes, had his pay and records slrnightcncd out and was ready to start his 90 day furlough in Klamath Falls. Here's his story: When Sgt. Hunt returned to the Philippines tho second time in January, 1941, he was certain war with Japan wasn't lar on, In May his wife, Eleanor, was sent back to the States when the government ordered all milt tary families to return. War did come to the PhlliP' pines December 8, when Nip nlanes first bombed Luzon. Sgt, Hunt was with the garrison of Fort Drum, popularly known as the "Concrete Battleship." This concrete fortress, shaped llko a man-of-war, was situated in Manila bay. From this fort Sgt. Hunt could see Corregidor, Bataan and Manila. After the Jnpancso land in vasion of the Philippines, shell' fire was added to the bombs which rained upon Fort Drum, ' No Serious Casualties "Except for concussion caused by Nip bombs and shells they woro 105 and 204 mms we weren't bothered," Sgt. Hunt said. "We didn't have a serious casualty during tho entire bat tle." "They couldn't pierce the 18 fnnt. reinforced concrete 'deck' nf nnr 'hatlleshirj'." he asserted. Tho Fort Drum garrison didn't fire at the guns wlucn woro ineffectually pouring shells on their bastion. Instead they trained their 14 (Continued on Page Two) No Traffic To Seen in Klamath Klnmath Falls has been cited as tho largest city o its popula tion group, 1U,UUU IU u,uuu, with no traffic deaths reported in January this year, according In n nnui rlisnntch from Chicago Tho nation's traffic death toll of 2070 in Januaw wns 7 per cont less than in January 1944, according to the dispatch. It was 19 per cent greater than In Janu ary, 1943, however, when public acceptance or wartime resinc tlnns nnnnrentlv was at its peak, tho National Safety council said today. . By FRED HAMPSON ' MANILA. Feb. 28 P) Screaming Japanese, attacking behind the heaviest artillery barrage in the growing battle for tho Marlkina watershed east of Manila, launched a large scale banzai charge against ele ments ot the American sixth in fantry division today. Tho Nipponese were beaten off with heavy losses. . tnc banzai attack occurred near Montalban, 12 miles north- cast of Manila and close to the northern end of elaborately pre pared enemy acicnses along tne watershed. - '" Japs Entrenched The sixth and the first (dis mounted) cavalry divisions found the Japanese entrenched in a series of caves and inter connected pillboxes along a knife-like ridge, of the Sierra Madre mountains, reaching 13 miles from the foothills of Mount Oro to Antipolo.: Lf rim American Infantrymen spraying liquid fire cleaned out Japanese in Manila's legislative building, but suicide squads con tinued to hold out in the finance and agriculture buildings. Finish Off Job Thirty-seventh division troops occupied all of the legislative structure this morning after a nighttime artillery barrage broke up a concentration of Japanese machineguns on the second floor. Flame throwers, drums of gasoline and thermite grenades finished the job. in tne remaining cnemy-nem buildings, some Japanese com. mitted suicide and others were killed by their own officers as they tried to escape. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an' nounced. meanwhile, the com. plete destruction of the enemy on little Verde island, between Luzon and Mlndoro, and the virtual end of the Corregidor garrison. Escolar, Shark Subs Overdue WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 VP) Two United States submarines. tho Escolar and the Shark, are overdue from patrol and pre sumed lost. The navy, in announcing this today, did not identify the area of the submarines operations. The vessels were of 1525 tons, a type which normally carries a complement of about 65 officers and men. Next of kin of all casualties have been notified, the navy said. air and pounded by artillery. They even have tanks left on the barren island where enemy positions have been raked by the 16-inch guns of battleships and blasted by divebombers which pinpoint their targets. Monday night marine artillery broke up a tank-led counterat tack. Mat. Gen. Graves B. Erskine's third division, which has count ed 800 enemy pillboxes in Its zone of action, inched north ward and westward from the virtually captured fighter base Tuesday. On the rieht flank. Mai. Gen. Clifton B. Cates' fourth division which captured the vital artil lery observation position ol Hill 382, Monday, straightened its line around that promontory. There was no mention in Artm. Chester W. Nimitz' com munique trrtsmorning--of -any gains on the left iianK Dy iviaj. Keller E. Rockey's fifth marine division. last reported assailing Hill 362 which is 700 yards east ot me xmtuwa way coastline. Marine artillery, warship ciins. land-based and carrier- based planes covered Tuesday's slow drive. An observer report ed watching big Liberators from the Marianas score direct hits with 500-pound bombs on pill boxes and "a Dunaing wnicn looked like a concrete communi cations center, E BILL DEFEATED n PAUL W. HARVEY. JR, SALEM, Feb. 28 (?) The house, beginning legislative nntlnn nn the controversial edu cation bills, defeated 29 to 22 today its taxation and revenue committee's bill to create rural school districts with powers to canalize school taxes within counties. There is a chance, however, that the bill may yet be passed, since nine members were absent and only two more votes are needed to send it to the senate. Rep. Giles L. French, Moro, rnmmittee chairman, said the bill would allow all rural school districts in tny one -county to form a single rural district, so that taxes may be equalized. The bill, which would not af fect first class districts, wouia he referred to the people. Citing heavy demands for mnre rnonev for education French said the equalization bill would make it possible for schools to get along on less money, and that lt would pro vide equal education for all chil dren. Commons Defeats Protest Against Polish Agreement LONDON, Feb. 28 (P) The house of commons by an over whelming vote of 396 to 25 lato today defeated a motion of pro test against the Big Three's plan for the future of Poland. The vote came after Foreign Secretary Eden declared the plan would make postwar Po land "as strong or stronger" than in 1939, and after he denied vigorously that Britain had ever guaranteed Poland's prewar frontiers. . Eden took tho floor to fight off the challenge by a rebellious, outnumbered group from the conservative party against full fledged support of the Big Three's Crimea charter decis ions. ' Eden emphasized that Brit ain's dealings with tho Polish government in Londan were the RAZED BY B-29S By LEIF ERICKSON 21ST BOMBER COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 28 (IP) Two hundred and fifty city blocks of Tokyo's most highly congested industrial and business district are in smolder ing, twisted ruins today as a re sult of Sunday's Superfortress raid. Zlst . bomber command headquarters announced today. The greatest punishment yet dealt the Japanese nation's proud - capital was inflicted without the loss - of one - sky giant ' of- the more than 200 which participated in stormy weather. . . Station Burned Uehe railroad station - and marshalling yard, one - of the three most important transpor tation centers in Tokyo,, was in the path of the flames. .Photo graphs show the station, which is elevated and handled about 300 trains daily,; was-swept by fire. Mai. Gen. Curtis (Iron Pants) Le May. commanding . general of the sky mammoths, after studying the reconnaissance photographs said the results were ."excellent." The photos show 29,074,000 square feet of important factory and trade areas burned out. This; is 667 acres. . . - Comparison In comrjarison. New York's famed Rockefeller City radio center covers a surface area of less than 12 acres, l55th of the destroyed area in Tokyo. The ravaged area extends a short distance from Emperor Hirohito s moated palace east ward to the crowded water front. Gains In West REPORT SOON Some Secrets Remain As Result of Confab responsibility of Prime Minister Churchill s entire coalition cabi net. "We have worked as a united war cabinet and, whether right or wrong, its decisions arc those of the united war cabinet, ne said. - The foreign secretary ack' nowlcdgcd that 'the once-warm relations between the British government and Polish group in London had cooled since the resignation of Stanislaw, Miko- lajczyk as Polish premier ana the withdrawal Of tho peasant party representatives. Eden asserted flatly that Brit ain "would not : recognize the new government in Poland which was not truly representa tive" referring to the present soviet-sponsored provisional gov ernment In Warsaw. NETrl "!"" Csvlbv tr. 24 nr C - V J SP. AY - - J t f' ."" X I ! pBW. ,QrarittR v U. S.9th Amy Ct" "" 1 s V s 1 U. J. l3 AmyJ t ' si. via. Tv, yy FRANCE ,x Nf-,snita. By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (P) President Roosevelt returned today from the Big Three meet ing, buoyant with hopes for an enduring peace and ready to re port to congress and the nation. Not everything agreed upon at the already historic Yalta meeting will be disclosed imme diately. Mr. Roosevelt made known' that some secret under standings were reached and that they necessarily must remain secret for a while, although they probably will become apparent in time. . ' Spheres Not Known Whether these understandings were in the military or political sphere, or both, was not Indi cated. As an aftermath of the con ference in the Crimea, the chief executive has high hopes for lasting Deace and a world-wide reduction in armaments. In the weeks ahead, he has an active program of travel and engage-. merits to turtner tnese nopes. . FDR Plans "Back from a five-week, 14, 000-mile-journey, to Russia by cruiser and plane, . Mr.- Roose velt planned: A report in person to congress and the -country, tomorrow at 9:30 p. m. (PWA), on tne meet ings at which he, -Prime Minis ter -Churchill and premier ala lia blueprinted "final defeat' of a "doomed" Germany and strong machinery for perpetuat ing eventual -peace. V. An appearance at a United Nations conference opening in San Francisco April '25. As offi cial host, Mr. Roosevelt ' prob ably will welcome, and address the deleeates. Another of his periodic meet ings with . Churchill, after tne San Francisco parley has" fin ished its worK. The urmsn fre quently have suggested. that. the president visit x,onaon. -Arrived Tuesday Mr. Roosevelt came ashore at an east coast port last night and reached Washington this morn ing by special train. He left here (Continued on page two; Roosevelt Signs George BUI WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (IP) President Roosevelt has cleared the way for a cabinet post for Henry A. Wallace by signing the George bill into law. The White House disclosed to day that the president signed the measure at sea last Satur day. . - The legislation separates the huge federal - lending agencies from the commerce department PARIS. Feb. 28 (JP) Firs army tanks and infantry battled within six and a half miles o -Cologne tonight after throwing three bridgeheads across tha Erft river. Only flat plains lay ahead to the great city on tha Rhine. Wide ninth army sweeoi through disordered German re sistance imperiled the Ruhr ad ministrative center of Duessel dorf, already in artillery range. Jig is up Germans west of the Rhino realize the jig is up and are withdrawing their artillery," a ninth army officer said at dusk. In the center. Jbt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army captured the military highway, center of Bitburg the "Bastogne of Ger many." .Third army tanks were curling about ancient Trier in an encircling threat. The Germans retreated across" the . Rhine plain before the massed and growing might of the American first and ninth armies' in the biggest breakthrough since Normandy a retreat which was virtually a rout. Swift Canadian advances in the north imperiled the smaller German Rhineland bastion of Xanten, only six miles across the Rhine from the Ruhr city of Wesel. Xanten is beyond tha Hochwald where the third and last of three Siegfried chains pro tect the great industrial Ruhr. . A junction of tne uanaaiart and ninth armies, less than 29 miles aoart. might trap 15 of Germany's best divisions. .Duesseldorf was wnnm la miles or less from the ninth armv. which had outflanked and by-passed the westernmost Ruhr. city of Muencnen uiaaDacn ana. entered its suburbs. The first army crossed tha Erft - near Modrath, 81 mile southwest of Cologne, and en-, countered somewhat heavier re, sistance east of thie river. . The ninth army also met some) King Tiger : tanks in the on slaught toward the Rhine. Th rigid news blackout on the ninth army front still was being ert. forced tonight. ; -; NEUSTETTIiM TAKEN LONDON, Feb. -28 (ff) Th second "White Russian army driving toward the Baltic has; captured Neustettin, ' Marshal Stalin' announced tonight, and Berlin said it had raced on 30 miles northward to Pollnow, within 15 miles of severing tha escape road of nazis battling in eastern Pomerania and the Pol ish corridor. . The. Germans earlier an nounced evacuation of Neusteb tin. .' ... Stalin's order of the day alsei proclaimed capture of Prechlau, 15 miles northwest of the Pol ish corridor town of Chojnice. - Pollnow is 12 miles north of Bublitz and only 20 miles from the Baltic. It is 15 miles from the coastal railway connecting Danzig with Stettin. -' A transocean broadcast from Berlin said the Russians had reached Pollnow and a military spokesman called the break through in that area toward Koeslin "the most dramatio event of the last 24 hours." . The rushing Baltic-bound red army vanguards were constant ly covered by the red fleet, tha spokesman said. Map-makers are having a tough time in keeping up with advances of allied armies on the western front, and gains have been made into the . shaded area Indicating German holdings. First army troops are now 6)4 miles from Cologne and ninth army troops imperil the Ruhr center of Dusseldorf. Klamaths Ask Distribution Of Funds in U. S. Treasury Delegates of the Klamath In dians are asking the government to permit a per capita distribu tion of $1,550,000 from funds already credited to the Indian's in the U. S. treasury, tho money to be used in stimulation of agri culture, industry and other con structive activities on the reser vation. i - Klamath chamber of com merce directors today discussed the proposal and voted to ask the Oregon congressional dele gation to give sympathetic con sideration to the request of the Indians. Delegates of the Klam ath tribes will take up the mat ter in Washington in the near future, seeking congressional action. Would Get $1000 Under the proposal, the 1550 Klamath Indians would receive $1000 each, a share-anoVshare-alike among the enrolled mem bers of the tribe. . The last gen eral distribution of this nature, exclusive of the regular timber payments, was from the yamsay judgment in the late 'thirties. . In their proposal, the Indians ask that the disbursements from the funds be made under such regulations as may be deemed desirable and necessary by tha commission of Indian affairs, the secretary of the interior, and the Klamath general council.-. . Investment Purposes Purposes for which it is pro posed to invest the money in clude development of high grade breeding stock, both cat tle and horses; new farm equip-' ment; new dwelling units, re pa i r s and improvements ta ranch and farm buildings, well drilling, fences, waterworks, sewer systems, home equipment, health improvement, etc. A financial statement from the tribal council shows the Klamaths with a total of $3, 054,000 annual income and cash on hand for 1945. This includes $1,900,000 iri the U. S. treasury, and $1,000,000 estimated from timber sales. - The proposed $1000 distribu tion would be in addition to the regular per capita payments from timber sales, which would total $608,000 at the rate of $400 per capita. - :': -.