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Newspaper Page TextIr,i73?rf-n I I' '''i I m m I I',' J""-l I I I ggrivE cewtb In Tito ShaUa-Cacade Wonderland Precipitation list 24 hours ;...Tree Stream yiu to data .; :.7. Normal, 1.12 , Last year. J.:.SM Foreeost: Cloudy with light showers ' ft' f By FRANK JENKINS X big point I" tn8 new to- iy In trial our migniy tmve ftnrmnny from tho Rhine kr to bo encountering very i 1 nr a kt riHlalHiicc. Nazi defense evidently concentrated In a ."crust" along tho river. thiU crust was oroxen jh, there icemi to bo little II back on. . . iii'nf narhans a little .L..l. wlinn vnll InnV at inuvn" ....... j mop nn" com porn on it mo mce yet to go to goi io ucr ...ith tha. HlitLanca we've ircd since 011 r spectacular Ll. aha thA nhtnA It's n I in v.. .......... .... long wny to Berlin, and a VOry liwo wn vuvn iu in u, Hnva nf astnunnlnfflv i news, It someway jasl I n't iicem to be right. Con ilillng the wide expanse of yet to be crossed and con ing It with the seemingly DKopIr area we've covered, t apt to get a psychological -., . . -,YBE we're misled by these rhart the movies show, In ich black arrow zooms .! whole, continents in lions of a second to strike irget. Possibly we connect speed In our minds with boiled-down movie versions wtball names In which a few light plays are shown, and again fractions of a sec liter the runner carries the over for a touchdown. ill looks so easy and so CK. T It doesn't work that way n war. r Involves the movement tst numbers of men, moutv I of food nnd ammunition astronomical . tonnngn , of iy equipment.' Men fighting w top limits of physical en mce have to bo fed and fed ii and adequately. Other- they become exhausted and I In their tracks. Their guns ume ammunition at a rate staggers the Imagination, (ammunition has to be kept y at hand or the very dovll pay. one of Patton'g celebrated rhesds, boring Into the ny at a rste'thnt is making ry. RUNS OUT OF AM NITION and at this psycho cil moment,'-when the fate tnplrcs Is hanging in the bal t, smocks Into a comparative Imall and unimportant body the enemy that - Is WELL 'PLIED WITH - AMMUNI N, disaster can loom In a Icr of moments, it the business of supply ice to It that- these things t happen, Hence what ns the worm's speed in com mon with tho arrow that soars ws continents on tho screen 't of our advance against oken enemy, ' Mi BOYLE, AP corre spondent, gives us a gllmpso morning of one of these stlons as it applies to the MY, Hungry, ammunition Germans, he says, come amlng back Into our lines, i perhaps, only a few miles y in a nearby forest, are mlalnous dumps of nazl food .Continued on Page Two) me Foubert Wed in Action W. Rene S. "Foubert, 23, was 'i in action March 8, on Iwo ' while fighting with the " marines,' This -word tn;d the youth's parents', Mr. Mrs, Joseph W. Foubert, 0 Crescent, late last night. "Her In the month, the Feu 's received a Dicture showing Marines on Mt. Surabachl, In Uag-ralsing scene. Kneeling corporal whom the Fou- Identified as their son,, ene was born at Grand . N. D., February 26, 1922. Was graduated from . St. M academy at Grand Forks, 1 Wit his parents moved to math Falls in 1941. He was n the Great Northern railway ""chlnlst helper until Sep er 19, 1042, when he en j m the marine paratroops, fen the paratroops was dis (JW. Rene returned home F .1 months overseas duty mnn action on Bougaln- te'ands. He was in the oiatcs from February 22, Until c i Ort 'ember 2. 1944. Reno and ' carried In Los Angeles, "'jo arrived today from Sac; lcnto to be with her parents, j'na Mrs. Joseph Deneault, Pn W. Foubert; father of '"nne, is employed as car 1 Hh the Great Northern. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY MARCH 28, 1945 1 Number I042S Tokyo Claims U. S. Warships Pound Ryuicyus By LEONARD MILLIMAN Aiioclat.d Pri War Editor i . ", jl l!omb,d n strafad tha louth.rnmoit shores ?i .u ".n ,0d.,r' To.kTO r,dl wortad between broadcasts warn ing that an ineraailng number o American wanhlpt w.ra bom barding tha Ryukyu islands, preparatory to an invasion of Okina wa, 325 miles southwest of Nippon. Twelve hundred miles to tha south Japanese incendiaries sat lira to Cabu, second largest city of tha Philippines, as invading Yanks overran elaborate but poorly dafandad Japanese positions on Cabu island and drove to tha outskirts of tha city. Tokyo reportsd Superforts struck again at Kyushu Island last midnight in thalr second raid within 12 hours on tha southern most iiland of Japan. A Pacific ilaat communique announced navy fliers from Iwo Jima flaw to within 150 miles of Tokyo. They hit at three cargo hips near Machljo island, making a total of 11 Nipponese cargo ships reported damaged by land-based bombers over a 2000-mile arc from the gates of Tokyo to the Celebes. Japansse broadcasters contradicted one another in reporting . developments in the Tokyo-an nounced U. a. Invasion oi ine STEVENS y. STILL OUT AT MID-AFTERNOON i Jurors In the case of the state versus PFC Herbert Daniel Stevens, USMC, had not re turned a verdict at 2:30 p. m. today after three hours of de liberation. Stevens is charged with. rob bery not armed with a danger ous weapon, In connection with Incidents that preceded . the death of Karl Bold, Klamath farmer, . ! ,, ... After hearing Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg's Instruc tions the jurors took the casd at 11 a. m. About 2:30 they sent out a request for further in structions, but this was denied. The jurors had taken, a half hour out for lunch. . Deputy District Attorney J. Hawkins Napier, presenting the opening argument for the state, dwelt at length on the time ele ment as Introduced by the state's witness, Pvt. Gerard Brussicr. Napier asked the Jury to com pere the size of the defendant as compared with that of Bold, who was described as 5 feet 3 Inches tall and weighing about 130, pounds. As Defense Attorney Joseph C. O'Neill presented the argu ment for the defense, he asked the Jury to weigh the evidence of Stevens' reputation as sworn to by witnesses. He reviewed briefly the service record of the defendant. The attorney said that at no time had Stevens ."acted like a criminal," but that he told a number of compan ions on the night of December 5, that he had struck Bold when he made improper advances, and that he had taken Bolds "in tho closing argument for the state, District Attorney Clarence Humble used the evi dence presented by Carol An derson, nurse, that Bold s cloth ing was in order at the time of his admittance to Klamath Val ley hospital, and Humble brand ed Stevens' entire story as false. Humble praised "the spirit of the corps," referring' to testi mony given by marines In Stev ens' behalf, but intimated that (Continued on Page Two) Four Boys Try To Steal House MEDFORD, March 28 (fl5) rntrnl Point boys are slated for juvenile court here after their arrest on a charge of attempting to steal a small building. -..' ... . Sheriff sya I. Brown mm j.. boys hitched a car to the- build ing, constructed on skids, and u.J ,,oh,i with another car from behind the building. . It cauijht fire two and a half miles from Central Point when exhaust from the front car ig nited the wooden siding, Brown said. . ' Quintuplets Born To Negro Woman WASHINGTON, March 27 (IP) Quintuplet girls were born to a 38-year-old negro woman last night but by 6 a. m. today all haThe'mother is Mrs l.A . H. Turner, whose husband. Harold Is a $1320-a-year receiving clerk at the government bureau of Htandards. Mrs. Turner is the mother of eight other children, the youngest 10 months old. Kcrama islands, 11 miles west of strategic Okinawa.- One said "savage battles are raging" and reinforcements landed. Another reported "only a few" Ameri can assault troops have reached shore and. "active fighting on land has not yet started.- All Japanese accounts agreed that the American armada "is definitely Intent upon affecting landings on the main island of Okinawa." The Domei news agency added that invaders of Okinawa must "pay vastly more heavily" than the marines did in taking Iwo Jlma, 830 miles to' the east. ' - Nimits Silent Adm. Chester W. Nimltz was silent as to what happened Sun day, the day Japanese head quarters said the Keramas were invaded. He confirmed previous enemy reports that the U. S. fifth fleet continued-' bombard ing the Ryukus yesterday while carrier planes of task force S8 continued .their raids begun last Friday. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, confirming previous Tokyo-announcements of' the invasion of Ccbu, said the American divi sion stormed ashore Monday through mortar fire. It is the 28th Philippine island to be re invaded. Field dispatches said the Japanese were disorganized although their extensive beach defenses included many tank traps, road blocks, land mines and barbed wire entanglements, .'aps Fire Cabu Almost simultaneously with the landing, Japanese demoli tion squads put the torch to the city of Ccbu, intent on leaving it in ruins as they did Manila. American infantrymen had lit tle trouble reaching the suburbs of the city, where the principal fight on the island was expected.- Most of the island is con trolled by Filipino guerrillas. Nipponese resistance along the once powerful Shimbun line of Luzon island, 20 miles east of Manila, was reported broken into isolated pockets as (Continued on Page Two) Ackley Mill Changes Hands Modoc Lumber ' company, of which Lawrence and John Shaw of a well, known ; local lumbering family are owner's, has just completed purchase of the A c k 1 e v mill on . Lake Ewauna in . Klamath Falls. A deed on file in the county records shows the sale was made by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wells,- Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Payne, Mrs. Katherine Cole, and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Maize. Revenue stamps indicate a con sideration of about $10,000 Operating the mill this sea son is the Link River Lumber company, which includes the Shaw brothers, Michael Thiesen, Charles Kempter, Rollin Rodolf, Mitchell Tlllotson, R. C. Groes beck and King Gray as co partners. Iwo Jima Hero Reported Killed TALLAHASEE, Fla., March 28 (fl3) Platoon Sgt. Ernest I. Thomas Jr., the marine who planted the United States flag on Mount Suribachi during the invasion of Iwo Jima, was killed in action on -the island several days later, the marine corps no tified his mother here today, i Mrs. Thomas, an employe of the Florida state road depart ment, said Lt. Gen. A. A. Van degrift, commandant of the ma rine corps, advised her that her son died March 3, his birthday. Sgt. Thomas, 20, took over his platoon after - the lieutenant in charge was wounded and led the charge of his unit up the volcanic Mt. Suribachi on the third day. of the Iwo- Jima- in Mustang Fighters Crash On Iwo Jima- r war Sr-f' S3 , fermcainiy 0K & J 6 Beyond a line of 7th fighter command P-51s on Iwo Jima. smoke towers from flames, of .a Mustang which was struck by a plana landing on tha treacherous Iwo strip. Tha P-Sl, making its landing, rolled over one parked plana, flipped over the top of tha plana burning fiercely above. A AF photo. ' , By HENRY B. JAMESON . LONDON. 'Marih 28 (Pi More than 400 U. S. Flying Fort resses attacked war plants today in Berlin where: new orders for evacuation of .women,, chil dren and. all unneeded persons were issued while - more than 300 other Fortresses nammerea similar targets- in Hannover.- ' There was heavy : anti-aircraft fire -over the relch capital, where targets - included plants- making Panther - tanks,', armor.ed; . cars and trucks in the Spandau and Falkensee districts eight and 16 miles west and northwest of the heart-6--Berlin'.'-'' ' The bombers were.escdtted by 350 Mustang fighters. Light and medium bombers of the U. S. ninth air force based on the continent took up the task of blasting German oil stores a task largely reserved heretofore to the heavy strategic bombers. One mission -. went to Nuen- h'eerse, ; southeast of Paderborn, where reconnaissance showed 12 large tanks above ground pro tected by concrete blast -walls. Oil Centers Hit Other lane-scale attacks were made on- oil. storage centers at Erbach, east of . Wursburg. The German ' news agency DNB announced that steps would be taken to remove all unessen tial citizens from the city, which underwent its 36th consecutive RAF Mosquito raid last night. Similar- plans ' have been re ported by the Japanese for Tokyo and thus allied air power was forcing further emergency measures in the last two remain ing major axis capitals. Armament . plants in Berlin and- Hannover were the targets for today's raiders... Two Formations Hit Berlin Today's raid was the fifth ma jor daylight assault of the year on Berlin and was carried - out by two formations of Flying Fortresses which thundered over almost an hour apart.' rne iirst wave naa dropped its bombs and was heading back to England as" the second erouD arrived.' . ' " Both attacks. . as well as the one on Hannover,- were carried out between 10 a. m., and 11:05 . (Continued on Page Two) - ' Soft Coo Miners Hold Strike Vote WASHINGTON. March 28 (P) The nation's soft coal miners' participated in the biggest strike vote on record today as negoti ations between operators and John L Lewis made "no progress." "we made no progress to day,'' Conference Chairman Ez ra Van Horn told newsmen at the close of today's session. That has been the customary announcement of almost every dally conference since the nego- j tiations started March 1; Packers Say OP A Driving Meat Industry Bankrupt WASHINGTON, March 28- (P) Senate investigators dropped their., inquiry , into the meat packers' difficulties with OPA controls today with the under standing that attorneys for both sides will try to work out an agreement. Chairman Thomas (D-Okla.) announced the understanding to the senate agriculture commit tee, which is investigating the FDR URGES FAME BILL OFMWIR ' WASHINGTON i March 28" (IP) President Roosevelt today urged quick "senate passage of the compromise-manpower bill to fore stall an exodus of workers from war plants.- - . In a letter which Chairman Thomas - (D-Uteh) read to- the senate as it began consideration of the measure, the president said: . . i "The manpower, situation- is still serious. In the days ahead of us there will be ereat tempta tion for workers to leave war plants. "The failure to enact this leg islation will make our conduct of the war even more difficult. Burgomeister Of Aachen Killed ' WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY. March 27 (Delayed). (IP) Franz Oppenhof, 41-year-old burgomeister of Aachen and first mayor appointed by the allied military government in a major German city, was assassinated Sunday night, it was announced today. ODDenhof was shot through the temple at 11:30 p. m., as he stood on the back porch of his home on the outskirts oi the city. Military - intelligence officers said it had not been established officially whether the mayor was killed by nazis because he' had assumed the post of burgo meister under the Americans. It was possible he may have been the victim or a personal enemy. Agency Guard Snoots Sailor PORTLAND, March 28 (8) Raven Blackwolf, 67, private agency guard, was held for the grand jury today after waiving preliminary hearing on a charge of snooting a sauor in a lumoer Claude A. Eldride, 22-year-old seaman, was shot as he crossed the yard to his docked ship. Blackwolf is charged with as sault with a dangerous weapon. Almost Left High and Dry! The good neighbor policy was emphatically in evidence at the S. P. depot one night this week when a young Mexican almost missed his train. : . . Passenger No. 18 was just ready to- pull out when the Mexican-rushed into the depot and began tugging at the door of one of the self-operating lockers in the station lobby. In accordance with custom, the door had been locked with a master key after it had been left locked more than 24 hours. A well-wisher raced out to' ask the conductor to . hold the train while one of the ticket girls hurriedly dug up the master key to open the door for the excited Mexican. By that time,, people had gathered around. The Mexican, jabbering his appreciation and relief, pulled a case of beer from-the-locker-andi raced-for; the train, . - fri.n.i Larin.'fxnj-iriiiririri'iiii-ii rininii-i-i-i"- .............. mm whole food , situation. He said the committee would resume its study ' of .- the - alleged "price squeeze" on the packers next month if no agreement is reached with OPA. The committee recessed until next week, when complaints by wholesalers of meat will . be heard.:- - ' Just before it quit,; Senator Wherry' (R-Neb.) declared he had received, information that 90 per cent of all meat sold-in New York; City is Wblack mar ket!' and said at above 40 cents a pound. Jleasked Deputy :Price Administrator James a. Brown- lea if he did hot think that un der such circumstances price controls -should be lifted. ' "I don't know where you1 get this information' but I doubt that 00 Der cent of meat sold in New York is on the black mar ket. Brownlee remied. : Brownlee added . that'. he " did not believe, lifting price controls would cure the black -market. Thomas E. Wilson told senate investigators - today - that; OPA Dnce regulations -are .''squeez ing" meat packers and must be eased or the government will have to take over the whole in dustry. The board president of Wilson and Company, one of the "big four" packers, thus backed up testimony of smaller packers that OPA is driving the indus try into bankruptcy. "We can't buy livestock at controlled prices and sell at con trolled prices without losing money. Wilson testified, add- ine that the "squeeze" is "get ting awfully close to our breath ing apparatus now. "It isn't right." Wilson told the senate agriculture commit tee. It isn t fair. It is unAmeri can and it should be changed." 2 Soors Charged With Rape Here Charges of statutory rape, in volving two lo-year-oid gins, were filed late Tuesday after noon in justice court against S 1c LeHoy Junior MUliken arid S ' 2c ' pichard Burdette Graham. Both men are on duty at the Klamath naval air station, The girls involved are being held in custody, according to County Juvenile Officer Harold Hendrickson. - Both men are said to have been with the 'teen age girls who shared an apartment which had been rented by a mother of one who later left the girls to gether. Milliken is held in the Klam ath county iail following his ar rest at the naval air station last nieht. He had not yet been ar raigned before Justice of the Peace J. A. Mahoney at a late hour today. The second navy man, Rich ard B. Graham: was in the sta tion brig at a late hour today and had not been turned over to civilian authorities.. Violate Curfew--Cops Wreck Club PORTLAND, March 28 (IP) The bartender of the vagabond club, whose furnishings were demolished by police because of curfew ..violations, was fined $250 in municipal court yester day after conviction on a' charge of illegal sale of liquor, - Police said Leon B.. Grand singer, 23, was the fourth bar tender arrested on the charge at the same club. . By JAMES M. LONG PARIS.-March 28 (AP) The Germans 4rctnrA InmUk" fhpt American third army tanks were prowling in the heart of the reich 213. miles from Berlin as their armies north of tha Ruhr broke, into wild retreat before the massed might of al lied armor and infantry, ; " . . 'The - scope ot enemy disintearation increased as four powerful armies of Gen.: Eisenhower broke clear through eol-V lapsed defenses at- points -145 miles' deep -in Germany. I .. The mystery fourth armored division of the third army ' was definitely on the loose again. It soeared 27 miles tadav ' but went north and reached an area six miles southeast, of Giessen, 225 miles southwest of Berlin, in an advance from -Hanau. .','..''.' . , Giessen itself was captured by the first armv. which raced on and captured Bellnhausen; on up the Berlin road 221 miles ' from the capital;: - v. , Other third army troops, which -smashed a new hridae head over the Rhine, outdid others in river-hopping exploits by crossing two major rivers in one day, the Rhine and tha : Main, and captured the city of Wiesbaden, east of embattled Frankfurt.-- - v ci ..":.'.;.:; ';.,, Kastrel, on the Rhine opposite Mainz, was auicklv seized in this circling approach to Wiesbaden.. The German Communique said tha fourth armored crashed into Gemuenden,- 218 miles from. Berlin, -and had ' driven on farther northeast to within 213 miles of the capital The enemy may easily have bean mistaken as to the identity ' of any allied troops in the area, however. Gemuenden is 145 miles deep in the rekh and nearly . 90 miles southeast of Geissen. Exact-forward locations of the third, first and British second armies all were masked in a news blackout, however, which kept the enemy confused. . - . The first army was. 120 miles inside central Germany, . 225 miles from Berlin at last report ed positions. ' Indications were that the first was appreciably closer.; . .. . ,.. , , , . . . 14.000 Nasis Surrender . At least" 14,000 more Germans surrendered as American and British tanks raced through roadside towns without defenses and beyond bewildered nazi civilians littering the landscape with white flags. .: . . Pilots back; from runs in the north where the bombline had to be' advanced sometimes every 20 Wihute's' said the Germans: ap peared ,t'o-be--in- rout before, a British, armored breakthrough toward- the Westphalian capital of Muenster, .30 miles away -at last reports. . - The American first, third and seventh armies 'united in 'a solid front' 80 miles -wide from -be sieged Mannheim to east, ot Bonn. The seventh army had raced 32 miles east of the Rhine to join the third on the main' be low Aschaff enburg, which third army troops were mopping. up southeast of Frankfurt. .- . Frankfurt itself was doomed. (Continued on Page Two) 1 SURGES ACROSS RABA FEDERAL COUBT Two disputes - between the eovernment and Clarence C. Hart, owner of property taken over for , the . Klamath Falls Marine Barracks, wilT'be decid ed when federal court convenes at Klamath Falls April 5. One case ' involves payment for 160 acres of land; the other, payment for the right to con struct a pipe line over Hart's property. Two other barracks condem nation suits are tentatively on the court schedule; but the fed eral lands division at Portland said both probably would be settled out of court before April 5. The persons involved P. C. Carlson, owner of a 160-acre condemned tract, and Edith Smith, over whose land a pipe line was built have accepted compromise offers, the lands di vision said; The compromise remains to be approved by the attorney general. One other condemnation case will be heard at Klamath Falls: payment for the right to build a spur railroad line over Leona C. Koff's property at Roseburg. Burt C. Boylan and Linus M. Fuller, special assistants to the U. S. attorney in the federal lands division, will come here to represent the government. Minister Plans To Set Serif': Seaman Aboard PORTLAND, Ore., March 28 (IP) A 26-year-old minister today prepared to take song and sermon to fishing craft and canneries in Alaska. Rev. Byron Personeus of the Assemblies of God church will be skipper of a 40-foot yacht which he earned by preaching in 125 northwest churches. ..; The mission boat will be taken to Seattle Monday for installation of a public address system with which to broad cast songs and sermons. Mrs. Personeus, a bride of three months, will accampany her husband. An experienced sea 1 man will be aboard. By RICHARD KASISCHKK LONDON, March. 28 UP) The third Ukrainian army has smashed to within 10 miles of tne Austrian frontier. andw;54 ; of Vienna in- a power surge across the Raba riyerj last nat-" ural barrier -in' western Huni" gary before the Austrian border. Marshal Stalin announced tn. night. ; -- .- .,-..'. ; ; In -the north, he proclaimed the fall of Gdynia, Baltic port and. last big Polish city- in Ge -man' hands, i - - Marshal Feodar ' TolhnVhln' third- Ukrainian army smashed weu over- ine Kaba and cap lured' ,Csorna, 54 - miles from Vienna and 35 south' of Bratis-' lava,, and- - also seized Sarvar ' 29 miles farther ' south on the . Baba's west bank.- ; Csorna is .30 miles "east of Sopron. stronehold in a tin of. Hungary which juts deeper into Austria, ; while Sarvar is ' 13 miles from the Hungarian fort ress city of Szombathely on the route to Graz. . Tolbukhm s lunge was part of a huge pincers closing on Czechoslovakia and hitting for. ViennV and Praeue. Csmrna'x fall .outflanked tottering Gyor, ia mnes io me nortneast. Stalin s a i d 9000 prisoners were taken in Gdynia, v -The-Raba at some points Is: a scant 20 miles from the - Aus-. trian border. , . Fighting at-Sarvar. - The spokesman . said fighting had broken out at Sarvar. a communications center west of the Raba, and that the focus -at the . battle had shifted . to that place and the ' large hub . of Gyor, . 45 miles; to - the. north west..' i.t . .-''... Berlin, declared in an: after (Continued on Page Two) Cruiser Honolulu Damaged atLeyte WASHINGTON, . March 28 (fl) A Japanese aerial torpedo ser iously damaged the light eruisei Honolulu On the first day of th Ley te invasion last October- 20, killinif 65 crewmen and wound, ing 47. . The navy, reporting this to day, said the 12,000-ton cruise! is back in this country for re pairs. and will fight' again. Shi made the 12.000-mile trip to the United States under her own power. . First disclosure of damage ta the Honolulu, known to her crew as the ."Blue Goose," came in Fleet -Admiral ' Ernest - J. King's annual report. The navy later released details. Governor Snell Signs Wine Bill ' SALEM, March 28 (IP) Gov.; ernor Earl Snell had only eight legislative bills; left - today on which he has not yet taken ac tion. Indicating he would finish his .bill signing long before the April 10 deadline. The governor has vetoed only five of the 450-odd bills sent to him by the- legislature. Bills signed today include senate bill 281, 'which compels the slate liquor commission to give preference to Oregon wine.