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Pattonites Punch New Gateways in Germany's .Westwall r Weather Forecast! Showera tonight and WdneUy. Little chug la tejaperatm. Ttnp. Blfhtit yeiterday - 41 Loweit this mornlnf ,,. , 40 Preclplutloa past 24 hr .11 Thirty-ninth Year Internees Enjoy First American Meal rIi ve 1 . V -y HfVM X 4 Js H J-L , Z3 iT 5y- , kv if w Vi MaJ. William P. Merodith of Brooklyn. N. Y ehatf with Santo Tonus internees cooking their first real meal of American food, brought into them by liberating Yank troops. Left to right: Mrs. Jana McMahon Hair. Niagara Falls, N. Y.r Mrs. Edward S. Kephart, Brooklyn; Maj. Meredith) Miss Lisbeth Jana Kephart, daughter of Mrs. Kephart. Doom Of Naziism and German Militarism Decreed In Full Agreement By Big Three Washington, Feb. 13 (U.R) The doom of naziism and Ger man militarism has been pro claimed by the big three. In a Joint communique, they revealed yesterday : their full agreement on plans to force Germany to unconditional sur render; to occupy and control her after that time, and to main tain a neaceful world. In blunt language, the world's three great leaders said grimly that Germany will be purged of it general staff, of all its armed forces, of facilities for making war equipment and of the last Ism and naziism. World Charter But in an obvious bid to the German people, they said that a 'CRIME OF AGES' London, Feb. 13 U.R) The German radio screamed to the world today that the Big Three had committed the "great est political crime of all times," but made no broadcasts for home consumption apparently because Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels had been caught off base again. Ever since the Big Three con ference had been rumored, Goeb bels had turned loose the full propaganda facilities inside Ger many to warn the Reich against a Big Three appeal to the Ger man people. He assured them that the Big Three would issue a honeyed plea to Germany which would make "uncondition al surrender" sound appealing. He warned the Nazis to beware of any such new "Wilsonian" tactics. Silence at Home But when the Big Three com munique failed to bear out this build-up, the Nazi propagandists apparently did not know how to break the grim news to the Nazi public. For hours after the news had been announced and Allied radios were blaring It into Ger many ' on all available wave lengths the domestic Nazi radio made no mention of the Crimea conference. For foreign consumption the Nazi propaganda displayed equal uncertainty. Initial broad casts merely gave the gist of the Crimea communique. Later, Nazi commentators said the Big Three had confirmed their policy of "hate and de struction" toward Germany Broadcasts beamed to the Uni ted States said that the Big Three had adopted the "Morgenthau plan for enslavement and de struction" of the Reich, and had committed "the greatest political crime of aJJ Ufljs" MEDFORD United Press place will be created In "the comity of nations" for a Ger many minus any vestige of these objectionable features mihtar is mand naziism. Their communique looked like a virtual world charter. It re vealed that President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin met in the Russian Crimea for eight days, apparent ly breaking up yesterday. It announced their full agree ment on vexing problems the Polish question and the world organization matters which were left undecided at Dumbarton Oaks. And it invited France to resume her prewar place among world councils. Map War Wlndun The three leaders announced that: 1. Together with their respec tive chiefs of staff, they maDDtd full plans for the last phase of the European . war Including "new and even more powerful blows to be launched by our armies and air forces into the heart of Germany from the east, west, north and south." 2. They agreed on terms for occupation and control of Ger many, including a central con- trol commission, consisting of ine supreme commanders of the three powers, with headquarters in Berlin. France will be Invited "to take over a zone of occupa tion and to participate as a fourth member of the control commission. "It is our inflexible nuroose to destroy German militarism and naziism and to ensure that Germany will never aeain be able to disturb the peace of th'e world." To that end, all militar ism, military equipment, mili tary production and nazl influ ences will be wiped out. 4. Germany will be obliged to compensate for damage caused by Germany to the allied na tions. A commission, to work In Moscow, will be established to consider damage claims and methods of compensation. Voting Settled The major question left un settled at Dumbarton Oaks that of voting procedure in the world security organization nas been settled. Terms of the settlement will be revealed after they have been submitted to China and France. To com plete the work of drafting a se curity organization, a full-dress conference of all 45 United Na tions will be held at San Fran cisco starting April 25. 6. Britain, the United States and Soviet Russia will Jointly assist any liberated European country or former axis satellite to establish Internal peace, carry out emergency relief measures, form representative interim gov ernments and facilitate the hold ing of tree elections. The three countries will consult imme diately on such problems when ever they may arise. France will be invited to join these delibera tions. The Big Three aid it wu Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1945 their "Inflexible purpose" to de stroy German militarism and Naziism so that Germany will never again disturb the peace. It would do ltfcthis wayi. To Break Up Military 7 "We are determined to disarm and disband all German forces: break up for all time the Ger man general staff, that has re peatedly tried the resurgence of German militarism: remove or destroy all German military equipment; eliminate or control all German industry that can be used for military production: Bring all war criminals to just and swift punishment and exact reparation in kind of the destruc tion wrought by the Germans; wipe out the Nazi party, Nazi laws, organizations, and Institu tions, remove all Nazi and mili tarist Inferences from public of fice and from the cultural and economic life of the German people; and take In harmony with such other measures in Germany as may be necessary to the future peace and safety of the world. The Big Three said they do not intend to destroy the future of Germany. But they said that only with the elimination of Na ziism and militarism could there be hope for a "decent life for Germans, and a place for them In the comity of nations. !E SET APRIL 25 IN S. F. San Francisco, Feb. 13 U.R) San Francisco, busy with war, prepared for a world peace con ference today. The city's officialdom, react ing quickly to yesterday's sur prise announcement, set about the task of receiving the first full-dress United Nations secur ity organization here April 25. People In the street appeared astonished by the news that San Francisco had been selected as the first world peace headquar ters. They clustered about newspaper stands and made it the number one conversation piece. After the first Impact of pleas ant shock wore off, the most frequent reaction among housing-conscious San Franciscans was: 'Where 4re the delegates go ing to sleep?" State department officials were expected to arrive here shortly to answer that question. It was presumed they will su pervise arrangements for hous ing representatives of the 45 United Nations in this city where service men occasionally sleep on park benches and ho tels are booked sol'd weeks and ia tome cue mouth ahead. E OF INCREASE IN STAMARIES Vote of 46 to 8 Passes Measure to Boost Wages; Bill Received by Senate. Salem, Ore., Feb. 13 (U.R) The senate today received the house reorganization and ad ministration committee's bills to raise the salaries of state offic ials, which passed the house in short order yesterday. The vote was 46 to 8 with six not voting. The companion bills (HBs 261 and 263) all for increased out lay of approximately $18,000 biennially, according to Rep. John Steelhammer, Salem, com mittee chairman. - The bills were attacked In the house chiefly because they were for those In the "higher brack ets", while there was a "greater need" for increases in the lower pay-scale ranges. Rep. Warren Erwln, Mult nomah, said that "I shudder to think what the voters' reaction will be" to the raises, and re marked he had already heard considerable criticism. Salaries Hiked Passing the bill, which would raise the governor from $7,500 to $9,000, the secretary of state and treasurer from $5,400 to $6,000, and the attorney general from $5,000 to $5,750, would put the house in a "ridiculous light in view of the facts of theii statements to the press," he said (The three highest-elected of ficials last month disclaimed, to the press any desire or pressing need for their own increases in salary.) Earlier the house passed the companion bill which would raise the supreme court Justices salaries from $7,500 to $8,000 The vote was 41 to 14. , Rep. Joseph Harvey objected to the measure, and called at tention to the fact that the amount was the same paid the five-star generals and admu-als of the United States. 3 SOUTH OF PASIG By United Press Three American divisions, joining forces in southern Ma nila, herded the Japanese into a narrowing pocket south of the Pasig river today. U. S. bombers carried out widespread sweeps over the Pacific and ran the aerial offensive against Iwo Jlma into the 68th consecutive day. The battle against the Japan ese garrison, backed into the burning waterfront at Manila, was the deadliest, close-in fight ing of the entire Pacific war The enemy was fighting with re newed ferocity and sowing vir tually every street In the Philip pines capital with mines and booby traps. The junction In southern Ma nila was made by units of the First Cavalry division, the 37l.h Infantry division, and the 11th Airborne division. Units of the Sixth Armored division at the same time raced to the Island's east coast at Dingalen Bay, cut ting Luzon in two. VAN DYKE CONDOLENCE VOTED BY LEGISLATURE As a token of respect to Ben jamin F. Van Dyke, .father of Representative Frank Van Dyke of Ashland who passed away Saturday, a resolution of sym pathy was passed In the Oregon legislature this morning. Funeral services for Mr. Van Dyke, native son of the county, were held this afternoon at the Conger-MorrU chapel. VETS, DISPLACED WAR WORKERS TO GET GAS Washington, Feb. 13 (U.R) The office of price administra tion announced today It would grant extra gasoline rations to veterans and displaced civilian war workers who use autos to travel to authorized interviews lac oew job. I Ml TAE3E CAPTURED AFTER SIX WEEKS' SIEGE 110,000 Prisoners Taken; Russians Run Rough-shod Through Silesia Defenses. London, Feb. 13 (U.R) The ruins of Budapest, capital of Hungary and one-time city of 1,500,000, fell today to the Red army after a siege of six weeks, Marshal Stalin announced in a special order of the day. Last ditch resistance by the doomed German and Hungarian garrison of Budapest, encircled since Dec. 26, flickered out In the rubble of the ancient city astride the Danube river, and the total of prisoners captured by the Russians in the siege mounted to 110,000, ,', . Combined Assault Budapest fell under the com bined assault of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrain ian army and Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin'a Third Ukrainian army, which had clamped a noose of strangulation on the gateway city to Austria and southeastern Germany. North of Budapest 300 miles, other forces were reported by the German High Command to have fanned out through Sile sia to the Quels river, seven to 10 miles beyond the broken Bober line in Silesia. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian army was running roughshod over the cracking defenses of Silesia in a two-way drive within some 70 miles of Dresden, capital of Saxony, and toward the southeastern flank of the Berlin fortifications. Nab Nail Chief Among the 110,000 prisoners captured in the fighting in Bu dapest, Stalin reported, were the German commander of the Garrison, Colonel General Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, and his staff. Large quantities of arms and various war materials were cap tured, the order said. Stalin ordered 24 Salvos of 324 guns the usual number for the cap ture of a capital in tribute to the captors of Budapest. V-Bombs Kill 585 Britains in Month ' London, Feb. 13 U.R)-i-Ger- man V-bombs killed 585 persons and injured 1,629 in Britain dur ing January, the ministry of home security announced today. The totals were nearly double those In December and were the highest, with the exception of November, since August. Jackson County Leads State In Waste Paper Collection Portland, Feb. 12 (U.R) Vol unteer collections of waste pa per In Oregon during January showed an increase of 469 tons over the December total ac cording to an announcement by the Oregon State Salvage com mittee today. January collections totalled 1112 tons against a 643-ton col lection In December. The Janu ary total was still considerably below tonnage reported In pre ceding months however. Collections last month were highlighted by Jackson county's all-out drive, the committee re ported. This drive conducted through schools aud lalvafo JTribune United Press TO BERLIN By United Press The nearest distances to Ber lin from advanced allied lines today: Eastern front 32 miles (from Klenitz). Western front 395 miles (from Rhine north of Kleve). Italy 530 miles (from point north of Ravenna). 24 LOSE LIVES AS NAVY PLANE FALLS INTO BAY Alameda, Cal., Feb. 13 U.R) Twenty-four persons were kill ed today when a New York bound navy C-47 transport plane crashed into San Francisco bay a few minutes after taking off from Oakland airport. Only four bodies had been re covered almost five hours after the crash, which occurred at 7:10 a. m. ' The plane apparently develop ed mechanical trouble alter leav ing Oakland at 6:52 a. m. and dived into the water about three-quarters of a mile off Chestnut street in Alameda. , Eyewitnesses said there was no mld-alr explosion. The plane broke up when It hit the water and crash boats were able to find only the tall and part of one wing. The first body found was that of a sailor who had 40-day leave papers in his pocket. The navy said a list of the plane's passen ger's and crew members had been forwarded to Washington and that the dead would not be identified until next of kin are notified. El BIG THREE PLAN London, Feb. 13 (U.B Mili tary observers said today the al lied big three may have planned invasions of southern Norway, Denmark and even the German Baltic coast to speed victory in Europe. Speculation was touched off by the big three's promise In the Crimean declaration that allied armies and air forces would strike "new and even more pow erful blows. . . . Into the heart of Germany" from the east, west. north and south. The timing and scope of opera tions from all four directions "have been fully agreed and planned In detail," President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin said in the declaration. committees netted a total of 179 tons of paper for a per capita increase for the county of 8.5 pounds. Robert A. Duff, chairman of the Jackson County Salvage committee at Medford and G. M. Green, Ashland salvage chair man together with school super intendents led the drive. Benton county remained on top of the state's list for cumula tive per capita collection aver ages with 65.7 pounds contrib uted per person since the start of the campaign in November, 1943. Wasco county held second place with a S3.1 pound average and Marion county was third with 43.8 pound. .. . - Full Leased Wire NO. 275. IE MOVE WAR PLANTS TO ESCAPEBOIING Plane Factories and Other Vital Industries 'Efficient ly' Moving to Manchuria. By United Press Airplane factories and other vital war plants will be moved from the Japanese homeland to Manchuria "to make up for a decreased production,' Tokyo radio said today In an announce ment of a "readjustment nf Nln. pons industrial structure. Rokoza Takabe, director of the general affairs bureau' of the Manchurian puppet government, submitted a plan for "construc tion of new and additional fac tories in Manchukuo and the removal nf nlnnit from j.Tnnan Tokyo reported in a broadcast recoraea Dy united Press, San Francisco. Very Efficient "Part of the plan that of re moval of all vital industries from Janan ! unriAr vnv with remarkable efficiency," Tokyo quoted Takabe. Takabe said the "projected al location of industries must be undertaken from a broad com nrehensive ntanrtnrtlnf fn in joint prosecution of the war." (In Washington, Brig. Gen. Laurls Norstad. rhlef nf fnM nf the 20th air force, said Japan had started dismnntllntf anmA nf her largest aircraft plants in an eiiort to scatter production fa cilities and thereby obtain great er protection against Superfort ress attacks.) "The nlnn la en irrun enable Manchukuo to undertake directly the task nf nrnriuxti nn nf aircraft to make up for the de crease oi production In Japan, as well as needed vital production of other arms," Takabe said. "Besides, Manchukuo must be prepared to function in the addi tional caoacitv of war materials." T David B. Simpson arrived In Medford this morning and will deliver the main address at the traditional annual banquet of the Jackson County Lincoln club this evening. The banquet will be at the Holland Hotel at 8:30 p. m. "Wanted: A 1945 Proclama tion of Emancipation," Is the subject of Mr. Simpson's ad dress. The Lincoln banquet is al ways one of the largest gather Ings of the year for Republicans of the county. In addition to Mr. Simpson's address there will be election of officers and a program. Anna Boettiger FDR's Companion Washington. Feb. 13 am The presence of Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger at the Big Three Crimean conference 'gave emphasis today to her new role as Confidante, boon enmnnninn and adviser to her father. The tall blonde only daugh ter of President and Mrs. Rnnsn. velt, returned to the executive mansion to live more than a year ago. Ever since, her stand ing and prestige as a White House figure has arown bv leapt and bound BANQUE STOP Nazis Throw In Reinforce ments at Expense of Other Portions of Western Front Paris, Feb. 13 (U.B The Canadian First ermy completed the conquest of the Relchswald or Reich's forest at the north end of the Sieg fried line today and pressed on Into the Rhlneland through heavy German artillery fire. Paris, Feb. 13 (U.R) Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's troops punch, ed two new holes in th kw. fried pillbox belt north of Ech- ternach today, giving them three possible gateways to the Rhine land. Canadian 1st army units beat down brisk German counterat tacks and suddenly stiffened re sistance to score new gains In the offensive against the north ern end of the Westwall. Units of seven German divl slons had been counted in the forces bracing against Gen. H. D. G. Crearar's push toward the Ruhr and Rhlneland. The Ger mans appeared to be throwing; In reinforcements at the expense of other cortions of the, timet m front Heavy Fighting Heaw fiehtins lng on along an arc of 12 to 19 miles southwestward from the Rhine above the vllln hausen, three miles northeast of Kleve The village fell to Ca- naaian troops who crossed the ra 11 way northeastward from Kleve. The 80th and fith riluldrm. Patton's U. S. 3rd army shoul dered past the concrete forti of the Siegfried belt at pomta northwest of Echternach. Farth er to the north Patton had break through the Westwall in the Pruem area. Pruem Cleansed The 4th division rooted out the last sniper In Pruem and re pulsed two severe counterattacks across the Pruem river north east of the town. To the south other 3rd army troops erased one of the last fragments of the Ardennes bulge when they captured Vianden, lower anchor nf thm nM at vm. Vianden line across the base of the salient. DRAFT TO CATCH ALL OREGONIANS NDER 30 YEARS Portland, Ore., Feb. 13 (U.R) The young men of Oregon to day had a warning from Col. Elmer V. Wooten, state Selec tive Service Director, that with in 90 days virtually every physi cally fit man with the excep tion of those In agriculture . would be In uniform. In meeting Oregon's draft quota of 3000 to 3500 men, Wooten said that the new pro gram would exhaust the supply of men under 30. "With respect to men over 30, I may say that some will be taken," He added, "but lt of course depends on what they are doing. Men are now being drafted to 38 years of age, but more consideration is being shown those older men engaged In esesntlal activities." Those under 30 in essential Industry will not be spared, he said. "With respect to those engag ed In agriculture, we are adher ing to the Ty dings amendment, which provides that workers In an essential agricultural enter prise shall not be inducted until a replacement can be obtained." He said men . are not being taken for limited army service and that rejection for physical disabilities is not permanent In that any man can be called back for re-examination. March re quirements in Oregon will be about 1200 men and April re quirements have not been de termined. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Claude Haggard describing the high wind he encountered on a trip east and declaring it blew the buttons off his over coat. Lt. Bob Stedman just plain happy to be home again. Fred Scheffel taking time out to chuck bands with old buddies.. -
