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Newspaper Page TextIII ffUSE if CMf IF ' ' ' i in The Shunta CuhvuAk Wonderland April 23 Max. (April 22) 84 MIn .......35 Precipitation last 24 houri 00 Stream year to data .. 8.14 Normal 9.93 Lait year 6.91 Foracaiti Claar and warmtr. - - ETrivE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY," APRIL 23, 1945 Number 10447 X If 'WW. wjju I " lunii ''''' n FRANK JENKINB E Kremlin flnully break lt. ofllclnl silence, and Sta Enounce Unit red army , arc within four "'I'" 01 L.i.rt of Berlin. . il,l Horli.1 III llio STKh hwrt city It's E,i wnv from Us outskirts L center.) b; Russians' flanks aro ap parently wru in " f centcr. That . they arc line around me uunuiou r.. "only ONE-WA? L through Spnnduu, a sub- 10 HIP wni. L.i. r-tn-iillnii bv thin route Id run head-on Into our Ls wuiung on wis fcOUNTS of tlio area of Berlin alreuny in minnm" fi vary. Moscow says, one- Ill to a fourth. Tho fighting torn nouso io nunov, with wmcn wo uo u- (llo the armies fluht It out, tlirco million German res- ...l.l In lA lnillllllH H arc i" w v J" : fiiihlly Into underground T . -II I... ...a In lm,H spnlcn says mi" "Berlin i being trans- rd Into a ghaatly rnoiui- to senseless mm rsaui- ETHER we have effected Junction wim we nur -mil, of Berlin Is a myi- .. .1.1. I. .,,lltnn l mm in uim "-", j i . i. ..l. i .-. Uln Lpparently WAITING AT . , .. .I.. I in irom uiu : , t junction ls being hand- FWO UOII l Wllllfc ,iu ..i.. 1.. . ......,.,mn thnf ipiana' ii - h result In shooting each Lk iliv on (ha Elbe while Russians come to lis, they fat least know where we ffliat may explain why wc cross. we tnny havo crossed is a lot of secrecy.) far as can bo Judged by Ireful rending of the din ts, wo haven l crossed ine anywhcrc-cxccpt at our bridgehead due west of , and even more wo seem j av na nut. . Icllon of two great mill forces approaching cacn from oddosIIo directions nucczing an enemy do- mem is a ticklish opera. Artillery can easily over Plnnes can make errors kgnitlon unci bomb friends ill as enemies. lously tho simplest' way one side to stnv out while mcr moves up. k one can't help guessing ft the RusjIdih may havo P us: ''Berlin Is our meat. it to in. We'll hnndlo lt." f vaguely known that 'at Gcrmnnv wir Hlvldnrl un Ihroe zones for flcpnrntc py occupation, ono can t nnc (lint as the end nenrs pntlnucd on Pago Two) PAWS IN RUN ID TO MENAGE LAIR 35-Mile Front Active Against Minor Opposition Teen-Agers Open Club By JAMES M. LONO PARIS, April 23 W') Lt. Gen. Goorgo Pulton's third army, run ning wild. on u :i3-nillo front in u suulliwnfd smiiali Inward Adolf Hitlers Alpine redoubt, ml vanccd to within 13 miles of lie. gonsburg today. Infuntry reached the Nnnb river 13 miles north of Rcgenx. burg UKiilnsl only minor opposl' Hun. while other troops burttl through the enemy s Dnnubo river lino to within 80 miles of Munich. Attack Braman In the north, tho British opened the final onslaught tigulnst Bremen and the Ameri can first and ninth armies anxi ously awnltcd a Junction with the itussians expected momcn larlly. The first nrmy enntured Dcs, sau (120,000), 92 miles southwest of beleaguered Berlin,' along with 21.373 prisoners. The fall of Dessau left only 14 German cities under the nnzl flag. Blackout Imposed Pntton Imposed a security blackout soon after his third army captured two. bridges In' (net across the Naab river, a trib utary of tho Danube, northwest of Regensburg. Blackouts In tho past have cloaked break. (Continued on Pago Two) !rt Reverse ison Decision PHINGTON. April 23 (TP) "yremo court today re 'he treason conviction nf fy Cramer, naturalized ennrged with aiding 'i niDoicura. ce Jackson delivered the 9-4 nnlnlnn i.MU fin. the first trensnn for considered by a trl- lc! poiiglns wrote a dls- "pmion in which Chief otOnn nnrl T. . ! m i- uiiniiiua DIHUK -C( COIiriirrnrl Nr wns necusod of help- r me eight nnzl sabo- lannca from subma- k -ii const m June, FlC WnS finnlnnnnri Ia Pt '"JPrlsonmont and fined I 11V fl.n It . j- i ""uniorn new Neral district court. press Asks Jcfy Study limi..; '. " war atroci- rrt l I'lmuiiers WBB rnJ, conf os" today. '""P.ns In the house '8 crcntlon of such on t lile!'s Pressed rc I Mr. 'nal8nt'on over S r 1 "trocltles and r .u.-.iu ciscnnowcr edi10l,,?.0.f..f0"8"ss. AFTER SiTDOI Th wheels of Industry turn cd again today at tho Kalpine Plywood company on the Weed highway after a shutdown since February 15, 1045. This is the longest closing pe riod since the plant started oper ation In 1938, and was caused by a - shortage of peeler logs. They . are now being obtained from the Link River Lumber company, and with other sources of supply In view, Kalpine ex pects to continue operation. F. V. Russell, with the West Coast Lumber and Trading com pany of Seattle, is president of the company, with W. E. Mnr andcr as superintendent, and A. J. Honzct as resident manager. Honzcl came to the company from Weed In September, 11)44, where he helped in rebuilding th plant there. . A need for men as green chain offbearers and similar (Continued on Pago Two) $34 Million Meat Relief Decreed WASHINGTON, April 23 V) The government sought todny to put more meat on- the na tion's dinner tables by decree ing a $34,000,000 prlco relief program for packers and new controls to spread supplies evenly. Prices housewives pay for meat are not affected.. . The $34,000,000 mostly In Increased subsidies will be pnid at that annual rate to slaughterers In an effort to enso a squeeze many ciaim is lorc- Ing them out of business UW- i' ':vfi tiw r.tl -. fl lilIMMMMMMMlMldaaMMIMWM Approximately 280 high school studants TlsU4 th Tn-ag eliib at its' formal opanintr on Saturday night. Tha club is located in tha two aast rooms of tha armory and features a good danca floor, coka bar apd music furhiihed by a uk . box. . Taan-agars - may visit th club be tween 4 and 5:45 every afternoon this weak,, and it will be open on Friday and, Saturday aya nlng. Tha opening for paranU and adult Islands it to be held aomatlma in tha near future. . ROME. April 23 fP) Allied troops of tho fifteenth army group have smashed to the River Po at several undisclosed locations, it was announced to night. - . Units or both the fifth and the British eielith armies roared on toward tho Po, objective of ninny weary months of battling, in ground-devouring leaps- at many places, but on the eastern end of the front the British still .were mcecting stubborn re sistance in the Ferrara area. Earlier, it wns reported tnat the fifth nrmy was ncaring the Po after a 35-mile dash beyond (Continued on Page Two) . Year's Training Bill Voted Down WASHINGTON. AdHI 23 (P) Tho senate voted down today 66 to 9 a proposal to require 12 months of training before com mit duty for all draftees under 20. The action came after Gen. George C, Marshall, chief of staff, had ndvised the senate that tho army will adopt a policy of sending overseas no soldiers un der 10, as soon as military condi tions permit. Gloria Vanderbilt Wedded To Conductor Siokowski LOS ANGELES, April 23 (P) Leopold Stokowskl and his wealthy young bride, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowskl, were In seclusion today after a week end wedding In Mexico that al most was prevented Dy a piane accident, .. . Gloria, who sained control or a $4,364,000 fortune on her 21st birthday February 20, and the 58-year-old orchestra conductor were married at Mexlcali, Mex ico, Saturday night. Escape injury Thev narrowly escaped In jury as a chartered plane in which they were flying from Reno, Nov., wns forced down near Mojave, ' Calif. William Guermann of Reno, proprietor of a plane service, said the pilot reported on his return to Reno that the piano developed engine trouble and landed on a high way, . From thera, Gloria and sio kowski hitch-hiked a ride 'to the border - and were married by Civil Judge Apolonlo Nunez in the Moxicnli government palace at 10 o'clock Saturday night. Jimmy Alvarez,) operator of a Mexlcali cafe, was best man. Pat "Cruel" The two left Reno after she obtained a divorce Friday from Pnsqunlo (Pat) Di Cicco, Holly wood actor's agent. She charged cruelty and was grant ed the right to resume her maiden name. She and Di Cicco were married in 1941 at Santa Barbara, Calif. This was Stokowskl's third marriage, tho others ending in dlvorcoi --." No plans .were made public as to whether the couple plans a honeymoon trip. Tho conduct or is scheduled for an appear ance here May 16 and is ex pected to begin, rehearsals early in May. ' 7 1,73 8 Japs Die on Isle; Nipponese Re-take Kakaiu By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor . American . infantrymen, fight ing a . costlv see-saw battle on southern Okinawa, have killed 11,738 Japanese.- -. Enemy losses were announced by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in his Monday communique which also reported the destruction of 126 Nipponese planes in suicide attacks on the Okinawa area, in U. S. carrier plane swetps over the- northern Ryukyus-and in a land-based fighter ' plane low level attack on the Suzuka naval base on Japan proper. Hecaptur KaKasu . Nipponese infantrymont, in filtrating U. S. 27th division lines as Kamikaze suicide planes made- another heavy attack on U. S. land positions and. ship ping, recaptured Kakazu . town on western Okinawa. Strategic ridge positions changed hands re peatedly along the three-division front. Officially, the lines were substantially unchanged."- - In sharp retreat marines of the third amphibious corps over ran two small islands- off north ern Okinawa, 325 miles- from Japan, . ' Raid Airtleids . Supporting the Okinawa ac tion' 150 Superforts yesterday $25,000.; Damage' Suit Filed Here ..Charging that he was- perma nently disabled as the result of injuries received on September 4. -1944. Claude H.' Jordan brought suit in circuit court to day against LeRoy C. Hill, seek ing damages, of $zd,uuu. U. S. Balentine -fs attorney for the. plaintiff. According to the .complaint, Jordan was-operating his car oh the Klamath Falls-Lakeview highway near Dairy when his machine was struck by one oper ated by the defendant, Hill. A suit to recover $2500 dariv ages Was also filed . in circuit court this morning by Lester A. Watts vs. Don Barnes.. Watts charged that he was engaged in sorting potatoes as an employe of Barnes. The plaintiff was usins ". an electric cower driven machine and on Novem ber 20, 1944,- the-sorter, was loaded on a truck. The sorter tilted and Watts attempted to lift the sorter when he caught his- right thumb, losing a por tion, of the thumb at that time. U. - S, . Balentine - represents Watts.'--' " raided five Kyushu island air fields on' southwestern-Japan for the fourth time in six days.- All B-29s returned from a similar raid on nine airdromes Saturday. On other Svar fronts, the U. S. 533rd engineers' recaptured Fort Pikit in southern Mindanao of the Philippines; the 32nd divi sion began its fourth year of war by sealing up more enemy caves on northern Luzon; Chinese re ported they were slowing up the enemy's threat to a U. S. air continued on Page Two) Local Men Buy Alturas Store ! Purchase of the Golden Rule store at Alturas by J. A. and Alta Souther.. L. Dclos Mills and D. D. Reeder, all of Klamath Falls, was announced this weeK. Souther,-, who has been man ager of Moe s department store fqr the past seVen years, has re signed his position nere, elec tive May 1. Mrs. Souther is in Alturas. operating the store at the present time.. The Golden Rule store was sold - to . the Klamath- men by George Arabolad who has been in business in Alturas for 29 years, i : - - . - .Souther - has been, active In civic affairs during his residence here. He is past commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post, served on numerous com mittees with the Klamath coun ty chamber of commerce," Girl Scouts, and is a member of the Lions club and Baptist church. PAGING BASF RETENTION BY . S. STUDIED Proposal Shares Lime Light With Polish. Issue at Confab By J. w. DAVIS . SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 (fl3) The United States would retain control of strategic Pa cific bases after the war under a compromise trusteeship plan reported under study today for presentation to the United Na tions conference. . . This subject, together with a proposal for a "community of the Pacific" patterned after the Pan-American union, shared pre conference interest with the long-troublesome Polish 'J ques tion, currently a Big Three topic in Washington. . . Predict Succtss ' And as the Wednesday open ing of the 46-nation conference drew near, Senator Vandenberg (R-Mlch.) and Commander Har old Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, predicted it would succeed in its job of establish ing a world organization for peace. , , Both are U. S. delegates and Vandenberg is reportedly in line for- the job of representing this country on the conference com mission which will . write the regulations for the world secur ity council. To Set Up Voting ' This icommission will handle the' delicate problem of voting procedure within the inner cir cle of the peace-keeping organl ation. Advocates -say - the . interna tional - trusteeship - compromise, worked out at Washington, is intended to satisfy military de mands for the -Pacific -island bases, and at the same time to provide a plan that, would work as well to the benefit of Russia, Britain or any other nation witb military base requirements. - -, - The idea is to have two kinds of ' trusteeships. Areas of one type would be subject to- investi gation and report by trustee commiteees of the proposed world organization. Territories of the other type probably to be called security areas, would be assigned exclusively to the trustee power. County Courts to Consider Appeal Members of the Klamath and Lake county courts plan to meet informally within a short time to discuss the possibility of appeal ing the decision of the land-office in the recent Shevlln-Hixon timber exchange. '' County Judge U. . E. Reeder said members of his court were planning to meet with the Lake county delegation at the district No. 2 session of courts which in clude Crook, Deschutes, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath and Lake counties.' "We. are waiting to get a copy of Senator Guy Cordon's bill on contribution in lieu of taxes, be fore a decision is made," Judge Reeder stated. He - said the decision - of the land office would not be dis cussed officially at the district meeting, but that the Lake coun ty court would be present and it would be an advantageous time for the two courts to get togeth er and "talk among ourselves." The district meeting will be held irrErineville at the call of County Judge C. L. Allen of Bend, and in . the past these sessions have been held In April. Counties Can Clean House Senate Bill 119, recently passed by the state legislature authorizing the destruction of papers deemed of no value, may mean cleaning house in the 36 counties of Oregon. As far as the Klamath county vault Is concerned, it's crammed full. For the first time in the history of the county, the mountain of deeds, records .and papers is being indexed with one person detailed to this job since the first of the year. . Klamath's first deed goes back to June 8, 1872, and, ac cording to Deed No. 1, book 1, it was from the Oregon Cen tral Military Road company- to Elisha L. Applegate of Lane county, who. purchased 640 acres "for valuable consideration.". The property is now known as the Gerber -ranch one mile north of Bly and is described as section 27, township 36, south range 14 east. - , County Judge U. E. Reeder received a letter today from Eleanor Stephens, state librarian, asking that no records of historical value be burned until an archivist is obtainable, probably around July 1. County Clerk Charles F. DeLap said there was no hurry about getting rid of a ton or two of the records, as they've been collected since' back in '72, and everybody has gotten along with thorn around thus far, , 11 ----- Troops Reach Elbe River; Linkup Near LONDON, April 23 W) Marshal Stalin said tonight the Rus. slans had reached the Elbe at Muelberg, northwest of Dresden and 23 miles east of the last reported positions of the U. S. first army. The Elbe was reached, Stalin said, as the climax of a drives of 50 to 100 miles from the Neisse river. Stalin announced the Russians had broken into Berlin from , the north and south and penetrated to within four miles of th , center of the capital. Frankfurt, German buttress on the Oder, and Cottbus, ' stronghold on the Neisse, fell in the sweeping breakthrough of -Berlin's defenses, the Russian marshal announced. Berlin Encircled fhe Mme time tne Luxembourg radio declared that Ber lin had been completely encircled before nightfall. - In a third order of the day Premier Stalin later announced the capture of Opava (Troppau), nazi fortress city guarding -the Moravian gate to central Czechoslovakia. The capture was made by troops of Marshal Yeremenko. . " HITLER DIRECTS BATTLE LONDON, April 23 OP) Adolf Hitler is in Berlin and has decided to remain there, the Hamburg radio said today in a broadcast directed at Berlin residents in an attempt to con vince them the invaded capital would not fall. Both the tone and wording of the announcement made It clear that rumors were sweeping the reich that the fuehrer was in flight. .. . , Tha broadcast said the announcement was made to item what was described as "fantastic rumors by which the enemy is attempting to undermine the morale of the German people." Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is also in the capital, the broadcast said. It conceded that the fall of Ber lin would virtually mean the end of the war. "There are two bastions which we cannot and will not cede, Goebbels was quoted as saying, referring to Berlin and Prague, the capital of Bohemia-Moravia. "If these two bastions fall into enemy hands the whole of Europe will perish with Germany," he said. "Should bolshe vism capture these capitals of the reich and the protectorate. Europe ceases to exist." The Elbe river is reported unofficially to be the dividing line between operational areas of the Russian and western allied fnrrnc hut tttaro l , . . ... . nu umtiai wora mai ne Americans had reached the river in the area immediately northwest of ' ' , Meeting Unmentioned Marshal Stn ltn' nrrlor AiA nnt maMtim . t t the western allies and thred army. - ' DClween , . ln "n iuer oer of the day Stalin announced that Frank-furt-on-the-Oder had fallen to red army troops. , . Thp Amrrirane warn 1 , i I . . n ' iiT; i t j . ; . ,'c""" iueuumg, iu nines : northeast of Leipzig and 15 miles west of the Elbe in the area nnrthwost nf nradon The marshal's second order of the day announced the cap- ' turn nf Pntthuc 47 miUr' I. . l t II. a ; , . , r , , ' -....--, ouu.iiH, ui ceiuu, ana saia -ine aus- ' sians had broken into Berlin from the south. . . ciann in an oraer or. the day directed to 99 generals and SO other officers said red army troops had smashed the German cap- -"u. utiuicu x-ctiiKuw. vramenrjurg, i.oe.pn IK. Friedrichsfelde suburban communities .on the northwest, north. pact anrt cnuVioac r( TAVi; .... " - Towns Taken by Red nf, addition -the -order said Marshal Gregory Zhukov's first While Russian -army troops captured Birkenwerder arid Hen rungsdorf the latter on the west bank of, the Havel river and -jour miles-from Lake Tegel on the northwest fringe of.the cap rial. Wandutz and Karlshof also" fell" to the advancing Russians. ' The order which directed that Moscow's victory guns giva 20 salvoes from 224 guns said units of the Polish first army un der Lt. Gen. Poplawski participated far the Russian victory. . u.,,xw u ivui umca tiuiiu ui uie .center or. me ierman capital and Friedricksfelde four-miles east. of . the center. .Orani enburg is 7 miles north nfuwatw Rorlin sn'rnMji. 4. miles southeast of the city. Karlshorst . is ; near Frledric&sfelda and Birkenwerder close to Oranlenburg. ; i -1. ., , FranWurton-the-Oder was by-passed by. the Russians at-the start of the offensive against Berlin a week . ago.- The order said 1 the Russians had advanced from' 37 to 62 miles from their jump- off points. -. ,; .. - . . . .. ... " Sii?'8 ?rder was tn first mention of Marshal Zhukov sinca MaTchJ? when hls armv took Altdamm near Stettin and appar ently dispelled reports broadcast by the Germans that he had ' been recalled to Moscow and displaced. . . . ; . Big Three Minisiers Talk On Bay City Confab Issues WASHINGTON, April 23 m The Big Three foreign ministers today resumed their momentous discussions prior to the San Francisco conference. . The sessions began shortly af ter 10:30 a. m. when Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov ar rived at Secretary of State Stet- unius office. British Foreign Minister An thony Eden had arrived at the state department a short time before.-'. , . Conferees Also present for the confer ence were Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, W. Averell Harrlman, American ambassa dor to Russia; Sir Alexander Cadogan, British permanent un dersecretary for foreign affairs; Stockton Hurt In Action FC John T. Stockton, .27, 1628 Sargent,; Is recovering in the 129th General hospital, Eng land, from machinegun wounds in the right thigh received when he and two other - infantrymen ran into enemy crossfire while on a reconnaissance mission near Bitsch, France. Stockton's wife,' the former Margaret Bates, and their three children, Erla June, 4; Maria Jeane, 3, and John Jr., 1, reside here. ; The Infantryman said he and two others had gone into the field to observe enemy activity just after American troops had taken the town of Reiperts weiler, near Bitsch. ...... . "We ran into German ma chinegun crossfire, I stood be hind a tree and the Jerries fired at it, cutting away chunks of bark. I thought I might be safer behind a larger tree or in a shell crater so I made a dash for .the rear. We had run only a few feet when a bullet hit me in the thigh. I crawled about 300 yards to our lines where a medic gave me first aid. Later I was flown to England. Stockton is making a satisfac tory recovery, according to a hospital report. Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, Brit ish ambassador to Moscow, and U. S. Undersecretary of, State Grew. f No statements were issued prior to today's meeting as to ' the progress made thus far" in , the Washington get-together of the Russian, British and Ame'ri- ; can foreign ministers. "In Confab" ' After an hour and a half of conversations, the foreign min isters recess for lunch, but Sec retary of State Stettinius de clared "We're still in conference." After leaving the conference. Stettinius hurried to the White House to see President Truman. He told White House reporters he had ''no comment." Molotov was first to leave the conference room at the state -de partment, at 12:10 p. m. He was followed a few minutes later by Stettinius and Eden and 'mem bers of their party.' , . ; Truman Talks to Military Heads WASHINGTON,' April 23 (IP) President Truman conferred for an hour this afternoon with his highest diplomatic and military officials. ' .-. .- The nature of the meeting, to which the heads of the-state, war arid navy departments were summoned, was not immedi ately disclosed. W LB Approves Coal Contract WASHINGTON, April 23 VP) The war labor board today ap proved the new national soft coal contract, subject to a grant of coal price increases by OPA and approval of the latter by Economic Stabilizer Davis, The contract involves 400,000 ' bituminous mine workers, and provides an increase Of $1.07 in the basie earnings of the aver age inside day worker. '