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Newspaper Page Textju Firm Mo I dl WW ra March 8, 1945 . ! In The Shaaia-Cancadc Wonderland Max. (March 7) 42 Min 34 Proclpltatlon for last 24 hourt .11 Straam year lo data 7.25 Normal 8.36 Last yaar 5.90 Foracait: Clear tonight and Friday. PTrjyE CENTS av'slews KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAyI'mARCH 8. 1945 r rnANK JENKINS I'B jUSIKcto Hint poor Henry ,. On tho day when con. .lion by tho senate of lilii ' . T in be secretary of C w oxpuctcd to bo i1-' . ..... .... II... linmn front. Lldcnl Roosevelt return from bmH 11(1111 i-nnuo iu tnu Li of congress nsscmblcd In K ....Inn wlmt turns out lo , surprisingly conclllutory friendly message. I. . ri.nlt. Iho Wnllnco con- V . ... .w.l.n tl.n frnnl hiuon unruly iwiwi ...v L i he evening tinners. In W' - .. , -. - , - j ft ol Ihcm H i lucKca uwny in incuiiiii-"u"i n bclowtlie fold. ERE In Washington, which Is the home ouico oi mo nil 's leading polillcal experts, . it wlrlo variance of opinion to'sllaco's nclmltledly sturlllng itnotlon us secretary oi tuiu- tec, wmcn oy mini i , mcnt 18 l one pimmuiHi Inet post, wllh Iho exception wrefnry of tho treasury, he !!t qualified to fill with dla lion. two arc several schools of jjht on the subject. One, th Includes the bulk of the in and the hard-boiled anti- !vcltcrs who can sec no pos t ray of hope In anylnlne President docs or ever mny holds Hint it was the first e ol another drive td the (-probably a gehemo to use big government lenuini; Mm hitherto anthcrcd to la- In Iho department of con- L ai o jpenrhend of reckless King to MKC il away irqm ki who have and glvo It to kwho have not his crowd s enthusiasm tor GcorRC bill (now sinned by IRI. which removed tho big Uini necnclcs from tho depart- lit ol congress and so took In out of the Wnllnco orbit, is Iprrcd by tho sobering knowl- Mint after all the president Iho opiiolntlve power nnd so pick the mnn who will head fcc agencies in whatever scl Ithcy may be placed. Ho may, curse, hove another squabble Lh the senate when It comes to Urination, but history leaves 'ontlnucd on Pngo Thirteen) tores Snapp a in Crash rlERRILL Cnl. C h 0 r 1 e s inard Snnpp, 20, son of Mr. I Mrs. Ervln Snapp, of fill, and one of their five i In Iho service, was one of a w ol nine men killed In tho to ol a Liberator b o in b o r 'd at Mountain Home, Ida., urdny, 'oung Snapp, who served as iwwr on the B-24, was ro- missing Saturday and ms ath confirmed In n mnssnifo to the wnr department Wed- pay nftorimnn ftmalns of Ihc'airmnn will be I Id Klnmntll Fnllo nnrt finnl f! will probnbly bo hold from poicariy next weeK, Mrs. PD lUllH llirlnv Turn nlhnr I1 will be here for the scrv J5 Chester Snapp of Camp lc, Cnllf., and PFC Ursal PP ol Pueblo, Colo. sons, sgt, Wilbur Snapp, Hawaii, mifi Bert n..nM n fffi'J0 ,n France, are broth- L mo nirmnn ns Is Lowell, Wont at Morrill high school. ."""hp ininny nns lived in years. " 'f. Chnsloi- cnnn ' ...in Am.. . " unvuu will nv- pwwher husband here. Number 10408 Russians Hit 25 Miles From Nazi Capital LONDON, March 8 (IP) The Runl.ni have driven to within 25 miles of Berlin's city limits, outflanking the fortress of Kuestrin and reaching Seelow on tho west side of the Oder, a Transocean broadcast from the German capital said today. Seelow is directly east of Berlin and is 12 miles west of the Z.V.I " 11 J"L ,ho. m,m "llwy skirting the Oder which connects Stettin and Frankfurt. Marshal Gregory Zhukov's massive new offensive, timed with the allied drive to the Rhine, 321 miles to the west, also has reached a point 29 miles from Borlin northwest of Kuestrin, Berlin roported. Transocean said Seelow was reached from the Russian bridge head at Goerlits. between Kuestrin and Frankfurt, and said ter rific fighting was taking place in the area, with many places changing hands repeatedly. Eighty miles west oi Dansig near the Baltic coast, the Rus sians captured the railway center of Schlawe, a town of 8000, the Germans said. Schlawe is 22 miles northeast of Koeslln. , IS JAPS FURTHER BACON 11 By MORRIE LANDSBERG AUOARD ADM.. TURNER'S EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FLAGSHIP OFF IWO JIMA, March 8 (P) (Via Navy Radio) Marino Infantrymen compressed Japanese Into a narrow crescent on northern Iwo today In the fi nal stages of tho long, bloody campaign to conquer this olr stepping stone to Tokyo. boftcned up by tho shattering artillery bombardment the day before, enemy troops yielded on all fronts yesterday. In the northern central sector the Jap anese wero forced to withdraw into their caves at times ns they sought to throw back the oncom ing third division In hand to hand combat. Suicide Charge A Yank tank battalion report ed Japanese made a suicidal chorgc on armored vehicles oper ating with the third division, at tacking suddenly with explosive charges mounted on the ends of long poles. Tankmen said it failed completely. No tanks were damaged, they reported, nnd "a considerable number" of Japanese were killed. Spilt Looms The three leatherneck di visions threatened to split tho re maining enemy force of several thousand men by a .coordinated drlvo in an effort , to bring the 18-day-old operation to a success ful conclusion. Tho fifth division, on the northwest side of tho Island, od- (Contlnued on Pago Thirteen) Moscow maintained silence on these sectors. However, Marshal Stalin an nounced In an order of tho day the capture of. tho Polish town of Koscicrzyna, 29 miles south west of Danzig, and the Pomcr nnian rail Junction of Buetow, 20 miles west of Koscicrzyna. (Continued on Page Thirteen) BANG'S DISEASE EA Recent tests indicate that Bang's disease, cause of un dulnnt fever, affects less than one per cent of the dairy cows of the Klamath Falls mllkahed, it was stated by Dr. J. C. Hunt, city milk and meat inspector,- in an address before the Kiwanls club Thursday noon. Dr.' Hunt described the de termined effort made here sev eral years ago to eliminate Bang's disease, and said there was a heavy slaughter of re actors at that time. Since then, tests have shown the area to be safely free from the disease. Few Such Records . Dr. Hunt also said that few If any similar cities in the northwest could claim such a high percentage of milk pasteur ization as Klamath Falls. All milk sold here except about 20 gallons a day is pasteurized. Pasteurization is complete for milk used In Ice cream, cottage cheese and butter, he said. The speaker praised the local dairies and creameries for their cooperation in helping raise milk standards here, as well as the farm dairymen. . . Long Fight E. B. Hall, chairman of the city .health board, told of the long fight to improve both milk and meat inspection here and praised Dr. Hunt for , his work, which covers food products sold (Continued on Page Thirteen) A Chicken For Every Pot! Coogne Example of Reich Suicide Plan, Says Writer Bv LOUIS P. LOCHNER COLOGNE, March 8 (P) After taking Inventory of what remains of cologne ana oiner Inosnr finrmnn cities captured by tho allies, the conclusion is in escapable that Afloir niiier nas committed the relch to national suicide. , , , . I have Just completed my first detailed tour of Cologne's down turn iptlon. It was a sorry sight on this bleak, cold day. Colognes wait uc"i rides Kepi From Grooms !'' lough, but sometimes It happens! . , It lltnH U ,. .... 1 - n, Ia .nnnrnln L-i.-""' ue un oici DacK-couniry cusium iu "f a. ilU1(I rom n "'olr wedding night. ' "I tin Ilrtcin... T-T t it., tt c ivin vl im TlorrnfUi it IS a IS sometimes. - ' . i-m. wiison L. Brown Jr., officer In charge ol me iiosiess lamhfti. , WlUUBIl n, Ji, lllUllian n. mu IbmuLi 1 COIT1norco that the housing prooiem 5 so acute that It Is necessory to ac 'modato wives of service men only their iZ usl slcP tho Barracks. ivm 1 ncw'y-weds have been separated In Thnu Bccornniodnto everyone. - .mnifiGq Mmien hn. J'J i-nnmo w in nminiu fa,, 11 rcstnnrnnf nn .nnj- ksi.' PnotntYinrll v. soldiers and CirAi "' Mccommoaoiea lor a iiv.-uy h"-.'""- . JJfdlnarily this should bo time enough to make more 'Snont arranKomnnts. . ..: h. u 11,0 shortage of available places of residence, lately h omo compulsory for wives to share rooms at the vm "?u t maKe room tor mem an. v period they are still there. . . i!J ." Slark of tho chambor of commorco appeals to tZot rpntal units to list vacancies at the chamber of cony B s h "n.as.thoy. know here wm be i any. . . .. . Hn i 7 aro again urged to rem, unuouu .uu... . 10 wives of service men. Untcr Sachsenhauscn, exists no more. The proud structures of the Reichsbank, Dresdener bank, Dlskonto .Gesellschaft and other' financial institutions are burned out shells. The main postoffice directly opposite these banks is In far worse condition than the postoffice in ruined Aachen. Exchange Kaput The telephone exchange is a wreck "completely kaput (fin ished)," is tho way it was de scribed by Lt. Col. Robbing P. Crowell of Washington, D. C, AMG telephone specialist. "It's far worse than Aachen," Crowell added. The large modern Insurance company buildings have taken terrific beatings from the air, none can be used without com plete overhauling. Dynamite Found Large Quantities of dynamite were found within the structures. A woman who emerged from a nearby basement explained bit terly:' "The gestapo swine Intended to blow up all those buildings. What did they care that many of us had been living in the cellars. . When ... the American soldiers came they ran away and nover paused to blow the build ings up." Not even the residents in the western part of Cologne are awaro of the full extent of the damage in the "Aldstadt," or old part of the city because of the complete breakdown of trans portation facilities in the urban area. These day-old chicks were hatched at the Oregon State Hatchery which was opened here just six weeks ago. They are waiting to be shipped to distant points. (See story on page 3). Southern Shores of Luzon Reached by American Units By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ MANILA, March 8 VP) U. S. troops were on the southern shores of Luzon for the first time today as other Yanks, east of Manila. Inched forward against ' Japanese positions soft ened by the heaviest air striKes thus far used in support of ground action in the southwest Pacific. While American bombers sweeping China sea shipping sank or damaged two warships and 16 freighters, 11th airborne divisions - and 158th infantry units, penetrated to the south coast of Luzon Tuesday to cap ture Balayan and Calatagan at Balayan bay. They met only scattered re sistance. Balayan bay, in. Batangas E VET BILL OKAYED By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. SALEM, March 7 (P) Bills to create rural school districts to equalize school taxes and to set up the machinery for county manager form of government won house approval today and went to the senate, while the senate completed legislative ac tion on a measure creating the state department of veterans af fairs. The school equalization meas ure, which would be referred to the people, would provide one school district for each county, but first-class districts would not be included. House Defeated Bill The vote on tho bill was. 32 to 26, only one more than the 31 votes necessary to pass it. Last week the house defeated it with 29 votes for and 22 against. The opponents objected to counties being forced to adopt the plan. There were only three votes against the county manager bill, which is carrying out the terms of a constitutional amendment approved by the people last No vember. The bill provides that 10 per Corneft Bill Introduced .... SALEM, March 8 (VP) Sen. Marshall E. Cornett, Klamath Falls, Introduced a proposed constitutional amendment today to increase the number of sen ators from 30 to 31. With it, he introduced a bill to give the new senator to Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson and Lake counties. This bill would not become effective' unless the people approve the constitution al amendment. The four counties, with Klam ath, now comprise the 17th dis trict for which Cornett is sen; ator. . ' ' Cornett lost his effort two days ago to split his district into two, and to eliminate the 19th district (Morrow, Umatilla, Union) represented by Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton. province, Is on the Important Verde island passage between Luzon and American-held Min doro island. It is " about 50 miles south of Manila. , A good road skirts-.; most of "the bay coast. In the bitterly-contested "Mar kina watershed area east of Manila, heavy bombers, attack planes and dive bombers drop ped more , than 900 tons of ex plosives on the elaborate Jap anese entrenchments which have held the Yanks virtually stale mated for weeks. Record Support This was a mightier assault in support of ground operations than that given the 503rd para troopers on Corregidor or any other major objective from the Philippines to New Guinea. Bombers of all sizes made more than 75 sorties. Despite this record pounding the first cavalry division under Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge and the sixth infantry division of Maj. Gen. Edwin D. Patrick found the going tough along this mountainous Shimbu line between Antipolo and Wawa. ENTER MANDALAY By JOHN GROVER CALCUTTA, March 8 (IF) Spearheads of the; British 19th, division plunged into the north ern suburbs of Mandalay today, and in their 14 mile dash south ward from Madaya to Mandalay, Indian troops of the British di vision bypassed a considerable number of Japanese. These enemy groups appear dazed and bewildered and 'are scheduled for later elimination. Chinese troops 130 miles north east of Mandalay smashed two miles through Japanese defenses and occupied New Lashlo and its railway station, establishing allied control of . the entire Burma road from Lashio to Kunming. The Chinese had cap tured old Lashio yesterday. Plans Disorganised Enemy battle plans apparently have been disorganized by the British dash across the Irra waddy river ' valley; to the Meiktila area, an operation which has threatened the Jap anese rear communications. : Unless the Japanese can bring (Continued on Page Thirteen) Flood Waters Inch Close To Dike Tops Along Ohio PORTSMOUTH, O., March 8 (VP) Flood waters inched closer to tops of dikes in this Ohio river city, bu elsewhere along the 1000-mile valley floods near cd or passed their crests and at some points were beginning to subside. The army brought combat tac tics into play to keep steadily rising waters of the Ohio and tributary Scioto rivers from gushing over Portsmouth flood walls. Supplies to Drop ' .More than 25,000 empty sand bags were loaded on trucks at Cincinnati, to be sped to an air base at Wilmington, Ohio. From there C-47 transports would drop them to soldiers and volunteers Who have waged never-ceasing battle to erect earthworks and sandbag barriers atop existing flood barriers. The river here was past the 64-foot stage, two feet higher than the city's flood wall. It was being held back by the hastily erected barriers. River Forecaster George Marth said the crest here would be reached at 64.5 feet late today. Louisville expected a crest of Son of Pastor Reported Missing The Reverend and Mrs. A. 1 Dwight of the First . Covenanl church have received word that their son, Sgt. Norman E. Dwight of the army air corps, has been missing in action from operations over Germany since February 13. .- The" 21-year-old youth was an engineer and gunner on a B-26 stationed in France. Dwight en listed in the army -air corps in June of 1943, and reported for overseas duty in November of the following year. 47 -to 47.5 feet, tonight or to morrow and forecasters said the high point would remain sta tionary for about 24 hours be fore receding. The Ohio reached a crest at Wheeling, ' W. Va., 11.3 feet above flood stage and upriver at East Liverpool, Ohio, the water started ebbing at the rate of .2 foot an hour. Secured by First Aruray PARIS, March 8 LAP) Th American first army created the Rhine south of Cologne lost night and secured a firm footing today on the east bank of the great German barrier stream. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges poured more and more in fantrymen across the river after his sudden and sensational crossing in darkness. The exact location of the bridgehead over the quarter-mile-wide river was shrouded by military censorship because the Germans obviously did not know the exact situation. v The crossing started at 4:30 p. m. yesterday. In the hours since then, a steady stream of men and materiel have been pouring onto the eastern bank and moving forward in a drive to get the beachhead out of range of enemy artillery. (Cologne is in about the same latitude as Newfoundland, and the days at this season are extremely short). During the first 24 hours, ' there was little artillery or mortar fire on the beachhead, indicating the enemy was in confusion when he fled back across the river from the ashes of Cologne before Hodges' hard-driving divisions. Gen. Eisenhower was known from the start of the current campaign to want a bridgehead across the Rhine as quickly as possible, because he felt that a crossing would shorten the war in Europe by weeks. i. The swift crossing gave the Germans no time to reorgan ize or improve defenses east of the Rhine, far beyond the shattered debris of the Siegfried line. It constituted Field Marshal Von Rundstedts greatest defeat since the landing in Normandy. :' . i! Strangely, the Germans who customarily have announced transcendent military developments before either the western or eastefti allies,; still were silent about the Rhine crossing. ' The fact that s u p re m e headquarters used the word "bridgehead" ' in announcing the ' crossing indicated vthat Hodges' infantry had secured a good, solid grip. In military parlance, a bridgehead it established only after it has been expanded sufficiently; for; the crossing to be out of direct short range. fire.. ; . The Rhine crossing ywat the first by any army fiahtina rj-iis way eastward since tne aayt oi napoieon. . . . The surge from the Roer river' ; which started February 23 hacj developed such momentum that.' the Germans' along a 200"-mile, front from .Holland to the Mo selle either were routed, in con fusion, or fighting for their very lives. '. The Rhine crossing apparent ly was an amphibious ODeration second only to the .crossing of me cnannei. All live Khlne bridges -were down in Cologne itself.- Wide River -The grey-green Rhine is 1300 to-1700. feet wide at Cologne and 1320 wide at Bonn and n e v e r narrower, between, the cities. ''..'. . . The Canadians oh trie flood ed lower. Rhine were known to be using Alligators, Ducks and Buffaloes water-going tanks (Continued on Fage Thirteen) HEMS POLISJpiTi WASHINGTON, March 8 -(VP) Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) declared today that the. three nower . committee . meeting . - in Moscow must - set' up ."a truly representative " Polish coauuon government if it . is to be supt ported by. the United States. . Vandenbersr. a delegate to 'the April 25 ; world security confer- euce, gave uic acuic..iw .. . plete approval" of a: warning voiced bv British Foreign Min ister Anthony. Eden to' the Lublin government against persecution of supporters of the London exile government. Acta let is One of the "acid tests" to be applied to the new-Polish gov ernment, the Michigan senator told colleagues, would be wheth er it furnished a home and coun try to the Polish troops' which fought with the allies.at Cassino in Italy and are iigming on me European-front. v '- At best, ne: saia u vwas a. rurious nrocess" for. American, British and Russian representa tives with no. Poles present to sit down in Moscow and at tempt to constitute a provisional Polish government. - , There is no escaping tne tact, Vandenberg coninued, that the treatment accorded Poland wm be looked upon by other small nations as Indicative of their fate. 1 ' Emphasizing the- "dreadful proportions" of the Moscow de (Continued on Page Thirteen) Yank Soldier Hanged for Murder of English Cabbie; Crowd Protests Sentence Bv BARBARA WACE LONDON, March 8 OP) Karl G u s t a V Hulten, 22-year-old American paratrooper, . died on the Pentonville prison gallows today while a middle-aged wom an, protesting his execution for tho holdup-slaying of a London cab driver, was trying to crash tho courtyard gates in a garbage truck. A crowd had to jump fast to avoid injury as the unexpected incident occurred outside the prison. The woman, Mrs. Elsie van Der Elst, who long has been a vigorous opponent of capital punishment, repeatedly cried: Damned aname "You let the girl off, but you hang the man. It's a damned shame!" She referred to the reprieve granted Hulten's . co-defendant, Mrs. Elizabeth Marina Jones, 18-year-old British strip tease danc er. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison recommended to the king Tuesday that her sentence be commuted to life imprison ment. - . Hulten, whose home was in Cambridge, Mass., and the girl were convicted in an internation ally publicized trial at Old Bai ley on charges of killing George Edward Heath, a taxicab driver known as the "man with the cleft chin," last October 6. . First- Sentenced - Hulten, sentenced to death De cember 23,' was the first Ameri can soldier to receive such a sen tence at the hands of British au thorities in wartime. He was executed at 9:10 a. m. in the presence of a handful of British prison officials and two American officers. . After being refused admission to the prison, Mrs. Van Der Elst boarded an idle garbage truck and, with the driver, tried to break through the police guards at the gate. The police wheeled another truck in its path. They dragged both the woman and the driver out and took them away. Earlier the police had sought to persuade her to leave the pris on area, but she shouted "Don't touch me." Members of the crowd then joined in hooting protests against Morrison's decision to reprieve the dancer and let Hulten die. By 9 a. m. the crowd had grown to more . than 200, most , of them women, and its temper had de veloped into bristling hostility. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (P) "This makes it all worthwhile!":- ; .- With these few, tear-choked words, .Sgt. William Thomas, 48, Bloomsbur'g, Pa., expressed for nearly all the 272 heroes of Ba taan returned here today, the reaction to- the open . armed, . heartfelt and clamorous . wel come given them as they steam ed through the Golden Gate and Into San Francisco. After three years of imprison ment by the Japanese, they were liberated January 30 by rangers -who broke into the Cabanatuan. camp to free, all held there. - San Francisco turned out in a tumultuous welcome for-the heroes. The harbor was alive ; with boats, - their whistles and sirens screaming, their masts and lines bedecked. Bands play ed and flags tossed. . "I'm tickled. I just can't talk. It's the-most beautiful sight I ever sawl"- That's the way it was with Lt. Harry M. Brown, 30, of Ciero, Ind., who had been, away four years; His wife now is at Brownsburg, Ind. Mayor Roger Lapham and army officers boarded the big; transport in the harbor to ex tend an official welcome. "Every one of us is glad you're here," the mayor exclaim- ; ed. "We will try to make up for the things you have gone through. Thank God you're back." . - , -. Bombers Shatter 1 Nazi Targets : LONDON, March 8 (P) Ger man rail ' and oil targets ,wer struck another blow today at 1350 American bombers, follow ing .up the RAF's 1250-plana night assault, attacked seven oil plants and five switching yards handling traffic to the Ruhr bat tlefields. . ... The most sustained air cam paign of the war carried through its 24th consecutive day- . -,.