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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
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rn am nMnfri.ui i
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woreme allied hcadqunrt-Pr-
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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
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broadcast to Nazi Nation
j iro.;;.. .? i" ,h tmtt of
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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
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