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f 9m saab wmsm m yJ w v fcj uuiu L I u I I U M u c v u u jgTe CENTS jitt!,,.... ...... o..... I jn Tli Shata-Caneude Wonderland . March Max. (March 19) Precipitation last 24 Stream year to data Normal 8.52 Forocast: Partly IMP' l.'lM!i! 20, 1945 48 . Min ....36 houri Traca .: ;..7.58 Lait year 5.98 cloudy Wedneiday. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 20. 1845 J FRANK JENKINS IaSIJINGTON Continuing from yonlcroiiy mis iniormiii U,on of congressmen ntid . duties ana rcsponsujiiiiies their daily ak. 11 mly he iltrcst to Inquire into ionic ho WW wl''ch freshmnii ,htr of llie Duuve or rcprc- lilivoi goes about learning MW Job. I III skilled Job, and becom nflclent In It Involves a J energy mid effort mid In- you aro an overage con itutnt, you will be npt to ir nf vour congressman as king hi place In tho nation's it. hv men is m nix nniuneiu. tonality and his power of ,ory and dooiiic. more or subconsciously, you mity Lillzc him ns standing before kicked house. holding hi col- KUW Spl'IIIHlllllu uy inn wuiuh, jeCltiR mem wiui we rye oi mind flot-Kiiia Rrounri nim rward to conKratulntc him his great spoccn. i would perhaps be (lis 'ionlnil If you could sit in the rv .i he delivers noma of the tenet that look no Impressive iht Congressional Hncord. 1 would tee. In nil probiibi lily ilmost deserted house. Most ine members presunt would be inf about their business ni E oblivious oi our nero. nir iding officer would be hnlf to. Only the recording rti would oc puyiim strict oi .non to the proceedings. knd your congressman him- aultc likely, would rend v the first poiie of his speech, in skip to tho Inst puuc and Id II and after some business In the clerks would leuvo tlio taber without fuss or flurry. ' ' FE spectacle would disillusion jou. but If you Jet it Co ali It It would also MISLEAD The new congressman, If r.h hla salt, wouldn't be just King on a show at lone range we Home lolks. Mo would pulling his snecch Into the brd, where it can and will be H by olhers interested in the Ution involved BU colleagues wouldn't be dis cing their disdnln of him by bin! away in Inruo numbers. In absent would probnbly be Iwnmltlco meeting or nt their ca. Those present but pay no attention would be busy i their own affairs, knowing InC rcttdlntf of thn sneeeh the record was but a nnrt routine that hns been nroved til by time and experience ie point Is thnt oratory plays iucn icss Dromlnent and nrac- l part in tho deliberations ine decisions of ennuress 111 lot of us nnivnlv Imnulnc. f'orm oratory is normally fnr ic usciui in campaigns tnnn ne aciual shaping of leglsla- Some nf ihn mrmf nffnrtlvn fliers of tho national legis ts make almost NO speeches file floor. new congressman's Job Will be denlinif with rtpnnln l"Ple from whom he hopes wis to get things tor nis , It IicIds if vnu know It helps tremendously If know them well enough to Ulem hv Iholi- 'Irot nnmnc it tie is Wlcn ha atnfta mil 't scqualntcd. TOII nrn 4n nnHI,ntntnJ .Wplc, you must go whero p are. Especially whero W arc introduced all around "agio freely on a friendly '.w of such places are mild WOCent rnr-llnll nnrtln. N and Innocent cocktail M aro Washington's dish. s simple and Jnformol aOt Inn nu ! mu.. l' n DOSS I hip tn moot nnH h a lot of people with "mm cxnendituro of time. IWIons and dinners, with tn. Waghinatnn.. Illrn nil rnn. Is elnlln ' ,j hl pioviae inuru I'."1 OODOI'tlinltlnD tn noltlnn Mtlnuod Numbar 10418 Eitsc tier mm rM''lU Only Two But They're Mighty Pretty! 4fw. rm ,- vim I ftp' ' Jj , f , V Jk Lt. M. J. Hotondo (NO Unltod States navy, left, stands by at the steriliser at the Klamath naval air station where she and Lt. (jg) M. V. Lash (NC), also of the navy, are the two nurses on duty, Lt. Laih's patient is little Randy Lee, 3-month-old daughter of S 1c and Mrs. Vernon Gillette. Seaman Gillette was one ol a squadron which has since left the station but Mrs. Gil lette and daughtor are staying on at 2135 Holabird. Families receive excellent care at the NAS diipensary. whore an average of 100 out patients per month have been cared for since the sta tion was commissioned. Shortage of civilian physicians is tempered for these families because they can receive special care at NAS. This is termed dependent service and has been greatly ex panded in this war. There is no facility for maternity cases but after tho arrival of potential sea men and Waves, they do receive necessary care at the out patient clinic. Hours are from 1 to 3 p. m., Mondays through Fridays. Official U. S. navy photos. Firewater Packs Wallop, Youth Finds ADVANG E n NEWLY INVflIOISLES American Bombers Hit Formosa In Heavy Aerial Raid A 10-year-old Klamath' boy mind out that a quart and a hnlf of whiskey is prolly stout medi cine (or a man, -scyernl times his hge. The youth was picked up at the Southern Pacific depot a bit on the sick side, by SP special officers and city police, and turned over to Juvenile authori ties, County Juvenile Officer Harold Hendrickson said the boy wns now in his custody and would be. given a hearing in'ju vcnllo court Thursday afternoon. He had a similar charge of drunk and disorderly placed against him when he was 15 years old. - Hendrickson said the boy had been working at' Canby, Calif., for the Ralph L. Smith' Lumber company and had come to-Klamath Falls to celebrate St. Pat rick's Day. -He was planning to go to Tennant to get personal belongings when the firewater proved' too much for' his 'teen age system.. The youth' declined to enlighten officers as to where he obtained the whiskey. 13. William Bernard Grubb. 13 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Grubb of 4517 Winter, was found dead by his mother and younger brolhcr James, shortly before 6 o'clock last night, ap parently a victim of strangulO' tlnn. William was found lying on the floor of the new house his father Is bu ding, lus ncaa in the noose of a rope which hung from a beam above, lhe child, alone at the time, Is thought to have tied the rope to the beam, and fashioned a bowline knot which he niaccd over his ncaa William was subject to fainting attacks and In , the opinion of Dr. George A. Adler, county coroner, apparently fainted as he placed the knot, which is not a slip knot, around his head. The body was partially on the floor, Dr. Adler said. Mrs. Grubb had sent her younger son James to call Wil liam for dinner. James sought his brother in vain and then made a second scorch, accom panied by his mother. The two went Into the skeleton structure which Carl Gruon is Dunning m his spare time in front of his (Continued on Page Two) Legislators Return Home Senator Marshall Cornett and Representatives Henry Scmon and Rose Poole were homo to Hnv from Salem, following ad journment of the legislature. 1 llC MUmMlll UUiiBtiiva n, fnii iim session was a con structive one but thot It was arduous, especially in the final days beforo adjournment. ouses Will Get Boat Ride TWft.l,r fi.. -, . ....... 1- f n Krtfif r.Hfi fiuVY. ,vo lvoaoc .Pomi nouses are buiub wi ."ir Ull nor- VIHIU .LA.fM1 Kn Hrniltt if to Kill ninth rciu ., ihy wlu constitute, tho major project undertaken T n ii, 0 local housing si.orloge. . ne'r ;.,HUer''- real estate agent representing W. B. Larnm, fe" L?J.U lJ":1' .L r . , m 2283 for mLn Lakoview struct, owned by. the city, was accepted. .lInanv nf 4UM 1 ...in u- 1r.i nn iUrtftO lots. WhlCll t fifin "M, "XHafS Will l"v-nn-n . L,ar the shopping center at Oregon nvcnuo and Biehn fs. bo floated by barge to Klamath Falls and W bu l?k vflKe mem iroiu vnc o"'v - Pim'i Zl.r"G "ouses uro pari oi uw Biiiwv.. . at ivioaoc foint, wnicn n Ackley Mill Will Start Spring Cut The old Ackley mill oldest mill in operation in Klamath Falls will start its spring cut at the end of this week or the first of next week. It will be op erated by the Link River Lum ber company, formerly the Mo doc Lumber company, which cut about 10,000,000 feet there last year. Logs from the Shaw opera tions at Tioncsta will be sawed at the Ackley mill which em ploys about 35 men. About 15 carloads of logs have been dumped in the pond, and the mill is being put into shape for operation. The Ackley mill, long operat ed by Ackley Brothers, was es tablished in 1904. It stands on the shore of Lake Ewauna, on Klamath avenue. Langell Farmer Badly Burned Fire, roaring from an explod ing stove, critically burned Os car S. Campbell, 53, Langell val ley farmer, and destroyed the Campbell farmhouse early to day. Campbell is in Hillside hospi tal in a serious condition, with burns spread over most of his body. ' Diesel oil, used by-the promi nent Langell farmer to start a tire in a wood stove, exploded, throwing flames over the room and setting Campbell's pajamas afire. All but the neckband of the pajamas burned, badly sear ing his body. Mrs. Campbell, their daughter Evelyn, and three grandchildren upstairs, escaped from the fire unharmed. The blazo swept quickly through the frame house, de stroying it and all its contents. A pumphouse and garage also burned. The house was located nine miles east of Bonanza. 5 Cars Derailed On S. P. Train ; Fivo hnffsnee cars and a coach on northbound Southern Pacific passenger train No. 16 were de railed on a siding at Penoyer, 45 miles south of here, last night. No one was injured. The train wos pulling into a siding when s rail broke behind the engine. Wrprknr erews went out from here and an extra gang already at Penoyer went to work Imme diately. No. 16, due here' nt 10:50 p. m., arrived after 4 a. m. E-! IT WASHINGTON, March 20 iff) Republican demands for a one man national food boss sounded on Capitol Hill today as con gress itself stepped into the pic ture of shortages for a closer look-see. "We have no partisan desire in this matter," said Chairman Jenkins of Ohio of the Repub lican Congressional Food Study committee as he and other mem bers of the group issued their call for centralized control.; It is the only way, they con tended, to solve the problem of increasing food shortages and prevent greater ones, from de veloping. Both senate and-house mean while, moved to investigate everything from black markets to foreign stockpiles as they affect the food situation. : Harold Manninq Still Missing . Slate police and sheriff 's-officers continued in their search Tuesday for evidence in the dis appearance of Harold Manning, Agency lake -trapper, missing since last Tuesday. . Little hope had been held for the missing man when he failed to return from running his lines on the lake, but the search was to continue, officers said. Killed In Action Pvt. Elvin E. Anderson By ELMONT WAITE U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, GUAM, March 20 (IP) Vice Adm. Marc A. Mits cher's mighty carrier force was reported bombing Japan today a third straight day defying the Imperial ileet to come out for battle despite enemy com munique claims that seven of Mitscher's ships were sunk and one damaged. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nim itz announced briefly that car rier pilots moved northward Monday to loose bombs and rockets against shipbuilding Kobe and a major naval base, Kure, on the home island of Honshu. Sunday, carrier planes sent probably 2500 tons of bombs winging down upon Kyu shu and Shikoku, . industrially vital islands at the southern end of the empire. "Enemy attacks are still con: tinuing," Tokyo flashed an Eng lish language broadcast to the United Stntps tnriav.. The an nouncer did not. state whether the raid was on Honshu or whether the bombers - had re turned against Kyushu. ir Planes Hit Kobe Yesterday, Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's carrier planes cen' tered their attack on the big Kure naval base and Kobe.-Ja pan's largest shipbuilding center which was still smoldering from last , Saturday's Superfortress raid. ... - Newest - islands - invaded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur s tore cs were Panay. in the central Philippines and seventh largest island in the archipelago, and tiny Malamaul, south of invad ed Mindanao. 3583 Japs Killed MacArthur reported his fore cs, advancing on all fronts, had counted 3583 more dead Japa nese on only two battlefronts on Mindanao, where tne tank led 41st division drove north- ward, and in the Zambales mountains north of Manila. I Fighter - escorted bombers from the Philippines made their second successive heavy raid on Formosa, whose once formid able force . of 800 planes has been virtually knocked out. The Formosa strikes, centered on airdromes, were coordinated with the bold carrier strike 500 miles to the northwest. Miischer Challenges . Mitscher and the third fleet challenged both Japanese sui cide bombers and the remnants of the Imperial fleet by stand ing 300 miles off Japan for two or three days to knock out en emy planes and shipping in their own front yard. - Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced that as well as hitting Kure and Kobe on southwest ern Honshu island, Monday's raiders struck other targets in and around the Inland sea. The Inland sea is bounded by Shi- koru, Kyushu and southwestern Honshu, all three of which were bombed- in the first day of the attack. Nimitz gave no details. - Japanese imperial headquart ers claimed that in the first two days suicide planes sank seven u. s. warsnips ana destroyed 187 aircraft. The- less confident Tokyo (Continued on Page Two) Anderson Killed On wo Ji ma Word was received at the Ma rine Barracks- on Monday that Pvt. Elvin E. Anderson, 22, U. S. marine corps,, who was attached to . the- 4th division, died of wounds received in action at Iwo Jima on March 5. Young Anderson was from Mt. Shasta, Calif., and prior to his enlistment in May of 1944, worked for the Mt. Shasta Pine company. . After training in this country, he reported for overseas duty in the fall of last year. . Anderson is survived by his wife,. Mrs. Edith Mae Anderson, who with her daughter ...Sharon Ann, is living with her parents, ; 482?- Thompson' avenue. Held Over Slaving; I James Hall (above), -was be ing held at Little Rock, Miss., on an open charge after authori ties reported he had confessed killing six persons. (AP wire-photo). OPA WILL SET UP WASHINGTON. March 20 tP) The OPA set ud rules today by which it hopes to cut back shop- ners prices of clothing, textiles. furniture and house furnishings. Overnight, the agency ..froze the price mark-ups of approxi mately auu.uuu retailers on sales of ; the - affected items. "Each store was forbidden to" charge a greater margin over .its own cost than it did yesterday, March IS.- .' '.-.. :,S :-,:-.:VH : Thus, forthcoming -reductions in-Vmanufacturers' nriceswhlch' are being restored to the 184Zt4o average level, will be passed on to customers. ' - !, ;-.'.;.V-'..-. : Each retailer affected-those who do more than $2500 worth of business a- year im the items listed must prepare promptly a chart, showing his own margins over net .invoice cost .for- all goods on sale yesterday.': Smaller stores, if they wish,- may con tinue to price their merchandise under old regulations. . Troop Transport Plane Crashes : FORT RANDALL, Alaska, March 20 iP) An 11th airforce C-47 troop transport plane with six men aboard crashed in Cathedral valley ' near Mount Pavlof Sunday. Search planes found wreck age strewn- over the valley , and a man was seen beside it waving frantically. A rescue party was sent overland to bring back sur vivors and - bodies of possible casualties. The transport was bound from Elmendorf field at Ancnorage for Adak on the Aleutian chain It was the third troop transport plane to be lost in the. far northern ' flying operations in three years. ; PFC Henry Ashurst Wounded In Action ; Word has been received here that PFC Henry Fremont -h- urst, son of Mr. and Mrs. i ''. d B. Ashurst of Prescott, was wounded in action serving with the fifth marines on two Jima. The Ashursts formerly resid ed in Klamath Falls. E. B. Ash urst serving a six-year term as judge of the Klamath county circuit court. PFC Ashurst re ceived a wound in the shoulder and is hospitalized, but word from his family advised that he is not seriously hurt. . T5 Aaron E. Ashurst of the signal corps, a second son, is serving in East Africa with the u. s. army.;, Howling Wind Ushers In Spring i A howling wind ushered in the first day of spring. Skies were overcast and Old : Jupe couldn t make up nis ornery mind- whether he'd just let 'er blow or really pour it on. But rainy and windy as it.has been this Dast week, soring ar rived today at 4:38 p. m. This leads to the question many have been asking doesn't spring start March it tomorrow; Usually it does, but a variation this year makes - it today March 20. And don't ask why! : There is no encouragement in the forecast, no matter, how oft en vou read It.. Skies will re main ' just as un-springlike ; and the. wind will howl just as high, according to the US weather man. - -" -- U. S. Forces Race Toward Rhine Cutoff By JAMES M. LONG . , PARIS, March 20 (IP) German defame. rnlln..J I -k. Saar basin today while the rampaging American seventh and third armies raaed toward an imminent junction near the Rhine. - Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army flanked the Siegfried and alternate Hunsbrueck lines in the Saar and Palatinate and in sweeping gains moved within four miles of the second Palatin ate city of Kaiserslautexn, within nine miles of Mains and 23 miles of the chemical center of Ludwigshafen. . "en.. Aiexanaer M. batch's seventh army was completely through a 12-mile stretch of the Siegfried line- between Saar- E By RICHARD KASISCHKE ; LONDON. March 20 UP) Russian troops launching a re newed oitensive in Hungary have smashed to within less than 12 miles of Komarom, on the Danube northwest of Buda pest, the German high command: said today. : ;'. Earlier. Stalin announced, the" fall of Braunsberg, in the .co lapsing nazi pocket southwest of Koenigsberg in east Prussia to the: third White Russian army. ' - Berlin meanwhile declared new Russian offensives were beating through western Hun gary toward Austria, and through upper Silesia in Ger many. . seizure of Altdamm liauidat-. ed the "powerfully-fortified Ger-' man bridgehead on the east bank of the Oder river before Stettin, Stalin declared. By -ca nturina Altdamm.' Marshal- Gregory Zhukov's troops outflanked Germans still on the Oder s east bank north and south of Stettin. . The sub urb lies lust east of the eastern channel of the Oder, beyond which lies Stettin, by German account largely aflame from sneinng. Altdamm fell after the blood iest fighting, of the whole Pom eranian campaign.. . In western Hungary, the Ger man high command declared a renewed soviet offensive had smashed to within less than 12 miles of Komarom. on the Dan ube northwest of Budapest, . and to wnnin an miles of tne .Aus trian frontier.-. ,, :' ' ' ' Berlin broadcasts said the red army -also had thrust out in a huge drive to clear German up per ailesia. capturing Neustadt. Moscow-dispatches, silent concerning ootn tnese tronts, re ported uermans trapped in. a dwindling pocket- on the - east Prussian coast i southwest of Koenigsberg had opened coastal dikes, flooding the lowlands in efforts to halt a soviet extermi nation push. '-' . ' The German high command declared the third Ukrainian army lashing out northwest of Budapest had carried beyond Tata, 12 miles from Komarom, German stronghold on the Dan ube's south bank at the Hungar ian - Slavakian frontier. Kom arom is 45 miles northwest of Budapest, and 84, miles from Vienna. BUTTER RATION INCREASED OTTAWA, March 20 (P) The Canadian butter ration will be increased from six to seven ounces weekly beginning April 1, restoring a one-ounce reduc tion put into; effect January 1 because of inadequate stocks, the prices board announced tonignt. bruecken and Zweibruecken. A pocket around Saarbrueck- en and the great steel mills of the Saarland was all but closed if not already so since devel opments were lagging .hours be- nind reports delayed by security blackouts. In the Kaiserslautern area, the armies were , but 20- oad miles apart and closing fast. - 50,000 Casualties More than 50,000 of the orig- of the enemy's first and seventh armies already were counted as casualties. .-.-... In -seven blazing days. - Pat- ton's offensive has inflicted at least ...45,000 casualties on the original 80,000 Germans in the Khine-Moselle-Saar pocket, Cor respondent E. D. Ball said in a dispatch from the front. ' Prisoners alone totaled up to 20,000 and the seventh army had taken at least 4000. addi tional. . . : . ... Patton Gains , .Patton's troops crashed to- Within, four miles of the major Palatinate Toad . center . of Kais erslautern' and captured Alzey, 26 miles from the chemical cen ters of Mannheim and Ludwig shafen on the Rhine. The third army was less than 25. miles , from "the seventh army in the Kaiserslautern area., Ball mes saged: . . . : - . -"With' the Siegfried- - line flanked, the third and seventh army should meet shortly some where near the Rhine." .- : The Germans said the first , army had launched- a heavy at tack in the southern end of the bridgehead east of the Rhine, penetrating - seven miles into German lines beyond Hoennin gen to reach the Rhine opposite Anderhach.; If true, this 'would lengthen the. Remagen salient to 23 miles and place 'Lt. Gen. Courtney H, ' Hodges' troops within 4-1-miles' "of'-thefortress .. (Continued on Page Two) . RETURNS HOME LONDON,' March 20 W) Queen Wilhemina, first of Eu rope's exiled monarchs to re turn home, has visited liberated areas of Holland and received -a tremendous ovation from her people, , it was - announced to-, .day., "' '.'; . The queen toured freed areas . after a plane trip, from London to Brussels which contrasted strongly with her hurried flight in May, 1940 when German parachutists attempted to cap ture her as they invaded the Netherlands. . News of her return was be lieved already sweeping .via underground channels through occupied sections ' of - Holland, where hundreds of thousands of Dutch": citizens still are under the nazi yokeT. -'-' '. . 7 City Council Gives Green Light to NewTeen-Age Club City council- last night ap proved an appropriation of $750 for the proposed teen-age club, with the understanding that the county court will match that amount to furnish -' sufficient funds for remodeling . armory quarters for the club. Mayor Ed Ostendorf told the council he had a promise from the court. for half of the amount which the recreation committee had recommended be spent from city recreation funds for this purpose. .-. (County Judge U. E. Reeder said today that he knows of no formal action by the, county court appropriating money for the teen-age club. He said the armory committee at a meeting Wednesday may consider such action, councilman Koinn uan trail, member of the armory board, said after last night's council meeting that if the coun ty money is not forthcoming, he is certain the city wui appropri ate the entire $1500 as recom mended by the recreation com mittee next Monday.) . It was indicated that the council would have voted the entire $1500 had not the mayor reported his agreement wltn the county court. A majority of the councilmen had been re ported as favorable to the ap propriation. Under the recommendation of the recreation committee, two of its members are expected to serve on the advisory board of the teen-age club. Bob McLean, KUHS student body president, read the ci sti'.ution of the club, which will be for any high school student of Klamath county.- Purpose is to provide wholesome recrea tion for teen-agers, who have found themselves "out in the cold" with local interest devote ed largely to service men's hospitality.- '..'", : ' Councilman Roll in. Cantrall stated that he felt the teen-age appropriation was thoroughly justified as a proper expendi ture of recreation funds. '.' Councilman-A n g u s Newton said he favors the appropriation, but said the council should be wary of establishing a precedent for raids on the recreation fund by every group that has a rec reation idea. The council voted against ap propriating funds at present for -a car - for the recreation direc tor. It favored a plan to pay $1.50 a night expenses for wom en counselors at the girls' club. Cltv Engineer E.- A. Thomas reported that the public roads administration , is expected to settle the city's claim for $1505 for damages done on Eldorado street by trucks carrying gravel to military installation construc tion. '; Councilman Newton proposed that the city consider licensing punchboards as a means of ad ditional revenue. Mayor Osten dorf asked that the council post pone discussion of this matter. Under the mayor's prodding, the council closed up its weekly business in a hurry and ad journed within an hour : after . opening. , ,
