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TprANK JENKINS
,Vi?m "unusually quiet.
ik.iinved trainman 01
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N.".dl tlo homo front.
toil you know.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. - :': -.