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Newspaper Page TextiT hi mmm mm SI ffrato arietta BSSl'KK, I W . . . normal iu.uj umn yui ,2a j i,, y y I ( Forecast: Warmer Friday, showers, I -m rwia a:, , n . ht m a I m nv. siiflMa sancuae onuvvmnu. - : UHII Tiinnnn -, i n in a i 1 1 1 1 1 1 ui Numb-rio4so iiim inuurj l'los.n. IE " "i fiermuny. Th irouno ' , cmc: n If lit is IkVM . l"C but .""", r0 , .1 Tho fighting l" m,'' , n Iho hwrt of , tho rn 111 I ,, builnrM. "irtolliiht , P'1.'' loud speaker PIE run of German;. ii W " A " 'o'd fc Hicii Nazi orTiciAw. Cr. of . to a fierce de- ,e0f the cnpHnl. . i,..iiiwpri to be 'Hi million Oorma.. troon. lj. Vh city. How many cm.- -ul .- - . uhi ii nap- OTlh m,lt known., fcCORDINO to tlo jHspolch- m.M"u" ...n... l,.tufn III imr pniy - ,i.,wn fcur !lnf wiir c "m.'ir.i .... Mtv. ftl Wl. the Russian. f'cUd..-. 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" ' itrmans only narrow, wina- ran Bnrf hiimiifnv rniTiei tA Hin umII Amn fin lhfiil fv, clogged roods i lot of win m nougnterea oy pur : . ... WEVER shrewd the orlR. Pnal nazl plana for the BB' n nooubt may have , been hounls to little more NOW an absurdly usoless last by broken, hopeless norm who know that tholr lives lotlelt anyway and might ns ae iom as dcariv as mnv do pa oi given away.i -, Is reasonably apparent that J nil-stand area, aa orlgl planned by tho master to of the nazl gang, ' was vc included nil of BnvBrla, ui nurtcmpurit (south Uor- iiaics), Bohemia, Moravia, Ma, Hunenrv. A n I r 1 a. j Yugoslavia and north- i' would have been a more economically Independent . ' W lh mlnni.nl 4rnll lllural areas and some at! ('most important Indus districts the vast Skoda DlanU ni nn.A nH u. n ilovil, 1VI iUCll I Snlf.nnnlnln. ... ""''soncd by the remnants ""nys oest troops and " by alavc labor, the nazls tiavn hnM n - , L , uui iui n iuna IM caused a lot of trouble. Ihc allies were too' much "k nnzi master-minders. Inn l)i,u. i Plains of Hungary, Eu .wad basket, and. bat ilicir wny past the fort- Of BllHn.inii J Tfl ""'Amerirnns leaped the Ncmburg',U",in..B',V,,rJa . wowing the valloy. of K' Wo and tlle Russians lii,. ft J,n forces and ,"25 ''Hmnortant war.Jn- Is Tl UBlrla Bna -zocho-I- the rcdnnhi i. WuI to nightmare. ine Mn..i ... ' . '!"""' ' wi aesi the PHclt CoRsl) and ff"' ipoa-barron, n- Rem- i rouna us b'h.' tl. dls- tout ,."' .aEP 80W PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2B. 1945 Reds May Seek Quick Approval Of 3 -Vote Bid By JOHN M. HIQHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO. April 28 (!') Th. UnlUd Nations h.ld thtlr ilrat buslntss confaranc today with th prospect that Rus sia would stk a quick, acceptance of her bid for thra votes In proposed world assambly, Th chlaf delegates of th 46 nations which would become 41 II th soviet proposal wins approval as expected gathered In a conference room on th second floor of th War Veterans Memorial building. Taciturn Foreign Commissar Molotov of th soviet union was first oi th Big Four to arrive, gatting to th building 10 minules ahead of th scheduled moling time (10:30 a. m PWT). Secretary of Stat Btettlnlus itrod Into th Heavily guarded building about five minutes later, and Britain's Anthony Edn and Foreign Minister T. V boong of China followed in a KLAMATH IA I SHORTAGEMAY BE RELIEVED - Ro-opening of the Klamath Packing company plant on the Midland road Friday, indicated to Klamath housewives today that after next week the meat shortage ma bo alleviated. Frank Lowell and Bch Bur thel, operators of tho plant, wero prepared to slaughter their first beeves tomorrow. Next week's supply will . be slim, Lowell said, but after thnt time ample meat should be avollable for nn indefinite period. Lowell said today that "the war food administration had been very, fair In issuing him a quota large enough to supply Klamath needs for an extended lime." Tha packer's quota, will be around 300 bead of cattle cacji month and today two carloads of baef and'Veal' iwcro en route from Orldley, Calif., for Friday's kill. Lowell said he was not prepared to slaughter hogs and as yot no arrangement has been made to handle lambs, but at the moment ho was more Inter ested in supplying the' beef market,. Klamath Packing company's quota Is based on the old quota of 1841. Due to Lowell's mili tary service,' the quota was kept alive and re-Issued when he re turned to business. Lowell has returned from service in the Seabccs, and Barthel from the army. Barthel was foreman for Lowell on tho killing floor of the Klamath Pack ibefore both men Went into the armed forces. -'The plant was destroyed by fire severnl years ago but has now been rebuilt .into a modern concrete and tlle structure. The plant will also custom kill and cure, it. was announced. Grew Confers on Red Communique 'WASHINGTON, April 28 (IP) Soviet Chargo d' Affaires Niko lai Novikov today called' at the stato department with a diplo matic communication nnd Act ing Secretary of State Orcw con ferred . Immediately afterward with President Truman. s The ' circumstances suggested that Premier Stalin had sent a message to tho president con cerning Big Three Issues up for action at San Francisco. ' matter of minutes. Soong's arrival occasioned comment among spectators for it, was reported throughout con ference circles today that the Chinese had decided to stand with tho United States delega tion on all important issues. . Soong to Speak Soong Is one of those address ing the full-dress session of the conference later today, starting the program of speech-making which will lead through Molo tov and Eden to all. the chief executives. Handling of the three-vote con trovcry was viewed with deep Interest by conference delegates looking for a clue on how long the historic meeting will lust. There was evidence that, un der big-power pressure to mini mize controversy, the issues which threatened to keep the delegates here for more than a month were fast fading away. Molotov Key Man Molotov is a central figure of the conference in more ways than one. Many decisions de pended on what he will do and he was the most sought; after by crowds of the curious.. Molotov notified' delegation chiefs yesterday Hhat tho UireCv vote proposal would be present ed lo today's meeting. ' The specific proposal is that the Ukrainian and White Bin. Lslnn soviet republics should get cunicronco scais a n o become thereby charter members of the assembly of the proposed world organization. Missing 1 4T V, Hiwsssa mm th UntUd Statti marine corpi hat baan raportad mining in ac- -a fwA, lima iinrrtlnfff to uvn wi w M www word received from th war d- . . . , , ,i u Sarimani oy ni momr, ...i. v..il. -i 7 Plumi In Klamath Falls. Enoul Is 19 yars old. This is th second tlm h has sn-actlv ovrsas duty. FACTS FIB KF ' The Irrefutable facts favor the Klamath Falls route, from Eugene to Weed, as the main through highway to be designat ed by the highway commission before July. 1. That was the com ment today by Tom B. Walters, chairman of the highway com mittee of the chamber of com merce. In reference to reports from Mcdford of an attempt by communities along No. 01) (the Pacific highway) In southern Oregon to obtain the Interstate designation for that route. ' Wattors indicated that the lo cal chamber and his committee have already gathered a large amount of factual material in support of the Klamath designa tion, and that no grass will grow under the committee's feet in seeing that the gathered infor mation is properly presented and recognized. ; Proposed Plan : Highway Commissioner Ar thur Schaupp proposed at the last highway commission meet ing that the ' Klamath designa tion be made. The federal high way act calling for 40,000 miles ' (Continued on Page Two) : Sgf. John Adams Killed in Action ' Word has been received from the war department that Sgt. John Wayno Adams was killed in action In Germany on March 28. Sgt. Adams was a radio technician with tho 7th armored division, ' He was inducted into service on May 10, 1942, while living in Sprogue River, where he was employed by the Crater Lake Lumber and Box company. He received his training at Fort Knox. Kv.. and Fort BcnninB. Ga., and has been overseas for one year. The soldier was born In Red laifds, Calif,, on January 13. 1013. He is survived by his wife, Violet,' and 20-month-old son, Richard Wayne. ; He was the son-in-law of Mr. a n d Mrs. William Tompkins, former residents of Klamath Falls and Sprague River, now living fp Vancouver, Wash. Mrs. Adams and- her young son live with her parents in the north ern city. ' Fifth Army Wins Verona; British Capture Bremen x 1; i : - -, THIRD CLOSES TO Mill MILES OF LINE PATRIOTS m CONTROL OF UOR CITIES By Th Associated Press ROME, April 26 Fifth army troops captured Verona this morning and breached the for midable Adigc river barrier at the base of the Alps as Italian radio broadcasts announced that patriots were seizing control of all major cities in northern Italy. Capture of Verona severed the last major railway line lead ing out of northwestern Italy to Germany and placed tho allies on the, approaches to the Bren ner Pass. The city is 100 miles from the German frontier and 100 miles from French ond American forces fighting in southern Germany toward the Tyrol. Mussolini. Fl ' Mussolini was reported in flight as the northern Italian offensive swept onward against confused and disorganized re sistance. Two-thirds of the ' German army which faced the allies in Italy' at the beginning of 'the current offensive was estimated to have been destroyed. .From Milan, -B' station identi fying itself as being operated by patriots, feported that,.; Benito Mussolini had' olfered to'sur-rauUer-Ui-tty- to thr committee . (Continued on Pago Two) Cheerful Conferees stall 1 1 mi l-i.s i iiTr 1 -iK rWSWltWWNlSflH Four measures wlll .be placed on the ballot for the city in the special election to be held June 22. The first deals with the annex ation of territory to the city, and reads: "Shall the boundaries of the city be changed and the char ter thereof amended, by adding thereto that certam territory sit uated in the vicinity of S. 6th?" This measure involves an an nexation proposal placed on the ballot last fall which failed to carry because of a misunder standing by the people living in tne territory in question regard ing proper registration. Charter Chang The' second measure pertains to a repeal of a section of the charter and states: "Shall section 64 of the charter of the city of Klamath Falls which pertains to the filling of vacancies in the of fice of councilman and other clectivo offices be repealed, thereby allowing such vacancies to be filled as provided by the statutes of the state of Oregon?" The third measure to be placed on the ballot deals with the proposed new county-city jail. It reads: "Shall a mlllage assessment be placed upon the ballot to raise the city's portion of the construction of a new county-city jail?" U Mi)ls Assessment The assessment proposed ' is 11 mills for a period of three years which. approximates $36, 000. , The fourth and final measure pertains to the proposed sewage project. It reads: "Shall one mill be levied for two years ap proximating $10,200 to raise the city's participation in a sewage project to relieve our present system, which is overloaded, and which will be financed 90 per cent oy me leaerai govern memr" ' Good humor glows upon th face of Rep. Sol Bloom, of New York, and HRH Amir Faisal Ibn Abdul Asis, Saudi Arabia minis tar of foreign affairs (left). Th two UNCIO delegates met in a San Francisco hotel. . Jap Defenses on Okinawa Smashed; B-29s Hit Isle !::' i; - By LEONARD MIXLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Notable infantry - gains on three . Pacific -, battlefronts, in cluding the smashing of the first Japanese defense ' line on southern Okinawa were report ed today as Supcrforts bombed the Japanese . home island of Shikoku for the' first' time. The U: S. ; 24th corps breakthrough"- on Okinawa, 325 miles south of ; Japan,; was no, sweep ing advance. But it was general along-the-entire line-and gave Yanks control of the skyune stretching across the island and overlooking the secondary de fenses before the capital city of Naha. -' ' . .- . '. ' " 40.000 Japs Left A third of the Japanese gar rison has been killed, leaving perhaps 40,000 to be eliminated before the battle is. won. Adm. Chester. W. Nimitz an nounced 21,269 . enemy soldiers have been killed in the Oki nawa operation,- including more than a dozen neighboring islands. Comparable. American casual nc in three fewer days of fighting, - were. 7424,. including 146 dead,; 296 missing and 5982 wounded. The comparison ex cludes 4700 American naval cas ualties, including 989 dead, and unostimated but - probably far higher Nipponese naval losses. - ' Vigan Captured Filipino guerrillas topped re ports from the southwest Pa- Goering Sick, Resigns Post T.nivrnON" Anril 28 P) The Hamburg radio said tonight that Reichsminister Hermann Goer ing was ill of heart trouble and that his resignation as com mander of he German air force had been accepted by Adolf Hit ler. The broadcast, which de scribed Goering's condition as "acute," said Hitler had appoint ed Gem Ritter von Grein to command of the' Luftwaffe and promoted him to the rank of field marshal general. The radio account said Goer ing had been suffering from heart trouble for some time. No Meat, Little Fish Here That's Just fine and dandy if you like fish! Bare meat counters have sent many a housewife scurrying to the fish market these past few days but even there a dis appointing situation exists, It's . between . seasons and little frozen stuff is available and the fresh, fish isn't-due until around May 1. Lucky tho family whose brtad winner is also proficient with the rod and reel, providing, of course, that he. comes home with a full creel of trout. At second best he can nigger fish for mullet in Upper Klamath lake. Tomorrow, Friday, Is fish day. Here's what's on hand. Some skinned sole, some frozen salmon, .Hng and black cod, lots of oysters, and a few crabs. Several' merchants today re ceived generous allowances of crab meat,. There Isn't any halibut. ' '. ' . , But armed with a can opener-these's always California sardines, tuna, salmon, and even: codfish' balls.. Just, invite your; friends over to tear a herring. You probably haven't enough red points for a roast,' anyway. cific with the capture of Vigon, its' airfield, and nearby Baritay on northwestern Luzon. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported the guerrillas, supported by1" Amer ican air forces, have virtually mopped up Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte provinces. Vigan, an orig inal Japanese invasion point, is 80 miles north of the low bitter Baguio front. The U. S. 33rd di vision pushed to within 2000 yards of- this battered, but still strongly defended enemy headquarters. In the southern islands 1 the 24th division swept 16 miles down highway number one on Mindanao to within 45 air miles of Davao, their goal and site. of Japan s greatest pre-war colony in the Philippines. Committee Okays Training Clause WASHINGTON, April 26 (?) The house military committee agreed today to a Senate ban on sending 18-year-old draftees in to combat -without at least six months'- training. The action was taken in execu tive session, but some members said the vote to concur with the amendment to legislation extend ing the selective service act was unanimous. The war department opposed the restriction. It was attached to a measure extending the draft law to May 15, 1946, or to the end of the war,' whichever comes first. Hitler's Dummy To Die in Berlin Stockholm; April 26 w) The Free German Press service said today a . carefully coached former grocer resembling Adolf Hitler had been sent to Berlin in the fuehrer's place "to die on the barricades." "He will act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend around the fuehrer's death while Hitler himself goes ; under ground," the agency said. It said the stand-in was Aug ust Wilhclm Bartholdy, a one time grocer in Plauen, and that he had been specially trained to speak like Hitler in a long asso ciation with the fuehrer at Berchtcsgaden, " ' PARIS, April .26 (if) The British second army .captured Bremen -today, clearing all the great port except the dock area and Burger park north of the center of the city. .-. ; Far to the south, the Amer ican third army closed within 11 miles of Austria and 41 of Munich. - Gen. - Patton's tanks were within 100 miles of a junc tion with the Russians west of Vienna, a union which would encircle Czechoslovakia and cre ate a pocket larger than the Ruhr. Opposition Stiffens ' The third army was last re- ported 72 miles from . Hitler's roost at Uerchtesgaden.-.but en countering harder opposition at ine iringe oi tne r Alpine . re doubt. .. . Russian shells jell near :riinth army positions on the Elbe northwest of Berlin,; hinting- an imminent junction.: . The British, lowland (52nd) ana iron tnira divisions cap- iurea ouuu uermans -since en tering Bremen-yesterday. Rigid opposition - gave - -way -suddenly ana almost disappeared by mid afternoon, i. -. . ; -: '': -i The worst obstaclcJ 'ln--Brem-""(CoTitiniiea 'on page Two) Nazi Resistance In ,. Berlin Reported .Weakening CHALET BOMBIIUG By RICHARD KASISCHKE LONDON. April 28 (Pi Mar- shal K. K. Rokossovsky's second White Russian army captured the port of Stettin today as other soviet forces battled in the cen ter of Berlin and, by German account drove to within 14s miles of American positions on the west bank of the Elbe. Stettin, (383,000) on the Oder estuary 70 miles northeast of Berlin, was the main port of the encircled reich capital. Moscow said the Russians advanced 19 miles beyond the river. Capture Bruenn Russian troops have captured Bruenn, German armament cen ter in the middle of Czechoslo vakia, Premier Marshal Stalin announced tonight. The capture of Bruenn, the capital of Moravia, represented a deep drive into German der fenses. The Russians now men aced the Moravian valley and the . Moravian gap from the rear. Premier Marshal Stalin's or der tonight announcing the fall of Stettin was the first soviet confirmation of German reports ; that ; Rokossovsky had moved his army westward onto the Qder. It also was the first Mos cow disclosure that the Russians had crossed the lower Oder in the, -Stettin area. " ; Under Sieg ' Stettin has been under siege for several weeks. Stalin's an nouncement Said Rokossovsky's forces had crossed both the east ern and western Oder south of Stettin and broken through pow erfully - fortified 1 German de fenses on tne , west name. i Stettin's fall laid open the en tire Baltic coast for continued at tacks by Rokossovsky in the di rection of Kiel. A- -late Moscow dispatch re- oorted that German resistance tn flaming-Berlin was weaken ing. ' - ". " '.The German high command announced that a soviet wing west of Berlin had driven to Raihenow, 141 miles from American positions on tne west bank of the Elbe. V , By HENRY-B. JAMESON LONDON, April 28 (IP) Italy -based - RAF -Liberators struck the German redoubt city oi r reuasstng- last nignt in an explosive followup to the. his toric bombardment of Hitler's eagle nest refuge and his chalet near Berchtesgaden; American and British airmen were jubilant over the coordi nated strike at Hitler's hideouts yesterday. The sumptuous chalet was destroyed by ;a direct hit from a six-ton bomb. Heavy, deep-penetrating explosives were hurled upon his Kehlstein mountain fortress with unan nounced results. Junction Town ' " Freilassing is a road and rail way junction 13 miles due north of Berchtesgaden, which itself is now only 72 miles ahead of American ground- troops and a few miles more from Russian vanguards. - It was disclosed today that 350 RAF Lancasters were used in the strike at Hitler's proper ties, rather than 200- as origin ally reported. They were escort ed by both American and Brit ish fighters. Heavy bombers of the U. S. eighth and 15th en forces threw nazl ' defenses off guard .with attacks upon- com munications - all around Berch tesgaden. . : Planet Lost - Two RAF planes were lost. Sixteen eighth air force bomb ers, iiiuiuuuiK several in an at tack Upon the Skoda armament (continued on rage xwo; Motor Fuel From Fir Waste Seen CORVALLIS, Ore., April 26 (P) A- high grade anti-knock motor fuel may emergej from the-waste of Douglas fir saw--mills, three Oregon State college research men predicted today. fcnglish cnemists lound tnai cracking Douglas fir tar pro duced a high grade fuel, three members -of the Oregon . forest products laboratory here report ed. The yield reported by the chemists would if applied to the northwest's annual Douglas fir waste yield 25,000,000 gal lons a' year. : The three men Paul . G. Schrader. Bert E. Christensen and Lep Friedman are study ing the process to determine whether it is commercially feas ible. ; - ' Herriot Freed From Nazi Camp LONDON, April ' 26 " (IP) Edouard Herriot, three times premier of France and a per sistent opponent of Vichy colla boration policies, has been freed from a German concentration camp by the Russians. A Moscow communique ' an- nounced last nieht that he had been found at a camp west of Berlin. It gave no details. Petain Returns As Prisoner f VALLORBE, Switzerland, April 26 (jP) Marshal Petain, hero of Verdun in the first . World war and chief of state in the. days of Vichy, returned to his own country tonight a pris oner. , Andre Mornet, procureur of the high court who will prose--cute Marshal Petain on charges of treason, said today in Paris "Petain deserves death for his politics" but he would ask clem ency for the aged military leader. Less Meat for More Points Due for Civilians in May WASHINGTON. April 26 (P) Civilians will get even less meat next month and they'll nave to give up. red points for all kinds except mutton. In addition, margarine ana most cheeses will cost more points, as will some meats. Announcing new point values today, OPA csttmated that. 99a per cent of the available meat supply will require ' ration points. This compares with 941 per cent now. . Mutton Point-Fr The action leaves only about 5,000,000 pounds of mutton on a point-free basis. On a weekly basis, the total supply of all meats available for civilians during the May ra tioning period beginning Sunday and ending June 2 will be about 21 per cent less than at present. Less Beef on Mark! OPA predicted supplies of veal, lamb, mutton and pork will be a shade larger but said civil- lans win get a,uuu,uuu pouncu less beef than in April. . These facts were given the public today as the senate food investigating - committee pre pared to resume its interrupted meat inquiry by using Washing. ton as a sample city for a farm-to-dinner table checkup, . ; Margarine Up Margarine will cost 12 points a pound instead of 8; so will all cheeses classified in group 1 r such as cheddar, swiss and brick. Changes in meat values In clude increases of from 1 to 2 points a pound for most cuts of all erades of lamb and veal, in creases of a point a pound on most beef steaks, decreases of 1 to 2 points on beef roasts and other beef cuts. . Utility grades of veal and lamb will carry the same point values as the higher grades. . s - K P. V