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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1945)
rrv - . s we! : 1 wiii mm iii ... fnVlfcENTB fit The ShuMla-Uancath' Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS' OHEGONMDNDAYf MAY7l"lMS T Number 10459 Sim L v -nriwrpuiinnrm I . mmm pastor's wiff i ' w m w -eer -ear a mm I M 1 BT FRANK JENKINS te ntws ' ratncr baoiy Crimblfd as these words written, but this seems 10 ibout what happened: ic Germans finally got to fr lomo kind of central orlty (the mimes mentioned new to most of us). These hhltters (8 Colonel General nd a General Admiral llbure) called off the war nt tnl Elsenhower i rirndquari- it i little red sclioolhouse al b. In Frame, and apparent- 11GNED THE PAPERS, me time thereafter tliey cot of i microphone and in- M' in considerable mclo- itlcj over the air about tbo tied- Ocrmnn pcoplo who (ouRht heroically for near- years and should ne given ik now that they have bcon d and admit It. UNG the-news on the fly. kt even waltlnn for the first Ice, Edword Kennedy, an ex- Inccd and responsible AP rier, got his office In Lon loii the phone, told what hnd kned and added: "That's III, get It OUT!" le London office of the AP er it out, whlshlng It some throuch the cenaorshln In Ixeltemcnt, and so the news to mis country and started he V-E Day wheels that had new In readiness so long. terns to be truo enough, t there's a mix-up. Mnybc dy put something over on 111! Am lllA.n I. nn ir that the Russians have me wnr; in laci, mcy 10 be Still ihnnllnff t ywy shortly before noon fi announcement from Bnrl im t.i n f fiK on mi thpito words are rn am nMnfri.ui i f (perhnpd nil the more lift rn. It,.., AP il in Ihn J..I..M.. Bsfiy" l.hl." mofnlnn it has luuowins dispatch woreme allied hcadqunrt-Pr- "Ain.j mii It-Ill . ""'u iiuiiiury ""sponsion fiu 1 i 1 rcM "llnB of l it ,rom cvcr'- ""'opcan ineaier fife- result of rVJ " ,0' a dlspntch " surrondcrcd UP SV II hn. 1...J rord."mn'i'p',.v fffi and. k"w how It u, uiiucss just human lontL?. J ccrtnln "mount i-nge six) EXPLOSION Fishing Jaunt Proves Fatal To Bly Residents Fls'o children and a minister's wife, all residents of Bly, wcro killed Instantly by an explosion of unannounced cause while on a Xishlntf trip in the Gcurhurt mountain area just inside Loko county ii nd nbout 6!t miles from Klamath Kalis. One of the members of the party found an object, others wont to investigate, and the blast follower. Kilted The dead: Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, wife of Rev. Archie Mitchell of Bly, who was tlui lone survivor of the in uldcui. Jay Glfford, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. N, L. Glfford. Eddie Engem 13, ion of Mr. and Mrs, Einar Engcn. Sherman Shoemaker. 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Shoemaker. Joan Patike. 11. and Dick Palske, 13, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank I'ntiKe. Rev. and Mrs. Mitchell and the fivo youngstors went out on the ' fishing journey Saturday morning. They fished in a creek on tho Uly-ualry crocK roaa. Find Object Hov. Mitchell drove the car f .r a distance while the others walked In the woods. When the. obteet was sighted, they called to Rev. Mitchell. He left the car. aoDroached the group, and was about 40 feet away when tho oxploslon occurred, All but Mrs. Mitchell were , (Continued on Page Six) Norman Dwight Reported Safe Sot. Norman E. Dwight. U. S army air corps, son of Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Dwight, 823 Walnut, has been reported safe, accord ing to an unofficial message. He was reported missing in action over Germany on February 13, 1U43. Accordlne to the message re ceived by his parents, Dwight was a prisoner ol war and has been liberated by an auica anve. He entered the service In June, 1943, nnd was sent overseas in October of 1944. Ho was an en gineer and gunner on a B-20. fff ci ca 1 An nounce menffs f -IE Day Sefr For Tuesday By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press War Editor Pe 1, November 11, 1918 1 1 ' COMI'U-Ii K VICTORY FOR THE AU.IKD ABMTES I ti:n inir arsiiiunvii "Mhrl a. 'W "on iii mtmtmi.. 9 -., a rmrMvm . in, , -, t -jUMaMM re's Text of Surrender broadcast to Nazi Nation j iro.;;.. .? i" ,h tmtt of 'm.n .2." '..Srh.w"'n Von Kro. lS?.'.f..b? '" Brltlih min- th?J!lc" nd womonl fhi O. 01 we armed conn i" ".ucn, ncciarcd litlnB Ji""HI rrendcr of Itha'CT"" "oops. , Fh eol ""'"8 minister , of P of .1 nnJ,ent wnlch the Ciied.'or the winding r t;.'llary task i tum to th. VJoment ot our ir .T Gorman nation. ' nepnln jiui i nlc"-. To continue the war would only mean senseless bioodsnea ana a lume aismic gratlon. . "A government which has a feeling of responsibility for the future of 'its nation was com pelled to act on tho collapse of all physical and material forces and to demand of the enemy tho cessation of hostilities, . Noblest Task "It was the noblest task of ad miral ol the fleet and of tho snuBritmanl .. tinnnrtlni? himr after tho terrible sacrifices which the war uemanaea 10 save in the last phase of the war tho lives of a maximum number of fellow countrymen. "That the war was not ended Immediately, simultaneously In the west and in the east, is to (Continued, on Page Six) Picture of the first page of the Erenlng Heraia,-hoTemoei II, 1918, announcing the armistice. German capitulation. on: that occasion, meant the end of the World war. This time. Japan. Gex. miny's ally in World War II,' fights on. The Japs were on the Al lies side In the First World war. Klamath Greets News Of Surrender Quietly; Work Carries On To Beat Nips Klamath Falls celebrated with sobriety today tho day of the surrender. Awaro of the Intensity of Pa cific fighting, there appeared no cvid -nee of the hysterical gnicty which swept the countryside in November, 1918, when victory of the allies over Germany was announced. Stores, schools and business in stitutions were closed through out Monday. Banks and .thea tres remained open. Carry on Work Military Installations in this area carried on, well aware of their obligation to the fighting men in tho Pacific. Col. George O. Van Ordcn of the Marino Barracks, Comdr. R. Mixed Feelings Greet Surrender By The Associated Press America greeted announce ment of Germany's uncondi tional surrender with a mixture of emotions, - Hilarious gayety, so.lemn prayer in the streets, a partial stoppage of business and an electric feeling of excitement swept from coast to coast. New York's reaction was a snowstorm of waste paper that cascaded from buildings as peo ple shouted and. sang in the streets. Others openly wept and prayed on sidewalks. ' Field Marshals Body Discovered WITH THE BRITISH SECOND ARMY. May 7 UP) -Tho bullet- riddled body of German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock was dis covered by British troops yester day near a roadside north . of Hamburg, where he apparently was slain in an allied strafing raid. Tho ex-commander of the cen tral army group in the German Invasion of Russia in Juno; 1941, had been dead for about a week, R. Darron, Klamath naval air station, and Major John Hazlett, Camp Tulelake, commanding of ficers of these three marine, navy and army Installations, re ported no change in- the daily, routine and the granting of no additional liberty privileges, "Work, Worship Col. Van Ordcn said the theme of naval shore establishments for the duy is "work and wor ship" and that short appropriate, ceremonies were directed with the realization that war with Japan still remains. , Participa tion in community ceremonies was authorized but this did not include parades and the celebra tion was to be consistent with a period of mourning for. the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Navy suppliers, contractors and labor organizations early in the day were requested to stay on the job. No overall.' substan tial cancellation of navy con tracts comparable to army can cellations which may develop are anticipated. Directive " Following is Col. Van Ordcn's directive to his men: "In accordance with the in structions of the secretary of the navy, there will be no change (Continued on Page Six) First Forest Fire Reported ' The weekend witnessed the first forest fire of the season on land belonging to the Weyer haousor Timber company near Gamp 4, and it was reported that the. fire, resulting from lightning strikes, resulted in relatively little damage com mercially. Although approxi mately 60 per cent of the re productive stock was burned by the blaze, none of the virgin timber was destroyed. ' By 5 o'clock Sunday morning, the Weyerhaeuser fire crew had placed a "trailer" around the blaze, thereby insuring against any further damage. It was re ported today that the fire is en tirely under control. ' An Associated Press dispatch from Reims, France, by Ed Kennedy announced the sign ing of the surrender, ending history's blood iest conflict after 2076 days. The British ministry of information said Prime Minister Churchill, would broadcast an official announcement tomorrow at 6 a. m. PWT, "in accordance with arrangements be ween the three great powers," and King George would broadcast at noon PWT Tues day "will be treated as Victory-in-Europe Day," it said, and Wednesday also will be re garded as a holiday. A Stockholm dispatch said Germans would begin, marching from Norway across the border to Sweden this afternoon, in ac cordance with surrender terms, but there was no information from Swedish officials. - The surrender to the western allies and Russia was made at Gen. Eisenhower's head- 35 Jap Ships Down ed; N i ps Gain In China By LEONARD MILLIMAN . Associated Press War Editor American bombers - reaching out from .the Philippines and Okinawa, where Yank ground forces killed 23,221 Japanese in ten days, have .sunk 35 more Nipponese ships and damaged 17 others, U. S. "On-to-Tokyo" com manders announced yesterday and today. . A Japanese breakthrough in central China to within 35 miles of tho U. S. air base at Chihkiang was - the only blight on allied ground offensives as Washington reports said 6,000,000 Americans would be thrown against Japan after V-E Day. Progress Withheld The U. S. tenth army resumed its general offensive on Okinawa after killing 3000 Japanese in last Friday's counterattack. But Yank progress was shrouded in official secrecy. In the Philippines the 25th division captured the last hill maps controlling the Balete pass entrance to fertile Cagayan val ley of northern Luzon in a four day' battle. The 24th and 31st pushed northward on Mindanao still hunting for the main force of some 40,000 Japanese report ed to be on the island. Capture Drome Australians captured the air drome, two oil fields, major military objectives on Tarakan off the Borneo coast, in the new est Pacific offensive and in one of the oldest campaigns smashed to within three miles of Wewak on the north central New Guinea coast. British forces captured two more towns in Burma as they began' mopping up about 100,000 Nipponese stranded in the ter ritory and harried disorganized units fleeing toward Thailand. Chinese reported killing 3000 enemy soldiers in three con tinuing battles during which Chiang Kai-Shek's men shattered the left wing of the thrust toward Chihkiang. The break through in the center was the closest Japanese approach to the threatened U. S. airdrome. Troops to Increase Victory in Europe promised to raise the American combat forces in the Pacific above 1,000,000 men for the first time. V-E Day Observed Here Monday Klamath . chamber of com merce announced today that the business district pro cedure for V-E Day had been carried out on Monday, and it will not be repeated in connection with any other developments relating to the European war, Next victory celebration will mark the defeat of Ja pan. . ' Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, commanding army forces in Pa ific ocean areas, ' intimated the number would not he as large as . the 6,000,000 mentioned by house military committee mem bers, but said it would never theless be "a sizable force." . - Interjecting a note of caution, Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler, commanding the 37th (Ohio Na tional Guard)' division in the Philippines, pointed out "we are only beginning to get into the tough Japanese fighting. Vic tory in the Pacific is apt to be a long distance in the future." Join B-29s ' ' Land-based bombers of fleet air wing two joined Superfort resses in carrying the war to Japan, They have been raking shipping lanes up to the gates of Tokyo. Last Saturday they sank two large oilers among a bag of 19 ships caught in the straits be tween Japan and Formosa Japan's, shortest shipping lane. B-29s followed up today with another rain oh Kyushu air bases of southern Japan their 17th such strike since March 27. In last Saturday's three-pronged strike three Superforts were lost and eight to 15 Interceptors were shot down. AP Suspended From Filing News Dispatches NEW YORK, May 7 (IP) The International News Service said today it had received the follow ing dispatch from supreme allied headquarters in Paris: 1 "Allied military authorities ordered suspension of The Asso ciated Press1 filing of news dis patches from everywhere in the European theater of operations as a result, of publication of a dispatch saying Germany had surrendered unconditionally. "This order was authorized for publication, but there was no textual announcement." Similar word was received by The United Press. Reds Keep Up Hunt for Remains MOSCOW, May 7 W) Rus sian troops, systematically exam ining the bodies found in the nazl chancellery In Berlin, have not yet reported finding Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels, al though the bodies of many mem bers of the general staff, leading stormtroopers and high-ranking nazis all suicides have been found. The Russians still believe that the report of Hitler's death was, n -in-: . ! i - i 1 1 : , ti r i N n iiafii ix iuiv, tuu uitti. tut; luvilici is in hiding. : quarters at Reims, France, by the German high command. In Washington microphones were made ready for a broadcast by President Truman. Prime Minister Churchill, after a busy day at 10 Downing St., went to see King George VI. News of the surrender came in an Asso ciated Press dispatch from Reims, at 6:35 a. m. PWT, and immediately set' the church bells tolling in -Rome and elsewhere. In the hour before the news from Reims, German broadcasts told the German -people that Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz had ordered capitulation of all fighting forces, and called off U-boat warfare. :r : ;r, Joy at the news was tempered only by the realization that the war against Japan re mains to be resolved," with many: casualties still ahead. v'::: ;'v: . The end of the European warfare, great est, bloodiest and costliest war in human history-it has claimed at least 40,000,000 cas ualties on both sides in killed, wounded, and captured - came after five years, :eight months and six days of strife that overspread - the globe. , " ; Hitler's arrogant armies invaded Poland on September 1, .1939, beginning the agony that convulsed the world for 2076 days. Unconditional surrender of the beaten remnants of his legions first was announced by the Germans. - The historic news began breaking with a Danish broadcast that Norway had been sur rendered unconditionally by its conquerors. Then the new German . foreign minister, s Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk, announced to the German people, shortly after 2 p. m. (5 a. m. PWT) that "qfter almost six years strug gle we have succumbed." ? . Von Krosigk announced Grand. Admiral Karl Doenitz had "ordered the unconditional surrender of all fighting German troops." The world waited tensely. Then at 6:35 a. m. (PWT) came the Associated Press flash from Reims France, telling of the signing at Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters of the uncon ditional surrender at 2:41 a. m. French time -(5:41 p. m. PWT Sunday), Germany had given up to the western allies and to Russia. London went wild at the news. Crowds jammed Piccadilly circus. Smiling throngs poured put of subways and lined the streets. A sour note came from the German-controlled radio at Prague. A broadcast monitored by the Czechoslovak govern ment offices in London said the German commander in Czech aslovakia did not recognize the surrender of Admiral Doe nitz and would fight on until his forces "have secured free passage for German troops out of the country." But the Prague radio earlier announced the capitulation of Breslau, long besieged by Russian farces. - A BBC said telephone conversations were going on be- 'tween London, Washington and Moscow in order to fix the exact hour of the V-E Day announcement by Prcsidont Tru man, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. . , Late in the day Prima Minister Churchill, emerging from his residence at No. 10 Downing street drove to Buckingham Palace. , V ; .' It previously had been announced that King George VI would broadcast at 9 p. m., noon PWT, on the day the sur render is announced.' ' DECLARES SURRENDER An announcement on the wavelength of the Flensburg, radio, which has been carrying German communiques and orders for several days, said: "German men and women! The high command of the armed forces hos today, at. the order of Grand Admiral Doe-' nitz, declared the unconditional .surrender of all fighting Ger man troops.".. ' ;;'' :' ' "''. The announcement was attributed to the new German foreign minister, Count Schwerin von Krosigk. ' Crowds gathered in the flag-decked streets of London and crowded about microphones. Prime Minister Churchill had arranged to go on the BBC with the .official allied an nouncement whenever it wa ready. It' was announced last week that King George VI would broadcast te his empire at vi: .;.- : .: '. . (Continued on Tage Six)
