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ERE Is another interesting rd rather Illuminative nolo her news today. Between 13 and 10. ON TINY IWO. Illcd 04 Jans and took 134 fieri. They're still hanclns llicrc, you sec. , E news winds today are full straws which may or not be significant. pans radio, for example. lis Hint a new Jap offon- Bins been launched against rn rorccs in Indo-Chlna, k the French lo retire and Ing an a rfield. flight mean that the Jnps lolng on the prod again In lensl Asia. OR It could that they are merely Ing lo keen onen thplr linn (rent, as tho lone rail lino to Thniland, Mnlava and l passes through French ninn. PTHER, possibly related, tw Is a dlsnnteh tplllns phlna-based planes of the inwi airinrce nre hnmhlng Ninued on Page Five) . In The Shasta - Cascade Wonderland May, 23, 1945 Max. (May 22) S3 Mln. Precipitation last 24 hours Stream year to date Normal 10.83 Last year Forecast: Cloudy. .......;.:.34 59 10.59 7.70 PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23. 1945 Number 10473 Doenitz Arrested; Command Disbanded Resigns FLENSBURG, Germany, May 23 (IP) British tankmen and Tommies, act ing on instructions from allied supreme headquarters, arrested all the members of the Germans' Flcnsburg government, including Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. und .disbanded the German high command today. . About "00 officers and many other ranks and civilians were taken into cupllvlty. The action was taken In conccr.t. with the Russian command. ' All German general staff officers probably will be sentenced to from 10 -to 15 years' imprisonment, a high ranking SHAEF officer said. Col. Gen Guslnv Jodl and Admiral Von Frledobcrg,' both signers of the capitulation at Reims, also were placed under arrest and taken away by allied military guards. They followed Doenitz up the gangplank of the ship In Flensburg harbor which has served as the allied supreme headquarters post here since the Ger man capitulation. As Doenitz was marching up the gangplank of the ship Patrua to captivity, brltlsh tanks from the 11th armored division clanked into the nazl compound here und look over the remnants of German army headquarters scattered throughout Flcnsburg. in Flcnsburg harbor British ships commanded by a captain who was pier- master at Dunkcrquc rode at anchor with their guns trained on the German shore and on surrendered German U-boats and E-boats. British Tommies lined the German government-attached men and women iillke up against the walls and ordered the Germans to put their hands behind their heads. Doenitz had been head of the German state just 23 days when he trudged tircdly up the gangplank of the supreme headquarters ship. Doenitz, Jodl, Frcidcberg and Jodl's aide, Maj. Wilhelm Oxenius, were summoned to the SHAEF command ship by Maj. Gen. Lowell Rooks, deputy chief of staff to Gen. Eisenhower, who informed them the supreme allied com mander had ordered them arrested and the German government disbanded. Since the surrender at Reims Flensburg has been neither fish nor fowl. Even though the Germans all technically were prisoners of the 21st army group, Flensburg was left as the control point for Doenitz to turn over the Wehrmacht and what was left of the reich government. The official rode to work every morning and one out of every 10 German soldiers kept his arms to guard mili tary installations.- According to the best information SHAEF intelligence has been able to gather, the Germans earlier had planned to split into north and south groups tnd prior to April 22 all that was left of the nazi hierarchy had planned to go .south into the Alps for a last stand. THE CABINET MEMBERS QUIT, OVERHAUL SET WASHINGTON, May 23 (IP) President Truman made a major overhauling of the cabinet to day, naming a new attorney gen eral and now secretaries of la bor and agriculture, and abolish ing the separate job of war food administrator. Announcing the three cabinet resignations, he said war food Administrator Marvin Jones had also resigned. . . ' Mr. Truman told his news con ference that Attorney General Biddlc will be succeeded June 30 by Tom Clark of Texas, now n assistant -attorney general. ---Agclcjiltiire 'Seereraryt'Claiitln WIcKard is resigning Immediate ly to become administrator of tho rural electrification.', admin istration and will bo succeeded by Rep. Clinton . Anderson (D N.M.), now chairman of 'the (Continued on Page Two) ; Marine Radio ( Bond Show Set '. , ' 1 An all-marine radio ilhow will be presented tonight at 6:30 over KFJI, the second In a series of service programs Arranged by tho special events committee of the 7th war Loan drive The Marine Barracks orchcS' tra. led by TSgt. Jack Zamzow, will be featured' in the show written and narrated by PFC Richard Nason, ,PFC Carl Jiagel and SSgt, Bill" Schlcnker will entertain with vocal numbers. Speaking In, connection with the bond campaign will be Maj. Robert Fclker, twice winner 'of the Bronze Star, and Sgt. wiv llam B. Fields, Silver Star holder. , Defenses On Okinawa Crumble Under Blow . By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor The eastarn anchor of Japan's stubborn Okinawa defense line crumbled today under t surprise American infantry attack as a U. S. communique from China lent support to reports Japanese troops were being withdrawn from north China coastal areas to Manchuria, long-established Nipponese bulwark facing the soviet union. Simultaneously diplomatic circles in Moscow commented Japanese apparently showed un founded optimism when they reported the mikado's government was on "completely friendly terms with the soviet union." China-based pilots of the U. S. 14th air force bombed troop trains and columns apparently headed toward Manchuria. . The break on the Okinawa line carried a pre-dawn attack, launched without artillery or tank support, through Yonabaru town to hills overlooking' Yonabaru bay and the northern end of a' curving ridge dominating Nakagusuku bay, former Nipponese fleet anchorage. Yanks in .the southern Philippines captured a provincial capital against light 'opposition and Knocked out a key defensive ridge in the Manila watershed with a novel fire-bomb and flame-throwing tank attack. A small, pocketed Japanese force was annihilated in the Burma campaign, and successes reported on four China' fronts. , New Strength " From Europe' came, reports MAY FILL Hiqh-Low r- win i fKi WASHINGTON, May 23 ) An army officer predicted today that by fall youths turning .18 probably will be fining 85 per cent of draft calls. . This official, anonymous at his request but. qualified by his job to' speak' authoritatively, made the prediction after noting Selec tive Service Director Lewis Her- sncy s estimate inai jo-year-oias will make up only 45' per cent of the July call for 90,000 men. . That percentage; the ftmy of ficer said, is "too conservative" for the succeeding months, as suming the call remains at about the same level. Asserting the total of 18-year-olds- will increase from about 40,500 in July to approximately 78,000 thereafter, he explained it this way: The' navy, whicn expects to reach peak strength In July, has been-enlisting large numbers of 17-year-olds, thus sharply reduc ing the total of youths 18 avail able for the draft. This drain from potential se lective service roils . will ' be largely eliminated when the navy goes on a. replacement ba sis, the official predicted, adding that this will ease the pres sure considerably on registrants through 29.. , Riots Reported In Algeria LONDON, May 23 (IP) The Rome radio, auotine unrnn. firmed dispatches from Madrid, said today that serious disorders in Algeria had resulted in 3000 Europeans being killed or wounded and 10,000 native cas ualties. The broadcast said the French Foreign Legion had gone into action. 4-thtnWhe---f l-o o d'-of-.-ATrrerieaTr troops bound for the Pacific would reach the strength of 12 divisions in June and British forces would be flying by the thousands to southeast Asia "in a few months." Japanese broadcasts tended to ignore these developments aiid concentrate- on worry about lack of unity on the threatened home front, the possibly grow-1 ing peace, sentiment, and men tioned soviet Russia as a model of "inspiration and ingenuity." 7th Makes Gain The seventh division, return ing to the eastern flank of the Okinawa fighting front after a two weeks' rest, made the mile long Okinawa advance yester day . . Yonabaru, second largest city on Okinawa and the first size able town on the island to fall, was overrun In the advance the first major breakthrough in weeks. Nazi Jew-Baiter Taken By Yanks ' BERCHTESGADEN, . May 23 (IP) Julius Streicher, the notor ious Jewrbaitor, has been cap tured on a farm in the Bavarian hills by officers of the 101st airborne division. With the capture of Streicher, Heinrich Himmler and Joachim von , Ribbentrop are . foremost amoi.g the top . nazis still at large. Streicher was taken in the same .general area where Goer ing and other nazi leaders late ly have been seized. It also was announced that Gen. Franz von Epp, the defend er of Munich,, was in' custody. He had been reported among those in the Gocring party after the surrender near Schloss Fischhorn on the Zellcr Zee. Strip Tease Rescue Saves Sailor From 800-Foot Fall M fttld lhAAt .V-. At., ft a fleU m.Inm tin Ml nt Kn , Ut u- "US" D. Sample (lift), 27, Syracuse, N. r'C Clint n l I nt r...U T.w Thtir riant. '"Jl' "blllty to fill any Job. Sample, former all-Ohio .i.rJ', Northern university, is , armed with a carbine, "and holdt 1UM k. rifle en hit back fii 1tC0.upl 01 h"d grenades around his neck. (AP wire m S, marine corps). : . ; A . PORTLAND, Ore., May 23 (IP) The thrilling rescue of a sailor by a man arid wife who stripped off their clothing to improvise a rescue rope as he clung precar iously to the face of an 800-foot cliff was disclosed today. , - Larry L. Secor, pharmacist's mate third class, of Milwaukic, Ore,, felt through a broken guard rail on a trail near the Columbia river highway Sunday and g Itched 60 feet down to a slight reak in the perpendicular cliff. He called to his hiking com panions, Richard . W. Short, . a Portland, denial student, and Mrs. Short, a social worker, that he could not maintain his feeble grasp on the cliff long. The near est aid was two and a half miles away.'- ",'' Desperate, the Shorts stripped off two Jackets, slacks, corduroy trousers, slack tops, ,a T-shirt, shorts, anklets arid two belts and knotted an improvised line. It fell short. - ; Mrs. Short lowered her hus band over the cliff to a small fir tree. From there the line still would not reach. Secor called that his hands were going to sleep. The frantic couple searched nearby brush. They found a 20-foot length of brittle wire. .' With the wire knotted to the, clothing rope, Short was low ered to tho ijr tree, and dropped the ' line again. The sailor grasped the anklet and slowly inchedtupward to the tree. From there they tossed the rope to Mrs. Short and wriggled to the bank. - Secor received first aid at Eagle Creek ranger station, and returned to town, , Newspaper photog r a p h e r s wanted to flash pictures of the rope today. They couldn't. , Mr. and Mrs. Short were wearing it. BALLOOMBDMBSIMOT MILITARY THREAT By EDWARD H. HIGSS WASHINGTON, May 23 (IP) Japan, , gradually being' blasted fo bits by Superfortresses, is striking back at' the United States with bombs hitched to big, free-flying paper balloons. - So far,- however,' sporadic at tacks during the past several . . Canada Balloons VANCOUVER; B. C, May 23 (IP) RCAF . pilots in western Canada have been Instructed to attempt to' bring down for study some of the large paper, balloons which Japan has been sending sporadically against the North American mainland, army offi cials disclosed today. The Canadian Pacific army command said balloons, 33 feet in diameter, have been landing for the last few months in west ern Canada. They were reported believed to have traveled east with the revolution of the earth, thousands of feet above its sur face and at a rate of about 80 miles an hour. months have not caused any property damage and, In no sense, are the balloons consid ered a "military threat." The army and navy so said late yesterday in a joint an nouncement. : Open Secret - It was the first public dis closure that the unmanned bal loons wafted perhaps from sub marines or the Japanese home land are hitting North Amer ica, aimlessly. However, the at tacks have been an open secret with many newspapermen and (Con'inued on Page Two) Ray Casebeer Liberated Mrs. Elsie Casebeer of Cen tral Point, Ore., has been noti fied by the American Red Cross that her son, Sgt. Rax Casebeer, of the 22nd army infantry lias been liberated from a German prison camp. He was reported missing in action on February 9, but was never officially, listed as a prisoner of the German gov ernment. Mrs. Qascbeer received a letter from a friend of her son who was at the same camp for a few weeks, but had since been liberated and was in a hos pital in France. According to the friend, Casebeer had been moved to another camp on Feb ruary 15, and is still located in some country where it is im possible to get out further word. He requested that the Red Cross send the message of his liber ation to his mother, and the telegram was received Monday, May 21. , , . ; . Casebeer, son of the late Wal lace H. Casebeer, lived here for several years. He graduated from the Medford high school in 1944, and enlisted immediate ly. He reported for overseas duty , in October of 1944 and served in the 4th division In the third army under General Patlon. . -, :' - - ' i HITLER WIERCY DEATH SAY SOVIETS FLENSBURG, Germany, May 23 (P) Russian intelligence re ports to supreme headquarters said today that Hitler died in a mercy killing. Hitler was paralyzed and in sane with pain the last five days of his life, a high supreme head quarters official quoted a Rus sian general as reporting. The Russians said a physician gave Hitler an injection "of some sort that put him to sleep forever," the official declared. ' Other Injections Ther supreme headquarters of ficial said he had learned Jrom another 'doctor -.that Hitler- had been -taking-several' types o"f In jections the past few years. - When the supreme headquar ters control party headed by Maj. Gen. Lower Rooks came here, Grand Admiral Doenitz in formed him that he had: been willed the successor to Hitler on April 21 and took over when the fuehrer's death was announced to him May 1. Right to Surrender The admiral produced three separate cables which he - said gave him the right to surrender Germany and the German army. The first message, dated April (Continued on Page Two) Truman To Talk At Final Confab WASHINGTON, May 23 (IP) President Truman will go on to San Francisco to address the final plenary session of the Unit ed Nations world organization conference. Secretary of State Stettinius made this announcement, today after conferring with the presi dent on conference matters and what he described as a "wide range of subjects" dealing with world affairs. Stettinius said no . date had been set, but he expects the president will go to San Fran cisco early in June. . w W'L 'Li Winston Churchill, who led the British people through the war with Europe, , today tend ered his resignation as prime minister of England. By JACK BELL SAN FRANCISCO, May .23. (IP) Small nations asked the. Big Four sponsors of this conference today whether, the . Yalta agree ment would permit a ' major power to deadlock' a. United Na tions organization simply, by de clining to vote. - ' This new issue was raised in a list of -22 questions submitted to representatives of the.Ujiited StateB,-Great Britairi;'Kussia'-and China by a subcommittee repre senting me smaller countries at the United nations conierence. . Cover Formula .- . . - The 22 (questions covered every phase of activity b linder the Yalta voting formula which would permit any of the.. Big Five, including France, to .veto important moves of a world se-. curity council in attempting' to settle international disputes. '. , Faced with interpreting;' the voting agreement made by Presi dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister, Churchill and Premier Stalin at Yalta, the Big Four representa tives appeared divided among (Continued on Page Two); ; Alien Jap Takes Own Life At WRA NEWELL, Calif. The body of Miyoto Abe, 66, alien Japanese, was found in his apartment at the war relocation authority's. Tulelake center by internal -security officers. Preliminary -examination disclosed that he took his own life by hanging. , He leaves two sons,' Kazuo Abe, 32, and Kurato Joe Eimoto, 31, who was adopted by his ma ternal grandfather at the. age -of one. ... - Abe was suffering ,f rein ill health sortie time prior to ' his death. .;. . ' ' BROKEN UP; ELECTION SET Parliament Slafed Td Dissolve On : June 15 By ALEX H. SINGLETON ' LONDON. Mav 23 (PI Prima Minister Churchill resigned to day and King George VI accept ed the resignation and asked him to form a new administra tion. The resignation fnrmallv broke UD the wartime rnillllnn cabinet formed in Britain's dark est days of 1940. A general elec tion, the first-m Britain in 10 years, is expected . to be called tor July 5. ..." Parliament to Dissolve - The-kinff- annnunrot Innlchf that on Churchill's request' par- uaiiieni wouia De dissolved - by royal- proclamation- on June 15. DELEGATES RESIGN SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 23 (IP) Five British delegates to the United Nations conference . turned in their resignations to day as members of the Chur chill government. -British spokesmen . promptly empha sized that' this' conformance with parliamentary practice will not fundamentally (if act effort to writ a world or ganisation" charter. Klamath Passes Quarter , Mark In '' Bond Quota Klamath county passed the one-quarter mark in the assault on the "E" bond quota in the "Mighty 7th," it was announced this morning with a total of $389,716.25 reported to date. The quota is $1,538,000. - - In other series, bonds totaled $361,944, according to Mrs. Rose Poole, 7th War Loan chairman. As the May 14-June 30 cam paign continued, local ' bond headquarters received- the V mail certificates captioned, "An other bond between us from the folks back home." Purpose of this certificate is to show men overseas that a bond has been purchased for them and a dupli cate printed on V-mail paper is available, now. Plans for the war bond show were being whipped into shape Leonard Schooler Hurt On Okinawa Pvt. Leonard Schooler of Bo nanza, in combat with the 77th division of the United States army on Okinawa, has been wounded and evacuated by plane to a hospital, according to word received Tuesday by. his wife, the former Nonie McCartie. Details as to his wounds were not known to the family here. Mrs. Schooler is with her par ents, Mr, and Mrs. Jerry McCar tie of Bonanza. ', this week, the show to go on the Pelican stage the night of May 30 and arranged by men from the Marine Barracks. Admission is the price of one $100 bond, and this extra feature is expect ed to swell the purchase .of !!E" bonds. ,- v Marines are on duty daily at bond headquarters, 8th : and Main, to hand out information on the drive, as well as bonds. Churchill' "was r. expected. fo form new eovernment. within a few hours to serve until after the election. - Labor party- min isters, ,wno snare in tne cabinet the responsibility for prosecut ing the war, 'have signified their determination to have no part' in the administration until elections are held.' The knurs acceDtance - of Churchill's resignation was an nounced formally at 10 Downing sireet- tnrougn tne ministry: oi information; The' announcement said.'. Churchill "accepted hit majesty's offer of the post .of prime minister and kissed hands' upon bis appointment." . -. :.,; utiuur ministers, . .wiiu,, nave . served in.' tthe ;'coalltlon' cabinet .. . (Continued on Page Two) . By LEIF EHICKSON' 'A - , GUAM, , Thursday,; May. :24 (IP) , More than .550' American Super fortresses dropped ;three-quar(er of million pounds '.of fir bombs on industrial .targets;. Us Tokyo during the hours of dark ness early this morning,-. i . In the greatest raid yet staged by the,;B-29s. from ..their-, Mar ianas, bases,; the giant : bomber struck the highly congested -in--dustrially vital' Shlnagawa sec tor "of the ; Japanese ' capital, exactly- :six- months after . Ill . Superforts made the first -raid on Japan, last November 24. . . Ky Target ' ' ". ' One key target of this morn ing's "fire bomb - blitz" was th Shlnagawa railroad marshalling yards on the Tokyo -'bay-waterfront ..through which ; passes- arr estimated- one-third . of -Japan' rail traffic. . . ' '-.,-' A- - -The 4500-tdh bomb load drop ped on Nippon's capital- by ; the (Continued on Page Two) Lt Alvih. Gould Said Liberated " - Lt. Alvin A. Gould, prisoner . of war iin- Germany since Janu- , ary H, 1944, is among the Amer-, ican airmen liberated - from : Stalagluft 1,; according to. word '; received by his sister and broth- er, Mrs. V. J. Barron and. Bill; Gould, both of Merrill. - Lt. Gould, son of Mrs. Andrew - Hedlund of Oregon City; was . shot down -while, taking part in ; . a raid : over uermany. ' ne ad vised relatives that he was "fine : and ready to leave for the Unit- ed States." This is the - first ; word received from the airman since November 2, 1944. . V Wound, But No Purple Heart One of the servicemen who frequents the USO in his sober moments wears a scar on His forehead which caused-a great deal of speculation among the staff members. Some thought it was a shrapnel wound, while' others wagered that It was a me mento from a Jap bayonet. Time inarched on, and na.informa-; tion could be obtained. Then one night the possessor .of the mysterious scar staggered into the USO,' permeating the -club with aroma d'alcohol. . An alert staff member seized this, op portunity to question, returning with the .following amazing story:. '..-;; ".'.;";'': '' '.i ";-'''-'--'- ':'''.' : Several months ago, while on overseas 'duty, the man par- ffninaln in . a frtnelnff Damn . nf ' hnlhnll . Which - WBS ' being played in the water With a .beer bottle in lieu ol ball. The ; game was reacmng a stormy cnmax, ne, scuro wm-hcu, the bottle was soaring through the air under the impetus which it had been dealt by' a rugged Texan. The thought that to catch the bottle would make his team the victor, ran through the head of every fielder, but the blond serviceman was the only one whose head suffered-the "results. ' For as :he-stood there watching the bottle make its descent, he shouted ..Come to oaDB." and like an obedient puppy,' the bottl immediately. dropped upon the brow of Its-victim. The hapless fielder sport-1 ed a gash that required six stitches and a great deal, of con-. I solation. That's a new. version of bcylng .trui8lt-,luV,.s-....iV
