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Newspaper Page Textm(p Mfin M fo)Rfo) JV 4 Medford United Pint Full Fortieth Year yE "JETTIES" JOIN ATTACK ON JAPANEOLES 500 Carrier Planes Raid Kyushu, Shikoku; Inva sion Fleets Near Okinawa Guam, Friday, March 30 U.R) Tokyo reported today 500 American carrier aircraft includ ing jet planes raided Kyushu and Shikoku Islands of Japan proper yesterday while a fleet of American transports and war ships converged "from all direc tions" on invasion-threatened Okinawa Island, 70-mile-long bastion of the Ryukyus chain. A great American naval ar mada of more than 100 vessels built around ten battleships was reported shelling Okinawa again while swarms of planes from at least ten carriers continued the almost-constant aerial battering of the air-and-navy base island, enemy broadcasts indicated. Claim Kerama Success " Tokyo claimed the alleged American invasion of the Kera ma Islands south of Okinawa bad been partially crushed and the beachhead troops cut off from their offshore supply ships. Sixty carrier planes, hitting the south flank of Japan's long chain of islands, struck at For mosa in conjunctions with B-29s Thursday, Tokyo reported. Start ing at noon, according to this unconfirmed enemy version, planes raided Takao, Tainan, Taichu and Shinchiku, '. . An American air field was re ported by Japan to be under con struction at Changping, Fukien province, China. Changping is only 75 miles inland from Amoy on the China coast, and 200 miles from Formosa. (Chinese Central News agency reported from the Fukien prov ince coast that "chaos" prevailed In Formosa where Japanese authorities reportedly were ex pecting an allied offensive. Civil . ians were reported evacted from ' all seacoast areas.) Washington, March 29 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion today raised point values of pork, lard, margarine, canned peas, and canned asparagus for the month of April. The changes are effective next Sunday. The OPA left unchanged the present ration values of beef, veal, lamb, butter, and other red stamp foods. But Price Administrator Chester Bowles hinted that all. meat points probably would be raised sharply in May and June. Noting the recent 12 per cent cut in civilian meat supplies for the second ouarter of 1945, Bowles said the decrease would be felt "very little" during ADril. '.t Here are the major changes effective next Sunday. Center pork chops, up from 10 to 12 points a pound; end chops, from 6 to 7; ham slices, from 10 to 12; loin roasts, from 7 to 8. Lard xhnrtenine. salad and cooking oil, from 4 to 6 points; margarine, from 5 to 8 points. Canned peas (No. 2 can) from 20 to 30 points; asparagus (No. 2 can) from 10 to 20; sweet cherries, (No. 2V4 can) from 60 to 40: Dlums and prunes (No. 2i can) from 30 to 20; tomato Juice (No. 2 can) from 20 to 10. 46-ounee can. from 40 to 20 points. Sausages up one point pound; one to 2 point increases on most sausage products, meats in tin or slass containers, and for many ready-to-eat meats. 1 Hollywood, March 29 (U.R) Eva Tanguay, world war I don't care" actress, who was near death a week ago, today was reported improved, thanks to a new Russian technique oi blood transfusion. Leased Wire Marines Try MINERS ACCEPT PEACE1P0SAL Washington, Mar. 29. (U.R) Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins said today that the United Mine Workers have accepted her proposal for a new soft coal wage-hour contract. The opera tors, she indicated, may give their answer later today. If the operators also accept the proposal details of which Miss Perkins did not supply it would end the threat of a nation wide mine stoppage when the old contract expires at midnight Saturday. All Miss Perkins would say about her proposal was that its terms would not violate the gov ernment's wage stabilization program. Miss Perkins announcement came dramatically at a time when UMW members were ready to strike, if ordered to do so by the union, after the Satur day deadline. Warmer Weather Spurs Blossoms Warm weather of Tuesday and Wednesday brought out the first pear blossoms of the season, orchardists report. Some peach trees are also blossoming. A few days of sunshine will bring out the bloom at a rapid rate, ac cording to Frost Observer Roy J. Rogers. The trees are about week behind last year. Sunshine will also cause a spurt In farm work which has been delayed by wet ground. OWNERS CAUTIONED ON DOGS RUNNING. LOOSE City police called to the atten tion of dog owners today the ordinance prohibiting dogs to run loose during gardening sea son through the months of April. May and June. Any dogs found loose during that time will be picked up by the pound master. Radio Highlights Sen. Tom Connally, D., Texas, will address the League of Wom en Voters tonight at 7:30 over the blue network. Subject of the address to be "The Road to Per manent Peace." MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1945 Ski Sport The five Marines above are the resident crew of the ski camp maintained near Crater Lake National Park for Pacific war veterans now stationed at the Klamath Falls Marine bar racks. The five a supervisor, two Instructors and two cooks serve as hosts to marines and their families who visit the camp on three-day excursions. Chief instructor at tho camp is Cpl. Harold Francis Chavls, of Portland, a veteran of Guadal canal. CHURCHES UNITE IN GOOD FRIDAY 3-HOUR SERVICE The annual Good Friday serv ice presented by the Medford Ministerial Association will be held tomorrow in the Church of the Nazarene,, Holly at' First street. This traditional service, in commemoration of the three hours during which Christ hung on the cross, will be held from 12 to 3 p. m. seven short messaees cover ing the seven last words of Christ will be delivered by min isters of the city. The program will be broken into seven sec tions of approximately 25 min utes each. People are invited to come and remain through the entire program but if this it not possible anyone may come and remain through any portion of the service. Special musical numbers will be rendered by Mrs. Dorothy Shroyer, Elsie Carleton Strang, Mrs. William Myers and the Christian Church quartette. The messages of the after noon will be brought by Rev. Wolford Dawes, Rev. Milo Ross, Rev. Delbert Daniels, Rev. R. G. Keller, Rev. Edwin Hansen, and Rev. Louis Kit-by. Dr. Rus sell V. DeLong who Is conduct ing the Holy Week services In Medford will close the service with the message on the Sev enth Word From the Cross. Japs In Argentina Face Internment Buenos Aalres, March 29. (U.PJ Baron Shu Tomil, Jap anese ambassador to Argentina, and 11 members of the embassy staff have received notice to re main in their homes until the Argentine government decides how it shall proceed with their internment, it was announced today. According to authoritative in formation, Baron Tomil and his diplomatic staff will be Interned in a manner befitting their rank in some first-class residence. FHA Will Insure Housing Projects Washington, March 29 (U.R) The federal housing adminis tration today resumed its policy of insuring loans on houses built by private contractors for war workers. In line with congressional ap proval of an extension of its wai housing insurance powers until July 1, 1946, FHA told Its field offices today to to ahead and iiwure. Hr 1 FEDERAL COURT WINDS UP HERE; IN KLAMATH NEXT Grants Pass Plaintiff Award ed $3,800 Attorney Fees; Davis Case Pondered. Spring term of federal court was expected to recess here this afternoon to re-open April 5 in Klamath Falls in the circuit court rooms at 10 a.m. Only two civil actions came to trial dur ing the sessions here. Jurors who heard the action of C. P. Preuss,. Grants Pass, against Fred C. Hetschel, In wood, Calif., returned a verdict yesterday afternoon allowing the plaintiff $3,800 attorney's fees for legal services performed for the defendant. Preuss had sued for $12,000. Davis Case Pondered Judge James Alger Fee heard final testimony in the action of Ruth Davis against the Medford corporation this morning and will render a decision later. The plaintiff seeks to collect dam ages from the corporation be cause of the death of David A. Davis while In the firm's em ploy. Judge Fee will leave this eve ning for Portland by plane, but Mrs. tee is remaining to visit friends and relatives until the first of the week when she will join the judge In Klamath Falls. Walter Hadlock, . chief deputy, and his secretary, Miss Dorothy Adler, returned to Portland last night. ' Ross DeMott and Verne Bish op, deputy clerks, and William Richard and Al. Price, bailiffs, left for Portland by car this afternoon. Leaving later are Cloyd Rauch, court reporter, Mrs. Rauch and Miss Esther Davis, secretary to Judge Fee. NEWSlNTCOST ED THIRD TIME Washington, March 29 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion today authorized an in crease of $3 a ton in the manu facturers' ceiling price for newsprint, effective immediate ly. It was the third celling price increase for newsprint since the commodity came under price control In March, 1942. OPA estimated that its action today would cost American newspaper publishers about $10,00C,000 a year. OPA point ed out that prices of newspapers are exempt from price control. The higher newsprint price OPA explained, was necessitat ed by increased production costs for pulpwood. TOUGH HEAD Los Angeles, March 29. (U.R) A .32 caliber bullet went thru Joseph Klepl's head yesterday but, except for a "slight head ache," he suffered no ill effects. 'My wife and I had a scuffle,' Klepl said, in explanation. 872,862 American Casualties Washington. March 29. (U.R) U. S. combat casualties officially compiled here reached 872,862 today, an Increase of 13,275 in a week. The total Included 780,043 army and 92,819 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casualties. The figures: The figures: Killed Wounded Missing Prisoners Totals Of the army wounded, 243,508 have returned to duty. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson estimated at his news con ference today that more than 300,000 Japanese have been killed, wounded or taken prisoner In the campaign for recapture of the Philippines. This estimate includes uncounted dead on land, losses at sea on transports, warships and coastal craft, the seriously vounded, and about 2,500 prisoners. Stimson did not give overall figures of U. S. casualties In the Philippines. He said, however, that U. S. losses on the island of Panay so far are nine killed and 38 wounded as against 659 Jap anese killed and 16 captured. In the landing on Cebu, the secretary said, only two Americans were killed and 15 wounded, while 88 of the enemy have been killed and 10 captured. TRIBUN United Pri Full Carbarn Casanova Legally Sane, Is Alienists Word Sam Francisco, March 29 (U.R) A second alienist today told a superior court jury that Francis Van Wle, 58-year-old "ding dong daddy of the car lines" who married 13 wives but neglected to divorce any, as "legally and mentally sane." The sanity trial of the roman tic trolley conductor already convicted of three counts of big amy, went into its third day with some prospects of the jury receiving the case before night fall. Dr. George Johnson, prefes- sor of neuro-psychlatry at Stan ford Medical school, joined Dr. E. W. Mullen of Agnew State Hospital in testifying that Van Wie is not legally or mentally insane although he has "consid erable hysterical elements in his make-up." JAPANESE CAMP E ON LEAVE Sgt. Lome B. Cox and M. Sgt. George Distell, both of whom were among the prison-ers-of-war released from Caban tuan prison in the Philippine Islands Feb. 2, arrived in Med ford this morning from Letter man General hospital, San Francisco, where they have been receiving medical care since arriving In this country March-8BothwlU J?end 10 days here at the hbme of Sgt. Cox' father, John B. Cox. 515 West Jackson boulevard, be. fore reporting to other army hospitals for additional treat ment. Relatives stated this morning that both men were in "fair" physical condition, but quite tired from the trip and In need of rest. They were said to be cheerful and deeply grateful to be home again. The two men became friends during their stay in Cabantuan prison. At the end of the 10-day furlough period Sgt. Cox reports to Barnes hospital in Vancouver, Wash., and Sgt. Distell to an army hospital In New Orleans, La. Sgt. Cox and Sgt. Distell were accompanied north by Sgt. Cox' sister, Mrs. D. M. Wright of San Diego. They were met at Duns muir by Mr. Cox, his daughter, Miss Joan Cox, and Larry Neeley. THREE JACKSON COUNTY SOLDIERS ARE WOUNDED Cpl. Vaugh L. Groves, friend of Mrs. Alice Antinone, 2300 Western street, Medford, and Pfc. Arlelgh J. Kenyon, husband of Mrs. Helen M. Kenyon, Star Route Box 82, Ashland, have been wounded in action with the army in the Pacific war theater according to a release of the Office of War Information. Cpl. Robert Gale, son of Mrs. Gladyse M. Gale, 675 East Main street, Ashland, has been wounded while on duty in the European theater, according to OWI. Army Navy Total 189,541 515,971 96,855 70,495 153,791 35,750 473,869 42,302 86,355 10,500 66,228 4,267 ..780,043 92,819 872,862 o 5-' Leased Wire RUSSIANS SWEEP ;T! TO Several Villages Liberated in Breakthrough 40 Miles East; Nazis Quit Zehden. London, March 29. (U.R) Marshal Stalin tonight an nounced In an order of the day that the red army has completed the liquidation of the Germans encircled south west of Koenigsberg, killing more than 80,000 and captur ing 50,000 since March 13. London, March 29 (U.R) The "free Austrian radio" said today that the Red Army has swept into Austria at a point 40-odd miles southeast of Vienna and liberated several villages. A further breakthrough in the direction of Vienna is immi nent," the station, presumably Soviet-controlled, said. It ap pealed to Austrians to desert the German army and Volkssturm (home guard). "The hour of liberation Is downing," the broadcast pro claimed. Nails Quit Zehden Radio Berlin, meantime, said the Germans had . evacuated their pocket in the big bend of the Odor river at Zehden, 31 miles northeast of Berlin. The evacuation was carried out in "stubborn fighting," the broadcast said. "Weak" Rus sian attempts to force the Oder in pursuit were frustrated, Ber lin said. The Russians presumably ad vanced southeast from Zehden to the Oder itself, 28 miles from Berlin's city limits. The Zehden pocket was the last enemy toe hold on the right bank of the Oder between the eastern ap proaches of Berlin and the Bal tic. Vienna Alerted The free Austrian radio said the villages captured by the Russians southeast of Vienna were in Burgenland, Autsria's easternmost province. (The OWI said a dispatch In the Swedish Svenska Dagbladet reported that a state of emer gency had been declared in Vienna and the city's outer for tifications alerted.) Far to the north, medieval Danzig on the Baltic appeared about to fall to another Soviet army group, the second White Russian. The second army group cleared all western Dan zig yesterday and captured the modern Polish port of Gydnla, nine miles to the north. GERMANS BEATEN Washington, March 29 (U.R) The German army on the Rhine Is beaten beyond hope of anything save unconditional sur render or piecemeal collapse, Secretary of War Henry L. Stlm son said today. However, he said, the Nazis might find some temporary line for an inner core of resistance when allied armies reach the end of their supply lines. "If the allied armies are forced to fight from village to village to the destruction of all Germany, the German people must know also that their pres ent leadership and they who tol erate it will bear the responsibil ity, Stimson told a press confer ence. Stimson said one reason why the allied armies had little diffi culty in crossing the Rhine was the fact that from D-day last June 6 to March 23, allied forces captured 1,120,503 German pris oners in western Europe. This, he said, was In addition to Ger man troops killed and wounded. WEATHER Northern California Scatter ed clouds today, tonight and (Frlday. Warper today. Tank Forces Reel Off Mile-An-Hour Advance Through Broken Lines London, March 29. (U.R) The cast to the German people not to allied tanks have by-passed Nuernberg, 128 miles southwest ol Berlin, and are driving on Lelpslg, 74 miles from the reich capital. With the Sixth U. S. Armored Division, Third U. 8. Army, March 29. (U.R) A high ranking there Is no doubt" that German now collapsed. The sixth armored estimated prisoners today and believed the other 8,000 for a total of 13.000 to Paris. March 29. (U.R) American first and third army tanks converged on the Hessian capital at a mile-an-hour pace today. And In the north, British armored columns plunged 20 miles through the broken German lines before Muenster. Armored task forces of the two deep into central Germany less than 30 miles from Kassel and 200 miles southwest of Berlin at a clip nfcre reminiscent of peacetime maneuvers than an advance through hostile territory, BRITISH ALSO FIND RESISTANCE WEAK The British second army's flying tank columns in the north were) meeting equally weak resistance. Field dispatches said the Tom mies swept 20 miles or more beyond their last reported positions in the broken area to an undisclosed point about 20 miles east of the Rhine. Racing through dozens of German villages festooned with whit flags, the British were closing swiftly on the Westphalian capital of Muenster, 227 miles due west of Berlin, A military security blackout cloaked the exact whereabouts ol the favored British columns, but it was indicated they were a dozen miles or less southwest of Muenster In the Bulden area. Heavily-censored reports from the wide-open American first and third army fronts indicated that sensational advances were being marked up behind the blackout. VANGUARDS LINK UP FOR LEIPZIG DRIVE Vanguards of the two armies linked up almost 100 road mile beyond the middle Rhine and wheeled northeastward In what ap peared to be a full-scale thrust toward Leipzig, 124 miles east of Kassel, and a juncture with the red army. Behind the tank spearheads, Wiesbaden, 15 miles west of Frank furt, was cleared of Germans by third armies. Frankfurt Itself was able. Its small but tough Nazi garrison was being mopped up in narrow corner in the northwestern corner of the city. The U. S. seventh army drew groups farthur south with a powerful armored surge that carried almost 40 miles east of the Rhine at a point about 25 miles south east of Frankfurt. The Yanks in that sector broke mile front between Niedernberg and Schwelnhelm and advanced three miles farther to Liedersbach. MANNHEIM TAKEN WITHOUT BATTLE V The big Rhine industrial city of Mannheim, on the seventh's southwestern flank, was reported fight early today. If confirmed, It would be the first major German city abandoned by the On the first army front, the of Gicssen, 60 miles southwest of Kassel, was swept up late yester day. The Yanks pushed ahead another 16 miles early today, taking Marburg, and were moving in on north and 196 miles southwest of Thousands of stunned German American tank columns and waved back to the rear without guards. The first army rounded up 13,000 prisoners yesterday alone. v i J Sfi y hAMIU0 KIFTH V" ' MECKLENBURG GERMANY SkDu,c!.lor .Koiielf LEIPZIG S , . . S,Myhlliuie .i 9"V-A ii'enocjvsr , DRESDEN I Bonn)CTN, j Erfurt - TrT ygrpM SAX0NY jsf Monntielm J.iv iFurMi Wr-y4Korli,uht V S "e9en.fc.1r9V SlroifeQufg STUTTGART FRANCE I1 'AVARIA The seven Allied Armies of the west strike with their full armored power along the German SOO-milo battle line east of the Rhine In series of breakthroughs that sent American tank columns to within 230 miles of Berlin. The U. S. Third spearheads tore ahead so rapidly, under security blackout, that even Berlin "didn't know where the front was." Tokyo Newspaper Finish Pacific War By United Press A Tokyo newspaper professed to believe Wednesday that the United States was attempting to bring the Pacific war to a de cision within the next month, as other Japanese editorials urged a speedy Nipponese counter-offensive against the Amer icans. Apparently referring to the enemy-reported American land ing in the Ryukyus, still uncon firmed by allied sources, Asahl Shumbun said: The enemy is taking the risk of crossing a point between our German radio tonight broad believe sensational rumors that 3rd army officer said today that defenses In the 3rd army area have It took between 8,000 and B.OOO fourth armored division took an 14.000. of Kassel, 106 miles from Berlin, American armies were riding combined units of the first and outflanked and militarily unten abreast of the first and third across the Main river on a 2V4 to have been occupied without Nazis without a struggle. great German quartermaster depot Rauschenberg, eight miles farther Berlin. prisoners were rounded up by the (Acmm Telephoto) Says U.S. Would During April mainland and Formosa at the expense of bringing about an early decision to the war. The San Francisco conference (April 25) can be regarded as one of the reasons for the American haste for a showdown battle." "We cannot idly refer to the current war in two phases," said the Yomlurl Hochl Shlmbun, "namely the period before the enemy's landing and the period after the enemy's landing. The time has come to inflict the winning blow." "We must counterattack with speed in order to crush the en- emy," MainlcbJ Shlpibua ead.