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Newspaper Page Textw A MM UIIm Ml I f II 1 I I f 1 U Lfu i t . . jUCE riVE CENTS ii wa. if. ws ieafeaaWWVWWWi .J By FRANK JENKINS rf tho Pacific today, we've cut eloor across Oklniiwn nt a point about a third of tho wiiy up from tho southern tip, ranch ing tho hend of Niikiiguauku bay, where tho Jupiinen lm perlul fleet used to assemble In wt days when ihcro win a Jiip aneo Imperial fleet. (Tho Ions, narrow Island In bout olilht mllcn wldo at this point) 3 1 fl'E drive across was mndc Twill) "strange cbiio," tho dis patches report. Vhero tho 00,000-odd Japs aupposcd to bo garrisoning tho Uiand are Is still a mystery. Wo may hove cut them Into two bodies, one to the tout!) and one to. tho north. Or they may be all' In one body, cither to tho wall) or to tho north. The . next few days ore ex pected to tell tho story. ' ,.. 111 E Invasion no far Is going A' much llko Lur.on too easy, It will probably end much the fame w a y w 1 1 h desperate, bloody, sulcidul fighting by the little. yellow men thnt will get tham nowhere save to whatever happy hunting ground the sub human Jap aspires to go. $ "ON'T let yourself be fooled by T! talk of an easy Job on Oki nawa. It will bo tough enough b? the time it la finished. The point Is that this kind of fighting doesn't display much brains or initiative on the part of tho Jnp leaders. W V E moke anothor landing at .the southern tin of bit Luzon, which Is being cut up inin slices and finished off rnUch as Germany will bet, N Okinawa, we're beginning if to encounter a few WOMEN in Jap uniforms. The scrawny liajtives are beginning to come oi(t of their holes and caves to surrender to us. 1 . HERE'S a significant little , Item In tho Pacific news: Nvy Liberator bombers have fe Into the YANGTZE STUARY to smash Jap river craft. (The Yangtze, entering tha East China sea nt Shanghni, if the great highway into in terior China.) 3 - THE Jap radio says today thnt t Tokyo Is being rebuilt UN Dfcn GROUND. It Is probably title, Tho Japs learned that trick from tho Germans. '4 ' , EISENHOWER tolls us todny Hf that the Ruhr has been cf fetively encircled. Tho fate of tha German forces trnppod there (supposed to be the best the nnzls have in the wct) Is sealed, he say, and they aro ripe for on nlnllnlton,' iWc'ro proceeding apace, the dispatches Indicate, with the job of annihilating them. 9 TWIE British, swinging around to tho left after their crossing ofjthe Rhine, are reported with in 20 miles of the Zuvdcr Zeo ail 60 miles of . tho. North sen. They " aro about to splko the Vrbombs that havo been harrying Zrigland. They're also about to trap another big bag of Ger mans. t TmATTON'S 3rd army is going so 4 fast it has been blacked out of? the news again. A late dis patch from tho front this morn ink places It in tho outskirts of Getha : THREE-FOURTHS of fHie way across the rclch to Cicchoslovakla and 140 miles ftjom Berlin. ration is pronaoiy ncnoea tor $ junction with the . Russians inewhero in Saxony. TCH'S 7th army is mopping ub WurtzburB today and Is PVfnacInc ' Niirnbera. rcnortcd ifln morning to bo only 44 miles way. Tho French have out f.ankod Karlsruhe, and the map liggosts that they mny be headed for the upper Danube by way of Stuttgart. .. it . TJhE" " Russians ' are flowing steadily around Vienna. To tH east, down the Dnnube, they ie fighting in tho outskirts of ; (Continued on Pago Three) Oeneral Rose tlurdered by Nazi ; WITH "THE ; U. S. FIRST t RMY, April 3 (A1) Moj. Gon. aur) c o' Rose, brilliant com ri nnder of tho third armored dl v sion ', which spearheaded the J "st army's great drive from the 1 line 'river deep Into Germany, as . shot to death near Pader ' ii'n- March 30 by a German t nkm'an as the general started J surrender his arms after be ll K captured '. IT A Ml m sue jp tm I a fit Tfca Third Army Tanks Race Across Reich; 140 Miles to Berlin By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, April 3 (!') Th third army's fourth armored divi sion, plunging 19 miles eastward, raced Into tha outskirts of tha old German city of Gotha today, reaching a point thrs. fourths the way across tha rclch to Csechoslovakia and 140 milas from Berlin. , In the north, British and Canadian troops advanced to within 25 milas of tha Zuldar Zee and within 60 miles of tha North sea In tha drive to close a trap on the German garrisons of northern Holland and its V-bomb and rocket sites. , Wast of Berlin tha U. 8. ninth army fought within nine milas of the Waser rivar and tha first army, beating Germans to tha punch, turned back attempts of a striking force from 110,000 trapped nasls to break out of tha Ruhr pocket and tightened Its vise. To the northwest of tha Gotha spearhead, tha third army was SOVIETS DRAW NEAR VIENNA IN BIG PUSH LONDON. April 3 P Rus sian troops have captured W lo ner Ncustadt, Motscrschmitt as sembly ccntor 25 miles south of Vienna, Marshal Stalin an nounced . tonight In an order of the day. Russian spearheads were re ported by the Gcrmnn high com mand to have reached the Bad en area about 10 miles south of the Austrian capital. ... Marshal Stalin, also an nounced thnt 'Elsenstadt,'" 12 iWlos southwest of Wiener Ncu stadt end G I o g n I tz, 18 miles southwest of tho industrial cen ter, also has been captured. , Tho order described the cities as "Important strongpolnts of German defenses at tho- ap proaches of Vienna.;' - ... - The order also announced that Marshal Tolbukhin's forces had taken Ncunklrchen, 10 miles southwest of Wiener Ncu stndt. i , The announcement' of the cap luro of Glognitz confirmed Ger man reports that the Russians were attacking the Scmmcring pass in the Austrian Alps. Capture of Ncunklrchen and Glognitz cuts tho road from Vi enna to Graz and Klngcnfurt. . In a second order of tho day Marshal Stalin announced that Marshal Rodlon I. nMlinovsky's forces had captured Magyaro var, 18 miles south of Bratislava in a thrust toward Vienna below the Danube. Mnltnovsky captured Krem nlca. 11 miles west of Banska Bystrica and on the main rail way across Slovakia whfch links (Continued on Page Six) Pair of Admirals At Klamath , Klamath naval air station, active canter of training for the (laet air arm of the Pacific, was visited a few days ago by two rear admirals, shown above on the big apron at tha local field. They are, left. Rear Admiral A. dar of fleet air, wast coast) nar commander float air, Seattle. . Shaata-Camcade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Alighting a nouse to nouse oatue in fulling Kasscl, locomotive manufacturing center. Gotha is 26 miles west of Weimar, birthplace of the Ger man republic installed after the last World war. The town is 7S miles from the border of Csechoslovakia and 75 . miles from Leipzig. Two other columns,;. 17 and 27 miles south of Gotha. jabbed even closer to Czechoslovakia 65 miles. Fulda, 45 miles to the rear of theso columns, was clenrea., 3rd Moves Ahead . The hard-hitting American third army in central Germany advanced almost 30 miles over night to within 160 miles of a iunction with the Russians on tho eastern front a move that would bisect the rclch. -The third army whipped across the terrain of the Thur ingian forest to within 80 miles of the Czechoslovak frontier at points mora ma,n iou inuc in side the roich. i The Germans said Lt. George S'. Patton's nrmy was storming Suhl, 65 miles from Czechoslo vakia,' and ' had surrounded Mclnlngon, 10 miles to the southwest on the Werra river. These nosltlons would place the Americans three-fourths of the way across .the', waist ol ,uer many. Seventh army tanks were said by the enemy to have cut the railroad from invested' Wuerz burg to Ansbach, 23 miles south west of Nuernberg (431,000). "We havo not yet succeeded (Continued on Page Three) That's One Way Of Doing ft.' PORTLAND, April 3 UP) Most people wont to stay out of patrol wagons, but a lot of Portland people paid with blood for a ride. - - Housewives, businessmen and servicemen, attracted by a siren, climbed aboard tho wagon and were taken to the Red Cross blood center as donors. E. Montgomery, USN. comman- Admiral j, j. aaianunt, uon, i n TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1945 Yontan Airstrip Overrun by Okinawa Invaders One of the military, prises on Okinawa island Is Yontan airstrip (above), captured by Invad ing Yanks within first hours of fighting. Tho field is one mile from tha coast, 13 miles north of Naha city, principal city and port of the island.' Note bomb craters and ; wrecked Jap planes. .. . . . U. S. nary, photo. Engineers Fight to Plug Gaps in LastSfS :::S:iline of Mississippi's Flood Defense IS PROPOSED HERE WASHINGTON.-April-3 (IP) rno war aepartmcnt win asK congress for a. $122,900,000 ap propriation to. return American dead of World War II for burial in 79 proposed national cemeter ies throughout the -country. - This was disclosed today in a study prepared' by the quarter master general's-office' for the senate military! affairs -committee. Made public by Senator Hill (D-Ala.), author of legislation for a national cemetery program, the study recommends $109,000, 000 for cemetery- construction; $1,645,480 to complete existing national cemeteries; $2,737,000 for funeral transportation and equipment and $9,000,000 for personnel to operate the ceme teries, -i Return Dead to U. S. "A general policy has been adopted," it said, "to return ; all World war dead to the, United States from any theater when 70 per cent or more of nearest of kin ... so request." . ,- When requests aggregate few er than 70 per cent, each will be honored individually with the remaining dead to be burled in national cemeteries in the thea ter involved, r A total of 5,335,500 graves is provided for by the war depart ment in the 79 proposed ceme teries. Eligible for burial in na tional cemeteries are all honorably-discharged veterans of any United States --wary-their wives or widows and members'of worn-, (Continued; on Page Three) i Captain Lewis ; Slated to leave Marine Barracks Captain F. G. Lewis, quarter master at the Marine, BarracKS, has received advance orders and will leave In two or three-weeks. It Is expected he will go .over seas. ,. . '. .. His ' successor", here will ' be Captain George H. Corcoran, who will be transferred to Klamath from San Francisco.i Captain Lewis, a veteran of 22 .years in the marines,' has been quartermaster at the 'local Installation since Its Inception. He spent 16 years as an enlisted man, and saw. duty in Cuba, Panama, ' Haiti,. Nicaragua,. Ca vite and China, ; . Captain Lewis paid warm tri bute to the friendliness and co operation of Klamath Falls peo ple. Mrs. Lewis, he said, plans to .remain, here. - v . Baruch Smiles At Nazi Threat -LONDON, ,:' April 3 OT-rThe threat 'of nazi - Vwerewolves" to assassinate ; Bernard Baruch if ho sets foot on German soil. ap parently left the White House, confidant unperturbed today: 1 An aide who Informed Baruch of the enemy radio. warning said he "Just, smiled and -.went-ori reading" ', a., newspaper -without comment. . , . 4M April : 3,, IMS Max. (April 2) Min......;..;....2 Precipitation lut 24 houri Trie Stream yaar to data '............7.91 Normal . ..9.32 Last yaar 5.99 Forecast). Cloudy, warmer. Froat tonight. NEW ORLEANS. April .3 (P) Army engineers plugged gaps jn the Mississippi s - last line of flood defense today as tributary streams , topped all-tune, crest records,: '.;'.";t ' ':-:,r "The big 'stream itself was at flood, stage or above' from Iowa to. the Cult of Mexicoi---a 1654 mue. course. . , ;. , Engineers were prepared to operate- the .; hitherto - unused Morganza floodway to divert 640,000 cubic- feet Of water a second from the lower river. into the gulf. I..'--" ... ' Col. .George H. Hudson,' U.' S district, engineer,, said use of the 100-mile floodway1 appeared "strongly probable" within- the next two weeks. Work to .complete- guide levees -along the floodway is being rushed. The six-mile, long "fuse plug levee" at the head of the big floodway is being surveyed for the demolition that would be re quired to open it.. ; Bayou Teche Dammed Bayou Teche .is being dam med near the gulf end of the floodway to prevent waters backing into south' central Lou isiana . towns in event the flood- way is opened. A ten-foot levee is being built around Morgan City. ' More than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second is already be ing-diverted around New Or leans via tne oonnet carrier spillway which has a total ca pacity of -250.000 second-feet. - DeWitt Pyburn, state director of public, works, predicted the flood would be the worst since 1927. : Gov. ' James H. ' Davis called -on-the- board of :liquida tionto appropriate $100,000 for emergency flood work. . Floodwater Building Up New backlogs of flood water were reported building up on streams heeling the Mississippi from Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ten nessee. ' " ' . ;At; Shrev.cport, La., the Red river, fed - by heavy rains in three states .was rising two feet a day. Lt. . Col. R. W.- Sauer. Vicks burg, district engineer, said le vees on com banks were in dan ger of being topped from Fulton to tne Arkansas-Louisiana line, Iwo Jima Casualty Cpl. Rene'S. Foubert, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.- Joseph W. Fou bert, 1210 Crescent, was listed ac among- tha Klamath man killed, in action on Iwo Jlma, March, 5. His wife, tha former Mary Rote' Deneault, is hare with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Deneault, 1415 Oregon... 3 Xi? ill ,f m Numbtr 10430 IGHT VXONDONV? April 3 &P)-lThe U. S. eighth air force renewed. its blows .against German snip ping today wim a Heavy attacK nh the Kiel naval base bv aD- proximately 750 Flying Fort resses with - an escort - of 650 fighters. In another assault on the nazis, U. S. 15th air force light- nlnas and fighter bombers from Italy attacked the Tannach Stein rail bridge-10 miles east of Klagenf urt in - Austria. - . Attack Breaks Lull The attack on Kiel broke a two-day lull In the daylight air offensive from Britain, enforced by stormy weather. . - Kiel is one of Germany's ma jor northwestern ports and 240- ton submarines are built in its yards. Three other naval bases Bremen.- Hamburg and wu- helmshaven were attacked last Friday by 1400 heavy bombers. A U. S. army air force spokes man said recent reconnaissance flights showed that a large num ber of naval vessels, were berthed in the Kiel harbor.. Kiel has been blasted 18 times pre viously by American ' heavy bombers. Span Damaged 1 The span east of Klagenf urt, about 80 miles from .the. Russian front, was damaged, the American-fliers reported. The bridge is over the Drava river. ; Despite -unfavorable . weather RAF Mosquitos last night at tacked Berlin and Magdeburg. The overnight raids ended Germany's two-day and two night respite from bombing at tacks. Oil installations feeding the tottering German war ma chine were the principal target of the Mosquitos at Magdeburg, 70 miles southwest of Berlin. Klamath Man Charged With Drunk Driving Joseph Thomas Mclnturff, 4686 Boardman, entered a plea of innocence to the charge of driving while intoxicated before Justice of the Peace Joseph A Mahoney late Monday after- noon and is at liberty under $250 bond. , . Mclnturff was arrested March 31, by state police, on the high way just north of Chiloquin. He entered his plea and date of trial was slated for April 13, at 1:30 p. m. in justice court. Medford Man Killed in Wreck wooldridge, Medford, was killed and Charles Walters, Ash land, seriously Injured in a traf fic crash near Redding, Calif., early today.' . ' . : ' A car driven by Wooldridge collided with, a heavy, freight truck and turned over several times. The two men .were riding together. . ), U. S. Forces Probe After Lurking Japs By LEONARD MILLIMAN ' Associated Press War Editor American Infantry patrols have bisected strategic Okinawa island 10 days ahead of schedule and are probing north and south seeking contact with tha main defending force which may have baan cut in two by the maneuver. Stronger Japanese forces ware encountered In the gullies and hills of the island's center as a Yank spearhead zaachad -the oast coast on tha shores of Nakagusuku bay, once a favorite maneuver ing spot of the imperial fleet. - . .' Meager resistance so far was compared to the Nipponese' tactics on Luion island in tha Philippines where tha 15(th regi mental combat team seised the city of Legaspl and its airfield In the third landing of tha Luion campaign. Almost unopposed American and Australian bombers patrol, ing the China coast and Dutch East Indies wrecked 34 mora Japanese freighters and coastal vessels. . Tokyo radio reported "a new Tokyo is rising from the ashes"- left by Superfortress incendiary raids. Broadcast details indicat ed the new Tokyo was under ground. ' Twenty-nine , trains a day were reported still evacuat ing B-29 refugees, fleeing be; fore American bombers begin striking Japan from Okinawa, 325 miles south of the home is lands. Next Daya Will Tell The next several days of the Okinawa invasion were expect ed to disclose whether the gar rison ol more than 60.000 Japa nese had been cut into isolated groups by the two-day Yank push across the island. Twenty fourth corps patrols of the new tenth army reached the east coast between the towns of To bara and Awashi, at the north ern end of Nakagusuku bay, a large and good naval anchorage long, since . deserted by the Im perial fleet. At this point the island, is eight miles wide. 4 " South of the American wedge is Naha, principal city of the island and administrative seat of the' southern Ryukyu chain. To - the north is rugged, tim bered terrain. The Japanese garrison, which left the beaches undefended might have with drawn to either end of the is land, or have been split. Cape Zampa Cut Off On the west coast the third marine amphibious corps pushed northward,- cutting : off ..-Cape Zampa which juts out above the original beachhead. Largest forces met so far are In the hilly country between these two points where some women in Japanese uniform nave been en countered. . Tokyo radio reported "savage drawn sword." attacks on cap tured - Tontan and Katena air dromes, from which U. S. ar tillery spotter planes were op erating. . Behind the lines disinfection squads were at work as the scrawny, underfed natives came out of caves to surrender. The new Philippines opera tion at . Legaspi virtually com pletes encirclement of Japanese on Luzon. The Nipponese re treated to the hills as the Yanks pushed, six miles inland toward a junction witn guerruias. Oregonians Will Get Only Blended Whiskey - PORTLAND, April 3 (P) Oregonians will have to be con tent with blended whiskey not straight-bourbon-or .rye -7- for their April bonus, Chairman Hugh . Kirkpatrick of the state liquor control commission : said todav. . : . He attributed the lack of straight whiskey to distillers' oroductlon of war alcohol in stead of liquor. Kirkpatrick promised, "however, that two bottles of whiskey a month would be available . in Oregon at least for the next 80 days. Tree Stands Until Patton Enters Berlin EUGENE,' April 3 (fl) A 1944 Christmas tree still stands here because a seven-year-old boy wanted his father, a ser geant under General Patton, to see it. Roger Neal, hopeful his fath er soon would be home on fur lough, persuaded his grandpar ents to leave the tree standing over Easter. He has consented to take it down the day Patton enters Berlin. " Farrell's Move to Oust Officials Balked by Snctl SALEM,, April 3 (ff) Secre tary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr., moved today that the board of control notify State Tax Com missioners ' Earl 1 Fisher and Charles V. Galloway that they would not be reappointed, but his motion failed to win the immediate support of Governor Earl Snell and State Treasurer Lealic M. Scott, the other two members of the board. -- The terms of Galloway and Fisher expire June 4. COAL M?NERS HOLD WALKOUT WASHINGTON. April 3 OP)i More than 80,000 of the nation's soft coal miners were reported absent from the pits today de spite a union-management agree, ment to temporarily extend their now expired contract until May 1. '. Jbstimates of mines closed br workers absences ranged as high: as 95 per cent in the Alabama area. More than 30,000 minera were reported, idle in the Perm sylvania fields. The shutdowns occurred In spite of telegrams sent by United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis to the union's locals in- lormmg tnem that the contract negotiation period had been ex tended and asking the union members to remain at work. A member of the miners' negotiat ing committee blamed slow de livery of the messages In isolated, mine areas for the layoffs and, predicted "they will ba back ln the morning." . 71 Minea Idle , -An operalor,JiQvvever. said "If looks like an inspired move." The solid fuels administration office at Pittsburgh reported that 71 mines employing 20,443 (Continued , on Page-Three) . SENATE REJECTS "WASHINGTON,-April 3 iP) The senate today rejected tha controversial manpower control bill. . ' . . ' .- . - . The vote was on a conference report passed recently by the house by a margin of only -.7 votes. Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo., who opposed the measure, said he planned to ask that the legis lation be sent back to a joint committee of the two houses in an effort to work out another measure. The senate vote against tha measure was 46 to 29. . Senator Hatch (D-N. M;) told the senate today he resented "the: implication- that Justice Byrnes Suit and by his quitting was oing something we are denying workers" in, the. proposed man power act. Hatch said he received" that implication from remarks of Sen, Johnson ' (D-Colo.) yesterday. Johnson had said,' hi comment on James F. Byrnes' resignation as war -mobilization director, that '.'Mr. Justice Byrnes is going back to civil life and it is a poor time to freeze other people to their jobs." -- Byrnes had stayed on, Hatch said, "longer perhaps than his . health and welfare permitted." i Johnson was not on the floor as Hatch spoke. Shades of Jack Benny: PORTLAND, April 3 lP) -George H. Risley, Portland farmer, declared today that his New Hampshire Red hen laid two eggs in one minuter one of them in his arms. - He said he was carrying the chicken one of a flock of 12 and a family pet when sha laid an egg. He set her down, and' she promptly laid an- other. The board said it would' take definite action next Tuesday, after Governor Snell has talked -to the two men to see if they want to be reappointed. - ' ; Farrell has been an lmplacabla foe of the tax commission since he was speaker of the house in 1941.. At that time, he charted that the commission , gave tha legislature false information re garding anticipated Income tax collections. k . ; .