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To) mm MM "In Tlte Shasla - Cascade Wonderland May It, 1945 Max. (May 15) 59 Min. 43 Precipitation lut 24 hours .49 Stream year to data 9,17 Normal 10.83 Lait yaar 7.53 ' Forecast) Clearing Thursday. I TIlO 1 . 1 Kill Lviv-: ',';'!' ,1 8 f ... rnNK JENKINS iff Inn Oil Okinawa mika dpTlo counterattack last m They hit uddcnly with I" . 1 at.a hum fxnnt farial cai nir iiihi were driven back and our ..u.nn cooks, bakers, Ll,,d to drop their skillets mm ana hhid ih.-. ub . .... titnii nl r ofiu uuHiicin, uujl " . .- vm and bayonets' wcre.usca L.a.. Hew like snowball!. (lie Utile yellow men wore Ota. Bill OI1F UI VU.ll- IS had only TWO men left of 240 and anoincr naa oniy it!"1-; .... L Mindanao, In the Phlllp Li ihA umfl: kind of Idy, clone quarter fighting 1 one point nenr Dnvno our nri tho Japs fight in gram L.i hioh Thev uae bayonet! lnlve.1 even mug enen uuiiir I helmew ano una ana grap llke wrestlers. One death- j Ion clashes under a Indcd American plane and H hurts'" ana me pianc up, I., mi-arlni Birdies of dvna , teek to rush into our unca human bomb of lliem- (i, but the explosive is et if our bullet! peiore incy gci '; . RE coming to think of theae Lips a silly little aavagen can mini .......... w committing suicide ana get- It over with. I li dangerous delusion, Spy are fanatical warriors ID1NG THEIR LIVES FOR fc time for hard-pressed 'M 10 meet our coming on- ht. The Japi, wiw tneir mashed and their air force idling, arc In much the mihb tion the Briiivh lounci mem 1 In ifter Dunkeraue. ., ... . 1 1 them, TJUlt l tne moat nn thins on earth and their iers In the outlying Islands been ordered to buy it will) lives. They arc obeying brder. the time being, we are com idled by the circumstances ly the Jap game, we have ve bases, such as Okinawa, filer to GET AT the- Jap In way. We have to .clean up Philippines,' in order to get I Dig islands obck into aerv ss OVER-ALL operating L with nlentv of room. It be taken for granted that play .the game- the Jap Bio longer than we hive to. 1TZ confirms today that ir earner n anes did ram up home Islands two days tow, as Tokyo radio report Vie bombed up 18 airfields scsiroyca or damaged 337 b planes. We shot up Jap blew ud Jno railroad sta- ank boats, snarled thins nerany tor the enemy all ps 01 ten of our planes l lur most Who wcrn lost. r less costlv than the kind iimng we re having to do inawa and in the Fhlllp- ls fighting the war OUR KLAMATH FALLS. OREGONf WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1945 Numbtr 10497 DDENiTZ M uropc, were comina to f with the problems that a uwnaoiy in the wake s"inuca on page Two) p Hayes bfe To ok Here Ivorable tying condtons k..i 7, "W. veteran past rndlo newscaster, to rcdnosday noon iuncncon Fh ; ' a f "yesfrom UP in Riia.n. U.....I ffoceeded on to Medord t to weather i tri. ' li. d nt reach Klam- Denton .7. p.. '!'. Vc'eran of Bataan watod prisoner of Ca niLVA6 'Philippines, spcaKcr s place t, n excellent "rcss. Ree.i di. Psychology of the NOT OITIGIAL ; -GOVERNMENT Officers Used During Disarmament Only By TOM OCHILTREE Associated Prasa Stafl Writer Supreme allied headquarters announced today that the group of German officers led by Grand Admiral Karl Uocnltz is bring used temporarily by tho allies during the disarmament of tho rclch but is not recognized as a constitutional German govern ment. The announcement said that Dornllr and other selected Ger man officers are being used temporarily to carry out duties In connection with the feeding, disarmament and medical caro of German forces. It 'specified (hat these officers ; ''are .iully controlled." i r Not te Take Burden Earlier, Prime Minister Chur chill, appearing before the house of commons against a back- ground of questions concerning 'oenltz'. exact role, said that in general it was the Intention of the allies that "the Germans should administer their country In obedience to allied direc tions," and the allies did not In tend to assume the full burden of administering Germany. Supreme headquarters said German participation in admin istration ot the relch will be for a long time on low levels, par ticularly In thn rnrnt irni. Tl, German high , command will bo dissolved. " Ksroalolc. Out -- Count 'Liidwlg Schwerln von Kroslgk, so far as the allies arn concerned, does not exist offi cially as Doenltz'i foreign min later, Robert Murphy, political dvlaor to Gen. Elsenhower, said. Without making a direct men tion of Doentlz, Churchill said: I am .not sure whether mv machinery of government, wrteth.fr central or regional, can be said to exist at present In Ger many and In any case I should prefer In roplylng to this ques tion to sneak of ariminirailnn rainer tnnn government. Allied Buiun on "In eeneral. it is nur aim iimt the Germans ahoqtd, administer innr coumry in obedience to al lied directions. We have no In- tion-mued on Page Two) Tapped For The "85" Club fp tSs j&gh' ZC.X APPROVAL OF DEFENSE PLAN ASSURED U ,S. Pan-American System Given Position In Organization Still diisy, wild-eyed and bewildered but wearing huge and apparently permanent grins, the group of more than 100 enlisted men cheer as they prepare to leave Camp Beale,, Calif., . for home under the new point release ayatem. The price of seven "E" bonds was plunked down on the coun tcr of the 7th War Loan head quarters this morning by Clem mens W. Bprtls, 640 Roscway drive, in the name bt his son, SSgt, . Rodney Bortis, U. S army airman who was liberal . PORTLAND. May 16 (P) The state highway: commission ers today had the problem of naming highway 99 or 97 the main inter-regional route plunked in their lap after two opposing Oregon delegations ar gued merits of routs passing through thelr-dlitrietg;'7:.'K.'. : J&SMmcri:vJotVJaclMon,Jb' sepnin KILLED HT NEWELL On workman Killed and another injured at the Tulelake WRA center Tun. day afternoon when a section of a Dutidlng collapsed. Workmen were movins the structure in sections in the school area when It fell, fatally crushing Dlasaburo Kawarvo, 60, alien Japanese evacuee. Yukio Nakamura, 24, American citizen, was removed to the hospital for probable back injuries, but his condition was not regarded as serious. Kawano Is survived by his Wife, Sode; two daughters, Nat suko and Mary; three sons, Thomas, James and Jack. PFC Jack Kawano is in the army, and at the latest report was serv ing In Italy. The family has notified the Red Cross of his father's death and the soldier will be Informed. A stepson, Shlzuo Takaki, also survives. The Kawano family formerly lived in Loomis, Calif., near Sacramento. DOOLITTLE SAYS , WASHINGTON, May 16 lD Here is a war bond statement, from Lt. Gen. Jamea H. DoollttU. now on his way to a new aaaignment after commanding the eighth air force In Europe: "Japan will feel the weight of millions of purchases of war bonds during the 7th War Loan. There can be no letup in either bombs or war bonds until the Tokyo war lorda surrender." cd just this week from a Ger man prison camp. This purchase of $1500 upped to $6000 sales up to 11 o'clock this morning, ncaanuaners re' ported. All were In "E" bonds which whittled down the $1,- 338,000 quota set for - Klamath county in this drive. Monday's "E" bond purchases totaled $20,000; Tuesday chalk ed up a sale of $5000 In "E' (Continued on Pago. Two) Wife Believes Himmler Killed BOLZANO. Italy. May 16 (P) Frau Margaret Bodcn Himmler believes her husband, Gestapo Chief Helnrich Himmler, "was killed with tho other reiclr lead ers such as Hitler in the fight ing for Berlin." Frau Himmler, her lo-year- old daughter, Gudrun, and her sister were found Sunday in a well - appointed mountain chalet about 15 miles north' of Bolzano in the Italian Tyrol by members of the U. S. BBth division. Pale and sickly looking, Frau Himmler told Associated Press yesterday her husband would be "better, off dead they re all better dead." She and her daughter referred to Himmler in the third person, as the 'reichsfuehrer, or simply as Himmler." the tilpliK. il "H'Kinca tne Jlle attack, while In biw .."ever be a ny witnessed in Ger- Japanese Shopping Tours Explained By WRA Official pecs M well accepted several i. -.c" ffni. li. """urea WHO chen hf 'nt-ervlce "Wed Lions, Rotarv. ei W, was to cre- .liutiat com Frequent reports that Jap anese alien men, women and children, residents of the war relocation authority center at Newell, Calif., have been seen in Klamath -Falls on "shopping tours"- was explained today by Allan Markley, head of liaison section, reports division, WRA. These Japanese, who have been held at the WRA center, Markley said, have been per mitted to come to Klamath Falls to shop, prior to their departure for future homes at approved and designated points in the United States. All irn nn the armv free list. Markley explained, and as such are riirrlh(rl as those whose loyally to 'the United States has been established. These people, f permitted tq shop prior to their caving lhe center in order to obtain adequate clothing for their residence outside the cent er, are brought to Klamath Falls under WRA escort, left to com plete, their shopping, and are then met at some designated place for their return to Newell. ' Some antagonism was ex pressed by clerks who waited on the Japanese during . shopping hours. i WRA officials said that no Japanese, other Athan those ap proved by the department of justice as loyal Japanese and thereby named on the free list, were permitted to leave the center. Highway Commissioners To Handle Road-Naming Puzzle phine and Douglas counties argued the Medford - Ashland road served twice 8s many peo ple as a proposed routing over highway 97 through. Klamath Falls. Chamber of commerce of ficers said agriculture and lum bering . will expand after the war. Malcolm Epley, managing "ed itor of the Klamath Falls Her ald and News, told the commis sion that highway" 97 was: the shortest link between Puget sound . and California. : He 'de clared motorists - save two to four hours driving the interior road , because, mountain 'grades are not as steep as on U.. S. 99. William T. Niskanen, Bend chamber.; of commerce : officer, 'SsWd,;jrjn;ijprefvlIoroent in centrai.Oregon would fesUIt in heavier traffic on highway 97. , . - Paul . B. Rynhing, Medford, secretary of the Oregon' Pacific Coast Highway association, sug gested both routes be developed, but that , highway 99 be desig nated the U. S.- inter-regional road because of its access to the coast and. its military value in that rcspectr ' " ' " " " " ' ; . Gigantic Moving Problem Faces Army Leaving Europe PARIS, May-16. (&) The gi gantic task of preparing millions ot tons of war material, tor quicK shipment from Europe to-the Pa-, cific theater fell today to the-U. 5. army. Brig. Gen. Morris W. Gillandj deputy chief of staff for supply in the European theater, whose organization must supervise the job, said that V-E day found the American armies with more than 5,500,000 tons of supplies on the continent. , t ' Packing Problem It is a problem ot rehabilitat ing, packing and shipping much of this material, which includes 700,000 tons of . ammunition. and more than a million separate William DeCew Liberated, Report Another Klamath ' Falls air man. rcDorted -missine since March 2 of this year, has. been liberated from a German prison camp it was learned today when Mrs. Thirza DeCew was advised that her husband, SSgf. Wil liam DeCew, was "back-with the military control." , i The message was received this morning from the war', de partment. ; ogi. uei;ew was snot aown while on a bombing mission over Giesseni Germany. Nothing had been heard as to his status as 'a prisoner -of war,-since the message that . he was missing reached here in March.-Details as to his liberation .were not learned. Mrs. DeCew called his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William DeCew Sr., Great. Falls, Mont., and relayed the good news to them. . . , : . -., .' Conference Set On War Crimes LONDON." May. 16 UP) An international conference on Ger man war crimes will start-in London May 31, it was .an nounced today by the United Nations war crimes commission; The commission - also an nounced It had arranged for "certain European governments''. to send Investigation officers into Germany to' help military authorities gather ;evldcnce of war crimes" there. '" . 1 items ranging from loqomotives to watch repair rtools.- . ..K ., The troops going directly to the Pacific will take all their equipment with them.' Those go ing to the- United States will carry- only essential equipment, leaving the rest behind to be serviced and' sent directly to the active war theater. - - Direct Routing , i Gilland said' the. 'transfer of all war material no longer need ed .in Europe will be done as quickly as - possible, with the major, portion going ' by direct -route. But these figures, dis closed by. Gilland indicate the immensity of the job: . The quartermaster corps must repair 94,000,000 pieces of cloth ing, the ' ordnance department must revamp 160,000 motor ve hicles,' the signal corps must work over 255,000- radios, the engineer corps 21,000 pieces of construction equipment,., the chemical warfare division 2, 000,000 gas masks and the med ical corps 23,000 pieces of electro-medical equipment. -' Gilland disclosed for the first time that the American- armies In Europe have roughly 3,000, 000 small arms, 11,000 medium and light artillery pieces, 350, 000 automatic weapons and mor tars, 62,000 combat vehicles, and 371,000 general' purpose and special purpose vehicles among their equipment.;' . ,v Jap Troops Cut OH In China CHUNGKING, May 16 '(A") A large force of. Japanese troops cut off from their -main base at Paoching after an ' unsuccessful attempt to retake Rungkow, 55 miles to the west,- are attempt ing to fight their way through Chinese linos . in -Hunan , prov ince, -headciuartcrs of the " Chi nese combat .. command said , to day. 4 V .-...I:' The combat command,' under Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure, said the Japanese pocket stretch ed . roughly from an area . 22 miles ", northeast ' of Tungkow, which is on the Paoching-Chih-kiang highway, ,. to a: point 31 miles southeast. Most escape routes to the east toward Paoch ing. ma n' base of the abortive Japanese .drive- ih'.Huna'ri, are in Chinese hands.' v : By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER . Associated Press Diplomatic . News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (P) A United 'States plan guar antceing to any group of United Nations the riaht to oreanize ior collective defense goes be fore ,the world security confer ence today backed by enoueh votes to assure its eventual ap proval.- The plan Is designed nrimari- ly to give the. Pan-American de fense system a strong and per manent' position within the pro posed world security organiza tion. . ' Treaty Proposed Secretary of State. Stettinius announced, on authority of Pres ident Truman, that the United States would invite the other American nations to negotiate a long-term mutual" defense treaty following the conference here. Formulation of 'the American plan,- with the approval of vir tually all the Latin American (Continued on . Page Two) 22nd Regiment Regains Lost; Ground On Isle By JAMES LINDSLEY GUAM, May IS W United States marines battled furioualr on the edge of Nana, capital of Okinawa island, today after re taking' ground lost in the bloodiest Japanese counterattack of the offensive, (A British broadcast of a Reuters dispatch heard by CBS in New York said Naha had fallen to the Americans. There was ne confirmation from U. S. headquarters). ' The Japanese launched their counterattack around midnight Monday after a heavy artillery barrage, said Al Dopking, Associ ated Press war correspondent. ' : - ' ,i ; At dawn one 22nd marine regiment officer said "We've been fighting like maniacs since midnight." Dopking reported that be fore the battle was over one American company had only two men left out of 240. Another company had only eight survivors. ' : American headquarters said the marines not only beat back the Japanese but also drove the enemv into the int.rior af T.W.. moioji town wnn neary losses. - Simultaneously,: Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced carrier plane raids destroyed or aamagea soy enemy aircraft and pounded 18 enemy airfields on the Japanese home islands of Honshu and Kyushu. Nimitz listed 176 aircraft riestroved. 108 either destroyed or damaged and 73 machinegunned without oDserved results. By LYNN HEINZERLINC KLAGENFURT, Austria, May 16 (JP) Yugoslav demands in the Austrian . province of Carin- thia presented the allied powers today with a confused and ex tremely- delicate situation. Two distinct military admin istrations are functioning in this provincial capital, with Yugo slav military authorities operat ing seemingly as. if. the. British eighth army did not exist, al though British military police patrol' the streets and the mili tary strength in the area is pre dominantly British.' The situation ' in Klagenfurt has not reached the tenseness of that ' in Trieste, but obviously some .agreement must be reached so the eighth army ei ther will turn its job over to Marshal' Tito's partisans or car ry out the tasK it entered Aus- . (Continued on Page Two). Government Demobilizes Swiss Army BERN, May 16 (Although Swiss newspapers were com menting extensively upon dang ers in the Polish and - Trieste questions, the government was proceeding today with demobili zation of the Swiss army. ; The newspaper Berner. Tag wacht said in a front page edi torial that the fear of a new war had prompted the western allies to arm Italy with equip ment the British and American armies left behind. Tagwacht said Russia was now establishing a cordon sani taire on her western borders even, as the western powers after the last war erected buf fer states against communism. ' NAGOY-A HIT WASHINGTON. May 16 iP) Another mighty force oi more than 500 Superfortresses to day cascaded fire bombs on Nagoya,; still smouldering from a giant attack last Sun day. The raiders swept in on the city, one of Japan's chief air craft production centers, shortly after midnight (May 17, Japanese - time) at . low levels. Japanese artillery shells shrieked overhead as a prelude to the enemy's desperate at tempt to drive marines out of the Nana sector, and a night and day battle raged wildly. ' . Shoved Back ' Marines of the -veteran 22nd regiment were shoved back 200 yards across a valley to the left of Naha before they rallied and turned the assault. - As the Japanese attack mount ed in fury; marine cooks, bakers and other -rear, echelon troops were thrown into , the battle. Hand grenades flew about . like baseballs, and .the . dead were strewn on both sides of the val ley. . - i ' -i : Hard-Won -Advances. ... 4. It was 'perhaps the most de termined enemy attack of the Okinawa-campaign and the em perors soldiers-for. a time rode a. bloody crest.. Then the 22nd veterans of .Eniwetok. and Orote peninsula absorbed the shock and literally made a step-by-step advance. . At least 400 enemy dead were counted by noon, i Brig. Gen. William T. Clement of Richmond, Va., assistant com mander of the sixth marine divi sion, of which the 22nd is a part, said grimly: Damned Bussards ' "We are well bled but we'll crush those damned buzzards before it's over." - By afternoon following the night assault the marines had re gained lost ground, but fighting still Was furious, around Sugar Loaf hill, a' strategic mound guarding approaches to Naha, tne capital city. . . j The counterattack -was a full scale, attempt by the enemy to turn the tide of the campaign, in the-opinion of one officer. "We:ve killed so damned many of them we know they are throwing a full scale blow at us," he said. .. - TRAPPED JAPS FIGHT SAVAGE DAI BATTLE By DEAN SCHEDLER . MANILA, May 16 ' OP) Trapped Japanese -troops fought -a savage hand-to-hand battle to- . day with Americans of the 24th Infantry west of Davao city on Mindanao. : - Maj. Gen.' Roscoe B.- Wood ruff's battle-seasoned veterans attacked with knives, bavonet.1 and even flailing fists as the struggle mounted in - savage fury. The battle raced in 12-foot cogon grass in foothills between the Talomo and Davao rivers.- , Pincer Garrison : To the- northwest, the 31st and 40th infantry divisions were pincering a large enemy garri son in Bukidnon .province. (Continued on Page Twd)v-" T El Max Schmeling i In Prison Camp PARIS; May 16 '(&) Max Schmeling, former world heavy weight boxing champion who was reported ' several times to have been . killed in the war, sneered at the mention of Joe Louis when he was seen in a prison camp. , Stars and Stripes reported today. The army newspaper said Maj. Clement" Wheeler. USAAF officer, from San Antonio, Tex., talked with "der. Maxie" for more - than two hpurs recently when he visited a prison camp behind American lines to which Schmeling fled. Pointers On Mowing Lawns It's just a suggestion, but before you start mowing the lawn you could run over it with a fine toothed comb and remove all pebbles and dog bones. Or better still, borrow the SVy;xmY;ss; state highway department's big mag net, wmcn win probably be as big as ' your, front yard anyway and you'll just have to turn it around and .the job's done, and get out all the big nails and slugs of metal. This warning, free and without ob ligation t6 the customer accepting same, is to aid in keeping the lawn mower in a fair state of repair. As you know, lawhmowers bit the . dust along withreal rubber girdles and automobiles. War casualties, all. One repair house reported 42 lawn mowers lined uo. natlentlv waiting the gentle hand which would sharpen the blades, fix the ratchets in the gears, and in general put them back on lawns most of which resemble a good stand of alfalfa with this week's soaking. , . .' , . All-in-all, .this same repair house said some 300 lawn mowers had. been in for an overhaul job since spring.' If it takes too long to get your lawnmower fixed, you might rent a horse, a band of sheep, or like our little feller in the picture, sharpen a scythe.. : . . ;. : . A 2. i U WASHINGTON. 'May 19 P Maj. Gen, William. J. Donovan, chief of the highly secret .office of strategic services,! will -help prosecute, turopes war. crim inals. .. ' . ' : . Supreme Court Justice - Rob ert- H. ' Jackson, 'designated by President : Truman as .this, coun try's chief war crimes prosecu tor, today announced . the selec ' tion of Donovan and two 'other top assistants: ': Sidney s. Alderman, general solicitor for the' Southern rail way, and ' Assistant "Attorney General- Francis M... Shea; both of Washington. ,. Jackson's announcement. ' - is sued by the war denartment. referred to the three as ' "ex perienced trial lawyers." - Donovan,. a -.. Congressional Medal o f Honor winner i n . (Continued on Page Two) , t Smoke Rationing Set By Military - WASHINGTON, May ,16 -OP) The armed forces will start ra tioning cigarettes, cigars - and smoking tobacco at all military and naval establishments and prisoner of ' war camps in this country June 3. : . : Supplementing an earlier an-: nouhcement by the war depart ment, the navy, said ; identical orders would be issued covering f all .navy, marine and! coast guard stations. I ..; ( . '. As' announced by the war -de- . partment, military personnel, their dependents and authorized civilian employes will be allow-. ed six packages of cigarettes, 24 . cigars or four ounces of smoking tobacco weekly. Ration cards will be i s s u e d. to all eligible persons. ; : ' .- The..-, navy announced that orders covering the navy, marine corps and coast guard services are now being prepared and will be promulgated immediate ly. . . - - ; Reds Examine Bodies Of Naiis MOSCOW, May 16 (TO The Russians continued today to ex amine closely the bodies of nazis found in the underground city discovered in Berlin, but there was no official announce ment that the corpse of either. Hitler or his Propaganda Minis ter Paul Joseph Gocbbels had been identified. Of six bodies found- in ; the reichschancellery, - four h a ve been declared definitely as not being the fuehrer. A meticulous recheck is taking place on the other two, The Russians are leaning more and more to the. idea that the nazis .might have planned some gigantic hoax in reporting the death of Hitler m Berlin, and all military men have been asked to exercise the greatest diligence in the -identification of dead nazis.
