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Newspaper Page Text'M m -a 0' ui UUI o)A Wfl ' ' ' ' ' ' Ilii ,IWM f ' . .-,Mir JENKINS f rnuslBn-Jn) situation got. Pfr Y t0M"o ' cow morning lE?y.,i. . ihlrrl of Ita front f to a MM 10 S,al!" ","') l.lilo" of the Russian half l' rj:n.i Inland. J no loiter ckimlln I "m t rUI y Russian," "d 8Jdl; clvfs to strengthening the Jrfwlrowlh of the military it of our homeland, t icltrr l written on the F ..' nf iho " bora- Iff Northern Sakhalin from (p ' ddltlon, R"I Star, the Ruj. nrmv newspaper that cor " ?r.L,i,iv In mir Yank, fand Strii. etc-, prints din ' irnm'lUi "Tran.balkal" T.:Hnt tolling of active ErTin'iiiK iniPHt war tech , of Russian military forces fccrla smi ewewnerc I i.,i i. Unit the Moscow IpcrJ wouldn't have dared K i.u Dm Kremlin. Un L Kremlin wanted the rest L world to know of It, the IwOllldll l liavo doom punscu n....lfln ivninr. Is fairly safe therefore to 10 that the lrcmun hihj .n.iiw nn Its sleeve. Hn would be as good an as any lor gcuinK imu ip war. ui iniKri-it In Russia is L.iu.. nr nnl mllK III BOlllB kwlth the japs., ii sue kos iho Pacific war, wc rc go think finite Kincny oi ncr, jMin'i MfA common ocn .ojrdleM of whatever stuff rr. . i .. ... ii "i""' I...J wny w.o . . "ii I hcr- . . .. Icsrn today that the 400 Lin. lltnl rnlrlfri southeast . mv in Hrstroved K to 90 per cent of japan's TEST U I L, aiunnuD 1 iniuHlnif both the army's 1' HA,n,'. inroptt fnil cnn. fioni. In addition, one of iplre's biggest refineries Irced out or operation. Know wnai on destruction r.ormnnv. so wc Know : WILL DO to Japan. H of OUR kind of warfare. E crowding" the Okinawa In, karri flnf nf Hlir di ll flgming lis way inio Thrnn more are closing In liil pok! A , 'lnirA III Sill! tradable evidence of col- kf Jan resistance, wc u kill them all, as usual. lould go at It more slowly Id starve them out and ipm rinwn bv ffrariual at hi, I uA hitui, in have ind Okinawa Is our best I best airfield possibilities ih of Naha and the Shurl rhr. Knnnrtr wa ran ffpt All jiawa mo sooner we u no i fight our kind of war of having to fight the Jap Son, as long as we're fight- Okinawa our navy win Be deployed around tne prevent the enemy from In reinforcements. Thus Id. our shins are open to ic ae BiiacKS dv air ana fevo already lost up- fl two dor.cn ships sunk smaller units) ana an un- n but rather considerable damaicd. 1 be cheaper in the long clean Okinawa un as possible. is happening in Europe till more or less of a mystery whose red hot lie disposition of the nazl rinals. . . pnber of the allied war commission (on which Is not renrnscntod) dis may that a decision will be reached at a m not ice commission on May pnucd on Page Five) Herald In The Shasta - Cascade Wonderland hull"! Mar II. 1945 " Max. (May 17) ..: :.. 51 Mln. Precipitation last 24 hours Stream year to date Normal 10.68 Last year- Forecasti Light frost tonight. 34 ,....22 .9.81 .7.62 PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 184S Number 10463 Marines Grow Their Own I , . i , dJm Leatherneck farmers are shown above, installing water gates to irrigate their farm. A varied crop is planned by these students of agriculture. . . - Official USMC photo. TEST VOTE LOOMS rissenbacfc From Nazis Darwin W1fnV,nnir r. and Mrs Jimn Wl- of Shady Pine, sent one I neart warming mes- ime' last nlsh M.Unn lA Pjl parents that he had Jcratcd from a German oi war camp, ""right, safe and well, be seclnff vnu soon. "win," read the mes- hfIS been n nrl.ninr Nmber 20, 1942, when tlyina Fnrtriiu was P over enemy territory mission over France. ec" at Stalanluft 17.B. hna. . . .' rman's twin hi-nihAi- ps shot down on a.B-17 in over France on 0, 1042 Saw.. -l.. P"n reported baok to f England. He was the mmissioncd officer n'S Wav mil nf nAOH. iPe and fnp hi. ess was returned to i mi . and ent 'o 1 PHOt tra nlna uhnnli Wears IU- ' r. iu "nigs oi a as the rank of second arwin- is at Las flt Ihn . 11 u liiusuui lime 10 be homo u,l,.M nn his. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic , News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 W) The outspoken opposition of many small nations to the big power plan for a veto council of future peace-keeping machin ery today ncara a United Na tion conferonco test vqto. It appears possible that the big powers the United States, Russia, China, Britain 'and France may accept some modi fication of the veto where peace ful settlement of disputes Is con cerned although Russia could block this. But they all stand firmly on the proposal that no force should be used against any nation except when all five agree, Argument Set nHnAnte urA Hint on a chnu. I lliai'bbM A1W ,. V,, ........ down the powers can put over the voting formula as they want It with the argument that un less they stick together on great International issues of the fu ture no peace-keeping league can hope to prevent war. As tho battle of the veto builds up In one of the key com mittees, here are other top con ferenco developments: 1. Considerable support, ap (Continued on Page' Two) Queen Mary Cuts Cruiser In Half LONDON. May 18 A) The British cruiser HMS Curacao, cut In half by the giant liner Queen Mary speeding to elude a German submarine, sank in the Atlantic on October 1, 1942, with a loss of 338 officers and men, .tho admiralty announced today. i ' , " An eyewitness' declared that tho big troop trnnsport "simply trampled" tho 4200-ton cruiser, which had a normal complement of about 400 men. Survivors, among them the cruiser's captain, John W. Black wood, were picked up and taken to a hospital near Glasgow. The accident was considered one of the worst British naval disasters of the war. The admir alty disclosed also for the first time the loss of 10 destroyers, eight submarines and scores of smaller craft. Marines Battle Weather, - Weeds On Farm Project Radishes and onions are al ready several Inches high on the 16 acres farmed by 25 marines under the direction of Cpl. Dwighl R. Moscr. The agricultural project, spon sored by Klamath Junior Farm ers, is part of the educational service at the barracks and is carried on in close connection with the county agent's office. Twenty-five marines work the farm with the use of a borrowed tractor. They plan to plant corn, potatoes and beans as soon as danger of freezing is over. - ; The farm was started five weeks ago on land loaned for the purpose by a local citizen, Cpl. nr. SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 18 UP) The California highway commission wants highway 99 between Weed, Calif., and Ashland,-Ore., as the official inter regional route between Oregon and California. The commission endorsed hiivhwnv flfl latn vesterdav. after hnarine . araumcnts that the route nas more trucking, bus and recreation traffic than the Eugone-Klamath Falls route. Back Route 99 The Redwood Empire associ ation, Yrcka chamber of com merce, and Oregon Pacific High- utav accnolntlnn harked 99. Among persons championing highway hw were u. u. oiccic, Yrcka chamber of commerce; elnlA Snnntni RnnHnlnh Collier. Siskiyou county; Ralph Kooser, Oregon Pacific association presi dent; Valerie Kuhn, Redwood Empire association manager, nn,i n- riAnrtfA- Plnavpr.. Yroka. Others had urged the choice of 97, running tnrougn niamain ITaII. Waam The public roads administra tion will designate one of the two routes after. July . l. Delay Asked Vt.mflll, AhamhA nf mm. mercc representatives said today tnai me iamornia coiiiuii&siuii Ada Unnn 1,1-itaH hv Ufil-A tn with hold action on the Interregional (Continued on Page two; Moser is a natural for the job: of supervising the project, having been reared on an Iowa tarm. He attended Iowa state agri cultural college for two : years, and for 17 months prior, to his enlistment was supervisor oi tne Dairy Herd Improvement asso ciation of Iowa. At the last meet ing of the Klamath Junior. Farm ers ne was elected a memoer. As soon as work. oru.the -farm cases up, Cpl. Moser plana to conduct a class in farm instruc' tion at the barracks. The ma rines will have a half day hi class and a half day in the field. Moser has served in the nuar termaster division of the marine corps and wears two Bronze Stars for campaigns in the South Pacific. He plans to return to his native state after the war, where he. has a half interest in a herd of dairy cattle. , Zpl. Belden Hall Said Liberated Cpl. Bclden Hall, former Klamath Falls youth and son of Mr.' and Mrs. Robert Hall, now of Pendleton, has been liberated from a German prison : camp and is now in a hospital. .' Young Hall wrote that, he was slowly recovering from bis "tough prison camp experiences" and that many of . his fellow prisoners starved to death under German treatment. He observed that he was "just lucky" to be alive and hoped to return to his home soon. , EISENHOWERS DEATH PLOTTED 81 NAZI GANG Co. Skorzeny Headed Picked Group Of . Assassins . By TOM OCHILTREE Associated Press Staff Writer Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny, the scar-faced political kidnaper, and a picked gang of English-speaking nazi assassins plotted last winter to kill Gen. Eisenhower, supreme allied headquarters dis closed today. Now in American hands, the six-foot-four Skorzeny and his group of German soldiers had kept the entire western front in a stage of alert for months dur ing and after the Ardennes bat tle. . - Skorzeny, a hatchetman fbr Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himm ler, was captured recently by the 15th regiment, U. S. third division, in the Arl valley. This 35-year-old giant was the leader of the raiding party which freed the late Benito Mussolini from allied custody in Italy in Sep tember, 1943 . . Elected. Assassin , The plot against the life of the supreme commander, was hatched months before, the Ger (Continued on Page Two)- i Major Oil Storage Area Knocked Out . GUAM, May 18 (P) Superfortresses knocked out Japan's greatest oil storage area, including both the army's and navy's biggest concentrations of fuel storage, in just one full scale raid. Reconnaissance photographs today disclosed that 85 to 90 per cent devastation was wrought by more than 400 B-29s in their May. 10 raid on southeastern Honshu. It was the first of the war directed solely at destroying the major source of the empire's vital supply of gasoline and oil for her warcraft and shipping. Twelve storage tanks were destroyed and 85 per cent of the target area devastated by B-29s which attacked Tokuyama naval fuel station. The adjoining Tokuyama coal yards and synthetic fuel factory the army's greatest fueling center were so badly damaged the 21st bomber command spokesman termed them "in operative." Tokuyama is 48 miles southwest of .Kure, . Sixty of 65 storage tanks -at the Oshima naval oil storage cen ter, the fleet's largest, were put out of operation. Oshima station. is on an island oi that name in isusmma strait outside tne sm monoseki entrance to the Inland sea.. . Otake oil refinery, one of the empire's largest, was forced to cease operations. The B-29s covered the target area so effectively, that only two small pockets. in extreme corners of the plant area remained undamaged. Otake is on the western shore of the Inland sea, 27 miles northeast of Tokuyama. . ' Not one of the B-29s was lost in those-raids. GET-MOISTURE While grain' growers and live stock men rejoiced at the above average amount of precipitation thus far in the month, some po tato growers expressed the fear that It would do more harm to their crops than good. With hail bouncing on the ground like moth balls Thursday, and large snowflakes falling Fri day, May,.-1945,. has been a mix ture of sunshine and shower. For almost seven days straight, . pre cipitation has been nearly con tinuous, giving a total of 1.52 inches of moisture to date. This tops the four-year average of .92 for the area. Last year, by this same time, only .31 inches were recorded, and total for the month was .77. The record amount of mois ture has delayed planting, of spuds, but Assistant County Agent Bob McCambridge assert ed that the rain would not affect growers adversely unless it were followed by a period of extreme ly cold weather. Potato men who already have their crops in -the ground are afraid of rot if there Is too much moisture. . Buy Bonds, Claim Children Over the loudspeaker at bond headquarters for the! 7th War Loan,-.Sgt. George Herbert extends a continuing invita tion to come iii and buy bonds. . . Whether little ' Larry Ross was attracted by the appeal from Sergeant Herbert, the music which plays between invita tions, or. by the warm room, is not certain, but on a rainy1 day the worried 3-year-old lad dropped in and announced that he. "didn't live here." Inquiry revealed 'that Larry, was .from Tulelake and that he had become separated from his parents. Sgt.. Herbert im mediately added to. his bond-buying Invitations an invitation to Larry's parents ' to call at ?bond .headquarters for their missing property. , , . . . Worried parents on the third -floor of Penney's store caught the announcement as it' went over the loudspeaker. They im mediately called at bond headquarters and claimed Larry, ex pressing deep appreciation for the service rendered. , Larry is a bit young to buy bonds,, but he went to the right place' to get, things done. Klamath Lags InWar Bond Sales During First Week, $50,375 Worth Sold Here The "Mighty 7th" was rolling slowly in Klamath county as the first week of tne 7 in war Loan drew to a close. Purchase of only 12.4 per cent of. the'"E" bond quota of $1,538,000, had been reported Rose Poole, chairman of the 7th War Loan, said .to-, day: "Things aren't going so well in' Klamath county. Figures-show you that. Folks who didn't want to get their feet wet this week and stayed away from bond headquart ers, should remember - that the :meri on Okinawa are get ting" their feet wet, too, wet in blood." it' bond headquarters at .noon Friday. ' . ' A total of ?au,3(o, maturity value, was the amount chalked up for sales of Monday, Tues day, Wednesday, Thursday, and up to and including Friday at 11 a. m. ' Sales were reported as fol lows: Monday, $16,500; Tues day,!. $5350; -Wednesday, $14,t 125; : Thursday, $3125; Friday at: li a. m... $11,275. Friday's clearing skies might have had something -to do with the pick-up, marines in charge of bond headquarters observed. They also said they were dis appointed in the total in "E" bonds sold thus far since the 7th War Loan got under way. In the meantime, school kids FLEET MOVES Y NIPS; E CUES GAIN 6th Marines Battle To Extend Naha v Bridgehead . Klamath Man On Okinawa Released Good news greeted this : GI serving on Okinawa, hottest spot in the Pacific, when Sgt. Bob Marrs of Klamath Falls learned he was one of 30 veterans of Pa cific action to be selected for re turn home and honorable dis charge, from1 the United -States army.' Sgt. Marrs had more than 120 points to his credit. Twenty nine other veterans received the same word. The men are to return im mediately, scheduled to be back in the United States not later than May 24, an Associated Press report from Okinawa advised to day. ' Young Marrs will be 21 years old next June 12. He is a native of Walla Walla, Wash., attended Klamath Union high school un til 1941, and his parents are Mr. and Mrs. Earl Benton Marrs. Last known address of the fam ily' is 900 Owens. , were corning through as usual: Mrs. Isabel Br.ixner. in charge of school Quotas, announced the following bad exceeded. Weyer haeuser camp :4, . Mrs. - uons Cooper, teacher;. -Fort - Klamath, Mrs.." Anna Strahan, teacher; Fairhaven. Wilbur Rbbinette, principal; Shasta, Elton Fish- back. DrinciDal: Shevlin, Mrs Esther Chamberlain, .teacher; Chiloquin, , Joe Stewart. : prin ciDal: Sorakue River, Mrs. Inez Ludwick, principal; -Altamont elementary, rWyatt Padgett, prin cipal; Crescent Lake,. Mrs.. June Termell.. teacher. Of- these schools, Sprague .River was the first to meet, the quota. . T , ' Chiloquin Record Chiloquin: h a s an enviable recdrd, Mrs: Brixner reported.' This school turned in 367 per cent of its quota. Shasta doubled its quota. Student quotas were met in Henley and Keno schools. Henley, Malin, Merrill and Bon anza close June 1, and have until that - date - to meet their 7th War Loan obligation. In the city schools, three re ported their" quotas met and exceeded. They were Roosevelt, Joseph - Conger and ; Riverside. Students and : teachers participated.- -' -' . '. Dairy Exceeds Quota Dairy was the first outlying community to make its quota, the- town: proudly reporting to day to Mrs. Winnifred Gillen, chairman of the agricultural committee. The quota of $1550 was met and- Mrs." W. '.LV Bell, acting chairman, said another $1000 -was expected. . Retail ' -store employes con tinued in their' efforts to put (Continued oh Page Two) Two Missing At Crescent Lake ,' A . report was received here from Crescent lake this after noon to the effect -that two per sons are missing at that lake after their canoe was overturn ed in- roueh water. Crescent lake sources said they understood the missing men to be members ot , a marine group working on- a summer cattiD beine set up for marines at the lake. Names were not available, according to Dr. George Adler, coroner, who said he had heard the reports. ; No other information had been received at mid-afternoon- by authorities, and Col.-George . O. Van Orden, commanding officer of the Marine Barracks, was said to be at Crescent lake. By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Tokyo worried today over American fleet movements while British commands reported the. deepest slashes yet made in the campaign to - regain Singapore, base for one of the largest re maining segments of Japan's broken fighting and merchant u.ets. Japanese ground forces suf fered new reverses in China and made Banzai- suicide charges on two island 'fronts Okinawa and Mindanao their invariable ac knowledgment they know defeat is r"t far off.- Decisiveness Grows The Okinawa camoaiin is slowly shaping . into a decisive pnase witn tne sixtn marine oi- vision battling to broaden a bridgehead in the capital city.' Naha, and three divisions stead ily closing on the fortress city of Shun from three sides. . Now 48 days old the Okinawa campaign already ranks as one of the Pacific war's toughest. mere sun is no evidence sug gesting any collapse in the grim defense by an estimated 34,000 Japanese and UKinawan 'home guards" survivors of an original garrison force of 80,000 or more troops. Japs "Friendly" ': There was increasing interest in Russia's attitude toward the Pacific, although there was noth ing to contradict a repeated Jap an e s e broadcast that the mi kado's empire . is .: maintaining "completely friendly terms with the soviet union." Moscow newspapers promt , (Continued on Page Two) L Carrier Franklin By POPE HALEY WASHINGTON, May 18 (P) The aircraft carrier Franklin, which . miraculously survived one of the severest ordeals of this or any war, is home. She came home,' sadly crip pled but under her own power, her charred and battered hull manned by a skeleton crew of survivors. Now undergoing re- pa Irs at the BrooKiyn iihv,v yard, sha will resume her place in the .war against Japan, Until now Japanese radio propagandists never knew how close they came to being right ...I - u... hnoatari Hint the 27.. 000-ton vessel of the Essex class had been sunk. Wltnout me in credible stamina and strength K..1U Inln hni- nnH without .'the superhuman courage of her per sonnel, tneir cmim unsni, have been true. ; a - 11 ....... i.n .oi-i-tni- fiuifnred 832 men killed and missing and more than 270 wounded more than one-third her total comple ment in blazing, agonizing hours. Bombed By Nip Chance played into the hands of the lone enemy dive bomber that streaked suddenly out of the clouds within 60 miles of the Japanese coast on the morn ing of March 19 and dropped two 800-pound' armor piercing bombs. . . ' i Released from low altitude, both scored direct hits. One ex ploded beneath the flight deck, on which armed planes were ready for takeoff. The other went off on the hangar deck, where other planes, fueled and armed, were waiting to be taken to the flight deck. The 'attacking plane was shot down a moment later, but the bombs, exploding ; where - they did, started a train of fires and explosions which for hours were Survives Stiff Ordeal, Limps Home By JAMES D. WHITE V WASHINGTON, May 18 MP) Details of a 'multi-million-dollar Chungking "g o I d scandal -in volving yellow metal loaned by tnis country are coming to ngnt here desnite a tight Chinese cen sorship. " : . ' ' The scandal stemmed from premature leak of a Chinese gov ernment decision -in March to raise the official price of - gold, thus permitting Chungking spec- ulators to make fantastic profits in a few hours. , - Punishment Set Dri T. V. Soone. Chinese for eign minister, took note of the in. cident late yesterday by author izing tne statement to a reporter that drastic punishment awaits those involved. i Soong declined further : com ment, however, explaining he has not yet learned the results of an investigation he ordered just (Continued ,on. Page , Iwo) Duane Cassidy Freed From Camp "Mrs; . Florence Cassidy of Gooding, ildaho, was the recip ient of a Mother's Day cable gram from her son, SSgt.. Duane A.- Cassidy of the United States ' army air corps; that he was lib erated from - a German prison camp, and has arrived safely in England. This is the first word that has been received from the young soldier since he was re ported a prisoner of the German government on February -2. He was held in a ' camp originally located somewhere near tht Baltic sea. in; territory which was believed .to be overrun by the Russians. It was presumed at the time of' his capture that those prisoners of war had been moved deeper into Germany. ... Cassidy was a gunner on a B-17. with- the eighth air force, and was first reported as miss, ing in action on November 2. He is a former employe of the Ivory Pine Lumber company at Bly, and enlisted in the air corps in December of 1941. to rend anct-torture the vessel. Part Of Task Force ; The ship was operating as part of a fast carrier task force in the strike against remnants of the Japanese fleet in Japan's inland sea, Nippon's , "private lake." . ' ' . . . Explosion- after explosion fol lowed the initial, blasts. Large bombs exploded ' and hurled men and planes the length of the ship. Smaller bombs, ' rockets and machine gun . ammunition killed dozens who had survived the major ex plosions. Spreading fires fed by thousands of gallons of high test aviation gasoline added fury to the holocaust. ' . Flaming Hell The whole after' end of the vessel's flight deck became a mass of flame and smoker Air planes disintegrated,' and tor rents of burning .gasoline streaked across her decks, Bombs,-rockets and bullets ex ploded all around, and splinters of wood and steel rained on sur vivors hugging the deck. But, without panic, those who miraculously had escaped death or injury and the slightly in jured moved in to fight the fires. Volunteers, . including pi lots, mechanics, . officers and stewards, took. over the job 'of regularly assigned damage con trol parties who had been killed or trapped by flames. ' . Among those especially cited by the navy's account was the ship's chaplain, .Lt. Comdr, Joseph O'Callahan, Boston, whose actions brought from one of the ship's senior -officers: "He was the bravest man I ever saw." I ' Heroic Chaplain " The lean, scholarly Jesuit first moved around the burn ing, slanting and exposed flight deck administering last rites to the dying. Then he led officers and men into the flames, risk ing momentary death, to jetti son hot bombs and shells. Then he recruited a damage control party and led it down into one of the main ammunition maga zines to wet it down and pre vent its exploding. Below decks, several hundred men were at breakfast when the explosions came, blocking . all apparent, exits with smoke, flame and smashed bulkheads. In the- group was .Lt. Comdr. James L. Fuelling, the ship's flight surgeon of Indianapolis. "Everybody sit down," he or dered. "We're trapped here for the time being. Stay calm and be quiet. Use' as little air as pos sible. Stay close to the deck and say a prayer.V - . . , Finds Escape ' Lt. Donald A. Garv. Oakland. Calif,, after promising to re turn, groped his way out of the compartment and found a circuitous escape route tnrougn ventilation ' tubing. .He returned time after time, leading the sur vivors to safety. All but one of the trapped men- were saved. , While survivors were battling to keep ' the ship afloat, men still were dying in continuing explosions. Some were trapped, others leaped overboard to es caDe what seemed certain death Others stayed at the undamaged guns - to beat off repeated at tacks ' by waves . of enemy planes. TJo more hits were scored on the criDDled ship, " A few hours after the first at tack, the light cruiser Santa' Fe came alongside to remove the wounded. These operations were interrupted, however, when one of the carrier's ' forward five inch gun mounts caught fire and threatened to explode, : Later,' after the cruisers ' (Continued on Eage Five) Wet Weather Stops Parade Wet weather, which stops for est fires, stopped the Stop Forest Fire parade in Klamath Falls, but tonight's anti-fire banquet will be held, as scheduled in doors. ' W. E, Lamm, well known lum berman, will be the speaker at the banquet at the Willard. State Forester Nets Rogers arrived this afternoon to attend. The publis is invited, and-crabs and chow der will be on the menu.. Th banquet is a feature of the cam palgn conducted each year, un der American Legion auspices. Due to the weather, the parade was cancelled by Chairman Walt Wicsendanger( who commented that tho rain can't last and thera will soon be serioui flra danger in the woods. .