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i.n'l snfn to drive accp,
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nH (he British aro iitlll
drawn up went of llio Elbe,
one brlclKoncnu ww oi
ij..,,inhlv wo ore bring
un supplies nnd gathering
gill lor nnuwicr nwuvi ni vi
ntral Bradley, commanding
12th nnv group, composed
he 1st, 3rd, Otlt and 18th
t wivs todnv tnai one
nr thn ihruHt Into the heart
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Lorv io nnime temnornrlly
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ntcrlng Czechoslovakia,
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main, straight, fast route
northern Germany imo mo
hern mountain nicieoui.
headed 111 that direction
have to use minor, round-
it roads nnd highways. , .
k-'re licovlly bombing -all
is lending into this iiioini-
no mid. ineiiiiiinii mose
lug out of Italy devoting
leu ar attention in the Urcn
i)0. We're also bombing
tio liulntlutloim ncrvinii the
ful.
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ffBBELS (nnzi poison pen
rtldt) todny tella the Ger-
people thnt "our nation in
being on a rnior cduo" and
upon Ihcm to stand behind
rand by a laid all-out effort
jure Hint Hie rcleh docs not
k apart."
central Germany wo take
f of the greatest ammunition
Riisoiino dumps yet. . The
includes auu HU-miiu-(uns
nnd 00 huo bunkors
with nrtlllery shells In-
ns 27,000 containing "toxic"
Ion) gas. -V
o nails hnvc been expected
rt using iHilson una nt any
iimiI. nnd these shells In-
Ic that they huvc It on hand
cany for use. One susnccts
secretly we'd Ilka nothlmi
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Nrfnre. We're well heeled
way also, nnd Rim would bo
i in cleaning the last-stand
uniimied on lJn((o Two)
PRICE riVE CENTS
In The Shania - iUmiutdv, Wonderlnnd
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April 19
Max. (April 18) 72 Min.... ...36
Precipitation last 24 hours ;....00
Stream yaar to data 8.14
Normal .... 9.81 Last year 6.72
Forecasti Clear Friday, with little change
... in temperature.
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Russians 55 Miles
From Yank Lines;
Berlin Front Opens
LONDON, April 19 (?) A German radio commentator re
ported today that Russian forces had reached Hoyerswerda, 31
miles northeast of Dresden and SS miles from American lines
northeast of Chemnlts.
German broadcasts said the massive Russian assault, de
clared mounted on a front of 200 miles from Stettin to Saxony
by a force of 2,500,000 men, had cracked the Berlin front at
multiple points in an arc IB to 24 miles from the German capital.
The Warsaw radio broadcast a Polish order of the- day an
nouncing that Polish troops had crossod the Oder and Nlesse
rivers with the red army Monday and were now engaged in the
battle for Berlin. This was the first official allied confirmation
of the beginning of. Marshal Stalin's great spring offensive.
The Germans said Stalin to-
E
By FRANCIS M. LeMAY
WASHINGTON, April 10 (II
Extension nnd broadening of
tho nation's reciprocal trade
Rrogrum was urged today by
clsoi) A. Rockefeller, assistant
state secretary, as a kcystono
In tho America's, good neighbor
policy.
Ho told the house ways and
menns committee that im
proved economies In other nations-
would mean larger mar
ket for American goods, and
not destructive 'competition, j ,
. Claim Support
' The assistant state secretary,
In charge of Latin American ai
fairs, testified ns committee re
publicans, solidly against any
further tniiff-trlmmlng, claimed
sufficient democratic support to
defeat tho proposal.
"Tho reciprocal trade pro
gram," Rockefeller said, "Is
viewed by the Latin American
countries ns ono of the most
tangible evidences of tho good
neighbor policy."
"Unqualified Support" ,
. .He voiced "unqualified .sup
port" of the administration pro
posal for broudor duty-cutting
authority In reciprocal trade ar
rangements with. -other notions.
Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.), the
committee republican leader.
Inquired Into tho amount of
United States wartime expend
iture In Latin-America. Assort
ing this government had fi
nanced tho establishment of a
steel plant In Brnzil. ho told
Rockefeller "You'ro telling us
tho more self-sustaining Ave
make other nations the more
they will buy from us,"
day launched his fourth often'
slvc of the series an assault
against Stettin at the mouth of
the Oder. r:
I The Germans said the Ru-
ij'ans were fighting in the su
burbs of Bautzen, 24 miles cast
of Dresden, and had captured
Scclow and Wriczcn, cast and
northeast of Berlin.
Air Borne Landings
One German commentator
said Russian parachutists and
glider forceaewcre carrying out
air-borne landings near Prague,
capital of Czechoslovakia.
Reporting a series of deep
penetrations in the four-day old
Russian offensive by 2,500.000
soviet soldiers, Berlin radio an
nouncements said Forst, a Ncisse
river il'.ronghold 85 miles south
east of Berlin, also had fallen.
. Near Climax
Trnnsoccan's ' correspondent,
Karl Bluecher, broadcast that
"the battle for Berlin in the
cast Is approaching its climax.
He said the Russians were
but four kilometer. northeast
of Muenchcberg, or about 16
miles due east of Berlin's city
limits, and were cast of Buckow,
also. 18 miles cast of Berlin.
Wrlczon,' 23 . miles . northeast
or Berlin,- naa ueen captured,
he said, along with Scclow, 25
miles due cast.
rmer Lumber Worker Siis
for First Time in Year
k Warm ni-lii0 nn Ufhlnh
flooded the Kinmnth basin
pros, wns enjoyed by n lot
peal (oiks, but probably
nnymona Vetkos, 23-
er to Be Taken
Trial, Unless
Resists, Stimson .
Mhington, April 19 (P)
. ' Olnson snicl to-
"i ii American troops
Inon Arlnlr Lrui.- i. ...hi
h, ' HIUKI I1U Will
C n "ncl hdd for action by
,- "uuiuruy - unless no re-
1 sccrctnry wns asked at a
Mijfercnco if G. I.'s had
mStrilClnrI nn ...U..I .4 JA
1 alSnmrnxn lit, I
L. T . " iiuiur, mm is
lllcr to tnko him or stick
v.0.?' Jni'KhlnK, repllod
, um"y bo sure American
k Marker Hint.
'bers Lose
f YORK, April in m
m& Tr?flt SPJlln 1,1
. 011' today and recent
ru,fe,,r, h'Rhs ""He
re runi,In8 to si or more
I'"'?! "J'lnces, Includ
in for.""'1 tl10 averages
is on S, S(ivon , successive
Bn , ' ""ton, ,
I mun t'ncllnrcl. Sec
r innwnv hnnri.
year-old Kcno resident, than the
average person,
Vetkos has been a patient at
Hillside hospital for almost one
yenr. On May 25, Vetkos was
working at Ellingson Lumber
company during tho two weeks
between his induction and re
porting for active duty. A log
struck Vetkos in the back, com
pletely paralyzing him from the
waist clown. As the months
passed, Vetkos Improved but re
mains paralyzed from tho knees
to his toes.
This week, for tho first time
In almost a year, Vetkos was per
mltted to sit In a wheel chair.
Tho attending physician ar
ranged a steel braco for Votkos
back,
Vetkos' wife and two children,
ono of whom wns born just 10
days after his Injury last May,
make their homo at Kono.
Appropriation
BUI Passes
l WASHINGTON, April 19 (P)
A $24,879,510,546 navy appro
priation bill that prompted con
gressional demands that this
country retain Japanese inlands
In Pociflc after the war passed
on a voice vote In the house to
day. The' bill for the f iscal year
starting July 1 was approved
without a vote of opposition or
a single major change.
Boosting to approximately
$130,000,000,000 the cash con
gress has voted the navy !ince
July 1, 1940, tho bill now awaits
senate action.
5th Army Cracks
Bologna Defenses
i ROME, April 19 (Ameri
can fifth army troops, cracktng
the outer defenses of Bologna,
drove to within eight miles of
the great Italian industrial city
today after seizing the key
heights of Monte Adone and
Monto Rumicl in a bitter 60
hour bnttlc.
Tho advance appeared to have
loosened German defenses be
fore the Po valley gateway elty
and gave the Americans a
downhill road to Bologna with
each mountain generally smaller
thnn the last, a front dispatch
said, '
Ernie Pyle to Be Buried
Alongside Gl Companions
By GRANT MacDONALD '
IE ISLAND, Ryukyus, April
10 (pi .Ernie Pyle will bo
buried with simple military
honors here tomorrow alongsido
G. I. Joes, his friends and com
rades In lite and death,
Army Chaplain N. B. Saucier
of Coffeyvllle, Miss., who went
with litter bearers under Japa
nese fire to recover the body- of
tho famed author and war cor
respondent, will officiate at the
ceremony, , '
miiea on iv
Tho llltlo guy, beloved by
every G. I. Joe, leu in action
vi ni-rlnu mlrl.mnrninff nn Ic a
little island nobody ever heard
of before Pearl Harbor,
i Of the hundreds of 10th army
troops to land on Ic, 15 were
killed during the first three days.
Ernie was the 16th American to
die there. - . .
; He wore his helmet because
as ho told a friend. "I try not to
take any foolish chances but
there's just no way to play. lt
completely safe and still do your
job.'' ' ' '
. . Signed Short-Snorters
Before going up front to get
the feel of one more frontline
action to write to the folks back
home, he signed some short
snorter bills for two privates
(Continued on Pago Six)
Prep Political Campaigners
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' Klamath Union high school students are getting a practical
tetion.ii? political strategy in a red hot campaign now under way
for next year's student body officers. Moit of the vote-getting
rntth6di" used by their elders, and some interesting new ones', are
being tried by such youngster as the above group. The girl--Effle
Boten,. Darlene Gehrinan and Joan O'Neill are running
for student body : secretary. The boy Jim Howard, ' George
Zupan and Rodney Murray want to be student body, president.
Marines Sweep Over Tip
Oi Okintiwa as Doughboys
Again Invade Mindanao
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Pres War Editor'.
American marines reached the
nbrtherri tip of Okinawa island
placing therri exactly 325 miles
from Japan and . army .units
swept up 35 miles of the Min
danao coastline in a second in
vasion of that' major Philippine
island, American commanders
announced today.
- Their successes were matched
by the British who captured
three towns in central Burma
and in northern central China by
Chinese who recaptured Fan
cheng; nullifying the enemy's re
cent Hupch province offensive.
. Fighter planes from Iwo Jima
reportedly swept over Tokyo air
fields ' today. . 1 Philippines-based
bombers wrecked 95 Nipponese
ocean-going and river vessels and
heavily pounded northern For
mosa airdromes. Japanese, lack
ing air Dower for such strikes,
sent reinforced infantry columns
in a two-Dronccd drive to knocK
out the U; S. Chihklang air base
in central China.
American casualties in the
month long land and sea opera
tions centering around Okinawa
mounted .-to 7988, - Including
1482 dead, 1756 missing and
4760 wounded. Naval personnel
suffered the most. Japanese
killed in land operations alone
on Okinawa and a dozen lesser
Islands invaded were 9108 as of
last Saturday.
U. S. naw losses wore uo.
The break down showed 989
navy men killed, 14B1 missing
and 2200 wounded. Presumably
:
John W. Bowen
Reported Missing
TSgt. John W. Bowen, son
of Mrs.- Clara Bowen, has been
reported missing in aetion In a
telegram received from the war
department.. '
, The telegram, signed by J. A.
Ullo, adjutant general, advised
Mrs. Bowen that her spn was
missing In action In Germany
since March 27. ' '
Sgt. Bowen attended Mills
grade school here and was em
ployed by the Weyerhaeuser
Timber company and the OK
Tire and Battery shop before
entering the service in 1943. He
went' overseas in June, 1944,
and was 'in France in July. ' He
fought in the, battle of Cher
bourg, and has" a Combat Infan
try badge, a Silver -'Star,'' .and
the Purple Heart for wounds re
ceived in France,
most of these casualties were suf-J
ferea on lour destroyers sunk
and an unannounced number
damttged the- only ship t losses
recorded by the American com
mand ' in the Ryukyu islands
operation. , :
In ground operations marines
of the third amphibious corps
reached the northern end of
Okinawa,' bringing, most of the
60 mile long island under Amer
ican domination. ' The 24th U. S.
army corps was still deadlocked
on the southern, Japanese-held
end of the island. The 77th di
vision made marked - gains on
nearby le alrbase island.
Leaders Prepare
Warnings to Nazis
LONDON. April -19 (P)
Prime Minister Churchill an
nounced today that a ' "solemn
warning'.' to the Germans against
prison camp atrocities was- be
ing : prepared to be issued over
the :j'gnatures of himself, Mar
shal Stalin ana President Tru
man. "
The foreign secretaries in
Washington Vyacheslav Molo-
tov for Russia, Secretary' Stet
tlnlus for the United States and
Anthony Eden for Britainare
preparing the warning to "bring
home responsibility, not only to
tho men at the top who are al
ready on other . grounds war
criminals in many catps, : but
also to the actual people who
nave done nis foul. worK with
their own hands.. w
Missing 7
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Five Injured
In Car Crash;
Angler Drovns
.' A miscellany of accident, including the drowning of a fish
erman, expanded the home front casualty list here yesterday and
today. -
Slipping from a (lick log while fishing, Martin M. Peplau,
30, drowned in Upper Klamath lake yesterday before the eyes of
hi frantic wife.
The accident occurred near the old log underpass at the edge
of the lake at Algoma. Mr. and Mr. Peplau had been fishing
there for some time, and Peplau ventured out on the loa to im
prove hi cast.
Slip Off Log
He (lipped off, floundered in the water, and tank 25 feet off
shore in about 16 feet of water.
Mrs. Peplau ran to Algoma station for help. A call wa made
to the (heriff office, and Sheriff Lloyd Low and hi deputy.
Jack Franey, responded..
No boat was available, and
the officers worked their way
U. S. STANDS FIRM
ON POLISH ISSUE
WASHINGTON, April 19 (If)
The state department stood firm
today against Russia's demand
that the Polish provisional' gov
ernment in Warsaw be invited to
San Francisco.
The Moscow request had been
repeated in a diplomatic note to
Secretary of State Stettinius yes
terday. It was flatly rejected in
a state . department statement
which said that only a reorgan
ized Polish government, "formed
in; accordance with the Crimea
agreement," should be admitted
to the - United Nations confer
ence. , ;t. ': ;.
Member Nation
The statement said "Poland is
a member of the United Nations
and of right should be at: San
Francisco."
However, the u: S. is standing
pat on the Yalta agreement and
it is expected that Britain- will
quickly express a similar, view.
Begin Confab
The American: and British am
bassadors to Moscow, W. Averell
Harriman and. Sir . Archibald
Clark-Kerr, began conferences
in Washington today on the
Polish situation.
Probability of a showdown
when Soviet Foreign Commissar
V. M. Molotov arrives here Friday-
or Saturday increased with
this latest development.
More Training ;
Eyed for Youths
"- WASHINGTON, April 19 (F)
A bipartisan senate group tried
today- to - write into selective
service . extension legislation a
ban against sending 18-year-olds
into combat without at lea.'jt six
months'- training. -
Senator Ed Johnson of Colo
rado, ranking democrat on the
military affairs committee and
one of the authors of the amend
ment, claimed support for it was
mounting and predicted its adop
tion. Other authors are Senators
Stewart (D-Tenn.), Revercomb
(R-W.Vo), and Wil.-pn (R-Ia.).
NozTpW Roster
Taken by Yanks
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Paris, April , 19 (Jf)
Germany's complete, roster of
prisoners of war, including an
itemization of all captives from
every allied country taken by
the Germans since the outbreak
of the war, has been seized by
American third army, troops.
The important seizure was ac
complished by soldiers of Maj.
Gen. Manton . S. .- Eddy's. 12th
corps, the corps which captured
the German gold reserve.
The captured records contain
the latest whereabouts of allied
prisoners of war, their dates of
capture and otner data, xney
list the prisoners who have died
since their capture and those
wounded when taken.
HAMBURG POR
T
Germans Drive Into
Rear Area of
; 9th Army '
out into the lake on an old raft
that was tied in the old Algoma
mill pond. They pulled the raft
along with their hands for
about 500 feet.
Find Body
They grappled for the body,
and found it about 4:15, a little
more than two hours after the
drowning.
Mrs. Peplau said her husband
was a good swimmer. She was
slightly injured in falls on the
rocks as she ran for help.
The family lives at , Pelican
City, where Peplau was night
electrician for the Pelican Bay
Lumber company. .
. . Five Injured
Five persons were injured,
three " seriously 'when a small
truck and coupe sideswiped
shortly before 5 oVlocks-Wednesday
afternoon " at Weyer
haeuser"'" junction and highway
86. ". -.'...-
In Hillside, hospital is James
Barry Cole, 79, driver of the
coupe. At Klamath. Valley hos
pital .is his - companion, George
Russell, about 70, and a - 14-year-old
boy, Jack Carl Sharp
ies, who, state police said, was
riding on . the trunk of Cole's
car.
Albert Jewell McFarland, 28,.
route i dox zz'c, and nis wite,
Mary Ellen, 24, riding . in the
Ford, truck, suffered minor in
juries but were not hospital
ized. ...
State police said that Cole,
gate watchman at Weyerhaeus
er. Timber company,, was en
route to his home in the Long
Lake section, when he turned
sharply in front of the McFar
land truck. . .
There were three young boys
(Continued. on Page Six)
Spring Fever
Attacks City
Coats and stockings were
shed yesterday as the temper
ature reached the.highest record
ed this year. The thermometer
soared to 69 Wednesday,' two
degrees higher than the hottest
day recorded - In March for
Klamath Falls.
Fishing and golf paraphernalia
came out of closets, and was
dusted off, garden equipment
was put to use with new vigor.
Spring cleaning was started in
many homes, windows emerging
from the winter grime with
gleaming panes, and fluttering
fresh curtains.
Spring fever was in evidence
everywhere with the old fa
miliar phrase, "it's too nice to
stay indobrsl"
German Rails
Pulverized
'. LONDON. April 19 W) Ger
man railway targets in the
southern reich and in Czecho
slovakia were attacked today for
the fourth successive day by 600
U. S: eighth air force heavy
bombers and 550 fighters, which
also continued to search- for
remnants of German air power.
British and Russian bombers
hammered Berlin in relays again
last night.
PARIS, April 19 IJP) The
first army ha captured Lelpsig.
fifth city of Germany, and with
the ninth army selied all of the
great Ruhr pocket . in perhaps
the greatest victory of the war.
Britons of the north flank
closed within six mile and sight
of the greatest continental port
of Hamburg. They reached the
lower Elbe river on a 20-mile
front.
Just to the south, a thousand
Germans with 20 tanks (truck
out from the British sector and
drove three to 15 mile into the
rear of the ninth army west of
captured Stendal. , They were
engaged by cavalry force. The
foray was isolated and the Ger
mans appeared to be trying to
lip through the ninth army'
Ruhr area into the - besieged
Harz mountain pocket, south
west of the ninth army' five
mile deep bridgehead pointed
within 52 miles of Berlin.
Army, divisions were fighting
hard for Nuernberg, citadel of
nazi festivals. Dessau and Halle
were falling.
. mere were no reports later
than those a day old which
placed the third army two miles
inside Czechoslovakia within
eight of Asch. - . , ;
Cities Taken
In the great array of captured
cities were Duesseldorf, largest
in the - Ruhr, Solingen, Remes
cheid Fuerth, Zwickau, Lune-
JOHN W. BOWEN
Restrictions Out. Spuds Too
WFA "shipping restrictions ' on Klamath 'basin potatoes '
were lifted today, but there weren't many potatoes left for un-'
resulted shipping. , ; -;'., '.;,
In fact, the biggest potato crop in Klamath basin history, ;.
both in volume and value, was virtually cleaned ud! . ' .
State-Federal Inspector Ross Aubrey said shipments of
nnnnnn Una Ju.IhJI.J 4a t . f. nnHlnnJn V
day, and only from 25 to 50 carloads remain in. the basin. All
of these have probably been contracted. ,
- Shipments for the season today had reached the record
toiai oi iz,4ou carioaos, and returns to tarmers approacned
iSIU.OUU.UUU. . , .
- PARIS, April 19 OP) A,
German military- spokesman
(aid tonight that the Amer
ican third army , had lhruit
eait from Hof across the ex
treme northwest tip of Ciechc
(lovakia and reached Bad El
ster in Germany 30 mile west -of
Karlsbad. - .
The radio dispatch from the
official. .ONE news agency
placed the third army, within
95 miles of Prague and 62 of
the Skoda munitions plant at
Pilsen. By-reaching Bad El
ster, the Czechoslovak city, of '
Asch once headquarters of
Konrad - Henlein. -who stirred
the Sudeten crisis was out- ,
flanked. Bad Elster is five
' miles northeast of . Asch.
burg, Ansbach and Uelzen. The
British- captured Uelzon only -after
six days of savage battle.
Bremen - was besieged and
Britons fought in. its suburbs
against nazis reported - rallied
two days ago by Heinrich-Himnv
continued oa Fasa IfSi
Germany on Edge
Of Razor, Says
Minister Goebbels
LONDON, April 19 W) Pro
paganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels told the German peo
ple today the nation, was "bal-
ancing on the razor's- edge" and
called upon them to stand behind
Hitler and "by a last all-out ef
fort make sure that the reich'
does not break apart." .
Although Goebbels was sched
uled to broadcast his address to
night on the eve of Hitler's 56th
birthday, the text was distribut
ed in advance by the official
DNB news agency . in a special
radio transcription to German
newspapers,: and since became
available here before it reached
the ears of its intended audience.
For the most part the speech
was devoted to resounding praise
of the fuehrer, indicating that
tie remains at least tne nominal
chief of the crumbling nazi struc
ture despite rumors of Heinrich
Himmler's ascendancy..
Jap Troops Aim
Toward Air Base
CHUNGKING;, April 19 ()
Japanese troops' aiming an of
fensive at Chihklang have
driven within 65 miles of that
important U. S. 14th air force
base in western Hunan province,
the Chinese high command an
nounced tonight. ' i
) The advance was made in an
area 25 miles north of Paoching,
Hunan .base from which the new
offensive was launched. Amer
ican planes were hurled against
the drive. .
Jap Admits Ruin
From Air Raids
- SAN. FRANCISCO, April 19
(P) A Tokyo radio commen
tator bluntly admitted today
that "a portion of tne capital
has been, completely ruined ' by
American air raids. ' .
He aid this had given Ja
panese war workers, who "stood
up again from the midst of the
debris," an added ' incentive to
increate' aircraft production.
The broadcast was intercept
ed by the federal- communica
tions commissions