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L-IiiMr.TON Last night
he first Saturday tilghr
. Vnlilnlll it CI new. n winii
huHo pV..cofully and happily
f a ; a mutter of fact, It
, , ..n muro than the
SS up "of the clock wheif
H'llmo lilt u several yciirs
ir Peoplo merely started
i'i,r nd quit earlier.
,ihlngt' Ua"n l ,dono m,uch
"f"," nlmiit tho curfew.
'Ciawks come- from New
where painting the town
jjileadlrut Industry.
off nn die Potomac, it was
I! very quiet and orderly
'.1 thlnus no. Tho no-called
,tiDots meaning all places
re food and drink and enter-
". are P
rtUospnVrto"b7.;;
.? npar 11:45 p. m. as Is
irttnt with the ureal Amcr-
P' !..Vi f nlillil-vrinll 111!
In tlio main the response was
E.'ih'.wltchlna hour of 12, the
liliwero filled with crowds
, - 1. t n II ri i !
ihsavcrago Now Year's eve.
fbe thoy went home, The
ril authorities aren't YET
Ins ncopiu nniuc uim uuumg
XtJk and sotting It down
ihc books when they got there
In WIIBv conuiuuii. ou wu
, ltd dependable statistics on
E Mint
It ny rate, they went away
in the places whero labor and
lit ind fuel are supposed to
conjorvca uy miuuisiii
ITH American boya fighting
In foul and miserable condl-
ti ill over the world against
Deal, bcullol enomlct, with
casualty Hsu rising swuuy
hrd the million mark, one
U. II xtrtmelv difficult to
Ck up a sweat over this mid
st cunew.
Hmliht be different If these
fct crowds were made up cx-
fclvely or men ircsiuy nomc
fci the combat areas and going
w th the r wlvoa and swect-
Irti to let off a Utile stenm by
of. getting their strained
tin back to something like
tail tension. There are many
Vi, p( course, but their per-
Ullor the tow is .man. -
Ahen you sec the average
In front civilian, his pockets
hlnr with unaccustomed in
ks that after nil is - said and
I arises out of tho blood and
iweat and the sacrifice of
', tossing his war-made dol
i away for high-priced food
I overstuffs his stomach and
fivprlccd liquor that ovcr-
ddlcs his brain, you can t cs-
the conclusion that in all
bablllly shutting these night
Is down a few hours earlier
ii no great amount of harm.
'HEREVER you go these
days, the clgarotto supply Is
fading topic of conversation,
it holds good here,
'he situation in Washington
mi to be about the same as
i e w h e r e. The unattached
injur finds them extremely
to come by, and if he
Jit been forehanded enough
bring some along ho Is apt to
imokclcss. At some of the
ner places cigarette girls
ke Infrequent rounds and sell
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ornett Measure
JKSaae Fr netted1
fALEM, March U (IP)
FiMn county's senatorial ro
fj'tlonmcnt measures, ai
ry passed by the senate,
f virtually assured today of
P80 by the hnimn when ihn
I administration and roor
'"'Jon committee rccom
McdnanlmUSly tllBt they
"6 measilrpfl fAnalaf nf a
IPOSCd 0Onllli. Ilnr.nl n-v.nnrl
fih.Whlch must be approved
i7 H-upie, to incrcaso the
P membership from 30 to
i .u companion bill to
t the mi, cnr7i.i.i
l Do.qrlllltAB .Wfar-nn
k?.ih.fnd LBke counties).
Ritiath would have a scna-
own, with tho other
' counties sharing a sona-
im.ii. "'"rsnau E. uornctt,
""h Fa S. fnthnr nf hn
tho
PRICE FIVE CENTB
In The ShaUa-Caacade Wonderland
' f . r March. 13.'. 1945
Max, (March 12) 44 Min 28
Precipitation last 24 hours 02
Stream year to date 7.32
normal .. 8.S5 Last year 5,
Forecast: . Partly cloudy Wednesday.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, MARCH 13. 1S45
Resigns
4 I I
Marble Cook, above, head
coach o( KUHS during the past
football and baskttball season,
has handed in his resignation.
No successor to the post of head
coach has yet been named by
school officials.
RESIGNS POSITION
The resignation of Marble
Cook. Klnmnth Union high
school football and basketball
coach and physical education
instructor, was accepted by
members of board two, at the
regular session Monday night.
Cook's resignation- was. placed
on Superintendent Arnold L.
Gralnpp's desk Inst Monday aft.
crnoon. ; " .'
Cook's assignment, which
started here last September--
terminates tno end of tiie scnooi
year, 1945, according to Gra
lapp. Successor Not Named
No successor to the post of
head coach and physical educa
tion instructor was named, but
Clans for next year will be
rought up at the next board
meeting slated for March 26.
Cook did not advise the board
of his future plnns.
Successful Year
Cook had a fairly successful
year here in athletics. The Peli
can foolbn'.l team won three,
tied one, and dropped three for
a .500 per cent average and the
Klamath cagcrs wound up in
second place behind Mcdford in
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75,000 Strike
In Movie Capital
HOLLYWOOD, March 13 (P)
With an estimated 15,000 work
ers idle as tho film studio strike
moved into , its second day,
studio managements none the
less marshalled enough help to
stop up movie production.
Twenty-eight pictures were In
production, studios reported, 20
more than yesterday when the
walkout began as the outgrowth
of a fight between two AFL
unions over jurisdictionol con
trol of less than 100 set decorators.
UNREST
S
GERMANY
RUMOR
S
SHOW
Von Rundstedt
Ousted From
Command
Said
By THOMAS F. HAWKINS
BERN, Switzerland, March 13
(IV) Frontier rcDorts said today
that Field Marshal Von Rund
stedt no longer was in command
of tho Germans on the western
front, and one unconfirmed ac
count said the nazl general had
been wounded.
Advices from across the border
reflected growing tension in the
German homeland, particularly
In Munich, where the nazl
gaulcitcr was said to have
warned all party officers to
avoid circulating in worker sec
tions of the city because the po
lice no longer were strong
enough to guarantee safety.
- However, rumors of outright
revolt In Munich were not con
firmed. Use of Gas Hinted -
Well informed observers here
speculated that Hitler iight
stage some new surprise, such
as the use of gas, or some other
new weapon, to stem the allied
tide, but agreed that whatever
the fuehrer decides, It must be
done quickly.
Throughout Germany, reports
here state, there is confusion, re
sentment and outright resistance
against new reductions in food,
travel and cooking privileges as
nazi leaders seek to slow allied
advances in the cast and west.
( Banditry and partisan activity
were declared increasing.
. Workers Desert-
" A private report from Berlin
stated that at least 100,000 for
eign workers had left their Jobs
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ECEILI
WASHINGTON, March 13 (ff)
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles proposed today that ad
missions to movies, sports events
and othcV amusement places be
brought under price ceilings to
curb "extraordinary" increases.
In a letter to Chairman Wag
ner (D-N.Y.) of the senate bank
ing committee, Bowles said that
from Juno 1941 to last December
prices for motion picture admis
sions rose approximately 381 per
cent, with federal excise taxes
accountable for about one-third
of this.
The banking committee now is
holding hearings to extend the
firico stabilization act and the
Ifo of OPA 18 months beyond
June 30, ,
Terming public amusements an
important Item in the average
family's budget, Bowles said: ;
"In the absence of control
there is no reason to believe that
these inflated prices will return
to more reasonable levels or that
they will not increase further."
Stettinius Says Delegates
Free to Follow Own Views
WASHINGTON, March 13 (IP)
Secretary of State Stettinius
told the American delegates to
the San Francisco conference to
day that they would be free in
pursuing their own "personal
views and convictions." But, he
added, he believed they would
all work "as one team."
Stettinius,. who Is chairman,
Qint Brush Well In Hand!
How do our Klamath marines occupy
' their free time?
National
Itff.1 . i j-kittiiiuui iimijuun w-.vt.j --
1 f. ."ow """ce marines did just that and then some!
,7." month, Bill Higglns of tho Marino Barracks attended
Mholli. Au'"munion orenKiast sponsored
trlih u ,ru'"muniiy service in . ine
II l,i 1 of tho Sacred Heart church.
V latM told Anno nirlramnlnr NPfS
Ill i "Tlvo' '"at he thought tne
s dly In need of a good coat
hriv ' rnl"er T. P. Casey posscd his
JLfPProval, and agreed to furnish
11 1 1 10r the project. On-fur-
ha-i- " ,v"-t alli ana iwo duuciics,
hS Kohl or and Joe Scmanik,
intln. aay Bnd wcl1 ,nt0 ,ho nlght'
F'lng flxt installing new
Sunrlnv i ii 1 larva
1a if.5,1' "10 hall was resplendent in its new paint job of
" an deep blue. The boys received an earnest rouna
"PDISnen 1. t . . . i . il.u i..A.lr nnA in re.
Unw . " "CKnowieagcmeni 01 men -
flh J? thclr well-deserved recognition, the threesome gave
r" With a first class amllel - -
oy , vnu
met the other members of the
delegation, except former Sec
retary Hull, at the state depart
ment . and subsequently took
them across the street to the
White House for a meeting with
the president. ;
All Well-informed '
In his initial statement to the
group, a paragraph of which was
released for publication by the
state department, Stettinius said
that "all of you have an expert
knowledge of the Issues involved
(in the forthcoming conference),
both national and International."
"And we are all prompted by
the same desire to succeed," he
added. "I am confident, there
fore, that while free in pursuing
our personal views and con
victions, we shall be able to
work as one team."
Delegates
The six delegates who met
with Stettinius were Senators
Connally- (D-Tcx.) and Vanden
bcrg (R-Mich.), Representatives
Bloom (D-N.Y.) and Eaton (R
N.J.), Comdr. Harold Stassen and
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. .
- It was agreed that this group
should hold further meetings
"from time to time" to discuss
problems of world security or
ganization, some of which they
went over with technical. experts
of the stato department today. -
Red Troops Cross Oder;
Superiors (Bomb Oscaka
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Number
REDS
E
T
OMR
CAPITAL CITY
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
LONDON, March 13 (P) Ger
man broadcasts declared today
at least nine soviet divisions had
crossed the Oder river between
Kuestrin and Frankfurt and
were attempting to beat toward
Berlin.
The Berlin radio said red
army forces were striking
toward the capital from Kietz,
on the Oder's west bank opposite
fallen Kuestrin, from a bridge
head opposite Goeritz six miles
farther south, and from a third
bridgehead at Lebus, 12 miles
south of Kuestrin and four north
of Frankfurt.
Deny Capture
Capture of Kuestrin, 38 miles
cast of Berlin and 16 north of
Frankfurt, was announced by
Moscow yesterday, but the Ger
man high command said nazis
still were fighting in the south
ern fringes of that city, one of
the three . biggest fortresses
guarding the path to Berlin.
The German communique de
clared Russians were attacking
powerfully north of Frankfurt
in attempts to expand their Oder
bridgeheads, but insisted the at
tacks were held. . ; ,.-:
Moscow still had.not officially
'reported " any 'erosslngBTof the
Oder, but dispatches said three
red - army , groups apparently
were being disposed for an as
sault on the . German capital.
Kuestrin, churned to rubble,
fell after five days of hand-to-hand
battle, the Russians said.
Local Breaches
The . German communique
told of local breaches by red
army troops beating toward
Stettin from the -north.,-.'-....
The second ; White Russian
army to the northeast battled
within sight of the sharp church
spires of Danzig, where the war
began. Part of the civilian
population and military garrison
of Danzig has been evacuated by
sea, Moscow dispatches said.
Congressional
Medal Set for
Oregon Soldier
3RD INFANTRY DIVISION,
7TH ARMY, FRANCE, March
13 (p) An Oregon soldier who
hurled himself atop an enemy
hand grenade to save his com
panions is to receive the Con
gressional Medal of Honor, of
ficers of this division said today.
The nation's highest decora
tion will go to Cpl. Robert D.
Maxwell, Cottage Grove, Ore.,
who voluntarily took the full
force of a grenade explosion for
the sake of his comrades.
Officers sad Maxwell was de
fending a battalion command
post near Besancon France, last
September against heavy odds.
Armed only with pistols, he and
four companions fought back an
entire German platoon, support
ed by flak and machine guns.
Suddenly the enemy tossed a
hand grenade into the midst of
the squad. Maxwell flung him
self upon it using his unprotect
ed body and his blanket to keep
the grenade's blast from injuring
the others.
-The Oregonian was sent back
to the United States, his sight
seriously impaired by the blast.
Latest reports received here in
dicated, however, that his vision
was restored by surgery.
Comfort In a Trailer House
Mrs. Theodore Baird watches young son Ronnie Rex from the
steps of her three-room trailer unit at the FPHA project, here.
Forty of the compact housing units are maintained for the use
of civilian construction workers here. A -'-"! ' V, '.
Snug Winter Spent in Unii?
Of Trailer House Project
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Baird
and their three-year-old son,
Ronnie Rex, typical FPHA trail
er camp family, spent the win
ter snug as bugs in rugs in their
compact three-room unit, trailer
number 33. :
Baird, . a civilian caterpillar
operator at the Marine Bar
racks, came here with his fam
ily in August, 1944,. from Nam
pa, Ida. They have found the
trailer quarters cozy - rather
than cramped and, instead of
suffering from cold during the
wintry blasts of the ; past
months, found it necessary to
turn on the fan part of the time.
Heated By Oil -
Metal skirts around the base
of the platform upon which the
trailer rests two feet above
ground, keep out cold from be
low. A fuel oil heater keeps the
interior cozy. - - - - - - :
-.' Trailer units - have three
rooms. A bedroom with a ,- bed
that can be folded up or left
down, with utility closed shelves
above, a kitchen -with sink, a gas
stove and cupboards, and a liv
ing rooin with a table, two
straight chairs and a studio
couch which makes into a bed.
There are closed shelves above
the couch and a dresser in the
corner. . .
Laundry Facilities .
Lavatories and showers are in
a permanent building conveni
ently close by and there is a
laundry house as well.
Children too young for school
play together about the trailers,
school-agers attend Mills school
just eight blocks away.- -
Austin Hayden, housing offi
cial in charge of the 55 unit fed
eral public housing .authority
under the national housing ad
ministration, says the trailer
camp for families of construc
tion workers which opened July
19, 1944, has proved its useful
ness . continuously since that
time.
Although there are usually
one or two vacant trailers, con
struction workers coming here
"out of the blue" to work cannot
just go out and move in. The
Serious Egg Shortage. New
Low in Butter Face U. S.
CHICAGO, March 13 OP)
The Chicago Mercantile ex
change said today that civilians
are faced with one of the most
serious egg shortages in history.
Egg production,- retarded by
bad weather, is 8 per cent be
low that of a year ago. Con
sumer demand ' is extremely
heavy because of increased pur
chasing power and the shortage
of meats and requirements of
the armed forces are large.
An increase in the amount of
creamery butter set aside for
war service agencies resulting
in "slightly tighter" civilian sup
plies was announced today by
Frank- E. Blood, chief of the
midwest food and .dairy prod
ucts division of - the war food
administration. , r .
Forty per cent of to'tal pro
duction must be set aside in
April and 55 per cent in- May,
compared to 20 per cent in Feb
ruary and 25 per cent in March.
Blood said, however, that, pro
duction of butter normally, in
creases in April and May, so
that civilian supplies will- be
only slightly tighter than at
present.
company they are to work for
must -make application in their
names.. ......
The- 40' permanent ; houses
maintained by the FPHA just
across the ' road are always
filled. Trailer dwellers have
first refusal of vacancies . when
they occur. -' - , ,
Dortmund, Essen
WipedOffMap
LONDON, -March 13 (IP)
RAF' heavy bombers battered
the communications hub of Bar
men on the southern fringe of
the Ruhr . today after leaving
Dortmund and Essen written off
as dead from mammoth "attacks
in the two previous days.
; Simultaneously, U. S. 15th air
force Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators from Italy bombed Re
gensburg, 90 miles northeast of
Munich -and the site of numer
ous German aircraft factories.
The assault on Barmen on the
29th day of the allied air offen
sive followed an 1100-plane raid
with 5000 - tons of explosives
yesterday on Dortmund, eastern
gateway to the Ruhr. The bombs
were unloaded in 29 minutes.
JAPS RETREAT
ON 5 FRONTS
PACIFIC VJAR
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor
The third heavy attack by
by American Superfortresses on
Japanese homeland cities within
four days fell on Osaka today.
The incendiary strike, similar
to last Saturday's great assault
on Tokyo and Monday's attack
on Nagoya, was made by a very
large force of B-29s. More than
300 of the sky giants participated
in the Tokyo and Nagoya raids,
flying from bases in the Mari
anas. Second Raid
Today's brief announcement
in Washington of the sweep over
Osaka, the second of the war on
that city, said fire bombs were
rained on strategic industrial
targets. Osaka is on Honshu is
land, near Kobe and about 100
miles southwest of Nagoya.
Japanese retreated before ad
vancing allied troops on three
Philippines and two China fronts
today, abandoning two airfields
and eight towns.
Zamboanga Won
Forty-first division infantry
men on Mindanao in the south
ern Philippines captured Zambo
anga, four villages north of that
ancient fortress and nearby. San
Roque airdrome . from which
bombers can raid oil-rich Borneo.
Japanese abandoned the strong
est fortifications yet encountered
in the southern or central Philip
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Full Generals
Named by FDR
WASHINGTON, March' 13 (IP)
Nine ' lieutenant generals were
nominated by President Roose
velt today to be full generals in
the U. S. army.
They are:
Joseph T. McNarney, supreme
deputy allied commander, Med
iterranean theater. .
- Omar N. Bradley, command
ing general, 12th army group,
western front in Europe.
Carl Spaatz, commanding
general, U. S. strategic air force
in Europe. ' ' ''
. George C. Kenney, command
ing general, Far East air forces.
Mark W. Clark, commanding
general, 15th army group, in
Italy. .
Walter Krueger, commanding
general, 6th army, Philippines.
Brehon B. Somervell, com
manding general, army service
forces.
Jacob L. Devers, commanding
general, 6th army group, Euro
pean theater.
Thomas T. . Handy, deputy
chief of staff, U. S. army.
Americans Met Withj
Stiff Opposition
In Advance
By JAMES M. LONO
PARIS, March 13 VP) Th
first army has thrown a pontoon
bridge across the Rhine to it
Remagen bridgehead and has
driven to a point less than two
miles from the six-lane Auto
bahn linking the Ruhr with:
Frankfurt on the Main, a bridge
head dispatch announced to.
night.
"The doughboys are slowly
enlarging their bridgehead
against stiff opposition and
numerous counterattacks," said
the dispatch from Don White
head of the Associated Press.
A Berlin broadcast" tonight
said new American, forces had
crossed the . Rhine in assault
boats and expanded the bridge
head northward to Koenigswin.
ter, two miles north of Honnee,
It declared the Americans were
"halted at Koenigswinter." .
New gains widened th
bridgehead to nearly six miles
at points along its ll-mila
breach in the German line. Tha
Germans estimated that . from
60,000 to 70,000 , first army
troops were in the critical area
a maximum increase since yes
terday of 30,000 Americans.-
Hundreds of rocket firing
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BILLS APPROVED
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. .
SALEM, -March-13 (JP) Th
Oregon legislature's biggest
piece of business the four billa
to call a special election Juna
22 to provide revenues f or
schools and , new buildings fo
higher education and.jstate- in
stitu'tions-i-was near final t apt
proval today,; when the senate
ways and means and taxation
committee sent the house
approved bills to the senate floof
with a favorable report.
The. committees, : however,
recommended . that only those
bills be on the ballot, while tha
house had voted to put on th
special ballot all measures re.
f erred by the legislature to th
people. . ;
:- The bills would levy a 2-ceni
per pack tax on cigarets to giva
schools an additional $2,000,000
a year, levy a property tax of
5 mills for two years to raisa
$10,000,000 for the new build,
ings, and increase the annual
amount of income tax surpluses
given to schools to $8,000,000'
This latter bill will not be on
the ballot, and the property tan
would be cancelled by incoma
tax surpluses. . . , ;.
Bids Called for :
USO Remodeling
Bids were called today f or re
modeling the first floor of tha
Arcade garage building for tha
USO. ' - -'
Howard P e r r i n, architect
said the bids will be opened a I
his office at 2 p. m. March 21.
Plans and specifications are now
available at Perrin's quarters in)
the Winema hotel building; ' :
Allied Fronts B rought Closer
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' Dotted lines Indicate distances from allied positions to major German, cities. In some cases
distances have been shortened since this map was drawn. Latest developments put the American
first army deeper into the fatherland across the Rhine river, while to the eastt Russian were re
ported across the Oder in bridgeheads established near fallen Kuestrin, .
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