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Newspaper Page Texti Msiiirn mm . 1 j '. 1 . 4 ft ' . ' - I In The Shagta-Cascade Wonderland March 6, 1948 Max. (March 4 43 Mill ...28 Precipitation last 24 houri Nona Straam year to data 8.9S Normal 8.25 Last year 5.61 Foracaiti - Slightly warmer. $ Sews FRANK JENKINS iNOlnto waninion. 01 nuiiuiwM ..... . Wiishlnuton ore the roughest In America. vou arrivu, j ." . nrf a roller (ho Now ucn noys " .. ii.... ..in.. riiMirlntf it inui ...... nnlrl rntch 'cm a Slay on arrival lhy could 'em dcuci. i mining. Not just sprin- . da nu A11Q WHIIII. and would be er but for the sodden sky. allowing a wan" wovu u" yesterday.' the ia bosstod on Its front k! a robin nnd a couplo of LTrdi. and In Washington ii nne better with a dozen on the front page- fir no war news. UGH the station and out To the taxi ramp, with the iramlns In waves. That a iy they work It here. A 1 nr io drlvo in. atop and fc. all at once, then drive d another lino comes in likewise. i don't, of course, just grab I and get going, as in tho fays, You wait until you na that s nolna your way fcomliig-thcy wcro all going ivy Chaw or Silver Springs lorsetown, or somo place out in mo eciKcs. mono who wcro trying to get to town hotels stood and Id our fingernails. It wns bp moment, because If we Id In tlmo wc could lake dun of tho early checkouts, as It wo, were into we a to wa t for tho noon crop. were lato and waited. Tho thine that is worse than bl for somebody else . to out of a hotel room so you let in -in to walk the streets the grim knowledge thnt ) It GOING to check out. :N the. taxi was finally filled; it developed that most passengers were traveling Scorning here to sell goods fshlngton merchants., Some Shit fact Involved a Jolt of se. It must bo qulto true Washington people consume am wenr clothes, with the uiati the stores of these iodides have to bo renewed (time to time. But ono just minks of it in thnt way. casual assumption is that f come to Washington only somcimng out ol the gov nt. of the lravnllnff - mhn fin t have a hotel rcscrva- ne had been 'routed. In suddenly nnlv .lnt nlalit. pelt that It wasn't worth on ruch short .notice. But fsanptlmlst. He-had -been pll'r jams before and had l manaeed tn wiaaln' his F", : He had antflcs. sot Into Chicago a while wunout a room',",, ho ox Mo the rest of u. "and was full, and running , looKcci lor a while like !omg to sleep In the street, 'cmembered thnt sn.nnri.sn No In a counlo of days jo I phoned hlih . at . his HO filliH hn urn at nUnnlrltyrt l night, and I said: "For Ke don't do that: lnt mo Er.j:our room- ' WIQ.thc elnrlr T urns tlnina with a friend, and he Jat would bo all right but ' Jour friend? I told him looked it up and said: onHca!! t: he has only a JMnuedon Page Four) KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1845 Number 10405 Limited Gams Made By Marines On lwo; Jap Charge Repulsed By LEIF ERICKSON M71U,8IACI,FIC FL,EE.T HEADQUARTERS, GUAM. March 5 (P)U. 8. marines made limited gains In northern Iwo Jlma Sun day and hurled back a Japanese counterattack in which hundreds ot screaming Japanese were killed, Fleot Adm. Chester W. Nlmlts announced today. , Enemy dead numbered 12.864 as of 6 p. m. Saturday, out of an estimated garrison of 20,000, There wore 81 prisoners, the majority Korean laborers. In bloody hand-to-hand fighting the battle-worn leathernecks of Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cataa' fourth division continued their tortuous advance over terrain which Nlmlts described as "natur ally suited to defensive operations." The fourth division is on the eart flank of the irregular battle line. There Japanese resistance has been exceptionally stiff. The fifth division is on the west flank. In the center of the line, driv ing a wedae toward Iwo's north ern tip a wedge that wouia mm port SHELLED RED TROOPS By RICHARD KASISCHKE , LONDON. March 5 (I) Marshal Gregory Zhukov's forces threw the Germans back upon tho gates ot Stettin today. They captured Stargnrd, fortress junction 10 miles cast, and be gan shelling the suburbs of Ber lin's chief Baltic port. Marshal Stalin Bnd the Ger mans announced tho fall of Stargnrd. Stalin snid n string of other points "in tho Stettin di rection1 including Nnugnrd, hnd been occupied in a ninc-mllc ad vance from Daber. Drives Menace Russian penetrations to the Baltic had snnppcd a triple lock on an estimated 200,000 Ger mans caught In three coastal pockets extending 150 miles from Kolberg to Danzig. Power ful new drives threatened to sweep tho Germans out of all Pomcranla In short order. Advanced units already were In sight of Stettin bay. Two Russian spearheads on tho Baltic near Kolberg and at Kocslin have been supplemented by a third farther enst between Kocslin and Schlawe, the Ger mans reported. Brief Battle Stargard, one of tho most Im portant outer defenses of Stettin, was taken after a brief street fight, Berlin announced, by Zhu kov's first White Russian army. Capture of the city of 35.000 knocked down one of the chief obstacles to a direct Russian at tack upon Stettin, under threat from 'Russian forces which had approached to within 14 miles on-tho south and were now in position to push upon the city from tho northeast. Robert Shaw Hurt in Action 'information has been received here , by relatives that Robert C., Shaw, formerly of Tloncsta, has been wounded In Belgium and is now in a hospital in Paris. Sgt'. Shaw Is a nephew of J. R. Shaw,, head of the Shaw Lumber company. Ho received shrapnel wounds. Friends of young Shaw who wish to write him can reach him by this address: Sgt. Rob. ert Shaw, No. 39341007, Co. G, 333 Infantry, APO 84, co Post master,. New York, N. Y. pried Oregon at Anchor In Pacific Island Inlet TEHqIFpI,C,J,LEET HEAD. fiffSLPUAM. March; 5 ime until... -1 Mhe .i .aLS own battle Krt0,rlcd Oregon lies' fehSU" a llttl0 Inlet Kral rccfs Bt a Pacific ;ttiifaivegmC,e8S' M,Wc? ot hero to be r Wearv nlH ubrcakwat. that dasido as worth not fcltvn iuu lno la' drive fl'thlhu.l WIU haPPe" t0 guess. " navy mcn inlaw!?11 Stripped ' Anyl yaC'ma. Wash,, fOndeX odatod Press war, beforo ?fey th0 Oregon Ctha Lw?5 gripped of " mat COUlri hlt ummrt. goS'wi.1 was when tho Wan. m n i. J stripping dock on the Columbia river from Portland, where it had been a shrine. The hull was left on a sandbar at Vancouver, Wash., was later towed to the western Pacific. It carried 1400 tons of dynamite, and a . false rumor spread that she was to bo towed right into Tokyo harbor and blown up. Former Memorial Out here Capt. Ward F. Stlcg litz, formerly of A b e r d e c n, Wash., now a chief staff officer In a service squadron, stnrod at the, hulk and recalled that his daughter Joanna used to save her money to help maintain the Ore gon as a memorial at Portland. The Oregon mado history in a dash from the west coast around Cape Horn in the Spanish-American .wan to join in tho. bnttle against the Spanish fleet at Santiago. snllt the Japanese in two and isolate them on the northwest and northenst coasts is the third division of Maj.. Gen. Graves B. Ersklnc. Tho tired marines, however, could see for what they were fighting and for what their com- ZOSO DEVILDOGS DIE WASHINGTON, March 5 IV) Navy Secretary For restal said today 2050 marinas had been killed on Iwo Jimss but that the loss was not out of proportion to the impor tance of taking the island. rades had died. A B-29, return ing from a Tokyo raid, landed on the-southern bomber field. Repairs were made to the fuel lino and the plane continued back to its Marianas base. . Almost half of the B-28 losses In the Japancso empire strikes from the Marianas have resulted from crash landings on the last lap of tho long 1500 mile home ward flight. Now cripples can stop- at Iwo. Also low's air fields i will ! mean substantially Incrcnsed bomb loads for the sky giants. " ' Compressed Into an over tightening area on Iwo's north ern end, the cornered Japanese are fighting with untamed fury. Marines capturing a gun or pill bo or blockhouse find the gar rison resisting to the death, re ported Associated Press War Correspondent James Lindsley. , Attesting to the fierceness of the day's fight, Nlmitz reported that the lines of battle were "substantially unchanged" and enemy resistance was "stiffen ing in all sectors" and "small arms fire mounting in Intensity." The fifth division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, hurled back the Japanese counterattack. -...-. Making Use of Spare Time and Spare German Shells ""ssesJe" . MMta. ,'', ! i. ' ' ,iMMa "-''u 'ittrtfrtiwimfntl This picture shows Lt. James C. Ellis, right, of Klamath Falls, and Tech. Sgt. Delbert C. Ship ment. Winner, S. D., making ash trays in their spare time from empty German 88 mm. artillery shells at the message center of the 78th signal company, 78th division, in Germany. Doughboys Advance Deeper To North on Luzon Island By FRED HAMPSON MANILA,. March 5 (ff) -r-American doughboys pushed deeper today into the moun tains of northern Luzon, report ed ; headquarters stronghold of Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yama shita, as Gen.. Douglas MacAr thur disclosed that Filipino guer rillas had cleared one entire northern province of Nipponese troops. Other Americans overcame the last Japanese resistance in Manila, continued their east ward pressure to secure the city's water supply area and oc cupied two more Philippine islands. Scores Gains ' MacArthur's communique said units of the 25th and 32nd di visions of Maj. Gen. Innis P. Swift's first corps had made new gains in the northern mountains along the -Balete pass-road, -the Villa Verde .trail and the Am bavabane river.- ; V ' ; Bv PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. ; These ' spearheads were east SAbBMr Mareh- Bii- 'heandraouth-of Ba'gUlo; thd'Thilip' PROPERTY, SMOKE house taxation arid revenue com. mittee voted unanimously today to introduce three bills to levy a 5-mill two-year property tax for building programs for the state board of higher education and state institutions, and to tax cigarcts two, cents a package to give schools $2,000,000 more a year. The measures would be re ferred to the people at a special election on June 22, when other measures submitted to the peo ple by the legislature also would be on the ballot. - Bill Proposed The committee also decided to introduce a third bill to boost . (Continued on Page Two) Logging Crews Begin Work In Northern Part of County Big Lakes Box company of Klamath Falls sent Its crews into the woods of northern Klamath county late last week, and log ging operations got underway in earnest for the 1845 season.' .. The' company, has completed Dresden Wiped Out, Says Nazi) LONDON, March 5 (PP) A German war correspondent said today that Dresden, chief city of Saxony, was wiped out by allied air attacks on February 14 and 15 and that "tens of thousands".' of its citizens .were buried under the ruins. ' "Dresden Is a catastrophe without, precedent," asserted Rudolph Sparing, of the Trans ocean propaganda agency. "The town area is devoid of, human life. A great city has been wiped from the map of Eu rope." " He said that not a single block of buildings remained Intact or capable of reconstruction in the city which, he estimated had a population of 1,000,000 before the raids, including 600,000 ref ugees from the cast. Bombers Assail Rail Network LONDON, March 8 () Four hundred U. S. heavy bomb ers from Britain assaulted the railway network at Chemnitz and oil refineries at Harburg this morning in the 21st straight day of sustained aerial offensive. The eighth air force bombers were escorted by' 600 Mustangs and Thunderbolts which fanned out, seeking German trains and road convoys. About 260' RAF heavy bomb ers made a concentrated day light attack on the benzol plant at Golsenkirchen just , behind tho Germans' Rhino front. hauling some 5,000,000 feet of logs decked at Chinchalo. These logs are now in the pond at the mill here, and will supply 'the saws until March 14,: when cut ting'on the riew'timber' will be gin. First 'logs from the new cut will be hauled into Chin chalo siding, on March 12. . . Camp Set Up . A camp for company employes has been ' established at Chin chalo. - Some of the men em ployed by the firm live at Fort Klamath and drive back and forth r from .the logging opera tions, which are on Rogue river national forest land. . , Big Lakes has operated . its mill on two shifts steadily for 14 months. , . .;, Logging operations which have continued through this winter have had little snow to cope with,' timber men said today. Maintains Logging' -Weyerhaeuser has maintained its . railroad logging at both Camps 4 and 6, moving logs steadily to the big mill on Klam ath river west of town. Weyer haeuser is running two shifts. A number, of other firms are reported lining up new supplies of timber for the 1845 cut. Evacuation of Civilians Begins ' WASHINGton, March 5 (F) General Douglas MacArthur has begun evacuating civilians from the Philippine islands. This was announced today by state and war departments which said that the removal of these people from tho islands would "take place as rapidly as the mil itary situation there permits and as space becomes available" for transport. Relatives of repatriates will be notified as they reach this coun try but no advance information will be given as to time or place of arrival. pine summer camtal. Yama shita, ."The Tiger", conqueror, of Singapore, , was reported weeks ago to have withdrawn there, to direct the "last stand" defense of the Philippines.- . - ' ' Battle Nips Other first corps units have been' engaging the Japanese for days in-the vicinity of Rosario, some 25 or-30 miles southwest of Baguio. , , .. . i ' j1 The guerrillas, under ' Col.' R. W. Volckman, . struck ' in the north coast province of llocos norte. MacArthur said there "ir regular type- of fighting" - baf fled the Japanese, who suffered "extraordinarily heavy losses, running into the thousands.", Volckman, a regular army offi cer, became a guerrilla leader in 1942. The new landings on the Sibu yan sea islands of Tacao and Burias, announced by MacAr thur Saturday, flanked the. Jap anese positions on L u z o n's southern Bicol peninsula. ; Dodge Strike Ended by Union DETROIT, March '5 (P) Pro duction of bomber plane and tank parts was resumed in six Chrysler corporation ' plants to day as an eight-day strike at the corporation's Dodge maim plant was ended. The union' decision to end the strike called approxi mately 25,000 workers back to their jobs. , . v, Direct appeals from the war labor board and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson pre ceded the action of Local 3, Unit ed Auto Workers, CIO, in calling off the strike at the Dodge plant. ' A second major Detroit labor dispute involving 11.150 work ers at the Detroit and Evansville, Ind., plants of the Briggs Manu facturing company continued, but union officials forecast an early end to the trouble. ARGENTINA PUZZLE SPLITS -CONFERENCE ,8y FLORA LEWIS MEXICO CITY, March 5 (IP) Leading delegates Tto the Inter American conference have split over two ideas on what to do about Argentina. A small group has been work ing informally on the Argentine problem, and if was learned au thoritatively that they- agreed on the basic approach' towards Argentina but are floundering for- a method of handling it. , ' '-'' Wants Study-' .''.-.One side wants j.tp appoint, a commission nere to-'Stuoy Ar gentina's diplomatic. isolation after this conference ends. The other side believes that the' matter should be" referred back, to the Pan-American union as, a whole, and debated there more leisurely. A : decision .is hoped for to night or tomorrow, but at any event, the discussion means that the conference can- not . end be fore Thursday, because it seems unlikely that the Argentine mat ter will be put before all the delegates until the small group has reached agreement. , . Statement Set ' .1. They have decided to put out a statement on Argentina, which will make it clear that the American republics await a so lution to come from Buenos Aires and do not intend to com promise with the government of General Edelmiro Farrell. . One of the main difficulties in writing the statement, how ever, is to find a .way of mak ing it possible. : Sgt. Fykerude Dies in Action .Sgt. Norman Fykerude, 27, former Klamath youth who was reported missing in action . in Europe on December 22; is now listed as killed in action, ac cording to word received Mon day from the war department by the sergeant's sister, Mrs. John Tenoski, 1220 Mon Claire. He was a member of a tank unit. , Sgt. Fykerude attended Fair view grade school and Klamath Union, high school during his residence here. He was also a Herald and News carrier boy. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fykerude, now live at Raymond, Wash., as do the youth's wife, Aletha, and infant daughter whom he had never seen. . Three brothers also survive, Kenneth of Bend, Harry of New York City, and Glenn of Ray mond, Wash. United Nations, Except Poland, to Attend Confab WASHINGTON,' March 5 (P) The government announced to day that all United Nations ex cept Poland are being asked to attend the world security confer ence at San Francisco. If all accept as expected this will mean an' attendance of 44 nations. By a last minute hitch France refrained from joining , in spon soring the conference. This leaves sponsorship to the United States, Russia, China- and Britain. France, the official announce ment said, had agreed to partici pate in the conference but felt that, partly because she had not helped work out the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, she should not join in sponsoring the Invita tions. The voting procedure agreed on by Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to fill the last big gap in the Dumbarton Oaks plan also was announced. In substance it provides that a small nation may have the right to bring charges against a great power and get them heard by the proposed world security council even though the great power itself may object. Veto Power 1 However, on any vote to de cide that a great power was threatening the peace, or to take action against that power, each of the five great nations would have, in effect, a veto. The state department an nouncement coincided with Sen ator Vandenberg's acceptance of president Roosevelt s invitation to be a delegate to the confer ence, thereby completing the American delegation of eight. s Ccaptiwe of 4fh LLqirgesft PARIS, March 5 (AP) Fint army tanks fought a mil deep inside Cologne tonight, driving through the Biekendotf northern section within 2 'i miles of the towering cathedral at the heart of the great Rhineland metropolis. . Infantry of the 104th division moved in from, the wast and capture of Germany's fourth city was expected by Thurs day morning at the latest. .Tanks and infantry, moving through acrid smoke curling from ruins levelled by a ' wheel-to-wheel artillery barrage slowly closed in on the old part of the city, .leaving behind railyards and some of the vast array of factories. The Germans, hard pressed by the ninth army . to the) north, had blown up all bridges across the river from Neuss to Homberg, suburbs of Duesseldorf and Ouisburg, and left only one railroad .crossing at Wesel in operation. , Ninth army tanks fought into Orsoy,-10 miles south of Wesel, and shelled Germans trying to ferry the wide and deep river. Other elements moved within two miles of Rhineberg, capturing Lintfort. 'The Ger- ' i . mans were leaving .the Wesel I pocket, which is expected to be erased within two days. A news blackout, similar - to the one which shrouded ninth army breakthrough to the Rhine, was clamped on by the U. S. third army drive toward the middle Rhine and Coblenz, 45 miles away. Tanks and infantry of the first army stormed into Cologne at 7:10 a. m. The whole first army front moved forward - from one to four miles on its front just south of Duesseldorf to the - spurs of the Eifel mountains on apr proaches to the middle Rhine. It reached the Rhine for a new stand just south of Duessel dorf, capturing Grimlinghausen. There they were fired upon by men in civilian clothes a group including 19 Poles, 18 Russians, three Yugoslavs and 18 Ger mans. All were carted to prison cages and uncertain fates. The final assault started in the cold darkness of 4 a. m. Maj. Gen. Maurice . Rose's third armored division passed the. city limits, striking from the north through the suburb of Bockelemuend. . There the tanks were" about three- -miles from the towering, Gothic,': ca thedral at the heart-of-ologne, long the:'mosf:raV9gexFrctly"br the Rhineland. ; l: , - , . : ouse-to-house fighting .was touched -off- quickly, AP:. Cor respondent Don Whitehead, with the first army, reported.1 . .'.."., Cologne .lay under a pall . of smoke. The thunder of battle was rolling across-the city -in increasing fury as the . Ameri cans closed in for the kill on the 11th day of their great drive from the Oder river, 21 miles behind. ; '. Actress' Mother ; found Dead NEW YORK, March 5 (PJ Mrs. Arno Merkel, 70, was found dead in her gas filled kitchen-today and her daughter. Stage and Screen Actress Una Merkel Bur- la, ,41, was found unconscious in the bedroom of their 16th floor apartment. in Central Park South. The actress was revived by an inhalator squad in half an hour. Doctors at Roosevelt' hospital said Miss Merkel would not see anyone. She was expected to re main in the hospital several days. Police said, they hoped to be able to question her in an at tempt to learn the motive for the mother's act., . . - Police of the West 54th street station said the mother had com mitted suicide . and that - th daughter was overcome ' acci dentally. . - ",;.; FOB LOAN POSITION WASHINGTON, March 5 (IP) Fred M. Vinson, economic stab ilization director, was nominated today by President Roosevelt to be federal loan administrator. Vinson thus succeeds Jessa Jones - as head of - the loan agencies handling billions of dol. lars. They were severed from the commerce department . so they could not come under the jurisdiction of Henry A.. Wal lace. Before the . senate con firmed Wallace for secretary of commerce, special legislation re turned the federal loan admin istration to an indepedent status. Former Congressman A former member of congress from Kentucky and a , former justice of the United States cir cuit court for the District oi Columbia, Vinson has been stab ilization director since James F. Byrnes gave up the post. Byrnes moved into the position of war mobilization director. ' Immediate senate reaction to Vinson's ' nnmlnnlinn . - inriii-atAi . quick confirmation. Backs Vinson ;,' Chairman Bailey (D-N.C.) vol the commerce department, who had opposed giving Wallace tne loan agencies, - said: . ."Judge. Vinson is a. very - fine and able man,-and I shall vote for his confirmation." Senator Pepper (D-Fla.),. wha for: a time led a senate fight against President Roosevelt's re cent state department nomina tions, commented: , . - , "I -think . the president has made a splendid choice.- The ap pointment will meet with- great satisfaction in congress and - in the country generally." - Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) said he ' was -pleased ' that Mr. Roosevelt had selected VmsoD Hill Position Taken by Yanks - ROME, March 5 .(P) Amerl. can fifth, army troops have cap. tured another dominating hill position Monte Carlo Croce and further improved their posit tion west of the Bologna-Pistoia highway with the capture of sev eral small villages, allied head quarters announced today. On the Adriatic sector of tha Italian front eighth army units comprised of Italian Infantry and British artillery and tanks have further cleared the forests south of the Po Di Primaro river, taking another 200 prisoners. Capture of Palawan Expands U. S. Control CHINA ' uk'mffi' JAPAN Itaeliiisie j' "l-O&t" A 'W0 V'SrV O f3 """"" i mm rw' ? G V5- , Uj'Dv f ; (mount Distance arcs show relation of newly-captured Palawan island to the Asia mainland and the Japanese-held Netherlands East Indies. Far to the northeast U. S. marines were advancing again! the Japanese on tiny Iwo Jima. (AP wirephoto map).