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rPOIRANIAN RAIL
CENTER TAKEN BY
RED SIEORCES
Fall of Stargard Opens Way
To Big Baltic Port of Stet
tinBerlin Attack Looms
London, March S -- U.R)
Berlin reported today that Rus
sian siege forces had captured
Stargard, key Pomeranian rail
hub 20 miles southeast of Stettin,
opening the way to that big Bal
tic fort which already was with
in Soviet artillery range.
; The Nazis also said the Rus
sians opened a new attack on a
large scale near the lower Vis
tula river in the area of Gross
wollenthal, 40 miles south of
Danzig City, and in the first few
hours "achieved a few pene
trations." The Red army's biggest push
since its sweep to the approach
es of Berlin was grinding up the
defenses of Pomerania and the
lower Oder yalley. The right
flank of the army poised before
Berlin was being secured rapid
ly. Some sources predicted an
early frontal onslaught against
the Nazi capital.
Nazi broadcasts acknowledged
the loss of Stargard, biggest an
chor base in the lower Oder de
ft fenses on the road to Stettin.
Stargard fell after violent street
fighting, the enemy radio re
ported. Further Gains
North of Stargard, the Nazis
said, Soviet mobile forces scored
further gains in the direction of
Naugard, 22 miles northeast of
Stettin and 28 miles from the
Baltic.
Thus It appeared that Mar
shal Gregory K. Zhukov's right
wing was drawing in line on a
broad front east of Stettin for a
push against the Oder estuary.
Even without a river crossing,
strong Russian forces on the
lower Oder, could neutralize
Stettin with gunfire across the
stream.
CONIliTTEEEYES
y DIVERSION PLAN
Sacramento, March S (U.R)
Sen. Randolph Collier, R., Yreka
today announced his committee
which is probing a plan to divert
the Klamath river Into the
Sacramento river will resume
hearings here in about 30 days.
A report will be prepared dur
ing the Interval on the commit
tee's previous findings, Collier
said.
He added that the committee
"has found out that no one is in
favor of the diversion plan, and
we haven't been able to discover
who asked for an Investigation
of it by the U. S. army engi
neers. The engineers apparently
had had some money to spend
and needed something to do."
Ex-Governor Bryan
Succumbs Aged 76
Lincoln, Neb., March 9. U.PJ
Former Gov. Charles W. Bryan
" brother of the late William Jen-
gV nings Bryan and Democratic
candidate for vice president in
1924, died yesterday at his
home. He was 78 years old.
Bryan had been ill for several
months.
He was schooled in politics by
"The Great Commoner," who
was seven years his senior
Bryan's political career stretch
ed across a half a century. He
started as secretary of his broth
er when the latter won the
Democratic nomination with his
"cross of gold" speech in 1896
He climbed rapidly and managed
the two subsequent presidential
campaigns for his brother.
NAVY PLANS TO BUILD
AMMUNITION STORAGE
Washington, March 5. (U.R)
The navy department plans to
spend $3,811,900 on new ammu
nition storage facilities at Ban
gor, Wash., Rep. Hugh Delacy.
D., Wash., said today.
The projects contemplated
'Would make the Bangor Installa
tion one of the largest ammuni
tion dumps in toe country.
Medford
United Pti
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Shocking evidence of Jap atrocities, a Manila mother and child huddle In death inside wnlled city of Manila.
During the many nights before Amerioan soldiers finally breached the walled section, U. S. observers nearby
beard women's screams, then shots, then dead silence. Once Inside they saw these, and many other Innocent
victims of bestial Jan savagery. U. S. Signal Conn ohoto.
BOMBERS BLAST
GERMANY'S OIL
Tl
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London, March 8 (U.R) A
1 ,000 - plane fleet of " American"
bombers and fighters dealt a
double blow today at German
transport and oil in attacks on
refineries at Harburg near Ham
burg and rail yards at Chemnitz,
battered Saxony stronghold ly
ing before the red army.
Lt. Gen. James H. Doollttle's
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
rounded out three weeks of daily
attacks on Germany. .
More than 400 heavy bombers
and 600 fighters were thrown
into the two-pronged attacks on
northwest and southeast Ger
many, me neavy escori oi Mus
tangs and Thunderbolts was sent
along as a precaution against
German fighter opposition
which has flared violently at
times recently.
The big rail yards at Chem
nitz, southwest of Dresden, have
been bombed repeatedly in sup
port of the Russian forces bat
tling in Silesia to tne east.
With Dresden hard hit and re
ported by the Germans to have
been destroyed, Chemnit? had
become the main distribution
point for the German forces op
posing the advance of Marshal
Ivan S. Konev's red army.
TO BE $9,800,000
Jackson ' county's quota for
March war bond sales has been
set at $211,700 according to fig
ures received by Henry Zach
arisen, war bond chairman. This
is identical with the February
quota, the chairman states.
Oregon's quota for the month
is $9,800,000.
Una Merkel's Ma
Suicides By Gas;
Actress Made III
New York, March 5 (U.R)
Motion Picture Actress Una Mer
kel Burla was overcome by gas
early this morning as her moth
er, Mrs. Arno Merkel, 70, died,
apparently, a suicide, in their
hotel apartment.
A night bell captain at the Es
sex House discovered Mrs. Mer
kel's body about S a. m., after a
night watchman had smelled gas
coming from the apartment. A
heavy bath towel had been wedg
ed under the kitchen door, police
said.
Police said Miss Merkel ap
parently had been overcome in
her sleep when her mother's
precautions to keep the gas con
fined to the kitchen fai!ed. Mrs.
Merkel's body, the wrists slash
eel, wu iouad la the kitchen.
WAR BOND QUOTA
Full Leased Wire
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH
Japs Butcher Manila Mother
Crimea Conference
On Handling of Disputes Under
World Organization, is Revealed
Washington, March 5. (U.R)
The government today revealed
the long-awaited terms of the
compromise reached at the Cri
mea- conference on voting pro
cedure for handling internation
al disputes under the proposed
world security organization.
In brief, the agreement pro
vides that in event any one of
the world's- big five nations
should become involved in a dis
pute, it would have power to
veto any direct action against lt
to enforce the peace. . These
would include such steps as
economic penalties or the use of
armed forces.
Anyone Can Veto
Anyone of the big five the
U. S., Britain, Russia, France,
China could veto action against
any country.
However, no nation large or
small would be allowed to par
ticipate in preliminary council
consideration of 'a dispute in
which it was involved. The coun
cil could decide that a dispute
was "likely to threaten the
peace," and make recommenda
tions for its settlement. No coun
try involved in the dispute
would be allowed to take part
in such preliminary delibera
tions. The voting procedure agree
ment rounds out the proposed
world security organization set
up which was drafted at Dum
barton Oaks last year. It will be
considered, and probably for
mally adopted, by all the united
nations at the forthcoming San
Francisco conference.
Stettinius Explains
Secretary of State Edward R
Stettinius, Jr.. in a speech at
Mexico City gave a further ex
planation of the agreement to
delegates to the inter-American
conference.
He said the council would be
able to take any steps "short of
enforcement measures" without
the vote of any country involved
in a dispute.
"This procedure," he said.
"means that whenever any mem
ber of the council including
any permahent member is
party to a dispute, that member
cannot vote in any decision of
the council involving peaceful
settlement of that dispute.
"Consequently, the council
can examine the dispute thor
oughly and the remaining mem
bers can make recommendations
to all the parties to the dispute
as to methods and procedures for
settling it. They can refer the
legal aspects of the dispute to
the international court for ad
vice. They can refer the dispute
to the general assembly if they
wish; and they can take any
other appropriate steps short of
enforcement measures to obtain
a settlement of that dispute
without the vote of the member
of the security council- Involved
in the dispute.
On Sam Footing
"This means that all members
of the security council when!
and Child
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Compromise
they are parties to a dispute will
be on the same footing before
this council," Stettinius contin
ued. "It means that no nation
in the world will be denied the
right to have a fair hearing of,
its case in the security council.
and that the equal, democratic
rights of all nations will be re
spected. "If the dispute Is not settled
by such means, the major ques
tion before the council is wheth
er force needs to be employed.
In that event, it is necessary that
the vote of the permanent mem
bers of the council be unanim
ous. They are the nations which
possess in sufficient degree the
industrial and military strength
to prevent aggression.
"However, the decision of the
council can be reached in such a
case only by a majority of seven
members; which means that the
permanent members cannot
alone decide to take action. It
also means that the non-permanent
members can prevent
action."
U. S. RIGHTS TO
FOREIGN BASES
HELD TENUOUS
Washington, March 8. (U.R)
Attorney General Francis Biddle
revealed today that the United
States has "almost no" legal
rights to postwar commercial
use of wartime bases it has built
on foreign soil.
In a report to congress on post
war International air transport
policy, Biddle took note of re
cent suggestions that the United
States "assert sovereignty" over
the air facilities developed at the
cost of millions of American dol
lars. "Examination of the agree
ments governing construction of
the wartime bases reveals that
the United States has almost no
postwar contractual rights with
respect to these bases," he said.
Biddle said, however, that this
was of "little moment" because
the right to use those bases
"should be obtainable without
difficulty" if the United States
actively promotes the develop
ment of a sound international air
network.
- He proposed an international
agreement opening these bases
to all commercial air lines after
the war.
BOMBER MISSINd
Mountain Home, Ida., March
8. (U.R) The Mountain Home
air field public relations office
reported today that an extensive
search by the civil air patrol
and army planes have failed to
discover the location of a Liber
ator bomber from the field, now
overdue and believed crashed.
5, 1945
JAPAPTSCAPITAL
Ten Superforts Follow Sun
day's Destructive Raid
Island Japs Hammered
By United Press
American Superfortresses
raided Tokyo again today, ac
cording to enemy broadcasts,
and Allied ground forces ham
mered back the Japanese on
Iwo, in the Philippines, and in
Burma.
Tokyo said that 10 of the
giant B-29's, following up yes
terday's destructive raid, hit the
Japanese capital singly during a
two-hour period early today
One Allied radio report said
"Flying Fortresses" were over
Tokyo, but this was believed an
error as Superfortresses have
been the only land-based planes
so far to attack Tokyo. 1
Tokyo Hard Hit
The raid on Tokyo by almost
200 B-29's yesterday was be
lieved to have reduced another
huge segment of tjie enemy capi
tal to flaming ruins. Two hun
dred and forty, square blocks
were burned out of Tokyo a
week ago.
Marines on Iwo completed the
capture of four-fifths of the is
land, 7S0 miles south of Tokyo,
and the bloodiest battle of the
Pacific went into its third week
Already more than 15,000 of the
enemy s original garrison of. so.
000 troops have been knocked
out, but the remainder were
fighting to the last man in the
shrinking northern pocket.
In the Philippines, American
troops and . Filipino ' guerillas
clamped a huge pincers on me
Japanese forces in northern Lu
zon. The guerillas, led by an
American Colonel, cleared the
entire Illcos Norte province in
the northwestern corner of lu
zon to give the Allies bases with
in 229 miles of Formosa and 490
miles from Hongkong,
Near U. S. Lines
The guerilla offensive carried
within 100 miles of the Amer-
loan lines on Lingayen gulf and
160 miles from U. S. troops push
inB ud the center of Luzon.
In Burma, the British Second
Division crossed the Irrawaddy
20 miles west of Mandalay, to
give the allies a 20-mlle long
beachhead on the southern bank
of the river. At the same time
another Allied Division pushing
'south along the eastern bank of
the Iirawaddy pushed within 30
miles north of Mandalay.
Salem, Ore., March 8 (U.R)
The Oregon House of Repre
sentatives today gave over
whelming approval to Civil Serv
ice and Retirement Benefits for
certain state employes, while the
senate killed a number of sal
ary raises for high state officers.
The Civil Service Measure
HB294) would require examin
ations or employment and pro
motion In the state with only a
few exceptions, including teach
ers, court employes, professional
men and some others.
The Retirement Bill (HB344)
was explained and presented by
Reps. Lyle Thomas and Frank
VanDyke, who said that lt was
a measure to provide for retire
ment, disability and death bene
fits for all state employes.
The Senate gave final passage
to a bill accepting the gift of the
North Pacific Dental College
and making it a part of the Uni
versity of Oregon.
The Senate took major action
on salary raise bills by killing
those affecting the governor and
high electlvo officials, supremo
court-justices, adjutant general
and real estate commission, and
aporovlng a few.
The first passed gave the state
engineer a raise from $4500 to
$4800 (SB255) and the second
(SB188) was set for tomorrow,
ralslnff fha minimum fnr circuit
court judges from $5,000 to $6,- tin T. Quick, commanding offi
nnn I cer.
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JAMES A. PERRY
JAMES A. PERRY,
TAKEN BY DEATH
Jackson county lost another
of its best known citizens today
in the passing of James A. Perry
early-day banker and orchardist
who died at his home, 804 West
Main street, early this morning
Funeral services are to be con
ducted Thursday at 3 p. m. from
the Perl Funeral Home, with the
Rev. Harry Hansen of the First
Presbyterian church officiating.
Medford Lodge No. 103, A. F. &
A. M., will 'also participate in
Malta. Commandery, .! Knights
Templar, will act as a guard of
honor. Interment will take place
.in Siskiyou Memorial Park. '
A native Oregonian, Mr. Perry
was born near Stayton on July
24, 1365. He spent part of his
early boyhood near Ellensburg,
Wash., where the family resided
for a time and later moved back
to the Willamette valley, near
Albany.
Came Her In 1898
Coming to Medford in 1898,
Mr. Perry for a time operated a
grain warehouse and then en
tered the fruit industry whichl
he was to promote and engage in
for many years. He shipped one
of the first carloads of pears
from the valley,
While president of the Com
mercial club in 1909 Mr. Perry
accompanied a shipment of
pears to tho Chicago Land Show
and spent considerable time in
teresting prospective settlers in
coming to southern Oregon. He
also took pears to the Spokane
Land Show. He operated a fruit
packing plant in Medford and
planted and brought to bearing
several orchards In the valley.
Later Mr. Perry helped organ
ize the Medford- National Bank
and served as a director. He also
served as vice-president and as
president for two years prior
to the sale of the bank to the
United States National Bank of
Portland, and served as the only
president of the Diamond Lake
Improvement company.
Long-Tim Mason
Long a member of the Masonic
lodge, Mr. Perry was active in
the Masonic Lodge No. 103, A. F.
and A. M., of Malta Comman
dery No. 4, Knights Templnr and
of Hillah Temple of the Shrine
He served as treasurer of the
Blue Lodge for 40 years.
On January S, 1899, the de
ceased was married to Ella
Foster at Albany, Ore., and to
this union were born two chil
dren. Survivors are his wife.
Ella; a daughter, Mrs. Frances
Flinn; a son, Allan F. Perry;
three grandchildren, Allan Ed
ward Flinn, Janet Louise Perry
and James Allan Perry, all of
Medford; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Wallace of Norfolk, Va., and
Mrs. Effie Parker of Toppenish,
Wash.; three brothers, Harve
Perry of Junction City, Ore.,
Lawrence and Newton Perry of
Toppenish.
CRASH KILLS II
Alexandria, La., March S.
(U.R) All 11 members of the
crew of a Flying Fortress from
the Alexandria army air field
were killed Saturday night when
their plane crashed and burned
approximately 14 miles south
west of Winnfield, La., lt was
announced today by Col. Quen-
Lasd Wire
NO. 291.
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TO RETURN UNTIL
15 AOEIED
Leaders of 15,030 Out At
Briggs Plant Vote to
Stand By Men Fired
Detroit, March 8 (U.R) Lead
ers of 19,000 striking Briggs
Manufacturing Co. employes
voted today against returning to
work until 15 men discharged
by the company are back on the
payroll.
The action by United Auto
Workers (C. I. O.) union local
212's executive board ended
hopes for an early return to full
schedule armament production
in Detroit. It was taken as ap
proximately 25,000 Chrysler
corporation employees returned
to their jobs after a 10 -day
strike.
The Briggs management pre
viously has refused to rehire tne
workers, who were discharged
on the ground that they organ
ized previous walkouts and the
nresent strike. There was little
indication that its position would
be changed.
T.nrsl 212'n decision was an
nounced by John Murphy, presi
dent.
NAZI PLANES IN
SECOND ATTACK
London. March 8. U.R) Ger
man planes bombed England iam
nicht for the second straight
night, but caused nine aamnn
and no fatalities.
The hit-run raid was on
much smaller scale than that of
the nrevious night, when Nazi
aircraft killed at least nine per
sons in bombing and machine
eunnlns attacks on towns in
east, north and northeast Eng
land.
One plane flew low over an
East Anglian town and dropped
a number of small bombs, two pi
which exploded over the roof
of a house in which a number
of babies were asleep. One wom
an was cut by debris, but the
babies, through showered with
plaster, were unhurt.
Fifth Army Takes
Heights Villages
Rome, March 5 (U.R) Fifth
army troops captured Monte
Delia Croce and several villages
on the strategic heights west of
the Pistoia-Bolongna highway,
headquarters said today.
Meanwhile Eighth army for
ces cleared the enemy from
coastal woods south of the Co
macchlo lagoon in the Adriatic
sector.
American patrols continued to
probe enem., positions along the
Fifth army front. Clashes oc
curred east of Mount Belmonte,
where a raiding party killed nine
Germans and captured three, In
the vicinity of Mount Spigollno
to the west and in the Serchlo
valley.
Hood River Legion Post's Stand
May Be Eyed By State Committee
Hood River, Ore?, March 8.
(U.R) The Hood River post of
the American Legion, which has
defied a request of the national
commander of the legion that it
restore names of Japanese-American
service men expunged from
Its war honor roll, today faced
possibility of investigation by
the state legion.
Such an Investigation would
be requested by the national
commander, Edward N. Schel
berling.
O. E. Palmeteer of Salem,
Ore. national legion committee
man said that he expected Schei
berling to ask the state executive
committee to make the investi
gation, v
"Such an investigation," he
said, "would be for the purpose
of ascertaining whether the
FLEE OVER RHINE
E
Only Few Rear Guards Left
In Ruined City Bridges
Wrecked Before Flight
Paris. March 8 (U.R) Amer
ican armored and Infantry force
broke into the streets of Cologne
today end struck for the center
of the Rhineland city without
meeting opposition.
tirst accounts from the front
Indicated the bulk of the Ger
man garrison already had fled
across the Rhine and that only
scattered Nazi rear guards were
left in the Cologne ruins.
Elements of the U. S. First
army's Third armored division
swept into Cologne from the
northwest In two parallel col
umns. Vanguards of the Amer
ican 104th and Eighth infantry
divisions were driving into the
city's outskirts from the west
and southwest.
Suburbs Taken
The Third armored division
captured Longerich, 1 mile
northwest of Cologne, and Men
genlch, two miles to the west
and about the same distance
from the city.
Both columns pushed rapidly
ahead into Cologne proper and
at last reports 'were pouring
tanks and infantrymen into the
heart of Germany's fourth city.
The dramatlo break-through
into Cologne brought the battle
for the Rhineland plain intb its
final phase, less than 11 days
after the start of the American
drive across the Roer river.
Ram Bridgehead
American Ninth army troops
to the north were astride the
western entrances to two bridges
spanning the Rhine between
Homberg and the Ruhr valley
city of Duisburg, and the Cana
dian First army on the Ninth's
left flank was ramming against
the last remaining enemy bridge
head at Wesel, -. -
United Press War Correspond
ent C. R. Cunningham reported
that the Cologne garrison was
believed to have escaped across
the Rhine in barges, suggesting
that - the great Hohenzollera
bridge and the other Cologne
spans had been wrecked.
The German DNB News Agen
cy said all the Rhine bridges be
tween Cologne and Wesel had
been destroyed, but it did not
make clear whether the Cologne
bridges were included in that
list.
The fall of Cologne would give
the three Allied armies virtually
nnHlsnuted nossession of a 100-
mile stretch of the Rhine's west
bank as far north as Arnhem
and open the way for a grand
assault against the Ruhr.
G.
Grants Pass high school's de
bate team was pronounced dis
trict champion Friday night
after debating Medford's team
at the Grants Pass school. Both
teams won their affirmative and
the decision was made by Dr.
E. W. Wells, of Oregon State
college, according to a point sys
tem. Subject of the debate was
"Resolved: That the legal voting
ago should be reduced to eigh
teen years."
The champions will go to
Corvallis sometime In April to
compete for state championship,
ship.
Hood River post's action was in
violation of the legion's consti
tution. Warren P. Forman of Port
land, commander of the legion's
District 9 and a member of the
state legion executive committee
said the committee is awaiting
word from Scheiberling.
"It is likely that an Investiga
tion will be requested but as yet
It can not be told what will be
the findings," he said, "lnforma
tlon thus far received does not
show that the Hood River post
has done anything that would
cause lt to lose Its charter."
Nationwide publicity resulted
from the post's action this winter
In removing the names of 16
Japanese-Americans from its
honor roll on the ground that
the service men were of dual
allegiance.