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18 MILES OF BIG
Capture of Wiener Neustadt
Would Cut Rails Supply
ing Nazi Forces in South.
London, March 30 (U.R) The
red army today was reported
driving on Vienna along five
highways south of the Danube
and was only 30 miles from the
Austrian capital at Sopron,
which was reported besieged.
The German high command
admitted the fall of Danzig and
Gdynia. The Germans, however,
claimed the soviet drive into
Austria had been halted.
Near Wiener Neustadt
At Sopron the Russians were
only 18 miles from the huge
Austrian manufacturing and war
center of Wiener Neustadt, often
a target for American heavy
bombers and the rail lines unit
ing Austria with the south.
The rail lines are also vita! to
the supply of the German forces
till holding out in northern
Yugoslavia.
The Germans were reported
massing troops along the Leite
river line lust a few mues in ad
vance of soviet spearheads for a
last stand to save Vienna.
Flanking Threat
One soviet column threatened
to flank Vienna from the south.
North of the Danube, the red
army forced the Hron and Nitra
rivers on a broad front and ad
vanced 37 miles to within 48
miles of Bratislava, capital of
the puppet state of Slovakia.
Vienna lies 30 miles west of
Bratislava.
LEER.
FATALLY INJURED
Lee Roy Dodgers, 46, route 2,
box 69, Berrydale avenue, was
M killed Wednesday night when a
truck he was driving, belonging
to Tru-Mix Cement company of
MpHfnrd. left the road on Green
sDrine mountain and plunged
about 150 yards down the can
von. accordine to Deputy Cor-
. nner C. M. Litwiller. Ashland
The accident happened about
1V4 miles below the Summitt
ranch on highway 66, and was
not found until 3:45 p. m. Thurs
day.
The Tru-Mix officials said to
day Rodgers was hauling a drag
line bucket to Klamath Falls
for work on the naval program
there. They said the equipment
was in good shape and the truck
was not overloaded. Rodgers
was an exceptionally careful
driver, according to company
spokesmen.
Litwiller estimated the time
" of the accident as 9:37 p. m.
Wednesday since Rodgers'
watch had stopped at that time.
The watch had been broken in
the accident, Litwiller said.
The truck burned after rol
ling down the embankment, ac
cording to Litwiller, who said
the body was found about six
feet in front of the wreck. Lit
wilier said there was no known
cause of the accident, but said
it was foggy on the mountain
Wednesday night
Lawrence E. Nash, formerly
of Medford but now Uving in
Klamath Falls, found the wreck.
Me was on his way from Med
ford to his home when his car
became overheated. He stopped
to allow it to cool and saw the
wreck in the canyon. It had
rusty appearance from the road
way due to the fire, Litwiller
( said Nash told him, but went to
' Investigate when he noticed
tires and wheels scattered down
the hillside.
Rodgers is survived by his
wife and two children in Med
ford, Litwiller said.
Medford
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Giant strides were taken by Allied Armies on both west and east fronts. XT. B. First and Third Armies linked
up after reaching Rauschenberg, were believed pushing toward Leipzig. To the south, another Third Army's
spearhead passed Gemuenden and was headed for pos sible Juncture with Russians who were reported across
Austria border and within 40 miles of Vienna. Soviet forces also were said to have taken Zehden, last Nazi
hold east of Oder and a juncture may be ahead with B ritish and American Armies roaring east north of Ruhr.
BIG THREE AGREE
ON VOTE SET-UP
FOR CONFERENCE
Washington, . Mar. 30. flJ.B
The big three have agreed that
Russia and the United States
should ask for three votes apiece
on the assembly to be set up
within the proposed United Na
tions security organization, the
White House revealed today.
Russian spokesmen at the
Yalta conference indicated they
would request three votes on the
assembly when the San Fran
cisco conference convenes April
25, the announcement said.
American represen t a 1 1 v e s
agreed to this, with the provis
ion that the United Nations or
ganization also would give three
votes to the United States and
its possessions, the White House
said.
Russians Agreeable
The Russians will ask specifi
cally for extra votes on the as
sembly for the Ukrainian Soviet
Republic and the White Hussian
Soviet Republic.
The White House announce
ment added that both the British
and Russians at the Crimea con
ference said "they would have
no objection to the United States
having three votes in the assem
bly" if Russia gets three votes,
The White House announce
ment came less than two hours
after Sen. Arthur H. Vanden-
berg. R.. Mich., who will be a
member of the United States
delegation to the San Francisco
conference which starts April
25. had said he would be un
alterably opposed to any plan to
revise the voting setup drafted
at Dumbarton Oaks.
One Vote Each Planned
That plan called for every
member nation: of the proposed
world organization to have one
vote on the assembly. The big
five nations, plus six smaller
members chosen on a rotating
basis, would have one vole each
on the organization's council
under the Dumbarton Oaks plan.
The British empire would
have six votes on the assembly
under the Dumbarton Oaks set
upone vote for the United
Kingdom and one each for the
five British dominions.
Russia was reported to be dls
satisfied with this bloc of British
votes. She also was understood
to be dissatisfied with having
only one vote in view of the
western hemisphere bloc of 20
or 21 votes on the assembly.
Uwd Wire
MEDFOED, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30,
S.-Russian Blows Hammer Germany
336 Liberees Made Welcome
un Arrival rrom rniuppines
San Francisco, March 30 U.R
Three hundred and thirty-six
American civilians rescued from
the Japanese by Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's troops set foot on
their home soil for the first
time in more than three years
today.
Their reactions as the navy
transport which returned them
from the Philippines slid into a
pier here varied from tears to
cheers and sheer disbelief.
Some, like Mrs. Nezzie D.
Meng of Denver, and Mrs. Elsie
M. Parks of Hibbing, Minn., said
they had been so numbed by the
61
ENLIST IN NAVY
Six Jackson county men were
inducted into the navy at the
USNRS, Seattle, recently.
Delbert William Clark, Her
bert Wilson Gifford, Wayne
Kenneth Dye, and George Pres
ton Goolsby were inducted
March 24 through Jackson coun
ty board No. 2. John Sheldon
Wood and Frank Edward Hall
registered with Jackson county
board No. 1, were Inducted
March 26.
Wilson, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Gifford, South
Oakdale, Is stationed at San
Diego, where he is studying
radar.
DOUBLE DEATH
Philadelphia, March 30. U.PJ
Mrs. Frances Wadja, 68, was
killed yesterday in an automo
bile accident while on her way
to make funeral arrangements
for her husband, Leon, who died
Tuesday.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Harry Young opining that this
is a difficult season of the year,
as far as the consumption of
beverages is concerned.
Pete Naumes industriously
giving hit lawn an early spring
mowing.
A weatherman declaring that
he knows it's spring since the
sunlight reflected off the win
dows of the junior high school
building wakes him up mornings
Seth Bullis tipping a friend
off to the bargains to be found
t a rummage sale.
tragic things they had witnessed
that even their homecoming
could not thrill them.
Mrs. Meng has not heard from
her husband. Paul, an airlines
official, since she left their home
at lloilo on Luzon Dec. 1, 1941,
for a vacation at Baguio. She
fears that he is dead.
Mrs. Parks, a missionary, said
she could not recount the hor
rible sights she had seen.
Curtis and Bernard Brooks,
16, twin brothers, came back
without their parents. Their
father. Bernard, died of mal
nutrition in Santo Tomas only a
few days before American sol
diers crashed through the gates.
Their mother, Emily, was killed
when the Japanese shelled the
camp four days after the libera
tion. "I would rather not talk about
it," said the Rev. Raymond D.
Abbitt of Victoria, Va., who was
rector of an Episcopalian church
on Mindanao. "After you haven't
seen the American flag for three
years, you realize how wonder
ful it is."
LT. NI0N TUCKER, JR.
KILLED ON IW0 JIMA
Prospect, March 29. Lt. Nion
Tucker, Jr., died of wounds
shortly after a major battle on
Iwo Jima, according to word re
ceived here from Mr. and Mrs.
Nion Tucker of San Francisco,
the marine officer's parents.
"Buddy" Tucker, as he was
known here, spent several weeks
each summer at his parents'
summer home "Rogue's Roost",
near here.
SECRETARY TO F.R.
Washington, Mar. 30. (U.PJ
Jonathan Daniels, former editor
of the Raleigh, N.C., News and
Observer, was sworn in today as
President Roosevelt s press sec
retary.
Fair Weather Is
Easter Forecast,
Say Weathermen
The valley's feminine
church-goers may wear their
new Easter bonnets Sunday
without fear of rain. Ac
cording to the five-day fore
cast of federal weather bu
reau workers In this district,
Suncity is expected to be
fair. Forecast for Saturday
is fair with little change in
temperature.
However, Monday and
Tuesday of next week will
probably bring a change, the
weathermen say, with cloud
iness and showers forecast
for that time.
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DISPIRITED NAZIS
QUITTING AT RATE
Bag of 70,000 Chalked Up
By Allies in 48 Hours
Enemy Lines Chopped Up
Paris, March 30.-rflJ.R) Whole
sale surrenders were reported
spreading through the German
ranks in the west today as two
American tank armies careened
within 180-odd miles of Berlin
In a twin drive to envelop the
Ruhr and outflank the Weser
river line in central Germany.
Unconfirmed reports broad
cast by the London radio said
beaten, disspirited Germans
were surrendering at the rate of
2,000 an hour today.
Coupled with the capture of
more than 33,000 Nazis by the
U. S. first and third armies alone
yesterday, tljnt indicated a bag
of perhaps 70,000 enemy troops
by all allied armies in 48 hours
and the break-up of Ger
many's armies in the west.
Enemy Lines Chopped
Virtually all the western front
was under a military security
blackout, but field dispatches
filtered through, the censorship
made it clear that the greatest
break-through of the western
war was" tearing the German
lines apart.
The American first army was
loose on a wide front east of
the Ruhr valley and racing north
toward an imminent juncture
with British second army forces
on the Westphalian plain.
Vanguards of the British force
were reported in the West
phalian capital of Muenster, 227
miles from Berlin, and fanning
out to the northwest toward Bre
men and Hannover.
The advance was going ahead
so rapidly that at one point
dramatic "hold your fire" order
was flashed to RAF fliers
swarming out to pound the Ger
mans fleeing road columns.
Close On Enemy Heels
British tank forces were so
close on the heels of the retreat
ing enemy that the air attacks
had to be called off for a time to
avoid hitting allied troops.
In the Muenster area, the Brit
ish were less than 40 miles from
a juncture with U. S. first army
tanks, last reported at Pader
born, 190 miles southwest of the
German capital. The Yanks were
ranging out almost unopposed
to the north and east of that
road center after a sensational
100-mile flanking sweep from
the Giessen area.
On the first army's right flank
the American third army's
plunging tank columns were
plowing northeast and east from
Giessen at a mile-an-hour clip
striking along the main Frank
furt-Berlin superhighway.
The German high command
said third army forces were at
Bad Wildungen, 186 mile
southwest of Berlin and 19 miles
southwest of the Hessian capital
of Kassel. Kassel, keystone of
the Germans' Weser river line,
was being outflanked from the
southwest and southeast. Its fall
would break the enemy'i last
major water line short of the
Elbe and Berlin.
LISTED MISSING
Pvt. Rodney A. Witham, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Witham of
1428 East Main street, has been
reported missing In action In the
European theater according to
Information received by his par
ents. Pvt. Witham had been scrv
Ing with the 94th Infantry Divl
slon of Gen. Patton's Third army
The soldier, a graduate ol
Medford high school and a for
mer student at the University oi
Oregon, had been overseas since
last July.
1945
Tribune
United Prai Full
OF
Sale of Canadian Aluminum
to United States Is At
tacked by Oregon Senator
Washington, March 30-jOJ.R)
Sen. Guy Cordon (R., Ore.), to
day asked the senate small busi
ness committee to make a com
plete investigation of what he
said was a "hush-hush deal" be
tween U. S. government agencies
and the Aluminum Company of
Canada.
He said the deal provides for
the sale of "billions of pounds of
Canadian aluminum" to this
country.
Cordon said the most recent
contract for Canadian aluminum
was between Alcan and the
Metals Reserve Corp. He said it
calls for deliveries of 250,000,-
000 pounds of aluminum to be
gin July 1, 1B45.
U. S. Coin In Alcan
The Defense Plants Corp. by
1942 had put $68,500,000 into
the construction of the . Alcan
plant near Arvida, Quebec, he
said.
This plant is beyond U. S.
control and taxation," Cordon
testified. "Profits remain with
Alcan."
Four contracts over a period
of two years were negotiated be
tween war production Board ana
the state department providing
for the delivery of the "billions
of nounds of Canadian alum
inum" to this government, he
said. He fadded that all the ne-
eotiationsl "were kept secret
Cordon; said he wantea to
find out why the government
was , . interested . in advancing
money to j
he Canadian company
arch. 1943, projects to
when in I
build alun
lnum plants near ine
Shasta,
alif.: Grand couiee,
Wash., and
Big Thompson, Colo.,
dams were turned down Dy
WPB.
Cheaoer Her
At the same time, he said, the
aluminum plant at Troutdaie,
Ore., beean ODerations in 1943
only "after public opinion forced
action."
He said he had "personal
knowledge" that aluminum can
be produced In the northwest
United States for less than the
15 cents a pound which is to be
paid to Alcan.
r-nrrinn Rdlfl Yfa nas reueunj
closed down or reduced output
of several plants in the north
west because "aluminum is run
ning out of our ears.
Ho unirt he nooea u iuii mo-
closure of the Alcan deals would
lead to a congressional declara
tion of policy to provide an ade
quate stockpile of strategic ma
terials.
"finlv that wav." he added
"will we never again be caught
with aluminum running out of
our ears at one time and noming
at all the next time."
federaOIeau
OF
WILL MOVE HERE
Onpratlnu office headquar
ters for the Federal Bureau of
Reclamation for southwestern
Oreeon are to be moved from
Grants Pass to Medford accord
ing to Information supplied the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce by F. H. Hart, re-
clammatlon engineer in charge
of the office.
The bureau is engaged In the
analysis of soil, conservation of
wildlife, irrigation, flood con
trol and recreation and has for
a period of some years been
compiling a complete analysis
of the Rogue River basin. Both
the Chamber of Commerce and
the Rogue River water commit
tee have been cooperating with
the bureau for some time with
the objective of determining the
best use of water and land with
in the county.
Hart has conferred with
Frank DeSouza, Medford post
master, concerning the possibil
ity of securing office space In
the federal building and
through the cooperation of E. P.
Leavitt, superlnten dent of
Crater Lake Nntional Park, may
have temporary quarters In the
office suite of the park head
quarters.
Leased Wire
NO. 7.
98 NEW LAWS ON
OREGON STATUTE
BOOKS IN EFFECT
Bills Cover Wide Variety of
Subjects Which Are Put
Into Immediate Effect.
Salem, Ore., Mar. 80 U.R)
Ninety-eight new laws are now
on Oregon's statute books and in
full effect this week, following
the 43rd session of the legisla
ture which passed them.
Ordinarily bills do not become
law for 90 days after their
signature by the governor, but
these 98 bills carried the emerg
ency clause, making them in
full force and effect" after
their signature,
Of these 30 were senate bills,
68 were house bills.
Cover Wide Range
The new laws cover a whole
variety of subjects from appro
priating millions of dollars to
granting claims against the state
for less than $500, and from
making administrative changes
in the unemployment compensa
tion law to accepting a new den
tal school for the state.
The emergency clause which
caused the most furor in the re
cent session was the one attach
ed to senate bill 62, the "PUD"
bill, designed to prevent the pur
chase by people s utility districts
of outlying facilities. Opponents
thought that the emergency
clause was tacked on to prevent
a referendum of the measure to
a vote of the people.
The clause prevents referen
dum, and it is unquestioned that
in some Instances the clause i
used for that purpose, but ordi
narily it is placed on a bill for
the reason its name implies
that an emergency does exist
and the law is needed, and right
now.
Money Bills Needed
Among the bills which carried
the clause, and are now part of
Oregon s law, are the appropri
ation bills; laws raising either
permanently or temporarily the
salaries of county officials in
many counties; bills appropriat
ing money to finance interim
committees and the bill authoriz
ing a special election on June 22,
This last bill needed the clause
so that preparation for the elec
tion could proceed.
Other new laws Include a
number of changes In the admin
istrative procedure in a number
of departments, particularly the
compensation commission
money for forest land acquisi
tion and the eradication of pests
authorization for the fish and
game commissions to propagate
wildlife, place screens on irriga
tion ditches, and change the fish
ing season in many places: auth
orizing the destruction of useless
papers by county courts; chang
ing the bounty laws; authorizing
loans to veterans and funds for
the burial and relief of indigent
veterans, and creating a director
of apprenticeship.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The nearest distances to
Berlin from advanced allied
lines today:
Eastern front 31 miles
(from Zaeckerlck.)
Western front 188 miles
(from south of Paderborn).
Italian front 524 miles
(from Po Dl Prlmaro river).
Many Soldiers To Observe
Easter Rites In Holy Land
Jerusalem, March 30 (U.PJ
Msgr, Lulgl Barlassina, Latin
Patriarch of the Holy Land, en
tered the gate of the Basilica
of the Holy Sepulcher this morn
ing, followed by hundreds of
pilgrims along the "way of the
cross," to start Easter services.
The sun shone on the old
city's streets. Throngs of civil
ian and uniformed pilgrims
came to the Holy City to cele
brate Easter.
Among them were hundreds
of British and American sol
diers, some of whom came
from as far as Morocco' and
Burma.
Four special planes brought
112 American Jewish soldiers
OF
IN EIGHTH DAIS,
Japs Report 150 TO 2,000
Ships Engaged In Blast
ing Broad Installation
Guam, Saturday, March 31
U.R) American naval task
forces have invaded the ooastal
waters of Japan's home islands,
approaching within a few miles
of the enemy's "sacred soil,"
Tokyo reported today.
One U. S. naval force ap
peared near Ashlzurl Zaml, at
the southern tip of Shikoku
island, on Thursday, Tokyo re
ported. It was on Shikoku that
Japan first established its major
prisoner-of-war camps.
Some Near Tanega
"Part of the enemy task forcet
made its appearance near Tan
ega Shlma," Tokyo said. Tanega
is only 25 miles from the coast
of Japan. Ashizuri Zakl liea
across the Bungo channel from
Kyushu, site of some of Japan's
biggest Industries and naval
bases.
The enemy said the task force!
off Ashizuri Zaki "has made it
retreat." There was no refer
ence to a bombardment or of
any counter-measures.
Japanese forces." said
Tokyo, "are still hunting down
the enemy task forces in th
neighboring waters of the Jap
anese homeland."
The enemy, reported at least
four allied task forces, includ
ing 17 battleships, were blast
ing away at Japan's southern
approachei for the eighth
straight day in preparation for
an invasion of Okinawa island
in trie Hyuyus.
Big Force Seen
Japanese estimates of thm
task forces which the
said has been hitting Installa
tions au me way from Japan
proper to the Sakishimas, 600
miles to the southwest, ranged
from 150 surface ships to 2,000,
inuiuuing transports and land
ing craft.
One Tokyo broadcast said "aW
most the entire American Pa
clfic ' fleet", was .mobilized for
the assault.
(A German transocean dii
patch recorded by the United
Press in London said 150 Amer.
lean Superfortresses raided
Tokyo this morning with new
type incendiary bombs and
caused fires at several places.)
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Kenneth Llndley, 16, received
severe head injuries late yesteri
day afternoon when a model A
Ford he was driving hit a sot
shoulder at the corner of East
Jackson boulevard and Haw
thorne avenue and overturned.
Larry Coates, 15, only passen
ger, was uninjured. Llndley
was taken to Community Hospi
tal by the Perl ambulance and
his attending physician stated
today that he was being allowed
to rest before x-rays were taken.
According to police records
the youth, who was driving a
car belonging to Carl Anderson,
419 Pearl street, was driving at
a high rate of speed on the
wrong side of the road when the
accident occurred. Reports to
police earlier in the afternoon
were to the effect that the car
was being recklessly driven in
the vicinity of the high school.
Llndley Is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. H. Llndley, Spring
street, and young Coates resides
at 1307 Reddy avenue.
to Palestine Wednesday for
Passover Eve and then returned
them to their mid-east camp,
making the trip back to Jeru
salem with Christian soldiers
who are spending Easter here.
Special services have been ar
ranged in the various holy
places for the pilgrims. Many
of them walked the Via Dolor
osa early this morning. Others
went to Gethsemane and Beth
lehem. The traditional music of th
"Crucifixion" will be sung to
night by the choir of Christ
Church and members of the
armed forces. An Easter broad
cast (NBC) to New York will
be transmitted from the Jersu
salem YMCA Sunday afternoon.