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A fol u v n ivi UULTU VI I i-i k,"- - . : 1 " 1 ' ; 1 : . ." i IhiMrn :iUw :;mmm Tank Rice nva. cents MS (WMf'if r'i" ' - "' f " By FRANK JENKINS mur. battle of Germany la still n(W1 blnckout Imposed by our 1.1.1. rommand to prevent the memy from finding out Just uihiiA we are. In a similar silun ,i hnck In France, wo turned un almost on the outskirts of Paris when tho blackout was (This may lend us to Jump to conclusion that ore too rosy. The Gcrmiins then were dotting out of France. Thoro Is nowhere now for them to go, nnd they HAVE to stand ana num.) 3 lenk throiiKli the censorship it encouraging. , , The Kuhr Is apparently all but sealed off. If you want to check ihi. Ruhr situation on your map. pgderborn, duo cast of where we crossed the lower Rhino, la the ki-y DOlnl. vovaucca armorca iinll of our 1st army hnvo al redy arrived In Padcrborn from h souin ana me armorca un Itts of our 0th army nro reach. Ltf fnr It from the north. Todny's sketchy dispatches tell us Unit FIVE of our ormics, wiiii tome 11 armored divisions. ire driving eastward almost al will through me oroKcn uor roan front. We hove at least 3000 tanks In yie Dig pun, OUR fnmou 3rd army' keeps Its spot In the sun. One of 111 i armored divisions, the. 8th, hai advanced to iyul.co since MiirHnv to Kasscl. an Impor tant Industrial city some 75 miles southeast or r-uaeroorn, . DEPORTS of nazi dlslntcgra- lion persist. ' Soldiers In Harrisons near Ber lin are mild to have, refused to proceed to the front when or dered to do so, booting up their officer severoly before . disci pline wo finally restored. There art tales, apparently rather well founded, of Increasing looting of German home by German sol diers. These renort. If true. ro ox- trpmrlv ' siunlf leant. When the end comes In Germany, thnt is the way It will come, it l grow ingly Improbable that there will Dc any lormni ana iinai sur render. . : - - AS we rather expected, British and Cnnodlan troops on the lower Rhino anncar to be turn- Ing to tho loft to swing around Holland nnd cut off tho rocket bomb const from which England 1 still being hurried, THE Oormnn cem llll to be 1 holding harder agnlnst the Russian than against us nnd the British wenkening their front west of Berlin In order to keep It strong to tho east. THE fall of Danzig, up on the Baltic, will release about 50 Russian divisions for uso else where. The Germans odmlt to day the loss of Kucstrin, on the east bank of the Oder, 30-odd miles due cast of Berlin. The area between Berlin and the Oder is supposed to be tremen dously henvily fortified. TE RusslmiB advancing on 4 Vienna from the south have run Into stronger German resist ncc, with acre of minefields and powerful mortar nnd artil lery fire. So, In the effectively shifty nnd fluid manner that hns characterized all their fighting, they are switching their pres sure to tho east and the norm (Ihev are annrnnrhlnff the Aus trian capital from three direc tions;. They are also swinging around o the jouthwest TOWARD ITALY. It 1 perhaps pertinent t this point to remember Gen eral Mark Clark's statement the other day thnt new developments in uniy may be expected soon. fHERE are minor political ns- y,.-v:iB III llic mtnaiuii iii.-.. . day. When Vi rorla tnnk Danz g. they raised the flag of the new "evict-dominated Polish state ver u. Stalin Is demanding rep resentation at San Francisco for mis new Polish state, ana Churchill Is snld to be resisting mo demand stubbornly.' . Don't ru.mv.if ,A,,i-ir fa tret 'o much heated up over those developments, which are a part !" the general post-war jockoy for position among us, the ariilsh and the Russians. Such jockeying is Inevitable In ' World rnlnrt hv nnwer nolltlcs ;r-5 this world still in and will - lor aome time to come, - . RECApSE' we havb been kept SO Itlfnrlw 'I. 41.a MofV an tn hit our foreign policy Is and Is ' be, we homo frontcrs are more Mono than we should be to sus iW that dirty work s brewing l thn , . r- ...on . FOns wlll.n.l. ... ...I,,. Wn F'Knt as well reslen ourselves to fit Tlte Huge Invasion Force Menaces Ryukyu Islands By LEONARD MILLIMAN AiaociaUd Pr.it War Editor American transport war reported by radio Tokyo to be moving in today behind mlneiw.epen lor an Invasion of Okina wa, bulwark of the Ryukyu island stepping stones to Japan, which Adm. Chester W. Nlmlts announced are being bombarded for the ninth consecutive day by battleships standing close in shore. The Pacific fleet admiral also reported U. S. carrier planes knocked out 47 more Japanese vessols, including IB sunk, and BS aircraft, including at least 4B definitely destroyed,' In 18 hour U, S. communiques have reported the damaging or destruction ol 72 Niooonese vessols and 134 aircrlt in the western Pacific. A battleships kept their 16-Inch guns biasing at Okinawa's beach defenses. British carriers swept over the Sakishima, group In the southern Ryukyu. American sea-borne aircraft swept the rest of the archipelago, and B-28s made double strikes at the southernmost islands ol Japan just north of the Ryukyu. Military Installations were reported destroyed in widely scat tered sections of the Ryukyu and Kyushu Island of southern Japan. Heaviest action centered around Okinawa, 325 miles to the south. . , The Japanese' Domei news agency said transports arrived on the scene. In the center ol the Ryukyu archipelago, a the naval ill DRAWS 3-YEAfl P PFC Herbert Daniel Stevens, convicted on a charge of steal ing from a person by a circuit court jury last Wednesday, was sentenced to a term not to' ex ceed three years In the Oregon state penitentiary nnd. paroled to tho district -attorney. Circuit Judge Dnvld R. Van denborg pronounced sentence on the 2 1 -year-old , marine shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. Before sentence was passed the court asked District Attor ney Clnrcnco Humble if he wished to muke a recommenda tion. Humble said he did not, but advised the court that the marine had no previous record. Defense Attorney Joseph C. O'Neill, appearing with Stevens, (Continued on Pago Two) Lawrence Awarded $4800 fn Decision T. S. Lawrence, plaintiff in the case of Lawrence vs. H. W. Gladltsch, wns nwnrded dam ages to the extent of $4800, In a decision made this morning by Circuit Judge Dnvld R. Vandcn berg, A directed verdict was asked by L. Orth Slsemore, attorney for Gliidltich, nnd also by the attorneys for the plaintiff, Hen ry E. Perkins and U. S. Balen ttne. Lawrence sought damages totaling $15,000, for injuries ol legcdly received when employed by Glndllsch, wrecking contrac tor, on August 14, 1044. Rome Joyously Observes Easter ROME, March 31 (P) The multi-toned bells of Romes more than 400 churches, led by the big bell of Snint Peters, rang joyously loaay as me. Eternal City began observance of the eastern holiday under an unseasonably warm spring sun. The bells began ringing early In the morning nnd continued to noon in the traditional Holy Sat urday custom. As Saint Peters rang forth. Pope Plus XII donned n rnii- nf white cloth slippers which he will wear throughout next week' in rites connected with an bid liturgical ceremony. TERM PAROLED Cordon Asks Investigation Of Drafting of Lumber Men WASHINGTON, March 30 (P) Senator Guy Cordon (R-Orc.) has started an investigation of the effect of recent selective serv ice ordefs on the lumber indus try. ' , Refusnl of selective service boards to defer niillworkcrs, nn aide to Cordon snid, threatens nnn Inrtfn mill to one shift, or 60 per cent of capacity. The mill is producing lumber from Ponderosa pine, in great demand by the armed services. Cordon is toning me """"" UP Wltn me wur board, the war manpower con mission and selective service ShaMta-CaBcade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. ium air bombardment went Into the ninth consecutive day. "Minesweepers are active, preparing for landing opera tions," Domei said, "but no landings have been attempted yet." Japs Use Suicide Pilots Japan relied on suicide pilots and plywood torpedo boats to check the invasion threat while superforls roared out of the Marianas islands in a series of raids against Kyushu island to pin down Nipponese air forces on southern Nippon. In the Philippines Nipponese soldiers failed to halt two more Yank island invasions. The 40th infantry division landed on Ncgros In the central Philip pines and overran 25 miles of the west coast, while the 38th division killed 500 Japanese In brief, stiff f i g h t for tiny Cnhnllo island near Corregidor in Manila bay. ' 35 Jap Ships Sunk American communiques re ported allied aircraft and sub marines have sunk 35 more Japanese ships, damaged 37, de stroyed 82 planes and damaged 42. Ships sent to the bottom include seven destroyers or de stroyer escorts. All but one de stroyer were accounted for by submarines which sank 11 ships to run their wartime total up to 1083. Not to be outdone, a Japa nese Imperial communique claimed Nipponese aircraft and PT boats sank 30 and damaged 20 of Adm. Raymond A. Spru ance's fifth fleet in the Ryu kyus. Tokyo radio added that the emperor's PT boats made their third attack of the Week on the American fleet at dawn to day. These tiny torpedo craft are the largest vessels Japan's once powerful navy has been able to send against the allied task forces. Tokyo said first waves of the Superforts poured fire bombs on western Kyushu shortly aft er midnight and "more than 100" struck again before noon. The second attack scarred both military and industrial targets, including airdromes and naval bases. Targets around the In land sea were raided simultane ously with the first Kyushu strike. Koiso Criticised As radio Tokyo talked of the invasion threat to Okinawa, Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso's government was sharply criti cized by Japan's new totalita rian "sure victory" party for failure to -make "full prepara tions for all eventualities." Gen. Douglas MacArthur re ported that throughout the cen tral Philippines, where Ameri can island invasions nave us- come an almost daily occur rence, "the enemy - seems be wildered and his defense is rap idly collapsing." ' war - veterans returning to-the farm may be assured of ade quate equipment is sought 'by Sen. Cordon. Cordon has written War Pro duction Director J. A. Krug and War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, nsking if a sys tem of preference priorities can be worked out to supply veter ans with tractors and other farm machinery. ' , , ' He told a reporter that the Milton, Oregon, post pf the American Legion has informed him that a number of dis charged veterans were anxious to establish themselves on farms but were unable to obtain equipment, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 Tanks Lead tf'j Americsl division infantrymen wade ashore from - their landing barge . in wake of heavy am tracs to invade east coast of Cebu island in, the Philippines, The hard-hitting Yanks have driven to within 2 M mile of Cebu city, bomb-shattered capital of the island now being set to the torch by retreating Japanese. (Signal corps radio-telephoto from Manila). . American Doughboys With Thousands Whq Wif Easter S ervices Tomorrow JERUSALEM, March 31 (P) American ' and; -other , allied sol diers will be ' among the thou sands, who will pay homage to morrow. (Easter) morning to the holy sepulchre,' with at least part of the world for the; first time in years -on- -the , threshold of peace.. -. ' ; Many allied soldier walked in the historic Via Dolorosa pro cession yesterday - and joined ' in Good Friday services where they heard -the -hope expressed with confidence that this, would be the last wartime Easter. - U. S. Representative ' Everett M. Dlrksen (R-Ill.):iwho is on -a tour checking government bur reau operations for the house' ap propriations committee, : was among them. He reported see-, ing at least one group of 200 American soldiers who came from the Persian gulf, Egypt and Italy for Easter rites in the Holy City. ' ',: ..., ,-'.;.,-. v, - Tho soldiers will, attend high mass at the holy sepulchre and kneel before Christ's tomb in a special chapel in the middle of the high rotunda enclosed by shining yellow and -white marble. Those who -throng from his toric Jaffa gate or through the Arab market will find nothing new in the customary Easter walk, but those who . approach the sepulchre from the direction of Gethsemane. from the south,' Miton Rhoads Killed in Action PFC ' Milton Merle . Rhoads, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Rhoads of 524 Grant,' has been reported killed on Two Jima as of March 2, according to word received by .; his ' parents Saturday. "-. ' : . Rhoads ' had served in the battles of Bougainville and Guam with the marine 3rd . di vision' before participating -in the capture of IwO' Jima, He had been in the service since right after Pearl Harbor, and had served overseas for the past two , years. Tne young marine was Dorn in Medford, and npved to Klamath Falls with ' his parents, when he" was a young.' child. He was 24 years old on Febru ary 6th this- year.- ' Educated in the local "schools'; he -was graduated from KUHS In 1940. He was prominent) in glee club work in school. - Rhoads was married V while in Auckland, New Zealand. His wife - Louise ' resides with a sister in Vancouver, B. C; ; ' Prior to entering tne , serv ice, he was associated with the Rhoads window cleaning con cern, and resumed wotk with the national guard. He took his training at: (jamn ...fenaieion. Ofennside. Calif., and Camp Elliot, San Diego, Calif., where he remained as instructor for a while. . Milton Rhoads .is, survived, ry his widow, his - parents,; five brothers and- two sisters; His brothers are: H. L. Rhoads, a veteran of the Seabees, In Klam ath .Falls; ; Doran C. Knoads, navy training station', Okla homa: Kennet C. Rhoads. a civilian at McClellan Field, Sac ramento. Calif; Cpl. Lowell Rhoads, Camp : Rupert, Ida.; Wesley ttnoaos on inactive serv ice with, -the-' USNR awaiting orders in Klamath Falls. His sisters are: Mrs. Clarence Eastburn, and Mrs. Margie Hurti both- of -Klamatn- Fans. -. -- - March 31, 1945 Max. (March 30 ............65 Mln. , PreclpiUtlon'lsst li hours Stream', year-, to date ... , Normal .......... 9.23 Last year.... Forecast:-1 Partly' Way Ashore In Cebu Island Landing and through ' the . Via .Dolorosa will find a change at the sixth station. - ... : - The sixth station is the one where, according to Christian tradition, a Jewish woman wiped the -blood-covered forehead of Jesus while he was being thrust toward Goleotha. , In.the time of the crusaders a chapel was-built nere ana tor tne last lew-montns it has- housed- a Rockefeller mu seum exhibition, .of..- drawings. plans, and models, .giving . a xAct i-ture "of .Jerusalem' -infthe 'tlme-hf unrisi... . ,-;,.- "The .'exhibition includes -a, re production., of ' ; the. ..'crown of thorns that Jesus wore, -made of Palestine thistles) ' There is a model ' of Christ's grave; covered with a "massive stone. ' 'This year more than' ever,; an' aura of peace is over Jerusalem which in the course of the last 4uuu years, nas Been destroyed 17 times, and conquered 36 . times. This time the Holy City has been spared ..destruction.-. 1 MARINES CHARGED Pvt. Alfred G. Tankersley and Pvt. Robert L. Mayo, Marine Barracks, are held in military custody at the Barracks' brig fol lowing their arrest Friday ; in connection with an alleged as sault on Alberto MonterjerruDio Carrasco, Southern Pacific ,l sec tion gang employe. - Both marines face a general court martial, it is understood. According to a story , told by Carrasco, Jio met the. marines at a ' Klamatn avenue beer- parlor and the .three drank together. A short time after midnight, Fri day morning, Carrasco ' charges that the- marines slugged him, knocked him down and took $70 from his person. Carrasco re ported the attack to city police and later identified the two ma rines at the Barracks. The al leged attack-is said to have taken place on S. 7th. :.-;.- j ; PFC Milton M. Rhoad ' !.-' Killed frtV) y . - i ........29 00 ...7.91 5.99 cloudy. Cooler Sunday. Number 10428 WLB DIRECTS COAL ' WASHINGTON," March 31 (JP) The war labor board today di rected John L. Lewis, and. bitum inous coal operators to continue "the., uninterrupted ' production of coal" under their'present con tract'. -. v '. ' -.' i ,:-u: The : contract is due to-expire at midnight tonight. , . The- board ordered -that any wage increases granted under a now contract be linadetf ctr.6ac tive.as of, today; . . , . No provision wat-mado for, $13,000,000; guarantee ' fund -de manded by Lewis ata hearing before the board earlier today.- Lewi had. .asked , that . the operators be' required to post that' amount, representing , the operators' estimate of the cost for one month- of putting, into effect- a. contract .such as. pro posed by Secretary of Labor. Per kins. The Perkins proposal was rejected by tne operators. - The board's order left - the period of the retroactivity open, directing that the present con tract be continued "until the differences that -now separate the parties are peacefully and finally resolved." The board's decision was -un animous : except in the ! retro activity feature, ',mt-- which the four industry 'representatives dissented.. William Tucker Hurt in Action . ; On- March 23, Mrs. Frank For rer of Klamath Falls received word that her son, PFC William M. Tucker, of the U. :S.; army' was wounded in action on Luzon on February 27. 1 No further de tails were given in the telegram from the war department. . , .' Prior to being inducted in No vember of 1943, young Tucker was a student of Klamath Union high school. He reported first to Fort Lewis.' -Wash., after which he received his basic train ing at Camp Roberts m Califor nia. Tucker reported for overseas duty in; April of last year, first seeing action on New Guinea, and-later being sent to the f nil ippines. i - '-- Oregon Town Not Surprised That Yanks Crossed Rhine-'Watched Bridge Built ' RUFUS Ore., March 31-(iflP) It was no surprise to residents of this Columbia river hamlet that Yanks -were able to bridge the -Rhine-in around seven hours. For months they had been watching U. S. army engineer forces' build the - bridge and push it across the Columbia in practice here. -At this point, the river and surrounding country resemble the Rhine and its en virons. ,- When the laboratory job was finished, Lt. Col. G. S. Witters, who directed it, said: ; ; "There's your bridge. It should get, our troops and their heavy - equipment across the Rhine without trouble. And we should be able to set it up in about seven hours." , -The engineers, were directed last August ' to devise thS bridge-. They were told-it. must 170 Milesl From Herlira By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, March 31 (AP) U. S. third army tank thrust t within 170 mile of Berlin today in the van of the nine allied armie slaihing into Germany behind a wall of more than 3000 tank. - , -The ruined Ruhr area and thousands of German troops were sealed off for all practical purposes. .. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's field headquarter announced the new U. S. 15th army wa in action on an undisclosed sec tor, and the- French first army lunged across the Rhine this morning somewhere between Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Allied columns were carving up Germany at high speed, and 25,000 Germans surrendered yesterday alone. U. S. ninth army tanks raced forward today toward a possible juncture with American first army tanks near Pader born and entrapment of perhaps 30,000 to 40,000 Germans in the Ruhr. Planes struck at Germans retreating from the Ruhr, pocket. The ninth army's second armored division al ready, was in radio contact with advanced elements of the first army after a 30-mile smash in 36 hours., - One column of the U. S. third-army's fourth armored di vision speared the closest to Berlin 170 miles reaching Alautenhauien, east of " Hertfeld, which was passed this morning. Even this report was hours old. Troops of the 21st army group, which includes Britons, Canadians, Americans, and airborne soldiers, dashed forward up to 16 miles today, but security silence cloaked the loca tion, of gains there. Canadian armor and troops shook loose on the northern flank of the front. They forged northeast- of Emmerich against resistance lessening hourly. C-47 transports using fields east of the Rhine flew In gasoline supplies to the rampaging third army. ' No details of the role of the U. S. 1 5th army, . com manded by Lt. Gen. Leonard ' ; - T. Gerow, were .disclosed im- mediately ;. The U; S. seventh army burst through the Odenwald to with in 15 miles of Wuerzburg, and 130 of Munich; ' 3rd Neat Kaisel . . - Northward, ' the American third army pushed down -the last 10 m i 1 e s to Kassel, ; 165 miles from Berlin, and perhaps LONDON, March 31-' IP) - Gen. Eisenhower issued a mes sage to the German army tonight calling for surrenqer. .... already had reached the indus trial city of 220,000 population. - The first and; ninth American armies..sped.- toward Via ', .linkup around the Ruhr- beyond Pader born, -with . the ' gap narrowing hourly. - Ud to 40.000 Germans in. .the.;Ruhr ; might be . trapped by their juncture. . . - The British second army -driving into' the heart of 'Westphalia racked '. up overnight gain up to 11 miles against little oppo sition except ruins -and" road blocks; - - ; ; .'' : ' -'.-' Security silence concealed the extent- of allied gains,! but a front, dispatch disclosed - the sixth' armored division of the third army had struck to within 10 miles of Kassel, after speed ing 45 miles since Friday. ,.; . U. S. 4th Drive Ahead Thirty miles farther south east,' the U. S. fourth armored "Breakthrough"- division drove to a point four miles southeast of Hersfeld, also spearing to within 175 miles of Berlin. U. S. first army tanks had dashed northward through Pa derborn, and were nearing a junction with American ninth army tanks ' which ran - on through Friday night by moon light in an obstacle-race over (Continued on Page .Two) , Floral Tributes : Cover Memorial ; The base of the shaft -on the. courthouse - lawn,' which stands in memory of tne liiamatn Dasin men who have given their, lives in World-War -2. was covered this morning with- floral . trib--utes. ' Easter lilies, daffodils, white stock and - roses, placed by friends - and relatives - of the men whose names are printed on the shaft, were laid at the shrine. -At- the base of the perpetual light was! a Huge cluster of lilies. , be ;transported ' over rough ter rain, be capable of supporting a heavy concentrated load, and be ' so constructed that : field troops could get . it' up - in a hurry, it must, the. orders read, support the army's new 45-ton M26 tank. ' . Aided by. a French engineer who knew the Rhine country and an- American - who had thrown bridges over- the Rhine in France and over Italian streams,' the test crew - set out. They started with . a design tested at Yuma, Ariz.r after dis carding the famed English Bailey bridge. ;'. , They found the 60-foot pon toon ws too long to handle in rough terrain. So they cut it in two. They worked out what the colonel described as "con trolled articulation.',' This per mitted distribution of concen-, trated weight , over eight, pon tons. A new scheme for. ..con Unite RUSSIAN ARMY A VIENNA N NEW DIE -.. . LONDON," March 31 (P The red army ; captured- Ratibor, Marshal .Stalin " announced' to night. '': - .: ' ; ;. V- . -' - ' TKe"strategic city, only a few miles from -the Czechoslovakian , border, is 150 miles -northeast of Vienna and 16 from Morav ska Ostrava,-which -controls-tho northern approach , to : the Moravian-gap.'. .: The new offensive drive posed another threat to .Vienna. Other red army troops' moving' into Austria 52. miles from Vienna rammed into reinforced German lines, .and farther; to the north east stepped up-an assault to-.'--. (Continued on Page Two) Commander In Waves Here Cmdr. joy B. Hancock, USNRi (Wave), women's' reserve repre sentative for the chief of the bu reau of aeronautics and the dep uty chief of naval operations for air, arrived at the Klamath naval air station Friday by plane on an official inspection of air activi ties at the station. 'The officer left Saturday morning by plane for Tillamook and Astoria inspecting air activi ties of the 13th and 11th naval districts. ' There are only two Waves in the navy with the rank of com mander, and Cmdr. Hancock is one of these. She is also one of . two Waves who also saw service in the navy during Wo rid War I. At that time Cmdr. Hancock was serving with the rank of yeoman at the naval air station, Cape May, N. J. r - The commander was accom panied on the inspection trip by Lt.-Cmdr. Mary . Daily, USNR (Wave), women s reserve repre? sentative and district director of the 13th naval district, Seattle, and Lt. Mary E. Lindenmuth, USNR (Wave), women's reserve representative ot naval air bases, 13th naval district and naval air station, Seattle. necting ponton sections ; wa worked "out. -' - The tested bridge, Col. Wit- ters said, will support a con- centrated load of 54 tons. Henry J. Kaiser, the in dustrialist, was called in when the design was perfected to build some of 4000 pontoons needed. It was planned that 56 complete bridges costing about 120 million dollars, would ' be built. The pilot bridge across the Columbia cost 34 million dollars, Colonel Witter said. ; - - ' -Weeks before American -forces had reached the Rhine, the testing and construction job was done, Colonel Witter said: "We have developed the best type of floating bridge in the s world, and we confidently ex pect that it will do a job to. re passing American armies across the Rhine on their way to Ber--lin." 4 .'Continued on Pnge Ten) Arrnngcmcnis unnei . i
