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Newspaper Page Textmm mm A , i 4 Herald In The Shasta Cascade Wonderland -: May 8. IMS Mix. (May 4) 78 Mia. 43 Precipitation Iaat 24 hourt .00 Stream year to dat (.29 Normal . ..10.30 tut year 7.31. Forecast) Partly cloudy Sunday. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. SATURDAY. MAY S, l45 Number 10451 mJ rmNK JENKINS WILD buttle on Okinawa, In .hlch the JP "rowr very At the kitchen sink at us, iHv thnt regardless Sis happing In Europe -Ml hive war on our """" .. . Ur penned-up i r i lib n ,0',.,.i.lt. Amphlbloua L, (rather amnll. as audi K! i Vin.r In from tho ea PI" r. h.hlnrf nnr . to alter our blockading forces, lnklng ve light i nd damaging olhora. it mi I co-ordinated atttick by Hi darkness. Wo seem to bitoppcdlt everywhere. Our L.iiIm are described as "not he attack (such affairs often ilinll me neginning oi inc i in Jin warfare) la referred fin tho dispatches as "tho bout L of Jap-kllllng we've had It the campaign began." Blunl-fpoken General Hodge lm enemv lost tvuv mum rfrlr "We hone they con- L to come out of their holes. Hi a hell or a ioi easier 10 them that way man to rooi m out." r JRR0WINO Japs and murdor- oui srt llery and mortar fire Itt the Australians battling the- Borneo oil Island of ikm these being Jap sped. In. Nevertheless good pro- a it reported by the attack- who say mat mey nave so ibout 25 per cent of the oil III in the vicinity of Tarakan ill laps are reported In flight most of Burma. On Ml.i- to. they have given' up Davao with relatively little rigltt- ind are retiring to the hills caves In the Island s Interior mother Jap specialty. . Europe, the bulk of organized ftrmin resistance to Elton tr'i armies ends today. Wring surrenders three lin In Germany, Czecho hkla and Austria. (Docnitz hndered the remaining arm- in northwest Germany, Hol- ind Denmark yesterday.) It eitlmatcd this morning of Germany's oeak of 10,000 men about a half mil- lull remain under arma ps.JOO.OOO of thorn In Nor- kedlih reports hint strongly I dicker In on In mirrcnrli-r f orway forces.. I ' ' ' PAY'S scare Is that what re nins of the finrman flout. tint submarines, may retire f fjords of Norway -for a flcil last stand. Better keep nniers crossed. It Isn't p that German sailors have more stomach for further thin German nlHI,.r ire Cnmlntr In Ia .iir-AnJ., warming on a limb. L ' ' Mme seems to. bo to sur Pfer to us and the British pdoithe Russians. "Mint appear to be work iThree r.irm. .-i. reds try to surrender to t"u.i Montgomery tells it there ia to bo any sur E'!l. DO IT TO THE RUS- Mr ago we could hardly P'.Wed be telllntf thn nn?l Mm tinawa PJARK is hnstenlng to form nZ flovor"mcnt under urlttlanwho stayed at and tonic nnt..nM j.,.,,w. ri the rinnedn rt'njtend of fleeing to ki.nj 8 ln compara- tiZv, ..n'sly in" govern "He." So he appears to "II' no trnnkl. ...ill. i.i. IiS Jj hom he SHARED 'of German occupation. ..ST See diplomatic staff, on Pago fen) Troops Launch Air Sea, Land Blows; 5 Yank Ships Downed By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Preaa War Editor Japanese earn out of their cares and suicide baaea to launch a weird but coordinated land. aea. air attack an American In and around Okinawa Island yasterday. It waa a nightmare for the Yanks, suicide for the Japanese. Five light U. 8. nayal units were aunk, others damaged. A lank-led Japanese counterassault and four amphibious operations Amincin lines were routed wltn tna killing oi many of the 4000 attackers, IS Nipponese suicide boats were exploded, U4 planes and a piloted flying bomb shot down. It waa the llrat major counteraction of the Oklpawan cam- Ealgn Involrlng ground forces, a aign the Japanese command nowa the campaign la lost, as they hare lost the Philippines and Burma. Indian troops mopped up In Rangoon and Yanka cleaned up Darao. major Japanese pre-war colony in the Philippines, as in cipient campaigns ln China and POLE LEADERS HELD BY REDS; REASON ASKED SAN FRANCISCO, May 5 (P) Secretary of Stale Stcttiniua an nounced today that he has asked Russia for a "full explanation" of the arrest of democratic Polish leaders and said further discus sion of the critical Polish issue "must await a rcDlv. Stettlnlus said that Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo- tov had officially Informed Brit aln's Anthony Eden and himself that Polish "democratic leaders" who disappeared over a month ago "were arrested on the charge of dlvcrsionl.it activities against the red army." - "Moat Serious" - A British statement termed the Russian action "most se- rlnlin." Presumably Stettlnlus meant that further negotiations on iui filling the Crimea agreement to broaden.; tho soviet-sponsoreo Warsaw government have been stalled until the Russians cx nlnln thi arrest. Stettlnlus said he and Eden told Molotov of their "great con rirn on learning: after such a (Continued, on Page Ten) OF WASHINGTON, . May S Pi President Sergio usmena a sec retary said today the Philippine president had ordered the arrest of two of his own sons on rharuns of collaborating with the Japanese. The secretary. Scrapio Ctn ceran. said the two Osmena sons, Nlcasio' and Sergio Jr., ..,.... . ; htno held at Blllbld prison In Manila for trial with other Filipinos similarly ac- P, C. Morantte, Filipino P"P- Ilc relations omciai, mu flaoln hart hiwn SUSDCCtcd be ll Wore tho recapture of Manila of r in I- tn ih Jananese .nH otherwise dealing with the enemy. Sergio, Jr., he 8ajd..was suspected or nmuar ;wyii". was In a hospital here today for a routine exammnuun. . Two or his omer sons, ui. Emello Osmena and Jose Os hav hnen shot by the ,,,v.,o, " . Ml- tl..U, Japanese tor guerrum m;.w. His remaining sons. Ramon and Victor, are In school - in this country. ' , , uu-Li i.nn.nrn . ,- -r - - 1 ews Stand Deals In Data Mmatlon Is dispensed almost equally with magazines at Si.01 ? new tand. ' Si sloP at 'he stand to Inquire directions, road Informa "oresscs of dcodIo. bulldincs and offices, Mrs. M. O. TOWK: - . n,.n thnlr J' ""d whero thoy can. get clgarets. . , ZZ " dca'.ing In free Information,. 20,996. magazines ire looiJ mmn Bt the stand. Over 600 various puoiicauono lx,Xed- as well aa newsoanera of Oregon, San Francisco, ,,K Jrk and one Chicago. . , , wrs Dge8t tops the monthly magazlneg ln,poputarity, '5 the -weekllfi : . ' . . ' . VSJSSk '" as a class. ' -' ' ' ' " . . l,V,fJl'n most frequently asked. by patrons of; the. news. 1 what Wn . . Borneo developed slowly but encouragingly. Marianas - based Superforts raided Japan three times today, striking for tho first timo at the Hlio naval aircraft plant at Kurc and for the tenth time in 12 days at Kyushu Island air bases which have been sending suicide planes over Okinawa, 32S miles to the south. Even as B-2Ds twice-raided Kyushu fields Japanese aircraft were back over Okinawa today but there was no indication It would du plicate yesterday's wild melee. Plane. Boats Attack In that attack suicide- ramming boats, with their noses loaded with explosives, " zig-zagged through the U. S. fleet before dawn,, while four amphibious units tried to slip ashore and attack the American rear. At dawn, suicide planes, piloted flying ' bombs and bombers at tacked shipping while 3000 tank-led Japanese Infantrymen attacked U. S. lines behind a roaring artillery barrage. Three Japanese amphibious units reached shore on the west coast' in back of the U. S. 77th division lines, creating consid erable confusion before they were located, . trapped and annihilated,- Another sea-borne company got stuck on a reef off the cast coast. They were wiped out. by Yanks firing from amtracks. Halt Attack U. S. 7th division Infantry men halted the frontal attack In fierce hand to hand combat after supporting artillery blast ed 20 tanks leading the assault. It was the first Japanese offen sive use of tanks on Okinawa. Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, commander of the 24th corps, called it Okinawa's "best day of Jap killing." . Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wcdemcy er commented Japan's conquests In China "have become a series of isolated death traps." Wage Demand Hearings Set Chot Irving, secretary-mana- ?or of tho Pine Industrial. Rela lons committee here, and R. B. Maxwell, Klamath- Falls attor ney, will leave Sunday night for Portland to represent approxi mately 30 lumber industry em ployers In eastern, central and southern Oregon and northern California In hearings before the West Coast Lumber commission on May 8-9, The hearings Involve the 1944 S-point demand of the American Federation of Labor for wage In creases ln the form of elimina tion of area differentials and re manufacturing plant differen tials, as well as Increases in night shift differentials, two weeks va cation with pay, and standardiza tion of wages. The union originally demand ed' sick leave with, pay, but dropped the demand during ne gotiations, Irving said. Hugh Haddock will represent the Klamath Basin district coun cil. AFL-LSW. and the union will also be represented by the northwestern council. ... Britons Engaged In Skirmishes COPENHAGEN May 8 (IP) The first British troops arriving in Copenhagen were engaged Dy the Germans In a short skirmish' on the City Hall square today. Advices from various parts of Denmark described disturbances and gunfire exchanges - The Incident In' Copenhagen marred an ithcrwlse uproarious welcome f6r the British troops who began liiovlng into the city during the afternoon, . .;4 , r Red Flag Flies Over Reichstag il I s it ' . i mm Symbol of final victory, the 'red flag of the USSR flies over the xeichstag- in conquered Berlin as Russian tanks roll along the street below. (Radio Moscow to New York; NEA telephoto). ' Nazi Warships Open Fire On Danes In Copenhagen COPENHAGEN, May 5 (P) German warships . in Copen hagen's harbor opened fire with machineguns, anti-aircraft guns and cannon pn several sectors of the city today and sporadic clashj, ea broke out when Danish patri ots sought to disarm the nazis. The German cruisers Prinz Eu- gen and Nuernberg resisted the patriot s ciioris to disarm sail ors aboard the ships, and many persons were killed or wounded. i 20 Killed At least 20 more persons were killed in tho night throughout the city when the patriots en- CZECHS APPEAL FOR BUTTLE 1 LONDON. May 5 VP) A Czech patriot radio broadcast heard in London tonight ap pealed urgently to the Russians, and western allies to send air borne troops to aid Czechoslo vak forces fighting the Germans inside Prague.' ' , The ' broadcast, recorded by offices of the exiled Czechoslo vak government in London, said German tank's were moving up in an attempt to crush the' re volt inside the capital. Uprising Reported Earlier a Czechoslovak broad cast from London had reported patriot uprising ln Prague. Simultaneously the Paris radio broadcast' quotations from purported reports from Czecho slovakia:. "Great con fu s i o n reigns ln Prague and riots are tlu-catencd. The Gauleiter of Bohemia has been captured" by American troops." Grand Admiral Karl Doemtz (Continued on Page Ten) tcred German barracks to disarm the Germans, and in clashes with Danish nazis in the streets. German' officials in the tele phone" and "telegraphs offices threatened to blow ud the build ing this' morning, but the idea was aDanaonea w n e n uanisn personnel walked out,-disrupting service for a few hours. Await Allies . - On -the whole .the G e r m a n troops appeared to have with drawn to their barracks in ac cordance with the terms of capi tulation yesterday to Marshal Montgomery,, but the arrival of allied troops was eagerly waited as a quieting factor. Werner Best, German minister in Denmark, placed himself in the custody of the Danish free dom council. Members of the Japanese dip lomatic staff from Berlin, who reached Copenhagen s e v 0 r a 1 days ago, were arrested by the patriots and interned. The notorious Dagmarhus on Raadhuspladsen, German head quarters, was surrounded by armed Danish freedom fighters. Six thousand members of .the Danish police brigade, trained beforehand for the day of liber ation in Sweden, arrived from Malmo, Swedish port, early this morning. Russians Take Nazi Nova Port LONDON, May S (P) Marshal Stalin announced tonight that Russian troops had captured Swinemuende, German Baltic port and naval base, near tet An order, of. the' day said Swinemuende situated o n Pomeranian bay above Stettin lagoon fell to Russian, troops pressing the imai mop-up oi Bal tic shores. .' German Collapse To Free Two Million For Discharge By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON. May 5. d' Tho army plans to discharge 2,- uuu.uuu men beginning wnn me fall of Germany and to send 6, 000,000 picked troops against Japan. , . THIS was disclosed today Dy house military committee mem bers after a closed-door session with high army officials. - Point System Used ?' The men to be discharged, thev said, will be those with the most dependents and the longest and most active service records. The army's point system, they reported, gives top weighting to i dency, followed Dy actual combat service,- overseas duty, and overall length of service. Heretofore the weight to be given each of the factors in de termining priority for discharges has been a cioseiy-guardea secret. Occupy Germany Of the approximately 8,300, 000 men now In the army, from 300,000 to 400,000 comprising the recently-created 15th army will" be left abroad to occupy Germany. Some, 2, 000, 000 others. will be discharged within a year after V-E day, the speed of mus tering out . to depend largely on avanaoic snipping. , The actual reduction ln the army's total strength,- the com mitter was told, will be about 1,400.000 men, due to an esti mated 600,000 in new deduc tions.' . : . . .In Pacific Many of those , to be dis charged now are on duty In the racitic. The army's air transport com mand told the committee it ex pected to be ready to move 50, 000 men monthly within two months after Germany surren ders. This will Include men be- ing brought to this country from Europe and the Pacific and those being sent : from here against Japan. Converted freight ers win be used to augment the trmy's transport ships to bring back the others. Army officials emp h a s I z e d that the plans are tentative but are Dased . on tneir nest Know, ledge of Japan's available fight Ine mannower. , Disclosures' to the committee leaked out despite extreme pre cautions taken by Chairman May (D-Ky.) to keep' the meet- in? with prmy leaders a secret, NEW GOVERNMENT . STOCKHOLM, May 5 ( Jubilant Denmark, free .of ; the nazl yoke worn for live, years, was reported ' already forming a new government today with a view ot taking a place among the United Nations. . .. . " Moving swiftly after" the un conditional surrender - o Ger man troops in the little, king dom, 74-year-old King Christian X was said by the Danish radio, to have designated former- Pre-, mier Orla Buhl to organize a new government. - .- ' . Predicts Welcome The newsoaDer' Daefcns Ny- heter quoted responsible Danes in ' Sweden as predicting that Denmark would be acknowledg ed a member of the United Na tions as soon as the new gov ernment starts to function. The story quoted - the Danes as saying that British Deputy Prime Minister Clement Richard Atlee had promised . Denmark the status of a .United Nation (Continued on. Page Ten) D-Day Prisoner On Way Home Cpl. Dan R. Ellis, 21-year-old-medical aid paratrooper cap tured on the Normandy beach head June 6, D-Day, has arrived in the United States, and is. ex pected home soon, according to word received Friday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. . C. C. Ellis, 5608 Shasta way. . ' . Young Ellis, who has been a prisoner of war since, his cap ture, was released with other Americans from Stalag 12-A, on March; 27. His parents did not learn of his release for some time after that date. Ellis reach ed New York Friday, and im mediately called his family. Former KUHS student,. Ellis was graduated from Marshfield high school and enlisted in 1942, immediately following graduation. ' - In addition to Dan, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have two other sons in the service, Lt. .James C. Ellis,. 27, now In a rest camp in . Germany following injuries while serving ' with the 78th signal corps, 1st army, and May nard C. Ellis, 29, navy engineer serving in the Philippines. A fourth son, Clark, 31, was re cently given a medical discharge following service with the Sea bees... t , , . , , Market Reflects V-E Optimism NEW YORK. May 5 (P) Op timism over the approach of all out victory in Europe was re flected in today's stock market by .further investment purchas ing of many Issues that stand to bene "It by peace. - . While profit cashing on the lengthy 'advance stalled a num ber of leaders, gains of a few cents to more than $1 a share were widely distributed at the close with the. Associated Press 60-stock average up 10 cents at $65.30, a new high since August 31v 1937.- Bonds improved selec tively, y; CCesselring Surrenders To 6th Army By TOM OCHILTREE Associated Press War Editor Organized resistance to the allied forces on the European mainland commanded by Gen. Eisenhower ceased today except for a single German army, the seventh. . Two armies of Field Marshal Albert Kesselrlng's command, the German 1st and 19th, surrendered unconditionally on the battlefield to Gen. Jacob L. Devers, commander of the 6th army group. In the south General Patton's 3rd army struck out and cap tured Linz, Austria, - and smashed into Czechoslovakia in a knockout offensive against the last German troops still fighting in that area. The German 7th army held general positions facing the U. S. 3rd and part of the U. S. 1st armies on a line running roughly from Chemnitz, Germany, to Llnz, Austria. Surrender The German 1st was opposite, the U. S. 3rd and U. S. 7th armies from the Linz area to Innsbruck and the German 19th was deployed on the remainder of the U. S. 7th army's front from Innsbruck to the Swiss border. While the enemy high command broadcast that "the war against the western powers had become senseless,"- Admiral Doenitz, the new German fuehrer, called upon the Germans to continue resistance-against the Russians. , The capitulation of the 1st and 19th enemy armies takes effect officially tomorrow at noon, but on both, sides-radio broadcasts now are announcing the end of hostilities on their front so that there may be no further loss of life. Follows Other Surrenders The surrender-in Austria came a few hours after the last half of 1,000,000 enemy troops in, northwestern Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands gave up to the British and Canadians and cease-firing orders silenced those battlefields. German troops still were holed up In Yugoslavia, some French ports, the channel islands and in remote -Norway as well as- in a segment of Germany and Czechoslovakia. Supreme allied head quarters apparently did not consider the pockets in. France and the channel islands as constituting organized resistance. The most formidable enemy pocket was iri' Siwrway, and to night the Swedish foreign office, said it regarded as premature all reports' of German capitulation, in that neighboring Scandi navian country.. -.-.t . .:. . -""7 ' Effective Tonight - . The battlefield surrender of all German forces in The Nether lands, northwestern Germany and Denmark to Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's 21st army group became . effective at B a. m. (11 p. m. Friday, Pacific war time). The fold-up of these forces in the north left the German army with roughly 500,000 men, or only 6 per cent of its top strength. Germany itself, her cities in ruins and manpower reduced by yeara of fighting, was one of . the most completely shattered powers which ever lost a war. The German-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau re ported from Oslo that the capitulation' of German troops in "Nor way would be announced today. The dispatch, which presumably passed through German censorship, said Josef Terboven, German commissioner in Norway, would resign. What was left of the German1 army was showing a preference for .surrendering to- the :British--ami'. Americans rather "ffian to" the Russians. -.''.; .--'.!' ." '''. r '. . Rejects Capitulation Offer v As negotiations for the capitulation .of the enemy forces in northwestern Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark were com pleted yesterday, Montgomery said that he had flatly rejected a nazir offer- to -surrender to the allies three German armies facing the Russians. .- "Those armies are fiehtine the Russians." he. said. "If ther is any surrendering to-be done it should be to the Russians." ' After the Germans had signed the surrender order in-a tent on a heath-south of Hamburg, Montgomery winked at a group of uurresponuems ana muuerea: mis is me moment." lt was the moment which climaxed the Briton's spectacular pursuit of the nazig: across Africa and France and finally into the heart of the burning reich-itself. ' '::"'.' - .- ,.- Molotov Delays Answer On Key Changes To Oaks Plan By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN. FRANCISCO.. Mav 5 (P) -Foreign Commissar Molo tov was believed seeking in structions from Premier Stalin today on two key changes in the Dumbarton Oaks world se curity plan. ' With these two exceDtions on provisions for reviewing in ternational relations and fitting regional defense arrangements into the proposed world securi ty council the United States, Russia, ' China and Britain were reported in full accord on 15 or 20 amendments to the Dum barton plan. Basis For League ' This plan was worked out in Big Four meetings at Washing ton last year as the basis for a world peace-keeping organiza tion. - Molotov was reported, to have agreed in principle to the re view and regional security pro posals, but asked 24 hours. from last night to reach a final- deci sion. American officials, elated over this degree of Big Four unity, hoped that full Kussian concurrence would be forthcom ing before midnight. Alternatives Possible If it is not, Russia may have alternative proposals on these Construction Of Elevator Delayed Construction of the Tulana Farms grain elevator at. Worden will be postponed until - next year, it was indicated today aft- er all original bids on the huge structure were rejected. The bids were opened yester day, and the lowest was offered by a Los Angeles contractor at $357,000. This was considerably higher than Tulana Farms esti mates, and all bids were turned down. . , Ben Henzel. one of the own ers of Tulana Farms,' said today that it is . proposed to - ask for other: bids after January 1, 1946. Tulana Farms is operated by Dick, and Ben Henzel and Dan and Dave Liskcy . points to submit to the United Nations' conference. The Big Four agreement on many points appeared to elim inate many sources of possible . controversy from the remaining weeks of the United Nations' conference. However, it remains to be seen how aggressively small nations will, push amend ments on which- the Big Four - nave not taken a position. Gunman Charged With Murder Kenneth Bailey. 26-year-old gunman who told Klamath au thorities he "would swap lead with a cop : anytime, was charged by a Malheur county grand Jury, last night with first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Set. Ted Chambers of Ontario, Ore gon state police officer last Sunday. Baileys companion, a-year- old William Ronald Duffy, was killed in the gun battle. Both Bailey and Duffy are said to have started their criminal ca re e r s in Klamath county as Juveniles. A second count by the grand Jury charged Bailey with as sault with intent to kill. This count was in connection with the wounding of Police Chief Clarence Saunders of Weiser, Ida., and Ted O'Brien of On tario, Ore., a second state po liceman. ' Circuit Judge M. A. Biggs said he would delay setting a date for trial until Baney nas recovered from wounds which he received In the shooting fray which occurred when officers trailed him and a companion to the basement of a schoolhouse . near Weiser. .. BURIAL SLATED PORTLAND, May . 5 (P)--Bur. lal rites will be held Monday for Max Baer, 83, clothing store pro prietor in Pendleton for 50 years; who died at his hotel here yes terday. - -'r v '.-. The pioneer merchant moved here after his retirement three years ago. A native of Germany, he came to this country at tht g of 17,-' .