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1 1MH nil W Cm) MM I). HVE CENTS in The ShiiHijuCuHeude Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON? sXTUHDAYTAPniL 21, 1945 llll iiii April 21 Max. (April 20) 71 Mln. ...41 Precipitation last 24 houri ,00 Stream year to data 8.14 Normal 9.87 Lat yaar 8.91 Forecast: Sunday claar and warmar. Numbar 10448 ..rnkNK JENltiwa 1-ou cuii slund Horror, con- R .,..11.. Inrlnv. fin biuckancd ruins three ,n Germans nro n muica. I,nd them rm" 01 J.,rD " 1 " I"1? '-i.inii In. Tho sky o thorn l dark with smoke I wioke or burning homes 1 . l.. .m.i awi iirtH far. hits new uuiii - hunt oi mo i.i ot 1110 vui, - - " I nation. Out oi mo idwm ,iolls nnd bombs to rend teur To rend and tear ,IAN FLESH an well ai atcel bulldtnat "tone, round them roars a great i.. one en mo Kiini", .. u.riH iiL'uitii. So fnr aa . k..,i,il,-,l Hermans are con- r.A ii I. a USELESS buttle Erics because It was LOST re It bciinn n, honrls of theao Cermn lore Ii NO HOPE of victory kr the 0(l"s annum iiiuiii uis ureal, ror wem mwo ?rri.tvlrr. for their mad era have doomed them to them llc NO FU- br rnr tlieao name mad in hnva decreed that Ger- ly ahull march down Into the kv 01 ma annnuw ui ?ir C acaw mm i'iv u,u lahi of tho soda that It hi and anarchy and ruin. If can t have uermtiny. BY chnll have Germany Icr in the deluge." n that Ii left for the Gcr neon o l to watt in iiumo or lor me ena. k them there Is NOT EVEN 1TV. ty hoi been driven from liosru ot. an manxine. oy uvaua excesses of these lcrs Ihnt have been TOLER- n hv t he Gi'rmun neoDle lh grisly 'murder factories me noil, ann ov me uurn- rand shooting ot 'helpless loners, that still noes on. Ms a yesterday, 220 political pnen in a . conccmraiion to In Lelpsic were aprayed h (lamina acetone and fried to death by their Jail' ot even remorse for their deeds in the face of certain' upending punishment moves monsters. ERE Is no- sympathy . lor wjc Germans as human bo- l-ior it Is doubtful if they mimnn Dcinus in any moa sense ol the term Lcinslc. after battering it n with heavy artillery, wc fly took the city hall, which oral convened into an in citadel of lust resort, and In our soldiers entered this sheathed Inst inner citadel kht met their cyca that can ( be described as out of this a. pmo 130 nnzis, both military Kivinnn, nnd gathered there r oil hope was gone. They sci a minquci, with lood Wine. Thnn ntlnr itntlno "aniiKing, they killed them- Officcrft lnv nnrnmi thp f. the position of the guns Ihelr hands Indlcntlng that , uuu k u lea each other at IVCn Slunttl Tlmm mu r'tN a in 0 n s the dead. fn (quick-acting cyanide), as guna, nad been used in siranse jioct of death, much for Gcrmanv. It l !"" Our stomachs can H Onlv cn m,,t. .1 4U1. . fiinR. 1 us turn now to Japan, IRE ainln we find no traces T w,nt In our Innocence p've oceu wont to term hU' Enl.l.. .... r" 'K at Attu, where we MCOiimcred the strange "0 mania for hnnilo "US bCCIl n Inns nnH hnrrl. !' enemies. It has reached nt where about the only 16 evidence nf nvni-.nfl i "7 "io part of the Japs ii ri m citect: II In mlltl . j- "tun ui us are QC' lined to die, as three mil "niicn on Page Two) micsWar sualty ? ""aid and News col ,, c,"mlc section for Satur Became a war casualty ay, w trlnconi , CSllnlj "'"V.. ""K lion wi. "wrmcing tne Fb !" .rdor cam from fmlc,. hod to go" ' I nnru P-W allotments -illH It, B-29s Raid Japan; Philippines Cleared; Yanks Gain On Isle By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Prasa War Editor Hundreds of Superforts rnked nine nirficldit on xouthcrn Japan today In their third neutralizing raid this week on enemy base) used in tho air-sea war which cost tho mikado 2500 planes and 100 ships in a month against IS American warcraft. Adm. Chester w. Nimltz announced tho one-sided naval score as tuiik-supportcd 10th army troops cut wedges nearly a mile deep into tho enemy's southern Oklnuwii defenses, 325 miles south of Jnpan, and broke up fierce counterattack on nearby le Island. ' America's other on-to-Tokyo commander, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, announced the central Philippines hnve been swept clean of all organized Japuncsc resistance, freeing 0,400,000 people and 33,000 square miles. Capture Collaborationists Yanks driving against tho only remaining centers of resist ance pushed 15 miles through tho swamps of Mindanao in the south and captured three more members of tho Filipino collab orator government at Bngulo on northern Luzon. Today's Superfortress strike was directed against nine major ulrflelds of Kyushu: island, ranging from Kahoya, largest naval air station In southern Japan, to the quaintly named town of USA. Tho Japanese Domci news agency said the nine B-20 for mations poured demolition bombs on the airstrips from 6 a. m. to 10. A few hours previously these same fields sent suicide planes In another strike against tho U. S. invasion fleet off Okinawa. Tokyo radio, which normally employs astronomical figures for purported American naval losses said one destroyer was sunk In the Heroma Islands. IS Craft Dastroyad Nimltz said that actually only 15 U. S. craft were sunk from March 18 to April 18. They included five destroyers (Halligan, Bush, Colhoont Prinze, M. L. Abelc); two minccraft (Emmons, Skylark); one destroyer-transport (Olckerson); two ammunition ships (Hobbs Victory, Logan victory), a gunboard and four land ing craft. , The 100 Nipponese ships included the supcrbattleship Yam oto, two cruisers, ten smaller warships, 33 freighters and 54 lesser craft Supported by Incessant naval and. land artillery fire In south ern Okinawa tho 7th division pushed to within 200 yards of the Yonaburo air strip on tho cast coast after a 1400 yard advance In the first 24 hours. BOLOGNA SEIZED BY ftLLi IS1IE5 By LYNN HEINZERLING ROME, April 21 m Bolog na, first major objective of the all-out allied offensive in north ern Italy, fell today to troops of the fifth and eighth armies. Polish trooos of the . British LONDON, Apr)! 21;-A) The . r",rlf,f. ?TI.TS?if huszysky and''the U?SoTst division commanded by Maj. Gen. William G. Livesay and the 34th division under Maj. Gen. Charles Bolte all entred the historic Italian fortress city on the southern edge of the Po Berliners Fear Starvation As Red Shells Fall in City fear of starvation is gripping Berliners who already are duck ing Russian shells idling -into Die heart of tho rolch capital, nazl propagandists said today as thoy exhorted every mani wo man and child to fight to the death. Field kitchens are being set up, and Transoccan's Corres pondent Walter Fclchncr said ''Berlin is already preparing for public mass feeding when the Convicted Youths Attempt Escape SEATTLE. April 21 0PJ In an attempted jail break, two of tho youths convicted Thursday of second degree murder in tho Jail death of John Embcrg. 18, slugged a guard on the head with a heavy wrench as the three sat playing cards early today. , The youths, Chester Mnbc and Donald Bcal, both 13, reiterated that they would "never be taken to prison alive." The three-handed gome was In progress about 3 a. m. when Mobe got up for a moment, walked behind Clifford McNcal, Juvenile' detention officer, and struck him on the head. Of ficials said Mabc had concealed the wrench In his clothing some time yesterday as workmen re modelled Juvenile quarters on the sixth floor of the county city building. McNeal, dazed but not uncon scious by the blow, summoned an assistant, and the two dis armed Mabe. munlcations with tho outside world cut." Shells Falling Fclchncr told of the first Rus sian shells to land in Potsdamcr Plate the Times Square of Ber lin. . "They landed at 2 o'clock this afternoon," he sold. "The hor ror-stricken people stopped and then, having learned from ex periences during air raids, they dashed to the nearest shelters. "Tho next hits were off and life became normal again. At the present the opinion prevails that shells aro better than bombs." Population Underground Virtually the entire popula tion is spending most of the time underground, he revealed, explaining that "everybody hopes to bo pretty safe in the cellars. All nuzl newspapers carried tile same cry: "Berliners, the eyes of the world are trained on you. The decisive hour has struck, the battle is raging at our gates. Men and women keep your nerves Meat Shortage Not That Bad PORTLAND, Ore., April 21 (P) The North Portland live stock yard, unloading Its usual cargo of cattle, hogs and sheep destined to slaught er, was horrified to find an elephant in one car. Investigation proved the elephant was going to a near by amusement park. Fighter Plane Will Fly Again ty 11 1 muni.'"1 P a - ?r"b,A 7 w o Pulled from th water of Upper Klamath lake, this fighter plane from tha Klamath naval air station was hoisted onto a California Oregon Power company barga and Friday moved to the bast, where it will be repaired. The plant, piloted by Ensign R. G. Gehrman, made a forced landing on the lake near snow capped Pelican butte, seen in the background. The pilot was taken aboard an amphibian plane from a life raft dropped to him by a fellow pilot (USN Photo) valley at the foot of the Apen nines. With Bologna captured the major German defense position south of the Po river was elim inated and the nazis once again moved northward. Field : Marshal Sir Harold Alexander in a message of con gratulations to the victorious troops said: "Let us keep driving forward until the last enemy soldier has been driven from Italy." Refugee Ship Sunk by Mine MALMOE, Sweden, April 21 P) The 17,000-ton liner Pre toria of the German East Africa lines, loaded with refugees bound for Copenhagen, struck a mine south of Oresund and sank within a few minutes early today, reports from Denmark said. The North German Lloyd ship Potsdam was reported to have reached Copenhagen safe ly with other relugecs. Bulletin LONDON. April 21 W) The Paris radio said tonight without any confirmation that the Amer ican and Russian forces had joined In the Dresden district. The Brussels radio said that the red army had entered Dresden. 619 Four Expected to Keep Control Over Oaks Proposal Linkup Looms Between Russ, Yank Troops LONDON, April 21 (P) The German radio said tonight the Russians had broken into greater Berlin. Russian tanks entered greater Berlin from the northeast, the German broadcast said, penetrating into the Weissensee-Pankow district. Three hours earlier German broadcasts declared 1,500,000 Russian troops had battered into five Berlin suburbs and flanked the capital on the southwest in a sweep within 32 miles of Amer ican lines. "The enemy has reached Berlin proper," said tonight's broad cast. "Massed enemy forces have reached the outer defense ring of Berlin and the capital proper is now in the fighting lone. "Russian tank spearheads have reached the region of the Weissensee-Pankow district (in northeast Berlin three miles in side the city limits). "They were Immediately engaged." . To the south unconfirmed re ports said American and Russian mm E DEN TALK 01 POLISH ISSUE By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (IP) The Big Four nations spon soring the San Francisco secur ity conference are expected by diplomats here to keep a firm control over amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for woxld-.orgaauation,-.But many changes are due to be : made with the agreement of the Big Four.' " . ' The conference opening next Wednesday will see the first working out of the principle of big power responsibility which is to be written Into the world THREE SITES EYED WASHINGTON, April-21 (IP) Two other places besides Klam ath Falls are being considered as site for a new naval rehabili tation center, . Rep. Stockman (R-Ore.) reported today, terming the argument "hot." , Location of the center will be decided soon, Oregon congress men predicted. . The plan has been under almost continuous discussion for some time, an aide to Senator Cordon report ed. The navy contemplates ob taining 300 acres of land for the center, which would be of temporary construction. Serv icemen' with malaria and fil ariasis would receive treatment similar' to those, given at' the Klamath Falls Marine Barracks. The proposed new plant, if set up at Klamath Falls, would cost $3,367,000, Cmdr. C. H. Crichton told the house appro priations committee during re cent hearings. An omnibus pub lic works appropriation for the navy which passed the house this week includes funds for the structure. ' German Elite Guards, Now Allied Prisoners. Bury Nameless Cadavers at Belsen Concentration Camp By WILLIAM FRYE BELSEN, Germany, April 21 () Tho dead were getting a burial today at this fearsome concentration , camp ' each nameless dead getting a ghastly burial. . , No coffins or flowers, at this funeral. No tears or well-bred sympathy. No music. Those naked corpses wore hauled in trucks and dumped in to a pit. Their pall bearers were S3 (elite guard) men and women, now allied prisoners. Shouted Litany ' Their litany was the hoarse shouts of British soldiers, sick with disgust and fury, ordering these marked members of Hit ler's chosen legions about their horrlblo task. . ' I saw Belsen Its piles of life less dead and its aimless swarms of living dead. Tholr great. eyeB were Just animal lights In skin covered skulls of famine. Some were dying of typhus, some of typhoid, some of tuber culosis, but most were just dying of starvation. Starvation the flesh on their bodies had fed on itself until there was no flesh left, just skin covering bones and the end of all hope, and nothing left to feed on. Cadavers Still Hope Tragically, there is still hope Inside these still-breathing cada vers. As long as eyes can stare from the bodies scattered every where on the floors and on the ground there is hope. Hope in these for whom there is no hope. They are living but they cannot live. No food, no care can save them. Ahead of them is nothing nothing but that pit with the bulldozer waiting to cover them with earth, Nothing well, there Is one thing, tho knowledge that after months of bestiality there is sud denly, unbelievably, friendliness and good-will among men. At leBst they will die aware of that. Countless thousands some say 30(000, sortie say more died without even that comfort, died horrlblo deaths before the Brit ish second army reached this camp on the Aller river south east of Bremen Sunday, I saw these dead hundreds ' and thousands lying in ditches and against walls of drab huts and piled in heaps, each one in a grotesque attitude in a gro tesque mound. Some were clothed, but most were naked. Their nakedness was of no ac count because there had Jong ceased to be anything' recogniz ably human about them, even before the last flicker of life dis appeared. This is what I heard: Josef Kramer, SS commander of Belsen now under close ar rest, previously commanded Auschwitz, where children were taken from their mothers and burned alive, where a gas cham ber killed thousands, where Kra mer kept his own orchestra to entertain him with Strauss waltzes while abominations were practiced under his command outside his window. Kind Predecessor At Belsen Kramer's predeces sor, also of tho SS, was kind and considerat c prisoners had enough to eat and proper medi cal care, and were treated as hu- organization itself the prin ciple that on final decisions the major, nations should at .all times concur. Quarrels Unlikely Thus it appears unlikelv that the United States. British. Rus sian or Chinese delegations will allowany 'critical differences'to develop among themselves al though - in - their behind-the-scenes negotiations ' they may have a tough time reconciling some of their views. ' - t irst indications were that a spirit of high hope for success in creating a world security sys tem dominates those delegates who are either already here or on their Way. Jan Christian Smuts, South African prime minister and the first major delegate to arrive, said he had "very good expect ations of the work we will accomplish." i believe this is nossihlv the most hopeful step we have taken," he told newsmen, "and ieei we must succeed here." Smuts, the onlv delesate whn played leading part in Ver sailles, when the old League of Nations was set up, landed at Hamilton field late yesterday after flying across the country in a rtoyai airiorce plane. RAF Sets Record In Berlin Raids LONDON. Anril 21 Yl nai jviosquitos set a record for bombing . Berlin last night, hit ting the besieged reich capital six times as the climax of a day-long blitz on German rail ways by more than 3000 planes. Three times were the most Berlin ever had been raided in one night before. Last night's attacks, made without loss of a single aircraft, brought to 76 tne number of raids on Berlin in the last 58 nights. Congressmen to View Atrocities WASHINGTON. April 21 PI The war department announced today that 12 members of con gress will be flown to Germany within the next few days to view evidence of nazl atrocities. The announcement said the legislators are going for the pur pose of getting "at first hand a picture of conditions Which Gen eral Eisenhower says are almost impossible to describe in words. Eisenhower requested that repre sentatives of congress make the trip. man beings; The vilcness began with Kramer's arrival five months ago. He instituted starvation as punishment, kept it up as a habit. He enjoyed the shuddering filthiness, with a lascivious lust for dcgratlon and death, that Belsen became. I heard that occasionally men starving in Belsen watched the dying with hunger, and as soon as they were dead, cut out their hearts, liver and kidneys and de voured them to sustain tneir own vanishing lives.. : I saw SS men and women. once the torturing, brutal guards of this purgatory beyond imagi nation, put to labor loading the Domes ot tne people tney naa killed Into trucks.. I saw them at the pits unloading these hu man carcasses, dragging them through the sand and .dumping them into a great hole half-filled with dead. I saw these dead dead long beyond rigor mortis tumble limply into the vast com. mon grave that hid. there name- base . 250 miles lessncss forever. I Chungking By FLORA LEWIS WASHINGTON, April 21 (P British Foreign Minister An thony Eden today declared "we are in complete agreement on all points" after a conference with Secretary of State Stetti nius. The two presumably dis cussed the attitude they will take on' the ticklish Polish problem at their meeting with Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, who was expected to arrive here tonight or to morrow. "Useful Talks" "We had very useful discus sions on a number of subjects," Eden told reporters as he emerged from an hour and a quarter session with Stettinius. He would not elaborate. Molotov s delay in Teaching Washington has left very little time for the Big Three to set tle the broad range of problems lacing them and both Eden and Stettinius appeared to be grow ing impatient.- . Another nart of the hurried international discussions taking place here was carried on at the White House where U. s, ambassador to Russia .W. Ave- rell Harrlman spent three quar ters of an hour talking with president miman. Firm Refusal - There ; was some hope that the Bussians would back down on : their twice-presented . de mand that the present provi sional government in Warsaw be invited to San Francisco.. , (Continued on Page Two) Chinese Destroy Jap Spearhead CHUNGKING. April 21 OP)- Chinese troops, battling large Japanese forces driving across western Hunan province, have destroyed enemy spearheads within 65 miles of the U. S. 14th air force air base at Chlhkiang. A .Chinese high command com- munique said today that heavy fighting was in progress at sev eral points In Hunan to stem the Japanese advance on the ' air southeast ol patrols already were linked. mere was no word from-of fi- cial sources concerning the link up. A Moscow report placed the American and Russian patrols 2a miles apart, and the Germans indicated the gap was about 32 miles. . . v . Ferocious Ba fl The battle for BeiUs- "nevrr has been surpassed in' terocity," a German broadcast said. . The llnkuD south of the rani. tal appeared imminent, while in the direct assault on Berlin the Soviets by , German account smashed into its suburbs at five points. By German account mam moth Russian forces were envel. oping Berlin from points in the suburbs on the east, north and southwest.- Big . soviet guns pounded the Potsdamer platz in the center of the doomed city where the nazis said 3,000,000 Germans remained to wait the final battle. - .- Siege Arc Formed , ...The" siege ' arc was formins from Bemau, virtually at the northeast boundary and just out side the ring autobahn, to Koe-nigs-Wuesterhausen, three miles from the southern boundary, the Germans said, describing the sit. nation-in the southeast sector a' critical; - A London dispatch from tha U. S. ninth army front said the rumble of masses of Russian big guns was:, audible in the Elbe bridgehead; Z' where - Americans were building up-strength for the kill, and a -Moscow dispatch said a massive wall of tanks per haps unequalled in modern war. fare "jvere crunching toward the nazi capital, blazing from six RAF-hight attacks; . ' v. C Vf.MeiiMH Redoubt: :-;.-:v; , r. "Gen. t. Eisenhower, - who pro claimed after conference with Field Marshal Montgomery -that the Germans in the. west "are now tottering, on the -threshold (Continued on Page Two) German General Stotbyfonkmen Peiain Escapes Into Switzerland PARIS. Am-il 21 (IP) The newspaper Lordre, crediting pri vate sources, said today that Marshal Henri Petain has es caped from Germany into Switzerland. The article added that Pierre Laval. Marcel Deat and other collaborationists remained be hind. Simultaneously, a demand was made by the newspaper La Depeche that the case against Petain be prepared and legal machinery be set up for a swift trial of the former head of tne Vichy government. , - . Chef sea House Razed by Fire The Roy Vaughn residence in the Chelsea addition was entire ly destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. Flames were visible from Klamath Falls and the sky, at 1:30 a. m., was light ed in tnat area. Neighbors called the county fire department which arrived too late to save the- Vaughn home. No adjoining buildings were lost, uause of the fire was not learned. Vauahn is an em ploye of . Pelican .Bay. Lumber company. WITH- THE U. S. FIRST .ARMY, IN; GERMANY, April 21 h-) American- lantcmen snoi high ranking German general to death- yesterday in the Ruhr . pocket when he and his men ran from a house and killed a U. ; S. soldier- with a. machine pistol. . -. . .. -. . The Americans were making a .routine patrol south of Sch mallenberg when eight Germans burst out of the house and, fired on them. A tankman open ed fire with a machinegun. Be sides the American and the Ger man general, two of the gen eral's fleeing men were -killed and two others wounded. Three escaped. - , : ; Myrile Creek Mill Burns Down ROSEBURG, Ore., April 21 (IP) Fire of undiscovered ori gin last, night completely de stroyed the Myrtle Creek Lum ber company mill at Myrtle Creek with a loss estimated by H. A. Dent, manager, at approxi mately $250,000. The fire start ed at 10:30 p. m., and spread rapidly through the plant, de stroying the sawmill, green chain and power plant. The planer mill and lumber on docks escaped serious dam age. The Roseburg fire department was called to protect adjacent property, arriving too late to save the mill. . Papa-to-Be Keeps USO Open i Staff members were dimming the lights at the USO pre paratory to closing one evening, when it was noticed that a lone marine was in the telephone booth. He opened the door. and in a soft but worried southern drawl, asked if they, would mind waiting while he put through- a long-distance call. His wife was having a baby in Washington, D. C, and the prospective father had been waiting since 7 o'clock to hear the news. The staff delayed closing the center. Poor connections prevented the call from coming through, but workers tried to alleviate his wor rv. assuring him that "everything would be all right." With no other alternative, he went back to the Marine Barracks to spend the night, pacing the floor and tearing his hair, . - Early the next morning the news came through and that afternoon the leatherneck was at the center to Announce with glowing pride that it was a boy! He went on to say that since he was a tough marine baby, he should have a fitting name, so the staff, having been in the business from' the very begin ning, wished to name the baby. Every name on the books was suggested, but daddy said that ho matter what the preference of tne staff might be, ne naa a leenng mat momer win pe tne lnrt In riaf-lrtfil i..-. ..-. ' . .v.j 1
