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Newspaper Page Textin YANKS ENTER ijiifiliiilili AM IIP a, fBANK JEniwno IrE It noma more or uuh kind .01 ' - t. hit rcrnu-DiM"'"' ' k with ANOTHER 3500-on E hicciidlnry raid, striking mid M by the Jlghl of r Ire. UMlcd by Monday's Jffwvii.tpr . who been over NiiKoyB 14 limes r . n..rnra no excltod be- t.ri nv hi- tllnk there b Okinawa, we get across the Annio nvrr i gre miu iu - .untnriH iilrect. ii mooted Sliurl caittle "' " " h,. Island. We're Mini V wlth everything we ilboirtbi from planes, shells bnltlenlilps OH rmcii nu Xilirently h astonishing Itt of resistance. - up counted o far about 47,000 JP bodies, not hi nt inouc un i ..n..-. Is There wu.il be a lot we '4 found. L latent riicm i that about InO Japs, many oi L,A urc left on the Inland. .... . - hlIe U ciojc, moic v.cio hE thnn 60,000 to begin Bit Iosjic o fnr (ground lorcen only, not inciuning knH nnvvi are 3781 (lead, Sit uimmded and 103 missing. p1 .. . . ,, , irdlnl to mo De.ii avaunoic million, about 97 per cent ir puclilc wounocn recover. ratio oi acHu nu ii ih to each American. Nlmiti II uo this way toaay: in IS days of Okinawa, we ve n average oi ou mura pi md the Japs nave toai a average of lull. E Chines who got into Foo- how the other day have been out By the japs, wnien lids us again that we must Ch neae victory reDorts considerably more than the krbta oral n of sail. J lie kit ire Inclined to be: optl 4. Ml.. ...Ilal ll.m..'..a : 111 IIIHIIK HUii 111. vv lo. the enemy, r RE Is a Washington dij Itch today telling of JAP L FEELERS. all very secret. NOTH- official. Tho .technique lo be for some Jap to ask neutral to "feel around" hit American friends for t on their "real Ideas" on The Jans who are do ins Icllng out seem to be will- talk about anything but K... . . auionai surrender. , ; ire seems to be consider worry among the Jap .my classes, which lends to the reports. History is it is always the wealthy, nve MUUH to lose bv do pho get worried first when ws from the f shtliu? front pd- (In the case of Japan. Jpor devils of commoners l. even LIBERTY in lnse. mve only their lives, me state owns, anyway.) Washington d I s Da t ch blCS noboriv. Rut it la an itlng development Just the (Indicating that the Insiders f getting some glimmering unnamcntal fact that tho ought to be told some part Mum aooui what Is going be Truman h hA 0 dO With it Tlln un h Id OWI Elmer Davis' ears- gne otner day on the gen- rjcii oi censorship in now' ucrmany is encouraging, 0 snow our approval of now note of candor bv ft It SENSIBLY and wy-and NOT jumping ''lon that are In no way i oocsn i mean mat "i me pacific Is lust the PnrnK- ATT 14 Is that tho .ton. .. - Mod and would like to hey couij rio H b i'easuro of their LOOT. 'ay.to i bring them to their O KEEP HITTING HARD "nucd on Page Five) In The Shaala- Cascade Wonderland May 17, 1945 Max, (May 16) 52 Min 33 Precipitation last 24 hours Trace Stream year to date 9.71 Normal 10.6S Last yar...'..".".7.52 f orecast: blearing Friday. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945 Number 10468 U-Boat Crew Surrenders In British Port The craw of the German U-boat 249 is lined up on the foredeck of the submarine under a Polish naval guard before being turned over to military guard ashore at Weymouth, In south ern England, where the U-249, which had been at sea 40 days, surfaced and was escorted into port. (AP wlrephoto via radio from London). ch Costs f Pony $7050 LT!?K' M?y " m- l -..... was Daimy, Just K S Knme of catch kiio??sohold Finance Pn is out $t080. krk V ?"J?!!5 handy nlllio?- Th"y; were nie money to a IUahI I . . thn r, ; 7. .uck ana XmS Catherine missed, Pag land. J I hM,u " c u near a Kter,er',twiu- t0O1r,O"Look Inside, Fuuce, squc "way with it Prisoners Work For Allies; Search On For Hitler Gang By TOM OCHILTREE ' Associated Press Staff Writer Thousands of German prison ers were being used today .in the gigantic task of redeploying American forces and equipment now In Europe for ' the ' war against Jnpnn. . The Germans were recondi tioning equipment, crating sup plies,, and repairing tho roads over which U. S. army material F By JOHN M. HIOHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 (P) Completion of a new peace leacue charter now appears nrob able in about three weeks, but in the background of the United Nations conference critical big- power problems arc piling up tor the monins ancaa. The hent Is being turned on to set the Job here llnisnca Conference committees, raking oyer proposed ' changes in the basic .Dumbarton Oaks security plan,' are eliminating many amendments. Their work to date strongly Indicates that the plan for an all-powerful 11-mcmbcr security council and a general assembly limited lo debating peace protv lems and advising on their so lutlon will go through. This was borne out late last nlaht bv the action of the con fcrcncc committee studying as sembly duties in voting down a whole series of small nation pro posals for giving the assembly some control over council ac tions, One result of tile pressure for speed may bo for the other big nations lo move ancaa on slh tloment of urccnt issues without waiting for full agreement with Russia whenever Moscow re sponds slowly lo soviet delega tion requests tor instructions. will flow back to the Atlantic ports. . Nails Reconstruct Britain and Russia already are using war prisoners for recon struction. . Other German prisoners prob ably will be used in farming trying to. raise enough food to win what obviously will bo a close race with starvation - In middle Europe next winter. Seek Gang Allied troops continued their relentless hunt for the remain ing members of Adolf Hitler's Inner circle still at' large. If it is accepted that Hitler, nazl party Deputy Martin Bormann and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph GoSbbcls arc dead, the principnl arch nazis still at large are 'Gestapo Chief Hcinrich Himmlcr, nazi' Foreign Minister Joachin von Ribbcntrop and the notorious anti-scmltc, Dr. Julius Strcichcr. Dr. Robert Ley, fanatical lead er of the German labor front, and Lt. Col. Otto Skorzcny, who led the German raiding party which rescued the late Benito Mussolini in September, 1943, after Italy's surrender,- now are in American hands. . . Werewolf Mastermind A counter intelligence officer said that the capture of Ley "may be even more important than the surrender of poering because we have proved indis putably that Ley is the master mind of the werewolf movement." Acting on a tip from the Gcr man underground the 101st air borne division took Ley into cus todv last nieht at BerchtcsKadcn The same division also picked up Fritz Sauckel, Ley's man power coordinator and gauleiter for BercntcsKaacn, ana uapt, Bernard Strcdclc, area leader for Berchtesgadcn. , A dispatch from the U. S third army In southern Germany said an anti-Russian resistance movement may have been nip' ped in the bud with the arrest of Ernst Kaltcnbrunncr, who had been chief of the nazi secret service since the assassination of "the hangman," Reinhard Hey. drich, in 1042. FDR BOND SALES Promotions In the 3rd army of the 7tlv War Loan were re ported today to Ann Rickblcl, chairman of retail sales, as the "Mighty 7lh" passed the fourth day of the drive. Ratings earned to date are: Nev Blazes Kindled Dn Nagoya By B-29s By JAMES LINDSLEY GUAM, Moy 17 (AP) A great- fleet of more than 500 Superfortresses kindled huge new conflagrations today in Nagoya, war vital Japanese aircraft and arsenal center still in flames from Monday's incendiary raid. Tho B-29i struck shortly after midnight, dropping more than a million fire bombs from medium altitude by the light of flares and fires started in Monday's 500-plone strike. - Japanees broadcasts reported that 12 hours later 40 fighters from Iwo Jima strafed the Fukisawa district on the southern outskirts of metropolitan Tokyo. Today's B-29s dropped more than 3500 tons of fire bombs on a 16-square-mile target area centered on the section adjoining Nagoya's inner harbor and estuary docks, the only portion of the city not previously hit by incendiaries. - Heavy fires were left roaring along the waterfront, reported Lt. George Walker, Super- iort navigator from Boston, mass. Japs Seek Loophole In Surrender Terms By JAMES D. WHITE WASHINGTON, May 17 (P) Japanese diplomats and busi ness men In neutral capitals are stepping up their efforts to find some loophole in the allied formula of unconditional surrender. . Diplomatic quarters, emphasizing the unofficial nature of these activities, reported today that the number of individual and purely private peace feelers has grown markedly since the fall of Manila and the invasion of Okinawa. The. usual technique is for a Japanese to request a neutral to inquire around among Americans for their "real ideas" on peace terms. . There is nothing definite about these inquiries except the suggestion that Japan might consider almost anything except unconditional surrender. . No Specific Terms Heard i . . Not a word has been heard through official channels about specific terms, it is learned. Current reports that a definite offer had been received by the office of strategic services were dis: counted here by high officials conversant with Japanese affairs. Each private inquiry wafted toward Washington is given careful study here according to what seems to be its merits and possibilities: One appeared, for instance, to have originated among the "Saibatsu" or wealthy families of Japan,: but could npvAl- hi nnsHivMv irfontifiaH nc fturh .. Thpri WAS -some ' SUiT- r' f!?nrc,?'u.- SccraUi(sMmv4hatiaMotbBr-iTnight have originated in court-circles, buM- LaPoinfe s,' Rachel Johnson, gen-thig was. not bornE out .ubscouentlv. . : . ,; : ... ''. k 1 Officials emphasized that the lack of any official nature In these hints of a Japanese interest in peace make them practically worthless. .... , "Unconditional Surrender" Stands ' The American attitude, was summed up by President Truman in his V-E day warning to the Japanese that the unconditional surrender formula was their only way out. ' "Our blows," said the president, "will not cease until the Japanese military and naval forces lay down their arms .in unconditional surrender." He then pointed out that this would not mean the extermination or enslavement of the Japanese people but would mean the end of the war and their present sufferings. . ' ' ' This statement, it is understood, was intended to serve notice on Japanese leaders that vague hints and feelers about peace would avail them nothing until they become official and therefore representative of the military Clique which today con trols Japanese political affairs. Hitler Hysterical Over Death Of FDR, Says Aide PARIS. May 17 OP) Adolf Hitler went Into a fit of hysteria when the news of President Rnnspvnlt's death reached him in his underground chamber of the chancellery in ucrnn ai miu niiriit Anril 12. his former sec retary said In an Interview with the Dally Liberation. - The secretary, Gcrhardt Herr Resell, said Hitler had presided over the usual night conference and stretched out on a divan after the other German leaders had departed. "Great News" Suddenly Lorenz, one of the Ercss chiefs, burst into the cham er without knocking and ran across the room," Herrgesoll said. "Ho held a DNB bulletin in his hand and cried out: 'Fuehrer, great news, Roosevelt Is dead.' . . , . . "Hitler leaped to his feet, grabbed the bulletin from Lor enz' hands violently and sud denly flamed with a queer fire. His- expression -was maniacal. hideous, He walked up and down the room waving his arms and laughing. The room echoed with crazy laughter. Second Spasm Suddenly he stopped laugh ing. Then a spasm of laughter gripped him again. And he threw himself around the room, laughing, and repeating: 'I knew it. I knew it.' " Nobody ever saw Hitler even smile again, the secretary said. Says Hitler Dead - In another interview, held at Berchtcsgaden, the secretary said he was convinced that the nazl fuehrer had died In Berlin. Although he said he had not witnessed the reported last stand of high nazis in the reichs chancellery, Herrgesell declared In an interview yesterday that Hitler made up his mind on April 22 to remain in the Ger man capital to the , end. He quoted Hitler as saying: VI have always given orders not to retreat; now I can only fnllr mv nwn cnmmsnrli " oral; Home Truax, colonel, both of Safeway Stores; Yolanda Ros- teroua, second lieutenant, and Edna Llnder, second lieutenant, Fluhrer's bakery; Mrs. D. P. Lig gett, brigadier-general, Oregon Equipment company; Rita Whis cnant, colonel, and Sue Hamil ton, sergeant, Everbody's Drug. Grace Kindcrdick, colonel, Whytal's; Betty Costel, brigadier general; Vera Bilyeu, brigadier general; Virginia Lichtenstcr, colonel, and Bert Eastburn, colonel, all of Your Store, Inc. Zora Arnold, corporal, Louise Cates. sergeant. Montnomerv Ward; Frank Scott, corporal, and the following privates first class, Mariah Davis, Mildred Kimpton, rranK iemiein, Ann arosinski, Bernice Cooley, Chet Morris, Emll Dunton, Guy Griffith, Pete Colloy, Marion Adkins, Dick Dcrry, Edith Taylor and Charles Wright, all of Sears Roebuck company. Ratings in the 3rd army are as follows: private first class, zn Dona: corporal, 573; sec geant, $150; first sergeant, $200; second - lieutenant, $250; first lieutenant, $300; captain, $400; major, $500; lieutenant-colonel, $750; colonel,' $1000; brigadier- tuonuiiuea on Fage Two) Role In Jap War Issue In Canada VANCOUVER, B. C, May 17 (if) Canada's role in the war against Japan appeared likely today to become a major issue in the June 11 federal election, with Prime Minister W; L. Mac Kenzie King's government tan gled in a new type of conscrip tion controversy. Opening his campaign for re election, here last night, the prime minister, speaking in a Pacific port more interested in the war against Japan than any other largo city in the dominion, declared "Canada's war effort will be directed with unremit ting energy until Japan is de feated, but he cautioned against over-emphasizing lt as an issue. This BDnarentlv was in rerriv to opposition attacks against his announced policy of sending only volunteers into the Jap anese war, and of making the Far Eastern war effort more civilian than military, Truman Confers With Hull. WASHINGTON, May -17 M) President Truman drove to the naval hospital at Bcthesda. Md., today for a 50-mimitc confer ence with Cordcll' Hull, former secretary of state. rne trip prompted specula tion that a possible meeting of tne president. Frime Minister Churchill and . Premier , Stalin had been discussed. Mr. Truman told reporters who accompanied him on the 11-mile trin that ho had "no comment" to make on his visit with Hull." Nine Terriers Kill Woman; Man Held For Manslaughter MIAMI, Fla., May 17 (P) Manslaughter charges were filed today against Joe Munn of Hia leah, owner of a pack of dogs trained for pit fighting, after the death of a 39-year-old woman attacked by the animals last night. Constable W. M. Hudson and Magistrate H. L. Oppenborn signed the manslaughter charge. Terriers Attack The victim, Mrs. Doretta Zinke, ethnologist, lecturer and war worker, died within an hour and a half after police said she was attacked by nine pit bull terriers. At a hospital physicians said the flesh had been torn from both the victim's arms. There Donald Clark Hurt In Action Word was received from the war department by Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Clark, 2336 Oregon, that their son, PFC Donald R. Clark, U. S. army, was seriously wounded in action on Luzon on April 17. The telegram, re ceived May 6. stated that no further details were available at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had a let ter from their son, written on April 21 and received by them on may 8. The Zl-year-old soldier stated that he was feel ing quite well at - least well enough to write, and that he sustained only flesh wounds. I picked up a 31-calibre bullet as a present it hit me in the right arm, side and hip, he writes. "I felt like a ton. of brick hit me. They tell me about bullets feeling like a bee sting, but the bee must have had a ten foot drllll" Clark received his basic train ing at CamD Roberts in Cali fornia after being inducted into the army In July, 1943. Prior to entering the service, he was employed by the DiGlorgio Fruit cornoratlon in Klamath Falls. were many -gashes on her legs, and patches of scalp had been laid bare. Still' conscious when police arrived at the scene, after two soldiers from a nearby army. sta tion had heard her screams and driven off the dogs, Mrs. Zinke whispered that she wanted to make her will. Police Officer Fred Freeman said the police copied the docu ment, dictated by the dying wo man, leaving her property to a son, Sgt. R. M. Zinke,, with the air transport command at Mitch ell Field, N. Y. -' . . . , Magistrate Oppenborn signed an order for the removal of the dogs to the city pound,' and the arrest of the dogs' owner. Author-Lecturer Mrs. Zinke was born in St. Paul, Minn., and was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. In 1936 she launched herself on a career as an author-lecturer. Hiring a pilot and plane, she flew 10,000 miles through Alas ka, studying primitive Eskimo tribes. From 1937 to 1939 she lived in the Fiji islands, com piling ethnological data. Constable Hudson said Munn's dogs had been trained for pit fighting but that he denied they had been fought in the Miami area. The dogs were being held by the humane society today pending a decision on their fu ture. Officer Given Medal Of Honor ' WASHINGTON, May 17 (fF) An infantry officer who killed a German major in a gun duel and killed or captured some 50 other nazis has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. He is 1st Lt. Victor L. Kan die of Puyallup, Wash., who lost his life in France about three months after winning the nation's highest decoration for bravery, 'I don't believe there's much left of the city," third largest in Japan, added Sgt. Ray Kar powicz, radioman from Madi son, 111., who has been on 14 Nagoya raids. Ack-Ack Slight Returning crewmen reported anti-aircraft fire meager and the new interceptor planes were not anxious to fight. There was no report of any B-29s lost. . A Japanese imperial commu nique claimed nine B-29s were shot down, almost identical with its story after Monday's raid in which two Superf orts were de stroyed. The enemy communi que said the Atsuta shrine was bombed. As usual it made no mention of industrial damage and claimed most fires were under control by dawn. ...... "We were over the target early, but even then large fires were burning In the southern part of the city," reported . Lt. W. . C. L o e h n e r, Milwaukee, Wis., instrument specialist. "We; started a few dandy blazes our-, selves. By the time we left Na goya. smoke was billowing thousands of feet into the. air.", - -Mitsubishi Plant Hit-; The target- included the Mit subishi aircraft assembly plant which has been called the world's largest. ' , Alsp attacked today were small home factories and shops operated- by many of Nagoya's 1,500,000 residents; the Aichi Aircraft company's Mizuko plant, Atsuta Engine company, and aluminum, locomotive and munitions factories, warehouses and storage facilities. - ' ; 1UAHA RJTTI F: III 111; Ull I I LL NEARJDWNS 84 Americans Killed Daily On Bloody Island DUBLIN, May 17 fP) Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, de fending Eire's foreign policy,' de clared last night he did not see how Prime Minister Churchill or any other thinking person could "fail to see the reason for our neutrality." ' De Valera made his statement in an address replying to a broadcast speech by Churchill last Sunday, in which the Brit ish prime minister assailed Eire for remaining neutral" while Britain was under attack. Chur chill declared that but or the friendship of northern Ireland "we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. De Valera or perish forever from the earth." "It is indeed fortunate that Britain's necessity did not reach the point when Mr. Churchill (Continued on Page Two) . Chinese Forced Out Of Foochow CHUNGKING, May 17 (V) The Chinese command said to night that its troops were forced to withdraw from the east China port of Foochow. Tuesday night when the Japanese threw large numbers of reinforcements into the five-day battle. Foochow, an old treaty port, is on a section of the China coast on which American expe ditionary forces may land some day. The Chinese said they fought into the city last Friday and Inflicted 400 casualties. i.eip rmr.vsnN GUAM, May 17 VP) A total of 46,505 Japanese have been killed on Okinawa by American marine and army forces which today pierced the heart of Naha and fought on the blood-soaked approaches to Shurl and Yona baru. Naha, Shuri and Yonabarii are strongpoints of the four Mile "little Siegfried line" across southern Okinawa. Yank Casualties American casualties through Monday were 20,950: Killed 2771 soldiers; 1010 marines total 3781. Wounded 11,675 soldiers; 5329 marines total 17,004. Missing 129 soldiers; 36 marines total 165. The Yanks captured 1038 Nip ponese. 84 Killed Daily , . For the 45 days of savage battling U. S. forces have lost an average of 84 men killed daily while Japanese have lost an average of 1011 daily r a ratio of one American to 12 Japanese. . Associated Press Correspond ent Al Dopking's frontline: dis patch Wednesday indicated U. S. casualties continued heavy. In -a Japanese counterattack Tuesday in the Naha sector one company of 240 marines had two men left while another had eight. 36,000 Japs Left ' An estimated 36,000 Japanese remain on. the Island, Patrols of. Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.'s sixth marine division crossed the muddy Asato estuary and entered the main part of Naha, rubble- strewn Okinawa capital on tne west coast.! ' Across the island, a 96th in fantry -division tank platoon led uy lai UK ejiimi f . nnuicwa, Wilmington; N; C, rolled around the left .nose.'.-' of recently cap tured Conical hill and drove 800 yards south ; to within a double hundred yards . of Yona baru. eastern . anchor of the enemy defense line. . " -: Approach Shuri Meanwhile, elements of three divisions the : 77th and" 96th armv 'and the first marine ap proached Shuri, a heavy-walled fortress; w.; After a heavy morning of fighting, the. 382nd regiment of the 96th division gained the top of a - nearbv hill and . worked 'down the southwest slope slow ly to within a . tew hundred yards of Shuri's moated north east corner.. .. . Tanks of Maj."1 Gen. Pedro A. Del Valle's first marine division entered Wana village, 500 yards west of- Shuri's northern end. June Meet May Decide Highway Designation State highway commissioners may hot decide oh the inter regional - highway designation through southern Oregon until the June meeting, it was indi-; cated today when Klamath's delegations to the Portland meeting - returned - home.; At Portland, adherents of both the Eugene-Klamath-Weed and the Eugene-Medford-Weed route pre sented . arguments. ' ; , Commissioners listened to the oral arguments and received written briefs from both sides, without comment. Chairman' Harry Banfield said both re ports would be- studied care fully by the commission in an endeavor to reach a fair de cision. Those present from Klamath Falls . included State Senator Marshall Cornett,' Chairman I. B. Watters of the .chamber pi commerce road committee, A., D. Collier of that committee. Managing Editor Malcolm Epley of The Herald and News,. Man ager Charles Stark of the cham ber, County Judge U. , E. Reed er, and C. S. Robertson. . Highway Commissioner Ar thur Schaupp, a local attorney,, returned to his office here to- day. .... ' , " 'Mister1 Best Rank Of All "Don't call me major call me misterl" were the words; that greeted Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Marsha of Klamath Falls, ; when their son, 'Maj. Trevis Marsha, U. S. army, air corps, ; called from Charlotte, N. C, to inform his parents that he has ; been discharged from the service under the new point system. ;' Instead of the 85 points that are necessary to warrant' a ; release, Marsha had a total of 136 to his credit. i The major has .been in the service for 55 months, and J has comoleted 57' missions overseas as the pilot of-a Boston ! A-20. He took part in the African, Sicilian and Italian cam- j paigns, and later flew over France after the D-Day invasion. , Upon being questioned as to what he planned to do, now j that he was a free man, Marsha lost no time in saying: "I'm coming homer - , .C)