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BIX HERALD AND NEWS Wednuday, May 1943 SAYS FIGHT OVER (Continual from Page One) With Von Rundstedt were his son and aide, Lt Hans Gerd Von Rundstedt, a driver ana a meai cal aid man. "Von Rundstedt was in retire ment and taking treatment at Bad Toelz. He was uving in house that was part of a hos- May 1 Von Rundstedt and his wile ana ton naa umsnea uhi tag and at that time they expect j A imaHrAnc n the morn ing. They saw an American tank approaching ana lis commnna ' er, Lt. Joseph Burke (address .....un t rnmninv A. 141st regiment, took him prisoner. It was flurKe s nrsi comoai iitu ment since receiving his battle field commission three weeks ago. "Von Rundstedt said he last caw Hitler alive marcn a. A Swedish report last week said Adolf Miuer, raging over defeats on tne western i r o n i 1 r TT. Cmjlctnrit. chnul. drr ornaments and hurled them in his face. It was Von Rundstedt who planned the Ardennes break through of last jjecemDer. Truman Says Hitler Dead WASHINGTON, May J CD President Truman said today that he had it on the best au thority that Adolf Hitler is dead. The Toresident did not say what his authority was but de clared he was convinced tnat the former German fuehrer bad actually been lulled. This was the first official com ment from the White House on a German announcement that Hitler had "fallen" in battle. N.aley Fined $400 For Operating Gambling Game Charles Nealey, charged with operating a gambling game, was fined $400 and costs in circuit court late Tuesday afternoon. He was released from custody Wednesday morning. Nealey was arrested by state police April 33. at Pelican City. He waived grand jury Tuesday and was taken before Circuit Judge David B. Vandenberg where he entered a plea of guilty. Deputy District Attorney J. Hawkins Napier represented the state. Plot Of 15 Loft Fifed In Office A plat of Bureker Place was filed in the county clerk's of fice Tuesday by County Sur veyor Frank Z. Howard. The area. 10 acres divided into IS lots, is owned by Lee W. Bureker. Approved by the Klamath county planning commission, the plat was designated as parts of the old R. Z. Wattenburg and Ike Struble places in the Summers lane area. EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) colonels and lesser big shots are coming in and surrendering. Rundstedt himself is captured (apparently quite willingly) at a health resort south of Munich and says it is senseless to fight any longer. The iiaii goose is cooked. AFTER the last war the Ger mans were able to make out a case TO THEMSELVES that they were never whipped at all but that somebody slickered them into surrendering when they weren't looking. That can't be done this time. THE rats are leaving the ship. Pierre Laval and half a dozen of his Vichy collaborationist crew, after trying unsuccessfully to get into Lichtenstein and Switzerland, land in a gasless plane in SPAIN, and Franco (who has seen the light) gives them eas cnouch to get them to the nearest border and orders them to be on their way. Laval would never have left Germany as long as a shred of hope remained. . IN the Pacific we seem by Jap accounts to be making progress with our Borneo landing, Having established a firm beachhead so that we can pour in reinforce ments. It is barely possioie uiai the, Borneo landing may be an exclusive Australian affair al though a little unlikely. The Japs haven t mentioned any Americans, ana our siae nasn i mentioned it at all as this is written. V w THE British , land in the Irra waddy delta BELOW Ran goon, after having first dropped paracnuusis mus cuiuug the Jap Rangoon garrison from the sea. To the north, the Brit ish are only 25 miles from the city. Ran soon is a natural starting place for the campaign to re cover Singapore. The British are still bombarding the Andaman and Nicobar islands, which guard the Singapore strait. ON Okinawa, we've killed or wounded half of the original . Jap garrison of 60,000 indicat-j ing that tne oo is at least nau done. More Japs are reported to be SUKBENDkiUKG.: m m N Chungking today, a Chinese "spokesman" says that retail prices in China are now 1044 TIMES prewar. That's inflation you can get your teeth into. Hottest' May Day elt In Portland PORTLAND, May 2 tPV On the basis of airport weather sta tion figures, Portland had its hottest May day on record yes terday, 83 degrees. The temperature was 82 de-: grees at downtown customs i house, equalled there only in i 1940. Because customs house figures are of long standing the 82 will be official. ' STORY OF CAPTURE. ESCAPE TOLD HERE (Continued from Page One) ouestions. or would simply ad- vise that he could not give that information, the officer would finger a Lugor on tho table. Later Johnny was put in a cel lar for the night in a villa in the mountains overlooking the beachhead. In the morning Johnny was moved with other American of ficers to a prisoner of war en closure in Rome, which our men called "Cinema City" as it was the Hollywood of Italy prior to the war. From there they were moved 20 miles south of Florence where they remain ed until March 17, when the of ficers were put on a train bound for Stalag 7A, the camp which was liberated May 1. This camp is located 20 miles north of Munich near Moosburg. Got Packages There the officers were placed in barracks, and American and British prisoners were separated from the rest of the camp. It was at Stalag 7A that Raffetto received his first Red Cross food parcels, including cigarettes. xtEuicuo ana oiner American officers remained at Stalag 7A until April 17, when they were sent to Of lag 64 in Schubin. Po land. They remained at Schubin for nine months. This was an American ground officers' camp. With true Germanic thoroughness, the ground offic ers are separated from the air men and enlisted men, etc. "It was fairly decent, but we made it what it was," Johnny observed. "We had wooden bunks with straw ticks and the Germans issued us a bed sack and two nretty thin blankets. I We were getting some Red Cross ; snipments including one army blanket apiece, overcoats and some clothing." Letters Helped Highlight of his early stay at Schubin was his first letter from home. That came on August 1. Red Cross parcels came weekly until October and then there weren't any more until December 23, when the Red Cross Christmas parcels ar rived. In that period Raffetto lost 25 pounds. "We sure dove into those Red Cross food parcels, I'll tell you. Sometimes we could have eaten everything in those 11 pounds, but we had to stretch it out," the infantryman remembered. Menu When civilians gripe about the so-called food shortage, they should study this typical daily menu given to our men in Ger man camps: Breakfast consisted of hot water. Sometimes they had soluble coffee to use, some times ersatz coffee which Johnny said tasted like nothing he could describe. In early afternoon they got a thin soup made out of turnips or ruta bagas, one-sixth of loaf of bread which was dark and coarse but contained rriore food value than anything else. The bread ration had to carry over for the evening meal. At night they had four or five potatoes boiled with the jackets on, oc casionally a vegetable such as beets, rutabagas or cabbage. They had salt which they used for flavoring the food, and once a week they received a ration of sugar, jam and margarine which Johnny described as be ing less than the amount he used to use on one piece of bread at home. That had to last all week. Never Liked 'Em He doesn't ever want to see a rutabaga. In fact, he didn't like the darn things before the war. Around the schubin camp were two barbed wire fences about IS feet high and between the two rows were bales of con- certina wire. Three feet from the big fence was a trip wire and posted a t corners were guard towers manned by Ger mans. From the towers auto matic weapons could spray the lane with fire. Nobody ever tried to cross over the trip wire. There was a little cnapel in the camp and included in the prisoners was a Catholic chap lain as well as two Protestant chaplains. No Atheists We didn't attend church be cause we had nothing else to do," Johnny said. "We went to church because we wanted to. Everybody did. I think the fel lows got a lot out of that. There were no Atheists in camp." The men had an athletic pro gram going on, basketball, base ball, volleyball, soccer and foot ball. There was even a Little Theatre and the men put on such plays as "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and "Brother Orchid." Commander of this camp was Col. Paul R. Good of Corvallis, who later was senior American officer of Stalag 7A and liberat ed in the May 1 release. Escapes When the Russians advanced in early January, the Germans prepared to move men from Schubin Into Germany. In the confusion of the evacuation, Johnny and several other Amer ican officers got away. The word " America nski" worked wonders with the Polish people. They shared everything they had with the escaped pris oners and passed them back to the Russian lines. "The Polish people were very happy to see Americans and they really turned out for us. TULELAKE CAFE (Continued irom Tago One) and getting them out ef the building. All other buildings In the block, including tho hotel, were saved. The building was said to be covered by Insurance and was owned by Mrs. Shrabcr of Mur phv. Ore. It was one of the first buildings constructed in Tule lake. being built in 1932. James Horn, bartender era plovcd at the cafe, sadly report ed that a large loud of whiskey was destroyed by the flames. A fire truck from Ihe WRA center at Tulelake with Fin Chief Sam Owen. Assistant Chief George Carver and nine volun teer Japanese evacuees an swered the call and assisted the Tulelake and Merrill depart ments in extinguishing the file. I Spokane-New York Air Service Opened SPOKANE. May 2 .JV- United Airline service from Spo kane tr New York was inauRur ated yesterday when Mrs. Earl S. Bradcn, wife of the Spokane chamber of commerce president broke a bottle of champagne over tile propellor of the trans continental mainliner. She was assisted by Betty Stevens of Everett, stewardess on the plane from Pendleton Ore., to Spokane. Mayor Carter of Pendleton. Mayor West of Walla Walla, and Colonel Hars- ton, commander of the army air field at Walla Walla, attended the ceremony. Paris Says Adolf Killed By Naiis Paris radio broadcast a report todav that Hitler actually was assassinated In his Berlin head quarters the night of April .1 22 after a quarrel with other leaders over coimnuauuu u The broadcast quoted the newspaper Paris Prcsse. which Httnouien mo ikim. ,u informed quarters. ficer and his family. They had left the place in a mess, they'd cleared out so fast before the Russian advance. There was a well-stocked larder." Hitch-Hikers The American officers, two of whom spoke Polish, made their way back to Warsaw by thumbing rides with Russians driving American vehicles. Warsaw was a sorry stgnt. Johnny -said. The people were wandering around dazed, with 95 per cent of the big city in complete ruins. The men stayed In a polish military school in Warsaw wait- Ins for a group to snip out. Then they were placed in box cars, rode through Brest-Litovsk and Kiev to Odessa on the Black sea. There a British ship carry- Hannegan Named U. S. Postmaster WASHINGTON, May 3 (P tvn.tir r Walker has res lined as postmaster general and Robert p Hnnneunn. chairman of tho democratic national committee, has been named to succeed mm effective July 1. Woman Gets Purple Heart For Husband Mrs. Louvlch Rush of 1225 East, received word this week from the war department, stilt ing that they aro sending her the Purple Heart award post humously given her husband. Marshall Rush gave his Ufa for his country in action March 12, 1945. He left his wife anil 6-year-old daughter, Ida Marie. Set-Aside Order On Apples Revoked SAN FRANCISCO. May 2 (IF) Because military and war serv ice needs now are "substantially fulfilled." the regional war food administration announced last night that Washington and Ore gon apple growers no longer must set aside certain varieties for military purchase. The order covered all strains of Wincsap, Newton and all De licious varieties except Golden Delicious. The literary work of the first Oliver Wendell Holmes was only a hobby. His life work was that of medicine. ina released Russian prisoners The first real meal we had they I home, took on the Americans gave us white bread, honest-to-1 and from there they went to goodness butter, fresh milk, the lirst l a had m two years, pre serves, dried meat, and even two bottles of champagne. We took the champagne with us and some parcels of food. The first night we slept in a hotel which had been occupied by an SS of- Hara From South Mrs. Harry D. Boivin and daughter Kath leen are here from San Jose, Calif., spending the remainder of the week with Mr. Boivin. Classified Ads Bring Result. HARTFORD Aoodea mat ladeauity loapasy INSURANCE T. B. HATTERS General Insurance Agency FIRE . . . AUTOMOBILE BIS Main St. Phone 4192 WARNING Port Said, Egypt, on to Naples, and home. Johnny arrived i n Boston, April 11. His first impression was one of wonder. "I couldn't believe I was there," he said. ATTENTION FARMERS W pay highest cash prices for LIVE or DRESSED POUL TRY. Phone 5175, er see your nearest Safeway market I operator. ATTEND MEETING Member of the Klamath county court will attend a meet ing of District No, 3, Associ ation of Oregon Counties, to be held Wednesdny, May 16. at 10 n. m. In Prlnevlllo. Judge U. E. Reedcr todny was advised by Judge F. L. Philips, executive sccrotary of tho auo. elation, that the exccutlvo com mittee would hold n prelimin ary discussion on the secondary highway program and that rep resentatives of tho stuta high way department would accom pany him to the district meet. Also to be discussed la the allocation of federal funds and individual courts will be ap proached. 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