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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.
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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
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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.
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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.