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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"
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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
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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.
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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.
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Battle Goes W
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on Visit
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.