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Newspaper Page TextComplete, Crushing Victory Won In West- Eisenhower Medford United Press Full fortieth Year TY Property Demand Continues Strong Californians Want 'Place 'on Stream' Figures from county, city and Business sources indicate a steady increase in population in jacicson county tn recent months, even though the population of Camp White has remained at a comparatively low level and de mand for both city and country property continues strong in the local real estate markets, a sur vey of realtors today indicates. Indicating the trend in popula tion are figures from the city water department, the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com pany, the California Oregon Power company, the county clerk and the Mail-Tribune cir culation department. The water department reports a substantial increase in water connections and the power company an in crease in meter connections dur ing the past year. The telephone eompany reports not only an in crease, but a large list of pro spective customers who can not meet OPA requirements for an installation. Mail - Tribune cir culation figures show an in crease of subscribers over the early months of 1944. - Property In Demand Realtors state that the brisk demand for Medford and county property comes not only from former Californians or residents . Attic- 1nn1Uie Vint frnm Medford and near-by residents as well who - are buying larger, more comfortable homes or are purchasing income property. Many people inquire for coun try acreage or plots in outlying districts and places along streams are especially sought, salesmen state. According to Carl Y. Teng- wald. Medford realtor and ex aminer for the state realty board, bout 50 licensed brokers are now doing business in the county and 75 additional salesmen are kept busy with the real estate markets. More Recordings Bearing this out are figures from the office of the county cleric. Georee R. Carter. In 1942 receipts from recording of prop erty transfers, deeds and mort gages, amounted to $8,873, he states. This figure increased sub ttantially in 1943 and in 1944 I the sum amounted to $11,587. First months of this year show recordings abeut the same as the early months of last year, Carter stated. When real estate deals began to increase, staff members .A n9hi tn Itppn ud with the recordings, the clerk said, but additional clerks now W W most part are never more than three or four days behind in filings. Records show some pieces of property have changed -m. o. mnnv as three or four times in recent months, it is re- PThe clerk pointed out that the recording fees do not include discharges, since no fee is charged an ex-serviceman for a legal recording of his honorable discharge from any branch of the services. TO 12 FEWER SHIPS Washington, March 27 U-R The navy today cut 72 combat ships out of its building pro gram. . . Pinn. fnr building 84 combat ships totalling 636,860 tons, as announced three ween- -a-v.... w. oHorcH to that only the 12 escort carriers included In V.t rrnnim nOW Will be built 1, The 12 carriers represent 150, This particular shipbuilding program originally was planned as "insurance" to meet the possl hilitv nf additional losses as the torr.ru. nf Vl PBflfiC W81- UV creased with the closer approach to Japan. VINCENT BENDIX New York. March 27 (U.R) Vincent Bendix. founder of Ben- dix Aviation Corporation and president of Bendix Helicopters, Inc., died today. Liirnl Wb Peace Rumor Sweeps Nation Due To Misunderstood Words Washington, March 27. U.R) Misinterpretation' of a casual remark by White House Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels to day blossomed Into a "peace ru mor" that swept the nation. The whole thing grew out of Daniels' disclosure that Presi dent Roosevelt recently advised Secretary of State Edward R. Chicago, March 27 (U.R) False peace rumors flooded Chi cago today. In felony court a judge tem porarily rssed a murder trial, expectinga formal peace an nouncement. Courtroom attaches and spectators were jubilant. Some women were so happy they cried. Newspaper telephone switch board operators were deluged with calls. Stettinlus, Jr., and other cabinet officers that American officials except those officially desig nated would be expected to stay away from next month's San Francisco security confer ence. Such officials, Daniels said the president felt, should stay on their jobs "at this critical time." Misinterpretations Misinterpretations of this by some persons grew until some erroneous reports circulated that the cabinet had been ordered to stand by for big developments later today. That was the Interpretation of Daniels' statement in an Inter national News Service dispatch from here. It said Mr. Roose velt had "ordered his cabinet and all diplomatic representa tives to stand by on alert for Dossible Immediate victory in EuroDe." Then began a torrent or teie- nhone calls to the White HouseJ and to newspaper oitices asKing, if the war in Europe had enaea. Daniels' remarks, - however, dealt solely with the fact that LETTER PRAISES A letter of praise for the suc cessful efforts of B. E. Harder and his committees in the 1945 Red Cross war fund drive has been received by Harder, county chairman. Harder, who has con ducted so many of the drives he has lost county, announced Sun day that the county had raised 120 ner cent of its quota. The letter, from the director nf the fund raising campaign for the San Francisco area, reads in part, "Once more you have led vnur rhnnter to victory. What a record you have rolled up for yourself on these Red Cross cam paigns! This year you miuwu feel especially proud because of hnvlnp attained our goal so pnrlv In the campaign period Please accept for yourself our vorv grateful thanks lor me line leadership you gave mis year the camnaien and commend each of your solicitors for their en thusiastic execution oi.ine ijuu.. iDtnnAl0n idea. "-. nsiiin we will have the pleasure of sending to you and to the Chapter ine nonui raw ,.,. from National Red Cross.' Harder stated this morning hot he had conducted about 23 regular drives and four or five special disaster campaigns, but wasn't quite sure of the actual number. DOWNEY SAYS MEXICAN WATER TREATY ABSURD Washington. March 27. U.R) Ron Sheridan Downey. D. Calif., charged today that the Mexican water treaty Is "so ab surd and grotesque that it will be the foundation for future con troversies and lawsuits beyond mimhpr ' Downey resumed his attacks as the senate entered its second wpp k of debate on the treaty, nrhirh cives Mexico a guaranteed 1,500,000 acre feet of Colorado river water annually. If. M. C. NEILL HURT Grants Pass. March 27 K. M C. Neill was injured about 11 a. m. today when struck by an automobile while crossing Sixth street at the intersection of street. He was taken to Jose- phlne General hospital. Driver of the car, Homer Inman, was not held. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1945 the president had served notice on American diplomats abroad and officials In Washington that they were expected to remain at their work unless officially des ignated to go to the United Na tions' conference. It developed later that the president's note to Stettinius and the others was sent on March 16, and thus could have had nothing to do with immediate developments In the war situa tion. GOVERNOR SIGNS 10 LEGISLATIVE ; BILLS INTO LAW Salem, Ore., March 27 U.R) j Gov. Earl Snell has signed 10 more legislative bills and he said today he hoped to have all bills signed by tomorrow night. He signed 57 bills Monday, the largest number approved in one day since the legislature ad journed. Among the bills signed was the alien land holding measure (SB274) directed against the use of land by alien Japanese and by them through citizen rela tives. Another bill (SB304) signed creates a major injury fund in the workmen's compensation de partment. Other senate bills signed In eluded: 237 -Relating to permanent total and temperoary-total dis ability benefits. 242 Regulating, defining and licensing restaurants, creating standard of sanitation. 257 Relating to taxation of religious and charitable organi zations. 26 Relating to unemploy ment compensation trust fund. 265 Relating to seizure pow ers of the department of agri culture. 277 Relating to containers! marked, with private brands, DRAFT EXTENSION L Washington, March 27 J(U.R) The senate military affairs com mittee today approved a one- year extension of the selective service act for men and the drafting of women nurses. Committee Chairman Elbert D. Thomas, (D., Utah) said ac tion on both draft 'bills was unanimous. The selective service exten sion bill was approved without amendment in the form in which it passed the house last week It extends the act for one year from the May 15 expiration date, or earlier if the war should end before that time. The nurse draft bill was amended by the committee to make it apply to married nurses from 20 through 44 as well as to single nurses. L HEAD RELEASED Ashland, March 27 Theo J, Norby, for six years city super intendent of schools at Ashland, was released from his contract at a special meeting of the school board held last night, Mrs. Etta Schilling, board chair man, announced today. Norby asked for the special meeting In order to seek release from the contract, which had two more years to run, so that he might seek a position in Cali fornia. Air Line To Cut Passenger Fares Kansas City, Mo., March 27 (U.R) Passenger fares over Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., coast-to-coast system will be reduced, effective May 1, as much as 17 per cent, it was announced today. E. O. Cocke, vice-president of traffic, said the average fare reduction would amount to 10 per cent STIFF PENALTIES FOR JOB QUITTERS VOTEDBYHOUSE Employers Who Violate Fix ed Ceilings Also Due for Heavy Penalty Under Bill Washington, March 27 U.R) The house vited 167 to 160 to day to apply stiff penalties to workers who leave essential jobs and to employers who violate fixed manpower ceilings. It approved a compromise manpower control bill worked out after long debate by house and senate conferees. Before go ing to President Roosevelt the bill must be approved by the senate. After Bitter Fight House passage came after a bitter, last-ditch fight by oppon ents. . Rep. Forest A. Harness (R., Ind.), sought to kill the measure by demanding a ruling on a Doint that the compromise bill included new legislation not. ap proved by either house. He was overruled by speaKer am nay- burn. Rep. Dewey Short (R., Mo.), declared: "This is tyranny and slavery brought up to date." Reo. Andrew J. May (D Ky.), chairman of the house military affairs committee and head of the house conferees, told the house he was not fully satisfied with the measure. But said, it would "go a long way towara helping win the war." May said the bin wouia: 1. "Freeze" men and women workers of all ages In essential jobs. 2. Fix manpower cbuuibb u" industries in designated labor shortage areas. . - 3. Provide a maximum penauy of a year's imprisonment and $10,000 fine for employer and employe violators. 4. riive authority lor aamm- itmtinn of the act to , W a r Mobilizer James F. Byrnes. Hosiery Smugglers Receive Probation Boston, March 27. U.B Two merchant mariners one a vic tim of a torpedoing were given suspended Jail sentences in u. &, district court today after plead ing guilty to the unlicensed ex porting of 6,000 pair of women's ravon hosiery. Four-month Jail sentences and one year 'probationary terms were given Walter H. Short sleeve, 62, former Los Angeles businessman, and Arthur Mate, 28, of New York city, who drift ed 32 days In a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed. WHO'S STUPID NOW Hollywood, Calif., March 27 (U.R) Movie Dancer Betty Joy Curtiss told Divorce Judge Good win J. Knight that SgtKarl George Curtiss was right when he called her stupid. "I was stupid," she said, "to marry him." German Military Breakdown Hinted In Berlin Broadcasts London, March 27 U.R) In creasing signs of the military breakdown of Germany were noted today in a series of nazi broadcasts calling on all tier man troops to report at once to their units or to local authori ties. The broadcast summons coin cided with Stockholm rumors of a possible military revolt In Ger many because of the war crisis. The broadcasts ordered all troops to report to stations and to local authorities. They ex plained that many troops "have lost contact" due to "enemy ac tion." Penalty Threatened These troops, it was said, must be brought into action again. All leaves except those for illness or exceptional gallantry were cancelled and troops were order ed to designated "front assemb ling points." Anyone trying to escape mili tary service or forced labor, the broadcasts said, "will be consid- ered a deserter and dealt with as such." The brewing military revolt was reported by the Free Ger man press bureau, an antl-nazl propaganda agency in Stock- TRIBUTE United Press Full Husband Wonders What Became of Wife and Infant Cincinnati, O., March 27 4U.R) Carl Peters, distraught Cincin nati husband, today wearily awaited official confirmation that he either was or was not a father. Peters' wife, Mildred, 33, dis appeared yesterday from the emergency entrance of a Cov ington, Ky., hospital after win ning a taxlcab race with the stork. Last night Peters received a telegram from a nurse saying his wife had given birth to a 7 pound boy. A police check dis closed that the message had been sent from a fictitious, address. There has been no word from Mrs. Peters since. SWEEP CLOSE TO London; March 27 U.R) Red army vanguards today swept to within a scant 20 miles of the Austrian border, some 65 miles southeast of Vienna, aided by precision bombing of the 15tn American air force which at tacked German concentration points in the path of the Rus sians. German reports acknowledg ed that the soviet pressure on the Irregular 170-mile front had increased and that red army spearheads had flanked the im portant communications centers of Komarom and Gyor in a drive to the Marcal canal and the low er Raab river. The Marcal canal runs about seven miles west of Papa, cap tured by the Russians yesterday, and joins, the Raab northwest of Papa. The Raab in this area Is only about 20 miles from the Aus trian frontier and runs roughly parallel to it. .German reports said fighting was very heavy and that the Russians also were attacking south and southeast of Komarom, Soviet reports said that the Germans had thrown strategic reserves against the Russians who are now advancing with or ders to pursue the main forces of the Germans and not halt to mop up small detachments. SOFT COAL DISPUTE IS EXTENDED THIRTY DAYS Washington, March 27--U.R) Soft coal operators today ac cepted Fuel Administrator Harold Ickes' proposal that the present wage contract be extend ed for 30 days. But they rejected Ickes' suggestion that the final new agreement be made retro active to April 1. The operators proposed that during the one-month contract extension the miners be paid the increases contained In the operators' counter-proposal of March 16. This, they said, would amount to a pay boost of 5.82 per cent. holm, without Indicating the source of its Information. Elite SS troops were patrolling Berlin, the agency said, with special units cordoning off Adolf Hitler's relchschancellery and the German high command of fices. Hitler Confers Hitler himself was holding conference after conference at hi- Berchtesgaden mountain-top retreat with top nazis, including Baron Franz Von Papen, often mentioned as a possible peace envoy, the agency isaid. One such conference was re ported to have been held last night, but no Information was available as to the outcome. Summoned to the meeting by air were members of Hitler's cabi net and district leaders. Conspicuously absent from the meetings, the anti-nazl agency said, was Marshal Wilhelm Kel tel, supreme commander of the German armed forces. Unrest even has spread to military training camps inside Germany, It went on. St. Stahns dorf, near Berlin, shots were said to have been exchanged between regular army troops and SS units. Leased NO. 4. JAPAU YANKEE FOOTHOLD ON KERAMA ISLES Cebu Landing Also Revealed Kyushu Airdromes and Plane Plants Bombed By United Press Tokyo reported today that Americans had invaded two more areas in the Pacific in the Okinawa group only 380 miles southwest of Japan, and Cebu In the central Philippines. A Japanese communique said . S. troops gained a foothold Sunday in the Kernma islands, a tiny cluster of islets 10 to 20 miles from Okinawa, under cov er of an air and naval bombard ment. 1,500 Landed Tokyo radio said the landing on Cebu, one of the last three major Islands In the Philippines still controlled by the Japanese,. was carried out yesterday by 1,500 American troops support ed by a bombardment from six cruisers and several destroyers. The enemy radio also report ed that American battleships, cruisers and more than 1,000 carrier planes were bombarding the Okinawa group, especially the naval and air base island off Okinawa itself, for the fifth straight day. Land-based planes ana otner allied warships were reported supporting the purported inva sion with attacks along a 1,300- mile front stretching all the way from Japan itself to the island of Pratas In the south China sea. More than 200 Superfortresses t-nMpd the Olta and Tachlarai airfields in northern Kyushu and tha Omura aircraft plant in northwest Kyushu in aayngni to- Heavy bomDers irom me run lnnnp. attacked Ishigakl. 240 . . null mii. niith n Okinawa and 145 milon east of Formosa, and the rail town of Takao on Formosa Itself. Chicago. March 27 (U.R) Marva Trotter Louis won a di vorce from heavyweight boxing rhnmnlon Joe Louis today. She told the court mat t,ouw, now an army sergeant, had de- irted her October Z, 1HJ. Louis was In court for the hearing, but he made no move to contest the action and said nnthine. An out-of-court proper- tv settlement included payment by the champion ot Jfnuu momn- ly for the support or a cnua .Tnrnuellne. 2. Mrs. Louis, now a night club singer, said she always had been a dutiful wife and that the box- ins chamDlon had been a kind husband "when he was at home, Louis was married in New York September 24, 1935, two hours before he beat Max Baer, Jap Drive Checked In Hupeh Province Chungking, March 27. U,R Chinese troops have checked Japanese drive in Hupeh pro vince aimed at the air base town of Leohokow. 190 miles norm- west of Hankow, a communique aid todav. The push was halted near Icheng, 20 miles southeast of Laohokow. The air base Is ap proximately 350 miles northeast of Chungking. SUB ALBAC0RE WITH CREW OF 65 IS LOST Washington, March 27 U.P.) THe navy today announced loss of the submarine Albacore with its crew of more than 65 men. This raised the total of Amer ican submarines lost from all causes In this war to 41. The navy did not disclose where the Albacore was lost but it was presumed to be In the Pacific. to berlin" By United Preis The nearest distances to Ber lin from advanced allied lines today: Eastern front 31 miles (from Zaeckerick). Western front 206 miles (from southwest of Fuda, by German report). Nazis Flee Before Racing Tanks Along Entire Front Paris, March 27. (U.R) The German rettaet from the Rhine, broke into a chaotic route along a 250-mile front from Karlsrhuej to the Dutch border today. Nazi troops were reported In headlong flight as far as 90 miles east, of the river and Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower said the allies have won a complete and crushing victory. With U. S. First Army, March 27 (U.R) Two German major-generals wer taken prisoner by the ninth armored di vision last night. It was revealed today. Elsenhower sent his allied armies crashing eastward beyond th " shattered Rhine barrier with orders to smash the remaining Ger. ' man forces before Berlin. , UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER TO BE IMPOSED He pledged again that there would be no negotiations with tha beaten enemy and that unconditional surrender would be imposed upon the Nazis at the end of this "final battle." Eisenhower said that although they were beaten In the west, the Germans might try to reform on a new front closer to Berlin. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's racing 3rd army tank columns already were reported sweeping half-way across Germany and closing swiftly on the Hessian citadel of Fulda, 90 miles beyond the Rhine and 198 miles southwest of Berlin. . On Patton's northern flank, the U. S. 1st army exploded a tre mendous armored punch eastward from its Remagen bridgehead, overrunning thousands of -beaten and demoralized Germans who surrendered at the sight of the rampaging American tanks. Berlin said the 1st army's spearheads were 50 miles east of the Rhine and going fast. MONTY'S ARMIES BREAK INTO PLAINS At the "top" of the western front, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's four allied field within three miles of Essen and screen guarding the Westphalian road to Berlin. The U. S. 7th army on Patton's Rhine on a 19-mile front north much as four miles eastward against spotty resistance. One 7th army unit was reported inside Mannheim. ' ' Armored columns of the British 2nd army broke through three miles and more into the open plains less than 40 miles from Muen ster and 275 miles due west of Berlin. At last reports they were plunging east at top speed without More than 10,000 prisoners were in the hands of the 2nd army less than four days after they plunged across the Rhine. Half aa many more were taken by the Canadian 1st, American 9th, and al lied 1st air borne armies fighting under Montgomery's 21st army group banner, making a total of 15,000. JO u 3,uri'm'4 ijj.9 ' rMWS$t v ' (v, C GERMANY 'r. "I J& I hmawnW- - f 1 -y aJ . 'rtuWlllltFrt f uiiii.tiJetarr. FRANCE V (Acm TeUphoto) ' Lt. Oen. Patton's Third American Army paces the Allied forces of the West with a 4-mlla stab beyond the Rhine that closed on the great in dustrial city of Frankfurt In blazing armored sweep that collapsed Nut southern flank less than 240 miles Irom Berlin. New crossings of Rhine were made In Coblenz area and, to the north, the U. 8. Ninth, Canadian First and British Second Armies swept Into and around the Ruhr basin. EXTRA GAS RATION TO BE SCREENED Washington, March 27. U.R) Local ration boards were or dered today to screen lists of "B" and "C" gasoline ration book holders In a move to cut consumption of motor fuel. The Office of Price Adminis tration said it had set up a new "semi-preferred" rationing clas sification to help cut the number of "C" books. It will be applied to drivers whose needs are more than allowed "B" motorists, but not quite high enough for the un limited "C" cards. The new clas sification will allow rations for 825 miles a month. The net result of the new regu latlon. OPA said, will be to cut the number of "C" cards, al though In some Instances it may push a motorist from the o category up to the semi-preferred class. The new program becomes ef fective May 1, Headlong armies burst into the Ruhr basin, broke through the German battle plain and the northern invasion -' southern flank burst across tha of Mannheim, and advanced as opposition. tMUMSTt ARGENTINA JOINS Buenos Aires, March 27. UR The Argentine government has declared war on the axis, it wai announced officially today. President Edelmiro Farrell personally made the announce ment of the declaration of war. "The decision has been taken. That's all I have to say," Far rell said. . Argentina was the last nation In the western hemisphere to de clare either war or a state of belligerency. The announcement came after the cabinet had met seven times to decide Argentina's position. FOR NAZI FILM BAN Hollywood, March 27 U.R Movie Producer Samuel . Gold-, wyn, home from a four weeks' visit to England, suggested, to day that movie making in Ger many be abolished forever.. "All they ever made were propagan da films," Goldwyn said.