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Newspaper Page Textmm fo) ) in WW TO 15 an5 $for, Telephone 8111 June 11. 1945 Max. (June 10) 71 Mln 46 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to date 13.06 Normal 11.35 Last year 8.80 Forecast: Clear and warmer Tuesday. eirivE cents KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 11. 1945 Nnmber 10488 Jay s km FRANK JENKINS Lr strnlKht doys of bomb I over the wcokond, wo do led 08 Jnp plane nl o coat I 0f our own. inruuKiiuuv I...- .invit. wn Hmiishcd nt fnlniic factories (destroying '?" . ........ ...t.lnl. Dm .Inn lrds "re hnlched). may uc h'1-" Jwl kmi" ltl,o Job we'll complete first be destruction oi mo uup force. JiiC lesHoii ui ui tells us mm. chat sTtl.WSLL fnnr former commander In China; Icommnnclr-r of U. S. ground gj) is on Okinawa from nn Sctlon of tho fighting ot first I soys tho Jnp war COULD 3wo yours more Ho think laps arc sttibborncr than the guns In cither world war, adds that ho can't see how, 1 lliey are so tenacious in lunlly. wo can expect their morale to crocK. doubts If bombing will do .ul rA nnH nHfls Ihnt un ihnvc to fight in Manchuria. LT Is what tho commander our ground forces IULD think. No mistake I linn DFFiriAI. frcstlmnllon of Jap ability ton nBiuiNK. iv win uu iui r, ond less costly, to oxpect nnA find it wimn't an lis wo thought it might be to expect tno dcsi ana il.nl II lit WORSE than we .planned for. . ii wouin do iruKiv. t.... 1 ft,.kl ll,- ti.nr iar through THE JAP WAY ling every Jnp out of every J It will Inst a long timo and a lot. Wo homo frontcrs IE (without mo aennuc frlcdge on which to base any- ?moro tangible) that we be ablo to fight the war asingly our way. I . St Russians aro beginning to idmlt Amcrlcnn and British (rspondenta to Berlin. Eddy (ore, for tho AP, paints a picture of it for us today, irlln, he snys, Is a hot desert I hundred thousand dunes I up of brick, stone and (Sored mnsonry. It Is worse td thnn London after the iblltz, or Warsaw or Stnlln L Tho Russlnn commander f that 45 per cent of the lings and houses in greater In are gone ond Hint down i Berlin Is destroyed beyond jindlng in tho city's ccntor, lore snys, he couldn't see a ling for TWO MILES whore Could hove set up an apple- g stand. . . . leaders please note. If they rani nAriuNAL auiiiuc y will get it. Germany is iroof that wo have tho power STROY JAPAN. all up to the Japs. new Borneo landing Is ap- irently nn excluslvo Aus- in show, excont for the 11 and nlr cover under which was made. Tho veteran Dalian 9th division, which ontlnucd on Page Two) 14.209 Sold Bond Drive total of "E" bonds sold 7lh Wnr Loan drive, in- hg nil of tho communities famath county with the cx- oi maun, amountca to uu.i3. Bond noadquari reported that this total nt was purchased through Ms nlso announced that the 'r of tho saddle horse, i was donated by George " ot his auction nt the "In county fairgrounds on 'y to the lucky buyer of a 'nd, was Claude J. Rawlln, ' 4M0 Winter In Klamath The totnl amount of bonds ascd nt tho auction was d Through k Opened road through Crater Lako fa park by Annlo springs, f'lng the south and west Pct"i was open to travel Mows broke through yes- "u mo parriers were UOWn. Trnuolora nor, nnu P"Bh the park from Fort r n tne east to Union tn the west without fee. r will now start work PK tho road from Annlo I8 tO nnrl- U Pn. on to Crater lake rim. K"s about three feet deep ei tne Ri,mu mi.. i i. fp .. I,, 1IWU ID Places and motorists wised to drive carefully. 'Japs' Sighted Near Barracks; Patrols Search Territory Two men appeared momentarily on the lonely Old Fort Klamath road north of the Ma rlne Barracks yesterday afternoon, and then fled into the brush when they were challenged Tun,,ne-Cm ve'eran ho declared unreservedly that they were Japanese. The marine, PFC Wayne Curtis, gave an alarm at the Barracks and marine patrols ac companied by state policemen lote yesterday beat the brush in the rugged area in search for tho mysterious pair. Barracks officials co nferred with Sheriff Lloyd Low today and or dered patrols continuod. Questioned closely by Col. George Van Orden, commanding officer, the marine report ed sighting the two men while he was hiking alone on the Old Fort road about two miles north of the Barracks. Ho said the men stepped out in the road about 50 yards ahead of him. They did not see him immediately. When he called, "Hey there, you!" they turned, saw him, and dashed into the brush and up the steep ridge to the west of the canyon. Curtis said he could not be mistaken about their appearance as Japanese. He said he had seen "plenty of Japanese"? on Guadalcanal and elsewhere. He wns decorated In connection with his Pacific combat service. Curtis said one man appeared to have an injured arm. One was dressed in khaki trousers and jacket, and the other in gray trousers and a khaki shirt. Tho timber Is scattered but the brush is high and thick In the area, and the men disap peared almost immediately on the hillside. Curtis followed a short distance, and then went to the Marine Barracks and in formed the officer of the day. Patrols Formed Ml EINT POLISH ISSUE RUMORED SOON MOSCOW, Juno 11 (p) Foreign diplomats said today they understood that news on the Polish question which would be welcomed in all allied capi tals would be forthcoming soon. Foreign observers here said they had noted a "considerable Improvement" in the atmos phere of Russian-American rela tions growing out of Harry Hop kins' visit. Leaves Paris (Hopkins left Paris by plane today t o - report to President Truman'. It'was speculated in tho French capital that he was taking back plans for a Big Three meeting. He appeared In (Continued on Page Two) . House To Vote On Poll Taxes WASHINGTON, June 11 (IF) Tho house today took poll tax repeal legislation away from its rules and judiciary committees and ordered a vote on the merits of the issue tomorrow. The action discharging the committees, which had pigeon holed the legislation, was on a roll call vote of 223 to 93, after only 20 minutes of debate.. Im mediately afterwards the house adopted a 219 to 94 resolution bringing the legislation up for decision tomorrow. The action was a victory for northern democrats and repub licans who contended the taxes violate the constitutional right of citizens to vote. Both mounted and foot pa trols were .quickly formed' and began a systematic search of the area. -Col. Van Orden said that members of the patrols report ed finding fresh tracks on the mountainside above the spot where Curtis sighted the strang ers. The rocky terrain made it Impossible to follow the tracks, which appeared for a short dis tance across' a clearing" Mounted patrolmen also found tt place where someone had cut a sapling, beside an old log skid road. ' Rough Country The area in which the search occurred is about six miles north of Klamath Falls. It is rough country which is not com monly frequented by hikers. The Old Fort road Is now vir tually abandoned. PFC Curtis' home is at Jack sonville, Fla. He received the Purple Heart for- wound re ceived in the Guadalcanal-Tulagi campaign, and also the presiden tial unit citation. A check-up showed that no Japanese are missing from the WRA center at Tulclake, and it is understood that no Japanese make their permanent homes in this area. The possibility that the two men were not Japanese was con sidered by officials, but the? fact they turned fugitive when sight ed was regarded as evidence calling for a search. Ceiling For Farm Wages In Basin Listed By WFA A ceiling In wages for farm workers in this area, following generally tho recommendations by growers at a recent hearing, were announced today by the war food administration. The rates apply to all farming opera tions in Klamath, north Modoc and Siskiyou counties. Maximum wage rates for gen eral farm labor are $1 per hour without housing or $200 per month plus housing. Spud Wages Potato harvest wages will be 5 cents a half sack of 60 pounds, for picking. Wage rates for all other potato harvest labor are $1.25 per hour. The pay for hay harvest Is $1.25 per hour for hay stackers, and $1 per hour for other labor. Grain Rates Here are the wage rates for grain harvest: A. Header tender, $8 per day and board.- B. Jigger and cartman, $9 per day and board. C. Sack sewers, $10 per day and board. , . . D. Truck drivers, $10 per day and board. ' E. Machine man (combine or separator! operator, $12 per day and board. .... . . . Y. Caterpillar drivers isuikm.- com'blne), $9 per doy and board, G. Caterpillar drivers iiwu ui more combines), $10 per day and b0HldBucklng sacks, $10 per day "in theevent board Is not furn ished, the rates above set out may be Increased $1 per day. I. All other harvest labor at the rate for general farm labor (subsection (b) (1) above). Onion Rates : Maximum wage rates set for harvesting all varieties of onions wore: . . . A. Hana ioddih ...., 20 cents per sack of 100 pounds. B. Wage rates for loading, bucking and swamping, $1.25 per hour. C. All other harvest labor at the rate for general farm labor (subsection (b) (1) above). . E. T. Crawford, Merrill, has been named wage stabilization assistant in this area, and will answer questions and supply information. POWER TO H T SOCIAL ILLS GIVEN LEAGUE By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 (P) A United Nations confer ence commission voted by accla mation today to bulwark a world league with powers to at tack economic and social .ills which have helped generate war I . the past. Amid predictions that it will "carry a message of hope . to scores of millions of people," the commission adopted a pattern for an international social and economic counoil the first sec tion of a world charter to be drafted in final form. Another commission assembles tomorrow to set in place in a committee's words, "the key stone of the peace structure which we are in the process of building." That is the section of a world charter setting up the measures a security council will take to halt conflict in the fu ture by persusasion, economic or diplomatic sanctions, or even the use of armed force. To Okay Report - This second commission ses sion of the week will be asked to approve a report from one of its committees drafted by Joseph Paul-Boncour of France. This report, it was learned to day, says the peace-enforcement mechanism of the new United Nations organization will be a "definite" improvement over (Continued on Page Two) Morse Invites Bowles To Quit WASHINGTON, June 11 (JP) Senator Morse (R-Ore.) disclosed today in the senate that he had written Price Administrator Chester Bowles suggesting his resignation.' As senate debate opened on the question of continuing the price control program for an other year, Morse read a letter to Bowles advising him that it "would be in the public Interest for you to resign.'' Senator Chavez (D-N.M.) rose to say that other congressional Invitations to administrative of ficers to resign never have been heeded. "The only way to get rid of them is to fire them or stop their appropriations," Chavez declared. A Village In New Guinea's 'Hidden Valley' A typical village in the "Hidden Valley of Shangri-la," Dutch New Guinea, where efforts are being made to rescue a Wac and two army airmen, only survivors of 24 service people who crashed in a transport plane in the jungle-surrounded area Z4 days ago. AP wirephoto from air forces. Arrest Of Juveniles May Solve Series Of Burglaries . With the arrest of two juve nile boys, one clad from head to toe in GI clothes, by city police and juvenile officecs Saturday. a series of burglaries and break ing' and entering incidents was thought solved today by juvenile authorities. One boy involved was said to be 16 years old while the other is 14. No less than half-a-dozen lo cal business establishments were CUT IK MILITARY BUDGET EFFECTED WASHINGTON, June 11 (IP) President Truman asked con gress today to provide the army with $39,019,790,474 to finance the accelerated attack on Japan. He transmitted the military budget for the fiscal year, be ginning July 1, calling for new appropriations of $21,963,093, 400, the reappropriation of un obligated balances - from prior appropriations totaling $8,818, 195,574, and estimated recover ies from contract cutbacks and terminations totaling $8,238, 501,500. Reduction Seen The total program, a White House statement said, repre sents a reduction, from a pre liminary estimate of $45,500, 000,000 which was included in the regular budget submitted by former President Roosevelt last January, contemplating con tinuance of the war on the Eu ropean front. "T h e amount recommended for 1946 reflects an overall de crease of 25 per cent in the pro gram for the fiscal year 1945 which is estimated to total $52, 600,000,000," the statement said. The estimates contemplate maintenance of an army re (Continued on Page Two) looted by the young thieves, some ol these more tnan once. Business v places broken Into in cluded the Polly Ann bakery, old USO ;-clubK, Louie Polin's, Raymond - Dairy, . -Montgomery Ward's, and the old Victory lunch stand. The Polly Ann bakery was entered three times, Juvenile Officer Harold Hen drickson said. Apparently the older boy was responsible for most of the crimes as the younger boy has only been connected with, the robbery of the old USO. The case is being investigated fur ther, nowever. Varied Loot The older lad reportedly stole from various business houses ar ticles including wearing apparel, jewelry, a radio, candy, gum, cigarettes and other miscellan eous items, including $54 in cur rency. It was also revealed that he raided the army trucks belong ing to "This Is Your Infantry" show when they were parked behind the armory and made off witn 7S pounds of nitroglycerine, some 30-06 rifle shells, and a bazooka rocket. The boy was reported to have played with the bazooka . rocket not aware mat it was set to go on. Patriotic Thief Out of his loot the older boy purchased a $25 war bond for his mother and made a down payment of $15.25 on a ring for his father, rlendricKson stated, The boy had run away from home because somebody had lifted the stolen money he had cached at home, Hendrickson declared, and was living in a small shack that he had neatly fixed up near the city fire sta tion. The older boy was arrested in the Pine Tree theatre Saturday evening and the 14-year-old boy was apprehended at a service station where he was working at about 10 p. m. Saturday. Both boys are held in custody by juve nile officers. This Is Berlin-Rubble-Filled Heap Of Destruction, Residents Lining Up For Food. Women Clearing Debris By EDDY GILMORE BERLIN, June 11 (P) The capital of the third reich is a heap of gaunt, burned-out, flame seared buildings, with mite after mile of destruction. It is a hot desert of a hundred thousand dunes made up of brick, stone and powdered masonry. Over this hangs the pungent stench of death. Berlin unquestionably is liv ing proof of the most awful vengeance which a modern peo ple have brought upon them selves. It Is a city more ruined than London after the fire raids, Warsaw after all 'her sufferings, and Stalingrad after one of his tory's most furious battles. I saw the ruins of those cities and now, in company with other allied correspondents brought here from Moscow, I have seen Berlin. The red army commandant of Berlin, Col. Gen. Nikolai E. Berazin, said 45 per cent of the buildings and houses in greater Berlin are destroyed beyond repair. Downtown Berlin has i been bombed and shelled Into oblivion. Song Of Berlin Yet the song of Berlin today and they are singing in its cabarets and night clubs is called "Berlin Will Rise again." It is practically impossible to exaggerate in describing the de struction of Berlin. Bezarin said allied aviation, dropped 65,000 tons J)t bombs on it and that the red army in eight days con centrated 40,000 tons of artil lery shells on it. Thirty-five per cent of all the buildings in greater Berlin are half destroyed, General Bezarin said, leaving only 20 per cent at the most that may be said to be intact. Berlin's population now Is 3,000,000, the Russians estimate, with more Germans coming in hourly. There are 40,000 wound ed German soldiers in the city, and . this also complicates mat ers. .. Food, of course, is Berlin's great question mark. , i When the red army entered Berlin the population was on the verge of starvation. The sit uation has been met by hurry ing in food from outlying dis tricts, from beyond the borders of Germany, and even from the soviet union itself. The ration set-up is on rigid lines. There are four general categories and an additional ono for children. Heavy workers came first. Then came light manual workers, white collar workers, and then dependents such as housewives and invalids. Bread and potatoes are the mainstay of the ration, which is: Potatoes, 400 grams (18 ounces) daily to all. Bread, 300 to 600 grams dally (13.6 to 27.2 ounces). -City Of Flags Berlin is a' city of flags al lied flags. They hang from every house and building. They are Russian, American, British and French, and I've seen a few Canadian and Chinese flags. Most of the streets are now open, but some are nothing but twisting lanes through the rub ble. Downtown Berlin looks like nothing man , could have con trived. Riding down the famous Frankfurter Allee, I did not see a single building for two miles where you could have set up a business even of selling apples. Smoke was beginning to rise from what was left of Berlin's factory chimneys, but the vast majority of the stacks are still smokeless. Women Clear Debris The most familiar scene downtown was lines of women working to clear up the debris. Most of the women look be tween 18 and 40. They are. gen erally, fairly well-dressed and certainly more of them have on silk stockings or ersatz, silk than the women of London when I last saw them. No Russian soldier was stand ing over these people. They are assigned their task by a German foreman and go about the work without Russian supervision. (Continued on Page two) Three Way IPush Gains On Dsland By LEONARD MILLIMAN 'Associated Press War Editor -A three-pronged Australian invasion of northwest Borneo overran beach defenses and threw Japanese troops into confusion 1 matcmng tne bewilderment of the Tokyo government in the face oi a parliamentary revolt. American forces carried their most extensive air attack on Japan into the fifth consecutive day, scored a two-day 17-mile advance in the Philippines, and drove frontal assaults through well-organised Nipponese counterattacks and point blank artillery fire on Okinawa while U. S. naval task forces shelled two flank ing islands. Widest allied gains were scored in China. Chinese troops re captured the fort of Futing, two towns near the Indo-China bor der and threatened to overrun the key south China cities of Liuchow and Kweilin, both former U. S. air bases. Two Years More Despite these gains, Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell warned that the war against Japan could easily last another two years. The invasion of Borneo's jungles was made by three assault forces from the Australian 9th division, veterans of the African desert. They bracketed entrances to Brunei bay, one of the island's oil harbors and a spacious fleet anchorage. An airfield and the town of Labuan were quickly captured on Labuan island at the northern entrance to the Bay. On the bay's southern arm, landing troops hitting the beach at Brooketon drove two and a half of the 20 miles toward the town of Brunei. The third force landed nearby at Maura, but dispatches did not make clear whether this was. the' town or island of that name. Both are near Brooketon. Yanks Join Bombardment ' " The landings, under cover of combined Australian and Ameri can naval and air bombardment, were made with extremely light casualties. Brunei bay is an outlet for north Borneo's pe troleum wealth, a former Japanese fleet anchorage and poten tially capable of being developed into a base for allied amphibi ous forces destined to storm the south Asia coast or valuable islands of the Dutch Indies. ', : . Despite the initial Borneo success, General Stilwell noted that the Japanese are more tenacious fighters than the Germans as exemplified by their willingness to die rather than retreat. Newly announced campaign, totals show Japanese sacrificed 392, 116 men in the Philippines and 67,703 on Okinawa. The same attitude can- be expected when Americans invade the homeland, which will require a force of at least 500,000. After taking Japau, U. S. troops may have to conquer Manchuria, he said. . ', - Japanese Diet Balks The Japanese diet (parliament) was supposed to take a major step in preparing for defense of the sacred islands. But it balked at rubber stamping an emergency war powers bill which would transfer legislative powers to Premier Kantaro Suzuki's cabinet. The diet session was extended for two more days to give the legislators, time to vote themselves virtually-out of existence. .' Tokyo said intensifying air raids on Japan intended to "dis rupt the lives of the Japanese people" were carried , on today by 30 Mustangs and two Superforts which, strafed two airfields ut the Tokyo-Yokohama area for an hour. : This follows up a . four-day air war in which at least 98 Japanese planes" were destroyed,- -10 -U. S. planes lost, one- small U. S. warship sunk, and Japanese cities and suicide air bases lib erally bombed and strafed. Most strikes were concentrated on Nipponese air power. The sustained blows started last Thursday when 450 - B-29s bombed Osaka and Okinawa and Thunderbolt fighters raided Kyushu island airdromes. Hellcats Hit Kyushus Swarms of carrier Hellcats hit the Kyushu fields in southern Japan Friday.- Saturday - between 100 and 150 fighter-escorted B-29s heavily damaged three aircraft plants and Thunderbolts raided airdromes. Sunday close to 300- Superforts bombed factories and air dromes in the vicinity of Tokyo. They scored 820 direct hits on an airplane, engine plant and railway yards at Sukagawa, 119 miles northeast of Tokyo. . - Battleships and cruisers bombarded Okino Daito, 300 miles southeast of Okinawa Saturday, and Tokyo reported they shifted to shelling Minami Daito Sunday. ,. , . Gains On Okinawa Naval,' field and aerial artillery supported three U. S. divi sions cracking in on a three-mile-long escarpment on southern Okinawa. In- the center, the 96th division scored gains . of 800 to 1000 yards in the face of heavy enemy fure and some elements scaled steep, cave-studded slopes. The ,7th infantry repulsed two major counterattacks and many smaller ones as it pressed toward the eastern end of the escarpment. The first marine division on the west,: supported by 70 mm. guns firing from amphibious tractors, moved so fast Japanese supply planes parachuted demolition supplies behind the Yank lines. The marines used them against the enemy. The sixth marine division took over the task alone of elimin ating another pocketed enemy force on Oroku: peninsula, and gained 1000 yards driving southeast from Naha. airfield.'. Marines To Drill On Flag Day Here ' Tha paMr TTlnmnth marine drum and bugle corps and drill oam ikIII Via nrorontpH hv the Elks, lodge oh the streets of inumfllh lTnllc Thnrsrlnv evenine as a feature of the annual flag day exercises, u was annuuuteu today. - - . - . ' Returning Thursday. from ap- In . Hyr,ltnnmnh ctnri- um at. Portland, the marine groups will marcn from main and Esplanade to the Elks temple where they will present elabor ate drills. This will be at 7 o'clock, and the colorful Elks flag exercises will follow im mediately. Full announcement of plans for the exercises will be an nounced tomorrow. Eisenhower Wns Freedom Of City LONDON, June 11 (ff) Gen. Eisenhower arrived today to win the freedom of the city, highest civic honor London can bestow. At ceremonies tomorrow he will snpak and receive, tempor arily, the sword the Duke of Wellington carried in all his memorable battles. A museum lent it for the occasion because the presentation sword t o b e given jsisennower is not un- ished. - - . Elsenhower, due in 'Washing ton' next Monday, came- here from Frankfurt on the Main. There, in an address to high ranking leaders of Britain, Russia and the United States. he said the soviet-and the west ern allies were united in a de sire for a lasting, firmly-based peace affording all common men the "opportunities that we fought to preserve for them." Leon Johnson Dies In Action Word has been received by the Ivory Pine: company that Cpl. Leon M. Johnson, former employee of the company's branch at Bly, and a member of the- airborne infantry, - has been killed in action.-. The message came from Mrs. Myrtle M. Johnson, wife of the corporal, and a former resident of . Bly, -now - living in Kansas. No details were given but it was understood Johnson had been serving in the European theater of operations: Mrs. Johnson .' indicated her intention of returning to make her home in Bly.i - ...... Nazi Party Man Said Captured By The Associated Press The Prague radio said today that the nazi leader, Martin Bor mann, had been captured "and will be tried." The broadcast, heard by the FCC, attributed this announce ment to President - Eduard Benes. ' , . Bormann succeeded Rudolf Hess as Adolf Hitler's deputy in charge of nazi party affairs. Children Smothered Under Falling Bank ? PORTLAND, June 11 iP) Two children smothered to death and three' playmates escaped In jury when a 60-foot bank col lapsed here yesterday. . Bodies of Edward Tate, 9. and Victoria GurriOj 10,: Were recov ered by rescuers after 20 ' min utes. The other three children were only partially buried. '. , :?'.'" 4,. ov?''