Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, April 12, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPB-esidemi? 0 Dmi Passes tmlb & eSBSliiiil , April 12, 1945 ft The Shamta-Caneade Wonderland Max. (April 11) J. . 41 Mln. 27 Precipitation last ' 24 hours Trace Stream year to data .... 8.14 I Normal ...:..;... 9.60 Lait year 8.40 Forecast: Clear and warmer Friday. ' felFlVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1845 Number 1043 Tfttv av'siews L FRANK JENKINS news from liormuny is .....I,. Miwknrl nut nuiiln to- but wlml filters throunh . iiiiu rtnubl Hint Ihn hit n( nttlivlun are begin- l clojin hi iirmnui ino niui rliurif of inner, MllllllllOr, VANCE force) of our ilihtv Dlh iirmy uro uvtn KI.IJK ntut are chinking the 57 ""lip of open, slnilKhl highway toward . . . . Dlh " nrmorcu mi I, which pioneered the Elbe nK. ' renonpa tunny u ni(.viK-c irom urn ,l.l II mil hi! at tlltt cltV'H Lcnbiirtt Kto by tomorrow I or Siilurdiiy morning If (r,l o nllack and If the Ger- don't wml MiiKa ironv wo in front. ' in ihe south, we're less than th from Ldwtle (one h firmed report today 'fay bind this mornings ais tru guess tluit B unction Win ruiiwinni utrnwii mid D-esrinn mny come tt werk. f . oscow. the Russluns llilnk pnd of the war will e timed when tlio rod army out of us oner nnn river brlditeheadu and up In lorco wun mo nmw ..ntrli.llntt ' Iff Brnulntf Micro that tlio zero hour . in. I nrnnl hamniftr mow ic reds l.i near. The Ger- ln n,ll, nrn cnvlnff inrlnv It mny come ANY TIME llKRBeetna- llHtedoubt fchnt the German fear the lslnn.1 m they fear doom I nnd have dcllbernloly Inn-d their western do- i in order to hold . In the lo the lnrt dread moment. altogether likely that h mnkn NCt niKirif.nENCE tid to Berlin first. The will bo dealt with by LLIES ns a whole.) (MAN cities GREAT clt j. world-renowned are tt like drv leave In autumn. man tear of the nnr.i its I wnnliiK In tho face rmiiKeddtin. Hlmmlor (In name) calif for the do to tho death of every Gcr- town and every Gorman An If In response, the e of Weimar send out a kr on a bicycle to surrender r advancing armies, German commandant nt bcnlssbitrii. who surrend- lo the Russians after a long wtinued on Page Two) math Man jnmits Suicide old C. Chllbcrg, boo 47, nl of tho Hell hotel, died Inmiilh Valley hospital nt d:ju a. m. locuiy as tno of a self-inflicted nun- wound in tho head. The Ni fired from a .22 calibre fit his wlfo's residence at 1 1 tli. WHS rushed to Ihn hn.nllnl ho Klamath Amhulance llttlo after 1 o'clock fornlng and city and state wcro noimoci. lbcr was an cmnlovo of foulhern Pacific railroad No definite cause for tho K wns known by police. I uoay was removed to potf Funeral home In Mh Falls. late Blocks ir Secrets Bill SHINGTON, April 12 (P) I secrolji hill n.iilni, ci, F0" (R-Mlch.l ennlrnrli! Cllt nff lf....... u i . " i iiiuliuii ii uiii and possibly affect the u:kii uiocKca in tno ... i tuguHoivs motion. Monday tho bill, bearing llnrniMil ,i. ' I.. "i nie military i ' wns passed by the p' i routine fnshion. Yester mi8i'fon ,ontcrcd 8 motion l.i . r1"' oi tins action. In ",: ""'cnueu netoro ls,y'ow. ferntison lold re mrt i-.b",1 w'llh Provides IMli?ip.rl,so"ment.o Per- ij-',""1 miormatlon irom t ""--"',lu'i. inesHHKes, tin.;vunl conKrcssionnl nn Mrom obtBlnlnK infor- u.. v venui icnclinR up 'npnnese attack on Pearl 9th Army Now. 57 Miles From Nazi Capital By JAMES M. LONG PARIS. April 12 (A') American ninth army tanks crossed the Elbe river today and debouched onto the flat, unbroken plain leading 47 miles toward Berlin and 115 miles from Russian siege lines. A front dispatch said Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's men could reach the Brandenburg gate in Berlin by tomorrow night or Saturday, provided the Germans switched no tank forces from the east. One report, however; said the Germans Indeed were ihlltlng their battered sixth panser division from the eastern front. The first army approached Leipslg In Saxony over the old battlefields of Frederick the Great, One unconfirmed report placed American tanks near Halle, 15 miles from Leipslg. Planes destroyed or disabled 120 German tanks near Halle. Cities fell like tenplnsi Weimar, Hellbrown. Essen, Coburg, Nordhausen, Schwelniurt, Halberstadt, E m m e n, Neustadt, 1 nuchiim, Buden Baden and Unstalt. 8' T JAPWAH AREA LEPERS FREED By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Renewed ollled carrier raids on Sumatra and Formosa were reported by Tokyo radio today as "strong formations" of fight-cr-ocorlod Superfortresses lash ed al war production centers in and around tho Japanese capital, . Japanese buMlara -added a-no w- nnzard to American conquest ot Okinawa, 325 miles south of Jn pun, by releasing thousands of lepers and insane. Many of the mad men were violent. Repulse Attacks U. S. 24th army corps unlta beat back four well-organized Nipponese counterattacks on southern Okina 'a yesterday but wcro hold to a virtual standstill for the seventh consecutive day. American casualties' in the first nine days of the Okinawa campaign wcro announced a 2BU5, including 432 dead, 2103 wounded, 100 missing. More than 0000 Japanese have been killed, or 10 for every Yank, compared to a ratio of 20 to 1 on bloody Iwo. . Gains Scored General American gains were reported In the Philippines, ranging up lo 21 miles on Luzon and 30 on Ncgros island. British armor swo, t east and south from Thazl In central Burma to trap fleeing Japanese. Nlpponcso re captured Slchwan In north cen tal China and renewed their drlvo loward Shcnsl province on the northern road to Chungking. Laundry Driver Hurt in Crash Jack Andrus, 2202 Reclama tion, was in Klamath Valley hos pllnl today suffering from chest Injuries and other hurts received Into last night when his panel truck overturned on the curve Just this side of Lakcshore. Andrus was driving a Cas cade Laundry company truck at tho time. A passenger was un injured. Andrus is on employe of tho Cascade plant. Tho Klam ath Ambulance Service was call ed to the scene and moved the Injured man to the hospital at 11:10 p. m. The third army captured Wei mar and swarmed across the Snale river along a 30-milc stretch from a point south of Naumbcrg to south of tho Na poleon battlefield of Jena. , Nnumbcrg Is 128 miles from the Russian lines and 24 miles from Leipzig. Below Jena other OOEBBELS PESSIMISTIC LONDON, April 12 Nasi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels de clared today that "the war cannot last much longer In my opinion," a German broadcast said. In an article In his weekly "Das Reich," Goebbels said "We have sunk very low." forces ot Lt. Gen. George S. Patton spurted to w i t h I n 40 miles of the Czechoslovak Iron-tier.- '. Tank" or-Lt."" Gen." Courtney H. ' Hodges' first army moved even closer to Leipzig, reaching a point only 23 miles from the site of Germany's famous fairs at 2 p. m.,' apparently bound for an entry into the city -by tomorrow, ' Inside Redoubt Patton's men were reported 32 miles or less from Bayrcuth, in the German Inner redoubt... The British thrust within less than SO miles of Hamburg, Ger many's greatest port and second largest - city, capturing Cello (25,000) and Rcthon, crossing the AUcr river. They were shelling Bremen, second Ger man port. Facing the "toughest assign ment" since the inception of war loans, 80 key women gath ered this morning in the Pelican ?arty room to hear plans for the th War Loan which will bo sponsored by Soroptlmist and Business and Professional Wom en's clubs In Klamath county and Lake counties. Mrs. Rose Poole, general chairman, presided. , Unable to Come Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, regional director of women's ac tivities, was unable to attend as she has been delegated to the San Froncisco conference, but the women enjoyed the talks given by Mnbclle B. Blake of Washington D. C, director of the women's section of the war finance committee, and Mrs, El len MacVeagh of Portland, as sistant director of women's ac (Continued on Pago Two) Bring Out The Rabbit's Foot! Tomorrow Jinxes are wild! Tomorrow is Friday the ! thirteenth! II - j Bcwaro of black cats crossing your path especially those . with white stripes down their backs. Don't walk under j ladders, unless they ore leaning against a wall . , Avoid spilling salt, or tho OPA will get you! , J A sailor says ho Isn't superstitious, but on every Friday j 13 ho always uses his left hand to hoist his cup of coffee, J glass of milk or other beverage he's not superstitious, but there's no use taking chances, ! So if you feel like the sailor, tomorrow be careful not ! to open an umbrella in the house. Don't corry a shovol through ) the houso. If you go out and forget something, sit down for ! 15 minutes when you return for It before leaving again. . If you put any of your clothes on backwards, or inside ; out, leave them that way. If you aro walking with another, ; person and a taller object comes between you, be sure to say "bread and butter." According to the superstitious, these things in themselves, ; like a black cat crossing your path, are not dangerous, but ; aro foro-wornlngs of ill-luck In the wind.,, If you know the ; antidote you can break the spell before evil befalls. So brush up that rabbit's hind foot tomorrow Is Friday the ! thirteenth! . , 1 The President Passes -MS' w (I Q .President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States of America, died at Warm Springs, Ga this afternoon of a cerebral hemorrhage. - Main Asks Single Agency . A; proposal, that ' harvesting and. handling wage for Klam ath basin agricultural .'products be kept within the Jurisdiction of only ; one federal . agency, rather than two as at present, was made by C. J. Main,, presi dent of .the Tulelake Growers, In his appearance this mornng at a joint hearing of the Cali fornia, and Oregon WFA 'wage boards held at the'. Merrill high school gymnasium.' ' Main's, proposal, made 'n the cause of simplification and con venience, was one feature of , a busy morning hearing at which it was. indicated that -farmers generally favor the agricultural wage rates that prevailed in this area last year. The board, -however, heard only a few witnesses, and . other representative farm ers, as well as workers were ex pected to make concrete wage rate suggestions at the afternoon session. , . , i . Share Jurisdiction The WFA wage boards and the WLB now share Jurisdic tion over- wages for handling certain products here, notably potatoes.. . WFA's jurisdiction covers the harvest, "and WLB covers' shed labor (sorting, etc.). Main explained to the board that the produce belongs to the farmer until it is inspected and loaded on a car, when it be comes the property of the buyer. It would be much easier for all concerned, he asserted,. If one board, . had jurisdiction . over wages -for handling the products until, the' exchange is actually effected. That would , give the board, presumably the WFA .(Continued on Page .Two) - MADRID, April 1 2 ' W) Spain has broken relations with Japan in protest against the bayonetting. of Spanish nation als iin the .Philippines by Jap anese : soldiers. ! A .communique, ' issued ' last night at i the conclusion of a cabinet meeting presided over by General Franco, declared: Data Confirmed "Direct information of Span ish origin and officially . con firmed leaves no doubt con cerning the attack on February 12 by Japanese troops on the Spanish consulate, at Manila, followed by the assassination of consular functionaries and other Spaniards there, and the wilful burning- of buildings, in addi tion to many other assassina- i (Continued on Page Two) PUNCTURED BY BUSS TROOPS . "By RICHARD KASISCHKE I LONDON,' April 12 (P) Mar shal t eodor Tolbukhin s - third Ukranian army- bas punched a big hole in German ' defenses west of Vienna, Moscow dis patches said today, and ' Berlin reported soviet armor had reach ed a point between ' Krems and Melk, 115 miles from-Berchtes- gaden. - Soviet troops virtually rcom pleted the occupation of' Vienna, and , dispatches. from the -Rus sian' capital said "Moscow's guns may salute, the freeing of the ancient .Austrian . capital to nieht." Northwest of Bratislava the Russians were fighting Within sight at least of the Vienna Bruenn -highway; -last escape route for the Germans north ward-out of the capital. . . ,. Encircled .... Moscow dispatches said the encirclement had been com pleted. Berlin said soviet gun boats were putting ' tornmygun ners ashore in the rear of Ger man troops still fighting on the (Continued on Page Two) " Women Sponsor 7th War Loan Maybelle B. Blake, (center), director of the women's section of the war . linance committee, Washington, D. C, was honored at a' breakfast this morning when Klamath county women gath ered at the kick-off .event in the 7th War Loan. Left, Mrs. Rose Poole, Klamath county chairman of the drive, and right, Mrs. Ellen MacVoagh, assistant director of women's activities. - Oregon war:, finance -committee. . . ; eoirgiei WASHINGTON, April 12 (AP) Ths White House announced late today that Presi dent Roosevelt had died of a cerebral hem orrhage. 1 ,...'.. The death occurred at 3:35 (CWT) this afternoon at.Warm Springs, Ga. - A White House statement said: ; "Vice President Truman; has been noti fied. He was called to the White House and informed by Mrs. Roosevelt. The secretary of state has been advised. A cabinet meeting has been called.' ' ' ' v "The-four Roosevelt boys in the service have been, sent a message by their mother, which said that the president slept away this afternoon.. He. did his job to the end. as he would. want to do." , r . Bless you all and all our love, added Mrs. Rooseyelt. She signed the message, Mother. Funeral Saturday Funeral services will be held Saturday aft ernoon in the East Room of the White House. Interment will be at Hyde Park Sunday after noon. No detailed arrangements or exact times have been decided upon as yet. " . Harry S.;Trum.an, former senator, Missou ri county judge and one-time Kansas City haberdasher, by Mr. Roosevelt's death moved up fo'the-highest office in the land. . At the capitol, ai.des of Truman disclosed he had left for the White House only a few minutes before the news was made public. Mr. RooMveJt had been at Warm Spring for mora than . Stephen Early," pretidential secretary, informed reporter "Mrs. , Roosevelt,' Admiral Rots Mclntyre, (the Roosevelt physician) and ' I will leave Washington by air this afternoon for Warm Springs." - . Vice President Truman was at work in his office when the news came. He received a call about 5:25 p. m., a few min utes later secret service, men came and whisked him . away to the White House -in an automobile. - ' ' Matt ' Connelly, Truman's : executive assistant, said he assumed thet the new president would take the oath at once but that he did not knew any details. -Truman's vice presidential staff stood around his. offices in the senate office building, their faces pale as though they had bMn.stunnebyliheljmexpecied- news .whkb'lifted. -the former Missouri ierm'ooy into the highest office in this na tion' giving. 1 CAtlNET ASSEMBLES "The-deoth' of 'the president was announced a few short minutes after it .was revealed that high army officials had told senators the war soon would be over in Germany. - - : Cabinet members began assembling at 6 p. m., (EWT) for an emergency session. .- Fintto arrive were Secretary of Labor Perkins and Secre- tary of the' Interior lckes, veterans of every month Mr. Roose velt served in the . White House. The ihockina news of the fourth term president's death was announced to the press at Warm Springs by : Secretary William D. Hasaett shortly before 5 p. m. (CWT). "It is my sad duty," he told the reporters, to announce the president died at 3:35 p. m. of cerebral hemorrhage.". -" MAY DELAY S. F. CONFERENCE Heiiett urged the reporters to rush to their telephones Im mediately as e simultaneous announcement was being made at the White House In Washington. ; In quivering voice. In the presence of other members of the White: House, staff who . came here with Mr. Roosevelt March 30. for what was to be a three weeks' rest. Hassett said further details as- to the cause of death would be given out later by Commander Howard Bruenn, naval doctor who was taking care of the nation's 31st president, in the absence of Vice Admiral Rots T. Mclntire, navy surgeon general. ; : ' " Chairman Connelly (D-Tex.)- ot tno state soreign veiaxwiu committee said tonight the United Nations conference 'fn San Francisco may have to be postponed because of President Roote- velt's deatn. Sub Scamp; LCS, Reported Lost WASHINGTON. Aoril -12 (&) The submarine Scamp and a large support landing craft have been lost in' the Pacific, the navy announced. today, .. . . ., :: The submarine was reported overdue from patrol . and pre sumed lost, and the LCS (L) (3). 49 was lost in the Philippines as the result of enemy action. Normal complement of a sub marine is about 65 officers, and men and of a landing craft of the type about 45. . There was no report of casual ties on the landing- craft AGENCIES TO ACT By HAROLD W. WARD WASHINGTON. April 12 MP) Bituminous coal operators and miners shunted their new work ing agreement to government stabilization agencies today for approval or rejection of its high er wages, higher coal price terms. , . , . . Both sides told OPA the opera tors would need higher ceilings to offset (the $1.07 dally pay boost granted the miners under the contract finally agreed imon late yesterday ; after six ..weeks ot negotiations. . i, ., '--y- Ho "Fringe" ' : The: war labor board figura tively Ruined as it took the pact because the main pay adjustment is no ordinary "fringe." " -u is iiea up wjin tne miner s (Continued on Page Two) . i PEACE KEEPERS M DELIBERATE IN U. S. By FLORA LEWIS ' i WASHINGTON: ADril 12 fPI The world peace-keeoing organi. zation to be blueprinted at baa Francisco may conduct its first deliberations in the United States. Diplomats speculated on this possibility today as they awaited word. on. the extent of destruc tion in Vienna to determine whether that old world capital now almost entirely in Russian hands remains a likely choice as a permanent meeting site. ; V' Set-Up Looms i Officials say the league it. self assuming that everything goes at top speed could be scl up by late summer or early fall. Then, as soon as it is ratified by enough countries, the first as. sembly meeting of all members nations probably will be called. This session , would elect non permanent members of the secutf ity council and get the organi zation going. - j . The United Nations will have to decide at San Francisco how many ratifications will be neces. sary to establish the peace orv ganization. " Probably,' a major ity of two-thirds of those attend ' ing.-the April 25 meeting will be required specifically including Britain, Russia, the United States, China and France, as pen manent members of the council. Possibility of the first meeting in this country is strengthened by the: devastation in Europe) where the coming winter un doubtedly will be cold and hurt gry. Philadelphia, San Francisco and Detroit already have put In bids to be host to the meeting.