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(.self, III the ulr above ami li-duK suuierrancun uupww i lins wnr grown. DUCI1 tlio pitch-black rkness of theso tunnels Uerlln's streets, trains nt express sjoed, They icted wltli men and guns lercly rides, but mortars, nc suns mid "eld artillery, r tactical problems oriso these fucllltlca which the no one lins placed nt tho il of Berlin's fnnntlcal de r. Tho Russians advance, is miles, from tho city's tier townrd Its axis, over i surface opposition as o. Then, suddenly, consld- bodies of the enemy ap N THEIR REAR having Irnnsportcd, along with necessary weapons, undor rlh beneath the Russian's enemy In your rear Is at i mciioco to bo feared. attacking Russians meet ue new problems by k their way down subway c(, lowering cannon and t random along the murky la iimiish whomever or Lcr may bo - approaching dnrknc.HS proving anew dlitnry axiom that what tlcnsc resourceful men do- n be overcome by equally etui attackers. Is tho dramatic, and kful pity of it: le Germans defending to the Inst ore not men K ns Lconldns and his stood at Thermopylae lerve at tho cost of their lair and freo and beau- ay of life that they and prbesrs hnvc created. rc INDOCTRINATED EES finally trapped and ta ana selling tiieir lives ly as possible after their dream of a world to bo led and enslaved by their race nns Dccn shattered, knlh cither In battle or hands of their outraged is nil that remains to the manner of their Eh Is not open to them as holcc. Thcro are Russian pess stories In the dls- todnv of nnzl nfflenrs PNG DOWN German sol- no try to surrender after k of successful resistance tv, when . the military fry is flnolly won, we ormsn and the Russians be intcllitfpnt nnnntfh led ennnuh in rtamd JOREVER this foul thing 1 have come to recognize pernio Indoctrination of peoples with savage kmplallon to moralize on irnngc mania of lndoc- tnlnlllnrlnHt. 1. .1 reskhhln n.. -i . ACTION. Tho time for win come later. s get on with tho story. Pnzls. fnolnff tlml,. T.ACT Irgeney, pHIl 1 their ficing us on tho Elbe to ti ii "'ready in, the Ml), jj ! ivpuri na WIS IS FOLLOW . u L,. nstw oilman pm the renr. I fCGllni; Hrmua 4Ur.l P. must have said to us: PIS to US. WK'l.I, hnnHIn tsoiir grudge fight." Moo I?'lIcr 011 lhis day fe"""8"" Insist that F Berlin, but tho British IS? n his Berchtesgaden k j are long inn at about the swl'"d- (1100 feet per b rSi.J,r,ile' nll tlloy fcrni7,.j "-M'ua'on snaKes Ernud around, llko an tan elnm - ' . k Wall. ."K. ",n,"P18 I Min !2bor crashing imVrt 1 B"' Borchtcs mued on Page Two) I Polish Issue Deadlocked As Confab Opens By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 ) The Big Four foreign mln Isters broke up u lust-mlnutc pro-conference meeting today with tho 1'ullsh issue as bndly deadlocked as ever. A few hours beforo tho formal opening of the United Nations conference (4:30 p. m. Pacific wor lime). Forclun Commlssnr Molotov of Russia left the hotel office of Secretory Stcttinius. He wus lonuwua simmy ty roreign Minister Eden of Britain and China's foreign chief, Soong. Nono would lull newsmen what they had discussed and sub sequently Stcttinius would say only that "It was a meeting of the foreign ministers of tho sponsoring powers completing ar rangements for the conference." However, t was learned definitely that no progress had been made toward a break In the deadlock on Poland and the Big Thrco remained split over the stntus of the Warsaw govern Where Berlin Battle Rages Prexy L. Orth Slsemore, elected president of the chamber of commerce for next year. E TO JEAD C OF C TJio new board of directors of the Klamath county chamber of commerce today elected L. Orth Slsemore as president for the coming year. Slsemore will take office next week, succeed ing Malcolm Eplcy. New offi cers will be Introduced at the annual meeting of the chamber set for next Monday night, when Governor Earl Sncll will be orhicinitl sneaker. John Houston, a newly-elected director,- was named vice presi dent, and Roy Rakcslraw was elected secretary. The board re elected Charles R. Stark as man ager of tho chamber of com merce. , Directors Named Newly -elected chamber of commerce directors are Henry Scmon, A. M. Collier, P. S. Hitchcock, John Houston, E. A. Geary, Fred Hellbronner and M. S. West, Seven olrcntly in of fice who will continuo to serve aro.E. H. Balslgcr, C. A. Dunn, Malcolm Eplcy, Dick Henzcl, J, W. Kerns, J. V. Owens and L. Orth Slsemore. Tho chamber directors at their final meeting of the year adopted important policies with respect to timber and water re sources.. They accepted a report of the post-war planning committee covering the timber situation In the following points: 1. That timber which can logl (Contlnucd on Pago Two) ; Girl Admits Try At Hold-up Here Belly June Cook,' alias Bar bara Carroll, arrosica oy cuy police -Tuesday morning after she admittodly attempted to hold up Augustus M. Clnuson, Klamath avenue secondhand dealer, waived preliminary hear ing and grand- Jury and asked to go directly beforo Circuit Judgo David K. vanacnociB. Tho 22-yeor-old girl, who said her home was In Los Angeles, was held ln tho Klamath county jail today In lieu of $2500 cash ball waiting to go Into court. In the meantime, District Attor ney Clarence Humble said that a check on Miss Cook's activ ities prior to coming to Klam ath Falls, was being made by his office. It Is probable that the girl's record will be pre sented to the. court before sen tence Is passed. . Miss Cook told Justice of the Peace J. A. Mahoncy that her name was not Barbara Carroll, which sho gave at the' time of her arrest, but Betty Cook. Her "folks," alio said, lived In Los Angeles. She gave her birth date as October 13, 1023, at Ontario, Calif. ' Shortly after her arrest by city officers tucsciay, me Rin was charged with assault with intent to rob.' incnt Tho four foreign chiefs con fcrrcd at tho Fairmont hotel. To them largely falls the Job of seeing the conference through Its crucial first days and. then on Into tho work of blue-print ing machinery for preventing anollicr worm war. Tho presence of Soong was tii ken to mean that the Polish Issue, sharply dramatized by the aostneo oi any representation thus far for any Polish govern mcnt. was not at the moment under discussion. This difficult problem Is .almost entirely one tor the Big ilircc, wun nussia on one side and Britain and America on the other. Sun In California A beautiful day, with the sun shining on San Francisco's ram bling hills, welcomed the dele gates as they started oft their historic conference. Other than tho Polish issue thcro is evidence of close big power cooperation which mem bers of the American group in terpret to mean that Russia is dotcrmlncd to help tho confer ence succeed and is already making- -concessions , for . that purpose. . This conference city abustlc with activity. The American delegation scheduled a pre-con-fcrcncc caucus with Secretary of State Stcttinius. Russian members met with Foreign Commissar Molotov, who ar rived -Tuesday afternoon, and British delegates had a confer ence with Foreign Minister Anthony Eden. Eden .reached here by piano at 1:15 a. m. today after a trans-contlncntal flight from Washington, He declined to comment on the Russian-Polish situation, saying, "I do not think I should say anything more than Mr. Stcttinius already has so wisely said." Stcttinius flatly refused to discuss the question at an earlier press conference. Eden appeared tired after the long flight in which his plane bucked headwinds across the country. Ho was accompanied by Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, British ambassador to Moscow, and Sir Alexander Cadogan, of the Brit ish foreign office. There was some expectation that the Big Three foreign min isters themselves would get to gether with China's T. V. Soong for a last-minute review of ar rangements prior to the brief conference opening at 4:30 p. m. (Pacific war time). 1 Highlights of the scheduled half-hour program to be broad cast around the world is a speech by President Truman from Washington. ' Stettinius raps the session to order and delivers the initial address, in troducing the American chief executive. After . Mr. Truman the program calls for addresses by . Governor Earl Warren of California and Mayor Roger D. Lapham of San Francisco. Stick-Up Girl Ho c-V WUUil TK-Wu .J& jp-ai Bettv June Cook, alias Bar bara Carroll, asked to go before Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg in answer to a charge of asiault with intent to rob. She was arrested by city police after the was foiled in her attempt to hold ud a secondhand store 'dealer. 1 j, " r 1 a i - - i - i -""rT-ri -iii'f-'-'-'fi-r i Russian troops were reDorted to have reached Unter den Linden, geographical center of the relch capital, and to have half the city under their control. German forces reportedly barricaded the Brandenburg gates, shown in foreground, to prevent' triumphal soviet march through them. Khmaih's Unprecedented Lack of Meat Blamed By Packers on Government Policy The Klamath basin this week faced an alarming shortage of meat. Possibility of more meat for local tables was far from en couraging as feeders, slaughter ers, and dealers alike found themselves facing a situation which, they claimed, is the re- T FOR HI MEDFORD, April 25 (VP) This area launched a battle to day to make Pacific highway 99 not highway 97 which runs through Klamath Falls the chief future intcr-rcgional high way. Representatives of some Ore gon and California chambers of commerce, county courts, and Pacific Highway association of ficials planned at a meeting here material to be presented to the next highway commis sion session May 12. Ralph E. Koozer, Ashland, president of the Pacific High way association, said briefs would be prepared on tonnage, weather conditions,, scenic at tractions, and industries along the two routes. Similar mate rial will bo presented to the California highway commission, Koozer called today's meet ing after ' Arthur W. Schaupp, Klamath Falls and highway com missioner, proposed that the route through Klamath Falls be adopted as the main highway. Ho claimed it was shorter and more easily traveled. State highway commissions aro to send recommendations for the main inter-regional high ways to the federal bureau of roads by July 1, Koozer said. Scots in Danger Of Losing Kilts LONDON. April 25 OP) Scotsmen stand in peril of losing their kilts and their leaders plan- a protest. Tho demand abroad for the colorful, plaid cloth, particularly by women in the united States 1. s caused a shortage. Thus Scotsmen,, who love to parade in kills, arc being compelled to wear pants. Hard hit, too, are Scotch children who wear plaid kilts as a form of national dress. Scottish leaders planned to ask Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton if he is aware that nearly all tartan material in stock is being reserved for ex port. Truman Confers ' With Military WASHINGTON, April 25 (IP) President Truman held a one hour and 40 minute conference with the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon building this af ternoon. The president drove to the army's big building across the Potomac ln Virginia at 1:40 p. m went Immediately to an up per floor office and remained until 3:28 p. m. As he came down to re-enter his automobile in the Pentagon garage, Mr. Truman said sim ply, "No comment" to the press association reporters wno were permitted lo make the trip with him. suit of ine OP A ceiling slapped on the three operators, making any profit impossible. It boils down to the simple law of economics in the opinion of the slaughterer. - - Unprecedented Lack Although the pinch has been felt throughout the nation as a whole, it is Just now penetrat ing the Klamath' basin which is in the heart of a meat produc ing area: For the housewife to walk into , her favorite- butcher shop . and find. fish and- a small amount of hamburger and per haps, some cull veal, is a con dition never before felt in Klam ath county. . " Without, a doubt Klamath dealers are now facing; their most - critical operation which, they maintain, has long been difficult under wartime re strictions placed on the small operator as well as the large. Bratton Packing plant,: oper ated by George W.-Bratton on the Ashland highway, was one example of the federal inspect ed plant which has little on hand to offer the middle man. . Quota Depleted - The month's quota at Brat ton's is depleted. A heavy demand the first of April was greater than the al lowable kill based on a compar able period one year ago, Brat ton explained. When questioned-as. to the-war food admin istration's consideration of an in crease in consumption : here, Bratton said that to his knowl edge, WFA had not considered this problem at all. . Feeders of hogs and cattle, main meat items on' the Amer ican table, have been put out of business not 'only locally but all over the United States,- pack- Japanese Woman Commits Suicide NEWELL The death of Umcno Yamada, 44, wife of Yoichi -Yamada, 64, residents of the war relocation authority's Tulelake center here, was being investigated today. -. Mrs. Yamada, whose husband was not at home at the time, was found dying in her apart ment yesterday morning. A bot tle with a . "poison" label was nearby and Mrs.' Yamada left a note, written in Japanese, to her husband indicating she had taken her own life. An autopsy report was being awaited on the specific cause of death. Con tents of the note were not made known. t Governor Snell To Visit Posts ' Governor Snell will .visit Klamath's military Installations while here on. Monday for the annual meeting of the chamber of commerce. ' He Is scheduled for a full in spection of the Marine Barracks, where Colonel George O. Van Orden will be host. In the afternoon, he will pay a call to the Klamath naval air station where he will meet Commander R. R. Darron and view the facili ties there. The governor will be informed especially at the ' Marine Bar racks about the educational and training program . underway there, and will be given the pic ture of nhvsical re-conriftionine of hundreds of men at that in stitution. - - ers here state. They point out that the reason for-this is that the government pays more for the grain, which in reality is the meat maker the hay is the roughage than the grain pro ducer can realize by feeding to eitncr cattle or hogs. , Can't Afford Grain . No professional feeder, the man who makes a business of feeding stock, can afford to pur chase grain or concentrates at the1 present price and still pro duce meat, rnis is me Douet of all Klamath operators, ex pressed to The Herald and News this morning. In their opinion it is a -circle that goes DacK to the feeder and follows- through to the finished product and then starts ail over again. When asked for a solution to the problem, Bratton had this to say: 'What I would like' to do, per sonally, is to increase the cost : (Continued on Page Two) Army to Release Men With 4 to 5 Years in Service WASHINGTON. ADril 25 UP) The army plans to start this sum mer releasing some men who will have been in uniform four to five years. , The release policy, which may preclude any marked out in draft calls after June 30, was disclosed in official but publicity-shy quarters today. The army yesterday, formally announced plans to honor discharge re quests of enlisted men 42 and over. By next month a considerable number of Uncle Sam's "emer gency soldiers" - will have spent five years in service. Vigorous recruiting began, in May, 1940, and selective service began drafting in November of that year. The policy of discharging vet erans of four and five years' service is expected to get un derway around mid-year, even should German resistance per sist. . . Red Circle n Berlin Completed By WILLIAM L. HYAW Associated Press War Editor Hitler's chalet at Berchtesgaden was blown to pieces today by a direct hit with a 12.000-pound earthquake bomb as Russian armies encircled Berlin and western armies stormed the outer ramparts of the Germans' Alpine redoubt area. The assault on Hitler's mountain nest atop Kehlstein moun tains and his storm trooper barracks nearby was carried out by British Laneastara as strong forces of American heavy bombers blasted the fuehrer's private rail lines leading to the area. A flight sergeant reported seeing two heavy bombs fall directly on the hideout. As this possible attempt en the German fuehrer's life was being carried out, soviet troops were storming to the Elbe river en a 22-mile front, according to the nasi high command, and two giant Russian armies besieging the burning capital completed its encirclement. The German radio at Hamburg reported the Russians had reached the center of Berlin and been checked there. Meanwhile, American troops stormed ahead toward Austria. The third army's tanks stabbed to within 18 miles of the border, reaching a point 79 miles north and slightly east of Berchtes-gaden. The western allies hurled the power of three armies against Gl S MENAGE SOUTH FLANK DN OKINAWA By LEONARD MILLIMAN . Associated Press Wax Editor In two of the most dogged bat tles of the Pacific war Yank in fantrymen today tightened their grasp on newly-won high ground irom wruch they threatened to crack the Japanese eastern flank on Okinawa island and the en emy s Baguio stronghold in the Philippines. . The dominating ground was taken yesterday while amphibi ous operations captured three is lets off Okinawa , and trapped the routed Nipponese garrison on Cebu island in the central Philippines. ; : ' . . - w .. . , FewGain Mad -; Limited gains or none at all were . made: on other Pacific fronts, British forces captured two- more oil cities in central Burma where they inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. Four Superforts out of a force of perhaps 150 failed to return from yesterday's demolition raid on. western Tokyo. Some para chuting airmen were strafed by Japanese pilots. B-29 crews had a busy day, shooting down 31 of nearly 80 persistent Interceptors, scoring numerous hits on the main buildings of the Hitachi aircraft engine plant and adding to the city's 2,100,000 "disaster victims." Tokyo radio said half of the capital's 35 wards have (Continued on Page Two) Socialist Comes Up From Well ZARAGOZA, Spain, April 25 () White-haired, deaf and nearly blind, 34-year-old Spanish socialist Marcelino Santabarbara has emerged from the bottom of the well in his back yard where he hid for nine years from Fran co's police. When nationalist forces cap tured Zaragoza on July is, 1936, Marcelino's family drew all the water out of the well and installed a small room at the bottom. ' The socialist then began his long vigil, fed and cared for by his parents. When informed of the govern ment's decision to liquidate the tribunal of political responsibili ties and political charges grow ing out of the Civil war, Marce lino came up out of his well and gave himself up to the police. The police declined to make any statement. ' Nazis Use Express Trains, Bob Up Behind Russians Fighting to Berlin's Heart the outer ramparts of the Bavar ian redoubt. The American seventh army launched a drive apparently aimed at encircling Munich, reaching a point 67 miles southwest of the greatest south German cities, as other seventh army troops drove with in 46 miles of the nazis' south ern capital on the north. The Elbe was reached by the Russians northwest of Dresden in an area near where mighty American forces were awaiting the historic link that would sever the reich. Inside the inferno that Is Ber lin, a fantastic battle of the sub ways raged. Last-ditch nazi de fenses were pounded mercilessly by soviet guns. Swinging down from the north in the vast encircling movement, the Russians by German account took Ketzin and cut the last railway escape route. South west of the capital soviet forces virtually sheared Potsdam from Berlin, the nazi . high command indicated. - . - ... - i American armies captured at least 12, German, generals, yes terday. A- supreme headquar ters statement said . that "the German army has : ceased to exist as -an -integrated -fighting force." , . - As the Germans continued to insist that Hitler was inside Ber lin, directing the last-ditch bat tie, and as Propaganda Minister' Goebbels promised that rein forcements were on the way, the first White Russian and first Ukrainian armies all but isolated the sprawling capital. Russian artillery was reducing the proud city to ashes and rubble. . Allies Cross Po To Pursue Nazis ROME, April 25 (ff) Both the British eighth and U. S. fifth armies sent -troops across the Po river today in pursuit of disor ganized German forces reeling back toward Italy's northern border. . The ' crack 10th 'American mountain division won the first allied . foothold beyond the bar rier stream Monday morning in the face of what a communique called a "remarkably fierce" concentration of enemy fire. Larry Burgess Killed in Action Cpl. Lawrence "Larry" Bur gess, 22, has been reported killed while on duty April 7, with Gen. Patton's 3rd army in Germany. His mother, Mrs. Molly Burgess, 204 South 5th, was notified April 19. Cpl. Burgess finished his last year of high school here, gradu ating from KUHS in 1940. He moved here from Kansas with his mother six years ago and was employed by the U. S. forest service before entering the serv ice in July, 1943. , - Larry has been overseas for one year and two months, and had been transferred to radio communications just two months ago. Surviving are his mother, on brother, Sgt. Bill Burgess with Patton's 3rd army overseas, his father, L. G. Burgess of Kansas, and numerous aunts and uncles. By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, April 25 (P) A fantastic battle surged through the subways beneath Berlin's rubble-strewn streets today as Russian forces fought to crush fanatical nazi troops using the underground network to stage surprise attacks on soviet com munication. Eye-witness accounts sent by Russian correspondents' from the German capital said nazi soldiers, rushing from station to station In express trains, were constantly popping up at unex pected spots behind red army troops fighting their way toward the center of the city. These and other reports of the struggle raging inside Ber lin suggested the Germans might succeed in making a long de fense of their capital. "Peculiar" Battle A Red Star correspondent, de scribing the strategic use to which the Germans were putting the Berlin subways, declared the battle for the city was assuming a "peculiar character." "It is difficult to define," he wrote. "Firing is going on . ud ahead and then there are unex pected battles in the compara tively deep rear. . "The Germans have trans ferred from the center of Berlin through the subways many fresh units. They crawl from the sub way - stations, bringing field pieces with them. The streets aro again under fire. "We have to wipe them out or drive them ' back into the tun nels, otherwise they would spread over many blocks and seriously threaten our commun ications." Fierce Fiahtino The Red Star correspondent told of a fierce hour-long Dattie around one station where the nazis suddenly appeared in an area from which they previous ly had been cleared. ' Russian tanks and artillery fi (Continued on Page Two) Killed -I f ' i 1 U ! ! rs-w H'-f : ' " i ' SC f-'f , h j ' L ' ' , ' Cpl Larry Burgess t
