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Newspaper Page Text1 3) m r . : fit The ShuHia - Casende Wonderland May 12, 1943 Max. (May U) 80 Min 45 Precipitation last 24 houri .01 Btraam yaar to data 8.43 Normal 10.51 Last yaar 7.46 Forecast: Rain today, coolai Sunday. . ..... .j Br FRANK JENKINS Oo0 yards By 0 blocks) MallU yve Kim" a ii (I counted I, 0,000 of the 0U.000 Japs E .Li io Imvo garrisoned tno now ' " ' 'underestimated their orlg Snslli we re lowly near- IM cud o( tho jOD wnicn ii finished when wove Led them, ALt' II japs as renin lit ore ns nigh (.ana appaii-n" 0V?'. ... I..I Ih. F. i.iriv wide river in front I hi Two Jui'S luntt them i with explosives like a imis tree, dashed out onto ULKW THEM- kES TO GLOItY, damaging S . ii. nnku Hlriirturu. K rfwploucd new tech- L o( finishing them off In i We get AUOVE the en 1, pour down a young river isolinc nn " -v. results arc described ns lal-tnrv. Iddc plane attacks on our funding fleet continue. It Is the kind of war that being fought ui tno t'oci- Jsnsncsc on Tnrakan are Lhn with lluorlsh fury. ive lo hove Tnrnknn nlso, se of Its oil. Tho Austral- there, like our men on iwa, will pay tne price, vtr It has to be. British are launching lnnd Id sir attacks from cap- Rangoon preparatory to on ol Tnaiianu aim maiaya r consult your map.) YO radio says that for t second dny In a row limes are uttiicking Jnp n off tho Korean pcnin- tin tlic Sen of Japnn. Our be, of course, is to slop fiifmy from getting men Snitcrlal from ills home to the Asiatic mainland. Japs are supposed to bo Is war factories to Korea sanchurla.) L p brings up an Interest- speculation. re Pearl Harbor, the iro supposed to have start- TUNNEL from Kyushu (southernmost of their igroup) to Fusan, at the the Korean peninsula. lance Is about 130 miles. jch roughly a third is In- m three Islands. Tho 1)1 the tunnel is shown on t mops. It the ittln vellnuf men lone In the wny of build- oi course unknown. Its lo them, even If corn- would be problematical. ra certainly do an lm- joo of bomb nc the pari of the route where (es the Islands. . ' give us an idea of randiose plans In those Is still shnnlins In hoslovnkln. hut It in. fday that Field Marshal f cr nnzi dlchords are K1' Hckcd and are run- Kium the Russlons TO- ur American lines. The 1 Src swinfflnff nlnpAr lrund them. saboteurs aro busv Ui "i Where scornn nf flro P"!et every night and polling at the Rus- st burst of frustration ,P " Berlin subways, -uimnas oi ucrman taken rotuao from i Pago Two) KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SAT U R D A Y, M A Y 12, 1945 Number 10464 tVlazi Univs Capii-ulate; Yank Troop Shift Starts NEW LINKUPS EFFECTED BY REDS TANKS Wnucd er Bradshaw rted Missing JLU1ltcd stntc rrny, reported missing In c- f . onitti pru ii, 1 10 Wnrri vMnAU.AJ )l u. . "s prcsoiuec In r,cort,for w""'d r Sl?.ecmber of '844, Dirit lhF.Bronzo Star r out. "Jfnea Service outstanding action in r of ilofl,ovor,,eas "'nee ?' 1044. and rnl,, a FlsyCermfelnJ- Ictlve , '""aiiHW nas roan ii. . "'vision in ean theater of opera- Nlllr ehlMrcn re'-, By TOM OCHILTREE Associatad Press Staff Writar The major portion of the nazl units In northern Austria capitu lated tudny as Itiuisinn troops further compressed the Gcrimin pocket In Czechoslovakia and ef. fected Ihree new Junctions with tho Americans, German troops still were fight ing bitterly in Czechoslovakia as they sought lo flee westward through a rapidly narrowing cor ridor toward the American lines. Battle in Berlin Futile last-ditch nazi resist ance continued in captured Ber lin Itself. Scores of fires were being set nightly in the shattered capital, and soviet soldiers have extracted the bodies of hundreds of German civilians from sub ways flooded by the nozls. A dispatch from the U. S. ninth army said there were indl cations that at least one Amcrl can division probably the sec ond armored (Hell on Wheels) division would participate in a token occupation of Berlin. Thus for Berlin has been occupied by the Russian! who captured the city.. .... Linkup Effected -The Russian linkup with the Americans in uzccnosiovakln was accomplished by Marshal Ivan S. Koncv's first Ukrainian army near Rokycany, nlno miles east of Pllscn. and. by Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's second Ukrainian army below Pramie in the area southeast of Coskc uudclovlco. Second Ukrainian army troops atao occupied Gcmucnd and Zwettl in Austria near the Aus trian-Bohemian frontier 45 miles northeast of Linz. Tho third Junction with the Americans was made in that area. - Long lines of German prison ers moved toward tho soviet un ion from every sector of what until a few days ago was the e. stern front. Tho total number ot prisoners taken by the Rus sians between Wednesday and Friday has risen to tho neighbor hood of 600,000. Sella Funk American seventh army troops seized Dr. Wslthcr Funk, presi dent of the Rclchsbank and Ger man minister of economics, and Gciv Hiroshi Oshlma, Japanese ambassador to Gcrmnny. Two hundred German ministerial personnel, including many top ranking nazis, and 130 Japanese diplomatic personnel also were taken into custody. One Survives Sinking Of Ship WASHINGTON. May 12 W) The state department todny said it had notified Japan through the Swiss government that only one person survived the sinking of a Japanese ship believed to be tne Awa Maru. It identified him as Katnaro Shimodn, 45, who said he was a steward on the Awa Maru, a Jap anese relief ship returning to Ja pan after carrying supplies to al lied prisoners In Japanese occu pied areas. 23 Die In Utah Mine A coal ear carries .rucm era w men and soma bodies of 23 minors who' died n an explosion In 'th'i .Uut Pual' eompi mina at Sunnyilde. Utah. (AP wirephoto). -''' :.vV ftal Cross - Cascade BaWe Arises Over Road Routes A cross-Cascade controversy over the relative merits of two highway routes will come to a head Tuesday, when delegations from both sides appear before the state highway commission in Portland. ' The disputed routes lie be tween Eugene, Ore., and .Weed, Calif., and the question before the commission is designation of one or the other as part of an interstate highway system set up by federal law. Willameti Backers A delegation representing K amnth Falls, Bend, Lakcvicw. and other-points, will be on hand to urge the designation of the Britons Angered By Handshaking LONDON. May 12 (A') The News Chronicle said today that reports of the reception Rclchs marshal Hermann Goering re ceived on his surrender to the U. S. seventh army had angered the British people. The editorial said the British particularly were angered by a report that Brig. Gen. Robert Stack of the U. S. 36th divi sion shook Gocring's hand. . (An Associated Press dispatch from Kutzbuhcl, Austria, on May B said both Gen. Stack and MaJ. Gen. John . E. ualquist, 36th division commander, were present when Goering was re ceived. The dispatch mentioned a handshaking ceremony, but tho principals wore not identi fied). . Sugar Rationing Tightens; Industrial Supplies Halved By HOWARD FLIEGER WASHINGTON, May 12 (P) Increasingly .tighter sugar ration ing, cutting industrial users to 60 per cent of their pre-war supply.- appeared In prospect for mid-year today. Sugar allotments to household ers for homo canning win do reduced too and it will ne a lot harder to get them from local rationing boards. Shortage Grows OPA officials, testifying yes terday before the house food In vestigating committee, said the deep retrenchments are neces sary because of a growing sugar shortage, augmented in port by a 700,000-ton over-issuance of sugar to civilians in 1944. Industrial users of sugar soft drink bottlers, candy makers, bakers, etc. now receive an average of 70 per cent of tho amount they used in 1941. OPA witnesses conceded that the agency marie home-canning rations too simple last year. As a result, householders drew out 300,000 more tons of sugar for that purpose than local boards were supposed to Issue. i "It was extremely easy," said Rationing Administrator Max McCullough's statement, "for a consumer lo gel sugar ostensibly for canning and use It for other purposes. . . . We know now much was used for. other pur poses." Tougher Now It'll bo tougher this year. The total home-conning allotment has been frozen at 600,000 tons agninst more than 1,000,000 used last year. Quotas will be fixed above which local boards cannot gO. ;,. - Applicants for canning sugar will have to list for the board the types of food they plon to can, how much sugar each type will require and other information which was not necessary to get an extra sugar supply last year, v i route from Eugene by way of Klamath Falls, called the Wil lamette route. . A number of communities along the Pacific highway . in southern Oregon will be repre sented oy a delegation urging that the Pacific be given the inter-regional title. Schaupp's Proposal . . The issue came into the oDcn at the last meeting of the high way commission. Arthur Schauop. Klamath Falls, a mem ber of the three-man board, at mat time made an open state ment of information supporting designation of the Willamette route. He argued that engineer ing advantages made it the na tural through route, and there fore it better fulfills the pur pose or tne- inter-rcglonal sys tem. He pointed to the Southern I'acxic s relocation, of its main line, from approximately the Pa cific highway, route to the Wil lamette route, as ample proof of the advantages of the Willam ette route . for through travel. Ho said it would cost less to build and to travel. Schaupp's declaration created excitement along the Pacific highway. A meeting of the Pa cific Highway association was quickly called, and a committee named to gather a mass of in , (Continued on Page Two) . Jap Air Strength Said Declining OKINAWA, May 12 (UP) Capt. Lloyd C. Kirkpatrick, 1900 Esplanade, Klamath Falls, mem ber of marine Corsair squadron, today declared Japanese avia tion has declined vastly since Guadalcanal and Rabaul cam paigns. Capt. Kirkpatrick and fellow patrol pilots bagged 15 enemy bombers in 15 minutes although never involved aerial combat before. His squadron was run ncrup In kills to a patrol com manded by MaJ. Jefferson Davis Derrah of Hood River, whose 12 planes destroyed 24 dive bomb ers in 25 minutes, got four prob obles ond damaged six others. Derrah personally igot six with two probables. Most Japanese are 'without rear gunners and are escorted by outdated Matos fighters, predecessors of Zeros,-Kirkpatrick said. . EXEMPTIONS fijai GIVEN TROOPS By ROBERT EUNSON PARIS, May 12 (P) The U. S. army's v?st redeployment plan to shift fighting men from Eu rope to the Pacific began opera tion today, following an an nouncement by Gen. Eisenhower that combat troops who served both in North Africa and Europe would not have to fight in the Japanese theater. " "We must be sure," Gen. Ei senhower wrote lo generals of his command, "that no soldier is- sent to the Pacific who. has fought in both North Africa and -Europe. "It mav'be that xnmp snlHinr. Jn this category, will not have sufficient points to be eligible for discharge. However, these men should be retained in the European theater of occupation and should not be required to fight another campaign." Jap War Factor Uppermost factor in the opera tion of the redenlovment nl an said Lt.- Gen. Lucius D. Clay. deputy military cAvnrnnr nt v ,ViIS" group control council, was the Problem of annlvmo whelming --foreeto--bring "the war against Japan lo a quick i end." . iroops Which have amasKPri suiucient points based on serv ice, dependents and decorations, win be discharged.. When-the scores are tabulated they will be sent to the war department, wiuuii win ueiermine wnac score win oe low enough to permit the release of 2,000,000 men while retaining 6,968,000 neces sary to fight Japan and occupy uewnany.. Issues Involred r Among the foremost factors involved are the immediate training oi troops now in Ger. many and France m Japanese tactics, and the matter of lpa and accommodations for troops awaiting reassignment or ' dis- cnarge. pome American service tronns already were moving toward kronen ports, for the beginning of the long journey to the Pacif ic area. Combat troops will be gin moving in about six months. it win be 45 days before the army knows the names of the men who will be sent home un der the pnint system. Gen. Ei senhower's letter said - When the Den rings we must be DreDared to release the high point men in each combat division who are eligible for " discharge, even though it results in an immediate reduction .of divisional strength below the authorized figures." NAT ONS TO CONTROL PEACE POWER Small Countries Lose Battle For More Authority GAMES CANCELLED Rain has necessitated can celling baseball g a m i be tween the Marin Barracks nine and the Falrfleld-Suisun Skymatitrs scheduled for to day and Sunday. Marina of ficials said that games would be played later in tha saason. Nelson Resigns Diplomatic Post WASHINGTON. Mav '12 UPi Donald M. Nelson has resigned as White House representative to "other eovernments" and President Truman has named Edwin A. Locke Jr. to carry on his work in China. Locke was Nelson s executive sslstant on his missions to China, Russia, England and Australia. The resignation of Nelson. former Sears Roebuck execu tive who left the chairmanship of the war production board to take over various special diplo matic assignments for the late President Roosevelt, is effec tive May 15. Marine 'Ace "Fil" Capt. Kirkpatriek By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 W) A United Nations confer ence committee voted today to keep within the hands -of 11 na tions the major powers of a world organization for main taining peace... , Thus the smaller countries lost the first big test of their effort to win more authority for themselves in shaping the course of a peaceful world. Unanimous Vote" The committee vote was unani mous, although some countries refrained from balloting. It's de cision still mnct n .atl,A.l u.. . c . UV11ILU a conference commission, under wnicn it nneratis. an K., !. ... i ------ UJ MIC full conference. The issue could be reopened in the committee itself. Dele gates of several small nations were reported to have said they might ask for a review in case iney are unaDle to nut arrn SOme . Of thpir arlrliti'nnal J mands, such as bids for more power for a general assembly of all the United Nations in ad vising tha pnnnpil J ... w,i ocuwtjr matters, or even authority to o-tepi or reject council action. 1 vcigraai nan What thrt rammittM MnM..VJ today, after.twpdays of heated aigumeni, was tne original pat tern for a security council draft- ing the conference China. Brit. ain, Russia- and the -.United States. These countries, with' France, would have permanent council seats. The six remaining seats would be. rotated among other nations at two-year" intervals. ' . Under the Big-Four plan, the council would have' the power to use measures not only for peaceful adjustment .'of interna tional disputes, but also the right .to use force of arms if need be. DIES AT ASHLAND Japanese Routed In China; Leaders Eye Mainland Conquests By LEONARD. MILLIMAN . Associated Press War Editor Allied offensives -crunched ahead today on the tightly guarded ridges of Okinawa and the hills of interior China as a meeting of generals in Chungking indicated the imminent launching of sweeping campaigns to drive the . Japanese from central China and southeast Asia. The first war item to be rcconsigncd from the European theater to the Pacific whole blood arrived in Guam as four. Yank divisions on Okinawa plunged into the biggest American ' land offensive of the Pacific war. Chinese reported they had recaptured two cities, Tungkow and Taohwaping, in the continuing rout of an unsuccessful Japa nese drive toward the U. S. Chihkiang air base, 250 miles south- cast of Chungking. In three other-battles northeast of the Chinese capital, 9300 Japanese were reported killed or wounded, huge quantities of war material seized and strategic heights taken. Confer In Chungking In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek conferred with Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, deputy supreme commander of the southeast Asia-China theaters, and Maj. Gen. Albert Wede.' mcyor, American commander in China, presumably over coordi nating promised major off ensives in China, and conquest of Thailand and Singapore. - In a move to speed the end of the southern Philippines cam paign the 40th division landed on northern Mindanao where Gen., Douglas MacArthur said Nipponese garrisons have already been so badly cut up by two other U. S. divisions and guerrillas that they are "incapable of serious resistance." Launch Offensives The gruelling battle for Okinawa, 325 miles south of Japan, rose to a new pitch yesterday involving repeated bayonet charges by both . Americans and Japanese, when four divisions launched a general offensive behind heavy naval, air and land' artillery.' bombardment. Tank-supported Yanks perhaps 30,000 of them killed off Japanese making night-long attacks and infiltrations and then launched their own attack along the four-mile front across the island yesterday morning. They gained from 200 to 800 yards. Behind e v e r y advance flamethrowers and flaming gasoline burned byrpassed Japanese. out of holes. - - Near Capital Port Sixth division marines were .less than a mile from Naha, capital, port and major objective., on'.'. Okinawa. - First division marines and 77th infantrymen gained Jiigh . ridges looking down on either side of Shuri fortress in. the center. The 96th, appar ently replacing the .battle-weary ; 7th infantry, on ihe east, kept pace. - - - -'-.: ' The .advance will be slow and unspectacular, said Lt.' Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner of the 10th army, . "but you will see many Japanese killed." . " - So far, 39,469 have been, killed since Okinawa was invaded' April 1. By comparison 16,730 dead Nipponese have been count ed by the fourth British corps in the same period in Burma, where newly-won. Rangoon has already been transformed into, a base for an invasion of Thailand and Malaya. - Higher Casualties Seen ,r - Higher .Japanese casualties were indicated in western China possibly 25,000 killed as a Chinese army , spokesman an nounced smashing 'of the Japanese drive for. the U. S. air base at Chihkiang was merely a prelude "to a general Chinese coun teroffensive." ; -- v - . -Mounting U.-S.-navaf casualties-both- at -sea-and on- land werst -indicated in the Okinawa offensive. Heavy Japanese air attacks, pressed despite the loss of 40 planes, damaged three light U. S. naval units. Including personnel losses on these vessels,-Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced 6853 naval casualties have been suffered in Okinawa operations. They include 1283 killed, 2072 missing and 3498 wounded. ; In the newest invasion of .Mindanao; the 40th 'landed in the rear of the main Japanese forces,, already pressed by the 24th and 31st divisions and several guerrilla forces operating under U. S. officers. . ' htiracite4rea Hit By Coal Lack; Miners Out Thomas 6. Johnson. 62. former Klamath Falls resident, died sud denly at his home on the Siski you highway near Ashland late Thursday, according to word re ceived nere. Johnson and his wife, Ger trudeoperated the Pearce Beau ty shop at 112 N. 9th. for 18 years, and sold the business the first of the year to Kathryn Han kins. Just a week ago, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson moved to the val ley. His death was attributed to a heart attack. The late Mr. Johnson was born in Oslo, Norway, February -15, 1883. He came here with' his family in 1924 and entered busi ness. In addition to his wife, Gertrude, Mr. Johnson is sur vived by a son, 1st Lt. Robert Johnson who has arrived from Tornoy General hospital. Palm Springs, Calif., to be with his mother. Services for Mr Johnson will bo held from the chapel of Ward's Klamath Funeral home, 925 High, Tuesday at 1:30 p. m., with flie Rev. S. M. Topness of the Klamath Lutheran church of ficiating. Commital services and interment will follow In Mt View cemetery, Ashland. SCRANTON. Pa " May 12 W) There's a coal shortage problem facing Pennsylvania's chilled an thracite area where 72,000, miners have been idle for 12 days in a contract dispute. With temperatures hovering several degrees above the freez ing mark, more than 1000 pupils were dismissed yesterday in nearby Dunmore borough when authorities closed lour- scnools because of lack of fuel. Supplies Vary Scranton school authorities, said supplies were ample for the time being but two city hospitals reported dwindling reserves American Zone Of Occupation Set WASHINGTON, May 12 UP) The Army and Navy Journal said today the American occu pation zone in Germany would cover Bavaria,' Wurtemberg and Thuringia with a supply corridor from British-controlled Bremen. France, said the unofficial service journal,' "will have a large part of the Rhineland with possible some additions from the zone assigned to us." -. The zones for Great Britain and. Russia were not discussed in the article, but it has been as sumed the British would occupy northern Germany and Russia the area generally cast of lower Elbe and the MUlde rivers. Mothers Honored Sunday Mother is supposed to take off her apron tomorrow. Moth er's Day, and to receive all the homage due her on this na tionally observed Sunday. Wire orders were swamping local florists, one ot whom termed the Mother's Day flower' business "overwhelming." Due to the great number ot service men in this area, the 1945 Mother's Day demand for, bouquets was expected to over shadow all previous years. . - Roses were most in demand as cut flowers, but potted plants rated a close second in choice. The telephone company was prepared for landoffice busi ness starting early Sunday morning, and extra help had been added to handle the influx of outgoing calls as well as calls coming jn to mothers here whose sons and daughters are scat tered all over the continent; This is the fourth wartime Mother's Day, founded 31 years ago by Anna- M. Jarvis of Philadelphia. Miss Jarvls Is old and blind and too enfeebled to worry greatly, how people are observing the day Which she founded.' MisS Jarvis started the Mother's Day movement in 1907 in tribute to her mother, Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis. Ori May 7, 1914, a joint resolution was passed in the house of representatives designating the second Sunday in May in honpr of mothers. The senate concurred, my .., .rresraeni . r usqn proclaimed me day,. would last tlyough only the weekend. : ' Dealers said they were unable to make deliveries, pointing to empty bins ' Draw on Reserve ' ' In Luzerne county's mine-studded -Wyoming valley, industrial plants said they , were drawing upon fuel reserves. . "There is practically no coat available in the valley," said R. A. Davis, large Wilkes-Barre re tail dealer, adding that the situa tion is serious. - Hospitals and manufacturing plants have first call on what coal is -available. . - Borrowing Evident -' Many householders are; boA rowing from neighbors with bet ter filled bins. The small amount of retail sales being made are in baglots. Dealers in Hazleton, another rich anthracite section, said the shortage was "not severe yet" but added "if the situation con-' tinues we'll soon be seeing the bottom. of our coal piles." Logger Injured By Falling Snag Frank Morgan, about 45, was in . a critical condition at Hill side hospital today, victim of an accident which occurred in the woods near. Bly at. 10 o'clock Saturday morning when, he was struck by a falling snag. Morgan, employed by Crane mills, was unconscious at a late hour this afternoon. He: was rushed to the hospital by the Klamath Ambulance service. Morgan is suffering from head and leg injuries. . - Poland May Join United Nations SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 (P) The way was left open today for, Poland to join the United - Na tions organizations ns a charter member, even though there is no Polish delegation here.. The membership committee of the conference voted that all al lied nations which sign or ad here' to the charter will be origi nal members. Poland is the only United Nation member not here. . . ..... , v. - , ' Denmark could be included . under this provision, too. She has not been among the United Nations because of German oecu- pation of. the homeland. -;