Complete, 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
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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.
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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.