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M M AFP ul DEFENSE SAGS IBrlHlliS ii- I ONE I W'.lblo to nick K u,Jr this would bo as t'YnuMlk'it bl war Is over, llh Ju'l getting into (full rtrldr. , .nv officially to !IE T,i Her Cocbhols and W.l'ManV Kn.ta (chief of the 2 a I Sncr-I Muff) com !.'. 55 Dr. liana MUche i:rr...ihnpiiv. IK ri. M iol a iitory as any. aJdl'loaccrplll. .Hitler pnnnM tu'n Hnmil, tl',.r. lo tlo British, " i..n ,lieliircd a "lion Ml ?.S".rM ilna that It won't dfltnucu. ...,,,.. ST list 'n(l ls F ce.rnd inner jn' oi",u i- T! iS.mmii mirrendcr In I,' The hoped-for northern 1L. .lona the Baltic has K beat iuhod by tho Brit- t 1 If nee IIMK. ' " I ilUI I1D lln"p I jr. hit boon surrendered F" """ -nrWInff on hnini are . HERE'S n odd situation In Ri.ii.nit whera n hard core )UTCH''nal (now rating as ION. tO BO nni UK'"""' to bo nominK "" " ln lukewarm urriliuii "" I. lo ftertt a lostditcn uauie Ii Uiem. . ,. n "r ii.i.j i. Kcssciritm, nnoi wtr criminal. In allll on tho ,. What Doenitz. Upon 1 .hmilHeri an effort la be- in nlnen tho mantle of Iff, will 00 l an upnnowii niiiw r.iiund of nar.l leaiwr .i. atlll uncamurca or un t H will tiikn a long time to In them u up. IT for all practical purposes lllf uiTmn'i win in . mnnihi stlrr Annomalox, It was bloody guerrilla war- ta our own border sihics. ill be the lame In Germany, bibly on a nuicn larger scam. kit' the Big imnung is uunc Hit wn lam asp. , ;t pattern of postwar Cer kuny Is emerging. ttte will bo three occupa- imih. We will handle one, British another and. the Rus- Ihn third. The r boundaries In'tbeen exactly defined for Milder as yet, bul mo Kino I to bo tho north and south (It has been confirmed uiai amilei were ordered to stop t Elbe and AWAIT the Rus- ii It Russians will apparently ill of Germany east ol me long with Czechoslovakia Austria. The British will ipy northeaslcrn Germany rur Job will be tho southern E occupation will probably long, for the problems be huge, but the task of re motion of Kuropo won't bo Kless one If wo and the lH and the rttisslnns np lt In the RIGHT spirit. nazls dolibnrntplv He rd their own country, which I tentury has been Europe's fit BUYER, hoping thus to weryDoay down to cnaos Ihem. oon't forgot this: 'ill Germany has boon Eu Ibllsest CUSTOMIP.n It lm I n Europe's biggest COM OR. Other peoples will lo do tho PRODUCING Germans hove done in . na ns uiclr production to lunnlv tl,n y supplied by the qermans Win I p 1 r 80 cor" l'llnd the nrllloK InJ IVin M handle wtsp.i.v ink W Ii ours, the rohablllta- II Wopo Will nrnexori mllh r'"a speco, 11 the BIG lesson of It rllhRsmi.T Anccni. j ft., j ..... . i pcu iii u i:- In ru n. They have AL- i - -winpsca. Alexander idr;fn.In,n?1 .! In) C. 7 n,la armies iM i o Grcoco. Napo 2 ?J wlth hls e,n n'ucd on Pano Two oSnf Buried otters Field itl'iy 3 P) Benito I.M , n burletl Im ill. hc WBa "ol suffer- khor .ii cnnt;cr or any Jo w re. Th u 111 recent M hi Trn dictator was EWa! Piftlsans Co,no " 'rCd Snlurday Fl,iJ'.,nlso.sl''Wt-d that tmLT ,?1 Musso Ini's iSfmclvillnn. who I i c,ub 'he - PRICE FIVE CENT8 in The Slumla-CaHcade Wonderland J5 May 3, 1945 Max. (May 2) 87 Mia. 47 Precipitation last 24 hours Trac Stream yaar to data i.ja Normal 10.24. Last yar 7,31 Foracasti Cooler Friday. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 3, I94S Numbtr 10458 Rejection Claims Of Flood Advised By U. S. Solicitor Blaming muslcrats "ortr which the federal govarnmant has no direct control." an InUrlor dDrlmont lolieltor h p.rnm. mtnd.d r)tcllon of 514.807.74 In claims made by Klamath prop- "i inun 01 in main canal Draaic and flood of May 15, 1844. Fowlar Harpar, the solicitor, ruled that ih. ncorrf. n how any nagliganca on th. pirt of any officer or employ ot the United Btatas in connection with th break. WeUr from th canal poured ovr a larg section of th south suburbs as wall as an ara Intld th eltv limit. A mmmiti.. consisting of thr noinrs on th staff of th huruu of rrl.. mation lnvstlgatd in us 10 OAKS PLAN SLATED BY U.S. kl?h ,wu" hsnglng by ftallLIS.-"'' By JOHN M. H1GHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO. May 3 (T) ine Amoricnn delciat on an nounced today it is sponsoring amendments to tno uumbarton Oaks charter deslimcd to ooen the way to peaceful revision of world agreements in the post war era. Comdr. Harold E. Stasscn. act Inir as spokesman for tho dele gation to- the United Nations conference, told rcportors the group had agreed upon nine major objectives in changes now being considered by the Big Four foreign ministers. Outlines ObJctlvs As Stassen outlined them: 1. Provision for functioning of tho entire International or ganlzatlon "in keoping with the principles of lusUcc. 2. Clarification of Dumbarton Oaks language to provide that the organization function wiuv In, and assist In developing, In tcmntlonal law, Safeguarding nights 3. Tho developing and infe guarding of human rights as a basic purpose of the new world organization. 4. Provision for "peaceful change of conditions in the world so that the world is not frozen." 5. Incorporation into the charter of a definite system of irusiccsmps. 0. Provision for future gen eral review of the ontiro char- ter "in the light of experience and the developing world situ ation after the war is over.'! 7. Introduction of a modern (Continued on Page Two) 75th German Army Corps Surrenders ROME. May 3 (P) MaJ. Gen. Chailos S. Bolte, of Richmond, va commander of tne 34111 in fantry division, received the sur. render of the 75th German army corps of the Llgurinn army in northwestern Italy at 8:10 p. m., allied headquarters announced tonight. 1 no corps comprised iu.uuu men. Tho corns commander, Gen. Schlcmmcr. had refused the or ders of Gen. Hclnrlch von Viet-Inghoff-Scheel two days ago to icld to the allies becauso ho said e had given a personal oath to Adolf Hitler never to give In. "Upon Hitler's death he felt he no longer was under such ob ligation," said tho official report to allied headquarters. th flood. Th commit! concluded that thero was no negligence by a government employe, and also I Indicated the possibility musk rata may hove caused the dam age. Examining the canal break it found a hole extending under the concrete lining to the site or tne break. "Musk rats arc especially troublesome on this nrolect. and Ihcro Is a strong possibility that tno cavity was originally inuskrnt hole," the report stat- CO, Mutkrats Blamed The assistant regional direc tor for tho bureau of rcclama Hon filed a report stating that facta present "a logical assump tion as to the cause of the break; that is, that a rmiskrat or rats started beneath the wa ter of the pool at the outlet end of the culvert and burrowed up ano tnroiign 111c bank until they encountered the concrete lining on the inside of the can al at a point Immediately over the culvert and then followed the lining upstream and down, coming out at the toe of the lining near the end of the bot tom of the lining. The water es caping through this hole satur ated and undermined the em bankment . . . causing the break." . . Tho report stated, however. that it appears that "definite inr, luiiiinuuii us lu 1110 Vttuau ui (lie break is lacking." U. S. Not LlabI ' - In his comment, Solicitor Fowler pointed out that musk rats are forne natunc over which the United States has no direct control and that it has been held that the government ls not' liable for damages resulting from water breaking through an Irrigation dike as a result of burrowing by ' muskrals. It was stated here that Fow ler's opinion concludes the ques-' tlon or the claims, unless the (Continued on Page Two) Infantry Drives Spearhead Into Okinawa Defense GUAM. May 3 (P) U. S. seventh division infantrymen drove a tank-led spearhead 1400 yards into the tough Japanese defenses on southern. Okinawa yesterday to score the first siz able breakthrough of the. 32-day campaign. -. :An Intensified coordinated push, with fresh American troops In action, was undcr'way all along the four-mile line, the navy reported todny. In the center was Maj. Gen. Andrew D. Bruce's 77th Infantry division, last reported clearing the Kcrama group off the west coast. The 96th division under Maj. Gen. James L, Bradley had been In that sector. On tho west flank was the first marine division of Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del Valle. This Is the first time the marines, who have cleared the entire northern end of the islnnd. have Joined the southern Okinawa fight. The 27th Infantry division under Maj. Gen. George W. Grlner had been in action on this flank. Tho New Fuehrer Grand Adm. TCarl Dovnltt, who will rtign ovr Germany in th blood-rod twilight of hr world powr. s BY WASHINGTON, May 3 M) Rep. Dlngcll (D-Mich.) told" the house today that President Tru man "has definitely served no tice upon Russia, 'Mr. Stalin, Mr. Molotov and the' entire world" that hc wants tho Yalta Polish agreement fulfilled. . The president, Dlngcll de clared, "stands uncompromising ly for the fulfillment of the un derstanding entered Into under the Yalta agreement" providing for a Polish government repre sentative, ot all democratic ele ments in that country. ; . . Pall. 4n Cnmnltf e'aisWbTliraT has recognized the present pro visional government formed at. Lublin and which has sought a scat for that government in the United Nations conference at San Francisco, had failed to ful fill the Yalta agreement. Dlngcll who was a White House caller earlier in tho day, saio: .. . "Hartnlng" "It is as heartening as it is commendable, Mr. Speaker, that President Harry S. Truman,- hav ing a full grasp and understand ing of the situation, has definite- lv KfrvAH nnllra t,n'nn Rxectn Mi Stnlln, Mr. Molotov, and upon the entire world, that he stands uncompromisingly for .the fulfill ment of the understanding en tered into under the Yalta agreement." Demands for "Justice for Pol- and," first nation to oppose Hit ler with arms, were heard in the house as that body observed Pol ish Constitution day. , British Carriers Now In Pacific GUAM. MaV 3 fP) U. S. Pa- cific fleet hcadauarters todav disclosed that the British air craft carriers Indomitable, In defatigable and Victorious, as well as -the Illustrious, are op erating in ine t-acuic. Tne announcement sold that the first three, all 23,000 tons disDlacement. uarticinntcd in British Pacific fleet attacks on the Ryukyu 'islands in connec tion with the American invasion' of Okinawa. It had previously been an nounced that the Illustrious and the battleshio King Georee V were in tho Pacific. - The four carriers are of the British fleers' largest announced type. . HITLER TOOK 1 LIFE. SAY REDS IN CITY Demand For; Proof Of Death Expected Of Soviet : Fire Razes Homestead Cafe At Tulelake ijfnrPl in fTmuin.NII . aaai.iitlllll.il II J Hjfei CO .mni..i ri.rnvd aarlv Wdniday morning by a blaia thought .to hay originated from an oil rang. Fir trucks from Merrill, Tulalak and th WRA cntr answered th emergency call. Lost was tlmated In xcsa of $8000, All other buildings in th block. Including th Warren hotel which was full of gusts, wr fTd by prompt action. By ROMNEY WHEELER " LONDON, May 3 (P) Adolf Hitler, who vowed to rule the world, committed suicide iii the ruins of Berlin with Propagan da Minister Paul Joseph Goeb bels and the chief of the Ger man' general staff, Gen.- Hans Krebs, a soviet communique said today. The Russians declared their Informant was- Dr. Hans Fritschle, Gnobbcls' chief lieu tenant, who was captured as Berlin, fell. It was presumed Russian commanders on the scene would make vigorous in quiry to obtain indisputable proof. Really 'Deed Whether Hitler was a suicide or whether he was the victim of a brain hemorrhage, a possi bility reported by, supreme al lied Headquarters, t h e'r e was little .doubt , among allied lead ers that the fuehrer indeed was dead and that he had met death in a manner which' would thwart any die-hard nazi at tempt to ' build a Wagnerian legend about him. - A statement authorized by t h e supreme allied command told of a secret - meeting eight days ago at Luebeck, Germany, between Gestapo' Chief Heinrich Himrrtler. and Swedfsh. Count Folke Bernadottc, reputed peace 'gbMetwWhrwKrcH ' Wrnrnler was reported to have said "Hit' lor is so ill he might already be dead.' . . Brain Hemorrhage ' " , Himmler -was quoted as say ing Hitler at that time, could not--live more than two days longer. . A German general named Schillenburg, who was present at the meeting, said Hitler had been stricken with a brain hemorrhage. . These' reports gave the lie to a nazi propaganda campaign to convince the world that . Hitler died at the head of his troops in a. Berlin command post in the reiclis chancellery, fighting to the last against bolshevism. The remaining German radio stations at Hamburg, Goerlitz, Linz and Prague hammered at this theme yesterday. The Goer litz station late last night read at dictation speed a propaganda story for publication in all Su- detenland papers today. . Wanted Printed Gauleiters were told in the broadcast to see that the article was published, and also "to see to il that a certain report, on thS other hand, would not go into the press." The radio did not explain the nature of the banned report, but said: "It is expected by us that foreign broadcasting stations would take the opportunity of the heroic death of our fuehrer to intensify the hate campaign. These stations do not realize w h a t a world-wise . statesman Adolf Hitler has been." Adm. Doenitx1 Reported At Kiel LONDON, May 3 () A Stockholm dispatch reported to day that Adm. - Kan Doenttz, new leader, of the crumbling German reich, and his foreign minister, Count Ludwlg Sch werin von Krsolgk, were at Kiel, with British troops only 35 miles away. The report, unconfirmed else where, said Doenitz had met with Josef Tcrboven, nazi com missioner for Norway,, and Wer ner Best,. German minister to Denmark, to confer on a pos sible last stand in those Scandin avian countries. Aussies Invade Borneo PHILIPPINES J- CROUP t'SUAI SuluSta i!A JTW; BORNEO .jgj TJAWAWI JrhW Ceete So - " 1 ' BORNEO ,pviok J Bndrmetin f "'KSi'-S. B!- ao,: ; , Makauatft-p, iK'0" ' Q 200 Vi KAtAtHAT, . STATUTI M1LIS ' " ' ' ' " Pj Arrow Indicates Australian landing at Tarakan. wher beach heads wer easily stablihd Tuesday. Troope ar now awping toward Tar ak en's airdrom and Lingkas town. In th Philippines, Amarlcan troop appeared about to capture th port of DaTao. British Enter Rangoon In By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Prs War Editor ' British soldiers smashed into Rangoon, : supposedly ' defended by 30,000 trapped Japanese, in the climactic fight of the Burma campaign : and the outstanding development today in the Pacific, war. - - In other actions, British- and French warships bombarded is lands lying - between Rangoon and Singapore for the third suc cessive day; Superforts blasted airfields in southern Japan for the 13th time in five weeks; tank-led American infantrymen Flag Raising Statue Ready NEW YORK, May 3 (P) Fif teen men. working in day and night shifts, had a statuary ver sion of Joe Rosenthal's Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph ready for casting today eight days be fore the finished product's 'scheduled unveiling in Times Square. Modeling the 12-foot clay ma rines, normally a four-month task, was completed in three weeks, said Archie Parzlhl, one of tho sculptors directing the work. : I WASHINGTON, May 3 OP) President Truman, won his first tussle with congress today when the house emphatically sustain ed his veto of legislation liber alizing draft deferments for farm workers. , The roll call vote was 185 for overriding and 177 against. Two-thirds, or 241 votes were necessary to override. Mr; Truman criticized the bill was discriminatory in putting "the agricultural group ... on a plane above both industrial occupation and military serv ice." Republicans voted almost to a man to override, but were un able to muster enough demo cratic aid to give them a two thirds majority. Supporters of the legislation had won a preliminary test. They turned back, by a record vote of 194 to 168, a motion to send the legislation back to the military committee, which would have had the effect of pigeonholing it at least temporarily. drove ' a mile deep wedge into Okinawa defenses : 325 - miles south of Japan: picked Austral ians opening the Borneo campaign-pushed 'from oil-soaked beaches into dominating jungle- covered ridges; and the most-dec orated xantcs . in tne pacific reached the gates of Japanese held Davao in the southern Phil ippines without a long anticipat ed battle. , ; Follows Doubl Blow - The breakthrough into Rangoon came in a quick follow-up of a double landing by parachute'and amphibious troops south of the. Burmese capital while an arm ored column pushed down from the north. ; Fall of Rangoon, which in Bur mese means "end of the war," would signify the virtual finish of the Burma campaign. Nippo nese to the north have either been encircled or are in flight across jungle trails to Thailand. Capture of Pegu, Pyawbwe and entrance of troops into Prome all north of Rangoon were re ported today. - . . Rangoon, famed for its be jeweled buddhist temples, is a (Continued on Page Two) Britons Expected To Enter Denmark . NEW YORK. May 3 (JP) The Swedish home radio said today at 1 p. m., eastern war time, that British forces were expected to enter Danish terri tory "this evening" and report ed that a heavy battle -between German army and SS troops nad broken out near tne JUanisn city of Aarhus. Quoting a dispatch "received a moment ago", from Denmark, the Swedish broadcast said that British forces had crossed the Kiel canal and reached Ecken foerde, northwest of Kiel on the Kiel bay, and were expected at Aabenraa, some 12 miles inside Denmark, tonight. IN NORTHERN GERMAN AREA Nazis In Denmark, Norway May Give Up By TOM OCHILTREE Associated Prats War Editor Hamburg, Germany's second city, surrendered today to th British second army a few hour; after the great port of 1,882,220 had been declared an open city by its radio, ; ... , The entire enemy position In northern Germany appeared to be dissolving. In that area the nazis were split into untenable pockets by a linkup of British airborne troops and Russian tanks near Wismar. In Stockholm a responsible diplomat said developments clearing up the situation regard ing the German . garrisons hold ing out in Denmark and Nor way "might occur today." He offered no details, but empha sized that the situation was so fluid a break might come at any moment. -' Prague "Hospital" Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Germany's new fuehrer, has de clared Prague a "hospital city," the Germans said. That an nouncement indicated that the Czechoslovak capital and the largest nazi-held city in the south-would not be defended. All fighting in northern Italy and western Austria has ceased under the unconditional surren der agreement accepted by Ger .man Gen. Heinrich von Vieting-hbff-Scheel. - . Split Menace The surrender yesterday, which, yielded nearly 1,000,000 German and Italian fascist troops, opened the mountainous heart of the nazis' shrinking Alpine redoubt,. ' now about to be split by a junction of U. S. third army troops with the Rus sians around the Austrian city of Um.fAii-V-s'- "i-V-. : With the loss of Berlin, Ham' "burg, Luebeck and Rostock, th -nly4argo-6ermari citiesTemaln' mg under the swastika . wer Breslau, Dresden, Chemnitz, and Kiel. At Luebeck, the Brit ish were 38 miles from Kiel and 85 miles from the - Danisb frontier. - - , . 100,000 Prisoners ; . ; In, Berlin the- toll of sullen German prisoners taken by th Russians reached approximately 100,000. , . ', - Berlin, the fourth lamest cits in the world with a peacetime population of 4,333,uuu, surren dered yesterday to troops of tin first White Russian and first Ukranian armies, after 12 days' fighting.-- . Stick-Up Girl Made Previous Try In Eureka Betty June Cook, the 21-vea-r old stick-up girl who is in th Klamath county jail awaiting bet removal to the Oregon state pen itentiary at Salem where she will serve a five-year sentence on assault with intent to rob, was involved in a similar act in Eu reka, Calif., just two weeks be fore coming to Klamath Falls. - This information was received by the district attorney's office today after Eureka officials were queried as to the girl's activities in the coast town. - Miss Cook admitted a number of acts which resulted in serving sentences up to one year, but did not inform the court about the Eureka job. She was arrested April 9, waived preliminary hearing and grand jury, received one year probation from the court and left for Klamath Falls. The girl admittedly attempted to rob Augustus Clauson, Klam ath avenue secondhand store dealer, but was foiled when Clauson struck at her with a wooden handle. She was arrested that morning, April 23, by city police, and sentenced the follow ing Monday. April 28. by Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg, to a five-year term. $20 Per Week Bonus For Veterans Sought By Rankin In Amendment To Gl Rights Bill By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, May 3 (VP) A veterans bonus drive, with an es timated $11,000,000,000 price tag attached, is in full swing on Capitol hill. It got off to' a flying start un der the guidance of Represents, tive Rankin (D-Mlss.), chairrnan of the house veterans' commit tee and owe of the framers of the GI bill of rights. $20 Per Wk - It calls for payment of $20 a week for a year to any member of the armed services who served 90 days or more since September 18, 194p; and was not dishonorably discharged. Stoutly insisting that It is an adjusted compensation proposal rather than a bonus bill, Rankin predicted the measure he intro duced yesterday as an amend ment to the GI bill of rights would win early and overwhelm ing approval. While describing it in an in terview as his own idea, Rankin said it expresses the "ideas of a good many of us." Easy To Flgur The Mississipplan declined to estimate its cost but said it would be easy for anyone to cal culate. On the basis of $1040 each for the more than 10,000,000 men and women eligible, the total would be In the neighborhood of CI 1,000,000,000. . Rankin said the existing pro vision in the GI bill for $20-a- 'week payments to unemployed veterans only 'puts a premium on idleness." End Discrimination The new proposal, he added, "wc-ild wipe out this discrimina tl m and treat them all alike." . The adjusted - compensation would be in addition to muster-ing-out pay already provided by law. This ranges from $100 to $300, depending on the length and place of service. r There was no musterlng-out pay for veterans of the last war but they were given adjusted compensation, or a bonus, thai averaged from $800 to $700 each. It was computed at the rate of $1 for each day of service In th United States and $1.25 for each day of foreign service. -
