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MAY 2, "l9S Weather New, May 2. 1945 Max. IMay 1) 82 Min 52 Precipitation last 24 hours , 00 Stream year to data ..... 8.29 Normal 10.21 Last year 7.31 Forecast: Cooler Thursday. Number 10455 Invasion Menaces Japs, Says General By LEONARD MILUMAN ' Associated Press War Editor Japan itself will bo invaded soon, a ranking American gancral indicated today, as Brit ish paratroopors ond soaborno assault waves trapped tho Japanesa garrison at Rangoon in tho socond allied invasion in two days. Lt. Gon. Robort C. Richardson Jr., commanding general of army forces in Pacific ocean oreos, soid tho Pacific wor is entering a new phaso in which a major assault will soon be launched on the Jopanoso empire His unamplifiod remark had special significance since it woi made at his Honolulu headquarters immediately on return from a conference in Manila with Gen. Douglas MacArthur under whose command army divisions will invade Japan. Simultaneously other American commanders disclosed half the original Japanese garri son on Okinawa, estimated at 60,000 men, has been killed or wounded, and land-based noval pianos are daily potrolling waters up to tho gates of Tokyo. Yonks closed in for tho bottle of Davao in the Philippines as allied forces took the headlines with doublo invasions and sustained naval bombardments along the southern fringes of Nippon s crumbling war-won empire. Arguments Face Security Delegates Over Oaks Plan By JOHN M. HICHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO. Miiv 2 iPl The United Nullum conference today iippi-nrccl sufely pant Its worm ousiiicii-m to success In cre ating a world security oiganirii tljii, Hut several major argti menbi still lie ahead. The Dumbarton Oiiks proposal that veto control lie placed In the hands of the great powers on the Inner security council al ready Is u subject of both attack and defense. Amendments Due Announcement of 16 United States nmendmenLs to the Dum barton Oaks plan, which this country, Britain, Russia and China worked out last fall nt WnihltiKton as n basis for this conference, Is due in tho next day or so,, Officials describe these ns 1 iylhlns can hiinncn nt inn. pjlke this when empires ore ruling, the nazl cans mav have Iplit Into two nnrltpa nn. ft by Hlmmler, trying to "i na inrow themselves mercy of the court, nnd in. IIL-imoo nv nnn v nnr. ' denlh If captured' ond mined to finht It nut in (he In time wMI probably tell. Plnt Is that nazl Germany FINISHED. German army In Italy rs unconditionally. The k f,n,d 11,0 POSITIONS 'by this ficrmnn army In n the basis of today's E'jWlend clear back up In TEN MILES of Berch-- Us surrender, thcrc- IVMro - '""nil us ma NNER PORTALS of the Z ? Bnvirlan "redoubt." t r. r0""' "long the 'lie Br ill nm n, i nd enpture Lubeek. The th. r? ?.!" 1 " " westward 2 s, nro within a T (.?,' 8 Jnctlon with ,l dlsnoiei of the north- ho Alps fro,,, Unly, "lhtrcsi ne'S,"r CS i . .0110 roost In the ic n.,"ind. f nrll"K evidence . 2ZLS UI,(I t '""I time to - Harrison It ndequato- fPi'loniinnnccj this Jwfti o MILLION AND ',PI"L. All over whnt By HOWARD COWAN WITH THE U. S. 7TH ARMY. May 2 (V) Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Cerd von Runclstcdt, for mer German commander on the western front who is now a pris oner of the allies, declared today that it was senseless for Ger many to fight any longer. The man who could not keep tho allies off the beaches of Nor mandy, was captured in a hos pital at Bad Toolz, 25 miles south of Munich today. He made his statement at an American mm mand post, Taken By 36th The 6l)-yer.old exponent of blitzkrieg strategy was seized oy 30th infantry division troops. His whereabouts nnd been a matter of conjecture ever since ho was succeeded by Field Marshal Albert Kessclrlng es the western front commander. Tho official announcement of tho capture sold: "F eld Murshul Gerd von Rundslcdt was captured by the 141st regiment of the 3Uth eti vision of the seventh army, conv manded by Col. Charles Owens. (Continued on rage six; Quisling Cabinet Resign Posis STOCKHOLM, May 2 m Free Norwegian circles report ed today that the Vldkun Quis ling government in Norway nan resinned, but that Quisling had asked the cabinet members to remain on "until another Nor wegian government is In a po sition to tako over power." A proclamation lo nils crreci was sent to the Norwegian tele graph bureau, Quisling's news agency, with instructions to brondcast It from the Oslo sta tion. Tho order was stopped, however, by the German roichs commissar for Norway, a Nor wegian source hero said. of in. . i i."" ovcr w,,a' oniin,?Zcich' Renerals and - on fniio s ix 1 . pat, No Finger Bowls? f Ki8Pmntnm!K"t nPProvc, but tho min nt a logging camp samoiiT ""',m "e sngniiy iinoocrgasica, J ne reason and In mT8 l1RW llns bcen atl(Icrl 1,1 thc form of b"Ucr "i on , "Hl ,B W!1 versed on me subject ,oi wnni ,H.. ..lne tables nt n liimhn U nl-nhuhlv ns iinn- iho men. - - si lhnl bll,llor Plntes, Ihreo-Inches' ill diameter, came conf ot 'ho butter shortage, nil of which may Jbeen nowovor, tho average ration per table per "no cllmr'or of a pound placed on one plate, with share T.i?8 a f"l-ln." Many of the men took more than of D,iii 1,110 ,"iers wore forced to suffer the loss. With '" prac" kaU each man ls to hnvo an eqUal S'lare laitinc! . . . i-iiiii; L'Uiiuatiy, I lh , ","Pkls or. lace table cloths for these mighty "ilihtu ?i but lhey claim Hint their now possessions vyyimo ash-traysl mainly technical but it is expect ed thut they might cover such points us guurnntcc.1 of justice in enforcement of neace. nrovlsion for revising the proposed secur ity organization charter as future needs may Indicate, and provi sion lor allowing tnc security council to recommend treaty changes when deemed necessary to neip preserve peace. Fitting Quostlon One of the big questions yet wiuioiii an answer Is now much regional organizations as the In-Icr-Amerlcan system worked out recently at Mexico City arc to be fitted into thc proposed United Nations system. Both United States and Latin American groups have been seeking a formula which would ullow them freedom of action in putting down regional breaches of tho peace without weakening ine aiiinoruy of the world secur ity council to act to prevent war. Following an extraordinary night session last night, chief delegates of thc 46 United Na tions, sought to wind up organ ization of the week-old confer ence quickly. The idea is to let the four big commissions and 12 committees buckle down by the weekend to their real work of re vising and completing thc Dum barton Oaks plan, Lt A. O. Roenicke Arrives Home Lt. Albert O. Roenicke, for mer Klamath Falls dentist, ar rived in San Francisco Monday and continued to his home here Tuesday after an absence ot 20 months when he served In the United States navy, South Pa cific area, , 'Dr. Roenicke will report for duty 'within 30 days to the Klamath naval air station where he will serve as senior dental of ficer, replacing Dr. Robert Ben nett who is being detached for further orders. Dr. Roenicke flew from tho Philippines by way of Hawaii. He reports Ma- nlln nothing but a shambles and the harbor filled with sunken ships. Dr. Roenicke is now at his Home, 2U33 romana. Grew Verifies Surrender Offer WASHINGTON. May 2 tVP)- Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew today verified reports that Helnrlch Himmler nnd of fcrcd a German surrender. Grew mnde it clear that Hinuiiler's surrender offer did not extend to Russia, and hence was not acceptcoVby tho United States and Britain. In fnct Himmler said, Grew declared, that ho hoped to. be able to continue to fight on thc eastern front. He, Himmler, stipulated that his offer was for tlio western allies only. He said Hitler was so 111 he might already be dead and could not live , more tnan two days, and that he, Himmler, was therefore In full authority. Himmler wanted to meet Gciv oral Eisenhower to surrender the whole western front. Buffalo Boost Population Here There are more buffalo In thc country now. Two buffalo calves wera born on tho same day this week to two cows on the Chet Barton place In Poo valley. They are in a pas ture near the Poo valley road. Barton now has two buffalo cows, ono bull, two yearlings, the two calves, and one cattalo a cross between a buffalo cow and an Angus bull. British paratroopers landed along .the banks of thc Rangoon river yesterday and amphibious assault troops followed early this morning, cutting off the sen escape route from Rangoon. British armored columns arc about 35 miles north of Ran goon, potential staging base for rcconqucst of Singapore. Bombard Isles To the south on the seaway to Singapore the East Indies fleet. Including thc French bat tleship Richelieu, bombarded Car Nicobar island and Port Blair In the Adaman group yes terday for the second consecu tive day. The southeast Asia command indicated thc attacks were continuing. Official silence cloaked prop." rcss of yesterday's invasion of Borneo by oooo tank-led Aus tralians. Neither Australian nor Japanese reports mentioned the presence ot American troops In the assault at Linkas on Tara kan, miniature island off the northeast coast ot Borneo,. a storonouso of rubber, and oil. Nears Davao On the nearest major Philip pine island, thc U. S. 24th divi sion roiled il nines up a Aim' danao coastal highway to with in six miles of thc Japanese Davao stronghold. The Ameri cans captured one airstrip and reached the edgo of a second. Thc 31st (Dixie) division pur sued scattered Nipponese in the center of Mindanao. On Northern Luzon, the 25th division drove a salient through thc enemy s Caraballo mountain defenses, eudangcring the flanks and rear of' Japanese guarding the Balcte pass, gateway to ler tilc Cngayan valley. C Of C Members Get Assignments At the meeting Wednesday noon of the chamber of com merce board of directors, as signments were made to. mem bers by the new president, L, Orth Siscmorc, and members were appointed for thc execu tive committee. Agriculture was assigned to Henry Scmon; aviation to P. S. Hitchcock; civic affairs, Merle West; finance and Indian affairs, A. M. Collier; housing and mem bership, J. Vern Owens; indus trial affairs, including post-war planning, C. A. Dunn; land use, Dick Hcnzel; lumber, Fred Heil bronner; military and national affairs, Malcolm Eplcy; rates, E. A. Geary; retail trade and tour ist, John H. Houston; roads, E. H. Balsiger; taxation, J. W. Kerns. Appointed to the executive committee were L. Orth Sisc morc, president of tho chamber ot commerce, John H. Houston, vice president, Malcolm Kpley, J. Vern Owens, A. M. Collier, E. H. Balsiger and C. A. Dunn. The Father of Fascism Comes to Inglorious End ' ' ' " 4" There lies the once mighty Mussolini, his bullet-riddled head resting on the body of his young mistress, Clara Petacci, who was slain with him by partisans in Milan. As this grim and historic picture was taken, armed partisans were fighting to restrain crowds that sought to trample the body of the fallen dictator. . Doenitz Shakes Up Military, Diplomatic Fronts Following Succession As Fuehrer By The Associated Press LONDON, May 2 Grand Ad miral Karl D o c n 1 1 z moved swiftly today in his role of suc cessor to Adolf Hitler to shake up the nazl military and diplo matic fronts in efforts appar-ea)Uy-.direoted-. toward au -last-ditoh fight, in Norway. However, 15 hours after thc Hamburg radio had announced the death of Hitler, not a single top-ranking nazi party man and only one commander had come forth to pledge allegiance to Doe nitz as fuehrer. Von Ribbentrop Out One of the first acts of Doe nitz was to dismiss Foreign Min ister Joachim von Ribbentrop and replace him with Count Lutz Scherlnkrosigk, finance minister in the Franz von Papcn and von Schleicher cabi nets, which immediately pro ceeded Hitler's rise to power. uen. ranz Boenme, army commander in chief in Norway, broadcast an order of the day! over the Oslo radio pledging al liance to Doenitz and calling on German forces in the north to fight on as a "fanatic com munity." . t Fire Admiral '' Simultaneously, Nprw e & Ian officials in- London reported Doenitz had fired Admiral Otto Ciliax, German naval chieftain in Norway since March, 1943, because Siliax allegedly favored capitulation, and had replaced him with Admiral Kranke, for merly chief of the naval staff to Gen. Boenme. The Hamburg radio, slightly amplifying last night's an nouncement of Hitler's death, said the Russians had attacked Berlin's government quarter Tuesday, and, "in fighting which cost both sides heavy losses and during which the fuehrer was killed, the Russians succeeded in deepening their breaches into the Wilhelmstrasse." - Whether top men of the inner nazi gang Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and Bormann had fled, were dead or were sup porting Doenitz remained a mystery. A Moscow broadcast said Ger man sailors had rioted at the Baltic port of Rostock, menaced by a-soviet-push.-' . . '----.t;-, 1 Skeptical ' ' ' British officials . accepted .as fact that Hitler was dead, but decried the idea he had died a hero's " death. British news papers, meanwhile, suggested that any German surrender and V-E day had receded as a result of Doenitz' emergence as the new nazi strong man. Similar skepticism was voiced at supreme headquarters in Paris where a statement, author ized by Gen. Eisenhower de clared Heinrich Himmler told Count Folk Bernadotte at a meeting on April 24 that "Hitler was so ill he might already be dead" and at any rate could not be expected to live more than two days. . - Story Of Capture, Escape Told By Klamath Of ficer Laval Refuses , To Leave Spain MADRID. May 2 (P) Pierre Laval, Marcel Deat, and the Vichy Education Minister Abel Bonnard arrived at Barcelona by plane today nnd refused to comply with a personal order from Generalissimo Francisco Franco to leave Spain immedi ately. They will bo interned at near by Montjuich fortress pending the Spanish government's deci sion. . Surrender In Holland Hinted LONDON. Mav 2 UP) The Luxembourg radio said tonight that a German capitulation m Holland was imminent. The ra dio, which is allied-controlled, said reports from the Canadian tront indicated armistice nego tiations had been in progress more than 24. hours. The pastures are always greener on the other side, but right now the United - States ol America has the greenest pastures of all; Tins is the opinion of Lt. John A. Raffetto Jr., who ar rived home this past weekend on a 60-day leave after having been taken prisoner in ' Italy with the U. S. army infantry. escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Poland, and returned home by way ol Kussia and Egypt.' Kntteuo, who. is visiting nis. parents. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Raffetto of 1948 Portland, ob served philosophically that prison life ws what you made it but a wnolc lot depended on the nazi commanding officer. He. played in fairly good luck. Taken At Anzio Johnny was captured Febru ary 17, 1944,, on the Anzio beachhead.- Ho was command ing a machine gun platoon at tached to a rifle company. The Germans threw in a strong counterattack preceded by an intense artillery barrage against Returns 1st Lt, John Ralfetto our lines one morning but the Americans held for two days. The night of February 16, the Germans broke through our left flank and in the meantime re duced anti-tank defenses to the point where Johnny's outfit were cut off. The men ran out of ammunition food and water. "The ' Germans', started using their tanks and direct fire of their .88's. We were in a hope less position," Johnny pointed out. . "When we first went in, we were in a position about 200 yards from a factory area just lousy with Germans," Johnny said. "We went in and waited. At night we moved back to our secondary position about 300 yards back. There we wero cut off and our supporting tanks knocked out. We started dig ging in. ' No Argument "About 8 o'clock in the morn ing we heard the Germans com ing down the ditch on our left. We didn't have any ammunition, so tried to crawl up into our helmets. They kept firing ma chine pistols over our heads to keep us down. We kept hoping they wouldn't find us, but pretty soon we heard them say, "Raus," which means in English to get out. In- the meantime one Kraut had pushed a machine pistol in my tace so I didn't argue. "They directed us back to the rear, pointing the way. There were 20 of us. Three Tiger tanks were ;' on the road and German infantry ,all around. We went on back through the fac tory arcd. They respected us as soldiers, there wasn t any rough handling. I was the only of ficer in the 20.!' Natis Query Johnny then described a 12 mile march to the rear whore they reported to a German 'di vision command post. There tho infantry officer was questioned as to the tactical position of American troops, disposition of the troops and other points, by a typical German officer. When Johnny, wouldn't answer his . (Continued on Page Six) . TULELAKE CAFE TULELAKE Fire completely destroyed the Homestead ' cafe and pool hall at Tulelake about 2 o'clock . this morning with a total loss on the building esti mated in excess of $8000. Night Officer W. Harris dis covered the conflagration which was thought to have originated from an oil range. The fire de partments at Merrill and Tule lake were called and fire trucks were rushed to the scene from Merrill. Tulelake and the Tule lake WRA center. The Warren hotel next door lo Uie flaming building was full of guests but Harris and two sol diers from Camp Tulelake suc ceeded in rousing the occupants (Continued on Page Six) Berlin Falls To Soviets LONDON, May 2 (Pre mier Stalin announced to night th fall of Berlin. The announcement of th complete conquest of Berlin was made by the Moscow radio which declared that 70, 000 Germans were captured in the cleanup of the city. Stalin's order described the capital as the center of Ger man imperialism. He said the German garri son defending Berlin bad laid down its arms today and re sistance had ceased at 3 p. m. In two earlier orders of the day Premier Stalin had an nounced the capture of Ros tock on the Baltic and the killing or capture of 120,000 Germans southeast of Berlin bringing about the total de struction of the German ninth army between April 24 and May 2. By TOM OCHILTREE Associated Press War Editor The German military forces in northern Italy and western Austria surrendered today, bringing a climactic victory to the allied troops of many na tions who fought a bitter cam paign up the length of the Ital ian peninsula. The work of the U. S. fifth and British eighth armies was not nnisned, However. The sur render opened the southern gates of the nazis' Alpine re doubt, already under attack from the north,- and a junction of allied forces in Italy with three armies of Gen. Eisen h o w e r in southern Germany and in Austria might be expect ed soon. Million Troops Some 25 enemy divisions, or the remnants thereof, of the once powerful German 10th and 14th armies were involved in the surrender, effective at 2 p. m. Rome time (5 a. m. PWT). Counting rear echelon forces as well as combat troops, nearly 1,000,000 men were estimated to have given up. The end appeared near for the nazis in northern Germany. British arid "Russian troops were swiftly - contracting that pocket with- massive blows from the west and east. Cut-Off Near . Battered enemy elements In the north were forced to plunge through a shell-swept corridor near Luebeck as British second army units, supported by Amer ican airborne troops, : drove swiftly in a breakthrough north of the Elbe river and -came within nine miles of cutting -off Denmark ' and . Schleswig-Hol-stein. . ' v.. ' The Moscow radio reported that riots had broken out among German sailors . at - the - Baltic port of Rostock, now 23 miles away from second White Rus sian army -spearheads, . In heavy strafing attacks RAF warplanes destroyed or dam aged 1207 German vehicles" yes- terday and today on the jammed roads between Berlin and Lue beck. Pilots reported . seeing huge concentrations of nazi transports fleeing northeastward from the Russians Subs Sink 27 Enemy Vessels WASHINGTON, May 2 lP) United States submarines have sunk 21 more enemy vessels, in cluding two combatant ships m far eastern waters, the navy an nounced today. ' - The combatant ships claimed, in the latest toll of Japanese losses were a destroyer and an escort vessel-Non-combatant ships included a destroyer transport, two me dium cargo transports, two small cargo vessels, 12 medium cargo vessels, a large tanker -arid a medium tanker. 'Fluid1 Fighting Confuses Captor Of 200 Nazi Troops By HAL BOYLE ' WITH THE U. S. NINTH IN FANTRY DIVISION IN GER MANY, May 1 (Delayed) OP) Headquarters officers described the fighting as "fluid" that is, neither side knew just where the other was and that iwas certainly the way one Virginia sergeant felt about it, too. The 39th regiment was attack ing the town of Henrode and Sat. Hubert Baine of Norfolk. Va., was a one-man "leading ele ment." , I . He was . moving a trifle du biously toward one dark patch of woods when a small German girl waved at him, Wants to Glv Uo "There's a German soldier in the woods over there who wants to surrender," she said. Feelinsr considerably relieved. Baine followed the little girl to the edge of the woods. Then a German officer suddenly step ped - out of the shadows, came stiffly to attention, lifted his hand in a nazi salute, and bark ed: . : ... .,..,', "Hcil Hitler." "I was a little confused at this point," said Sgt. Baine, so I just tossed him back an off hand GI highball." "Are you an officer?" snap ped the German. "Yes, I am," replied Baine without bothering to point out he was merely a non-commissioned officer. "I," said the stiffly erect Ger man, "am a general. I surren-. der my pistol and my entire' staff to you." Led Way Back "Then the German GI's start ed coming out," said the ser geant; "and there wore 200 of them. I could see it wasn't any place to be hanging around alone they might change their minds. : So I led off back to . f town where wo had a prisoner of war enclosure, -Back at his command post Baine murmured; as he distrlb-' uted souvenir pistols: - v "A German soldier wants to' surrender,; she said.. I tell you, you just can't believe thes damned nazis not even the Jit tic ones." . : ,:' -; -: ..: ". .-
