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I - M fi Aio)Mfi(g fui n n o) nnn g AILILUIlIuj IliiHU InJilMIM 5i run mm . . Herald smfcjttir VtffflVE CENTS In The Shanta-CaHcade Wonderland 1111111 otne ram March 24. 1945 ' Max. (March 23) 38 . MIn. ....li Precipitation latt 24 houri :...Trace Stream year to date 7.80 Normal 8.97 Last year 5.99 Forecaitt Rain Sunday. ' . f ft ft By FRANK JENKINS ... i n if nnnw im,,,,, i A dawn tlil morning. , Three allied lirmlcg llio US ih tho Brllliili 2nd and tho C.'a irJUn 1st stormed acroiw the ;r nliino in navy-manned ns it and liindlng craft (It was l.,,ll., fr.,, II... ,o'nnnNK AUMY drooped UtMw llliMIIMII L. ficrmanii defending the hlnn's east bank oncl attacked L.m in tho rear. f"" :,",;: ...u .. ..,.r. n, ai mm to wi1"-";," .,. rldjelienl l 28 miles wldo at Is utso ana to l-uiwuuuh,-u iu,u, r t VlllS happened NORTH of the f Ruhr, uermany a no. i arm Lni foctory. At almoiit the L. moment, which wan carC' rllv .. , i ... ........ lllly llnieu; WW wo im uiinj oti Into full action designed to ,.t Mil nr IU( nuniiiKi'll ui iuku- tad SOUTH of tho Ruhr, v..irHnv Putton's 3rd and Iwha 7th armies, after clean; i,( up tl'u suar, oormuny a no. irmanieni iu-u"j, tnu pper Rhino". There In an un- onflrmed report that the irtnch 1st army has crossed kill farmer up. unnwh le. the Germana say Ionia's ' Zhukov nas siormoa Lmu Did Oder duo cant of Bur in and hus lougiH nis way ix fcii westward to a point only .... . .... - 11 miles from Benin. Ort tr the oulh. another Itiut inn force la smashing Into the llorav an Kap.r inrouuiv izecno (.cvaKIa, headed for Vienna and lh valley of the Danube, and dill farther to the south, In Slimgary, Stalin announces the ipening of . ANOTHER great Ruitun arive up tne uhiiuoo iu intni irpm 4ho souineaui, IVm nlntlnu. In -fffim Af.f. lj 1TVJ ... " JUNES on the doomed nazis. Because' it' bpom directly oiv 4 !ntH"h6rth Gcrmaii plain li flat as Kunsns. with only Ilirre rivers crossing It, tho low r Rhino bridgehead holds our -ijor attention. At this point U great German river is t airier ot a mile wide, wnn a urrent of five miles nor hour. IU banks are' low, gently slop- r and gravelly. At tho zero hour a mighty Bombardment crashed down on h Gorman defenses on the ilher shore. As tho barrago died town, British commandos land ed and tackled the dazed enemy plunders hand to hand. In their w came the troop-carrying irmada. At that moment, our airborne mops camo clown from tho sky 11 parachutes and gliders out of 1 sky train 500 MILES LONG, jlldora carried Jeeps and guns fi Dig as 70s, As tncy mnoeci, hey tied Into the Germans from he rear. I Following the sky troops (tame the mightiest air fleet pmcc hip world begun ifcw BHOUSAND WARPLANES In he agarcEatc tcarlnK and (Dishing and destroying Ger- fun communications and pre entlng reinforcements from wilng up. The whole operation is. said I (Continued on Page Three) ft If red L Linzi bunded Cpl. Alfred L. Linzi of the 0. marine corns was wounded f action In the South Pacific, "rains to word received by li mother, Mrs. lone W. Llnzl '! Klamnlh ITollv Nn riirfthnr plallj were . available at this fme. Tho 22-year-old youth attend- ' School in TtnnNnxn nnd FPraEUn Rlvni Anllofltit In fills rlncs four years ago at Klam h Falls. Ho received his train 's at Snn Diego, Calif., and '"Co that time, has been over 's for 27 months. Llnzl is a Jnber of. tne 3rd division of marines' and lias seen action LP""'", Boygalnvlllo , a n d ""iatcanal. , KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 24. 1845 Number 10422 U. S. Carrier Bismarck Sea Sunk, Nimitz By LEONARD MILLIMAN Auociated Press War Editor American carrier plants raided stratogic Okinawa island, be ji"". ,p' and Fo'mota. today for the socond auccesiive day, radio Tokyo reported a few houra after Adm. Chester W. Nimits announced task force 58 shot down 81 attacking aircraft as it rotired from a two-dav air mult nn ,niiiim..i..n r Nlmlts also disclosed Japanese torpedo pianos sank tho escort carrier Bismarck Sea off Iwo Jlma February 21, the Hth U. S. carrier lost during the war. . Land-based bombers blockading tha AsUtiJ mm Bnj n,.Mu Hast Indies destroyed or damaged 28 Japanese vessels, ranging iuiuii iroignien 10 junics, wnne ground lorces tightoned traps on enemy headquarters In the Philippines and disorganized M ipijuiinia in central Burma Japanese broadcasta said sorties against Okinawa, in 1 Ryukyu chain midway between southwestern Japan and For mosa, were launched yesterday from a new American naval tusk force. New Sorties Launched Sonic 230 seaborne aircraft opened tho attack on the naval and air hn.se island Friday aft ernoon and returned at 7 a. m. today, Tokyo said today's raid ers ciiino over In small flights and extended their sorties to Miynko Island, 180 miles south west of Okinawa. Tokyo said the task force was built around two or three car riers, in contrast with 18 form ing tho nucleus of Vice Adm, Marc A. Mltscher's task force 58 which crippled 30 Japanese ."hips 'in southwestern ' Japan Sunday and Monday, ' Nimitz said a total ot 731 enemy nlanes were knocked out 281 shot down, 275 de stroyed on tho around and 175 damaged. This Is an Increase of 156 from the original report in cluding 75 damaged on the around Monday and 81 shot down Tuosday and, Wednesdayi "Essential damage" was ln (Continued on Pago Three) - RICHMOND. Calif.. March 24 (IP) Fourteen hundred mem bers of an AFL shipbuilding union quit worK at Henry j Kniscr'a Richmond shipyard No, 3 today, protesting what the union described as a violation of aurecmonts by the management, Stan Lore, business agent of the AFL Loftsmcn, snipwngnis, joiners and boatbulldcrs- union, said "This Is not a strike. We aro holding protest meetings 24 u oiniprf tho manofiemcnt vl olatcd agreements by taking men from other crafts "and as signing them to jobs that should be given to our men. Stevens Case To Open Monday The case of Stnte of Oregon vs. PFC Herbert Daniel Stevens, charged with assault not armed with a dangerous weapon, will open In circuit court at 10 a. m. Monday, March 28, before Cir cuit Judge David R. Vanden bcrg. Charges against young Stev mi stationed at the Marine Barracks hero, grew out o the death of Karl Bold, Henley rancher, last December 6. Stev ens was indicted by the Klam oii, xnnnlv irrnnH inry. but the case was re-suommea 10 ui body and the charge reduced to assault not armca wnn ger-ous weapon. . iseph C. O'Neill has been retained .s attorney for the de- fe...:..nt. District Attorney uiar- CnCC A. tllimDIC will rEfjicseui, the state. It Is estimated that tlm trial will lake up the great er part of next week. Davis Has "Close Shave!" Hinetocn-ycar-o d Private Alvln w. uavis 01 me u. ..y. HOW en,H.l..- . 11.. rr (Knnlnr nf Wflr. nrobBDlV ov.viiik overseas in me riuiupL-tiii - - , , be awarded tho Purple Heart for being wounded in lcton, but he is no. more than a notch away from the l onorl TK IiIvb Aluln W. DHVIS or.. nf o, young soiaicr, son 01 mi. , , ' " 7iii. n ' Shnsln way, is with the third army, attacking positions on onnsia way, is with the third army, ,V i" ht Siegfried llrfe In Germany, fighting some of the toughest uui ne is no. mure uihii a m,,, "".' , -1., V, c, ie young soldier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvln W. D avis Sr, r"es of tho wnr. ... M He has lain In a foxhole, up to his ears in muck ana 1 mua, machine guns blazing at him from both sides , mortar a nd rtlllery ahells kicking up the ground beneath him, and whlte ?' "jrapnel falling on lils back. He went through all of this without a scratch-and what happened? . . M.7, v,s was oraerea 10 a rest cmw -v- v. j Hnu,. 2 ' Mt concern was to get his hair cut, wh,ch he did. Ho w; 'A, h iber, whom Davis referred to , a k not-head Da n 11. y 1 01 lne Dy ear 111 mo y.v-..., ; - n than serious consequence! , '. '. : miBhlv L..,He may not get a medal, but helll no, doubt be mighty REDS L OFF HUNGARY White Crosses Mark Price of Iwo Jimo 1 pSftwJ li mifH4& LONDON, March 24 (IP) Marshal Stalin v announced a new Russian offensive in Hun gary tonight and said soviet forces had advanced 44 miles on a front of more than 63 miles and captured numerous communications points includ ing Szckesfehervar. Mor, 40 miles west of Buda pest. Enyine. VoszDrem. 25 miles southwest of Szekesfe- hcrvar, and Zirc, 26 miles west of Szekcsfchcrvar and 350 other planes were captured In the ad vance which placed tho Rus sians 55 miles southwest of Budapest and 59 miles from the Austrian border. In a second order of the day Stalin announced the capture of Ncisse in Silesia, nine miles from the Czechoslovak border, and Locbschuctz, three miles from the border. The Hungarian advances E laced the Russians west of ake Balaton, and within 33 miles of Gyor, important rail way junction and stronghold in the Danube gap. The Germans said today that Marshal Gregory Zhukov had attacked with "strongest forces" from his Oder bridgeheads as fiart of a decisive drive on Bor in. With perhaps 1,200,000 men massed along the Oder and ready to join in a multiple east west allied assault to crush the (Continued on Page Two) 3 Tulelake Japs Get Jo7 Sentence TULELAKE, Calif., March 24 (IP) Sentences of 100 days each in jail have been given to three more Japanese at the Tuleloke relocation- center for participat ing in outlawed pro-Japanese societies, R. R.' Bcst, project di rector, reported. Tho three appeared at a hear ing before Harry L. Black, as sistant project director, Best said. The same illegal activity, re sulted in 00-day sentences for three other men, including pres i d e n t s of the two societies, earlier in the week, he stated. Coming Here wJfw This is Major General Julian C. Smith, commander of the U, S. marine department of the Pacific, who will visit Klamath Falls Marine Barracks Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. (Story on page 3). Hundreds of white crosses dot the volcanic sand of Iwo Jima in thia cemetery for the. men of the fifth mar ns division who aied in fighting to secure tho island This is only a pan of lbs loll American fighting men paid for the strategically Important itepping-etone . to Tokyo. Decision Forthcoming MliHptel Wage Case RECORD CROWD M" Five hundred twenty-five per sons the' biggest crowd in the history of Klamath-chamber of commerce membership meet ings attertded the chamber crab- feed at the Marine Bar racks mess hall Friday night and participated- in a program of both entertainment and seri ous business. - , Speakers included Dave Simp son, - past president and chair man of the board of the Port land chamber -of commerce, who told the Klamath chamber members that Portland is inter ested in state-wide industrial development and that it would welcome the location of new in dustries at Klamath Falls and similar Oregon cities. Malcolm . Eplcy, chamber president, reported on chamber activities since the last mem bership meeting, emphasizing the land use committee's anti diversion efforts and the work of the membership committee. Eplcy said the anti-diversion project, in which the chamber collaborated with more than 30 other organizations, represented a new. high in lnter-organiza-tion cooperation' in this valley; Chamber by - laws were (Continued on Page Two) ' Wage contracts with a labor union may affect -the outcome of the- WLB's .'case - against , a local hotel accused ' of paying; wage increases without. WLB ap prpyal. , ., :,:,rlj;::,U ''.J Testimony ''.ut'Jtlje, .tyar.JaBoc. board "hearing concerning alleg ed violations through Willard hotel -wage -increases without WLB .approval, ended Friday afternoon. ' '' " -" ' "v William A. Babcock, Jr., reg ional attorney for .the regional WLB, Seattle, said today that a decision will be reached with in a short time, and W. D. Mil ler, owner-operator of the Wil lard, would, be advised' in writ ing. ''.. . ; , .':? G. C. Tatmari, , former, head of the- culinary alliance, testir fied as a witness for Miller at the Friday afternoon hearing in connection with contractual re lations between the hotel and the : alliance. Tatman said that at the time he left as an of ficial of the union, Form 10's had not been complet.d by the Willard.' - : . .; ' A series of potato sorter wage violations were to be heard in hearings starting Saturday morning with the case of' Roy Brown, formerly of Merrill and now of Prineville.' Babcock an nounced that this, case was settled by agreement between Brown and himself and find ings entered by consent. Find ings provide for an-lncome tax disallowance of $4000, Babcock said.' The total figure in -this , (Continued on Page. Two).. . Farm Family Gives Up All Worldly Goods to Follow 'Messiah Into Brushland BROWNSVILLE, Tex., March 24 (ff)-iFloyd E. Denham Sr., whose Independence, Mo., farm family gave up worldly goods to follow a 14-year-old "Messiah" into the brushland along the Rio Grande, told' a sheriff's deputy today he was awaiting instruc tions from the Lord before mak ing his next move. . ! Deputy Will Cabler had gone to the camp of the '.'Nameless Fourteen," to'deliver a letter to Denham from his mother Mrs. Charles N. Denham. She had sent thn Inttnr to Sheriff Tom Morri son, asking it be delivered to her son. The deputy said that when Denham Sr., read the letter he turned to his wife, saying, "Yes, it's. mother, she just don't under stand." , : ' Cabler said he had gone to tho camp to deliver the letter and Inform Floyd Denham Jr., that ho Imrf been reclassified. The senior Denham said he would go to La Feria, Tex., a Rio Grande valley town near, the camp and file a message to the Inde pendence draft board. He said he "didn't have a mind" to , go .back. to,. Inde pendence. ' ' ' ' The Denhams, who abandoned two homes, a farm, gave away livestock and farm equipment in cluding' a tractdr, are camping along the old military highway northwest of Brownsville, wait ing for "the people" to come and hear their message. ' ';, Several weeks ago the family left Independence" in two auto mobiles and a trailer with "the voice of God" and ' a highway map as their guides. The trip was made at the urging of son Daniel who announced he had received messages from God. He could relay them, he said, only through his sister,- Angelia, a former aircraft worKer. uaniei insisted the family must "go on a mission." Investigation-, at their former neighborhood in Missouri bears' out the amazing story which Denham told officers who tooK him and his three older-sons to Brownsville for questioning. William A. Ferguson,- a neigh bor, related yesterday that one day early in February, Floyd Denham "asked me to walk down to the barn with him. He pointed to the stock and machin ery and told me. The Lord has given me a vision and has told me that all I have on the farm is yours.' " '. "The next day Floyd's wife, Betty, came down and gave her watch, a fur chubby and all. her good dresses to Mrs. Ferguson," Ferguson said. ' Farmers in " the community satd Floyd Denham was an excel lent ' farmer and an obliging neighbor. KLAMATH ITU II .' Mrs. Lida A.Truax, :61,'since 1909 a resident of Klamath Falls, died at 2:15 p. m. Friday in Ash land where she had b,een for the past several - months . for her health. Mrs. Truax is survived by her husband, Dr. L. L. Truax and two brothers, Dr. J. Calvin Hunt and Dr. Warren C. Hunt, all of this city, ;, ' . Final rites for Mrs. Truax will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. from Ward's chapel, with -burial in Linkville' cemetery. - Mrs. Truax was born December- 17, 1883, in Middletowri, Ohio. She was active in civic and social affairs of this city dur ing her long years of residence and was a member of the First Presbyterian- church, Eulalona chapter, Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution, and Chapter U, PEO. The Truax family home is at '4th and High streets. A complete obituary, will ap pear . in; this . paper. Monday;; High Allied Loss j Aim of Germans ' LONDON, March; 24 OB)-' A German broadcast declared today the German high '. com mand "adopts the supreme principle of. continuing ' the bat tle no matter uiider what con ditions." - '.'.- - -- A nazi' military spokesman, after announcement of the Rhine crossing,, asserted new German fronts were being formed in the east and west, and that the bat tle would go on. ; "All the means at our dis posal are being employed," he said. "It is the aim of the Ger man command to inflict upon the enemy, during his advance, losses as high as possible.':' Elmer Johnson Hurt in Action T5 Elmer Johnson, 27, son of Mrs. Axel Johnson and the late Mr. Johnson, 346 Pacific Terrace, was wounded in action in Italy on March 12. ac cording -to word 4 received nere. Info rmation from the war de partment came first to Mrs. El mer Johnson at her home in Se- attle. Details as to wounds were ever.it is under "T stood that John--' son was hit by shrapnel while serving . w i t h the .mountain infantry.. Johnson is a former employe of Ewauna Box company and at tne. time of his induction in Juiy, 1942, was with the.Taooma-Seat-tie shipyards. In Seattle. . I 15. am 7. SS,.t, -(MM Great Attack Supreme Bid For m ictory ALLIED FORCES STRIKE AERIAL BLOW ATREICH Bv JAMES M. LONS - PAHIS, March 24 (P) Four allied armies won virtually all of a 25-mile ltretch across the lower Rhine today in and north of the rich Ruhr valley, driving up to four miles beyond the river in mighty land and airborne offensivea bidding for final victory this spring. The U. S. ninth army crossed the river two miles south of the Ruhr city of Wesel and advanced three to four miles north; east of the river, capturing several small towns. The British second army captured more than 1500 prisoners and fought into Wesel and Rees. : ; The allied first airborne- army landed northeast of Xanten. A in the largest skv invasion, in nistory, gliding and parachuting to earth from an enormous sky train more than 500 miles long. Up to 30.000 skv trooDs landed after 11 a. m. ' Rhine Bridged -Also in the attack were sea-1 ments of .the . Canadian -first army. . z The Rhine was being bridged. Field Marshal Montgomery's on slaught, following closely behind Rhine crossings of the U. S, first and third armies further south. gained power every moment. v-asuauies were lignt. German resistance was spotty, i "The enemy has been driven' into a corner and he cannot e, cape," Montgomery said in an order of the day. "The complete and decisive defeat nf the fier. mans is certain." ; . Supreme Bid Thia was . Gen. Eisenhower's supreme bid to crush Germany in conjunction with the powerful ivussian diows on tne east. He had upwards of 1,250,000 shock troops fighting on the western front. . Lt. Gen. Georpe R. Pnttnn'a third armv fought 1pm than snn miles from the red army on the Oder southeast of Berlin, pushi ing its bridgehead four milea east of the Rhine in the Malnz- worms area on ' the Frankfurt plain. His troops captured -at: least four towns, located within: 19 miles of Frankfurt Main, Germany's ninth largest city, ana wurun eignt of the m- dustrial center of Damstadt. - Between Patton and the ninth (Continued on Page Two) - ' By HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON, March 24 W) Ten thousand allied warplanes struck Lrermany the greatest coordi nated aerial blows in history to day. . .. . - Air fleets joined in the SDec- tacular hurdling of the Rhine and laid a protecting wall of fire, rockets, and bombs around ine cnargmg allied troops, while heavy bombers from Italy hit a Berlin tank factory in a 1600 mile round trip, the ' longest escorted operation ever flown over Europe. A total of -1500 transport planes and gliders showered a great army to. ground east of the Rhine. The Italian-based 15th air force heavy bombers which at tacked industrial targets in the "Berlin area" were escorted by Mustangs. me fiignt or. the huge sky battle fleet from England, with the planes flying wingtip to wingtip, was . one of the most awe-inspiring aerial operations 01 tne war and in the Ruhr val ley a devastating scourge was laid down. . ' . . , . In the huge armada- where 1900j American v:boiribers ;and fighters i which - hammered i 12 nazi. airfields- and- carried- Jout I- searing missions across the' bat tle ;zone.- -: -'-. -. Greatest Airborne Operation - Many of the parachute, trooo carriers and gliders the num ber-would' indicate from 20,000 to 30,000 men, the greatest num ber ever engaged in an air borne: oneration soared out from - Britain and thundered across the Straite of Dover. No sooner had the parachute troops landed than other planes began the' job' of supplying them with additional .ammunition- - The first batch of supplies was drop ped across the Rhine at noon by some 250 .17. S. eighth air force Liberators.- Thick .layers : of heavy bomb ers ' and fighters - streamed monotonously across the chan nel. Then came the gliders with then; towing . planes, and after them the troop-carrying craft. wing to wing and hundred (.continued on rage rnreej Peat e Named on Advisory Group ""Dr. Leslie W. Peate, Klamath Falls dentist, was -named a mem ber -of a dental advisory council of the state board of higher edu cation, it was learned today. Gov. Earl Snell announced ap pointments to the council as pro vided in a house billot the 1845 legislature under which the state has taken over the North Pa cific Dental college in Portland. The - institution will be oper ated by. the board of higher edu cation and will be known as the University of Oregon deiital school. Members of the advisory council are Dr. J. H. Kossman and Dr. M. M.. Bettman, both of Portland: Dr. ' Frank V. Price, Salem; Dr. Leslie W. Peate, Klamath Falls . and Dr. A. T. Oberg, Eugene. The council is authorized . to observe .the conduct of the school, recommend its personnel and courses of study and to ad vise the board of higher educa tion on all matters pertaining to the institution.: The members serve with compensation. TO :VO " WASTTTWfJTOW IWoTiT. 9iVa' A. compromise manpower ; bflL givins: War Mobillzer. Jamex T. Byrnes authority to regulate em ployment, witn tines : and jail' sentences backing up his edicts, was approved by a senate-house conference committee today. nummaiea was a nouse provi sion vesting :local draft boards with power to order workers from job to job, on pain of being drafted, fined or sent to jail.- Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) of the senate conferees announced the :vote of : agreement on the compromise was substantial but not unanimous. .-.).;, Thomas said the bill could. not be. interpreted as. a blanket (Continued on Page Two) : - Pioneer Stage Operator Dies Charles Howard, -, pioneer stage operator in Klamath coun ty when he was associated with -the Howard-Grimes lines - in southern Oregon, died Friday at noon at his country 'home, Breeze Hill, - six miles south: of Ashland. Despite his years, Mr. Howard was 82 at the time of his pass-: ing, the veteran- operator con tinued the Ashland Star route,, delivering mail between Klam ath Falls and Ashland until a little over one year ago.. ; . ; Some time ago, Mr. Howard disposed of his -stage line in-: terests and purchased the Sum mit ranch on the Green Springs but sold that place about two years ago and moved to Breeze Hill. ,.- - ' '-. - - Mrs. Howard, and a daughter, Frances -Howard Worth of San Francisco, . survive. Mrs. .Worth made her home here for; soma time and Was employed more recently by Klamath Theatres.. Among those intending to go. to the valley for final rites Mon.-. day are Mrs. Rose M. Poole,, Mrs. Twyla . Ferguson, Mrs. ; William - Ganong and r Mrs. Stephen Sabo. Construction of Teen-4ge Club to Commence Monday Workmen will start remodel ing a section of the Klamath Falls armory next Monday as plans for the teen-age club pro ceeded, it was announced today by Clarence A. Humble, chair man of the teen-age advisory committee. - Leo Jit. Huls, with a bid of $1507, was granted the . contract for the job, Huls was looking over the quarters today in pre paration for the crew which will start work next week. Remodel ing should be completed within three weeks, Humble said. - Entrance to, the teen-age club will be from the Spring street side of the . armory. Plans .. as drawn up by Howard R. Perrin, architect, include a large en trance hall with one room on ei ther side. One room will be used for the coke bar, ping-pong tables and the check room, the other for the juke box and daijo ing. Two lavatories are off the hall. Plans also call for two small rooms upstairs with access, from a stairway in the Spring street entrance hall. , At the present time, the teen-, age rooms will bo open Monday! through Thursdays from 4 pi m, until 5:45 p. m.; and 7 p. m. un. til D p, m. On I'ndays and Sat urdays from 4 p. m.iuntil 10:30 p. m,, and on Sundaysjtfrom 1 p. m. until 5:30 p. m.; ,
