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(MP MM n ? emu iro m t " I ' ' " " - : : : : i : :.;-' II IHAPPtU NAZb FRANK JENKINS cillNGTON, wncro moso P",. ...... -vrlltun. has been i in""' ru" of nul'.lll!,'' J Ford, who Is one pf our i nrodi.CLTS of .polite no- .ilck-papcr thrillers, docs r.u,.riv lust lit random '!'' .: imfulo. Week In and IK year ln ".nd y$"r k. week's most recent ono Is WS? mill killing In which Xui:cd woinuii win mes ial up "d robbed. Switch- J operators at inu iprj ?S whero It happened constant stream ol colls ocrsons asking how soon 'r. m Into tho apurt- t occupied by tho sluln If he didn't think he 'i.ii. o cold-blooded al- KTO of tho Inquirer, re rr' ...i-i,.l.. nr nn blood- r. fve been lookinK for a .'to i live lor a long tunc und : ' ......... lllS bn t on apocryuum .nl Meyers Wahln(!ton ..!. I. nttM nf tho culm- ."West, solldost, most re E,-Sdlir in IhePo it. you Pi. V.nsunably certain It Is wiV UlC Jjirvnuiit. capital of the world's grout- Son. U is growing y IAh uracil ca i, u sii- .Iff thi. hlrlh of b deter Liioiilo sift the realities out r... a. .it f nri'tonse and go id iihI get somewhere. pKloliy 10 get " I distance, mo coniiuii' .t tit rmih-niniz uuu diiuu,- . .h rnirrwnullnil over tlu) Mtlibor" bills convey a quite Wte Impression, presenting ippesrance oi unci ni" md demngogcry. Closer up, i. ham-Inn ranuo of private hj-pn-nrd c o m m out and uw, tho pattern is quuo uh- Ki. i. ntir.nl I ho ntorv: toigrcss wants to Know, onu iJjj to FIND OUT, whether ntcaiormeii iu i v ii 3 critical as the adinlnls ion nd tho army and nnvy it ic Whni congress suspocts 111 the big boys up ot the top be putting on sn oci wnosu purpose Is to let tho people nitthc bottom know there s liron. V secondary purpose, con- L, nlhor MORE thun SUS- E.may bo to covor up tho big tpoenni misiaKo in juk nturlv last fall, when they ImUcd thcinselvcB to become tneed that tho war in fcu wu all over but tho final nlinii nnrl nlmo.lt said SO in toany words with tho result iourwar oiiort uecamo oomy M nn with a budding recoil- ion movement, von nuna- ii December offensive In liium l.'ft n lot of red faces in h Dlaccs here and. beforo It Ii anything so cirnsuc as pass- I draft labor law, congress li to know Hint theso red Is aren't just being covered tow, I Intelligent men In con. kiejj bellovo tho manpower mon is as bad as it is pauu- What theso moro lntclllgeni 'THINK Is that the handling Involuntary system has been wim mo result mat our fpowcr resources arc not bo- , utilized any whero near as T IS Ihcv mlsht be. hat they suspect is that the :imsirauon meaning me ii sprawling bureaucratic itturt that is now tho federal fmment of the United States Mntlnucd on Pago Nine) In The Shasta-Cascade Wonderland iiisiiiii March 17. 1945 - Max. (March 16) ; 38 Min 30 Precipitation last 24 hours Trace Stream year to data 7.45 Normal 8.70 Last year 5.98 Forecast: Warmer with snow flurries. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY. MARCH 17. 1945 Number 10416 H IS, M9s nreTTwourth of tote STtnm lie Soviets Mass Pontoon Equipment Along Oder River By DANIEL DE LUCfc MOSCOW. March 17 IA1 Tanks and Infantry of tho first While Russian army thrust for ward again today against the re- uiiit-u enemy oruiKencnu ai aiei tin from within four and a half miles of that vital northern gate way lo Berlin. Simultaneously, tho Russians wcro reported bringing up poiv toon equipment along a three- mllo stretch of the Oder river In tho vicinity of captured Grief- hngen, less than 11 miles south of Stettin. The heaviest Russian pressure was exerted against the soutn crn flank of the nnzl bridgehead, which extends along the cast bank of tho Oder for about 11 miles south from Stettin's east ern suburb of Alldiimm, on the edge of Dammschcr bee. One Bridgehead Left The remaining nnzl bridge head cast of tho river is only one to two miles deep ut somo points. Its complete sclzuro would be a tactical preparation for ine Ber lin offensive second in import' ance only to the cupturo of KucS' trln early this week. Fall of Cricfhagcn put Marsh at Gregory K. Zhukov's troops Into another good jumping off spot for spanning the Oder. How ever, tho mnin highway bridge across the Oder's eastern arm, tho KcBlltz. and tho Oder Itself, from Orlefhagen toward the Slettln-Dcrlln Autobahn was un officially reported demolished (Continued on Page Nine) A driving east wind which reached a peak velocity of 38 miles per hour at 4:37 p. m., Inshcd the Klamath basin Friday and for a time disrupted power and telephone communications In tho Mol springs circuit. The California Oregon Power compnny reported a limb, whip ped from a tree at Main and Ala meda near the government ca nal, fell across a wire and put tho Hot Springs circuit out of commission at 2:17 p. m. A pa trol of the circuit was made im mediately and the district north of Melrose street had power again within 38 minutes, and the remainder of tho area within one hour after tho initial report. Telephone service in the Hot Springs section, a portion of Main street and the Marine Bar racks, was disrupted but by 2 o'clock this morning a cable crew had repaired damage and scrvico was resumed. Students at Roosevelt school were dismissed shortly after I o'clock yesterday afternoon when tho fan system went out along with- the power. Although the basin received only a light skiff of snow, resi dents of Dunsmuir reported at least a foot of the white stuff at 6 o'clock last night and "ttUl falling." , Yrcka was reported as virtual ly "snowed in" Friday and Sat urday. Tulclako basketball play ers, In the Siskiyou county scat on a playing trip, were unable to go homo on schedule duo to tho snow. . , The weekend forecast was for little change In temperature and continued snow xm,..v.o - I section of southern Oregon. Everybody's Irish Today! feighter Runs found on Coast PXJS BAY. flw . Mnrrh 17 H loaded coastwiso lumber ran aground north of 'Way with a raging sea and We wind separating the "torn shore. IK??' 0rc-- answered an L Vam the ship, ground P either rocks or a spur of I number of mon abonrd I HOI Icnmi.n urtik . rjl along the coast, the coast Ki .Pa difficulty in Ashore t0 brl"8 th It's a Dirty Shame, Taxi ft A. "Taxi" Thomas, city engineer and head of the street ''mont in Klamath Falls, doesn't need to drink "toast to ."M In his cyo theso dnys-he has plenty thrown in his M about every day. .... ,,'.... .., wn hBV0 (.i. . 1 orcnks your heart," lie saia samy, "r""-J".l all spick and span and then some truck or privnto L'!' mo into town after traversing unpayed roads or ArSdr.0P,.md. '.' c,rA begin on all &'y" M. Most of the slree dep.: rtmen s time fcti ii, V usea up in cleaning newe t"or- " ..mpr, E- Which grow in tho winter. Sanitary and s orm sewers F Sh ma'ntenance this time of year due to moisture, ySJptag elty Xeta clean Is the biggest PWt Ks 'he street department because there i are. so many roads and alloys in the city ana mumt, Zn sadly shook his head and went to get his jhovch iii ' . JW V A 1 if I i' ia is i. ,f-v. y'h&if ' : ' l ' II )1 1 l?J)iZ. C (t 17 X 1 L Hi ' JfX Y : 0 4 r. All the world turned Irish today, St.. Patrick's Day, as folks joined the sons and daughters of Erin in revoring the memory of the Emerald isle's patron saint. Proud of their Irish ancestry and their Irish namei is this group snapped in the rooms of Justice of the Peace J. A. Mahoney as they beam on a shamrock in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Jack Franey. Mrs. Jack Gallagher looks on and seated, left to right, is Franey. Justice Mahoney, State Police Officer Bill "Paddy" Colbert, and little Kathleen Gallagher. liCKl MEAT ' Plans 'for " requesting " arVTK crease of tho war food admin istration's meet allocation for this area were made by the civic and military affairs com mittee of tho chamber of com merce .this morning and facts gathered regarding the reduc tion in tho quota and the in creased' population were to be presented to the WFA. Packing houses hero have al ready exhausted their slaughter ing quota for the month, it was brought out. The quota this year, set by the WFA, is 60 per cent of each month's quota for last year. Reduction in this quota, which was set in relation to tho 1944 population, incurs a hardship hero because of the incrcaso in population during tho year. Personnel of the (Continued on Page Nine) Carter Wilkinson Killed in Crash Laefli.1 ilin rf& Cpl. Carter D. Wilkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noble C. Wilkinson,- Tulclako, was killed in a plane crash on the isle of Syke, just off of Scotland, on March 3, his parents were noti fied today. Cpl. Wilkinson was a tail gun ner on a B-17. No other details of the crash were received here. Tho 21-year-old Tulelake boy was a graduate of Tulelake high school, class of 1941. He was a native of Richmond, Calif., April 25, 1923. . . . Cpl. Wilkinson joined the army, March 26, 1B42, took his training at Ontario, Calif., and was on his way to England when the crash occurred that brought his death. ..... Survivors include his father and mother, a brother, and a sis ter. Irish Celebrate Dry St Patrick's DUBLIN, March 17 (P Shamrock-wearing Irish jammed the streets of Dublin today in celebration of St. Patrick's Day that was gny but dry. All saloons were closed and citizens who wisho'd to "drown the shamrock" in traditional style had to partake of a previ ously acquired private supply. Every flagstaff in the city bore the national colors. There were military parades and games.. . '. ' , . Premier Eamon de Valora and all his ministers were cheered by the holiday throngs as they went to the cathedral. - New Slash in '45 Civilian Meat Supplies Indicated '.WASHINGTON, March. 17 () A new slash in civilian meat supplies' is expected today on the heels of President Roosevelt's projection of more belt-tightening on the home front, t ': For the : April-June quarter, the civilian meat allocation may be cut to an anmialSralc of 118 pounds .a person the lowest level since 1935 when supplies were curtailed by . a severe drought and a government hog production control program. Already Curtailed ' During the first quarter of 1945, the per capita meat supply SENATE BOGS DOWN; MAY DELAY SESSION By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, March 17 (P) Tho Oregon legislature went into its final drive in an effort to end the 69-day-old : session by to night, but the senate got bogged down on the firemen's pension and Multnomah county regis trar bills, .indicating a possibili ty that the session might ex tend through Monday. The joint ways and means committee recommended against passage of the firemen's pension bill,, but the senate rejected the report 16 to 14. The senate re fused to suspend the rules by a single vote. . -'. On Calendar This bill would come up on Monday's calendar, and sup porters of the bill - might delay adjournment until then. The house-approved bill to create the office of Multnomah county election, registrar was taken from the senate table and (Continued on Page Nine) ; has averaged 128 pounds per wiin IV s uvurau ut' : xl Pounds. The reduction is in line with President Roosevelt's statement yesterday that Americans would have to share a' larger portion of their food with hungry peo ples in war-liberated areas. Tho April-June allocation is expected to carry a sharp reduc tion if not a temporary sus pension of meats to Great Britain, pending determination on whether reserves built up in the British Isles are sufficient to enable Britains to carry on for a while without American sup plies. Tighter Regulations The eovernment also is expect ed to tiehten its livestock slaughter regulations in an ef fort to squeeze larger supplies out of midwestern producing areas in order to helD supply deficit areas of the east and far west. . Senator Wherry (R-Neb.). fre quent critic of the administra tion's handling of the meat prob lem, declared the president's statement demonstrates tne need for a' senate investigation of food exports, imports and distribu tion. . Cornett May Run For Senate Post SALEM, March 17 (iP) The campaign for president of the 1947 senate was on today after Son. Will am E. Walsh. Marsn- field.' veteran of three sessions, announced he would seek the iiost. . ' Other senators expected to seek the position are Marshall E Cornett. Klamath Falls: Rex Ellis. Pendleton; Coe A. . Mc- Kenna. Portland; and : Earl T. Newbry, Ashland. More Industrial Deferments Set by Selective Service By KARL R. BAUMAN WASHINGTON, March 17 (T) Liberalized draft deferments for young men in five mtljor indus tries coal mining, transporta tion, steel, synthetic rubber and mining of copper, lead and zinc, were announced today. . The action, by selective serv ice, will permit deferments to exceed the 30 per cent limita tion which has been in effect for one month on men agedi 18 through 29. . i This means, a selective service spokesman said, that more de ferred men over 30 will have to be drafted to meet the height ened draft calls for army com bat replacements. J Want Relief Meanwhile new claimants notably aircraft manufacturers were besieging Washingtort for similar relief, claiming that war demands could not be met unless they were permitted td retain more young workers.- . . The National Coal association said, the easing means that "al most all" coal miners under 30 who have 2-A or 2-B classifica tions will retain them, and that a few miners now.in 1-A will be reclassified 2-A or 2-B. ; The bituminous industry trade association so advised 2500 soft coal operations. A spokesman said the statement had been ap proved by the solid fuels admin istration in advance of its dis tribution. Solid fuels said only that "some- additional defer ments" would be asked. No Comment ! As the breaks in the 30 per cent formula became known, War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt said nothing about it. The number of under-30 miners in 2-A and 2-B has been estimated by somo operators at about 30,000. , 1 The liberalization for three segments of ' the: transportation industry might permit the rail roads to retain 85 per cent of their 2-A's and 2-B's under 30; airlines, 90 per cent; groat lakes carriers, 80 per cent, nnd other inland waterways, 80 per cent. Major Battle Looms as 33rd Nears Baguio By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Three-fourths of Kobe was burned out today in the greatest of the clock-like B-29 raids on Japan, made by 300 Superforts nine hours after the battle of Iwo Jima was declared officially won at a cost of 19,938 marine casualties. Simultaneously a new major battle loomed In the Philippines as the 33rd division drove within artillery range of Baguio, sum mer capital and headquarters of Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita who once promised his emperor that he would drive Gen. Douglas MacArthur from the islands. About 40 India-based B-29s bombed Rangoon storage areas in daylight today in their fourth attack on Burma's largest city. They struck while fires still blazed in Kobe and -British troops were mopping up Japanese troops remaining in manuaiey, Burma's second city. Today's pre-dawn Superfortress raid on the great port of Kobe turned 12 square miles of the industrial, harbor and xesi- fcdential area into a roaring mass of flames. WASHINGTON. March 17 (P) William Phillips has resigned as President Roosevelt's person al representative in India.- He served there witn tne ramc oi ambassador. In announcing his resignation today the White House gave no reason. However, when Phillips returned recently to this' coun try Qne, 'reason given. , was , the illness ot his" wife. - It was said today that Phil Hps will continue to work with the state department "in con nection with important' matters relating to the department and the foreign service." i. Merrill Minister George Merrill . was sent to India several weeks . ago as American minister. . Phillips was reported m the senate last summer to have in curred British antagonism be cause of a free-India attitude. "Unwelcome" Senator. Chandler (D-Ky.). re plying on September 2 to offi cial denials that any request had been made for Phillips' re call, released what he described as a British telegram from New Delhi to London saying the am bassador was unwelcome in In- dlBoth the s t a t e department and British Ambassador Halifax had denied at- the time that Phillips was persona non grata because of reports that he had urged complete freedom for In dia in a letter to Mr. Roosevelt. Chandler Remarks Remarked Chandler: "If the British are going to be able to force the recall of our diplomats merely because they submit truthful- reports, I think we ought to know about it " Phillips was regarded as one of this country's outstanding diplomats. Allied Transport Carries PW's MOSCOW, March 17 P) A third allied transport has sailed from "Odessa with American, British and French troops freed from German prison camps, the Russian news agency, Tass, said today. . The Luck of the IrishAnd on St. Pat's Day WASHINGTON, March 17 iP) The house held a three mmute St. Patrick's Day ses sion today and it was a not able one with not a word of oratory. Forced into a technical ses sion by the absence of a quorum at quitting time yes terday, the chamber met and adjourned immediately after the opening prayer.' - Rep. O'Hara (R-Wis.), was waiting with a St. Patrick's Day speech but he1 failed to get the floor. As soon as the prayer -was' over,- Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) recog nized, the .majority floor leader, McCormick of Massa chusetts, who promptly moved to adjourn. There were shouted protests of "no" but a standing vote carried the motion, 76-11. A total of 36 square- miles have been burned out of four of Japan's largest and most vital war production centers Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya in eight days. Today's two and a half ,hour attack was the heaviest in sheer weight of in cendiaries dropped 2500 tons. Refugees Flee Refugees are fleeing by the millions, Tokyo radio reports, from the four cities and Yoko hama, which has yet to be set aflame. - If the B-29s maintain their present schedule . of . strik ing en masse every two days, another raid is bh the books for Monday, .(Tokyo time). - :.r.. Returning pilots aid: flames sweDt the Kobe dock area, the Mitsubishi ! airplane plant and the Kawasake locomotive lac tory, the primary 'objectives. Flames, merging into a single conflagration,-were visible. 100 miles away. . : - . Dividends of Iwo The enemv high command claimed 20 were shot down but reports, from . Guam : indicated (Continued on .page .iner.:. E E ACCEPTED BY DUFF The salvage challenge issued hv Paul A. Lee. central commit tee salvage chairman for Klam ath county, to Robert A. Duff, Jackson county chairman, ' was accepted today, in a wire to i.ee, Duff stated that he accepted the challenge and further stated that he was certain Jackson county could top Klamath in a contest scheduled for the duration. Duff also said that he was glad of the opportunity to demonstrate the superiority or jacicson couuijr ability over Jiiamatn. Members of the junior cham ber of commerce are asked to report at 9 a. m. Sunday at the main salvage depot at 606 Mar ket to assist in the city-wide pickup of tin cans for tne sal vage drive. The drive has been progres sina well, but with the challenge to Jackson county hurled across the Cascades, an added incentive hn! he?n eiven Klamath county residents to top the neighboring county in the tin can drive. It was once again pointed out (Continued on Page Nine) ESCAPE ROUTE REPORTED GUT "r Frohto( Amphibious Assault Pays Off For Yanks Br JAMES M. LONG PARIS. March 17 fvFI U. third army trooDs fousht int Coblenz in a frontal amphibioui assault today, and streamed it' miles southeast of the Rhine city, cutting off a northern escaps route to Mainz for thousands of Germans facing entrapment in tne nuge aaariana triangle. Berin said armored columns had crossed, the Hahe river at Bad Zrueznach. 21 miles south. west of Mainz. A street battle razed in Cob. lenz this afternoon. Troops of the. 87th division in. assault boats poured into the northern section at 3 a. m. meeting light resistance! at the . outset, and other forces which jumped the Moselle river south of the city moved up from the southwest. '. The attackers hurried across the Moselle river near its conflu. ence with the Rhine, AP Corres pondent Thoburn Piant said. Farther north, the u. S. first army expanded its Rhine bridge. head and its hold on the Ruhr super-highway, and Berlin an. nounced loss of Koemswinter al the northern end of the 13-mile long bridgehead. Bad Krueznach Is a road hub 21 miles southwest of the Rhine city of Mainz, a main escape hatch for the Germans b e In g squeezed by the third army (Continued on Page Nine) 4 Hope1" was virtually abandon., ed today that Harold Manning, 36-year-old Agency lake trapper, was alive... . The.man-.had been ; reported missing since Tuesday at 2 p. m. .wien he left hia home on Agency lake, south' of Hansen's landing to run hia traps in the lake. ' , . . Manning's older brother, Elmer,, notified police at 8 o'clock last night that Harold had not returned. A check of the Manning cabin on Thomas creek had previously revealed that the house had not been occupied nor the lines .at that point run for over four days.x - May-Have Drowned. According to . Elmer, his brother left in a small 12-foot -sea sled which- is powered by an 18-horse power motor, an ex ceptionally large motor for that size boat. Elmer said that, the sea sled, -if tipped over, would sink and that Harold was wear ing heavy clothing but no life preserver . when he left tho house. . Strong 'winds have whipped the lake and intermittent squalls have occurred in that area since . (Continued on Page ; Nine) Boys Killed by Grenade Blast MACON, Ga., March 17 (P) Four boys were killed and a fifth lad injured seriously by an ex plosion, apparently of a grenade, on the . nearby Camp Wheeler mortar range yesterday. Camp , Wheeler authorities said those killed were: James R. Phillips, 11; Stanley Folmar, 12. son of Sgt.' Braxton- Folmar of the Camp Wheeler military po lice; James Arthur Avery, 8, and Ernest Carleton Evans, 10. Army authorities said the ex plosion apparently occurred as the boys attempted to climb out of a trench with an unexploded grenade they found on the mor tar range. Rogue River Timber Near Park Line to Be Logged -. Klamath Pine company of Klamath Falls, operating the "boy scout" mill on Upper Klam ath lake, today was awarded a $56,700 bid by the forest service to cut 10,000,000 board feet from the Rogue River national forest south of the Crater lake park boundary, in the Fort Klamath country. The - company, managed by Lawrence Shaw, submitted the only bid. The price, in addition to the $53,700, would include 50 cents a thousand board feet for slash disposal and 10 cents a thousand for planting and timber stand improvement. The bid was based on $8.45: per thousand for Ponderosa pine and $1:50 per thousand for Shas ta fir, and white fir. "A stand of fine pine timber in the Rogue River national forest just south of Crater Lake Na tional park will yield logs for Klamath mills In the coming cut ting season. Some 50,000,000 feet will be logged there in the near future, it is understood. The prospect of Heavy log truck operations in that area this week brought several federal ar.fi etnto hlcthwflV mm Into this section to study the need for pos- the state highway system mere for that purpose. Part of the logs, it is expected, will bo trucked to Upper Klamath lako and rafted into Klamath, and others will be trucked to Lobert siding and railed to mills here. W. E. Chandler, division high way engineer from Bend; John Sargent, public roads adminis tration engineer, and - H. O. Smith, stato ' construction engii neer, conferred here this week on the highway problem.;;. It is understood : there is con sideration of an access road lead ing directly south from Ann la creek entrance to the park, and east from Seven Mile guard sta tion to the town of Fort Klamath,,
