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7 . . ' '. : : ' : " 1 -f : ; ai a aa 1 . m umw'mtw.ViA'Mwu urn; UIJI' WO) -ri m In The Shtuin-Cameadtt Wonderlmnd tivz cemts iiiim March 22 1945 Mx. (March 21) 54 ' Min. 37 Precipitation lait 24 hours .....04 Btraam year to data ..7.82 Normal S.S9 Lait yaar t.98 ; Forecast: Occasional linht nlm r.l.. : ""''' - -- -- -- -- ---i--i-i--i-)nnnn.nnjjMmT.n.runj-u KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 22. IMS 1mm k. FRANK JENKINS ,M Tokyo radio, wo got to ,v glimpse of Jap strategy, mler Kolso, urging vlrtunl ill Inw throtiRhout tho Jup !i . "Wo muirt nllhur victory or wc oimii nuM ,Tho same terror drlvo hn used by tho n n . I Long tho fighting In Gcr L lir bryond tho point of BUI ,u t'v... - t Tokyo newspaper Yom- Hochl atlas: hundred million jap are mlnrd to DIB In defame of beloved homeland." i . II ;ps hope, by threatening i endless series of Iwo to bluff u Into giving I rnlltirr pence, lvcii men finstlcal generals (their it nne and their admirals tailed) know that utter de li ultimately cerium n me (Mi on. . tt Jip aro fleeing by the BILLIONS irom ineir air kttntd big cities. Tokyo is Sled (by tho Jap homo mln o be down already from millions to loss than FOUR r"'B-2Bs are proving that hi cities are acatn traps. Ilk. PhllliiDinca. Panav Is Irtty much In our hands, jino guerrillas had about tti It up oxcent for tho city (olio. . Hollo falls Into our h itter the 'Japs had 70 LmLa U Ku fir mrl mlnnl ielr demolition squaas seem )n slipped a cog, falling to If tne citys.naroor men- captured by us practically of MbiiIIb,- tho death- id-Shimbu Una has been d. with Immense Jan iWr.und capture by us of quantities or supplies tne yellow men had assembled In the hope of standing us hdtflnllely , . BUS'S a minor but slgnlfl int item In the news today. ItPPINE BASED Mitchell txn smash a 6-slilp Jap con- netr amoy, on tne unina I Already.- you sec. wc f the South China sea pas- teurms, 100 or more of our '!ts raid Rangoon for the lid time this week. The kh have some 30,000 Japs ld near Mnndalay. In fil Burma, and Rangoon Is I principal source of supply: It Irrawaddy valley, below Idaliy HAS OIL. i Europe, Armageddon moves rtr by the hour. int Sanr nnd the Palatinate I Of thft .Tthlno. Pntfnn nnd f have DESTROYED two W armies this feat rank pntinued on Page Six) Number 10410 Make Man sing in Action LAKE Word was re by Mr. "and .Mrs. Karl of Tulelake that thoir Otporal. Keith S Oehtrv. niarlne corps, was wound ctlon'on Iwo Jima recent- fjWear-old youth is with division of the marines, oeen in the service over i. He holds tho Silver '! his action on Bougaln JJ a paratrooper. When the paratroops wore disband- ago, . Gentry returned wuntry on a 30-day fur Mp4 visited his parents at "before returning to the ? theater of war. . J1' from their son was re- hfeh i 8nd Mrs- Gentry Wtal for a wound In his but. no further details iven by him. Another received from tho Red F waa not serious, and thnt not oe shipped home. f)f Dismissed Jomoge Suit m in the $15,000 dam lbr0URht by T. W. Lawr VI, f? W ol-Jii-.u ..... tt. J i ' uinuiuiui, wa 'KQ hv r,lw...it t , - t- i j IMmT. "'tu"t uuoc uiu kV?.rit a,ter the attorney tlwense had asked for a r?verdict from the bench. E. requcst for a dlrect r,'.'t and Jiirtoo Vanrien- render a judgmont y1J)erlod of 'fl0 days as j kv Lawrence ds repre- y o. DBiemino anu Nazi l?.pcket$ 0 HIGH TIMBER PRODUCTION TO be mm Public Agencies, Allo cate Stumpage For 1945 Cut Lumber production in Klam ath county will be maintained In 1045 at near the 1044 level, It was reported after a meet ing here Wednesday of repre sentatives of various public tim ber agencies held at the Rogue Hivcr forest office in the led crul building. Lack of manpower, rather than timber, may bring about a small reduction. The 1044 cut was approximately 580,000,000 feet, and the 1045 production is expected to hit about 553,000, 000. Attending the meeting were Frank B. Lcnzlc, regional for ester for the Indian service, Spokane; C. R. Palrie, forester, Spokane; Reese Taylor, forest supervisor, Klamath Agency; Larry Mays, Fremont forest sup ervisor; Knrl Janouch, , super visor, ond F. G. Whitney, as slalunt supervisor, Rogue River nutlonul forest; Walter Lund, forester . In charge of , timber management, regional : office, Portland; F. H. Brundage, war production boards ..-- , Purpose of the meeting was to study and allocate stumpage to maintain lumber production in the Klamath area at the highest possible war-time level. It was brought out that all mills In operation now will continue for tho 1045 cutting season. . It Is expected that about half the 1045 cut in the Klamath area will be on private timber, and half on public. Weyer haeuser Timber company will dominate the private cuttinR, with a few other mills getting a part of all of their stumpage from private timber. In num ber, a majority of the mills are dependent largely on public timber. Santo Killed In Philippines Word has been received from the war department advising Charles M. Santo, 3810 Board man, of the death of his broth er, TSgt. Hubert Santo, killed In action in the Philippines on March 8. Set. Santo was a former Cali fornia Oregon Power company employe here and was graduat ed from Medford high school with the class of 1938. He en listed In the army Infantry in 1940, and went overseas in 1041, one week before Pearl Harbor. Santo was awarded the Sliver Star for gallantry in ac tion in the taking of the Munda air field in tho early fighting in tho South Pacific. Pincars On Germans In Wait 1 GJtRMANY J FRANCE A jnav'naiiT pV"iw .Nancy f UJJ JEW J l!? TAnrnMius - f ' !j11111Mjj nuts k Adrancing (solid' arrows) into Corman-hald territory (shaded) wast of the Rhine, the U. 8. third and saranth armias threatened (open arrows) to trap a large number of enemy troops. In tha norths tha American bridgehead east 'of the Rhine expanded to include mora of tha superhighway. (AP wirephoto). ' : New York City Night Clubs Spurn LaGuardia's Curfew NEW YORK, March 22 (IP) New York City's major night clubs today spurned Mayor F. H. LaGuardia's 1 a. m. curfew for the government requested midnight shut down and La Guardia said that was all right with him. The decision of the Allied Food and Entertainment Indus tries of Greater New York, com prising 35 leading cabarets and restaurants to ignore the "hour of tolerance,", brought this re tort from the mayor: ; "It's quite all right 'with me, I don't care how -early they close." ' Return of the night .clubs to the midnight deadline was inter preted as a result of the war and navy department directives clamping a rigid 12 o'clock cur few on all uniformed personnel and the fear of possible govern ment sanctions. But, the mayor, his one-man rebellion against War Mobilizcr James F. Byrnes' midnight closing request apparently headed for a hollow victory, re treated a bit from his original all-out curfew extension by say ing: ... "As long as they stop their entertainment at 12 they are not breaking the local law." LaGuardia, questioned' as he arrived at the municipal build ing about reported action of They Usually Show Up! Just yesterday a Klamath Falls family watched the messen ger boy walk up the steps of their home, in his hand a little yellow envelope. The father and mother waited, their hearts beating furiously. Just a few weeks ago this same messen ger had brought them the heart breaking word that their son, 8 . an airman, was missing in action They .tore open the envelope. So much depended on the typewritten words they would find within! ; It was good news! Their son' was a prisoner of war. For the first Jime in weeks they smiled. So often this has happened in Klamath county Just as it has all oyer the nation. Parents of young men in the service should take heart from the v.. records compiled in tne. neraia ana News office. The missing in action messages should no( ; drown the hopes but instead, should give them something to hold ""'seventeen men who have been listed as missing are now nrlsoners of war. Four men have made their way back to their SnitS although one was reported missing for sevea months a w nrnl ablv will not be heard, from for some time ttf cme is Xy hYdeu in enemy territory, awaiting the libera UoTof a coyniuered country , by . the American and Russian; -Sneaking of the Russians; one "Klamath officer was liber ated by tho Russians from a German prison camp- just last WTno message,' "Missing'in Action," is not a final one. . Our men usually show upi citizens touring the city In search -for violations of the lo cal law setting a .midnight 'en tertainment closing, said crypti cally: . ' "Remember, . the state law al lows them to sell liquor and keep a bar open until 4 a.:m., but the city law requires caba rets and dance halls to close at midnight, v "It the night clubs stop their shows, they can still continue to sell liquor until 1 a. m. as long as they stop their entertainment- at 12 they are not breaking the local law." Meanwhile, the Blue network announced the mayor would de fend his l a. m. closing in a broadcast over the network from a to 7:15 p. m..(EWT) to day. His topic: ;'Why the One Hour Tolerance For New .York City." "I know we're letting the mayor down," said Billy Rose, owner of the Diamond Horse; shoe and president of the asso ciation, "but we're forced to do this. My allegiance to my coun try goes beyond my allegiance to the mayor." . , April Showers Come in March People and the skies wept wnen weanesaay s Drigni prom ises of sunshine were broken Thursday with a sad drizzle. . The lion and the lamb have been bickering all month, with turn tn nnp nddfl nn tho lion. No reports from the weather man warrant a change in favorites. Anyway crocus buds encour age Easter ' bonnet purchases, and to the ' farmers these soft snows and the descending mois ture appear as pennies from heaven so perhaps everyone is pleased wun tne cnecKer-Doara Predictions for today, tonight and Friday are mostly clouay with occasional light rains, and little change in temperature. Denny Rees Upped in Rank Dr. Denton J.- Rees, ' Klamath dentist who is back in the U. S. after long imprisonment by the Japanese in the Philippines, has been promoted from-captain to major. ' ' Major Rees, now in Sacramen to visiting his parents, will- make a trip to Klamath Falls some time next week, according to Dr, C. J. Cox,- his former office as sociate here.. , . STRENGTH TO BR DG E 1st Army Troops Take 9 Miles of Sieg South Bank" . By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, March 22 (P) The third and seventh armies crush ed all but disorganized German pockets west of the Rhine today while allied bombers smashed by the hundreds north of the Ruhr, where the enemy said the allies had massed enormous, smoke-shrouded strength for an imminent new crossing of the river. Only remnants remained to be cleaned up in the German chem ical capital of Ludwigshafen, en veloped by the third army. A stiff fight for Mainz flared into its third day. The Germans in MAINZ, Germany. March 22 (IP) Tha 90th diriiion claarad more than threarquariera of Mains today. the Palatinate and Saarland had lost probably well ovea 100,000 men 88,335 in prisoners alone iand two whole armies in one of the greatest debacles in Prus sian military lore. . ..wTtk SaadeHrth V-at The U. S. seventh army, sped 28 miles north; passing many positions, captured by .the third and forming numerous lineups with the third army; - First army troops , seized nine miles of the Siee's southern .bank and expanded their bridge head to zy miles in lengtn ana nine miles in depth. They shbul dered the Germans ' southward to within 7 i miles of Coblenz. Just north of the closing bat tle of the Palatinate, the first army pushed to the Sieg river at points 12 miles from tne Runr and 13 of its large industrial (Continued on Page Two) Nazi Scraping J Garmam eartalnly must have bean--scraping tha' bottom of the manpawar barrel whan they put tha Haiaie above in uni form and sent him into action on tha western front. Captured in an air raid shelter at Vorst, Germany, he said -he was 61 years old, had bean in the army since last December. ALLIED I MIGHT By HENRY B. JAMESON "LONDON, March 22 (IP) The full fury of allied air might was turned directly , on German troops jammed into the Ruhr today as 1300 American heavy bombers blasted nine ' of the largest army camps in western Germany and five more airfields near the front. ' Incomplete reports ' indicated that more than 7000 warplanes were: taking a crack at German targets. : ' ,'':' Eourteen waves of Fortresses and Liberators were protected by 700 Mustangs in the attacks on camps 'and air bases' in the Ruhr. The; Mustangs also pa trolled the: sky or 'other wide spread, air "operations ranging from the North Sea to Austria. ..The - tactical -air commands thus were able to throw their full weight into . the , merciless bomb and rocket qffensive which Gen,: -Eisenhower :had - warned was coming. . The .weather- again favored the airmen, and so many hun dreds of aircraft were flashing in' air directions over the ' reich that the'nazi radio finally gave (Continued on Page Two) West Coast Terror-Tactics Keep Japs From Returning By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON,. March 22 (IP) Terror dished out by hood lums, arsonists and nightriders is keeping some of the evacu ated Japanese and Japanese Americans from returning to the west coast. ' Only about 1700, of the 110, 000 evacuated after Pearl Har bor, have gone back. Sixty thou sand still are in relocation camps, waiting to go back or to find homes elsewhere.' , Terrorization, intimidation and discrimination have been used against about 1 but of every 70 evacuees who have returned. This estimate is by officials of the war relocation authority (WRA). This is some of the picture given by WRA records here on tne treatment given some ot tne evacuees who returned to the west coast, mostly in California: Their homes have been set on fire: nightriders have fired shot gun blasts into their homes; their homes have been stoned; near Fresno a group of ranchers and business men gave returned Japanese a deadline for leaving the area; a Los Angeles post office refused to hire back a returned Japanese - American, even though he's an American Staffon Hears Refrain"Don't Fence Me In!" ' PORTLAND, March 22 (IP) Police said today they have corraled a stallion which must have heard the western refrain,' "Don't Fence Me In." The nag kept patrolmen and an ex-cowboy busy sev eral hours last night trying to coax it off a highway. It evaded a lasso noose, ignored "giddy-up" and wouldn't budge until ready. It finally strolled into a yard where police tethered it until morning. army veteran of this war and has been -taken into an Amer ican Legion post; and an alum inum company in Los Angeles fired a returned Japanese-American because other workers threatened to quit if he stayed. 1 For lack -ot space, the list of these' cases can't be given here. But it's impressive. Attorney General Biddle says the relocation of the Japs will continue rather slowly and quiet ly because most of the Japs will . tuontinuea on Jfage two) Americans Using Pershing Tank LONDON, March 22 (IP) The German radio declared to day that American forces on the western-front now are us ing the new General Pershing tank, equipped with guns of 90 millimeters nearly foiir inches. The broadcast quoted front disnatches as saying the Per shing was the counterpart of the German "rung Tiger- tame. The dispatches did not indi cate whether the new Ameri can tanks had appeared in large numbers and did not comment on their performance. William DeCew Reported Missing Staff Sergeant William DeCew, husband of Thyrza Anderson De Cew of Klamath Falls, has been missing in action since March 2 in the European' theater, ; Mrs. DeCew was advised today. . - Sgt. DeCew was a flight en gineer on a B-26, who received his wings at. Tyndall field, Fla., and served as an instructor be fore going overseas in August, 1944. ,.!.; He was formerly with the state auditing department, and was a graduate of the University of Oregon. He . was well-known here. - . ' . Rangoon Hit By 1Q0 B-29s, Die y LEONARD MILLIMAlf Associated Press War Editor A hundred or mora Supazforts blasted Rangoon today at millions of Japanese flad from their P-29 threatened homes is Japan and thousands of othari wara killed on invaded islands oi aboard blockade-running ships, Tha "siiabla task farce" of India-baaed B-29s raiding Rangoon for tha second time within a weak, was acting in support o British troops who have trapped soma 30,000 Nipponese in central Burma. Rangoon waa their principal source of supply Tokyo's population has dwindled from nearly seven million to "lass than four million" as nen-eeeential civilians flad from the terror of B-2S ineaadiariaa raids, Japan's home minister announced. - Approximately 25 par cant of tha population has deserted other Superfortress plagued industrial canters. "Extraordinarily heavy" Jap anese losses were reported as American infantrymen shattered the Shimbu line east of Manila in central Luzon. General Doug, las MacArthur previously . esti mated . Nipponese losses in the Philippines at 282,000. All but minor pockets of enemy soldiers were crushed by guerrillas and the U. S. 40th division on Panajr in the central Philinninen whr. .Yanks captured the city of Hollo. m per cent or wnien was de stroyed by enemy-set fires and mines. . .. .- . . RUSSIANS QPEN E IN SILESIA LONDON March K-'7fl Marshal Stalin announced the start of a new soviet offensive by Marshal Konev'g first Ukrain ian army southwest of Breslau in Silesia tonight and said a Ger man force southeast of Oppeln had been surrounded ,and the Czech-German border citv of Neustadt captured. ine btaiin order said Konev s army advanced 25 miles and cap tured seven towns and 400 other places on a 30-mile front -near the Czechoslovak border.. Neustadt is 55 miles southwest of Breslau and but three miles from the Czechoslovak border. Cosel, Steinau, Zuelz, Krappitz, Oberglogau- and Falkenberg were Other towns listed as being captured. The towns -are- both northwest and southeast- of Neustadt. . At Neustadt two "soviet col ums linked ud. encircline a Ger man group in which 15,000 Ger mans ana 404 guns were cap tured, the order said. -The offensive was in the form - (Continued on Page Two) i . . - r-. . . r. '-r ' Klamath Resident PpssSSrtlwo -John Albert Linman, 70, for tne past JS years a resident of Klamath Falls,' -died - at' Hillside hospital at 10:45 a: m. today fol lowing an illness of the past two weeks. j ".- , Mr. Linman was born at Bole bro Rocknevy, Kalmar Lan, Sweden,. April 20, 1865,- and at the age of 17, came alone to the United States. For several years he lived in Jersey City and New York City- and later spent a period of 13 years at sea. For- a' short, time Mr. Linman made his home in San Francisco and was married there in 1808 to Mary Ellen Cannon. They moved from the Bay area to Klamath Falls - in May, 1910, and Mr. Linman engaged in the tow-boat ' business on Upper Klamath lake. He built a home at the boat landing at Buena Vista and resided at that point until five years ago when he and Mrs. Linman moved to their present residence, 741 Rose. Mr. Linman disposed of his tow-boat business on the lake in 1027, and for a time' was af filiated with the California Ore gon Power-company. In 1938, he retired and had been at home since that time. , Mrs. Linman and one . son, John P. Linman, survive as do four grandchildren, a nephew, Martin - McGrath of Klamath Falls, - and a niece, Delia Mc Grath, who arrived Tuesday from San Francisco. A full obituary appears else where in this issue. - Hundreds of Japs Lost . - Hundreds of Japanese wera lost ' at sea . when low-flying Mitchell bombers virtually wiped out a six ship convoy off Amoy, China. Australia's air minister announced that Aussies flying over the Dutch East In dies sank 29 Japanese ships and damaged 32 others in February. Most of them were small. There are still, the Tokyo) newspaper Yomiuri-Hochi . said, "100,000,000 Japanese deter mined to die in defense of their beloved homeland." , Martial Law Urged Virtually martial law over bomb-scarred Japan was urged by Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso who warned "we must either win a victory or we shall all die." He asked the diet to ap propriate the equivalent of $1, 000,000,000 to pay "first aid ex penses io the victims of air raids and other wartime disasters." Other disasters Included smashing raids by Vice Adm. Mare A. Mitscher's task force 58, whose carrier , planes knocked out approximately 30 war and merchant, ships Sunday and Monday -in their third strike at Japan and dealt perhaps more serious damage to the emperor's naval and air machines by de stroying repair shops, ammunl- -Hon dumps, oil storage facilities and-' air : assembly-- shops. - De prived of repair- facilities, dam aged' ships -remain cripples and faulty, airplane . engines keep planes grounded. ' U. Si Battleships Damaged An imperial communique claimed another U. S. battleship was heavily damaged, bringing the task force's asserted losses to eight ships destroyed and three damaged. American an nouncements said one was seri- , (Continued on Page Two) Marshall Olson Killed in Action '. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Olson ot this city were advised by the war department that their son. Pvt. Marshall Olson, 33, United . States army infantry, was killed in action in France on March 12. Pvt. Olson lived in Klamath county for 19 years. He attend ed school at Keno, and prior to going into the service had been employed ; as ' driver for Pat's cab. He was familiarly, known as "Happy." ; The . infantryman had been overseas since Febru ary 1, 1945. - . . Mr. and Mrs. Olson make their home at Mills school where Olson serves as the building custodian. He is a former Big Lakes Box company employee. Work to Be Started Soon On Klamath Teen-Age Club Obstacles in the path of the Klamath Falls teen-age club were hurdled late last night when a majority of the city council gave a go-ahead signal to Leo N. Huls, contractor, who will start work immediately on club quarters in the armory. Councilman Rollin Cantrall advised Clarence . E. Humble, teen-age' advisory committee chairman, late Wednesday, that he - had contacted other mem ben of- the council and all agreed to. the appropriation of $1500 as recommended by the recreation committee. Huls was the only contractor to submit a bid, amounting to $1507. - Last Monday night Mayor Ed Ostendorf told the council he had a promise from the county court for half of the amount which the recreation -committee had recommended be , spent from. city recreation funds for this purpose. At an informal meeting of the court, County Judge U. E. Reeder advised that he knew of no such action, and yester day a -letter was sent to the common council and mayor, ad vising that the court regretted the misunderstanding but that no funds were available nor budgeted for such an expendi ture: - ' - At noon, Wednesday, mem. bers of the armory committee met -to -discuss the possibility of spending armory funds for the teen-age club, but in a mo tion decided not to spend money for remodeling the armory for this purpose. - Th e armory' committee ad vised that due to the fact that quarters for the club were be ing made available by the arm ory ' group, and that the com mittee had agreed to pay all water and light bills for a pe riod of six months, this was as far as they could go with funds on hand. Later Councilman Cantrall, member of the armory commit, tee, told Humble lhat he in tended contacting ea:h member of the council for approval of the entire kxpenditure of tha $1500. Later Humble was ad vised that the f.-ouncil ' had pledged the entire 'sum and that Humble should contact Huls and give him approval to start remodeling immediately on pro posed quarters at the armory. f h Slsem'ornd'GladllSCh bV "4
