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Itaim LUDWIO SERTOR' lis one of tho bent-known I 1,,U,,. ..-. tfil morning ihnt Gnrmany hnit now cut In two by el;WMl iiTi-n'tcr will be kt lo Hglil on nepnr10 bat- Id. ., . . c Pnrls rnoio quint- r Hint wo "lld hi nctimlly met louth lesden. but there li no con- lllon oi wie nun oivw Germans have drawn n from their reserve I .r . il.. fcrlln linn even, 1111111111:1111;, their eastern ironi 10 inrow .1 our Oth army at tho Our oHvunco there cems Lrsrllv checked whether ic German countorottacks or sit for supplies ana rein tnents to calch up not being clear In the dlspolclie, dale, wo have conquered lore than HALF of pre-war ban territory lui.uuu to miles altogether, leaving Lizls only 84,000 mile. Wu jho British have taken 83,. square nines anu mc nu' : Ccrjuon air force appear hav been knocked r airmen yesterday "de- led a totnl -of 1116 enemy Is In tho air and on the d. brlna im to 3000 .the Icr of nazl planes finished the first 10 day of April. (Germans are said to have Into tho final nhuso of the hvlth a pretty fair rcservo knes, but when tho critical nt came they HAD NO left to get them Into the INERAL EISENHOWER Iodine ana In his V-E Day ruon asserting that tho bf tho fighting In Europe hot be proclaimed until the r POCKET of nazl resist has been wined out. Thl fiean that there will bo no y proclamation until Hit-' Inn his crew of fanatical nave been rooted out of hideout In the southern Mni. (They aro rooortcd lathering there in In. iii numbors.l tiay take months to burn ast them out of their hole. must remember that there K probably million of " unncr arms in Ger- Them nrf, nmnniAfl in 0.000 In Italy, 100,000 In " una Rooaness knows psny In Norway, ... " re 20.000 In BOR fX alone, and some 80,000 I" ports In France. In the Pnllnucd on Pbro Two) In The Shanta-Cascadc Wonderland PRICE FIVE CENTS April 17 Max. (April 16) .64 Min . 33 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to data !fj.l4 Normal 8.75 Last year "..6.68 Forecast: Clear Wednesday. Little change in temperature. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1845 Number 10442 Allies Blitz luftwcaffe; Reds 20 Miles From ool 11 G First Army Enters Leipzig KNOCKED OUT IN ONE DAY Br HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON. April 17 (!') Ap proximately 1000 Am or lean heavy bomber ripped German railway at Dresden and along the Czechoslovakia frontier to the south today while the de struction of the Luftwnffo was I continued by fighter pilots who knocked out a total of 1110 planes yesterday. Revised totul showed that during the first 16 days of April 3000 Ccrmnn planes wero destroyed, of wlilcn iBa were shot down In nir combat. Allied losses for tho samo period to- in leu 4H3 plane. Hall Entire Force Enemy plane losses represent about half of the estimated re serve strength of the Ciermnn air force at tho time of the Rhine crossing. Air force officials worked all night checking and rcchecklng the record smashing claims turned In bv fighter nllots 727 by pilot of tho U. S. eighth air loicc. Verified Claims All claim wcro verified by combat film. (Cameras on fighter planes arc synchronized to the-autisJ ., :.. - " "Cant, Robert M. Ammon, of Reading, Pa sol an individual scoring record by destroying 11 on tho ground. Hi camera ver ified hi claim. The eighth forco announced that eight heavy bombers and 34 fighters wcro missing from yesterday's operations, carried out by nearly 2100 planes, : Allies Meet In what a field correspondent called "tho first tactical joining on the east and wost air fronts," American and Russian fighter planes met and exchanged greeting yesterday over the central German bat(l zone. "The Luftwaffd has been knocked out," said one highly placed official who cannot bo Identified by name. Months of relentless bombing of German oil plants had had their effect. The German air forco' had ample planes In re serve probably 3500 but at the. crucial moment there was no fuel to got them into the dir. There was no letup In the heavy bombing campaign which Gen. Carl . A. Spoatz, commander of the U, S. stra tnolr? nlr forces In Eurono. de clared last night had switched from strategic to a purely tac Ileal lob in support of the ground forces. M Off ice Dismisses jf imber Exchange Protests Ml lodged by Klamath wiiy courts against ,""""""ku pciwccn ine na 'orest service and Shovlln Mimbcr eomnnnv nf n.ni P.tSn!smisscd by tho gen- Li. .1 , 1 1110 cou'"y court f" "lvlscd today. t whether such action BKen Wnc nnt nnM.v.lMA It I"ect "K, of the two 11 was kjiM ,nM Exchanao, u. K?"!1,""80' Shovlln oilercd to tho nnvornmonl Id I iros of '""d ' Klam cut k .cou''lle' for the "flit and remove national mi. 1 worm $172,183 wn'imnt.''1y 18.800 acres j-uuniica, til Pnnni . "1B KOUIlllOS P,.roc.clY" 25 ner cent of 'to h . ,)at!'l rcst Clsa oil0. ' sh timber. r'9 claimed thnt tho . natoriniiy affects th tav '"o counties and thn .!. U "pZf,n commission" rest ihru 10 ,n l"0 PUb mat nresnnt. .tniV.io. in ihiiu ex cliangos, and that consent of the county or state timber conserva tion is not required. The land office opinion quotes tho chief forester to the effect thnt the exchange with tho Bend firm will, result In a national for est inventory of thrifty, younger trees, and that tho county will not bo deprived of returns from tho sate of timber but such re turn will Instead be merely postponed In tho Interest of greater uniformity and stability of timber supply 1 , !? iUP&V .... Units of the American first reached the suburbs of Lsipslg lo the west as Russian troops were smashing ever nearer the nasi capital of Berlin. President Truman Wants To Meet Big Five Chiefs By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, April 17 (P) President Truman told a news conference todny he will be very happy to meet the heads of tho other big five allied powers as soon as possible. In his first conference with newsmen since he succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mr. Tru man said ho had not initiated any move toward a new meeting of tho allied leaders. . But In response to a question ho said he would be very happy to meet Prime Minister Chur chill, Premier Stnlln and Presi dent Chiang Kai-shek of China soon. D Gaullo Mooting , Mr. Truman added that he also would be glnd to sec Gener al Charles do Gnullo. provision al president of France, if De Gnu 0 cared to arrange a con ferenco with him. Do Gnullo did not see President Roosevelt 011 the lnttcr's return from tho Yalta Big Three conference. Before a . record-breaking crowd of newsmen who jnmmed tho oval room nnd overflowed on to a nenrbv nntio. the new orcsi dent outlined briefly his major foreign and domestic policies. Foreign Rotations On the foreign front he snid He is backing to tho hilt tho American delegation to tno ban Francisco United Nations confer ence. . Ho does not oxuect to attend the conference but will welcome delegates to the opening session by radio. He oxueets to see Foreign Commlssnr Molotov of Russia be fore tho latter goes on to the San Francisco meeting. Domestic Mattors On tho domestic front he sold , He suDDorts wholeheartedly'1 president Hoosevciis program by international monetary agree ments as included in the Brctton Woods pact. Ho has nlwnys been for the re clprocal trade agreements pro gram and backs it as it was sub mitted recently to congress. He intends to let the curlew and brownout stand, at least un til V-E day, ' .Ho docs. not plan to lift, the ban on horse racing. ; . LEKDTEASEllLl The Ones That Got Away Klamath Fall housewives were still buying fish today nt the meat markets and the fish stores. Notwithstanding Inst week's opening of the fishing season, the supply of sports fish from nearby streams ana;iuries was sadly short of the demand. mi. ...l...,l lolilnrf irna nvlrnmn. ly' spotty. Hero and there a good catch was made, but for the most 7 part, angler came nome disap pointed. Water is too high and too muddy, and it is too early for bugs to hatch. Good weather will change these con dition rapidly, however, and Izank Walton's Klamath disciples wero an nnllmlolln lnt fnlnV. Season Is not "open yet, cither, at some of the most popu lar lakes and streams. ' WASHINGTON, April 17 (fP) President Truman signed the lend-lease extension bill today. In a statement the president declared the measure a "mighty instrument for victory" and one of the "growing monuments to the- boldness, imagination and effective ' statesmanship of Franklin Roosevelt." "Lend-lease," he sold, "will bo carried on until the uncondi tional surrender or complete de feat of Germany and Japan." Witness Signing The signing was witnessed by Secretary of State Stettinlus, Chairman Connally (D-Tex.) of the senate foreign relations com mittee, Senator Vandenberg (R Mich.), Chairman, Bloom (D N. Y.), of the house foreign af fairs committee, and Rep. Eaton (R-N. J.) The bill, extending lend-lease aid to the United Nations an ad ditional 12 months from June 30, was signed after the presi dent had conferred briefly with delegates to the forthcoming United Nations conference at San Francisco. ' . ' Stettinius Remain. Stettinlus and the congression al delegates remained . over to watch Mr. Truman approve the lend-lease legislation. Tho occasion was historic for several reasons, . Among others, it was the first time White House attaches could recall in which a president has signed a bill which he previously had signed as vice president and presiding officer of the-enate. . It was the same measure on which Truman voted as vice president, after the senate had rejected by a 39-39 tie vote an amendment by Sen. Taft (R Ohio) to place new restrictions on tho postwar use of lend-lease materials. The vice president cast his vote with the opposi tion.,', -, ...'' " Patton, Hodges : Named for Boost WASHINGTON, April 17 (P) President Truman today nom inated George Smith Patton Jr., and Courtney Hicks Hodges to be full generals. , Patton commands the third army and Hodges tho first army In the fighting in nazl Germany. They are under the direction of Gcn.'Dwight D. Eisenhower, al lied commander-in-chief. GERMANS SAY RUSS TROOPS NEAR 3RD ARM y , LONDON, April 17 (P) Rus sian spearheads have cut the Seelow-Alt Friedland road less than 20 miles from Berlin, and penetrated the deeply-staggered defenses beyond, a German broadcast declared tonight. Simultaneously, the German high command said the Russian first Ukrainian army, of Marsh al Ivan Konev had surged across, the Neisse river farther south, and the German radio said the Soviets had reached a point only 75 miles . from a Junction with the American third army knocking toward Dresden. Three-Way Push The -enemy said the massive soviet drive on Berlin had reached points 20 miles north east and 28 miles southeast of the capital, as well as plowing in from due east of Berlin. - The German command said sectors of the Berlin front had been torn open, but later were scaled off. Drive Unconfirmed' Moscow still had not con firmed the Berlin-bound drive. One German war reporter said red army . bombers were cascading high explosives - in cessantly on nazl positions. The enemy also said soviet airborne, troops had landed less- than' 23 miles from' Berlin. . -Tank Warfar An afternoon German, broad cast declared Russian - tanks were in action "east of Ebersr walde," only 20 miles north east of Berlin on the main high way and. railroad to Stettin. Transocean said a clean breakthrough by the Russians toward Berlin had been pre vented. "At some points the front was torn open, but later these points were sealed off and some of them were narrowed," the propaganda agency added.' Command imposed a security silence on naming places or de tails on the Berlin front, the agency said, indicating the sit uation was considered critical. Fifth Meets Stiff Nazi Resistance ROME, April 17 (P) Fifth army troops fought through bit terly defended and heavily mined areas south of Bologna today, measuring their advances by. yards in the second day of the general allied offensive- to drive the Germans from Italy. Toward the west coast, Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott's men gained 1000 to 2500 yards, but on his army's right flank ad vances were limited by inter lacing enemy defenses and close ly coordinated enemy . small arms and mortar fire. Field Marshall Commits Suicide U. S. 9TH ARMY ON THE ELBE, Germany, April 17, (P) Reports from the Ruhr pocket said tonight that Field Marshal Walther von Model, commander of the annihilated German fifth panzer and 15th armies, had com mitted suicide.1 His body has not been found. The ninth and first armies' al ready have captured 263,000 Germans from the pocket. Bulletin CHAPLIN IS FATHER LOS ANGELES, April 17 () Charlie Chaplin was adjudged ' to be the father of Joan Bar- ' ry's baby by a jury in superior court today. ' .1 , The jury of 11 women and . oh man brought In the ver dict at 2:20 p. m.. Pacific war ' time, after deliberating the bit terly contested case for 2 hours and 55 minutes.' .. The courtroom was only one third filled when the verdict, . climax of the second hearing in the suit, was lead. Last January the first ease ended in a mistrial when the jury was unable ' to decide whether the comedian was the father of the baby, now IB- ' months-old, Carol Ann.- Army Plane Drops In On Navy Air Station 'When a medical army evacua tion transport plane was forced down at the Klamath naval air Btatlm Monday afternoon, the stdtion dispensary found itself the unexpected host to 14 wounded army overseas veterans.- . The transport wa flying from San Francisco to transfer casual ties from the European and Pa cific war theaters to McCaw General hospital at Walla Walla, Wash., . when engine trouble forced the plane to land here. . ' In Dispensary ' Patient were removed to the N AS dispensary and there found themselves the center of attrac tion. ' " The plane carried Its own doc tor, nurse and corpsman who were assisted in caring for the wounded by the dispensary staff. While at the station, the army guests were treated to a social hour arranged by the Waves. This, the men stated, was a unique experience. Some of the men had been in remote places overseas so long they had never seen a woman in the uniform of the United States military service. A movie was obtained from the Marine Barracks and the show arranged in the ward. The Red Cross presented candy and cigarettes to the patients. . Those on the transport who were wounded in combat Jo France were Pvt. Maynard Stor ey Jr., Seattle; 1st. Lt. Fred H. Gisse, Salem; PFC John R. Val dez, Riverton, Wyo.;' Sgt. Frank A. Carlson, Seattle; 1st. Lt Ed ward D. Sterling, Wenatchee, Wash. Casualties from Germany in cluded Pvt. Earl Clark, Seattle; Sgt. Charles E.- Reed, Minnea polis; PFC Clarence Shephard, Prin-jville, Ore.; PFC William M. Speer, Salmon, Ida. Fmm fhf Pflfif, Oma Crrf Robert L. Cromme, Seattle! wounded at Manila; Pvt. Robert' Weholt, Lewiston, Ida., wounded on Leyte, the Philippines; MSgt. William A. Brokaw, Spokane, Wash., Sgt. C. B. Rose, Tilla mook, and SSgt. Elmer W. La ger, Astoria, Ore., all wounded in the Philippines. The men continued their jour ney Tuesday in a relief plane while the other transport re mains here for repairs. Schaupp Proposes Klamath Route for Inter - Regional Road--Shorter, Cheaper PORTLAND, Ore., April -17 (P) A highway commissioner urged today that Oregon's main inter-regional highway south ward be routed from Eugene to Klamath Falls rather. than from Eugene to Ashland. Arthur Schaupp told the com mission - that the distance be tween Eugene and Weed, Calif., is 20 miles longer over , the Pa ciflcTTiighway through "Ashland than over the Willamette-highway to The .Dalles-California highway. - -. . More Efficient' Improvements on both roads, as drawn up in the' state high- E E By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Strong formations of Super fortresses hammered 6 bases for Japanese suicide planes today in the growing air war which has cost the Nipponese 1674 planes within a month over the- south ern approaches to Japan and the homeland itself. The big bombers raided Kyu shu, southernmost island of Japan, for an. hour and a half in: mid-afternoon. They follow ed in the path of carrier planes and Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima in an effort to neutralize airdromes which mounted an other strong attack yesterday against U. . S. naval forces in the Ryukyu islands. - Invade Ie Shima Amphibious units of the 24th corps invaded heavily mined Ie Shima off the west coast of Oki nawa, principal island of the Ryukyus and 325 miles south of Kyushu, seizing another air field to turn against the Nipponese. Tanks hold two other air fields on Okinawa where 9108 Japanese were killed and 391 captured in the first 13 days of fighting. . Planes Destroyed Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced the destruction of 368 Japanese planes in the last five days.. Carrier planes destroyed 109 of them attacking Kyushu airdromes Sunday and Monday, but Iwo' Mustangs couldn't find a single plane when they swept over the same area yes terday on their first hunting ex pedition over Japan.-' The remainder of the 368 were accounted for in carrier sweeps over the northern Ryukyus and in knocking - down another strong attack by Japanese sui cide planes. : -V ... . Snyder Named Loan Official WASHINGTON, April 17 (P) President Truman today ' ap- minted John W. Snyder of St. ouis, Mo., to be federal loan administrator. Now vice ' president of - the First National bank of St. Louis. Snyder has been a warm per sonal friend of the president for more than 25 years. He succeeds Fred M. Vinson, who was. made director of war mobilization and reconversion after James F.. Byrnes gave. up that. post. way engineer's 15-year program, would make the Eugene-Klam- ath Falls route seven miles shorter and because of better grades and less snow hazard- much more efficient, he assert ed. . , . "Engineers cannot beat: na. ture and God gave us a natural route from, Eugene to Klamath Falls." SchauDD said.. 'Besides. tlie Willamette-route would; cost 0 minion jess. " '- Study Looms H. T. Banfield, commission chairman; said the plan would be studied, further. No vote was taken.. . . . , . . . The state ;' highway commis sion also plans to take over 1700 miles of county roads, improve them, and maintain them as a secondary highway system. . ' : Federal Act The- plan, tentatively set up by the commission here, follows the federal 1944 act which pro vided siu.4B4.36il tor each of three postwar years to be match ed by state funds for secondary highways. The project will mean a - total expenditure of $45,500,000 in Oregon in three years, the commission said. The county roads comprised in the . program include 77.33 miles in Klamath, 60.95 in Uma tilla. . . ... ... Japs Accused of Barbaric Action WASHINGTON,. April 17 (P) The Japanese were accused of "barbarous and appalling atroc ities" during i the defense of Manila in a report by Gen. Doug las MacArthur released today by the war department: A summary of the report, which said it was based on docu mented evidence and sworn tes timony, charged that babies were "repeatedly stabbed ' and slashed with bayonets, even in their mother's arms; women and young girls were violated . . ." The report was issued as Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo went be fore the house to recite a grisly account of Japanese atrocities in the Philippines. 000 NAZIS ATTEMPT LAST DITCH STAND German Says Reich Cut in Two by Drives By JAMES M. LONG PARIS. Anril 17 MP. Th 69th division of the U. S. first' army fought today into tho eastern suburbs of Leipzig, 2 14 miles frnm tho hoar nt ho city where a scraped-up Ger man force of 30,000 men had ' attempted a Stalingrad-like stand hohinl a fnt-miHahlo v'tntt of anti-aircraft guns. Other - first army divisions, following the same tactics by which Blucher destroyed Na- GERMANY SPLIT LONDON, April 17 (P) A nazi radio commentator, Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, said tonight that Germany had been cut in two by drives from the east and west and now was forced to fight on two sep arated battlefields. . He gave no details. It was uncertain whether the broad--' cast meant that: American and Russian forces actually had joined in eastern Ger many, or that the third army, had invaded Czechoslovakia. The. Americans were six miles from the republic hours ago and reaching its borders would divide Germany geo graphically, although not strategically. . poleon's armv at L e i o z I a. fought around the city on. the west ana soutn and speared 12 miles to the east, where they were less than 90 miles from , Russian lines. - - Reject Ultimatum Chemnitz., to" the south and only "45 miles from Dresden, re jected a u. 5. third army ulti matum to surrender. Other third army ' forces fought along a 15-mile front to ward the border of Czechoslo vakia and advanced at one. point to-within- 4 4- miles-of thS frontier. (The Paris radio said the nazl congress city -of Nuernberg, 90 miles north of Munich, had been captured.) , ; Attack Bridgehead ' The Germans launched a heavy attack tonight on the ninth army's Elbe bridgehead pointing towards Berlin, but the Americans beat off the at tack without losing ground. To the south, the third army captured the big Saxony rail center of Plauen, in effect bi secting - Germany, arid beat down the last six miles to the Czechoslovak border. More than half of Germany was .conquered, 101,000 square miles under allied and Russian banners and 84,000 square miles remaining to the Germans. NLRB Hearing SetforWTC The national labor relations board is holding a hearing to day involving the Weyerhaeuser Timber company here to de termine whether an election to establish a bargaining agency is necessary. Trial examiner for the NLRB is John Hedrick. Both the AFL, and the CIO unions are repre sented. Weyerhaeuser is repre sented by Chet Irving of the Fine Industrial Relations com-. mittee. The NLRB will hold a hear ing at Prineville on April 19 with the Ochoco Lumber com pany on bargaining representa tion and the Shevlin-Hixon com pany of Bend, Ore. will have a hearing witn tno .nutui on April 20 at Bend for the same purpose. Storage Capacity of Copco DkistSHr i. Dm leMiMisinsJI . uwjtt wwii saw w in! ' California Oregon Power com pany plans to increase storage capacity of its two east side res ervoirs by 600,000 gallons this year, it was disclosed today by Sam Ritchey, division manager. The company will replace the old reservoir on Melrose street with a new 800,000 gallon steel tank. The old tank has a capa city of 325,000 gallons. Add to Capacity Addition of a section of steel will add 125,000 gallons to the capacity of the north reservoir above Pacific Terrace. The res ervoir capacity of the entire lo cal water system will then be about 3,750,000 gallons. - Military bases and the housing projects are served from the east side of town where the res ervoir Improvements are con templated, i " ..- Military - installation, use of water has had a major part in a 54 per cent increase in pumpage in the last two years. Ritchey said. that a compari son between the first three months of 1943 and the corre-. sponding period shows the 54 per cent gain. He estimated that military use was responsible for over one-half of this increase. In. terms of gallons per day, the In crease amounts to 1,500,000 gal lons. Military use is about 750, 000 gallons. . The increase in pumpage here first showed up in 1944, Ritchey said. The maximum single day's pumpage occurred on August 28, with about 6,500,000 gallons. This exceeded by 1,000,000 gal lons any previous day's record. At that, time, the two military installations were using an aver age of about 500,000 gallons a day. Their purchase of water has increased by 250,000 gallons a day. Ritchey expects that mid summer will produce some ,new pumpage records, possibly ex ceeding the record of last Aug ust by a million gallons. 4
