Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, April 30, 1945, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Herald and news., April 30, 1945, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1945)

Page of 8 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.6 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 8 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page Text""""" " VrV" 471 eVNV Precipitation la.t 24 hour. .00 111 I" U if I" 111 1 1 111 i mm - tm .v- - Kiam . a a on . i nil n . in The Shunt - Canvude Wonderland r i - rZZ m weU-rn nlllfd heiid N?"mf.TrW this morning IT I iMllllllr. In Europe can 7,1 mg.il only mutter of . .i it 1FNKINS . rHAiin - llAZI Germany li fuMHW . MS h one-how s hay. 1 1"! N 'Kir 5K one of ho last B,n,b it . li ft on uio i'i''. "y; !ft$3y k"owi tlml thl war ...mrATIONS t Shiii-f (our Lirtori m. lilt ffe"1 ""ti'!i,lt"bS Our armies drive St at win li.arm..y. r. una i.HXiiwMivuni". K boring evn 11,0 Al' i. innn fi-rt UP In the E, A only 13 mllr. C Innubniek. where he win loo of Bcrchl.-i'U.Klt-n I self. FX.. . nrmii iirmy In llnly ,smc 25 divisions) him been torn r. The British lire Jihine .round the .upper end of cntlnf l'icm ,r01" lll bat'k nto the Aip' HE Russian, have squeezed ik. ni-rlln unrrlsoii Into un 5-Muarc-mlln pocket, nil Unit ,malns of Grenu-r ueriin . -i.u felHI mil". Il." ."' I Stlliniran nit.- -. ... oiln of Gcrmiin bod leu and sons of broken uIhm" i liquidate wind In left of It. . WSVU 01 Pllienir.-i itiiu ui-.ivi- ,oas li rnpuny wiuming. uuwn rcmaiiiiiiK ueiinuii iuiv.- fce. ... rllE air IS lull oi rumors nno ('r waiting nil n-lwlllcr Ir Iho moment of nctunl ur- tder. As to llini. we re nun ,,n. hark 111 1918. Villi! bio 8. (I 10 rasp the fundnnientiil id that this is n ctmerem Kino I war and n different kind of orld. Our realistic Hunting men nro rdcr no delusion.. Ignoring ho y the fog of rumor, tlicy It plllnj Into whnt little re- tilm ot the nnzi iignung nin line lo finish It off wlillo the Inlihlni li rood. TBey ll Aral Willi tnc rcmnnni. !r. at M.cArthur's men lire ilinj with the remnant.s of Iho ipj in the' Philippine.. " Twill help you to undcrstnitd me kind of wur this I. If you Jl rtod caYefully the .lory of Lr entrance inln the notorious u conccntrntlon eamn at pchau. where we llberalcd 30 fi thousand rellitlnus and pnllt M orlioncrs. We found 50 car. Wi of dead bodies, henved In ft dead pics niter n hog epl pic alonu with the now pndard torture chnnibcr.s. un. prder chamber, and cremator- tor disnoslnc snn tnrllv of bodies of the victims. me nazl mirnose buck of all li murder-by-mnchlnery wa tparcnlly to Ret rid of nil those v; couldn't convert to their rui locals. ALIAN pair bis entch and 'Iwol Mussolini at Como, nenr 3WIJS Bnrdf r nlnun u Ih 17 hi. faseint htm Jjller ihootlng him, they hung r. "J inc neei. nnct nngry lni broke through, the i'ioi guaras to spit on hi. body f w pisioia into it. He m o nave gone yellow nt the minute, and begged for his PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, APiL 30, 1845 Number 10453 Duce's Execution Touches off Purge OfFa scisi Heads MILAN. April 30 lI'i Tht axeculioh of Benito Mussolini touched off a purqo today of fascism', chief leader, which reached Marshal Hodolfo Graiianl who was reported to have been convicted and exocuted. In last melodramatic gesture before he died, Mussolini offered to buy hi. life with "an empire." the Milan communist newspaper reportod today In a stark Interview with 11 duce'. ex ecutioner. Mussolini', body swuno from it. heel, again.t the rutty steel ll?,m'w2.lk ?! hall llni.hed gasoline (tation In the center oi 3 , I. n "' y1" ojd former dictator, along with hi. mistress. Claretta Pelaccl, and 17 other fascist leaders, was shot to death by Italian patriot, at Guilano do Meascrgcre near Como Sat urday afternoon. Graziuni went on trial here thla morning, a icw hours after the .bodies of Mussolini and the other topflight fascist, were re moved from public display at the Piazza Lorcta where they were dumped from a van Sat-1 urday. Commanded Fascists It was reported unofficially nt national liberation commit tee headquarter., that Graziani had been convicted and execut ed. He was commander of the few troop, in northern Italy who had remained lo y a 1 to Mussolini. For 48 hours the people, of Milan jammed the Piazza and reviled the body of tiic one tlmo dictator as it lay with the head across the breast of his mistress. In his hand was a staff bearing (lie fascist em blem. Mistress Scream. The communist newspaper, describing Mussolini's last hours, Mid hi. mistress threw her arm. about 11 duce's neck at the last moment and screamed, "Ho must not, die." 'The . executioner who gave the account was described only ns . a member of Communist Garibaldi brigade No. 51. Governor Snell Inspects Troops At Marine Barracks Executed Benito Mussolini, former Ital ian dictator, wa. executed by hi. countrymen in an execution which touched off a purge of former fascist leaden. llWdl thai lm unc l,m,l nv w. ITALIANS. It Is better io shoot their own scum (Of ll urln hha rTirr-ctr f. ' 00 II. the Pnnlfln li.. .1- Pklnawn grind, on. We're "' iientlily nearer. to Nnha l't there yci " MH1W,UB' UUi fver -iho weekend, the Jups fi about 9nn i 1- 11 . fit i'iuiius in niTiuti forcp tmnn wnve Knlnst . ..v.v: rnpcL-iHiiy our E?,'re ot down by our Nim7i "u'l-nircrntt guns. BbIh ii " succecaca tmf some rinmnon In llrrhl ! our fleet " . . 111 In. ,11..- IHA H. ,," ""ii'iiiy ngmca ana SL"ve,bcon mistaken- offiy. hlp 9 Personnel. In made port CLt?5SSC!'.r!Port that other tiiEi, 1 lcncd the attnek Lal S1P. but only the By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Pre.. War Editor British armored force, set the pace In the Pacific war again today, rolling 26 miles through southern Burma to within 30 miles of Rangoon. Amoriciin infantrymen cap tured Bngulo. strongest Japan- Co redoubt in the Philippines: began closing in on Davao, most strongly held city remain ing to the enemy In the archi pelago, and seized the northern half of tho heavily mined Mn chlnuto airstrip in n slow but general advance on Okinawa, v Attack Shipping Tokyo radio reported Japan ese suicide planes wore attack ing American shipping off Oki nnwa this morning for the fourth successive day a. Supor forts raided their bases in southern Japan for the fifth straight day. Suicide plane attacks Friday and Saturday damaged the brightlv lighted American hos pital ship Comfort. Inflicting 03 (Continued on Page Two) Betty Cook Given 5-Year Sentence Stating that he hnd no other alternative, Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg this morning sentenced Betty June Cook, 21- year-old stick-up cirl, to five years in tho Oregon Stale pen Itontlnrv. The troiiser-clnd girl appeared before Judge Vandenberg in cir. cull court at 10 a. in. She ad mitted to serving more than three vcars In California In stitutions, including a sentence received on a slmllnr cnarge lodged against her here, assault armed with a dangerous weapon. The girl was arrested last Tues day by city police after she hold gun on Augustus i-inuson, Klamath avenue secondhand store dealer. Miss Cook will bo movoct io tho state penitentiary Immediate ly. At the present time she is in tho Klamath county jail. eese Raid Klamath Crops 2jeneawnon c'ropsl ' - ' I- fNi 10 be tho slogan of thousands of geese flying hi i. . '"Is spring. Mnkins stanover. on their northern tinv v "ewly-secded acres, myriads of wild birds are HA otiZ ,K n cnlls 0 dl,y nro beln8 received by tno coun Kea aro Jom outraged farmers, whoso grass and clover iounn i Kurea y " devouring noraos. f tho vcr Planted last fall Is enticing the wild geeso Nni ni s ana now spring-planted pens and spring-seea-Tta ooiV? """""ood by tho ravenous air force, ply of am y AAA commission has been allocated a small !C9ttorln "'""ii ior use against prcciaiory Hiuiuiug, nun be tij ''n,,8,1'11, frightening the crop '.pillagers. Ammunition k.. "Ulliu lliri into ! iiihniiii f. mAiinin Kt-nDtfiQl Man Injured in Altercation Lasaco Mcndez, 40-year-old Southern Pacific- section hand, Is in Hillside hospital suffering from head injuries jind Rafael Albcrcs, 42, also an SP employe, Is in the Bly jail as the result of an altercation which took place early Sunday morning in the Bcatty section camp. Attending physicians said Mcndez' condition was good. He suffered from an Injury to the riulu eve. cuts on the head and a broken facial bone. Albcrcs has cuts nn the face and a six inch cut on the left side of the bodv. according to Special In dian Officer Willis Pankey at Bcatty. No charge has been f cd aca nst Albcrcs. rnc in jured man was brought to Klam ath Falls by the Klamath Ambu lance service. Clothing Drive Fills Warehouse Twenty trucks manned by Lions club members made a city, wide pick-up -of clothing for the national United Nations clothing collection Sunday. ) ' Truck operators combed resi dential and suburban sections, starting at 9:45 yesterday morn ing. When- they had deposited their loads at 1415 Main, the salvage warehouse was piled al most to the ceiling with usable clothing. . Contributions to help clothe unfortunate war victims-will be shipped directly from here to dis tribution points, after garments are separated and baledi ' Poundage received in- the Klamath county drive for the na tional collection was not yet de termined by Monday noon. North Bend Hit By Earthquake SEATTLE, April 30 P) The little mountain town of North Bend this morning was busy sweeping up rubble in the wake of a temblor that' rocked the Pacific northwest shortly after 1:15 p. m, yesterday. The quake was described by Univer sity ot Washington geologists as probably "local" in origin. At' North Bend vendors of bottled goods suffered heavily. Bottles in the state liquor store tumbled from shelves and were smashed, and Carl Edgerly, a druggist, said a considerable quantity of .his stocks toppled to the floor and broke. A num ber of chimneys cracked, and grocers found their stores lit tered with canned- goods clumped by the quake. Else where in the northwest, no damage was reported. ; M ft. ' "r;:3 vf-C p--r.': iwtfwmiSfj is? w3 i tat LJ4 S . .aTSjawaeaaweapieeeaeJL i)Mnall&K$ilaHMHHlejaBaiHl mMliSlmimmtseimlmUk Shown here are marine, being inspected-by Governor. Earl Snell and' Colbnel Georae Van Orden. commanding officer "of the Marine Barrack..-. The ooremor visited the rosfr thi. morning, getting a thorough undentanding of the training program which fit. troop, afflicted. with tropical diieases for full, duty statu.." Snell. will be main speaker" at the anniversary dinner of the -chamber of commerce tonight. -;-: . -?,:: ' r r- . .' : . . .. . . -V - . ; ; V ' ; s By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO.- April 30 (JP) First reports from a closed meeting of the executive com mittee said today that invitations had been approved for Argen tine, White Russia and Ukraine to join the United Nations con ference. These reports did not specify what, if any, disposition had been made of the Russian argu ment that the Warsaw govern ment of Poland had fully as much right to an invitation as Argentina. The actron of . the executive committee of 14 countries, in cluding the United States, Brit ain, Russia and China, amounts to a recommendation to the steering committee of all 46 na tions here. - Pre.. Barred - The steering committee went Into session Immediately after the executive group finished its work. Its doors also were closed to all but conference officials. Re porters were barred from the sec ond floor of the Veterans build ing where the committees met. Foreign- Commissar Molotov of Russia had warned a meeting of the Big-Four foreign secretar ies Saturday night that if the Ar gentina issue was raised, he would again demand that Po land's soviet-supported Warsaw government get a bid also. Not Raised : One delegate reported that Russia did not raise the Polish question before the executive committee. This did not. of . (Continued on Page Two) Governor Earl Snell Views Military In si a 1 1 ati on s; To Speak at C of C Dinner Governor Earl Snell arrived in Klamath Falls this morning and worked his way through a full day's program, - which was to be climaxed by the 'chamber of commerce's silver anniver sary .dinner tonight. After breakfasting -with State Senator Marshall Cornett, Snell inspected the Marine Barracks, being met at the gate by an honor guard and the post band. He was shown over the post by Colonel George Van Orden, commanding officer, and to- SEIZED BYYANKS By HOWARD COWAN ; DACHAU, Germany, April 30 (fl)The U. S. 42nd and ,45th divisions captured the infamous Dachau prison camp today -and freed its 32,000 captives. Two columns of ' infantry rid ing tanks, bulldozers and Long Tom rifles anything with wheels rolled down from-the northwest and - surprised the S. S. (elite corps) guards in the extermination camp shortly af ter the lunch hour. -. Scores of S. S. : men were taken prisoner and dozens slain. .The American doughboys (Continued on Page Two) Fugitive( Officer Killed y ' In Gun Battle Near Weiser Two fugitives, both of whom are said to Have begun their lengthy criminal careers in Klamath Falls, were involved in a gun battle -near Weiser, Ida., Sunday in which a stale uolice sergeant was killed and a bullet ended tile lite of one ot me gun men. Dead is Sgt. Ted Chambers of Ontario,. Ore., and the slain fugi tive is Ronald William Duffy, 23. Wounded were Kenneth Bail ey, 20, former Klamath Falls resident, State Police Officer Ted O'Brien of Ontario, and Chief of Police Clarence Saunders of Weiser. ... , Ambushed Officer. The officer and .fugitive were killed early Sunday after Bailey and Duffy ambushed their pur suers in a schoolhouse basement and then sought to escape across a nearby field with a -wounded officer as their shield. The battle occurred in " the basement of the Annex school just across the Snake river in Oregon. Bailey was shot down and captured after his partner was killed. s No Warning Given Deputy Sheriff Al Wanters of Washington county said the fugi tives opened fire without warn, ing as he, Saunders, O'Brien and Chambers walked Into the schoolhouse' basement. . Cham bers was killed on the spot. O'Brien was wounded, v Chief Saunders was shot down in the confusion and Bailey and Duffy captured him, making a break through the cellar entrance. Officers said Bailey and Duffy were the same ones who had dis (Cntinued on Page Two) : gether they inspected . troops. The governor learned the his tory of the barracks, its pur pose " to re-fit .men for active duty status, and was told that of 4700 men brought here with tropical diseases, 3100 had been returned to full duty in the ma rine corps. . ; The. governor and his- party lunched at the Bachelor Offi cers' quarters at the barracks after viewing a training film at the post theatre. During the afternoon the vis itors inspected the naval air station, where they were met by Commander R. R.. Darron and other station officers. Ac companying Snell. here on his trip were William Tugman, managing editor of the Eugene Register-Guard; Herb Gray,- ad vertising manager of the Med ford Mail-Tribune ' and presi dent of the Jackson county chamber of commerce, and Henry Fowler, associate editor of. the Bend Bulletin. Hamburg Radio Forecasts End " LONDON, April 30 W) Commentator on the Hamburg radio, the chief remaining voice of nazi Germany, declared to night: "Everybody knows . that this war is" drawing to an end. This is an irrevocable fact." The . commentator .added: "The drone of the battle might last some weeks longer, but it may end tomorrow." . This is the closest the nazis yet have come to admitting Dublicly that the war is near an end. No nazi transmitter -yet has mentioned Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's surrender offer. . .. Coaf Miners' Contract Okayed WASHINGTON, April 10 (fF) Economic .stabilizer wuuam n. Davis today approved John L Lewis' contract with- the bitum inous coal operators and grant ed producers ' price : increases averaging 16 cents a ton to off set the, costs. . The Davis action completed government processing of the contract in record time. It was signed April 11, after 42 days of negotiating between the United Mine Workers and the operators. VETERAN KILLED III A 29-year-old sailor, who saw action- in a dozen engagements against the Japanese in . the South Pacific, was killed early Sunday morning when a car in which he was ' a passenger. struck a Great Northern freight at the GN crossing near the Klamath naval air station. . Five others were injured. . . -Dead is S lc Andrew Ami- cucci, resident of Tenafly. New Jersey. civilians Hurt - - Injured were two civilians. Herbert Taylor Bigby, 616 Com mercial, and Richard Noud, 4249. Bisbee, . and three, mem bers of CASU 68, . Klamath naval air station,-, including AEM 2c Hubert Roerig, S lc Behrns A. Willbern and AOM 2e Richard R. Jarvis. Bigby, driver of the car, told the station personnel officer that he . met the navy . men downtown and offered to drive them back to the base. He said. he did not see the freight train until it came within range of his car lights which had been dimmed. Bigby reported that he estimated his speed at be tween 35 and 40 miles per hour and said as soon as he saw the freight he slammed on his brakes. The driver said he heard no warning from'.the train. , The' men were rushed to the ... (Continued on Page Two)' - Killed in Action J .. I v 1 Lt. Col. "Mike" Yeoman. NAZISFALTEH Reds Hammer Final. German Pocket In Berlin Br ALTON L. BLAKESLEE -Associated War Pre.. Editor . Ninth army Americans ioined the Russians in a new Dlace west of Berlin today, and the virtual end of the bloody con quest of Italy was proclaimed Dy uen. juarK ClarK. . Nazi Germany's once-unex celled military machine, was, col lapsing amid rumors of immi nent peace. Russians hammered in on the final, melting nazi pocket in Benin, r ive allied armies won PEACE RUMORS MALMO, Sweden, April 30 MP) Free -Danish pre., re port, .aid Count Folke Ber nadotte, reputed peace inter: mediary, had conferred with' Geitapo Chief Heinrich Him mler today at Aabenxaa on the German-Danish border. The report was circulated a. two Swedish foreign office official, and a Swedish mili. tary traffic expert boarded a special - plane at Malmo for Denmark, .hortly after their ' arrival-by' train-from Stock. Tholm.'.."-' " or entered the-citadels of Mini. Ich, .Milan,- Genoa. Turin . and rtyenica. : -ia - a : swift, powerful squeeze dn-.the-Germans' south ern jxaount, ..... '.Widen Corridor Americans: ol tile ninth arniv met Russians south of Magde burg on the Elbe, widening the corridor splitting German arms to. perhaps 80-miles. uerman. armies in Italy have" "been, virtually: eliminated as a military:: force,"! Clark asserted. witn ?5 enemy divisions shat tered, in Jhe 22-day British American offensive. .The nazis "can ; no longer - effectively re sist our armies,", the 15th army group commander said. As little as 125 miles -separated the allies i n Italy and Americans in the Bavarian Alps. The bullet-riddled bodv 'of Mus solini; -vain glorious ; modern Caesar. " was cursed and kick ed in a, square in Milan. .." End . in Sight ' A dispatch from sum-ems. headquarters said the indica tions were; that hostilities in Europe' would continue only a matter of ' days'. Moscow called on Germans to surrender. Red army men battled over the burning wreckage' of Berlin oniy a nan mue irom the reichs- (Continued on Page Two) Crowd; Expected At Dinner Here Six hundred Klamath resi dents' and visitors will attend the 25th anniversary dinner of the chamber of commerce to-' night,- and will hear an address by Governor Earl Snell. - Chamber officials stated : to day that .many who sought res-' ervations' were disappointed be-' cause of the record demand.; Among visitors who will at- tend the : dinner - are members ' of the governor's d a r t v. and Tom Stanley, former secretary ot the luamath chamber, who ' is now secretary-manager of the; Shasta-Cascade Wonderland . as sociation, with headquarters in Heading, uam. Prentice Yeomans Killed in Action Lt.Iol. ' Prentice Yeomans. 42-year-old commander of a task force attached to the 3rd armored ; division spearheading the 1st army ,. toward Berlin, was killed in. action April 18, according, to ' word received Sunday by his mother-in-law. Mrs. . Rose M. . Poole, 400 Conger. . The colonel s wife, Mrs. al ienor Yeomans, was advised of her. husband s death by Mrs. Poole. Mrs. Yeomans Is, at the -present time, serving as - execu tive secretary of the AWVS in New York City. col. Yeomans. known in mil- 1 1 a t y circles as "Iron Mike," was under the immediate com mand of the late General Mau rice Rose, killed by a nazi tank- ' man in Germany. Yeomans was a graduate of West Point, class ' of 1926. He was born in Syra cuse, N. Y., and in addition to his wife, Ellenor, is survived by , his mother, a brother and sister. ' In a letter to Mrs. Poole dated . April 13, Yeomans said he was "deep in Germany" and, commented on the necessity for alertness day and night as civil ians were planting mines and sniping at the military. Col. Yeomans was stationed in Ha waii at the outbreak of ' the war. Mr. and Mrs. Yeomans were married in Omaha, Neb., in 1940. Since Col. Yeomans has . been overseas, Mrs. Yeo mans has served with the AWVS in New York. .