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Newspaper Page TextWllPfnf OIWA InlR fP57RfPruifnl0 (Mil A Witt A - m i i t , r . m.' ' inn fit Tli Shania-VaHvuiU' Wonderland April 18 Max. (April 17).... 69 Mia 37 Precipitation lait 24 houri .00 Stream year to data ...8.14 Normal 9.78 Lait yaar ......6.88 Forecast: Cooler Thursday with light rain. JTnVB CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18, 1945 Number 10443 ttlfl---'1 . FRANK JENKINS 'nnnny lorfny, Uw Ru , ,ro buttering nt the cast Sim of DoiHii probn bly "'".o i.u., from t hu e ty. ErdinC lo German reports I,l IlllVO IIU1IIV.IH'" n - vcr u" "r.,,v,.i,i:,, lirin ui'nii"" i V river, huumi i . ,..t iii.r u In lo "u . .... t. nutie tuna rounnro, w .- ...i. ... atlll officially I CUV nt n lo nil their opera- In Germany, uiu i "." pcr print" Pletiire ,r in troop in n iik v"', Hie KOMIIffCtcn imn ! fronted by anti-tank ob ' j ii.. ,-il,m miva the my In smashing these ob- i-.,.l II,,.. ,IUivitfllo to r, riwn .. ..... n.iuuliui It'onnn ran LrninK Berlin In tho din- j n-.xin.i Trnnaoccnn npw L . imllnr in our AP. lid INS) nay today that id a linn minion numin niiniflnti Inward Iter- Ll actcli tlmt their 2500 bill nnd luuu monars imvc ......... n.nn n hnlf million . l llm nti.l 94 houm. Inncliides: "Tomorrow Rnd ly all" one of the bloodiest of thin war win develop II. rtnlna nt Tlnrlln " f h an propagandists shout vin History linn singieo out n ttm hrnnlcwntor of the In tldnl wave." I ... ION'S 3rd iirmy crosses rr Into the northwestern Bf Crcchoslovokln, thus It CEIiMANY PROPER lives. i'I be confused bv this ml. Germany HOLDS lulovnkla, and won't be Hly unlit until we Join tip She Itimlnn there," or 1o rth. Tlint hnsn t yet been bllslird. (robnbly will o soon. . are beginning to set btljtlcs this week. They less than STARTLING. learned yesterday tlmt wc Bit Russians hnvo taken bver half of tho area of r Germany. Our supreme Iwrtcrs In Purls tolls us that since D-day In Nor (June 0 of Inst venr) 175 Gcrmnns hnvo been PHED in the WEST b Russian fl!iircs not In- l lie tntiil of Ccrmnn destroyed this month many to 4 ISO. (ho Ruhr trnp wo have iuimoi ucrmnn prisoners, .0.00 more ore exneclod to flor todny, bringing tho mere io 30H,I)00. Thnt is c costly German defeat Inllnsrnd. whom tlm niia. Illlcd nnd captured 380,000 ns. . ply nil of German wnr In- m our hands. Great h cities nro fall Ins mm pnothcr. Even tho Ger- rcallw that Berlin will P surrounded nnd Inter 1 ill is Iln rinrmn.... I. kalcd honelesslv. Nn Whafpvni nt AW vtvn fy remnlns. sill tho nnzls floht on, ijirm tens, probably hurt. ,,t,lln nn reaucinK Flmued on Paco Two) I YANKS IV E INTO BAGUIO 7D00FREED Third Offensive Aims At Linking With Allies By LEONARD MILLIMAN Aiioclated Press War Editor Mud-spnttered Amcrlcnn In fantrymen drove Into the out skirts of UiiHiilo, Japanese Philip pines headuuarlcrs from which luorotv tribesmen rescued 7000 civilians, today whllo Super fortresses ripped up six air dromes In southern Japan for tne second consecutive day, -No Jananeso interceptors look off yesterday from Iho six air fields on Kyushu Island, buses for many of Ihu 2280 Japanese planes which Adm. Chester W. B-28S LOST WASHINGTON. Aoril It ()) Two Superfortresses were lost in attacks yesterday and today on six airdromes on tne Japanese mainland Island of Kyushu. Large forcti of the B-29. pos sibly 150 In each mission, hit the airfields twice within 17 hours, apparently In an attempt to pin down Japanese planet and keep them from attacking American forces at Okinawa, 328 miles to the south. Nimitz announced have been de stroyed In tho last month during Okinawa Invasion operations, 325 miles south of Japan, Materiel Destroyed Wednesday communiques re ported, American planes on all Pacific fronts destroyed or dam aged 20 more Japanese ships, hundreds of small craft, 15 locomotives and killed hundreds of Nipponese soldiers. Tokyo radio .reported Yanks Invaded Monna Islet, an olrbasc (Continued on PoKO Two) Truman Urged To Delay Meet By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 18 President Truman Is being urged to delay a meeting with tho heads of major allied slates until tho Sun Francisco conference has acted on a world pcnec-kccp-Iiik organiiatlon, Although Mr. Truman said nt his first news conference yes terday he would be very happy to talk soon with other members of tho Big Five, mony In Wash ington felt that any such coincid ing . conclave might prove em barrassing to tho United Nations delegates., Red River Flood Remains Acute NEW ORLEANS, April 18 (ZD Tho flood situation on the Red river below Alexandria re mained aculo today whllo army engineers continued their 24 hour vigil along tho lower reaches of the swollen Missis sippi. ....... Part of the 8000 families driven from their homes by the rampaging Red , prepared to re turn ns the water receded trom Shrcvcport southward to Alex andria. - War Federal Court at fhmath Object of Proiect fclfltlnn lrt . . uiuvuin inr n t .'Moral court In Klam- Bed ? . fi0ll"l through K ,nls "nd-organizn- h County Bar assocl- I'Kiparcd n nronnsnd lntrnrl,,nll.. I... an cini" . -"n- 2 Jong bucked tho Idea M thnl' rL.",csslon hwo, PWrt for theproJect, ,""""8. h. c. Mor- r. Z, ". Carnnhan arc lleo n'l Bl"' association Ihn . l"H"a will I rtlfi,"1.0 ot. OBon one com; ! Wlt terms of &l ,','t PoHland, Pen- Den 1 ""s and Med bv'f wo,,ld bo. ap. f sntn 'IP. '"nrshal and :iin.lt...tllsl',l-'t for ea-rti i "vo vvnorn m,i .. , Cavm.i.-. .... bh. n writes V t?"". Chnlrmnn , 41, fiV,h(l,bHr "delation, ES,,?1101' t0 Congress! ven n" ?ln;'nK. out, ifirRfli;. re-l serves are odjacont to Klamnth Falls, as well ns tho Indian res ervation, fedornl reclamation project. A large amount of the federal business1 now- tried In other places has Its origin in Klamath and Lake counties. Committee Named , Chamber directors nt their meeting today commended tho bill as prepared, and author ized every effort of tho organ ization to bring obout Ha pns sago.. Other groups will be ask ed to glvo similar endorsements. . Congressman . Stockmnn, it was . brought out by chamber officials, already has shown his warm Interest In getting a term of federal court for Klamath Falls, -President. Malcolm Epley appointed a committee of the chamber to work on tho pro ject, including Senator Marshall Cornett, chnlrmnn; L. Orth Sise more and Paul Forrens. It was pointed out that terms of tho court are now hold at Pendleton, Portland and Mod ford, nnd tho Klamath effort does not seok to remove federal court from any of those com munltles. Their support of the local offort will be asked. Ernie Pyle Killed On le Jima BERLIN FIGHT AT CRESCENDO SAY GERMANS By RICHARD KASISCHKE LONDON. April 18 P)-iicr-man broadcasts dcclurcd today tho buttle for the custom ap p roach es to Berlin had "reached its cllmux," with Rus sian troops breaching defense lines only 18 or 20 miles from tho capital, and that the Sov iets had launched a third of fensive south of Stettin aimed at linking with the allies on the north German plain. Front dispatches to Moscow asserted the Russians could see Berlin burning, but did not yet specify that any offensive was underway, Smash Near City Nine ' Russian armies are smashing . toward Berlin, the Germans said, conceding red army gains through the strong hedgehog positions in tho blaz ing arc cast and northeast of the bomb-shattered city. Tho enemy declared Stalin had thrown In a third offensive on a 17-mllc Oder river front south of Stettin, intending to slice In between tho Baltic port and Berlin, and Join tho west ern allies north and west of Berlin. This drive has assumed (Continued on Poge Two) WlJ0rde7s Five .Workers Re-Hired ; DETROIT,' April 18 (P) In a precedent-shattering move to end a strike that has made idle 5000 employes of tho Kclsey Hayes Wheel Co., the regional wnr labor board todny ordered tho company., to reinstate five employes whoso discharge pre cipitated the strike nine days ago.; ' -'-..v. . '. ' , The board's action was taken with management representa tives dissenting. WLB . and union officials said it wss the first time the 'board had direct cd reinstatement of workers while' a strike was In progress. Machinegun Bullets Take Life Of Famed War Correspondent By LEIF ERICKSON GUAM, April 18 (IP) Ernie Pyle, the GI's columnist, was killod today by Japanese machinegun ambush on la Jima.- 10 square mile island lust west of Okinawa.. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nlmits' headquarters said Pyle was killed instantly by a surprise machinegun attack at 10:15 a. m. on the southern side of the island, while observing the advance of 10th army troops who had invaded the island Monday. Pyle when hit was standing with a regimental commanding officer of headquarters , troops when a Japanese machinegun opened fire. 1 The commanding general of the Ie Jima Invasion troops of. ficlaliy reported Pyle's death as follows:' "I regret to report that War Correspondent Ernie Pyle who made such great contribution to the morale of our foot soldiers was kilted in battle on Ie Jima today." (A Blue network broadcast from Guam by Jack Hooley 8TH HAMMERS WAY By LYNN HEINZERLING ROME, April 18 (IP) Polish troops of the eighth army, sweep ing up the-Po valley, advanced today to within 10 miles of Bol ogna, major German base in northern Italy,. ', ; ' -Fifth army forces also fought slowly closer to the big Italian art and industrial center from the south, battering ; their way through enemy" troops entrench ed in scores of caves, tunnels and pillboxes i along the mountain highway .from, Florence.:- . . Other eighth army-forces have . advanced, .beyond. Argeita ori the extreme right, cutting the Germans ; off from this strong point imthe Argcnta gap, the key lo Ferrnra and the Po valley. . , .The Germans were still hold ing out in Argon ta, but they ap peared to be trapped,', with al liod . troops .astride' the railway a little: more than a mile. beyond tho town."' " " "The bridgehead over the Marina canal, next'water barrier to Focrora ond the Po valley, was enlarged and strengthened, with heavy casualties .inflicted on 'the Germans. heard in San Francisco, report ed Pyle was en route to a sec tor' where there was heavy fighting when he met his death. In company with Lt. Col. Jo seph Coolidge of ' Arkansas, they were bumping along a narrow- coral road in a jeep when an enemy machinegun opened fire as they rounded a corner. Instant Death (They scrambled into a ditch, the broadcast continued, and the gunfire ceased. After a few minutes they peered cautiously over the edge . and there was another burst of fire. : Colonel Coolidge ducked back and as he turned to Pyle saw that it was all over for the .homely (Continued on Page Two) r Nazi Says Reds Set Daie for Berlin's Capture . LONDON: April- 18 (IP) A German radio reporter quoted. Russian prisoners today as say ing that an order of the day by Marshal Stalin read to them-at the 'start ...of '.the" new .eastern., front offensive said the war would end April 25,' with Berlin; falling: to .'the. red: army.;-." -y ;-, No order of the day broad cast from " Moscow has men tioned .a specific date for the col lapse of Germany and1 such a forecast would be contrary to Stalin's previous policies. Pyle Killed Ernie Pyle, famed war cor respondent,, was . killed , on Ie Jima by Japanese machine bullets. ' ..-..' rr- TRADE ACT BILL ' WASHINGTON,' April 13 (IP) Cordell Hull eent-to congress to day a plea for continuation and expansion of the reciprocal trade act with added duty-cutting au thority, as a contribution to world peace. The former secretary of state sent his plea from the naval hos pital at Bethesda, Md.( where he has; been a patient for some time. ... -.r.. First Battle . ; . .' It 'reached congress as Assist ant .'Secretary .of State William. L. .Clayton told the house ways and means committee that fail ure to continue- the reciprocal trade policy might well lead to a third World war and President Truman ' encountered his first pitched battle in congress.- "The' action of congress"- on (Continued on Page Two) . , Navy Pilot Gets Ducking in Chilly Upper Klamath Lake 81- ,!'',s skT--- 4s ' , .. .1 ' . . ; i "-' " ': ' : - : -v.j . t x V v v v v. ; t-.i n n Rahrmin. 24-vear.ald navv flohter ollot. made a forced landlno on Upper Klamath lake Monday, climbed into a life raft and was paddling toward shore when, an amphibian plane dropped aown to.ptcK nlm up. Tne dIbck arrow, foreground. shows tho tip of the tignter piano ran, tne second arrow indicating mo scbvuw . pinuv ixuni mv iviainain uavai air siauum in in backaround is inow-eappea reucan-outie. - . . Official Navy Photo. Sudetenland Push. Slices Reich In Tvo By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, April 18 (IP) Tank-riding U, S. third army Infantry men invaded Czechoslovakia today, bisecting Germany with a plunge Into the Sudetenland, which Hitler annexed to the reich after Munich in 1938. The 90th division Invaded Cxechoslovakia northwest of Aich In the northwestern tip of the country. Th Americans had dashed eight miles from tho area of Hof, which is about 10 miles south of captured Plauen. r :.- :" The last lap of the drive to cut Germany in two was made without opposition except for a brief flurry of gunfire in the German Tillage of Prex, less than a telle from the border, a front dispatch said. . The 90th smashed two miles beyond the border to the vicinity of Gottmasgrun. ' :.. . As Lt.' Gen. George S. Patton'i troops crossed the Czecho slovak frontier, the first army stormed t within 4000 yards of the center, of surrounded Leipzig and the seventh army cleared nait the nasi city of Nuernberg. P LOT LANDS IN COLD UPPER KLAMATH LAK E ' "They must have cut off . the ice just before I landed. '. It couldn't be that cold without freezing!" . This was the first statement made by Ensign R. G. Gehrman, 24-year-old navy ' pilot, who made a forced landing on Upper Klamath lake late Monday morn- ing when his fighter plane, fly ing from the Klamath naval air station, developed engine trou ble. Landing on Lake ' Gehrman's pre-season swim in the cold lake waters resulted when he was forced to make a landing and the lake was the only available spot. .He put his plane down' in the water with out difficulty and a . life raft was dropped to-him by a fel low pilot who observed 'his plight. , Gehrman was rowing for shore when the Klamath naval ' air station , amphibian plane, piloted by CAP c. A. Adams, , arrived to pick him up. ' " The pilot, whose home town is Battle Creek, Mich., seemed little- the worse for his' exper ience today after making what is thought to be the first land ing on this lake. . The plane settled below the water Just east of Eagle Ridge (Continued on Page Two)' Klamath Marine Downs 3 Bombers Three dive bombers ' were chalked up to the credit of Capt. Floyd C. Kirkpatrick, 27, Klam ath Falls , marine flyer, who pilots one of the newly arrived fighter planes of the marine sec ond air wing based on Okinawa. The group destroyed 37 enemy planes m trustrating an ai-j tempted major air raid today. The most exciting encounter was a lS-minute battle north west oi Okinawa in which . a Corsair fighter formation ' ac counted for more than 15 Jap planes, a dispatch reports. Capt. Kirkpatrick got his trio of Jap bombers in-.that fight. uapi. xirKpaincK, wim - naa made his home with his uncle, L. F. Kirkpatrick, 1900 Esplan ade, since he was nine years of age, observed his 27th birthday overseas this month. He is a graduate of Klamath Union high school and entered the marine air corps just three months be fore he was to receive his de gree from the University of Ore gon in the spring of 1941. At school he was affiliated with Sigma Nu fraternity. The marine flyer served over seas 18 months and received the rank of captain before return ing to the United States for one year's, training with a lighter group in North Carolina. Six months ago he went to the Pa cific and while on Saipan served as operations officer for his out fit. ... ' All alone the front. Oen F.I. senhower's armies, were gather ing strength for the final drive eastward to meet the Russians. The Ruhr triumph assumed proportions of the greatest vie tory of the war, even more cost ly to the Germans than the de feat at Stalingrad. Already 309,. 484 prisoners have been taken from the industrial trap and 50, 000 more were expected to sur render today. The Germans lost 330,000 in killed and captured alone three years ago at Stalin grad in one of history's decisive battles. The allies may have as many as 359,000 prisoners from the Ruhr by night, an annihila tion pocket in which the enemy also lost countless dead. Magdeburg Taken ' The .ninth army, captured Magdeburg (334,358) securing a firm anchor on the Elbe river opposite Berlin. The industrial and commercial center was the 20th largest city of Germany be. fore bombs and shells reduced it to the smoking ruins which the Hell on Wheels (second armored) and Old Hickory (30th) divisions captured. Farther northwest, ' British tanks swept forward on a 40 mile front to within 18 miles of Hamburg and 12 of Harburg, which lies across the Elbe south of the great port. The British reached to within eight miles of the lower Elbe and drove into the outskirts of Luneburg, a city of 30,000, against scattered re sistance. ' - .... - .' The halving of Germany was of more, geographical than im mediate military importance, be cause the" enemy still has cir- ' (Continued on Page Two) Suitcase Holds Human Head, Hands PORTLAND, April' 18 (IP) A timber rigger arrested at the camp where he had worked since January 13 today denied any knowledge of a suitcase found at Fort Bragg, Calif, containing a human head and hands. State Police Capt. . Wayne Gurdane identified the logger as William Arthur Wellesley, an itinerant worker employed at lumber camps around the coun try and at the Kaiser shipyard in Richmond, Calif. Gurdane said the man was be lieved to be a former roommate of Austin C. Barber, who van ished from Oleum, Calif., two years ago, and whose papers were found in the suitcase. Gandhi Blasts Indian Delegates BOMBAY. April 18 (IP) Mo handas K. Gandhi has assailed the delegation appointed to rep resent India at the world secur ity conference in San Francisco as a "camouflage." . "Such representation will be worse than no representation," the Indian leader said in a state ment last night. "Either India at San Francisco is represented by an elected representative or represented not at all." - ' Gandhi's secretary passed around copies of his 700-word statement. Because he is ob serving a period of silence -h refused to enlarge on his com ments. . Umpires Cry 'Play Ball" The crack of horsehide against-ash and the cry of, "Play ball" echoed over the nation yesterday as the major leagues teed off on their fourth wartime season. With 4-F's and youngsters under 18 years of age composing the lineups of the big" time circuits, there was no diminishing of enthusiasm as over 100,000 rabid fans crowded the bleach- -ers and grandstands of the na tion's ball parks. . Probably one of the most talked of occasions of the gala ' opening day was the debut of Pete Gray, the one-armed- won- , der who finally broke into the big time with the American League Champion St. Louis Browns. Fans and players alike were behind him to a man as he . . . drove out one single and, was robbed of a sure double by circus catch. It seems that courage is well typified in the case of Gray and the fans honored his fighting .spirit in surmounting- a terrific physical. handicap in true American fashion -So roll up your sleeves, the 1945 baseball season ia onl - - J,