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Newspaper Page TextHitler Calls Emergency Meeting of Leaders as Foe Wears . . . -- Medford United Prese Full Fortieth Year SILL ISLES IN Invasion Under Way Only 38C Miles Southeast of Japan is Tokyo Report By United Press Tokyo radio reported ioday that American Invasion . troops were storming several islands in the Okinawa group only 380 miles southeast of Japan proper and. one broadcast identified the main island of Okinawa as one of the targets. The enemy radio said that 13 aircraft carriers, 11 battleships, 10 cruisers, 32 destroyers, and other smaller craft were sup porting the invasion with a ter rific air and naval bombardment which began Friday. 2000 Troops Involved Approximately 2,000 troops from 100 invasion barges at tempted to land on Tokoshika and Aka, Tokyo said, adding that invasion barges also ap proached Zamanl. The three islands are clustered around the main island of Okinawa, which a broadcast heard by BBC and recorded by CBS, said was an other site for an attempted land ing. The reported invasion was not confirmed immediately .by Pa cific fleet headquarters but such a landing would put American ground forces only half as far from the Japanese homeland as the marines on newly-captured Iwo. The Okinawa group is mid way between the home Japanese island of -Kyushu and Formosa, which American bombers from the Philippines have virtually neutralized. All enemy war pro duction in two-thirds of Formosa wag believed paralyzed by Fifth air force Liberators which shat- . tered the island's big Jltsugetsu ' hydro-electric plant Friday. j ' Bomber Active Other American bombers con tinued widespread attacks thru the China sea, and the Byukyus, of which Okinawa is a part. Superfortresses wrecked 25 buildings in an early Sunday ' raid on Nagoya's Mitsubishi air craft engine works. In the other raids, army and navy planes from central and southwest Pa cific sank or damaged 19 Japa nese ships, including two de stroyers and 1 destroyer escort. In the ground fighting on Luzon, American troops re pulsed six heavy Japanese coun terattacks around Balete Pass in the north, made new gains east of Manila and continued to clear out eastern Batangas province in the south. 4 English Papers Are Displayed In Tribune Windows Copies of four English news papers have been sent to the Mail Tribune by th Office of War Information and are dis played in the windows of the Tribune office, 27 North Fir street. There are copies of the Lon don Daily Mirror and the Lon don Daily Sketch of February 1 13, 1945, with front-page, news of the Crimea conference be tween Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. Both of these are tabloid papers. The remaining two "bap ers are the London Evening News and the Liverpool Daily Post, the former dated January 25, of this year, and the latter January 13. Iwo Like Being In Hell Without Drink of Water Say Wounded Vets San Francisco, March 26 (U.R) "It was like being in hell with out a drink of water." This was the reaction of be tween 600 and 700 marines who arrived at the navy receiving hospital here last night from Iwo Jima. Pfc. Norman Redding, 25, Waco, Tex., said it was the "most miserable time I ever spent In my life." Cpl. Wiley C. McKinney, 21. George West, Tex., a veteran of five Pacific campaigns, declared Iwo made all other operations "seem like a picnic" Leased Wire WtViiiiiiii'' ,A rtf (Acme Telephoto) David Lloyd George LLOYD GEORGE PASSES AFTER London, March 28. (U.R) David Lloyd George world war 1 prime minister of Great Bri tain, died today at 81 after lengthy illness. Lloyd George's condition had been grave for more than month. He had not been in good health for several years t)ut had continued to make occasional appearances in the house of com mons until recent months. Lloyd George's condition took a turn for the worse in the last 24 hours and his physicians gave up hope. Tho. former world war prime minister died at 8:35 p.m., it was announced. Recuperative power of the 81 year-old war-time premier of England had amazed even his doctors, but early today he had weakened and there was little hope for his recovery. RELATIVES MEET Pfc. Kenneth Willard Am brose arrived home April 22 on a 30-day convalescent leave from the Madigan General hospital Ft. Lewis, Wash. He Is visiting his wife, Leta Ambrose, at their home, 124 King street. By a strange coincidence of war Ambrose was placed in ward 4B in the hospital just two beds from a cousin. Pvt. Harold D. Ambrose of Oakville, Wash, whom he had never known un til their meeting there. Both men landed in Normandy a few hours apart, Pfc. Ambrose with the infantr? and Harold Ambrose with the engineers. Kenneth Ambrose arrived at the Madigan hospital March 13 the day after his cousin entered. The nurse In charge began call ing them big Ambrose and little Ambrose and so they compared notes and discovered they were the cousins they'd heard about but never seen. MATTER OF MORALE New York. March 28 (U.R) A corset and brassiere priority for women war worKers was suggested today as a means of keeping up their morale. . Hawthorne. Calif., March 26 (U.R) All California authori ties tonight were asked to watch for Dr. Faye E. Cramer, 48-year- old physician, wanted for ques tioning about the death of pretty Reta Brown. "There is nothing to compare it with," asserted Pvt. Conrad R. Taschner, 18, Lansing, Mich. who participated in the bitter fighting for Mt. Suribachi. Set. Clinton E. Canning, 30 Los Angeles, saw action in the Marshall! and Marianas, but de scribed them as "maneuvers' alongside Iwo. Pvt. Eugene F. Williams, 25 Boaz. Ala., said the Japs de liberately shot at the legs of stretcher-bearers so that both they and the men they were at tending would be helpless. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, ON WORK-OR-JAIL Off WISE BILL Attempt By Sen. 0'Mahoney To Remove Labor Squeeze Provision Ends In Failure Washington, March 26 U.R) A joint congressional conference today formally completed its work on a work-or-jail com promise manpower bill despite a last minute atempt by Sen, Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D., Wyo.) to remove a "labor squeeze pro vision. Eight of the 10 conferees sign ed the conference report, which will go to the house tomorrow for action and then to the sen ate. O'Mahoney refused to sign. Rep. Dewey Short (R., Mo.) was not present. Termed Dangerous O'Mahoney told reporters aft er the session that the measure is "aMerribly dangerous bill" be cause it vests virtually unlimit ed authority in Mobilization Di rector James F. Byrnes, u ma honey was expected to take the lead in a fight to get the senate tn rnlect the compromise. There urns considerable belief that it tnioht hp successful. O'Mahoney said that we oni started out to be a work or fight bill directed at slackers, and it has turned out to be a measure directed at the patriotic men, women and children who nave outproduced the world." Thomas refused to preaici hnw the senate would receive the measure. Rep. R. Ewlng Thomason (D., Tex.) a house con feree, predicted that the house will accept it over "some strong opposition."" JURY SELECTED IN FEDERAL CASE A Jury to try the action of C. P. Preuss, Grants Pass, against Fred C. Hatschel, Inwood, Calif., s selected In federal court here this morning and taking of evidence started this afternoon at one o'clock before Judge James Alger Fee. The suit is to collect attorney s fees. - On the jury are Lawrence Austin, Medford; Thomas L. Ed sail, Medford; Aldo Jordan, Ash land: Joe Bellavance, Chemult; Leo T. Sauer, Grants Pass; Leon Boomer. Medford; Willis E Wilson, Grants Pass; Charles Bennett. Ashland; John F. Han sen, Klamath Falls; William K. Charlesworth, Klamath Falls; Harlan Cantrall, Ruch; and Geo Eads, Talent. Remainder of the jurors were excused to report Thursday, April 5, at Klamath Falls where Judge Fee will open court to try a number of condemnation cases involving land taken by the government for the Klamath Falls marine barrocks and the naval base. Place of the court sessions will be announced later. DULLES STATUS LEFT IN DOUBT Washington, March 26. U.R) John Foster Dulles, foreign policy adviser to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey during the last elec tion campaign, today left in doubt his exact status at the San Francisco conference. He met reporters after con ferring with Leo Pasvolsky, spe cial assistant to the secretary of state. He said he thought prob ably he would be at San Fran. Cisco as a private citizen and as a representative of the Federal Council of Churches in an un official capacity. But he added: "There will be a lot of people there who will want to consult with me." Dulles last week turned down an offer by Vandenberg to act as his personal adviser at the con ference. WALKER ON VISIT Los -Angeles, March 26 (U.R) Postmaster General Frank Walker arrived in Los Angeles today to confer with southern California postmasters on in cieaed mail leads. MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1945 BILL TO SIMPLIFY INCOME TAX FORM 23 County Manager, Judge Sal ary, Tax Exemption For Veterans in Latest Grist Salem, Ore., March 26 (U.R) Gov. Earl Snell today was ap proaching the end of the post legislative task of signing bills into law, as he signed 23 more measures. They included 11 more appro priation bills, the county mana ger measure, simplification of the state income tax forms, the bill making circuit court judges' salaries uniform, and the bill granting property tax exemp tions to veterans. Finish This Week The governor said he expect ed to be through the job prob ably this week. The appropriation bills (H.B.s 437, 438, 447, 448, 449, 451, 452 453, 454, 455, 456) included money for the board of forestry the state department of geology and mineral industries, the state police, the public welfare board teachers salaries, higher educa tion, an interim committee to study motor vehicle taxation claims against the state, the state board of health, the hydro electric commission and the fish commission. The county manager bill (H. B. 212) was passed at the session after a people's vote last Novem ber authorizing such a system of county government. The bill sets up the necessary machinery. Other bills signed: House bills 36 A new system of survey- lna coordinates. , - 79 Funds for schooling of children in federal areas such as Indian reservations. 138 Relating to the authority of the county courts. 212 County manager plan. 226 Assignment of accounts receivable. 246 Establishing uniform of fice hours for county offices. 259 Apportionment of coun ty school funds (contingent upon failure of 5-mill property tax to be voted on June 22.) 388 Simplified income tax forms. 398 Property tax exemptions for veterans. Senate bills 103 District attorney sal aries. 186 Salaries of circuit court tiirtees. 338 Transfering balance oi Coos county coal fund to gen eral fund. (More details en Page 4) FORTRESSES HIT ZEITZ OIL PLANT London, March 26 (U.R) More than 300 Fortresses of the 8th U. S. air force attacked synthetic oil plant and refinery at Zeitz and a self-propelled gun and armored vehicle plant at Plauen today. An escort of more than 450 Mustang fighter planes accom panied the bombers. The attack on Plauen was the second In less than a week on that area. Eighth air force headquarters anounced that nine planes were lost in previous week-end raids, British Mosquitoes raided Ber lin during the night. Russian planes also attacked Berlin to day, the Berlin radio said. STAGE RACE RIOT San Quentin, Cal., March 28 (U.R) Four men were injured in a small-scale riot involving some 30 convicts in San Quen tin prison mess hall yesterday The disturbance started when an apple was thrown at a table at which white and Negro con victs were seated together. TI.e apple was followed by a hall of cuttlery, tin cups and dishes Some 2,500 inmates were in the hall at the time. Six guards on duty quelled the outbreak by firing shots over the rioters bead! into tae wail. Tribune United P- -Full Battle Goes W Churchill L on Visit o ne London, March .R) Prime Minister C went across the Rhine v -ay m company of Field i& lal Sir Bernard Montgomery who said the "battle is going extremely well." Churchill visited British 2d army troops, accompanied by Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke and by Lt. Gen. Miles C. Dempsey, com mander of the British 2d army. Churchill watched troops and vehicles streaming across the Rhine and inspected troops on the east bank on the site of Sat urday's battles. "The last time I was on the Rhine was in the Cologne bridge head after the last war when we cruised 50 miles up the river in a British gunboat," Churchill said. TO Washington, March 26. (U.R) Solid Fuels Administrator Har old L. Ickes today called on the United Mine Workers and soft coal mine operators to work untif May 1 under terms of their present wage contract which ex pires at midnight Saturday. Ickes made his request in a letter to the Joint wage confer ence which has been meeting here for three weeks in a thus far vain effort to draft a new contract. The miners are sched uled to vote Wednesday on whether they want to strike In support of their demands. There were growing signs that in event Ickes' plea is rejected some other government inter vention may be imminent In. an effort to prevent a shut-down of bituminous mines. 25 LOCAL MEN TO Twenty-five men from Jack son county selective board one were accepted for general serv ice at Portland after a pre-in- duction physical March 20. They were Kenneth Keith Shroyer, Lloyd Vester Hammock, Carl L, Bennett, George Valentine Mai lory, Robert Albert Boyer, Ger ald Lee Warren, Robert Gene Harper, John Clarence Ander son, Jr., David Thomas Lute, Thomas Merlin Richardson, Louis Arnold Shinn, Lusel Lyle Penny. Vincent Stephen Smith, Gordon Melvln Bell, Leon Adel- bert Nichols, Harlan Raws Light, John E. Busch, Mevin Edwin Mc- Cuen, George Nelson Gltzen, Ernest Clifford Conrad, Lennon Joseph Cox. Daniel Marion Frye Wayne Harold Harris, Raipn William Ayers and Adelbert Al fred Schrein. Joseph William Roberts and Terrace Patrick Grant were ac cepted for limited service. Ano of Noti "' territory in West fate hi ptntlOdajt .6.U.S.W. 7th equals tit tki prtnotrA Ailita gOMM CobWz FRANCE 'X North Sc "f rS lU0' T a -TMseiseeW . II I Jneth. 8o4S rin H-JsJs I 44 VT (Aemt Tekphoto) Blsckmcd areas on this map show German territorial lames tn past month on the Eastern and Western fronts. Nazi territory In West taken In past 10 days by U. 8. Third and Seventh Armies equal six months previous Xllicd Earns. Mounting pressure on all three fronts plus tremendous aerial blows ruck all Qcrmany as Scan dlnavtaa toiufics taxst UlaLfiSOSM1 AU'es to land la. Pcnm ar.lt .to .optn a ffijtfth .front aggimt Leased Wire NO. 3. OPA SEES PROFIT AS Policies Violating Will of Congress Charge Voiced Before Senate Committee Washington, March 26-j(U.R) A spokesman for small meat packers today accused the office of price administration of "op erating on a social theory which regards profits as a sin." The charge was made by Wil bur La Roe, Jr., general counsel for the National Independent Meat Packers association, in testimony before the special sen ate food investigating committee. He also charged that OPA policies were violating the.dircct will of congress. ' After Black Market His testimony coincided with disclosure that the committee plans to use the full facilities of the justice department, the fed eral bureau of investigation and the treasury department's intel ligence units "to destroy the black market and restore food to the American people." La Roe, the committee's first witness, said in response to re peated questions that he did not know how much meat was going into black markets. He testified, however, that "a responsible packer from western Pennsyl vania" had told him that more than half the meat sold in that area is from the black market. Bankruptcy Result La Roe said OPA meat price orders were driving packers into bankruntcv despite congressional intent that they be given a "iair margin of nrofit." He said OPA could adjust these regulations satisfactorily" if .they would abandon the social policy which resards nrofits as a sin. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D., Wvn.). meanwhile, said that the "whole story" of the shortage is that producers are not allowed the cost of production." Japs Know They Have Lost War, Mitscher Claims Aboard Admiral Mitscher's Flagship off Japan, March 20-r-(U.R) The Japanese are licked and they know It, Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher said today, His mighty task force had Just swung its latest blow at remnants of the enemy's fleet and air force. In a two day attack on Kyu shu, Shikoku and southwestern Honshu his carrier planes beat off the heaviest Japanese coun terattacks in seven months and destroyed or damaged 30 enemy ships and at least 629 planes. "The war may go on another five years," Mitcher said. "But the Japanese are licked and they know it. Their navy is beaten and their air force is very, very weak. If they disappoint me couple of times more by their re fusal to fight, I might become sorry for them. Huge Gains on Western, Eastern Fronts MrXmb POLAND Komi Lp9V X sN V m4mk Erfurt -- GERMANY fVO kJ...m . Vv Germany Must Prepare For Unfortunate News Is Word of Spokesman London, March 26. (U.R) A Zurich dispatch said today that Aaou rimer nas canea an emergency meeting ot his ministers ana gauleiters (district leaders) for tonight at Berchtesgaden. Subject matter of the conference was not disclosed, the dispatch aid, but it quoted a German war office spokesman as saying that Germany "mutt be prepared for unfortunate news." Reports reaching Sweden from Berlin said the Nail capital waa more jittery and tense than at any time since the Invasion of Normandy. Travellers arriving at Malmoe from Germany said the nightly air raids were driving Berliners "to dementia." Germans expect further surprise air-borne landings still deeper behind the German lines, Swedish dispatches said. Arthur Axmann, Nail youth leader, called on German girls as well as boys to throw themselves into Germany's last battles. "Not words but deeds can help." he said after reciting how boys already had guided shock troops, blown up bridges, acted as spies and unmasked allied spies. A Daily Telegraph dispatch from Zurich said three Nas! leaden In Baden had been executed for her arms. Y JOINS IN DRIVE T London, March 28 U.R) Ber lin said today that the Russians have thrown a third army group into their Vienna-bound offen sive, already within 35 miles of the Austrian border. Ernest von Hammer, German DNB commentator, said the new force seized a bridgehead across the Hron river near the Slo- vakian Hungarian border some 96 miles east of Vienna in an at tack that began at 4 a. m. Sun dav. The army Kroun went over to the attack north of the Danube river while two other red army erouDs the second and 'third Ukrainian-Were driving the Ger mans back toward Austria in disorder along a 90-mile front south of the river. Gyoer Outflanked Vanauards of the third Ukrain ian armv already had outflanked the western Hungarian tortress eitv of Goyer and were less than 7H mileq southeast of Vienna. The new assault widened tne offensive front to at least 130 miles and put-weli. over 1,000,-, 000 Russian troops on the march In n determined bid to thwart nazl plans for a last stand In the Bavarian and Austrian Aipi or yond Vienna. A front-line aispatcn io n Mnspnw newsnaner Pravda said the Germans had mobilized all men and boys between the ages of 61 and 16 to defend Danzig against the. final Russian as sault. German prisoners said nazi SS troops had been stationed be hind front-line infantry units with instructions to shoot any soldiers who show sKgns of in tending to retreat or surrender. COSTLY IN HAGUE London, March 26. (U.R) More than 800 persons were killed and 1,000 injured in a mistaken bombing of The Hague, Dutch capital, by RAF planes March 3, it was revealed today. The RAF planes were attempt ing to attack rocket-launching sites but their bombs fell wide of the mark and hit the heavily populated civilian area. Schvtidnirz Mohr Usrrou CZECHO. Tobor ' Mohr 0rou'tV "! ''J urging that Germany lay down FRANKFURT'S FATE SEALED BY FAST YANKEE ADVANCE Paris, March 26 (U.R) The . American 3rd army's racing tank columns swept out in front of the allied western offensive beyond the Rhine that caved in the Germans' southern flank 240 miles from Berlin and seal ed the fate of Frankfurt. Headquarters spokesmen ex pressed confidence that the Ger man army finally was being; beaten to its knees in the great Rhine assault. Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery went across the Rhine again today, and Montgomery said thaf "tho battle Is going extremely well." Nails Said Fleeing Frankfurt, Germany's ninth city, was under siege from three) sides. Heavily-censored field dis patches indicated the German were abandoning lt and fleeing southeastward into the Bavarian mountains. The United States 1st armv ta the north swung down from Its) Remagen bridgehead against tha tianK-ot -the-Frankfurt defend ers, racing down the Rhine-Ruhr Berlin superhighway to within u miles or less of Frankfurt. Vanguards of the 1st army along the Rhine's east bank were lea than eight miles from a juncture) with 3rd army troops south ol Coblenz. First army troops storming di rectly eastward from the bridge neaa were 18 miles beyond tha Rhine In the Altenkirchen area and making rapid progress1 against weakening resistance. Opposition Spotty At the top of tha westers front, four allied armies were striking through a 30-mile belt of the German defenses along the northern flank of the burn ing Ruhr. Opposition at soma points was fanatical and almost non-existent at others. American 9th army troops stormed 10 miles or more be yond the Rhine at the southern flank of the four-army assault line. Front dispatches said tha Americans had lost all contact with the fleeing enemy in that sector. Forward American ele ments were entering the suburbs) of Duisburg and the fall of that great Ruhr city seemed, lmim nent. Advance Speeds Up Farther north, however, shock troops of the British 2nd, Cana dian 1st, and allied 1st airborne armies were battling for every foot of ground on the flat West phallan plains northeast of Wesel. Even in that sector, however, the advance gathered momen tum as fresh armored and infan try reserves poured across tha Rhine. Spearheads of the Brit ish, Canadian and airborne forces were reported only three miles from Issclburg, six miles north-northwest of Wesel and seven miles west of the com munications center of Bocholt, Defenses Broken Along a front of 200 miles northward from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. 3rd army line at Frankfurt the German de fenses were breaking wide open under the terrific allied ground and air assault. Great masses of German troops and armor were reported in headlong flight southeastward in the path of Patton's charging tank columns. Front reports said the Americans everywhere were sweeping up thousands of dazed prisoners. Eyewitness reports from Pat ton's front said hundreds of Ger mans were sitting In forest vil lages far behind the front lines waiting for the Americans to round them up. Greensboro, N. C, March 23 (U.R) Byron Nelson added first money In the Greensboro open today to his list of victories in the current campaign.