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Newspaper Page Textnnsi o) fo) JVL UJ in MS 1- . iw ir.NKINS fly t nA i, knocking today at r"n.' SZL thrown their Eha" reserves, hoarded for fio hsve turned their buck. Li E b I" or(lcr P""1"1 R.R ;inl strength to the U lhcy dread most. -,.i,.. huh lo be some- -c iron; .even tot 2 mUe- ' c lV.... Vhn mile- E driJcnd. on the I' miiurrd from. tor nil, whttt ai;o few When BOOM l on the i? ... tH of Berlin, along the Lech border, o . - in be uooui uu Luttians. Again, what ore miles nuyo j" Dili morning (er this noiwlbly ilnifieant rlcn.'.i.. .....i.rht nf Eluon- . n.. im ( now bti C lnl iho timer 01 111 Ui tnd againsi ';' "C and the great north Gcr- hrl- . . could irom win i ii.ni .ui.Vn riillbor . n.,r. In lhn Rim- irnvii.it ---- .-. -. If SO, 01 Course, si lireii r . j i iiiii.r rprinubi . in ine a -- - . ., - ... ..... a .miim nt.iinpR I inn tine u..". s ...... nn nnnr citadel) BOItu. - but 200 mile long ay juu I wiile. II strcicnes irum IwIm border to the Hun' ki border, u is m wo iiki ifiirmnn for 11. ill n... Irnnn. hnVA taken ll u...Ml.nFii nnrl nrn now lini off tho lout nazi r . nn Ann . I CI (mnyOO ZU.UUU Ul umiu led in Hie city s wmica Iwn. i. , ' .... .(.niinrnv in mnniiB ... hi. I in hum and blast tin the Japs In tho ancient P CIV-. . . Iwiv of slutlsllcs. Hitler's hchmcn still hold m. oj Lny'i major cities mot ol IHU.uv.r- rman cltlca of 10Q.OOQ. or Iiuch for the present. AP's Gailagncr, cnoiing lotmy Magdeburg, on ine ciuc, .in ullmn.M nf lhn not too ml task tlinl win do ours organized German reslst- Iccasci. He snys: rmnnv Is now a fostering i) the heart of Europe , . . I arn rnnmlnir millions of cd ilnvo laborers and prls of wnr . . . Thero l wldo I looting . . . Life Is worth t. Peon e d r on tho road. bm, on tho field, In Jails, onrri warehouses lYWHERE. No ono both hurv lhlm. No Ono t who they are . . . Every I of dlreiue, particularly Is, Is being cnrrlcd by theso 1c ihxlnwy background, of ll. sir Ik ntf from tho dark tticn runnlna. are Hitler's zed saboteurs his were' 'murdering or torlur fry German who shows the si hint of co-oneratlng Iiur armies, aiming dollber l COMPLETE chnos and iy In central Europe out en tho nnzls hope to rd h themselves In some future day. P-AGHErt concludes: "A fiR GREATER army of oc Ion may be necessary In y man originally . plan- lems ciulte probable. Okinawa. In lltn Pnnlfln cr (wo weeks of unpre- oomDardmcnt designed Infantrymen's lives, three Hvlslons arc moving In on P dug in before Nnhn. loougbbov and his rifle, as ie nnisning me ou. 'E gained so for from 500 uu yards on the flanks, S nWPrl I.. Il. .i,nln. KT thr. inn, I.. I.- 1 . - iuukh iur an mi' P brenklhroiiKh or swift "ven nnnn isn't all-lm- OR fin nllnll..A lit- FJn the Stilus (the Philip- !5 SOIllllnrnmncf ornl.l. 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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 184S Number 10445 NUERNBERG 'S RESISTANCE ENDEDBY GI'S British Tanks Near Suburbs of Hamburg y J PARIS, April 20 (I') Sev enth n rm y Americans captured Nuernberg today, squelching nil organized resistance in thnt hot bed of nazlsm, while British tanks ploughed to within a mile of the suburbs of Hamburg, Eu rope's biggest port. The French first army stab bed SO miles southeast of Stras bourg to Rottwcll, 14 miles from the Danube and 33 from Lake Constance, western limit of tho niir.1 national redoubt In southern Germany. The Pollus were 39 miles north of Switzer land. Near Natl Lair The whole allied right flank Including Die French and the American seventh and third armies was clamping down on the mountainous n a z 1 lair, where Hitler was believed ob serving a gloomy 36th birthday anniversary, Stuttgart like Nuernberg a nazl pilgrimage city was en closed on three sides. French Advance The French advances ranged up to 23 miles and; carried to within 63 of Austria and 120 of Italy's northern Alplno frontier. Tho seventh army penetrated the wall during the night and closed Into the center of the city for tho kill. American and French troops moving In a wide elrclo around Stuttgart, another nail rallying point,' captured Reutllngen (35,000), IS miles to the south. Menace Arsenal Third army elements laiidc Czechoslovakia, within three miles of Asch, were a bare 55 miles from surging Russian lines and gravely threatening the last Important German ar senal in the Pllsen-Prague re gion, 65 to 87 miles distant. In happier years, Hitler would have spoken to the nazi faithful In Nuernberg on this, his 56th birthday anniversary. Tho Amer icans, however, had captured his vast stadium where he used to rouse 500,000 listeners, and were beating down south of Nuornborg within 70 miles of Munich and 132 of Hitler's mountain- homo at Bcrchtes gaden. . Lower Chihing Prices Decreed WASHINGTON, April 20 OP) The government today decreed lower prices for clothing but highor wages for workers who loom tho cloth. In separate actions designed to boost output of textiles and low-cost wearing apparel: 1. Economic Stabilizer Wil liam H. Davis approved a 55 cent wage floor and a general flve-cent-an-hour wage increase for 50,000 textile workers in 54 northern and southern mills. 2, OPA ordered apparel and accessory manufacturers to cut back their prices to average 1043 levels and thus trim retail prices about six per cent. . Last Battleship Out of Action LONDON, April 20 (P) Ger many's Inst pocket battleship, tho 10,000-ton Luctzow, former ly the Deutschliind, is now ly ing In shallow water out of ac tion at Swlnemucnde on the Baltic coast, the nir ministry an nounced tonight. The Luotzow, the fourth of Gcrmony's seven capital ships knocked out of action by the RAF, was attacked by Lancast er April 16. An authoritative report said the 26,000-ton battleship Gnclso nnu ond tho 10,000-ton heavy crulRor Seydlltz were, believed to have been seized by the Russians, Birthday "Greetings, gate, let's capitu late." it probably the menage mott Germans would like to tend the above man on his 56th birthday today. Fanfare Lacking On Adolf's Day LONDON, April 20 (A") Adolf Hitler reached his 56th blrthdny today without tho fan fare of past years. Where Hit ler was and what he was doing was a mystery. Tho only hope held out lo nazi followers was the broadcast declaration by the German DNB news agency that "there will never be'a German nation with out the aims which have been set by Hitler." . - Tho few newspapers still pub lishing in the rcich carried, long accounts saying that Germany gained wealth and power under Hitler and nazism. 'This rise was possible In a world of peace until Roosevelt's agitations put a stop to all this and brought us Into our present position," DNB said. , poraiiilE" ROME, April 20 m Eighth army troops, In an advance of three miles, havo captured Por tomaKgiorc, 12 miles southeast of the Po valley city of Ferrara, allied' hcadquurters announced today.' . ,. ' Porloverrara, a small- town Just cast ol Portomagglore, was olen Inlfpn AS Die British nushed forward after storming the Ar genta gnp nazl defenses. Fifth army forces were re ported advancing slowly along highway 65, between Florence and Bologna, ana hchihik x-iuu-ora, just south of Bologna, nnliiiio nlnno with the mo mentum gained in the capture of Argcntn, me cignin army reached the Canale Diverslvo, nnnthpr of the ninny water bnr- rlors in this region of the lower Po valley. Commander of Panzers Seized U. S. 9TH ARMY ON THE ELBE, Germany, April 20 (A) Col. Gen. Joseph Hnrte, com mander of the German fifth panzer army, has been captur ed in tho Ruhr while trying to slip through American lines, the ninth army announced late today. ' . ' The commander of the last army was taken by the Eagle s Claw (17th airborne) division, commanded by MaJ. Gen. Wil li. lf iWllnv 41C.II. . ' The fifth panzer and Ger man 15th armies were uiveny j-oi-nunri in the creat Ruhr trap which was stamped out Wednesday. Gen. Omar Brad ley said yesterday that 316,- B3U prisoners mm utv-, i.uu. .... and thnt more were being pro cessed.' Previously, the fifth o.,r.r nrnw had been buffeted severely in the Ardennes in De cember when the Germnde made an abortive attempt t o cap- ture Llegg ..."''innnrirrj Honker Invades Yard PiTi ,rc.in5. hn discovered a wild honker parading uncon- i cernedly up and down ln the yard - . .. . .... Mrs. Mingo I en ana wumira h.o -- -- ----- there today. The big honker seems quite chummy with the chickens she reports, and also has no. fear -of her small hlldThe goose was not injured in 'any way, but apparently Drefora the safety of a domestic life to wild freedom. After all, the winged paths of glory lead but to the mimcr s roaster. ANOTHER NAVY installation eyed city Matter Before House .Appropriations Committee (See Editorial, Page 4) The navy Is considering estab lishment of a second rehabilita tion center at Klamath Falls, similar to the Marine Barracks. : While a navy source in Wash ington said today there is noth ing definite as yet, dispatches from the capital disclose that the matter has been placed be fore the house appropriations committee. This bears out in formation that has been re ceived unofficially here in re cent weeks. Near Barracks According to a story in to day's Orcgonlan, Vice Admiral Ben Morecll, chief of the navy's bureau of yards and docks, described a $3,367,000 center at Klamath for navy personnel with malaria and filariasis. He indicated the site would be near the Marine Barracks, locat ed three miles northeast of the city. , Quoting the story: 1 "We have been looking all over the country for a place in which to set up a center for re habilitation of personnel suffer ing from malaria and filariasis," Moreell's naval aide told the committee. "We finally decided upon this location principally because of the climatic condi tions that exist there." The purpose of the center, It was reported, will be to reha bilitate .naval - personnel,, cither fitting them to return to active service, or, l( this Is not pos sible, fitting them for a return to civilian life.. The center would' include ' 17 barracks buildings, costing $920,000; mess hall, galley and cooks' quarters, costing $360, 000; a post exchange building, costing $123,000; a heating and power plant, costing - $300,000; a laundry , building,, costing 100,000; a bakery, costing $120,000; a recreation and gym nasium building, costing $210. 000, and roads, walks and utili ties, costing $400,000. - The project will involve ac quisition of 300 acres of land at a cost of $30,000. Officials at the Marine Bar racks here had no comment to (Continucd on Page Two) . British Gain In Chauk Fight CALCUTTA, April 20 (Pi British troops fighting south ward through Burma were con solidating their positions today around the captured town of Chauk, and nearby villages on the east side of the irrawaddy river about 35 miles southwest of Pakokku. An allied communique said new advances were made in the Kyaukpadaung area, 34 miles due south of Pakokku. The powerful forces driving into southern Burma are Deing supplied almost entirely by a giant armada of transport planes dally carrying the equivalent of three American trainloads of arms and food, to the front lines. Missing Doughboy Reported Safe PFC Charles Robert S h I p man, a member of the United States army engineers who was listed as missing in action since March 6, has rejoined his unit unharmed, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Floyd Ship man, of 1405 Wlard. The telegram from the war department was received by the young soldier s parents on March 29, and stated that he had been lost In fighting in the Alsace - Lorraine sector. The word that he had returned safe ly, to his division was told in a letter from , Shipman received Thursday.,- The twenty - ono year old youth was born in Sullivan, 'In diana, out lived in ruamatn Falls for many years, graduat ing from Klamath Union high school with the class o'f 1942. Prior to enlisting in the army in . July; of 1943, Shipman was employed by the Klamath coun ty shops.' ' After receiving - training j in several parts 'of the country, he reported for duty overseas in the early part of January, and is 'a ' member of ' thev seventh army in Europe. Malin Leads In Planning vV , ' - j i J0t. '' iC ' I fill i.n. ll mum ' i M"1 m ill " It ' iwiiiiiiiiimii iiini WRIEZEN WON; PEACE IVES IDE IN CITt: Malin. DroorMiire Klamath county town, has supped oui in from in Oregon in ine field of post-war planning. Statewide attention has been directed to the Malin park project, for which nearly 190,000 in cash has been contributed. This picture shows Mayor A. Kalina of Malin show ing the Malin park model to girls at the off ice of the bureau of municipal research, Unirersity of Oregon, Eugene. Sheldon Brumbaugh made the model. Yanks Gain Slowly on Okinawa; Second Threat to Borneo Brought by Invasion Soviet . Communique Lists Capture' Of Towns ' My LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Three American infantry di visions driving into deep Japa nese defenses on Okinawa- is land today advanced- slowly- in the heaviest all-out offensive of the Pacific war. as unopposed amphiljJflU4.ioxcea..iri,the.Ehilir pines developed a second threat to Borneo 1 on a newly t con quered island.- -'. ' The 24th army corps, consist ing of the 7th, 27th and 96th divisions, ended a 13-day stale mate on southern Okinawa yes- 10 INJURED AS A motorist and his passenger suffered ' serious injuries late Thursday afternoon when their car left The Dalles-California highway-just one mile south of Klamath; Agency and overturned several times in- the lirush'. In' Klamath Valley hospital are Herbert Vernon Lane, 54, 306 Blanchard, Seattle, Wash., driver ', of the ; car, ' and Victor Bulatovich, 49, 920 T street, Sacramento.' Both received multiple fractures. Lane's condi tion was reported poor today. State police were called to the scene as was the Klamath Ambulance service which moved the two to the hospital. Offic ers said Lane told them he be came drownsy at the wheel and his car followed the soft shoulder for about ' 95 yards. Lane - said he pulled the car back on the highway and his fiassenger, 'Bulatovich, grabbed he wheel, thinking the car was going off the highway to the left. The car shot off the road, officers said, and into' the brush where it rolled .end-over-end several times. Lane was en route to Klam ath Falls seeking employment and Bulatovich was coming to this city to take the train to his home in Sacramento. , The Lape- car, a 1939 Nash sedan, was a total wreck, police said. ' ; , ,. Netherlander Asks Hard Peace SALT LAKE CITY. April 20 (P) A Netherlands delegate to the San Francisco security con ference proposed today that the uermans oe cieait a nard peace. Nazi forces, said MaJ. A. Pelt, 'by blasting the dikes have per mitted .most of Holland to be flooded by seawater. . "First of all we must repair the . dikes, then get rid of the salt water and then attempt to restore the land," hp said in an Interview with the Telegram. "It may take many years for the - soil to become usable once more." :' ' .- , i ; He suggested that Germans in the postwar era , be given- "a chance to' make a proper living but.. under, control.",, Military occupation for many years is probable, he said.'. terday . morning, attacking the front wall of the intricate Naha defense system, manned by per haps 60,000 Japanese. Gain, on Flanks ..... '"; By' noon, they had advanced up to half a mile, on; the flanks. Tbkvd radio claimed ' 40 or 3D of the 'scores of Yank tanks leading the attack - were knocked out, the assault stop ped and an attempt to land in the Nipponese rear - was thwarted. . Adm. Chester W.-Nimitz said a terrific bombardment and "great flights of carrier - air craft", supported the offensive. , Wreck 84 Planes Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima knocked, out. 84 enemy planes in their first attack on the Tokyo area yesterday as they swept over the Atsugi naval air station, at rooftop level. They also wrecked two cargo ships, contributing to a total of 18 destroyed or dam aged, mostly by Philippines based bombers. - r Three - amphibious operations in the Philippines brought -the seizure - of the' 44th and 45 is lands of the wide extension of the American hold on Min danao. The 41st division captured Balabac island, . 45 miles north of . Borneo which is already threatened by the U. S. hold on the Sulu. archipelago reaching to within 30 miles east of Borneo. Bombers blasted Bor neo's Taraken oil developments and. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said "The enemy's oil supply from this area has ceased." Carabao island at the mouth of Manila bay was seized by the 38th division which' sealed the Nipponese garrison of per haps 500 in their underground caves. Carabao is Fort Frank, the last ol the old; U. .S.. fort resses ' guarding Manila bay to be recaptured." ' , In the third amphibious oper ation the .-24th .-division: cap tured Cota, Bato,ahbld Moro stronghold and a provincial capital on Mindanao. Units of the 24th drove 22 miles inland and put air fields at Lumpog and Malbang into operation. . Max Schmeling Dead, Report BALTIMORE, April 20 () Lt. Col.- Howard C. Greer of suburban Middle River declared today -that despite ' denials the Germans make, he is pretty well convinced that former world's heavyweight champion, Max Schmeling is dead killed by Greer's own thirtieth divis ion infantrymen. "The Germans say Schmeling has' deserted their army and isn't dead, but I saw a German, killed by the men of my; com pany, who was wearing dog-tags with Max Schmeling's name on them," Colonel Greer said in an interview. "And he looked like a heavy weight champion. He was a huge man. His face was dis figured beyond recognition .by his wounds, but the dog-tags are pretty final proof." . 't ;'; Pyfe Buried With Military Honors IE ISLAND, April 20 (A0) Machinegun beat a sharp tattoo and mortars barked at the front only a short distance ahead to day as little Ernie Pyle, the doughboy s reporter, was . laid to rest with military honors. Battle-grimed Yanks stood at attention as services were said for the- columnist who .was struck down by Japanese ma' chinegun fire Wednesday. DELEGATES UNITED By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, April- 2(M Senator Connally (D-Tex.) told the senate today there is "har mony and unity" among'' the American delegates to the San Francisco United Nations con ference. An hour a ft e r' conferring with President Truman, the foreign relations . . committee chairman, who is one of the United States delegates; de clared he had every confidence that the new chief executive would give the group his full est support in their decisions. - Basis, for Work ' The Dumbarton Oaks formu la for a peace-preserving organ ization will form the basis for the labors of San Francisco, he said, adding-: - , ... "This does not mean, how ever, 'there will be any slavish devotion to every line and every clause of that - instru ment. . . Cooperation Evident Connally stressed the bi-par tisan cooperation which has marked every step In creating the peace-keeping plan. He pointed out. that the congres sional members of the Ameri can delegation to San Francisco are equally divided between (Continued . on Page Two) . - LONDON, April 20 (A) Mos cow announced tonight the cap ture of Wriezen, 24 miles north- east of Berlin, ahd. German ra dio commentators said the so viet, had rushed on to Hangels berg, only seven miles from the city s eastern limits. - The Luxembourg radio said "gigantic peace demonstrations" had taken -place in Berlin and Munich, and that red flags were waving in the German capital as the roar of Marshal Stalin's can non grew ever closer to the city. Others Captured . The soviet communique, con firming German announcements today of the fall of Wriezen, al so announced the : capture of these towns: ... . Spremberg, 15 miles west of the river Neisse, and 64 miles southeast of Berlin. ' Seelow, 24 miles east of Ber lin. -",; Bad . Freienwald, . 19. miles northeast of Berlin. Relentless Reds German broadcasts . said the Russians were driving relentless ly with increasing masses of men, tanks and guns in the cli mactic stage of the battle for : Berlin and were at the gates of the capital. - - "The double battle for Berlin now. has reached the decisive stage," said the German Com mentator Max Krull. "The Americans- on the Elbe are re grouping their formations and have received reinforcements. The Russians, on the other hand, nave now luuy developed their great, drives on the Oder : and Neisse and are now within the deeply staggered - German ; bar rier position at the periphery of the. capital, where they are en gaged by German commandos and special. formations." : It was-i Krull Who said the Russians had reached the town of Hangelsbcrg. s . ... - The sprawling-German capital was in a corridor but 82 miles -wide between the Russians in . Hangelsberg and the U. S. nintif: army on. the Elbe. . In the south the Russians and Americans were even closer 55 ; miles or less, but third army . headquarters said there had not as yet been " a junction in that area near Dresden. -In -another area a little more than 40 miles south of Berlin the Russians and , Americans were 59 miles apart, and the Russians were within four rn.iles .of; cut-Ts ting -the last north-south auto bahn from Berlin and within Si miles of. Berlin's last trunkline railroad leading to Dresden and the mountains of southern Ger many, Bohemia and Austria. Group to Discuss Routing of Road : Routing the inter -regional ; highway by way of Klamath Falls, a proposal now before the ' state highway commission, will be the major topic of discussion at a meeting of the Pacific High way: association to be held in Medford April 25, it was learned today. Jackson county chamber of commerce directors are under-' stood to have discussed the same subject at length . at a noon luncheon Friday. Commissioner Arthur Schaupp of the highway board this week pointed out that the Klamath route is shorter, cheaper to con struct and to travel, and has many other through route advan tages over the mountainous Pa cific highway between Eugene and Ashland. The commission has not acted as yet. A comprehensive sum mary of factual data in connec tion with the question will prob ably be released by the roads and highways committee of the Klamath county chamber . of commerce soon. , . , Bigger Occupational Army May Be Needed in Germany By WES GALLAGHER MAGDEBURG, Germany, April 20 (P) A far greater army of occupation may be nec essary in Germany than original ly planned in view of the prob lems experienced to date. ' Even with the vast number of allied troops now in Germany, the Job of administering the ter ritory already overrun is prov ing much more difficult than an ticipated. Trouble In Store ' Germany now is a festering sore in the heart of Europe, housing a mass of misery un heard of in modern history. Twelve years of nazism and bru tality are bearing a cancerous fruit which can mean nothing but years of trouble ahead. - : No one knows this better than Hitler, and 'he has the organiza tion ready to help make the trouble the newly - formed Werewolves. . .(One reason why a 'larger army of occupation may be need ed is suggested by a statement made yesterday by Gen. Omar im. Bradley, iztn army group commander. "In my opinion, he said, "when he (the enemy) did not quit last fall, after we had' proved to nim mat ne was licked, it was clear that we would not be through until we had occupied all of Germany.") ; Unsuccessful Government ' There are not nearly enough military government teams at hand. Civil law broke down , in most towns when the nazis departed, for they held all key jobs. The Germans left behind often try to solve the problem of law and order as did their prede cessors by force unless 'allied ; troops are at hand to keep them in hand. ;. ..,- ' .- And troops cannot be snared "i for this job. For Instance, one combat 1 division overran 150 small towns in one day. If it had left four men in each town . . . (Continued on Page Two) ' n I'age Two)