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, ft , , h ilia mm t m w j .mmowwwI ' -J " IV II. II II .1 V 11. IL. II. II u I . --. 1 I I I I II : ' I TL Di, , n7 ' , - S Forecast: Cooler tonight, cloudiness Thun. i; n SitaniO'tJnficadc Wonderland '-..s-S , . Klin lllinPllinP F' PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. MM Wu-b.r lu4l9 f M U II 1 1 tl l Nazis lose 100.000: In Srr" PKMILTO -J J SfckC ; SHES INTO W MUSI llliTnii nnnrriiil rv a i y?j y w ?- . ....... ,..e.. II vil i -inem' nniunbunrtH jv F T LUUVVIbbnArtn I I Nazi- Hold On Rhine ; IfflP Cut to 35-Mile O W Escape Gap II By JAMES M. LONG - I W - ' J 0 LiLJLiLa I tv FHAnn, JbnMiig of aT news comes from the .N ... ...I.....,.' A,l.l..l pacific, titfhors carrier puim-a niive n golnd "ftcr ",0 remnants in mid sen. n amnll. til- Lt land-locked body of wulor P .,-n., miflfmnd hv tlip ll ii 'Kyushu, Shlkoku and L ioulhwi-sturn tip of Honshu. Em sttnek begun, on Sundny, ith M"C ' ".V.V "V -I. hn.... .In. whoso dofenscs Iho Jnp "L. wrro lurking. Our T. i.nnrt tlio enemy fink "so 'uyou ronlcl wnlk on It," but wild dny they put the Ik of the JP Interceptors mid iimraft Kun more or less P" . - ..lualnn Thn nnvt n cumin " - - Mondnv. they wont after I. Il.nl Itself. ' r i j M m they cripple" "iri. - Inchidln. a bnttlcshlp of rt.rgiti .Inn class, a biilllc- foconverted Into a blu nlrcrntt rvier, three lnrao alrcrnft car lr. I heuvy ami a Huht cruiser L -Iwlhineoim smnller wiir- hlt ACIInirni n t "j" fniimiien iii7 ;....v...... ....... unllsof tho Jnp navy. . 1 . ;E suffered somo dnmnKo tc .... ineuiriinu some o fcnei, Dm our otinia wMn hiuui eomprion wun nai iiimki on iho enemy. Oreut victor . nni hlnrullnMs. nnd butter t !' ulinl Is ll- thldSP Uet If a nivufc viv.wij. ii. .ah noun iiiMm iiitlii1! . 11 1 r ";Th h. j sunk !fffl all. but a crippled hlp i thip put out of action, nnd ox I tTtirnnn lnrllrii((iff thill nmiiT "r kit 0! I new u-iihihu -ii.j far vfsntls mny nrvor Rot out it iu mik ...... idly crippled una pennva u,j Lilly able to KEEP II there. ifRE clcsnlna up the Philip .inM ranlHIv. Our men are L'lindins on Pnnny Island and h ntf their wav inio mv uuiu r. .lit, r,t ilnlln. Pnnnv Is ir k center oi mo ruuw. uu-- Leyte. . . . . ifwA.i'ti aI nut vnur mnn and Ikes careful look at It, you Ll U. ImnrMBBn Kv HlH flldt III UV llll.fcoav , it with Uto Philippines oneo . . . i' nnnwi'ft (cniciy in our jjr'P ouiwwi iih lis Krent oil fields, will bo lly a short clismnce nway. Ill mumiI AI.f. thn nil Li.1 iCm Pnlf n uinr hn In enmc Cm the Western hemisphere lit distances away and there he requiring hiiKO fleets of fliers, if we coum roi nit k of our oil from Borneo, it ild simplify our transport toDiem greatly. mien uornco. HE war In Europe is shaping up toward Armageddon. We're now cleaning up the bar basin Germany s third bit Imnnrlunt Industrial area he other two are tho Ruhr and lei a.) The Russians hold Itila. and wo aro battering at le latcs of the Ruhr, as well ousting It cnnmnntiy irom me '. Fallon a 3rd army, moving p the Sanr from tho north, M Patch's 7th. driving up from k louth, hnve joined nlong the pine and nro smnsning me ocr ani cut off to tho west, driving Mfes Into them from both pes, H looks as If wo have night about 100,000 nnzls In e saar trap. We and the British now hold I the west bank of tho Rhine km the Dutch border to Switz- imd, along with 24 miles 01 tASi DanK across irom pniKen. where the Germans, N their best', troops, have N unable to wipe out our Niehead. Tho Run ana hold all the cast pikof the Oder, from it moutn ileum, on the Baltic, to inc whoslovnklan border, more Pn 500 miles to tho south py are across the Oder In Its W reaches, and probably it bridgeheads east of Berlin. weeks they have been piling massivn atfAnofh nn the fin east bank. 'Or month, uia nnri the Brit' ' nve neen piling up massive '"Kin aiong tno lower nnine, - PON, Inevitably, the time UlUll enmn uhnn hn RUS' bursting across the Oder, r' ose in from the east wniie t "Id the British elnsn In from fct. '"at will be Armageddon In vyvt . rJE Russians have taken Alt- liiii across the uaer irom r,11", by storm. They report UUin military ana civninn -uuunuea on fage i nreej overnor SneI 9ns Two Bills ISALHiw '' Earl Snell todny signed L," aiz, which provides , o veterans snail nave "CrPnnA lu : a.,,- tnt ...i.e. '". P"D" empiujr K'wlthln the state. bi 27, which aulh r 'the secretary of stato to h-i, """ ot any city upon JPllcntlon and permits the t dlS 1uS t0 SerV6 BS 4,16 bnSlS 1,, ""i'"""on ox tne ctiies tr- l Hquor commission In I J nlso signed today by 'Hour of Tolerance' Defended by LaGuardia NEW YORK, March 21 (P The navy, following tho army's lead, todny directed Its person nel to observe tho natlon-wldc midnight amusement curfew which Mayor LaGuardia has extended in New York City to 1 a. m. ' LaGunrdia continued to de fend the "hour of tolerance" which he granted night spots nnd theatres. He said of Presi dent Roosevelt, who spoke in favor of midnight closing yes terday, "He's running the coun try; I'm Just running the city." Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, third naval district comman dunt, announced that naval per sonnel In amusement places alter midnight would be noti fied by shore police that they were violating the curfew. Navy Secretnry James V. For- rcstnl said a short lime earner that he would approve any ac tion taken by Kelly. The war department ordered soldiers Inst night to slny out (if amuse ment places after midnight, LaGunrdia, questioned as he entered the municipal building, suld he wns "too busy running the city" to comment on the nation-wide renctlon to his defi ance of Wnr Mobilizer James F. Byrnes' request. "I'm running the city," the mayor continued. "I tried to run the army but they wouldn't let me." This latter remark was In re ply to a question about his re action to a war department or der directing army personnel to observe the midnight deadline nnd apparently referred to the time he sought an army com mission. The wnr department move, Interpreted as the government's first countcrmcasure against LaGunrdln's curfew extension, wns put Into effect here last night. In New York City, which still Is holding out ns a 1 a. m. oasis, the order came as a sur prise to cafe owners, barkceps and grumbling soldiers. Grocery Store Looted Here The makings of a Dutch lunch was included in the loot from the Fifth Avenue grocery at Alta mont and LaVcrne this week end, according to a report made by the owner-operator, Ray mond Merrill Schiffman, to state police. Entrance Into the building was made via the back door and out that way went one case o regular beer, one case of Mexi can beer, six pounds of wieners, two loaves of bread and some canned meat. Amount of the loot totaled some $10.40 This picture was taken at last night's southern Oregon war bond conference at the Willard hotel, and it shows Rose Poole, Klamath campaign chairman, getting the news of Klamath's rec ord $1,538,000 E bond quota for the SeTenth War Loan. In the picture, front: William Bingham, State payroll savings head; N. H. Zachariasen, Jackson chairman; Ray Harlan, Lake chairman; Mrs, Poole; Ken Martin, state war bond manager; A. M. Collier, Klamath county chairman. At rear; Vern Owens, county co-chairman; Charles Mack, Klamath payroll savings chief; Wilbur Carl, state staff. 1 . Br DANIEL DE LUCE MOSCOW, March 21 (P) The first White Russian army, now in Dosscssion of virtually the entire cast bank of the Oder from the Baltic to its confluence with the Neisse. crowded slcze artillery to the very edge, of Stettin today after wiping out the endmy's Altdamm bridge head. . The menace to Berlin grew .hourly as Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov probed many places along the river, seeking spring boards for nis next Dig biimlr. east and northeast of ruined nnrttn ' , ' Marshal Ivan S. Koncv still is onffaeed in liauidating trapped garrisons in Breslau and Glogau tuontinuca on rage iiucw Stockman BUI Gets Approval WASHINGTON, March 21 (P) The stockman bill to empower the Klamath Indians to establish a game code for their reservation has been approved by the house Indian affairs committee. The measure would regulate hunting, fishing and trapping by Indians or non-Indians within the reservation' boundaries and carries heavy penalties ior viw The committee also approved a bill by Rep. Stockman (R-Ore.) , 0ii, h Klamath Tribal council to pay salaries and ex penses of its meiriDers wnue en gaged on tribal business. The Indian game code measure mentioned in the above story ...in amnnuAr flip, tribal author! ties to permit wnues io nan miu hunt nn the reservation under certain restrictions, it is under stood here. 1 4.1 I I aua.I Aval 11 S LOC"liWTC-iWiw. v SDrinB no less honestly! Don't be deceived by !.SS' zrti&fc atz the fact that there arc few evidences , of budding iiowers nu w, city? there Is no lack of that peren. nial herald of spr ,lng-iove uuu f . , Th .EK.YUC a, a match- ' m'aeaVa resul of the i presence , of Q the service, personnel at the loca V J m 1 tary nstaiiauuus, ,,lv .X . at the office of the county clerk re veal that tho marines already have the situation well in, hand as far as applications for marriage licenses are concerned. If ''ceLve7 "'s of previous years, the matter of &k2&3& png oista.ee is .. theateri o war" the principal solution seems to lie with Potters and lots of "em, to the boys over there. Love by V-ma 1 hM . its disadvantages, but the average "woman alone : lint COmStinngnhaIjclendgtne young man's fancy lightly turns SSStf of what the girls have been thinking about all winter! 0 gt--fe 2 Women's Organizations Will Lead Klamath County To Record B BWd Quoia Klamath county looked today to two women's organizations to lead it to a record E bond quota of $1,538,000 in the Seventh War Loan which starts next month and ends in July, The E bond figure is approxi mately half a million dollars more than any previous E bond quota assigned this county. The total quota of $2,947,000, how ever, is less than the total sales in some of the previous war bond drives. Rose M. Poole, just home from her first term in the state legis lature, is the general chairman of the big Seventh War -Loan drive. Her appointment, as well as the quotas, was announced at a dinner meeting at the Willard hotel last night of war bond workers of southern Oregon counties, attended by state bond leaders. The Business and Professional Women's club and the Soropti mist club will join in the lead ership of the Sevehth War Loan drive, it was stated by Andrew Collier, county war finance chairman. Quotas were also announced last night for Jackson and Lake counties, whose bond chairmen were -present. Jackson was as signed $1,067,000 in E bonds and $z.0B7,U00 total. Lake s quota is $274,000 in E's and $461,000 total. Ray Harlan, Lake chair man, and N. H. Zachariasen, Jackson leader, said they were sure their counties could go over the top. Oregon's quota for ' the drive is $55,000,000. Sales from April 9 to July 7 will count, giving a Submarine Barbel Presumed Lost WASHINGTON, March 21 (P) The submarine Barbel is over due from patrol and presumed lost with its officers and crew, normally about 65 men. A navy communique today said next of kin had been noti fied. The vessel; commanded by Lt. Comdr. Conde LcRoy Raguet, was the 34th American sub marine reported overdue and presumed lost, and the 40th lost from all causes, including four sunk and two destroyed to pre vent capture. It was the 273rd naval vessel of all types lost in the war. Portland Traffic Toll Numbers 23 PORTLAND, March 21 (P) Portland's 1945 traffic toll stood at 23 today with the. death of Ernest F. Schafer, 10, fatally in jured when a truck backed into him. Police said the driver appar ently failed to;see the boy stand ing behind the vehicle . yester day. Last year's fatalities at this time totaled only -10 - - longer time than, usual ' to fill quotas. Ken Martin, state war . bond manager, led a delegation of Portlanders to. Klamath for the meeting. Others present were Bill Bingham, Wilbur Carl and John ' Hodgkins. A half hour's radio program featuring the Marine Barracks band was an event of the eve ning. Charles H. Mack, county payroll savings chairman, presid ed as toastmaster and conducted the radio program. It was emphasized throughout that payroll savings will be the key of the Seventh War Loan campaign... r By HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON, March 21 (P) Al lied air forces ripped Germany from dawn to dusk today with explosives from' 7000- war- planes, including 2000 heavy bombers which unleashed one of the greatest coordinated at tacks of the war. The four-engined bombers from Britain attacked the Reich in relays, while tactical aircraft from continental basis mauled German troops reeling from the American advance toward the Rhine. Still another fleet of U. S. 15th air force bomber forma tions from Italy assaulted nazi communications in Austria. Stab at Ruhr : In the smoke-blanketed Ruhr valley, more and more the po tential death trap threatened by Gen. Eisenhower, railroads, highways and bridges were struck steadily with shells, rock ets and bombs. In morning raids. 2000 U. S, bombers and fighters hammered nine airfields in northwestern Germany and a tank factory at Plauen, 10 miles from the Czechoslovak border, and Brit ish planes struck a large oil re finery at Bremen. U. S, fighters downed at least nine nazi Jet planes near (Continued on Page Three) Maybe It Was Yehudi PORTLAND, March 21 (P) Esther Miller told police she awakened this morning to find a man, wearing a gold braided, cap, standing in her room. "I'm just a house breaker," he told her politely. Then, she said,; he lit a cigarette, laid a bunch of keys on a table and sauntered out the back door, . By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, March 21 P) The third army, continuing its spec tacular race which has turned the German stand in the Saar and Palatinate into a disastrous debacle at a cost that may mount to 100,000 nazi casual ties, smashed into the city of Ludwigshafen today. The same armored division which has played an anonymous role in the current drive from the Moselle, dashed into the twin city of Mannheim which is one of the' greatest chemical pro ducing centers of Germany. Mannheim, - just across the Rhine from Ludwigshafen, is 160 miles from Munich in the heart of southern Germany and 75 miles from the starting point of the offensive.. : . But ' as elsewhere Lt. Gen. George. S.. Patton's -men Jound the Rhine bridge there had been demolished. The stT:u'cture "which connected mu.ch,-bonjb.ed L,udwigsnaten and Mannneim was one of the most imposing along tne itnme. . . - Two German armies,' the first and seventh, either were wiped out or doomed except for shat tered elements. 30,000 Naiis Captured At. supreme headquarters, It was estimated that the swiit third army of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. alone 'had -herded an estimated. 30,000 nazis into prison pens in 48 hours as it and Lt. Gen. Alexander' M. Patch's seventh army closed new traps which might boost the overall total of captured in the whirlwind , campaign . to 75.000.- The seventh army, driving up from the southern oases of tne Saarland and Palatinate, did not even tabulate its prisoners be yond the first 6000. Cities such as Saarbruecken, Kaiserslautern. Worms. Voel- kingen, Zweibruecken, ' Hom- berg and St. Ingbert toppled like ten pins. The hard hitting Americans 27 divisions in all or nearly 400,000 men were advancing speedily. The German hold on the west bank of the upper Rhine was narrowed to a 35-mile escape gap between the Karlsruhe and Ludwigshafen areas and U ap peared - doubtful whether the wounded Wehrmacht. could scrape together enough men from the defeat to man properly (Continued on Page Three) Evidence Found Of Missing Man A gas can, found between the Manning cabin on Agency lake and Hansen's landing, was iden tified by Elmer Manning as part of the equipment in Harold Man ning's boat when he left his home eight days ago to run his trap lines. Manning has not been heard from since that day. An Indian by the name of Whitefoot told officers he found the .gas can on Thursday, March 15, at about s o clock in the afternoon but at that time did not know that Manning was missing. Four Negro Wcrcs Draw Sentence FORT DEVENS. Mass., March 21 (VP) Convicted of refusal to obey orders. four negro Wacs were sentenced last night to one - year at hard labor and to be discharged dishonorably. The quartet has contended they were ordered to perform menial tasks in Novell uenerai hospital because of their color. Two male negro officers and two white Wac officers were members of the seven-man court. The first service command disclosed today that a similar sentence was imposed last Au gust on a white Wac convicted of the same offense. Delta Lewis was chosen aueen of tho! Green-and-Gold bell which is to take place tonight at Reames Golf and Country club, and the .coronation .will be held at o'clock. . The ball. an annual affair, it sponsored by the Mutual ImprOTement as sociation- of the Latter ' Day Saints church. . Comvi. E ; ,Three true bills were returned by - the-Klamathcounty- grand jury late Tuesday afternoon,' two against-, Merle' . Malcolm - Craw ford indicting hiriv -oh charges-of rape and sodomy,, the. thUd against TSfahTe'y 'Angus' 'on an; in dictment ;of uttering, a. . forged bank check. . .; ;''." '-'!."; ) -Crawford-will- appear for ar raignment at 10 a. m. Satnrdn v. it was announced today by Cir cuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. It is understood that George Roberts, . well known Medfbrd attorney, will represent Craw ford who has been in the eountv jesu ui .iicu ui fiu.uuu ljuiiu since ins arrest the night of February 20 .when he allegedly attacked a Mills, addition white woman. " ' - ' Angus appeared in circujt court at' 2 p. m. today ' entered a . plea of guilty and ' was sentenced to not more than two years in the state penitentiary Dy judge vandenberg. He will be taken to Salem this week. -The man has been in: custody of the -county jail since his ar rest on the charge of uttering a forged check to the amount of $18. The check was cashed at the Waldorf pool hall. , , Rodney Bortis. Prisoner of War s Word was received Tuesday from the war department by Mr.- and Mrs. Clemens 'W. Bpr tis, 640 Roseway drive, that their son, SSgt.; Rodney - D. Bortis, of the army air corps has been reported a prisoner of the Germans. Young Bortis was listed as missing in action over Germany, since mid-January. The telegram reads: "Report just received through International Red Cross states that your son, SSgt. Rodney D. Bortis is a prisoner of war of the German government. Let ter of information follows." ' Bortis served as tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber, and has been overseas since Au gust of 1944. He was believed to be based in England at the time of the operation,- which was thought to have been his last mission before returning home. -. Bortis is a graduate of Klam ath Union high school with the class of 1943, and moved to Klamath Falls with his family eight years ago. The father of the prisoner is with- the govern ment under civil service on a job at the Marine Barracks. A iiitillanf-' .!..'.-. m ' - - wuiniiiuiiiijue uum - .., 1, 1,11116 Oil-- nounced "crippling damage was inflicted on the Japanese fleet" Wlthmit ln c - 1 , . v. a single Amen can warship. - ..... - futscner Moves In TlaHin ' TftWn r-ni I T ,! ' lEuwicui vite Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's carrier forces were within 60 miles of the homeland and would return for further . attacks. Govern ment spokesmen said new-forti-ficationsr we r e being built throughout Japan to repel an in vasion, the army was preparing to iake over private property,, . nisic ucujK rusnea into underground fortifications, and m i. areas or Tokyo " " uc .-uemuusnea as lire brpalrv Ia..Tm.m -i . i. Saa Fernando Captured - ' . ... "lc luuppines quickened... Guerrillas captured s?n. -Fernando, - important port .north-of Manila. The U. S. 40th division on Panay advanced 25 miles to join strong guerrilla i t""" 1118 eage ot 11am taL.lloil0 and eaptured Its air- DOrt. CnnmiAsf nf Ta.jiM : i , was completed with the capture u-i"- a cumoinea am pnibioua and overland operation. -'Tno mnntUel... t . - .i.viiwwiung oun. . ior Japan s , fleet reached a climax w"e carrier airmen f2iSnin"5eru,1' navy' hiding In H?mm m- V long- In,and sea- -s"M,...,ii,uji, Ensspciatea Mi "ar e"spondent with, Mitscher's "task force 58," said mT rrS vl,X daa8ed: - . . r' loigc; carriers, Jour amall carriers, two cruisers, iuur-aesiroyers, .- one destroyer escort and one submarine.- : jap sups sunk Six '. amnll : -. . wSiiHyB wers suck and seven others probably sunk. : Arsenals,; hangars, shopi and All Tant. ......I- J-l- . . ..... itcig ucauurefl 1X1 military. Installations on. the three islands bordering the sea T-Kyushu, Shioku and Hanshu. Two hundred Japanese planes were shot down, 275 wrecked on .siuuna ana- more Man 100 others damaged. - Many .of the enemy aircraft were brought down in persistent attacks on Mitscher's ships. One -- -'"''.u nw Heavily damaged and a "few others re- uuuur cnange. All witn drew under-their own power. American mosses ijiatat Arimi-fal MI 1 -1 - -1 , iiniM uesuriDea American aircraft losses as "ex tremely ugnt." , Most of those nrniicyVif ilnnr. ......... . anti-aircraft fire which pilots w. iiBBvy enougn to walk on. ; v-..- . i Japanese Imperial communi que claimed eight U. S. warships were sunk, two , damaged and 187 attacking '.; aircraft , shot down. Heavy air attacks were also made on main Japanese concen- --"If , WUUKIII J Ul.UU . 1 1 was in this general area that sueiiiiiHs seized oan iernando on Lingayen gulf. The U. S. 33rd HlVl.lftn rlrnun 1A . -" . ..v .iii.c uui in ward to come within stx miles oi a junction wun tnese guerillas.- , . ..... v- Brennon-Cahoon Submits Low Bid Brennan and Cahoon, Marine Barracks contractors, submitted : the low bid today on the USO remodeling program for the Ar cade 'garage building. Their figure was $21,090. Other bids were: Todd Con. struction company, $21,440; Brosterhous Construction com-pany,-$21,504; Cecil Green. Sr., $22,538; Leo N. Huls. $25,500. Bids were opened by Howard Perrin, the architect, and will be sent to the USO regional of fice at . San Francisco for approval. Tall Snow Tales Get Bird Tall tales of deep snow in nearby mountain passes got the bird at today's meeting of the chamber of commerce directors. Vern Owens reported that the Josephine county war bond , chairman, slated to attend a bond conference here last night, gave up the trip when he was told there were five feet of snow on Greensprings pass. N. H. Zachariasen, the Jackson county chairman, heard there were 14 inches of snow on-the pass.- He summoned courage and started out, finding the road open and In good shape. : ' " Chamber directors, declaring; that - such', orroneous atoriej have been heard in the Rogue river country for many winters,,; ordered letters sent to the.Medford and Grants Pass chambers, asking' that they do their best to circulate the proper -informa-, tion on Greensprings road conditions, r "-"'iior,
