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P' Edward Kennedy's irtory ywterday (most or wnicn nem up oy cciiaurrumn u,n to have Been sinctiy true, ni nrlntlni It todny on an. i(r. page, and wa think you agree mai ii i one m mc (. most vivid atorle to he out of thl war. Certainly lontilned Information that the lrlcn people were entitled lira WHEN IT HAPPENED. He didn't sneak hla tory bugh, having announced In nct what he was going to H make It nlaln today that roiulders the censorship "thai It it up as POLITICAL. In Its aire, ana mis writer agree Bi him. ' no stretch of the Imnuln' can It be regarded a new living military security, a German went on tho air a u they had signed and told ibout it. In the censored of yesterday. It appeared lible that something might !s been put over on the Rus ', but ft Is made plain this nlng that RUSSIAN OF- &HS were present at the mj, ma- so everything was , 1 ' pHAPS tho term "political" Icniorshlp- should bo ex- IIM here. It rinesn't moan poilcan censorship or Dcmo- c wnsorsnip, But refcra to kind of new censoring by rnmenta which smack of I the public know only It ought to be PERMITTED now. It Is what honest nw- men feel that they must gainst In tho la it hrnclh fjhllng political consorhlp JY form, sincere newspaper "! mat tncy arc defending i mo urst principles of ucmocrauc government. IS Writer hftllntfA iUmt Van. I an honest rcportor who rylni to dn hi. L I.Tki. " - """" r i tun spunK, ' . IhU critical moment In hl. Sin' 'rirl""0"1 PcPlo must rr nuAjBsr the feeling Pat the German war la all " up ana i niahnH ""ML shooting I i u t DUl lne magnitude JOB Hint IIpji nllonrl nf rape Is literally stupendous. h .ucp 'llh with those wa, the nazl war crlm murt be PUNISHED tri.1 ,lcrny- The war nais mustn'i h n..i.j generate Into the travesty E..,,hnl w ce so often pr trial, wlth American n? .i?"11 ourselvca to f the P.nmnR . - ia i '-infill wr Ma B ls all buttoned up, and 3.'f wr hands and forget , ' e 8b"ll betray future 'Hons. Thai I. ...1.-1 .... the last w, .J".'" onie of the terrible Wople this writer talk. inlsnV unhamedly glad Ml wagv0t i" 0er,ma.ny w VJ in There la In- wndency to be too soft at llvn il ,V "nrt " equally "vo feeling that th n.... L.,a "ewer, moro nrim. Up.'e B yet unbnunri hv PPle, i o nice; lli-Tl" W....HU Ml ron last 24 hour. .on I In uale R.2D ..7.31 -ler Wednesday PRICE riVE CENTS BIG 3 CONFAB EXPEGTEO S BY DIPLOMATS Solving Of Problems Following V-E Day Seen By JOHN M. HIOHTOWER Associated Pros Diplomatic News Editor 8AN FRANCISCO, Mny 8 (I1) A meeting of President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin la expected by United Nation diplomats U be arranged soon after V-E Day. These gatherings believe Hint only a gathering of the Big Three probably aomcwhero in the European area can solve some of the urgent problem now arising from the total de feat of Germany and lay the basic plans for restoring civil order and real peace to Eu rope. . These are regarded as prob lems linked closely to the job, being rushed forward by tho United Nation conference, of creating a permanent organiza tion to maintain peace and se curity throughout the world. Reinforce Demand Tho Immediate impact of the onding of tho European war is to reinforce demands of Secre tary Steltlnlus, Foreign Minis ter Eden, Russian Commissar Molotov and other leaders that the conference lose "no time In finishing lu task. This I now considered a little less than half done with two to three week of work ahead. Unanimous agreement among tho big powers on the (Continued on Page Three) FUTURE UNCERTAIN LONDON, May 8 (P) Liber atod by American troops after Jive years of nar.l imprisonment, King Leopold III of Belgium to day faced a future beset with uncertainty, Tho 43-ycar-old monarch and hla queen a commoner whom he married while a prisoner were rescued by U. S. seventh army doughboys who overpow ered German SS (elite guard) troop guarding the royal party at Strobl, eight miles cast of Salzburg In Austria. Children Accompany. With the king and queen were 18 members of their staff and their four children, three of tho latter by his first wife, Queen Astrld, who died In an automobile accident in Switzer land In 193S. . A- group of civilians had tip ped tho doughboys off to the whorcabouts of the royal en tourage, and their liberation fol lowed quickly. Mixed Reactions Roports from Belgium have Indicated that the king's homo coming would be received with (Continued on Page Three) 00 Eisenhower Refuses To Suspend Filing Privileges Of PARIS. May 8 UP) Gen. El senhower informed correspon dents at supreme headquarters today that no action could be taken against a news agency or organization for the act of any individual correspondent or cor respondents. Elsenhower replied by tele phone through his deputy chief of staff, MaJ. Gen. Sir Freder ick E. Morgan, to a letter signed by 54 correspondents at SHAEF which asked that all Associated Proas correspondents In this theater bo suspended until 24 hours after the official announce ment of Germany's surrender. ' 'Unauthorised" Story Tho eorrcsDondonts made tho request as a result of what su nreme hcadouartors described as an ,Junauthorlzed" transmission of AP Correspondent Edward Kennedy's story yesterday oi mo Reims surrender. For nearly seven hours yester day afternoon, after the surren der story was published, all As sociated Press filing facilities from tho European theater-.were suspended, but later this was lifted for all the AP staff ex in The Shattla-Comrade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 194S Jap Suicide Plane Wreckage On U. S. 5 f w Army nurses view wreckag of Jap auicide plane on the USS Comfort, nary hospital ship, which the anamy plana crashed into off Okinawa. Left to. right: Lt. Mary L. Carpenter, Le An gelm Lt. Gertrude J. Weiss, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Lt. lerme Jacoby, San Diego, Calif.,- Lt. Frances M. Lajavic, Cannonburgh. Pa.; Lt. Dorit Gardner, Kenosha, Wis.! Lt. Mary Rodden. Waukesha, Wis. The Jap plane killed 29 aboard the resseL injured 33 other and on person I mixing. (AP wlrephoto from nary). 'Cease-Fire' Order Issued By Czech-Nazi Agreement " LONDON, Mny 8 P) The .' Czech -controlled radio an nounced tonight that a "cease fire" order had been Issued In Prague and it ' vicinity upon agreement between the Czech and German commander. Marshal Stalin announced the capture of Dresden, capital of Axony, a the dying German grip slowly relaxed on the south ern Gcrmnn pocket while allied Europe celebmlcd V-E Day. The Czech broadcast said the conso. fire order was Issued at 7:25 p. m. 3 0.25 a. m. (PWT.) Olmuets Falls Shortly before, Marshal Stalin announced the fall of Olmuctz, a rail center 128 miles cast of the Czechoslovak capital. Tho Bclgrado radio also an nounced that Marshal Tito's Yugoslav partisan had captured Zagreb, capital of puppet Croa tia and last major Yugoslav city that had been held by the Ger mans. Still Fighting . Only a handful of nazl hold outs were reported still fighting at noon in Prague, largest Euro pean city still :n the hands -of defiant German forces. The Czech broadcast said who ever did not obey the order to censo fire would be court martlnlcd. The Prague broadcast said a similar order had been transmit ted to German troops by the chief of the International Red Cross i:i Prague "in the name of t!it German commander ", ' Delegation Leave It added that a Czech delega tion was leaving Prague for Ccske Budcjovlce (Budweise) in southern Bohemia territory which apparently is controlled by Gon. Patton's U. S. third army "to negotiate the uncon- AP At Request cept Kennedy himself. Kennedy is chief of the AP's western front staff. Also Suspended ' This afternoon the suspension order was Imposed also on Mor ton ludebrod, member of The Associated Press Paris Eta ft whose assignment is to super vise the distribution of AP serv ice to the French press. This service supplied Kennedy's story to Paris newspapers with the ap proval of French censorship. The AP was informed that Gudebrod was suspended, as In the case of Kennedy, pending the outcome of supremo head quarters' investigatldn. Ordered Action Brig. Gen, Frank A. Allen Jr., director of supreme headquar ters' public relations division, told a meeting summoned by cor respondents that the original suspension was Imposed at his own order "so that I might check SHAEF communications to de termine If there had been any violation by The Associated Press of transmission involving security." He said he lifted the suspen- '". ,9 (3 diiional surrender of the German commandor Raimann." . Fighting has been going on in PraRue since Saturday. Stalin said Dresden, last large German city In the hands of ths fighting German ' forces, was taken after two days fighting. William DeCew Reported Missing Mrs. William DeCew. (Thirza Anderson), today was ' advised by the war department, Wash ington, D. C of details concern ing her husband, SSgt. William DeCew, missing since March 2, over uormany. The message stated that Dc Cow was flying over Gicsser. Germany, when he and other planes In the formation encoun tered heavy anti-aircraft fire and enemy planes; When last seen,- DeCew's ship was going down unoor control. Mrs. Lie Cew is a member of office per sonnel at Hillside Hospital Vivid Account Of Surrender, Page 8 On Pago 8 of today's paper will be found the detailed story of 4 the conference on Monday morning when Nazi Germany's representatives signed tile papers of surren dcr. This story is based on AP Correspondent Edward Kennedy s original dispatch, which was. cut short by the question cf premature release. Don't miss this spontaneous, vivid account of one of the great events of history. Page 8- Of Newsmen sion order on all but Kennedy on recommendation of his inves tigating committee. Allen emphasized that "the investigation is being continued. It is not yet complete." Not Punishment The AP's transmission facili ties, he added, "were' stopped to investigate, not to punish. There coul t be no punishment until the Investigation is completed." Kennedy remained under sus pension pending outcome of the Investigation of any violation of SHAEF censorship or violation of confidence, he said. In reply to demands that com plete suspension be . Imposed again at once, Allen declared, :t Is my firm conviction that I lack the authority to punish The Associated Press as an or ganization for the act of one cor respondent." -Refuse to Sign Two correspondents present refused to sign the letter to Ei senhower on the grounds it was action before investigation had disclosed the facts, and that they were opposed to cutting off (Continued on . Page Three) Numlwr 10460 Mercy Ship - FEW CELEBRATE E It was: business as usual in Klamath Falls today, V-E ' Day. As far as state police were concerned, Monday, the day of surrender, was "more like a Sunday" than a day of celebra tion. There were no arrests of a major character and although patrols ranged throughout Klamath county, It was exceed ingly quiet. Only minor accidents, such as fender dents were reported to tne snerlii s odice. The city police reported a lit tle excitement above the Fre mont bridge at about 10 o'clock Monday morning. Two officers were on patrol when they saw someone floundering in the wa ters of Upper Klamath lake near a log boom. They ran out on the boom and pulled in a young Klamath Union high school student who had enjoyed part of his holiday from school playing around the lake.. Two other companions were on the hlllS above the lake. The boy was sopping wet but other than that, little the worse for wear. City officers arrested three teen-age drivers who were cele brating a little unwisely when they allegedly drove their cars in . excess of the speed limit. Two of the cars were stopped in Moore park, another in town. The youngsters were turned over to Klamath County Juve nilo Officer Harold Hendrlckson and he has taken the cases un der consideration. The boys gave V-E Day as an excuse for their, exuberance. " A couple of Klamath restau rants reported they ran out of food as their doors .were stormed by residents who were caught on a Monday with little left after a weekend of plentiful meals. All in all, it was a pretty quiet celebration and the busiest place was the bond booth of the 7th War Loan on Main street where Mrs. Rose Poole said sales were going thick and fast right up until 10 o'clock Mon day night. Bond Sales Hit $65,000 'Monday Seventh War Loan sales In Klamath county rose rapidly today following the opening of headquarters at 739 Main street. Monday's sales hit $65,000, and bonds were going rapidly again today. . From ; April 9 to April 30, inclusive, Klamath E bond sales amounted to $105,770, . or 6.9 per cent of the quota of $1, 538,000. Sales since May 1 have pushed the total up rapid ly. . While current sales go into the quota, the real 'campaign will start on May 14 with a kickoff breakfast, according- to Rose Poole, general chairman for the. women's groups in charge of the drive. ... ,. Guns Fall Silenf n Western; Frorrt. By The Associated Pre LONDON, May 8 The guns fell silent on the western front tonight and President Tru man and Prime Minister Churchill proclaimed the victory to the world. All hostilities were ordered ended by 3:01 p. m., PWT. The cease fire orders had come out earlier from supreme headquarters. The U. S. third army, it was disclosed, had been ordered to hold its fire at 11 p. m., PWT, Sunday, six hours after Germany's representatives had acknowledged their defeat to Gen. Eisenhower. ; . , Premier Stalin hot yet to proclaim full victory, but he announced two triumphs by his red army virtually eliminating the last resistance on the Russian sector. These were the capture of Dresden in Germany and Olmuetz in Czechoslovakia. : - Churchill announced Russia's Marshal Gregory Zhukov and other allied representatives were ratifying and confirming the peace at Berlin today. . Eisenhower said his victory had been made possible by "teamwork not only among all the allies participating, but among all the services, land, sea and air." Bath Churchill and Truman summoned their nations to a battle to the finish against Allies Gain Slowly In Pacific Theater By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Pre War Editor With the promise of huge reinforcements in men and material from Europe, allied ' around forces reported slow but steady gain on every Pacific front today except on erratic Chine battleground. Allied commander righting Japan generally greeted V-E Day with quiet satisfaction, while Tokyo' worries over possible entrance of 'the Soviet Union into the Pacific war were heightened. Gen. Jiro Minami, head of Japan's totalitarian party, told the Nipponese that defeat of Germany left them nothing "to think about but how to win." Tokyo reported Iwo Jima based Mustang fighter raided the Tokyo airfield today as about SO Superfort. continued neutralising, raid on auicide air baes in southern Japan. Bomb ers ranging down the China coast and up to Tokyo sank five sizable Japanese ships and damaged six others, . U. S. third army forces made general - advances on Okinawa where they have killed 36,535 enemy, soldiers . since they in vaded the stepping stone island 325 miles south of Japan April 1. Use Field Allied planes began operating from the captured 4600-foot air field on.Tarakan; bringing every . corner of oil rich Borneo with- in- their range. Australian uv fantrymen and Dutch colonials came within a mile and a half of completing their drive across Tarakan island first step in the reconquest of Borneo. In . the strangest battle in the Philippines the; U.- S. 41st di vision annihilated 800 ground ed Japanese airmen trapped on the Zamboanga peninsula of Mindanao.. They had fled .from New Guinea where Australians were reported closing in on We wak. 31st Gain On the western flank of Min- danoa the 31st gained eight miles while the 24th won a clash with the enemy near Davao. The 25th edged up Balete pass on Luzon in the northern Philip pines as other Yanks developed an enveloping move toward an other entrance to fertile Cagayan valley. . . , r- Germans Start Homeward M arch COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 8 (P) Nearly 300,000 Ger man troops today started me homeward march from all Den mark in miles-long columns along: the main roads. The Germans transported their luggage on wheel barrows, perambulators and other make shift vehicles. Before their . departure they burned official uaoers and blew up- all hand grenades. All their weapons are being icn at tne border. . . Troop Return Slated Soon LONDON, May 8 (fl5) Return of army combat, personnel to the United States by air on a large scale will start in a few months, Brig.-Gen. Earl S. Hoag, air - transport command chief, said today. . His organization expects to increase its trans-Atlantic and inter-theater operations of four engined aircraft by about 300 per cent to carry out its share of the redeployment program, he added. Hoag said 2000 wounded Americans had been evacuated by air to the United States since D-Day. Swiss Sever Relations LONDON, May 8 (fl5) Switz erland severed relations with surrendered Germany ' today.- Sweden, Spain and' Portugal had made similar moves in the past 48 hours. The Swiss radio said the nazl party in that Alpine country had been dissolved and its lead er, Wllhelm Staengel, was de ported to Germany, The Ger man legation and - consulates were closed. Perhaps the only remaining neutral maintaining relations witn Germany is Eire (Ireland) PLANNED FOR PEACE By WILLIAM F.5 'XRBORGAST WASHINGTON, May 8 (P)-r-r 'Congressmen,; today disclosed war - department plans, for '-tr peacetime' standing army of about 500,000 men backed up by an active reserve oi 4,uuu,uuu. Outlined behind closed dvors to the house military commit tee, the program contemplates, the committee members said. that congress will enact a com pulsory peacetime draft to pro vide tne reserve strengta. A standing, or professional, postwar army of 500,000 men would compare witn- an esti mated .325,000 in 1940. The 4,000,000 reserves,, com mittee members said, would in elude an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 national guardsmen and officers reserve corps members and 3,500,000 youths trained for one' year in the regular army and assigned to ' active reserve status. Committeemen estimated that about 500,000 would be trained each year and the reserve built up to its peak strength over a period of years. They emphasized that the pro gram is tentative and contin gent on enactment of compul sory peacetime military train ing. Girl Born Here On V-E Day One V-E Day baby was re ported born at Klamath Valley Hospital today. May a, and her birthday came on probably the most important day thus far in world history. A daughter, weighing. 6 pounds 13 ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs; L; B. Brown of 1304 Wor den, at 1:56 a. m. today. Her name is Clelleen Daye. Father Brown is serving with the United States navy and at the present time is stationed at San Diego. No More Heils For Nazi Forces By The Associated Press A communloue issued bv the German high command today and broadcast over the radio identifying itself as Flensburg announced that henceforth the greeting "Hoil Hitler" would be banned within the German armed forces. The broadcast communique was reported by .the FCC. Mop-Up Follows Surrender The day of surrender, observed Monday by Klamathites, will probably go down In history as one of the biggest clean-up days In the annals of the town. '. '.' '-':. When residents awoke to the news that Germany had capitulated, they grabbed another 40 winks and then manned the rake and shovel. Cars proceeded throughout the day in a steady stream to -the city dump where hundreds of folks de posited the winter's collection of boxes, cans,-garden refuse and everything else they found in yards and attics. . ; V-; . ; At noon, 15 cars were counted at the dumpground and . the custodian of the yard said that there weri from 15 to 20 per sons there at alt times during tho day making the most of a holiday away from the office. - yjapan. Eisenhower observed: 'The victory bells of Eurone are sounding Japan's doom." Supreme allied headquarters in a special communique said "allied expeditionary forces have been ordered to cease of fensive operations, but will maintain their present position until the surrender becomes ef fective." - Signed Sunday Germany's unconditional ca pitulation to the western allies and Russia was signed at 2:41 a. m., French time Monday (5:41 p. m., PWT, Sunday) this communique announced. Supreme headquarters an- -nounced the Germans agreed to: uroer all resistance halted; Yield all ships and aircraft unscuttled and undamaged; Ensure compliance with all further orders from the allied supreme commander and the soviet high command. .. The surrender document specified that nothing it con tained limited or restricted any terms which might later be im posed on the reich. :; - "In -the event of the German high command or any- of the forces under, their control fail ing to act in accordance with this act of surrender," it warned, phe supreme comman der . ? and the soviet high command will . take such puni tive -or v other action as they deem -appropriate." 'r"'' - Thus was effected the uncom promising dictate of uncondi tional surrender laid down by Churchill and the late Presi dent Roosevelt at ' Casablanca. Ratification Set ' "Today, said Churchill, "this agreement will be ratified and confirmed at Berlin, where Air Chief Marshal (Sir Arthur) Ted der, .deputy supreme comman der of the allied expeditionary force,- and Gen. (Jean de Lattre de) Tassigny will- sign, on be half' of Gen. 'Eisenhower. Gen; Zhukov, (first White Russian army commander) will sign on behalf of the soviet high com mand. The German representa tives will be Field Marshal Keitel, chief of the high, com mand, and commanders in chief of the German army, navy and air forces. Allied radios ordered all Ger man and German - controlled ships into the nearest ports; Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz told the German people that all arms would be laid down at 11 p. m. German time. Thanksgiving Slated President Truman in. Wash ington, announcing "a solemn but a glorious hour," set next' Sunday as a day of thanksgiv ing but .reminded "our blows will continue until the Japa nese lay down ' their arms in unconditional surrender." Prime Minister Churchill told the world the Germans had signed the unconditional sur render of all their land, sea and air forces in Europe at 2:41 a, m. yesterday. Red General Says Body Found WITH THE BRITISH SEC OND ARMY, May 8 (P) Col. Anotoly Pilugin, war correspon dent of Tass, official soviet news agency has said a Russian gen eral had stated that the body oi a man identified as Adolf Hitler had been found in the ruins oi Berlin. The Russian general was not named. - . During a meeting . two days ago between Marshal Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery and - Mar shal Konstantln Rokoss -sky oi the - conci White Russian army, Russian officers asked Pilugin, who; is attached to the British second army as a war correspon dent, whether the British be lieved Hitler was dead or alive
