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Nazis Down UK March 3. 1945 Max. (March 2) 43 Mln ..26 Precipitation Uit 24 hours 03 Straam year . to data 6.91 1 AIM l V 1 It normal 0.1 Juan year .. Forecait: Slightly .warmer. Ii The Shaaia-Cacade Wonderland f bTms CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1945 Number 10404 : s ibi-w 11 vii 11 11 . 11 11 u u 11 r: it-j ii jb 11 if ir iv dg on larines 600 Yards From Cutting Last Jap Pillbox Line Invasion of Lubang Gives Yanks Control Over Sea Route Through Philippines By LEIF ERICKSON S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, March 3 (AP) Only 600 yardi of .! todav between the third U. S. marinoi and the ooint at which thev mav cut ,,t Interconnecting Japaneie pillbox line, along blood-iooked I wo island's northern I - L L.. I l..f. J , ... . f ... . Sul it wai a ruggsa mtwmmn, r anrnaay aennirion. ir uopea irregularly aownwora to which probably will terva at the lait itand for the Japanese, rtwten the marina outpoit and the cliff rum a system of half-underground enemy de- workl wnicn, una omere ins mannas nave racea in rns lair iu aoyt, mutr do raKen ..A wnv. And the Japaneie are beginning to (how fiani of desperation. hi third division leathernecks, undor Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine, lunged forward grdi Friday to selie a 362-foot hill in the northern part of the island, within rifle i of that cliff, and in position to cut tho boomerang-shaped Nipponese line in two, ap motsly ot the bend. Mthe Japanese back up beyond the cliff they will be in the open, between the devil . .. i ti--.. i in i ii i . . ind the lea, ana tny nv ivnyvr win nBTi fna aafaniaga or connecting rrongpoinri u loliriii iiiiuiiivn, .... f flank of the third, nlo (orwarn a nuw itoDDcd for five by ferocious enemy fire, le left of the third division, Ifth marines also advanced, Lt the largost-scalo coun Lck the Jopaneao nave of- n acvcrai uoy. n nnu aspects of a bonzul at The enemy also was be I to be running snort of No rira Reported iljnlflcant feature of to lltet communlquo was the See of any reference to enc tillery fire. t communique aiso report count of 7127 enomy dead nnon March 2. an Increase Us n four days. There have no American rcporia on losses since February 23, communlauo said the liean casualties as of 6 p. February 21, were 84 4I0B wounded ana sou i total oi mvz.. Field Nearly Ready ! leathernecks soon may the sld of land-based com- planes. Engineers ,havc southern airfield, which 'injured in the early stale k Invasion, almost ready jmbcrs and fighters, Artll- ipottcr planes hava been ! it lor several days. h carrier and land plnncs, alter from tho Marianas, neutralization attacks on onln islnnds, north of Iwo, day, and navy search bombed Japanese-held Island, in mld-Paclflc. the day. PULTEPEC ACT By FLORA LEWIS PICO CITY, March 3 OP) Hntcr-Amcrican conference Koday guaranteed the tcrrl- tmcgrlty and tho indopen of each American republic 1 bv thn armiul nniuiip nf Unisphere. i Act of Chapultcpcc, modi. 7 the United States from 'Bjnal document combining ls from Colombia, Uru nd Brazil, was. approved commission on Inter im affairs. '"Wee a Formality u!e by the conference In 7 session is now a formal 1 the i 20 nations particlpat re all represented -On the . Dledcfn 11,111 ' nl fiately when tho act Is . probably at the last mect fMInued on Page, Five) , 'voge Depot Planned F0V ? io Carpenter's lueiiS? plan bcKn I 5:'5 of the main snlvnso n! 3 .Market Sunday day duih Nations and girders have IL been la d and nnti e q!?. on 5s, the need for St8J?,nd 11 hoped by AiiVim"1?8 committee alfeJS ty W,.U be Utilized, n v. iivvu 1U1 Ml. " pudiic use at 'ihSd ?nCpots.have been :omrni ""burban and e St,M and th coun- MarchTi Sf? rch iBU.wl 1 ru" through tig :mm residents of tfiei,cmun'tles should ling 'J' be. conducted the j ' oay, March 18. By JAMES HUTCHE80N MANILA, Feb. 3 lP) Gen. Douglan MacArthur disclosed to day the fourth in a scries of rapid-fire Invasions a landing , on Lubang lslnnd, 35 miles south west of Manila bay giving his forces complete control of the shortest sea route through the heart of tho Philippines to Man ila. The western end of a 300-mlIe-passngc, through which Manila can be supplied and Luzon trans formed into a huge military base facing Asia, was opened by vet eran 24th division troops which seized Lubang Thursday. Resistance Slight . Maj... Gen. frcdorlck.-A., Ir ving's yanks overwhelmed "nog- LT. MISSING ON FLIGHT By REMBERT JAMES ARMY HEADQUARTERS, PACIFIC OCEAN AREAS, Hon olulu, March 3 (P) Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, commander of army air" forces operating In the Pacific, is missing with nine other - of fleers and men in a transoccan flight. Early today tho army an nounced that the 57-ycar-old gen eral's plane was mysteriously missing on a routine flight and tho greatest air and naval search ever launched in the Pa cific was underway. Tho brief announcement by Lt. . Gen. Richard C. Richard son Jr., commander of army forces In the Pacific ocean area, did not disclose when or where the plane was lost. . Ample Fuel When last heard from the general's big converted bomber had ample fuel to complete its flight and was traveling through good weather over calm sens. There was no indication whether the plane presumably the four cnglncd Liberator that Harmon normally uses was fly ing through1 a combat zone and . (Continued on Page Five) Union to Order Strikers' Return WASHINGTON, March 3 (P) A union spokesman told the war lnhnr board today that the UAW- CIO international union will Is sue another order directing strikers to return to work at the Chrysler Dodgo plant in De- (i-nlf . Tho international, said Rich ard T. Frankensteen, UAW vice president, is "unalterably op posed" to the walkout. Approximately 18,700 Dodge plant workers are on lowing dismissal of eight em ployes, and 8750 more were laid oft for lack of parts. 7th War Loan to Ask Record Quota WASHINGTON, March 3 W) Tho treasury is going after more money from individuals than ever before In tho 7th War Loan drive, and tho sales period will be tho longest yet. t From May 14 to June 30 In dividuals aro asked to purchase $7,000,000,000 in bonds. The quota for corporations is also $7,000,000,000. . In the last drive the Individual- quota was $5,000,000,000. The highest previous individual quota was 1 $6,000,000,000 and tile greatest sales $6,351,000,000. liglblo resistance" on the 18-by-elght mile island at the western exit of Vcrdo passage, the 18th Philippines island MacArthur has Invaded. 'This completes the capture of all key positions through San Bernardino straits and Verde Island passage designed to secure the main navigational channel through tho Islands for shipping from the United States," today's communique reported. Cleared in Weeks Within a little over a week, that route was cleared by invas ions of Verdo Island, oast of Lu bang, and.Capul and Blrl islands guarding tho eastern end of the sea route in San Bernardino strait between Luzon and Samar. Lubang was the second island Invasion in as many days. Yanks of Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe's 41st division swarmed ashore on Pa lawan, 250 miles southwest of Manila, Wednesday. Today Mac Arthur said the 41st has complet ed occupation of Puerto Prlnccsa harbor, midway along Palawan's 275-milc-long cast coast and oc cupied a third airfield. E By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. . SALEM, March 3 ffl The house passed and sent to the sen ate today n bill to provide short forms, similar to those used by the federal government, for state income taxpayers earning less than $5000 a year. There was no opposition to the bill, introduced by the house tax committee. Saturday Adjournment Asked Speaker Eugene E. Marsh asked house committees to get their work done quickly so that the legislature may adjourn by next Saturday, the 62d day of the session, but it is doubtful whether the senate can be through then. The house tax committee will meet Monday morning to take final action on the bills to lcyy a tobacco tax and a 5-mill prop erty tax to provide funds for the state's elementary schools, and the building programs for the state board of higher education and the state penal institutions and hospitals. The measures would be referred to the people. Loans for Veterans The house got a new bill today from its military affairs commit tee whioh would allow farm and home loans to veterans up to $3000 at 4 per cent interest for 20 years. The bill carries out tho terms of the one-mill tax levy passed by the voters last November. The senate passed and sent to the house two bills to let courts abate such nuisances as illegal liquor joints, and to refer to the people a proposal to build a 100 bed psychiatric hospital in Port land at a cost of not more than $500,000. Labor Recruiting Gains Reported WASHINGTON, March 3 (fP) The war manpower commission today reported sharp gains in the recruiting of workers for critical munitions projects. In a new review of manpower requirements, tho agency said that as of February B top prior ity war plants needed 167,000 workers. This compares .with a demand for 181,000 on January ( : Model For Monument-? H "5S- ft ' fW f 1 V , ',,V;'? , vfl r fry : "' r 1 Oil J tf J - -- SOVIETS CUT GERMAN LINES ISOLATE ARMY Reds Battle Within Sight of Baltic ; Sea This picture showing 28th regiment marines hoisting the American flag atop Mount Surlbachi on Iwo Jima. was proposed as the model for a monument in congress by Rep. Hendricks, (D-Fla.) He introduced a bill authorising the erection of a monu ment as a tribute to the "heroic action of the marine corps as typified by the marines ... in this photo." The picture was taken by Joe Rosenthal and distributed through the wartime still picture pool. Carrier Raid Destroys 55 Jap Ships, U Nip Planes V. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, March 3 OP) American carrier 1 planes, swept across the1 Ryukyu islands virtually, unopposed Thursday, destroying1 or damaging 55 Japa nese ships and 81 planes, Adm. Chester- W. Nimitz announced today. . ; . . ... That night a task force from Adm: Raymond A Spruance's fifth fleet followed up the daylight raid with a night-long bom bardment of Okino Daito, 210 miles east of. the main Ryukyu chain -which guards the approaches to southern Japan and -the China coast. . ... Bombarding warships were only 350 miles south of Japan, the closest announced approach to the enemy mainland in a naval gun attack on shore objectives. Nimitz said 13 enemy vessels were sunk, 13 probably sunk and 29 damaged. ' - t. . - 41 Planes Destroyed t. . . . . ., . Forty-one Japanese planes were definitely destroyed and '50 others cither demolished or damaged on the ground. . Only four of the total were shot down in the air and Ameri can pilots had to chase Japanese planes to bring them down. Not a single interceptor ventured to oppose the American pilots, which Tokyo broadcasts previously said swarmed over the islands 600 strong. i . The attack cost the raiders eight airmen and 13 planes. .'; Airfields, barracks,, warehouses,' radio, radar, mills and lum ber yards were destroyed in the sweep over six islands, in the center of the chain. : Okinawa Center of Raid The attack centered around Okinawa, frequently hit by Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's fast carrier forces and now almost a daily target of Gen, Douglas MacArthur's landbased bombers from tho Philippines. MacArthur's Saturday, communique told of sinking five small freighters off Okinawa and leaving another1 five in flames. Treaties to Be Submitted To Senate on Peace Plans By JAMES F. KING LONDON, March 3 (Sec ond White Russian army tanks have i severed communications between Danzig and Stettin, iso lating the German troops being backed against the Baltic in eastern Pomerania, the "Polish corridor" and the Danzig ter ritory, the Berlin radio said to day. The Russians were fighting within sight of the Baltic at three places and have captured Kummelsburg and Follnow in eastern Pomerania. Premier Marshal Stalin announced. Both towns are at the base of the Russian wedge. - Pollnow is 16 miles south of achlawe and 20 miles southeast of Koeslin and Rummelsbure is 14 miles southeast of Pollnow. Pollnow is the farthest northwestward penetration officially announced by Moscow. Moscow clothed in a security blackout the exact extent, of the soviet penetration northward in Pomerania, but AP Correspond ent Eddy Gilmore said in a dis patch from the Russian capital that Marshal Konstantin K. Ro kossovsky's wedge driven- be tween Rummelsburg 1 and Bub- litz southeast of Koeslin "has broken the German's line 1 as a line. By -German account. Russian armored- spearheads, cut across the 1 Danzig-Stettin, communica tions, east of Doeslin, seven miles from the Baltic coast. Moscow has -f not confirmed this report nor a German state ment that the Russians were in the outskirts of Koeslin. By- enemy accounts Russian attempts to widen their wedge were repulsed in wild hand-to-hand fighting white Moscow dis patches said Rokossovsky, When he' had driven his wedge as far as, he needed, it,, turned, his- at tention to the flanks. . 1 - , Massacre of 750 Yanks Announced GENERAL MacARTHUR'S March '3 (P) The massacre of ISO American war prisoners rjy the Japanese constabulary . at Puerto Princessa, Palawan is land, was officially announced tonight by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur. 1 11 ' V- ' 1 V In a special press release the general said "additional evi dence" had been uncovered by the .Yank 41st infantry division that the Puerto Princessa prison camp substantiating stories that tne Japanese tnrew gasoune in on the helpless Americans, ignit ed it and then machine-gunned or bayonetted any who tried to flee. . ; " v By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor . WASHINGTON, March 3 (P) President Roosevelt, as a result of Crimean conference decisions, will submit to the senate six or more treaties relating to the general problems of shaping and preserving the peace. - Three principal treaties will deal with establishing the post- Fierce Battles Rage in Italy ROME, March 3 (&) l ierce fighting that has been costly to. both sides raged today along the east bank of the Senio river in the eighth army sector of the Italian front, allied headquarters announced. Dispatches said Germans had taken up positions on one side of a high concrete dyke, with allied forces fighting from the opposite side. The opposing forces at some places were only a few yards apart and engaged in hand grenade duels. Chinese Re-Take Town ot Yungsin CHUNGKING, March 3 OP) Counterattacking Chinese troops h a v e recaptured Yungsin, 120 miles east of Hengyang, and cut the Japanese supply lines to the fallen Kiangsl province air base cities of Suichwan and Kahnsien, the Chinese high command an nounced tonight. Enemy remnants escaped through Yungsin's south gale. - war world security organization, At least three more will con cern tho liquidation of the Eu ropean and Pacific wars. Projected in Reoort The subject of treaties was prominently projected by Mr. Roosevelt in his reoort to con gress on the Yalta meeting. The chief executive said various treaties will be' submitted for ratification but he specifically mentioned only one that deal ing with the world security organization. Here are some of the treaties foreseen by diplomatic officials as inevitable in establishing the peace: Charter of Nations 1. The United Nations charter which would commit the United States to full and active mem bership in a world organization (uonunuecl on .page iive) mine -PARIS, March 3 OP) U. S. troops fought to a new Rhino stand today at Uerdingen and joined forces with the Canadian first army, forming a solid allied front west of the river. Ten miles farther south the Germans blew all the Rhine) bridges in the Duesieldorf area. ' Americans entered Uerdingen, just northeast of fallen Kre feld, and were fighting on the approaches to the fine superhigh way bridge there. The Canadian-American' juncture apparently trapped slseabla portions of two German armies. RAF pilots spotted Germans in headlong, disorderly flight eastward toward the Rhine. The Uerdingen highway leads on to the big port of Duisburg, Farther north another U. .S.-division, was within eight miles of the Homberg bridge near Duisburg. -' Farther south the U. S. first army struck to: within four miles of- Cologne, fourth city of -Uie xelch, by reaching Poulhelm, and . . . - was witnm 12 miles ot Bonn. Passes . Harry E. Pelts,, former resi dent and civic worker in Klam ath Falls, died. Friday in-Ashland.- , ;.. : 1 y E. PELTZ British Dock Workers Strike : LONDON, March 3 OPH-Brit-ish troops were sent into the port of London today to restore the flow of war supplies to the western front as a strike of 7000 dock workers and stevedores continued to paralyze virtually the whole waterfront. The war office announced that' 150 British soldiers had been sent into the dock area and said 400 more -would take over dock duties early next week if the strike continued. - Meanwhile, the national labor corporation said the strike had extended to cold storage depots at Smithfield and Blackfriars which might affect meat sup- piles. Hunting. Fishing on All Indian Lands Eyed in Bill WASHINGTON, March 3 (IP) A bill to regulate hunting and fishing on all Indian lands is ex pected in congress shortly. Senator Morse (R-Ore.) al ready has introduced a bill to permit the Klamath Indians to establish a game code for their reservation in Oregon, jointly shared by the.Modocs and the Yahooskln band of Snakes. It follows generally a bill intro duced in the last congress by the late Senator McNary (R-Ore.). The interior department has told congress it would prefer a statute which would apply to all Indian lands. Joseph C. McGas kill, Indian bureau official, said today such a bill should soon be ready for submission to con gress. Bugs Out of Bill The Indian bureau, he told a reporter, has submitted the bill to state - game commissions and to others interested and believes it has "worked out most of the bugs." In general, he said, it would provide for general regulations by tho interior department. which could be superseded by a tribal code. Possible conflict with state laws, both regarding the authority of the state over Indian lands and the applicabil (Continucd on Page Five) Harrv E. Peftz 1 Sr " 70. for" 41 y ea rs -a- resident of: Klamath Falls and prominent as a civic worker as well as business man and property owner, died, in Ash land yesterday following an -illness of more than two months., Mr. -Peltz- moved -to Ashland recently in. the hope the. change in-'altitude and climate . would benefit his health; He recently disposed of his - property .- here. which included the A u d 1 e y apartments and .the building at 330 Mam street. ' ;; Born . in : Hoboken, N; 1., : on August 31, 1874, Mr. Peltz spent his early years, there and - in Pennsylvania. In 1901, he-came west to Idaho .-with'a group -of men -tn-take ud - timber claims. In 1904, he located in Klamath Falls, and returned .east- ttf many Jennie Wagner, in-.B uf-f-a lo, N. Y., on - February- 12,' .1905. Mr.-Peltz' was instrumental' In bringing Swift and company;1 to. Klamath Falls in 1912, purchas ing the present location of ithat firm. He went , into the-wholesale business for himself, in -1915, handling candy and tobacco. The firm he then established is' how the Pioneer Tobacco company. Mr.' Peltz served a term oh the city council and was instrument al in the construction of -the First Methodist church here;. Survivors include Mrs.; Peltz, now living at Ashland, and son, Harry E. Peltz Jr., of Klam ath Falls.. A daughter, Bertha M. Egger, died some time ago. ; Funeral arrangements will be announced by Whitlock.- v" - Chinese Cose ; In on Lashio CALCUTTA, March '3 OP) 1 Three Chinese first army col umns are closing in on Lashio, Burma road rail terminal north east of Mandalay, and one of them has driven to within eight miles of the city, headquarters announced today. West flank troops hit the Burma road at milepost 11 and smashed three miles nearer to Lashio. ? . The U. S. tenth air force con centrated attacks on the excel lent Japanese road - network south of Lashio, the - enemy's single remaining escape route in northeast Burma. - , ; Williams Plans To Give Battle WASHINGTON. March 3 OP) Aubrey Williams said today he had no intention of asking Pres ident Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination as rural electrifica tion administrator. Asserting he had-the backing of Vice President Truman in the position he was taking, Williams said in an interview: "I want to make it perfectly clear that I intend to carry this fight clear f through.-. win or lose." - Two American armies and tha Canadian army now had a solid. front from Zanten near the low er Rhine bend to Bonn, shoving Germans in ' pellmell ' retreat across the river. - The ninth army, pushed for.1 ward - six miles todav to link; with the Canadian forces. v Give Up Front Buss Munro. Canadian Press correspondent, said the Germans had. given up the entire westers sector facing the Canadian armv front. ' ; - ;' f ... Ninth. army men held a six mile stretch on the Rhine's west bank at and . near Neuss oppositer Duesseldorf where the bridges' were destroyed. . Disorderly Flight .' . - The German retreat in faca nf- swift allied -advances lost all1 semblance of- order, and enemy1' troops were frantically attempts ing to scurry across the Rhine" by-ferries, -small boats and a" few' bridges in a life or death race to escape, a front disDatch- said.- - . , - The Canadians and Americans joined on a road between Gel-, dem and Kevelaer. . One Berlin broadcast declaraA- the allies had not succeeded in destroying - the two German1 armies the 15th and the first parachute army between Zan ten and Cologne. Rhine Crossed- : : There - were 1 entirely , uncon firmed reports that , some U.' S.1 units already had -crossed. th.i Rhine. . . ':-::'.-.-i-.v. - Bridges In 1 the - Duesseldorf area were wrecked as the ninth) army-swept up to the river.-.: -W The spans, including- thai Neiiss: bridge built with loan from- allied", countries - in 1929, were sent crashing down to halt the American ninth army surge at -the Rhine, but their destruc tion hampered escape of German remnants- rolled up in the vic torious' battle west of the great river.- ;- v.: '", The bridges were demolished, late-last night and early today AP . Correspondent Wes Galla gher wirelessed. -. . A Berlin broadcast this after noon ' said bitter fighting was raging near Neuss "for the bridge- across the Rhine." Cap tured Neuss is the western bank suburb of shell-wracked Dues seldorf. . Senate to Vote Tuesday on Bill For New District f SALEM, March 3 VP) The senate voted 19 to 10 today to consider at 2:15 p. m. next Tues day. Klamath county's senatorial reapportionment bill. - The bill was on the calendar for final passage today, but Sen. -Marshall- E. Cornett, Klamath Falls, author of the bill, made the motion to postpone consid eration because Sen. Earl - T. : Newbry, Ashland, was absent. Sen.'. Rex Ellis, Pendleton, whose Morrow-Umatilla-Union district would be eliminated by the bill, opposed the motion to postpone. "This bill ought to-be con-? sidered today, when we have a light calendar," Ellis said: 1 "It is a bill to cheat me out of my seat, and I want to clear it up and get it over with. This bill has been held over my head all week." .. . u . 1 Planes Batter German Targets LONDON, March 3 OP) : While allied divebombers were mauling the Germans along the) Rhine, more than 1800 U. S. eighth air force planes flew into central and southeastern Ger many for the third straight day and battered more than a dozen rail, oil and industrial targets) ' essential to the nazi war ma chine. This great fleet, including! 1100 heavy bombers, first gave Berlin another scare, then swung south over the Brunswick-Magdeburg region where 103 nazi planes were destroyed yester day. . :' " The targets included three fao . tories at Brunswick where- Pan, ,' ther tanks, trucks and oil re ' finery equipment are produced four small oil refineries north east of Brunswick; large syn- , thetic oil plants at Rothensee, a suburb of Magdeburg; Ruhland, 27 miles inorth of Dresdo, and Misburg near Hannover.- - . r
