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Li i.tf Hint after tho tt civilization of Greece and I gloomier Dill nun (oiiu tutlon of Rome had been I I., ll.f. Vilnnrt ntlfl the tcry of the Dnrk Ah" r arm inr nppiT vivnnr .xa.m itnnn itin ruins. . il tit cllim fad to that ciOUS assurance. Wo (hall It In the days tnai are yci kmc. .... h' ennuRli of moralizing. Let !i get on with the (tory. ' 1 center of the German c.ilorn front has been (hat ...! Il ttnrlli nnri irnutll Si laid open lo nniilliilat. BillacKS. . i , in (tcel-tlppcd spearheiid of (llh nl-mw 11 EAST Of biSWICK Ie than BO i from Hcrlln. A these l nrc written, Its advanced ore reported only H miles the Elbe the first possible of any kind of German Ic cither from the dis cs Hint the Elbe mav be tied within a . matter of the out!i of tho 8th, our fcl nnd 3rd' armies ore on ;oo nnd going fast. They fcluiiKliiu ncrosK tho Thurln- pin in toward Llep.Mc, only lies awny. They have made nccs of up lo 40 MILES In tost nours. or near LcIdsIc. it seems able that they may effect a ion wiin the llussians. nre moving so rwlftlv and Confidently thot . their red sncarhcads are by- fig big and important cities, I scooped tip later by the Iving Infantry. IS (Irivo across the wnlst of knnnny Is shattering badly one of tho nazls to retlro In- pelr long-nrcnarod hideout fo Austrian and Bavarian wins. Their hone are bo- lirtlicr smashed by tho Rus- anving into the Alns from f, nnd by our allied forces t northward from Italy. Hussions have completed o encirclement of Vienna fro pushing ON BEYOND, fnrd, up the valley of tho ui ncBuea lor a junction "r American armies. An. itusslnn force is nnshlna Jontlnucd on Pago Two) : f m The Shaata-Caacade Wonderland April 11. 1945 Max. fAprll 10) 44 Mln 31 Precipitation last 24 hours Traea Btraam yaar to data 8.10 Normal ...9.57 Last year" 6.22 Foraeast: Clearing Thursday. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. APRIL. 11, 1845 Number 10437 Yanks Invade Three Islands In Pacific f Wins Case . t pinst Carlson imnth Irrlautlon district won I,, the state supremo in Its llllantlnn i.illh O C pn over forcclosuro of cor f?s of dollnquoncy on land "' ynuson in mo spring district, - high court affirmed Rnlph s. Hamilton, who ISO hoi'n Tk. . I.IHII 111 '"U uinn iui. iimu 'H suit to forecloao, and inn fltnjj 1 r - - .. iii wii (JUlUllUr-UlHIIIIB Png, among other things, F deliver water to the mni oy reason of the ....viib WI1V 1HI1U 1IU damaged. . district tnnk Iha nn.MInn Nuitcr-cliiims are not valid I----""" wun collection or nnd also that the U. S. 'ment operates tho water li.A. i i ."" roamiing mere MUl!l, be mRtl8 t 'bo gov- -mo su promo court up- contention and point 'that there was no evl that Carlson had made oh ZWlct "'J? the Prlotl Yanks Invade New Island o w . . I II.IUIIMII A "l "KO r.Kr, M,dxVa - Kunit.mlI,; V. ' i frvwXW 0 XkMlk tlH jtjf''. ''"Hvi C..pi (Art CNAMU fca I oyfV4vVirt Americans of tha 24th ' army corps lnradtd T(ugn island, killing th ISO-man Japants garrison, as othar mambars of thai! division rapulsad Nip countarattacks on Okinawa. To tha north, marinaa captured Unttn bay. Reds Compress German Garrison in Austrian City By RICHARD KA8ISCHKE LONDON,. April 11 W') Rus dan forces completed the en circlement of Vicnnu and with tommy-guns and grenades com pressed the doomed nuzl Karri son into the eastern one-tenth of tho tottering Austrian capi tal, front dispatches to tho Mos cow press announced today. These accounts also said that tho right wing of Marshal Rndlon Mallnovsky'K second Ukrainian army had Invaded the central Czechoslovak prov ince of Moravia at points loss POLICY DECISIONS By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, April 11 (P) The American delegation to the United Nations conference may postpone some important policy decisions until it can convuss potential objections of othor countries at San Francisco. Thla possibility developed to day as the group resumed dis cussion, behind a self-imposed secrecy veil, of n wide range of topics growing out of plans to set up a world peace-keeping organization. Although Sen ator Vandonborg (R-Mlch.) Is re ported to have plugged for the Issuance of dally communiques on tho policy-framing talks, his apparently was the only vote favoring such procedure. Back Compromise Vandonborg has before the delegation a series of amend ments, and thero wore strong indications that majority of his colleagues aro leaning toward a compromise vorslon of ono of them. It calls for the proposed peace league to be given au thority to review wartime po litical decisions. Tho Mlchlgnn senator has suggested that the projocted 11 member security council of the league be permitted to "recom mend appropriate measures of adjustment," Including tho "re vision of treaties and of prior International decisions," if it finds a dispute threatens war. Revision Probabla A diluted version of this may find tentative acceptance with in tho American group, but it (Continued on Pago TWo) Rear Admiral To Give Awards Rear Admiral J. J. Bolentine, commander fleet air, Seattle, ar rived by plane at tho Klamath naval air station shortly after noon today. Tho admiral will present to 85 members of tho old Air Group 7 some 80-odd awards, including a Navy Cross, in a ceremony slated for early this afternoon at the station. than 3S miles -from the 'great city of Bruenn (Brno). . Farther north, tho Germans said other soviet forces, in an all-out assault to reduce the Oder river fortress of Brcslau, had stonned Into Rlchthofcn square in that Silcslan city. Inside Vienna the rag-tag nnzt force, Including school boys, pilots and sailors fighting as ihfontry, had been pushed buck on an island against the Danube, by Russian storm units sweeping forward in hand-to-hand fighting. Complete elim ination of this enemy holdout group appeared likely in a mat ter of hours. Mopped Up Red army storm units now wcro operating in tho three mile long, half-mile wide cres cent of land between the Dan ube river and the Danube canal an area which includes the old Jewish quarter of . Leopold stadt and the Brlclttenau and Prater commercial districts. Everything west and south of the canal had been mopped up bv tho Russians. The.ro was no Indication that tho Germans yet had blown the four bridges over the Danube, one of which probably already Is In Russian hands, a Moscow dispatch said. The Germans still could fight their way eastward across the Danube on the two main bridges Reichbruecke and Florisdorf but once on the other side tho nazls would face the gun muzzles of Malinovsky's men who already had closed in on the only escape road to Bruenn. By LEONARD MILLIMAN As(ociatd Press War Editor American troops have beaten off a scries of Japanese counter attacks on, southern Okinawa, Invaded three more Islands, and seized two former Nipponese naval stations. Two of the Invaded Islands Jolo and Busuanga were in the Philippines, where Gen. Doug las MacArthur announced "all organized enemy resistance in southern Luzon has collapsed." The third island, Tsugcn, is ten miles off the coast of Okin awa, 325 miles south of Japan. Twenty-fourth corps troops killed the garrison of ISO enemy soldiers as they overran the Is let, controlling the entrance to Nakagusuku bay, a former an chorage for the imperial fleet. Civilians Interned Adm. Chester W. Nimltz an nounced that In the first eight days of fighting on Okinawa 9000 Japanese were killed, 222 taken prisoner, and 43,378 civil ians Interned. Press dispatches indicated American casualties during the same period were roughly 2500, only a small per centage of whom were killed. Presumably most Yank loss es were in the 24th corps, units of which yesterday broke up re current Nipponese counterat tacks on the. southern end of the island. Duels between the larg est mass of artillery batteries Japan has put into action and the combined might of U. S. army, marine,' naval and air ar tillery accompanied each charge. Neither side gained yes terday, , Smash Barrier The ' Yanks have broken through ' the outer barrier of elaborate cave and pillbox de fenses lying between them and Nana, capital and major objec tive on Okinawa. This-fortified line is four miles deep and about fnur and a half milos wide. . hr1he"nortlt "marines' of'fh'e third amnhibious cores ad vanccd about a mile and a half (Continued on Page Two) LOGS IN LAKE AS First logs wero dumped into Agency lake this week as the start of a lumbering operation involving the old Wheeler mill on Upper Klamath lake and the Klamatn Lane Moulding com pany on So. 6th, as well as the Klamath Pine company and Drew and Hcriza, logging con tractors. The latter outfit, headed by Greer Drew and John - Heriza, is doing the logging for the Klamath Pine company, headed by Lawrence Shaw, which is in turn furnishing logs to the Wheeler mill operated by the Klamath Lake Moulding conv nanv (Loren Palmerton. William Spangler and Don Weidler of Chicago). Lumber from the sawmill will be remanufactured at the Klamath Lake's. South Sixth operation. The logs will ' come largely from the unit of 10,00.0,000 feet just purchased by Shaw from the Rogue River national forest near Crater lake park.- How- (Continued on Page Two) BRITISH 8TH INS TOWNS . IN NEW PUSH Seven Miles Gained Po Valley Area Reported By NOLAND NORSAARD ROME, April 11 (iP) British eighth army troops, paced by fiamc-throwing tanks, have cap tured Lugo, Fusignano and Co tignola in the opening phase of their offensive across the Scnlo river on the eastern flank of the Italian front, allied head quarters announced today. Fall of these towns represent ed advances on a front of at least seven miles in the eastern Po valley astride the highway running from Ravenna to Bologna. Lugo lies a mile west of the Senio on the highway. Bologna is some 30 airline miles ahead Clear Road Hub In western ' Italy, American troops of the fifth army cleared the enemy from the road hub of Massa and pushed on in the direction of La Spezia, major Italian naval base a dozen miles away. "Our troops have breached enemy defenses on the river Senio on a broad front," an al lied communique said. . Win 1200 NaiU .'"..' In the early hours of the new attack,- eighth army infantry, moving up behind a heavy air bombardment, captured more than 1200 Germans.. Veteran Ncw.'Zealanders took a promi nent role, in .the 'assault. ,; v - The eighth army also was on the move-south of highway 9, the major communication, thor oughfare up the Po valley from Rimini, on the coast, -through Forli,' Faenza, and Imola to Bologna. A bridgehead was se cured across, the .upper , Senio near Cuf f iano, four miles from the highway southwest of Faen za. In ' the . major attack in the north the initial crossings -were made between Fusignano and San Scvero. South of that sec tor extensive minefields and tough resistance slowed the at tack, but a bridgehead was formed and during Monday night the crossings were linked up and bridges thrown across the stream. Tanks and artillery poured across. In the extreme north, ' Italian troops hurdled the stream and advanced steadily west of Al fonsine. Film Actress Dies in Fire - HOLLWOOD, April 11 (fl3) Blonde Gloria Dickson of the films was dead today, suffocation victim of a fire which swept her hillside home overlooking the film capital. The seared, half-clad body of the 27-year-old actress was found in a second-floor bathroom in a position which Fire Capt. Joe Schenk said indicated she had tried to reach a window. Near her body lay that of her dog, a boxer. Shirley Temple to Wed Sergeant Shirley Temple, who's 16, appears with her betrothed, Sgt. John George Aqar, 24, a physical instructor at . March Field, Calif., after word of their secret engagement leakad out when htr claiimatei at Hollywood school (potted her engagement zing. "W can't be married for at least two years, and maybe even three." said Shirley. Hitler Dead, Dying, Nuts, Assassinated, Superseded, Healthy-Take Your Choice ESSEN SEIZED BY ADVANCING YANK TROOPS 7th Army Battles In Ball Bearing Center . LONDON, April 11 VP) A report that Adolph Hitler has been assassinated circulated in Britain today, but Foreign. Secre tary Anthony Eden said he had heard nothing of it. - Capt. John H. McEwen raised the question of the rumor- in amnions, declaring he had heard the foreign office was "directly- responsible" - for - it - and asking-for confirmation. :'.-..'. Eden : replied "as usual the 1922 committea knows informa tion before the foreign office." The 1922 committee, of which McEwen is secretary, is the ex treme right wing faction of the conservative party. Reports Split The British Press association reported a grave split develop ing among the nazis and said evidence had reached official quarters in London that the nazi party was "throwing over" Adolf Hitler in favor of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. There . was no confirmation from -the British foreign office. without specifying the source of its information, the news agency's diplomatic . correspon dent said he had been authoritatively- informed that -there were good reasons to believe that Hit ler already was being superseded by Himmler.' . Hitler Dying Foreigners -who' have been in the closest touch With Germany are convinced that Hitler is a "dying man,"-the correspondent added. The foreign office said it was operating on the theory that Hit ler still was- in- control, with Himmler- in- command of defense forces. : One spokesman said that nothing definite had been re ceived' of a split among nazi lead ers. - -. ' -. - . As to Hitler's condition, he said,-all kinds of reports are heard that he. is dying, insane or- even dead and "any one of them may- be true, but probably most of them aren't." -. . - Senator Charges OP A Called Off Trap To Catch Black Market Meat Operators WASHINGTON, April 11 m Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) lev elled a new barrage of criticism against the OPA today at senate food investigation hearings. Shaking his finger at Thomas I. Emerson, deputy OPA admin istrator in charge of enforce ment, Wheeler declared OPA en forcement officers had been called off when a trap was set two years ago for a gang of black market meat operators. Describing Emerson as an "In experienced boy," tho Montanan said: "May as Well Close" "If they don't get somebody else down there in charge of en forcement they- might as well closi up the OPA." Emerson had informed the committee earlier. that he was leaving OPA. He said he was "In the process of changing" to tho office of economic stabiliza tion where he would be general counsel. Sentiment apparently was mounting in the agriculture corn nil tteo for a formal rebuke to OPA on its handling .of the whole meat situation. - . . ' Brundidge Story ' . Wheoler put into the record a telegram from Harry T, Brun didge, writer for Cosmopolitan magazine, . which related this story: In the spring of 1943, Brun didge undertook to expose black market operations in meat. He posed as a buyer for New York night clubs and got in touch with an independent packer at Kan sas City who said he had connec tions with black market dealers in Omaha, Denver and Chicago. Jerome W. Walsh, OPA repre sentative at Kansas City, and Maurico M. Milligan, U. S. attor ney for the western district of Missouri, worked with Brun didge. - OPA agents accompanied the writer in his negotiations with.. the black marketers. Agreement Mad At a meeting in New York, an' agrement was made, for pur chase of from 800,000 to 1,000, 000 - pounds of meat a week. Brundidge was to go to Kansas City to make tho first payment and it was planned to spring the trap at that time. Brundidge went to the Black stone hotel, Chicago, where he was to meet two OPA men who wero to go to Kansas City with him. Emerson called off the - two OPA men, however, , the. tele gram said, and the whole plan fell through with Brundidge, as Wheeler put it, "left high and dry in the Blackstone." . Had'Evidenc Emerson acknowledged that the account given by Brundidge was substantially - correct, but contended OPA had all the evi dence it needed against the gang in question without working 1th Brundidge. Questioned by Wheeler as to what was done with the gang, Emerson said the leader was sen tenced to a year and a day in jail and fined $10,000 while the others got fines and suspended sentences. "It might interest you to know," Wheeler said, "that the black marketers who were in dicted today in Baltimore or who will be indicted tomorrow in a $2,000,000 black market opera tion are the same characters with whom Mr. Brundidgo did busi ness two years ago and could have been nailed then and per manently instead of letting them loose and wild for two full years." ' Some senators talked of rec ommending a "house cleaning" in OPA Mine Contract Settled as Government Seizes Pits By HAROLD W. WARD WASHINGTON, April 11 (P) The issue of unionization of mine foremen, which had stalled soft coal wage contract negotia tions, was settled today as the ont tnnk over 235 strike- closed pits in seven states. Terms of the new contract, .rV.i-.-v will itlvn the averaee in side day worker at the mines an increase variously estimated at from $1.25 to $1.45 cents a day. were expected to De announcea this afternoon. Issue Reverted TVto fnrAmon icciie was settled hv - nvortine to terms of the former agreement, which ex empted mine luremcu mi as sociated officials from classification- as mine workers. John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president, had Insisted on bring ing all but one foreman and the superintendent at each mine into membership in the union. The wording 01 me contract in the past, which it is under- stood will be included in the new agreement, . follows: Excludes Bosses "The term mine worker as used in this agreement shall not include mine foremen, as sistant mine foremen, fire bosses, or bosses in charge, of any ' classes of labor inside .or outside of the mine, or coal in spectors or weigh bosses, watch men, clerks, or members of the executive,: supervisory, sales or technical forces of the opera tors." The operators said they were unshakeably opposed to "any encroachment" on the preroga tives of management by union ization of their supervisory force. By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, April 11 (P Th U. S. ninth army reached tha Elbe river at Magdeburg, 64 miles from Berlin today, after capturing the Ruhr munitions capital of Essen, and fighting in, to Brunswick. The spearheading second (hell on wheels) armored division of Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's army got into a fight at tha Goering Steel Works at Wolfen--buttel, but soon enveloped the town and broke loose in a free run to Wufferstedt and Slcn stedt, 27 miles southeast of Brunswick, and raced on to tha Elbe, last major river barrier be. fore Berlin. Take 2000 Nazis To the south seventh army troops battled inside bomb-rav-' aged Schweinfurt, the German center of the ball-bearing Indus- -try, but the 10th armored divi.1 sion of that army, under heavy pressure from SS troops, was forced to pull out of Crailsheim in its narrow salient behind the Black forest. The 10th took 2000 prisoners with it. . The first army continued itg advance eastward from last re ported positions 120 miles from Russian lines. The tanks were expected to reach the Elbe, last water bar--rier before the capital, tonight, AP Correspondent Robert Eun son said. At last reports, the sec ond armored was beyond the Schoeningen area, 27 miles from jnagaeburg.- , Une first army armored pear .(Continued on Page Two) NATION TO APPEAL Cooperation in Cemetery Plan Moved by Group ' It was recommended by mem bers of the planning commission horo nt a meetine last night in the city council chambers that the city cooperate to the utmost in securing tne proposed nation al cemetery for Klamath Falls. The commission recommend ed that the city donate any lands owned by the city that may be desirable as a cemetery site. Mayor Ed Ostendorf stated to day that the grounds adjacent to the cemetery under construc tion near the Weed highway are beintr considered as a location and that 109 acres of land are needed. j Persons living in tho south suburban area affected by the proposed annexation by the city were asked to register in order that they may vote in the state and special election on June 22. Bombers Hit Nazi Airfields LONDON, April 11 (P) Ap proximately 2150 U.S. heavy bombers and fighters in. a mas sive sweep across southern Ger many attacked a string of nazi and ammunition depots in the Nuernberg-Regensburg-Mun- ich area today in a continuation of the biggest airfield wrecking campaign in history. Fighters were high and low seeking German planes almost 800 of which have been de stroyed the last four days. WASHINGTON, April lt m Ari agriculture department re port cleared the way today fop a government appeal to farmer to produce upwards of 20 per cent more pigs next' fall. :. The report said stocks of corn on farms are at a near-record level for this time of year. , Because of the extreme short age of meats for. military and civilian demands, the war food administration has been consid-. ering a change in price policies designed to. step up pork pro duction. Final decision awaited yester. day's, report on corn reserves.' It estimated such reserves . at 1,340,000,000 -bushels 23 per, cent more than a year ago-r-and. said they are sufficient to sup-, port livestock production at a heavy rate. In the midwestern corn-hog belt about a fourth more corn was said to remain on farms April 1 than a year ago. The prospective appeal for. more hogs may carry with it a promise to support prices of the animals at from 50 to 75. cents a hundred pounds above the - present $12.50, Chicago basis, guarantee. Action of the government in reducing the sup port price trom $i3.o to i2.ou last fall has been assigned as a reason for the smaller pig crop this spring. . Review of U. S. Contracts Asked , WASHINGTON, April 11 (P) Senator Magnuson (D-Wash.) to day advocated a congressional review of government alumi num contracts to determine "if they tend to foster monopolies." He made his statement during a senate small business commit tee inquiry into a new govern ment contract with the alumi num company of Canada for tha purchase of 250,000,000 pound of aluminum the latter half of 1945. Rep. Coffee (D-Wash.) con tended that government war agencies had "thumbed their noses" at congress in contract ing for the development of aluminum in Canada. Oops. Sorry. Wrong Lake Federal Judge James Alger Fee, a Klamath visitor, related today that his father almost settled in this district In the early days and while on a trip here to look over the country had an unforgettable experience with one of Klamath's high coun try ponds. ...... The elder Fee came by wagon from Pendleton, and arrived In this territory at night. As the horses' plodded along in the darkness, they began to splash through water. The two men in the wagon were unfamiliar with the country, but they knew there was a Klamath lake, and one of them suggested they might be driving into the lake.. - . So when a small area of land was noted above the water, they stopped and. made camp for the night. The horses were tied to the wagon on one dry spot and tho two men slept on the other, rolling into water every time they turned over. Came the dawn, and. they surveyed their surroundings. They were in the center of a small pond right in the middle of dry sagebrush country, miles from; Upper Klamath lake or any other water. . - J
