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Newspaper Page Textfo) fin ma N m lilCi MANIC JENKINS Pi. " 1.A ...,.-1,1 lfn.. eye 01 mo wwum iwmmj t on me lower Rhino, where L'i nuns nro pounding the t.n.liclcl enst bank in one of P" . i 1 panni Hint ioua RPhiui Monty n history' I artilleryman gicmui tfipolcon. t Vad of the men rrom C.niv'i cannon, the allied trce weapon uch as has fcbeen ecn iilnce the world pouring bomb on I., nrr I1UUH. Ln the weather, ardently Lil from the fnteful D-day A. seem to have ad- . . i I .. .. I , n 1 , 1 n nn1 rinmn to our dlde. In clear skies mlilily "lr "C(-'u ,re lylnK h on northern Germany the Chintf bombardment that I so F ' ... I or inn nu v uum iviiuuitc nl sunoly and ao made Ejble our landing and our fcmienl swift conquest of fee and Jhe low countries. WEHAL BRADLEY calls In Ihe correspondents and tells h that me mawen uiucw can nr. AT ANY TIME." v me nrncrii-un m hr'lriiclicnd and salient at 'cn havo boen deliberately hark from full exploitation i )h allied- rliiht flank In , J ,1.. IlkUllnflln IMirm. !! in" "" been made secure by the do :l(on of the German armies b whlcll lias now Dcen nc feltahed by Patton and Patch hen Is now. he says, no her need to keep tho Rem- onugencao sm.n. WHAT he means Is that If we I hari hoomecl acroa the lhlno too quickly, aftor our it n eood luck In sen na RcmSRon bridge intact, our tanca mint nave ncen kind off by powerful German in coming In from the flank jlwsys a threat when an of Live wedge Is driven In from thin a base.) . , HERE Is every sign that an tillled crossing of the lower tnt Is Impending. Bradley l us the 1st- army can now ir (head over tho ricmagen BKhead whenever It chooses. Germans say today that pal ls masslni AMPHIBIOUS Uufora crossing of the upper ine, : ' EANWHILE " ' The Russians arc hammcrlna lower Oder, at Stettin with krtge of the Russian kind Bch. In Its way Is the terrify- raulvalcnt of Montgomery a iltln lies squarely across the r.ti German plain from the rer Rhine. : In the middle Oder, due east Berlin. Zhukbv is said to be pi Into action on a heavier ft. On the upper Oder, fiev is thrusting toward the irtvian gntcway . that leads kn through Czechoslovakia to (una and thence west and flhwest through southern Ger- pjr toward a possible junction in canon s and Patch a armies Rhev shnnlH rrnM tho tinner ne I nu itr ke eastward. Peitiny is on the march. I J1THIN tho next few days or (.weeks, or MONTHS: exact fractions are. dangerous we get an answer to this que.t- tnat hasv agitated us con- Wrtly: fHOM are the Germans PST AFRAID. OF? P they want us or the Rus- Pi to take possession first? (IE answer to this question Is UP to the narls. If they VE to answer it, they can do !onunued on Page Two) . 'elder Jailed r Fof of Hotfoot ntrT.uuiA u.,.h ' oa IJpA navy yard welder began we-month prison sentence to ll', for administering a fatal F'foot." iwui Blssorun. 40. said he E 9 a piece of paper at the ,l of fellow welder, Naron ''ton, 36, while Jackson was rjP at tne navy yard foundry. fHon's grease-soaked pants Pint fire. Badly burned, he (: verai weeks later, fluerup pleaded guilty to l'M of "manslauehtor on a E eminent reservation" and "ntenced by Federal Judge 'i , uara. Tof Flynn Denies Wee Rumors HOLI " l'ynn. who has been most mmitta( about his marriage Nora Eddlngton, told a re- uuj lnat tncre wouia u. divorce In his family. Proposed visit of his wife to nome this afternoon. . Earlier d L "Ji' father said she wn 24-months-old daughter, S uRlanned to call at I. hllltoP home for a pos- fc'frlago. Flynn is said to hirir . 0 -home By, an ck malaria. : ... I PRICE rive cents' in The Shamta-Cascade Wonderland - - - -ii-iinn.nnimiT-iTjsvwAAAAj Voolher News , March 23, 1945 Max. (March 22) 40 MIn. :.26 Precipitation last 24 hours- ...03 Stream year to data ; ......7.79 Normal : 8.93 Last year :...5.98 Forecast: Frost toniaht. Wurmar siturdiv "ZERO HOUR" ; DRAWS NEAR, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1945 Number 10421 J cap Premier Vows l&eccapfure of Dsles SQVIETDR1VE 31 NI MILES Soar Mop-Up FROM BER LONDON, March 23 (fP) German frontline rodlo report tonight sold Marshal Gregory Zhukov's Russians had broken through Berlin's defenses and smashed to Golzoww, six miles west of tho river and 31 miles from the copltol. The enemy reported the thrust to Golrow wns made from the sector of Kuestrin fortress, held by the Russians, with six in fnntry divisions and waves of tanks, and the "battle still sways to nnd fro." LONDON, March 23 (PI Tha Russians announced the capture tonight of Zoppot on the gulf ol Danslg between the ports of (aynla and Danslg. , . German broadcasts said Zhukov. may hnvc massed close to 100 divisions along the Oder for one onslaught on Berlin. To the south, Marshal Ivan Konev's new Sllcslan offensive. possibly preparing tho way for the opening or tne battle of Ber lln, rolled onward along an 80' mile front toward the Inner fortress of .! Germany where Adolf Hitler's SS men are re ported preparing to make their last, desperate stand if Berlin is lost . Fire Cities Periled With swift tank-led rushes, Konev's first Ukrainian army group threatened five large Slleslan e tics Frankenstein, Nnlsse, Zlegenhals, Leobschuetz and Ratlbor In the Moravian mountains and already was re ported fighting In one of them and in the suDums oi anomer. On the Berlin front the Ger man high command announced that Marshall Gregory Zhukov attacked from the flanks of his Odor bridgehead at Kuestrin, 38 miles cast of Berlin, with strong tank and infantry forces. The Germans declared that the attack was smothered in a . (Continued on Page iwoj Help Asked io , Curb Shoplifting Main street merchants were urged by County Juvenile Offi cer Harold Hcndrlckson, to as sist in curbing shop lifting and betty thievery. Numerous cases have heen called to the atten tion of his office, Hendrickson said. , ,. F.arl v Thursdav evening city PO' lice nicked UP two sisters, 10 nnH 11 vcars old. who had in their possession four pairs of bobby ox and quite a few trink ets taken from wcwocrry s. The youngsters said they were picking out sox lor mourners oi fhnlr famllv. but InSSTTlUCh as juvenile officers said the. family included 23 persons, this was considered quite a large order for the little girls. irovn I .urns, assistant county juvenile officer; asked the little lifters what she should: do with them? The pair advised her that she shouldn't do anything as their mother took care of tnem with a whipping every time they did anything of this kind. Both girls were taken home and are to report in the juvenilo office with tneir parenu ommuaj morning. . Revised Cattle Subsidy Outlined s WASHINGTON. March 23 (JPI The office of economic stabiliza tion today outlined the revised cattle subsidy program under which slaughterers win oe-euni-ui . on oHHItlnnnl nremium of up to 50 cents a hundred- WOES Director William . H. Davis also formally announced . ..t mm BO cents to 30 cents a hundredweight in the special subsidy paid to non-processing slaughterers. . Both steps were . disclosed earlier this week. The OES said they are designed to bring bet ;"Jji...u,..(inn of taeef suDDlies and to equalize more nearly the competitive position of slaugh terers. . '.v,,i The program -. April !. ' '.' '.' ' ."" I P",)'I, Owlm.aJ - '. j VrtuHr. jCOIOSMf VS. 1ST VPjJ t Okxi? ? . i A-J p4 .KrffJinach V M TliM '..,. t.s. JRO am THI SAAR WX I SF-. V.S.3RD IWijl Cir''KalffnlaaNrna Bk4aV - y ( 0 10 19 jTS' U. S, ihlrd and seventh arm ies mop up disorganised Ger man remnants in Saar-Palatin-ate while first army east of Rhine slashes toward heart of Ruhr. AS REA CHIEFTAIN WASHINGTON, March 23 (P) The senate rejected today Presi dent Roosevelt's nomination of Aubrey Williams as rural elec trification administrator. The vote was 52 to 36 against confirmation. Former NYA Head Senate action came two months and a day after tho president submitted the name of the former national youth administrator for director of a lending program opponents said soon may reach the proportions of a billion dollars. Some southern democrats Joined with republicans to de feat tho 54-year-old Williams, an ardent new dealer. First Since 1939 It was the first senatorial re jection of a presidential ap pointee, other than a post master, since June, 1939, when a' nominee for United States at torney for Nevada was turned down. Some other nominations were withdrawn, however. Supporters contended that Williams was falsely accused of communist leanings. Op ponents said he was not fitted for the job. , Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky, pleading for con firmation shortly before the vote was taken, called Williams a champion of the under privileged. Hughes Death Laid to Pills HOLLYWOOD, March ' 23 (IP) Mrs. Rupert Hughes, wife of the author, died today in Hollywood receiving hospital shortly ' after she had been taken there by po lice ambulance from her home. Officers C. B. Sylvester and James' Temple, who answered a call from the Hughes home, said she aCcidently took an overdose of sleeping; tablets in an effort to overcome the pain of an ail ment from which she had long been a sufferer. Mrs. Hughes, 42, was known in literary circles as Elizabeth Patterson Dial and was a well known writer. She married Hughes in Madison, Fla., in 1924. They have no children. Husband Wounds Estranged Wife PORTLAND,' March 23 VP) Mrs. Marian Morrison, 25, who was to have begun divorce pro ceedings today, was in the hos pital Instead with a bullet wound in the thigh. She was quoted by Detective Capt. John J. Keegan as saying her estranged husband came to see her last night, and fired when she tried to close the door. The husband, Eldred Morrison, was held for questioning. By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Sixty thousand tank-supported Japanese troops opened a new campaign in central China today as Premier Gen. Kuniakl Koiso promised to launch "an ' offen sive toward the recapture of Iwo Jims. Saltan and Guadalcanal. Kolio's bland pledge ignored the loss of another Philippine is land Guimaras the 27th to be invaded by American assault forces a new Australian am phibious advance in the Solo mons and feverish defense prep arations in Japan itself. Japan's new China offensive stemmed from the Hankow area. It appeared to have a three-fold purpose raiding the wheat crop of southern Honan and northern Hupeh . provinces, knocking out U. S. air bases, and strengthen ing Nippon's "west wall" along the Chenghsien Hankow sector of railway stretching from Man churia to Canton in southern China. The railway becomes more ne cessary to maintain communica tions with Japan's southern re gion as the American blockade tightens on Japan's.' shipping lanes.. Twelve more small freighters were sunk or damaged off the China coast by air raid ers from the Philippines, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Six more were bagged in the Dutch East Indies. The newest Philippines inva sion was accomplished Wednes day by Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush's 40th - division. Assault forces made a two-mile water crossing from newly captured Iloilo on Panay, where the 40th is mop ping up. The conquest of Gui maras was.not opposed. .Seizure of mountainous, 25 - mile - Jpng Guimaras protects" the" shipping lane to Iloilo, one of the best ports in the central Philippines. Cebu Threatened - An invasion of Cebu in the Central islands was threatened by a heavy three-day bombard ment, in which rockets sank a midget submarine, coordinated with increasing PT boat patrols of Cebu's shores. North of Manila, Yanks began to close a pincers on Baguio, sup posed headquarters of Lt. Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashita, supreme commander of the emperor's scattered forces in the Philip pines. The 33rd division drove to the edge of Naguilian and its airfield, 16 miles northwest of Baguio. Another column was eight miles south of the Philip pines summer capital. Australians Clean Up Australians cleaning up the Solomons made another amphib ious advance on Bougainville, landing on Soraken peninsula, 12 miles from the island's north em tip. All of these ' actions were ' ig nored by Koiso and his war-and navy ministers as they talked of an impending Nipponese; offensive.- The Japanese cabinet adopted an' emergency "war labor board mobilization plans calling for drafting of workers for! con struction of fortifications and air defense Installations" as well as war industry. It is a companion, piece to pending ' legislation to put Japan under virtual military rule. Supplies and munitions are being redistributed so that' any section of Japan will be able to fight to the death if invading forces cut it off from the rest of the country. HARBOR HEARING SET : WASHINGTON, March 23 (IP) Army engineers have advised Senator Cordon (R-Ore.) that a public hearing will be held at Coos Bay, Ore., in May to de termine what additional harbor improvements are needed. . - Fury In the Pacific In this dramatic sequence from-film "Fury In the Pacific" made by 35 army, navy and ma rine corps during invasion of Peleliu, Palau islands, two marines watch (left) as Jap, unwilling to be taken prisoner, dashes from his cave. A si ngle shot drops him (right) and he bites the dust. Other Japs wisely surrendered. Nine photographers were wounded in making film. HOTEL WAGE HIKES War labor board hearings con tinued at the Klamath county courthouse today as members of a panel considered the charge of wage increases made by the Wil- lard hotel without approval of WLB. William A.' Babcock - Jr., re gional attorney for the regional WLB, Seattle, presented his case to the panel, early today. This consisted of testimony of Lynn, Garrison, inspector for the wage and-hour-divisien' of. .the-JJrutad States department of labor. Gar rison's testimony was to the ef fect that- total wages paid by the Willard hotel on which he air leges violations- occurred, amount to $64,491.35. Since October 1942 The total includes wages on which violations are claimed for a period extending from October 3, 1942, to the present time. The October date is the date of the wage stabilization act, Three branches of the Willard are in cluded in this alleged violation, wages paid to hotel, grille and the Officers' club employes. W. D. Miller, owner- of the Willard, said in defense that he had filed Form-10's,. voluntary application for wage adjustment, with the WLB. Lost In Transit It was pointed out that the first forms were lost in transit, the second were filed and can celled due to insufficient: infor mation, and the third and fourth forms are now pending. Garrison explained the al leged violations to the panel; Alma Sweetman, assistant secre tary of the culinary alliance, ex (Continued on Page Two) . LaGuardia Asks Curfew Change NEW YORK, March 23 (IP) Mayor F. 'H. La Guardla, still clinging-to his "hour of -tolerance" on- the Byrnes blackout, has sueeested that congress cre ate an "enforceable" midnight curfew by establishing a license system ' fixing hours of oper- tion. - ', . This could be inserted as proviso in the internal revenue law, he said. - La Guardia indicated to the nation his belief that enforce ment of any closing hour except the 4 a. m. deadline set by state law . would prove . impossible among a large percentage of New York City's bars an.d res taurants. Cheer Up, Smokers! The Fag Shortage Is Only 'Apparent' LEXINGTON, Ky., March 23 (IP) Cheer up the cig arette shortage won't last forever, or even for very long. So reports the University of Kentucky after a study, which also says: The shortage is only "apparent." , The result is that there are more smokes for some Indi viduals but fewer for those who have been heavy smokers In the past. . . - Any real danger of a continuing shortage is forestalled by the big 1944 burley and flue-cured tobacco crops. To make a good cigarette tobacco must be aged at least four years. Marketing of the 1944 burley . crop is just being , completed.' - - i So, the report says, the. scarcity will probably continue . only until the 1944 crop is ready for manufacture. More cigarettes were manufactured in 1944 than ever before. But wartime wages and wartime tensions increased consumption. The report was prepared by the department of markets and rural finance of the. university's agricultural experiment -.- station," - - - - - ' ' . 1 Crawford Enters Not Guilty Plea ' Merle . Malcolm Crawford, in dicted on charges of sodomy and rape py tne Klamath county grand jury last Tuesday, entered pleas of innocence to both counts before Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg this morning.-" ' -Crawford, held in the county. jail in lieu of $10,000 bail, was represented By William Welling ton, associated with George Rob erts of Medford. Roberts will de fend Crawford. Judge Vanden berg set June 4 as date of trial on the sodomy charge and June 18 as date- of- trial-on.-tht rape charge.-T ; BY AIR POUNDING - By HENRY B. JAMESON : LONDON, March; 23 .(IP) Continuous day and; night: bomb ing of Germany at the rate of 274 tons of explosives an hour is- turning the reich . into - chaos in preparation lot a KnocKout blow from the ground. Since the. big aerial offensive started three weeks ago,, allied bombers have hit Germany with more .than, twice the tonnage of bombs dropped , . on England since tne start of the war. Beyond View The terrific devastation- is al most beyond comprehension, but the relentless flailing of every type of military objective irom the . smallest crossroads to Ber lin itself unquestionably' has :made the way easier for the doughboys, as Gen. Eisenhower has declared. y During' the past 10 days of this greatest air blitz in history the industrial Ruhr valley and the vast rolling Rhine plain have been systematically : iso lated from the rest of the reich and deprived of rail and highway movement necessary to resist a (Continued on Page Two) . Cheyne Awarded Purple Heart The Purple Heart, awarded posthumously to Cpl. Rollo B. Cheyne of the U. S. -marine corps, was received on Tuesday by his mother, Mrs. Fannie M. Cheyne of Merrill road. The 21-year-old youth, a mem ber of the 3rd marine division, was -killed in action in the South Pacific, arid 'word was received' July 30. Cheyne en listed in the marine paratroop ers, and following its disorgan ization, j transferred to - the 3rd marines, and saw action in eight major camDaigns. He was in the Marianas islands at - the time of his death. Cheyne is a graduate of Hen ley grade school and Klamath Union high- school. ..His younger brother, Dale, is now in the South Pacific, and is also in .the 3rd. division of marines. , $10,000 in Cash Found on Drunk PORTLAND, March' 23 (i) a: Beaverton man was arresiea earl v today and booked on a charge of drunkenness, and dis orderly conduct.: Police- went through the' regu: lar routine of checking his. val uables. c In ' pockets he carried 13 SQUARE MILES OF MIMES . mm German Radio Claims Yanks Cross River Second Time WASHINGTON,-March:23 (IP) Brig. Gen.- Lauris Norstad said today that approximately 131 square 'miles of Tokyo was .re duced to ashes by the March 9 Superfortress raid. ; ' ' ''; : The. 'incendiary bombs drop ped . by B-29s, . he declared, knocked . out . at least 20 per cent of the Japanese capital's indus trial production for. : t h r e e months' .and five per cent for a full year. . " . ' - : ' ' -' r'VestrvtcUaiTSt'iVAilm'ibpilt- upns was. liunciea in ine aiiaciu against IS agoya, nope and Osaka., he told a news confer' ence, adding that, .full .'reports of the damage there still are not available. ' '"-170 Lost . Since th e Superfortresses started operations last June 5, he said, 170. of the big bombers have . been lost,-, including - 84 downed in combat and 86 'lost through accidents and .- other operational causes. - - j Norstad said the B-29 losses were so far below- expectations that operations in the future can be stepped up substantially;-He did not disclose -how many. Su perfortress crewmen . bad-been lost. -.'-. '.""'.. Drydock Sunk - Since 'opening their attacks against the Japanese the B-29s have destroyed ' 367 enemy planes, he said,- and probably destroyed 301, a total of 666. He summarized other accom plishments as follows: .: Destruction and sinking of the world's largest floating dry dock at Singapore. ' Razing of the Japanese repair and maintenance depot at UKa- yama, described as Japan's most important depot for air oper ations south of 1- ormosa Destruction of wharves and storage' facilities at Hankow, a Japanese communications center in. China... Wharves Destroyed '.- Destruction of the Malagon rail yards - and roundhouse in Rangoon, Japanese -controlled Burmese port. Heavy damage to the' aircraft assembly plant at Omura on the Japanese home island of Kyushu , (Continued on Page Two; Floyd Darnell Killed in Action w Sgt. Floyd Darnell, of the fifth division of the US marine corps gave his life in action on iwo Jima Febru ary 26, accord ing to word re ceived by Mrs R. B. Wilkins of 4717 Frieda, Darnell's sister. fftff Tlnrnolt one tfin' enn nf Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Darnell, for- m e r Klamath Falls ' residents who now reside in Chico, -Calif. He was a veter an .- of Guadal canal and Tulagi. - i Darnell entered the . service December, . 1942. He had lived here all. his life: before entering the armed forces and attended Mills g r a d e school and KUHS. He was 24 years old. ' Sgt. .Darnell , is survived by four sisters.- Cora Wilkins. Ruth Van Hoy, Roseburg, Laura Dar nell of this city. Hazel ana nora Darnell of Chico and one Broth er, Carl, of Portland., - - -!:' By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, March 23 (IP) Ger man , broadcasts s a i d tonight that assault formations from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army had gained a second allied foothold across the Rhine and Field Marshal Montgomery "seems to be ready" for a cross ing in the north. . , There was.no allied con firmation, but -Lt. Gen. , Omar N. Bradley, commander of tho group which includes the U. Si first and third armies declared allied . armies . could cross the great river "most anywhere at any time."; . : v The crossing , was made last night near Oppenheim, 12 miles south Of Mainz and 13 miles due east of Darmstadt, a Ger man radio, announcer reported, with assault boats and amphib ious tanks. ' . ' Although he declared German motorized troops counterattack ed immediately and . "wiped most, of them out" he indicated Patton's forces still had a grip on the east bank of the Rhine to supplement the 33-mile long bridgehead of : the first army stretching from north of Bor.nto within five miles of Coblanz. . AH along the Rhine the Ger mans reported allied prepara tions to storm the river; Smoke Screen Thrown Up : Forty miles ' of -the - lower Rhine were blacked out in a dense -smoke screen thrown up by Montgomery's chemical forces-to mask what the Ger man communique called the "of fensive preparations" of - his three -armies. , Heavy- shelling arched across the river from allied artillery, and armadas of allied planes stitched a fence 'of explosives around the Ruhr. The German communique said Patton's men also had made sev eral attempts to cross. the Rhine farther -south; below ! Worms,, a German . radia:last. , night ' told of other attempted cross-Rhine thrusts in the first army sector near Duesseldorf. ..3rd Captures Speyer . In the moD-UD staee west of- the Rhine the -third army cap tured Soeyer on the Rhine, last considerable city' west of the river, . . The Germans thus ' were re duced to a 19-mile stretch of the west bank of the Rhine. While Soeyer. at the north end of the German' pocket was falling, the 36th division of the seventh army flanked the last id mues ot tne thickly studded Siegfried line on the south of. -the pocket and poured armor . arid .infantry into Bergzabern, 25 miles southwest of Speyer and 19 miles west of Karlsruhe. Far to the south, the cities of Mainz, Pirmasens and Lan dau toppled and Ludwigshafen was - being cleared in closing hours of the great Palatinate- saanana victory. . more than 100,000 prisoners have been taken there; Bradley said 203, 010 had been captured- in the Rhineland since February 8. r. . zero . Hour Looms "There is complete calm on the allied side of the : lower Rhine," Ross Munro of the Can- (Continued on Page Two)-. s m tt i It Forest Reseeding Fund Hike Asked WASHINGTON; March 23 (IP) Several million additional head of cattle and sheep could be grazed on western ranges if bar ren areas are properly reseeded, in the opinion of Rep, Stockman (R-Ore.). . : Stockman -appeared before the . house appropriations committee to urge -. increased appropri ations for the forest service re seeding program and continued support of the wood products laboratory at Portland, Ore. H opposed increased grazing fees on public lands. Large areas in the 12 public land states of the west, Stock man told the committee, are now S reducing very little except rush and useless weeds. Three Japs Get Jail Sentences . NEWELL,' Calif! R. R. Best, project director of the WRA at Tulelake, today sentenced three Japanese men to 100 days in jail for illegal activities in conv nection with the organizations known- as - the "Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi Dan" and "Hokoku Seinen Dan;" of which they are leaders. . The men were Sakutaro Ka kuda,.. Masado Satohigashi and Shigeo Wake. . Earlier in the w e k three other men, , including; the presi dents of the. organizations, were given 90-day jail sentences by Harry Black, ; assistant r project director, who sat a, hearing of ficer, ' . ' checks and cash totalling .near ly sio.oop. '4.