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-Wr "v S L J A r-N rv n n it n n n n nn x-"x rrn n n i i rUyU mou OWla will ul Eleich Sliced I i fw Tfte ShaHlH-CaHeade Wonderland y vjcflvTcENTB 2 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL 27, "l845 . Number 10481 , OTHER TOWNS Vul". j n-,., n Amnrl- Wfin! Stan armies Join. L" J Bcrn, somewhere east hLh. Elbe another Junction Is nmuibo valley, which the nil Bavarian- ruV from the Krcitl armament Li. that hsd l"C" rc'icu ViJ' inpli tl' liolctl-up last-stand-WP ' ....i nm inn n Hon. rB .o"r the ii. riming UP to - meet V h.i artillerymen are lir rm... r.JE , c enre lest they ffi end hit lr np- (niching allies. S of the All". In Italy'! 1U" ..' n.nj mve been ri' rm their last defonsos L ire In full ami apparent y Krdcrly retreat. We iive Ink r.,n. culling tho.gr eat ,i lint rsllrond that lends oy v o the Brenner pass Into the lnr fastnesses or mo musum, t'l. to the fleeing enemy i rrnW. congested h I K n J. .-J hraneh rail lines as Epe routes back Into the gang- ir rtnawvuu.. Tho surviving our bombing V.ii.ri unit shaken when U teach tho Innor. den. r . j HE blood stained structure of it.. i n.w order In Europe npldly crumbling Into ruin. kro-thlrdj of Berlin la al Ifa in Russian hand. Soviet IrilrhM describe tho city aa a JlidemeM of crumbling atone lest by hot wind! irom inc jrnti of burning buildings." ISHl'inii ocii'iiviwio Ill fighting to tho last, with III (fuirtcr asked or given. l': was written long - ago: nose mat live oy inn nwmu ill perish by the swora. ' ' t lit first actual contact bo- Itween Americans and Rus lis were effected by advance boll sent out In Jeep by our It to clear the roads of tens of tunnds of Germans fleeing ilwird to surrender to the trlcins before .the Rumlans I them. " ' f hey .brought tho Germans :k with them to our lines, in eelcbration that followed, a plan major said in an iin kmplu speech: "Wo extend fmtit congratulatlona on the miction of nanism, we hoie meeting will be the bnsls for ci In tho world to come.""- . hit doesn't sound like the ut- Ince of a bnrlinrlnn docs It? i honor of the Junction, Sta orders a soluta of 24 salvoes n 324 guns in Moscow and ws n order or tho day In Im ho snys: "Long llvo Hie .nunucd on Page Two) Potsdam, Rathenow Seized As Berlin Defenses Crack Br RICHARD KA8ISCHKE LONDON, April 27 (P) Klrsl White Russian army troops have captured Spandau on the west ern outskirts of flaming Berlin, Potsdam flvo miles outside the capital area, and Rathenow .13 miles to the west. Premier Marshal Stalin announced to night. Potsdam has been the head quarters of the German army since the days of Frederick the Great. Before the First. World war it was the home of tho Ger man royal family. In hi order of the day Stalin described tho three cities ss."lm portant road Junctions and pow erful German defense bases in central Germany." Berlin Dafansas Crack Inside Berlin the nazls' inner defenso core appeared to be cracking under a massive soviet Shell-Shocked 'Vet' of 13 Discovered in Medford MKDFOP.D. April 27 (IP) A 13-ycnr-old boy was charged with Impersonating a soldier to day after strolling through Med ford in a much-decorated uni form and being rushed to a hos pital for supposed shell shock. ' Tho boy was Identified by the Camp Whlto public relations of fice as a Roacburg youth, wanted by Juvenile-authorities there for purnln violation. When' army officers noticed him in a hotel, he was wearing an enlisted man's uniform wish six campaign ribbons and had four cents in his pocket. He told questioners, the Camp White of ficials said, that ho had lost his identification tags and been shell shocked at Corsica. He was rushed to a hospital. Eventually, said the public rela tions office, he told the provost marshal that ho had been visit ing his uncle, an overseas vet eran, and couldn't resist the temptation to take his uncle's uniform. He hitch-hiked here Tuesday, after a visit with his uncle and grandparents at Canyonvillc. Commissar M o lo t ov Accepts Compromise On Leadership Plan Bv JOHN M. HIGHTOWER 8AN FRANCISCO, April 27 tP) Foreign Commissar Molotov today acceptad a British compromise on Big-Four leadership of the Unitad Nations conference after blocking it for 24 hours. Under the compromise, chairmanship of full sessions of the confvrence will rotate among the Big Four, but Secretary of State Stettiinus gets the coveted leadership of the powerful steering and executive committees. In dramatic address to the chiefa of the 48 delegations as sembled here, Russia's Molotov said he withdrew his earlier ob jections in the Interest of international harmony. - There were reports that both Premier Stalin and President Truman approved the arrangements. Agreement was accomplished In a relatively swift session of the steering committee which also set up a 14-member executive committee to run tha conference machinery. Originally this had been designed as an 11 -member group the same number of na- niiMia n...iuH ...uul i j lions as wouio DW on ins propoiaa worm svcuriiy- council, oui squeeie operation which already ,,, countries, including Australia, protested violently at be- ing leit off the original 11-member. executive committee. Behind the scenes difficulties two- had gained the Russians thirds of the capital. . Potsdam (136,185) is on the broad Havel . river. Often de scribed as the "Prussian Ver sailles," tho city also was a man ufacturing center beforo . the present war, Its factories supply chemicals, 'surgical Instruments, furniture, soap, . tobacco and other products. ' Berlin Wrecked Russlnn dispatches described the center of Berlin as a desert of wrecked buildings. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov'a forces in tho northwest, sector surged forward throo miles dur inr the night, breaking into tho workers' district of Moabit and tho fringes of the famed 'Tier garten in tho center of the flam ing capital. ........ The first White Russian army's advance from industrial Sicmanstarit, captured ' yester day, was disclosed In front dis patches broadcast by the Mos cow 'radio. It was complemented by gains in the south by Marshal Ivan S. Koncv's first Ukrainian army, which was believed to havo com pleted the occupation of Berlin's main airport at Templehof. Iminaiion of Sun Mount ?rode Planned for Postwar lelocallon of The Dalles-Call- " niRnway from Beaver to Lhlloquln, eliminating Miouniam or-nrin wna an. ted today as a part of the t .. j wiiiiiiiiu,i a Hon program for tho first r scan alter the war ends. '""?'ca cost of this Job is MOO. Distance of tho re W section will bo 46 miles. Mf a dlstnnco saving of wucn compared wltn . . mc Bna avoiding mountain. Fveys for the project were it fiu ' , y?R" J1"0: r- . Kreni inrnnor. trnvnl nlRhWnv (Nn nn it- S. to Aid lJJ 1 details ot its $36,000, L.8iy' Pointing out that b in Kovornmcnt will fl- nl . 1 ,m,,-'"--h a num- lnr i-';,." uirec' iar (aih Z "-.""natn Falls and '" founty. j J'utlo reconstruction '.ymamctte highway In snH i uc'wocn Pleasant id Lowell.- The Willam- tl 5!?. ' ."'5 lath Van uc Dy WH' 01 lilh iallf- connecting No. hn near,P,,c" .C-M,8'1.way at CnthutlBal. ni' mmu rwaaeo- .- ,!"0 pleased llmt 717 nnn ocated for tho forestry . gS6"?, ectlon of -tho lth ilM '''Khway, another Cni, 6.7 thnt shortens in? h bctwn here and .in. Dv Way of BenH nnH The Dalle $603,000 for Jhc Madras-Crooked river section. A total ' of $300,000 is set nsido for more work on tho Klamath Falls-Lakevlew high way, a major traffic carrier In (Continued on Page Two) ROME, April 27 W) Ameri can fifth army troops entered Genoa today. The historic north Italian port was reached in a swift Ameri can advanco as the whole Italian front surged forward toward a seal-off of the nazls' Alpine redoubt-from the south. Other Americana had pushed to within 35 miles or less of Mi lan, and on the British eighth army front, the enemy has been unable to break off contact with the pursuing Tommies sufficient ly to permit him to reorganize his scattered and demoralized forces,. V, In some sectors the Americans were meeting strong resistance, but on the whole, tho resistance has been slight, headquarters said. Genoa already had been par tially cleared by Italian partisan forces who rose up against the nazi garrison, - Parade Cancelled The parade previously scheduled at the Marine Bar racks for Saturday has been cancelled. Colonel George Van Ordcn, commanding officer, announced today. Conference Opens i . it- s. v t r-s . A k 1 I U " m. JI . t "'0 6 n.....i .i.w f S ah Francisco-opera house interior as' the plenary session of security eonf arena opans. Stettlnius i address Ing delegates. NEA telephoto. over the executive committee, it was learned, foreshadow . trou ble in setting up a security council. There was speculation that it also' might be expanded to more than.. X 1 . members, ml-. though the conference is far from a decision on' that point now." ... - Closed Meeting What went on in tho steering committee, mee t i n g . behind closed' doors,' was outlined by delegates as .follows: Eden offered a ' four-point plan: . 1. ' Chairmanship , of the full dress plenary sessions would be rotated among . the sponsoring powers. 2. These delegation chairmen would preside in alphabetical or der, thus giving China's T. V. Soong chairmanship of the first organized session. 3. These four presidents would meet periodically under the chairmanship of Stettlnius to map out the assembly's pro grams. 4. Stettlnius to preside over the all-important conference exe cutive and steering committees. To this Molotov asked two amendments: One suggesting that the four presidents be call ed together only when neces sary rather than' periodically; the second providing that Stet tlnius as chairman of the execu tive and, steering committees would exercise only nominal and honorary control. Molotov said Stcttinius should be allowed to decide only' minor questions of procedure and should be prevented from exer cising complete control of these committees' deliberations: Representatives of four na tions, particularly New Zea land's Frascr and China's Soong, aided . by spokesmen for the Philippines and Cuba, rose to answer Molotov and support Eden. . Both Fraser and Soong vigor ously asserted the Eden plan al ready offered enough conces sions to the Russians and that Molotov should be satisfied. Smarting under these four statements, Molotov arose and in a htshlv dramatic nddi-css. declared thnt Russia had always oeen devoted to the cause of col lective security and world peace, and that in the interests of har mony, and for the common good, he would withdraw his amendments. CITY BURNED BY JAPANESE; y, ADVANCE Negros Islands Again , Invaded by U. S. Troops By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Another Philippine city blazed today from fires set by Japanese incendiaries in the face of a new American invasion launch ed while Yanks on three other Pacific island battlefronts forged to within sight of their goals. British tank columns matched American gains by advancing through Burma at a pace that may put them in Rangoon with in three weeks. . Negros Invaded Latest American invasion was on the southern tip of Negros island, in the central PhiliD pines. Amphibious forces land ed yesterday, three miles from uumaguette. xnc Japanese gar rison immediately kindled fires and set off demolition charges in the red-roofed city they knew they could not hold. It was the second invasion of Negros. Fortieth division units - landed on the northwest coast a month ago.- , "''.' . Adm. Chester w. mmiiz ais closed Japanese are using pilot ed flying bombs, a logical de velopment of their Kamikaze suicide air corps, in efforts to halt the Okinawa invasion. His announcement coincided -with a raid by nearly. 150 .B-29s this morning on six Kyushu Island aic fields, .Kamikaze., bases, on southern Japan 325 miles north of Okinawa. . Gain On Okinawa ., For the second successive day the -U. S. 24th .corps made1 a general advance . through the hills and ridges of southern Okinawa, putting the Yanks within sight of Naha, capital of the southern Ryukyu islands. Two infantry columns, closing in on Baguio edged-, to within half a mile and a mile and a half respectively, of that bat tered enemy base on northern Luzon in the Philippines, near tag the climax of a three and a half months drive. , In the southern Philippines, a 24th division column "speared (Continued on Page Two) ' - . Word Received From Prisoner . T5,f T? nKorf 14 . Pnlpman. re ported missing January 16 in UUAC1IIUUU. B I ' I. . and mother here that he is "well and safe. The telegram was re ueivd this morning and Mrs. she believed he had been liber ated from a German prisoner 01 war camp. ' - An nffinlal tnlaffl-am fl-niYI tn war department had previously notified ner inai uoieman was held prisoner. He is the son of Mrs. Amos Pntemfin 517 TTnhanV: and worked here for Arrow Tran sit company Before entering the service. ' Draft Extension BUI Approved WASHINGTON. April 27 (VP) Legislation extending the draft law went to the White House to day after the house approved by unanimous voice' vote a senate restriction on combat use of 18- year-old inductees. . Tiie restriction, written- into the legislation Tuesday by the senate prohibits the use of draftees under 19 in combat un til they have had at least six months of training. Bullet Ends Life of Pet A bullet shot from a speeding car brought death to a beautiful pedigreed Irish setter, "Butchel," and, the owner, Arthur Anderson, has offered $100 reward for 'information leading to the arrest of the person who killed his pet. Irate, heartsick and fightin' mad over the death of his dog, Anderson said today that he would do anything in his power to locate the killer. ' A neighbor, William E. Marandcr, route 3, box 552, w witness to the cruel act which took the life of the 3-year-old setter. Marander said that ho was at his home on the Kcno road Wednesday night at about 9:30 when he saw a "dilapidat ed car" go by. He heart a shot which at first he thought was back-fire. Then he heard "Butchel" howling) and, running to the dog, found he was shot through the intestines. Marander rushed the pet to a dog hospital where the-veterinarian ad ministered three sulfa shots, but to no avail. "Butchel" died early Friday morning. . , ' - - Anderson,- employed at Cal-Ore., returned home shortly after "Butchel" died. He has offered $100 reward, in the hopes of apprehending the slayer of his pet for whom, he .said this morning, he "would have given his right arm." ' Junction IMecar Leipzig By AUSTIN BEALMEAR PARIS, April 27 (AP) Th American firsr army and the Russians hove joined In the heart of Germany near Leipzig, cutting the reich in two. Even as troops of Gen. Hodges and Marshal Ivan S. Konev solidified their junction at Torgau, Gen. Patton't American third army invaded Austria and established radio contact with the Russians west of Vienna in a swift maneuver which virtually encircled Czechoslo vakia and cut the Germans' vanishing hold in Europe into three great death traps. Americans and Russians joined hands yesterday. Their patrols had met the day before. Torgau, historic town of 14,000 where ancestors of the Russians met their western allies nearly two centuries ago in the Seven Yean war, lies 58 miles southwest of dying Berlin and 28 northeast of Leipzig. - The junction hopelessly outflanked the Saxony capital of Dresden and split German armies for reduction in detail. Maj. Gen. Emil Reinhardt'f fighting 69th division was the first to join the Russians. Both the northern and southern pockets were under violent and increasing assault. Three of Gen. Eisenhower's armies attacked the Bavarian redoubt, moving within 31 miles of Munich. Two allied armies were driving up from the- south past Verona and the Russians were closing in from the east. Junction Slices Germany run w fe ho3 GERMANY J5 ; ) 9fe,V ' . -POLAND : TSUINSir?ZW m ' ! 'J.. ' auuHiTxa JtfP ' m ' v. Il iiiif tf' ' . t i I sjsi iMi2w 4 3 - ' American troops mat Russian army units yesterday at Tprgau, historic German city, cutting tha reich into three pockets. To the north, British besieged Hamburg and Russians continued battling in Berlin. Anotner link-up between Americans . and Russians ws reported imminent at Tangarmuande. - Detective Magazines Blamed For Delinquency By Fluent Stick-up Girl in Jail Here By LOIS. STEWART -Tho "fascinating life" painted for juveniles in so-called detec tive magazines was blamed to day 'by 21-year-old Betty June Cook as the major cause of de linquency, and crime among young people of the country. The olrl -held in the county jail on a charge of assault with intern to tod, is wdiniis- v sw, before Circuit Judge David, R. Vandenberg next Monday for sentence after waiving prelimi nary hearing and grand, jury fol lowing her arrest last Tuesday morning., Knows nop Bettv June isn't the kind of a kid you'd write a sob-sister story about. She knows the ropes and learned them early. Since she was nine years old, she's been classed as a delinquent, and from then on she's been in nothing but trouble, trouble, trouble. Sure, sne aamittea, sne neia a gun on Augustus m. uauson, secondhand store dealer. She was broke and she wanted mon ey. She'd done it Detore. uown in San Bruno. - "Difference between me and other girls," Betty June said, "I needed money and that's the way I had to get it. I couldn't pros titute myself." Betty June's smart. : She has red hair on the mahogany shade, close cropped like a boy's. Her Stanley Ezell Freed By Allies - A telegram was received this morning by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ezell, 4709 Summers lane, from their son, Sgt. Stanley Ezell, army air corps, who has been a prisoner of the Germans since February 23, 1944. The tele gram read: "Well and safe. See you soon. Love to all." t He has been freed by the ad vancing allied armies from a nazl prison camp where he had been held since his Diane was shot down over Austria. He" served as a technical engineer on a B-29. eyes are deep chocolate brown and - she : has a sprinkle of freckles over her nose and cheek bones. She uses $10 words and uses them correctly. Her every day. English is not to be sniffed at. She admits she passed an IQ test with a rating of 110. Pretty good. :-'-' Rough' Life Was she passing on a "mes sage" through an uplifter? Not Betty June. But she said it was a rough life and confinement in a half dozen jails hasn't been too easy.- . . .. ... "The main, trouble is thisv Ju veniles read detective stories, (Cntinued on Page Two . Mussolini Said Taken in Custody BERN, April 27 (IP) Swiss border reports said today the Milan newspaper La Liberta re ported that Benito Mussolini, Alessandro Pavolini and Ro berto Farinacci had been taken' into custody by Italian customs officers at Nesso, on Lake Como. Pavolini has been serving as secretary of state in Mussolini's fiuppet fascist regime and Far nacci is a former fascist secre tary. -' - . (The Swiss radio announced in a broadcast recorded in Lon don that Mussolini, his wife and "eight other Italian officials" l had been refused , entry into Switzerland yesterday and turn ed BacK from the border. The northern pocket was un der violent assault from Rus? sians on the east and from the British, Canadian and American first and ninth armies on the south and west. The British ad vanced past captured Bremen in a drive to cut off Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. Ham burg was besieged. The Canad ians broke the Kusten canal . line and moved on smaller North sea ports. ,. The German com mand said the ninth army cross ed the lower Elbe on both sides of Tangermuende, where an other . junction with the 'Rus sians' Was imminent if it had not" already taken place. ' '. Joint Announcement The White House, the Krem lin -and Whitehall jointly an nounced the historic junction ot the-Iirst army and the Russian first "Ukraniari army group, led by .the tall, shaven-headed Konev who helped turn impending dis aster into victory at the gates of Moscow in the snow of De cember, 1941 just before Pearl Harbor. - , -The. end was not yet, but it was.; inevitably brought closer. The' -Germans still had 250 di visions, most of them under strength but many of them fight ing with the desperation of the doomed. Many were SS units. . t . Dramatic -Moment ...The meeting of the first army and the Russians in the heart of Germany was a dramatic mo ment. The armies had come from places half a world apart. ,: Except for the incredible fan aticism 'of the die-hard nazls last stand, the' meeting might have' ended the worst war that the world. has ever known,' . But though the fight went on and may last for weeks, it car ried the western and eastern al lies to the threshhold of sure and imminent victory. The two armies fought their way to the junction across the whole breadth of Europe 2200 airline miles from Stalingrad on the Volga and from the -Normandy coast on the Atlantic which Eisenhower invaded last June 6. . Wage Adjustment Demand Settled -A demand for wage - adjust ment for fallers and backers at the Pondosa logging camp of the McCloud River , Lumber com pany was settled by a com promise adjustment Wednesday. The dispute involved a wage in crease because of more difficult logging and timber conditions there. The entire logging crews of the Pondosa and Whitehorse camps did not go to work Mon day morning. . . A negotiation meeting between the . company and the IWA-CIO union, was held Wednesday night at McCloud and a settlement was reached re sulting in the employes agreeing" to return to work Friday morn ing. Some crews returned to work Thursday noon. M. C. Garst, commissioner of the United States conciliation service from Sacramento, partici pated in the negotiations. Chet Irving, secretary of the pine In dustrial relations committee here, represented the company at the meeting. Vernon Chase, president of the Klamath basin district council, IWA-CIO, and Joe Huber, international repre-s-ntative of the IWA-CIO repre sented the union. WEATHER April 27 Max. (April 26) 61 Mln..: 36 Precipitation- last 24 hours .. .00 Stream ytar to date 8.29 Normal ... 10.06 Last year . 7.25 Forecast! Slight change, clouds, Saturday. Pvt. Earl Tracy Killed in Action . Pvt. Earl H. Tracy, United States army infantry, was killed in action on Luzon on March 31, according to word received from the war department at Washing ton D. C, by his wife, Rose. Tracy was inducted into the army on June 7. 1944 while he was at Weed, Calif. He received all of his training at Camp Wel ters, Tex., prior to reporting for overseas duty. - Both Tracy and his wife are well known Klamath Falls resi dents, having lived here for sev eral vears . while he was em ployed at the Kalplne Plywood comnanv. , Surviving are his wife, who resides at 4834 Shasta way, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. u. a Tracy of Weed. " - ' ' Casualty IV. if If ft Pvt. Earl H. Ticy h
