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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1945
NO. 8.
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Armada Nears Okinawa;
Japan Staggers Under
Huge Air and Sea Blows
By United Preu
Tokyo radio announced Sunday that Japanese army planes are
attacking a full American fleet off Okinawa Islands in the Ryu
kyus. The broadcast, monitored by NBC, said the battle was "still
raging" and predicted that it would be "as fierce as the second
battle of the Philippines the American landings on Leyte."
Guam, Sunday, April 1 (U.R) American carrier-based planes
have destroyed or damaged 49 Japanese ships In almost continuous
attacks on the Ryukyus Islands, it was announced today as Radio
Tokyo reported that a huge, heavily guarded transport armada
was bearing down on Okinawa, 330 miles south of Japan, led by
minesweepers.
More than 100 Superfortresses from the Marianas blasted
targets on the southern Japanese 'iland of Kyushu. Big guns of
Adm. Raymond A. Spruance's U. S. 5th fleet hammered Okinawa
with thousands of shells Saturday for the ninth successive day.
The British Pacific Fleet again battered the Sakishima Islands be
tween Formosa and Okinawa.
The Japanese were reeling under some of the heaviest blows
of the Pacific war. Radio Tokyo said "one-fourth to one-third" of
all of America's naval power npw was concentrated in the far
western Pacific on Japan's doorstep intensifying attacks which
have cost the Japanese 967 planes and 104 to 108 ships destroyed
or damaged in two weeks.
Dispatches from the American
fleet flagship said Okinawa was
a scene of "utter desolation.
And a thick black cloud of
smoke covered the island. Pilots
saw no human, activity and con
cluded that the Japanese had
taken to the rugged northern
hills to escape the hellish bom
bardment.
Adm. Chester W. NImitz an-
aounced that fast carrier task
forces battered Kyushu and the
Ryukyu islands Wednesday and
Thursday.
They ran up the following
score:
"Sunk: Two destroyer escorts,
one medium cargo ship, ten
small cargo ships, four luggers,
one motor torpedo boat total
18.
Probably sunk: Nine medium
cargo ships, five small cargo
ships total 14.
Damaged: One destroyer es
cort, 13 small cargo ships, one
medium cargo ship total 15.
In addition carrier planes at
tacking numerous targets on
Okinawa on Friday, destroyed
four submarine pens and two
torpedo boats in the submarine
base at Unten bay on the west
coast.
The carrier planes, in the
Wednesday-Thursday attacks,
shot down 29 Japanese planes
and one glider in air battles,
destroyed 16 planes on the
ground and damaged or de
stroyed 42 others aground.
In addition they damaged air
plane hangers, shops and other
installations on .Tokuno island,
70 miles northeast of Okinawa,
on Yaku island, 40 miles south of
Kyushu, and in the southern
Kyushu cities of Kanoya, Ku
shira, Chiran, Tojimbara and
Ibusukl. American losses were
12 planes and six pilots.
On Friday fleet Dauiesnips,
Including inew 45,000 tonners.
'steamed up to Okinawa and
shelled shore Installations at
close range. They breached sea
walls and hammered gun posi
tions, airfields and bridges.
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Washington, March 31 U.R)
Argentina was given a clean bill
of political health by the other
20 American republics today.
This presaged early termina
tion of the diplomatic quaran
tine imposed on Argentina last
year. It also made possmie
hut not necessarily probable
Argentina's participation in the
San Francisco World Security
conference.
Argentina had done what was
necessary to get back into wc
American republics' fold when
on March 28 she declared war
on Germany and Japan.
Her return was formalized
when the Pan American govern
ing board unanimously adopted
a resolution today declaring that
Argentina had met all the neces
sary conditions.
Assistant Secretary of State
Nelson Rockefeller cast this
country's vote for the resolution.
Whether Argentina ultimately
will be invited to San Francisco
remains to be seen. Soviet Rus
sia, for one, is believed to be
against it.
FOURTH WIFE FREED
Las Vegas, Ncv., March 31
(U.PJ Sugar heir Adolph Sptsrk
les, now an army private, today
lost his fourth wife when Mrs.
Emily Speckles won an uncon
tested divorce.
FEDERAL SEIZURE
SOFT COAL MINES
Washington April 1 (Sun
day (U.R) Government seizure
of the nation's soft coal mines
was widely forseen early today
when a spokesman for the Joint
mine wage conference predicted
that the entire matter of con
tinued operation of the mines
would be settled by 4 p. m. to
day.
The prediction was made by
Ezra .Van. Horn, . Cleveland,
chairman of the joint wage con
ference and its official spokes
man.
He also hinted that the United
Mine workers had refused to ac
cept a war labor board order
for continued operation of the
mines under terms of the old
contract which expired at 12:01
a. m., with any money benefits
finally agreed upon or ordered
by the board to be retroactive
to today.
Van Horn spoke briefly to re
porters after a nearly-five-hour
session of the joint conference
The meeting was called in an ef
fort to settle the demand ol
UMW President John L. Lewis
that the operators furnish
written guarantee that they
would comply with the retroac
tivity provision of the board's
order to extend the old contract
Van Horn said the joint con
ference would reconvene at 11
a. m. Monday but that "the en
tire matter will be resolved by
not later than 4 p. m. today."
SENATE TO KILL
MANPOWER BILL,
Washington, March 31 (U.R)
Sens. Edwin C. Johnson, D.
Colo., and Joseph C. O'Mahonoy,
D., Wyo., tonight predicted over
whelming senate rejection of
the pending compromise man
power bill.
Both legislators said the meas
ure had been killed by the state
ment of War Momillzatlon Di
rector James F. Byrnes, in his
report to President Roojevelt,
that the bill was necessary to
assure production of essential
civilian as well as war goods.
O'Mahoney said he would In
itiate action on a milder bill. He
has vigorously opposed the pend
ing measure.
Johnson is one of the authors
of the compromise measure and
made the motion which brought
its approval by house and senate
statement, he said, he will now
conferees. But in view of Byrnes'
"certainly" vote against it.
"Justice Byrnes," Johnson
said in a prepared statement,
"has effectively destroyed all
chances for senate adoption of
the manpower conference report
by his grotesque statement that
'the need for manpower legisla
tion continues . . . not only for
war production but also for the
production of essential clvfflnn
goods, and later to facilitate re
conversion." "The conference report Is
dead." i
Yank
pi,
Several damaging nsar missel are icored on a large Jap aircraft carrier caught by Pacific
Fleet carrier planes in their daring raids on Jap fleet units in the Inland Sea. At bottom of pho
to, a large Nip submarine is underway, attempting to escape a bomb (center) heading its way.
U. S. Navy Photo.
OF NEGROS FALLS;
JAPS SURPRISED
Allied Headquarters, Manila,
Sunday, April 1 (U.R) Ameri-
n 40th Infantry Division
troops have captured Bacolod,
provincial capital of Npgros Is
lands, in a lightning drive which
caught Japanese defenders so
by surprise they were unable to
set off extensive demolition
charges, Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur announced today. ...
The Americans crossed the
Magsungay and Lupit rivers af
ter capturing all bridges intact,
and entered the city yesterday.
Bacolod was quickly overrun
and fast mechanized units im
mediately ranged northward to
ward the T a 1 1 s a y airfield.
Bacolod airdrome was captured
Friday.
Only opposition encounte id
was near Murcia, southeast of
Bacolod, which is being reduced,
MacArthur said.
Large quantities of fuel and
supplies were destroyed by
American planes, supporting
ground troops who landed Thurs
day on the fourth largest Phil
ippines Island.
MacArthur reported that the
Americal Division on Cebu, east
of Ncgros, had cleared enemy
pockets cf resistance lorth of
Lahug a'rfield and in the lower
foothills of the centra! range. An
enemy attempt to infiltrate po
sitions it "ardo were repulsed.
On the southern Luzon front,
seven mile advances were scored
against little resistance while in
the center the 11th corps con
tinued to drive north against
light opposition. In the north
em sector, the 1st corps seized
Galiano, nine miles . from the
coast, and drova three miles to
the southeast on the Naguilian-E-guio
road.
V-E DAY IS PLEA
Washington, March 31 (U.R)
The American people were urg
ed tonight to observe V-E day
as "a day of work and worship.'
War mobilization director
James F. Byrnes made this re
quest In his quarterly report:
"No one can tell when v-E.
day will come. But when we are
advised by Gen. Eisenhower
that organized resistance of the
German army has ceased, I hope
the American people wil' make
that day a day of work and
worship. I recommend th2t all
government agencies observe
the spirit of this request.
SMALL DAMAGE CAUSED
BY RESIDENTIAL FIRE
A roof fire about 8:45 p. m.
Saturday did small damage to a
house occupied by P. S. John
ston, 928 West Second street, ac
cording to the fire department.
It Is said to have started from
sparks from the chimney.
Sacramento, March 31 IU.R)
Officials of McClellan Field to
night announced that 1st Lt. Roy
B. Crane of the sixth ferrying
group, Long Beach, Cal., was
killed today
Planes Seek Out Jap
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Brynes Indicates Wage and
Price Control to End When
Japs Whipped
Washington, March 31-(U.R)
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes, although he held out no
hope for more food, indicated to
night that .V-E day would mean
more automobiles and refrig
erators for civilians in the en
suing months and perhaps "a
small increase in the basic gaso
line ration."
Price, wage and manpower
controls, in the meantime, must
be continued into the indefinite
future, not only until Japan is
defeated but until the country
has converted its economy back
to a peacetime footing.
Byrnes said unemployment
following V-E day will be "tem
porary in nature."
"The tremendous backlog of
civilian demand, with savings in
cluding war bond holdings, at a
total of 140 billion dollars,
should quickly provide employ
ment." he added.
The WPB, Byrnes said, plans to
increase SDot authorization for
limited civilian production im
mediately after Germany falls
It also plans to substitute a sim
Die nrioritics plan for the pres
ent restrictive and complex ma
terials control law.
Materials will be released ex
cept where shortages persist, as
In the case of textiles, paper and
miln. lumber, leather, contain
ers and chemicals, he said. More
over, he said. WPB "is prepared
to take prompt actions to pre
vent the building or excess in
ventories and to protect small
business."
CRISISlEAFFOR
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London, March 31 (U.R) In
formed diplomatic quarters re
ported today a critical breach
between Generalissimo Francis
co Franco's rerime and a bloc oi
Spanish monarchists who hope
to crown pretender Don Juan as
king of Spain.
The resignation of the Duke
of Alba as ambassador to Bri
tain opened the campaign. Span
ish ambassadors in Washington.
Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and
Santiago reportedly were re
linquishing their posts. There
are regarded as key positions in
the Spanish foreign service.
S CANADIANS OPPOSE
Ottawa, March 31 (U.R)
Canadian participation In the
world security conference at
San Francisco was opposed to
day by only five members of the
house of commons. The five in
dependents voted against send
ing a Canadian delegation to the
conference as 202 other mem
bers of commons supported a
plea by Prime Minister Mackcn
zie King ycftrrday for unanim
ous endorsement.
Fleet
E
T
London, Sunday, April 1 (U.R)
Overrunning more than 70 Aus
trian towns, the red army drove
to within 33 miles of Vienna Sat
urday while on the flanks of its
300-mile offensive front other
soviet forces streaked to within
142 miles of Italy's Adriatic
coast and breached the vaunted
defenses of the Moravian gap.
Marshal feodor L Telbuluun s
3d Ukrainian army captured the
Austrian town of Deutschkruez
in the closest Russian approach
to the old Austrian capital of
Vienna, driving up from the
south in a bid to outflank the
German defenses.
East of Vienna on the north
ern bank of the Danube, storm
units of the 2d Ukrainian army
captured the "hedgehog" posi
tion of Nitra and drove on across
the Vah river in a 14-mile gain
to capture Galanta, only 27 miles
east of the Slovak capital, Brati
slava.
The retch's southeastern ram-
Darts buckled and threatened to
break under the piledriver Rus
sian assaults between the Yugo
slav frontier and the central
Czechoslovakian industrial area
An unconfirmed Radio Luxem-
boure broadcast said the Ger
mans were quitting Vienna,
Bratislava and Prague, the last
important European capital still
under nazl subjugation
NEW IllDFUSS
TO PARLEY BREWS
Washington, March 31 U.R)
A fresh sore SDot developed in
allied relations today with re
jection by Great Britain and the
United States of a Soviet sugges
tion that the Warsaw Polish
Bovernment be Invited to the
San Francisco conference.
British and American officials
reaffirmed their determination
to exclude Poland from the
United Nations parley unless a
new, broader Polish government,
blueprinted by the Big Three at
Yalta, is set up by next month.
Because this new government
has not taken shape, Russia ask
ed that t'..e Soviet-fostered War
saw regime be invited to San
Francisco to give Poles some part
in the charting of a world secur
ity organization.
The United States' refusal ex
pressed hope that a new "Polish
government of national unity"
still would be formed in time for
the conference. Britain's atti
tude was similar.
President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and
Premier Josef Stalin agreed at
Yalta to recognize a Polish gov
ernment based on the Warsaw
regime but broadened by inclu
sion of other Poles from within
Poland and abroad.
Altadena, Calif., March 31
(U.R) Pfc. Ira A. Dollar, 19.
grandson of the late Capt. Rob
ert Dollar, founder of the Dollar
Steamhlp lines, was killed In ac
tion in France March 13,
Judge Tooze Holds No Auth
ority to Accept Jurisdic
tion in Federal Case
Portland, Ore., March 31-(U.R)
A far-reaching opinion dismiss-
ing five civil cases filed by the
OPA was handed down today by
Presiding Circuit Court Judge
Walter L. Tooze of Multnomah
county.
Judge Tooze said an Oregon
court did not have authority to
accept jurisdiction for a federal
case.
The OPA announced it would
appeal the decision to the state
supreme court. OPA Enforce
ment Attorney Franz E. Wagner
of Portland said Judge Tooze
erroneously came to the con
clusion that the federal govern.
ment of the United States of
America was a foreign sov
ereignty having no authority to
vest jurisdiction of these types
of actions in the state courts.
OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles sought to have the
county circuit court take juris-
diction in enforcing penalty pro
visions of the emergency price
control act of the United States
government. The suits were sim-
liar to many others on file in
Portland and other Oregon cities
in which the OPA seeks to re.
cover for the government treble
damages for overcharges and to
enjoin firms and individuals
from violating regulations as to
maximum charges.
He sustained defense demur
rers and motions to dismiss.
holding that congress overstep
ped the limitations of its power
in passing legislation making It
mandatory for the state courts
to take jurisdiction.
Judge Tooze made the dis
tinction 'Hhat the state courts
must assume jurisdiction in all
cases brought under the emerg
ency price control act by con
sumers In their own names and
for their own use and benefit to
recover for overcharges but that
actions brought by the price ad
ministrator in his own name and
for the sole and exclusive bene
fit of the United States are penal
in character and not within state
jurisdiction.
"If congress can force jurisdic
tion upon a state court to en
force one penal law of the Unit
ed States, it follows that it would
have power to impose such juris
diction in all cases Involving vio
lations of the penal laws of the
nation," Judge Tooze held. "That
certainly would present a novel
situation and would indeed be
a far cry from the doct-ine of
state's rights."
"It is true that during recent
years and particularly under
the urge of a popular hysteria
some courts have been led to
surrender that judicial inde
pendence sought to be establish
ed by the founding fathers. . , .
Some courts have been inclined
to follow their political and, eco
nomic beliefs, rather than be
guided by constitutional prin
ciples." CHARITYECONOMY
Washington, March 31 (U.R)
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes said tonight that "we will
gladly do our part to relieve
suffering and distress in a war
torn world."
"Hnowvpr" he added, "we
net nil, A mncMprfltion BlSO
to the people who will pay the
bills."
That means, he said, that "we
mnct H-vnti more attention to
economy in government."
JAIL TUCeTARE
P
Newell, Cal., March 31 (U.R)
Fifteen men, accused of carry
ing out pro-Japanese activities
at the Tule Lake segregation
center had been sentenced to
jail terms of from 80 to 110 days.
Acting Project Director Harry
L. Black announced tonight.
The men, all of whom pleaded
guilty, included the presidents
and vice-presidents of two pro
Japanese societies representing
a minority in the center, Black
said.
WAR BULLETINS
By United Press
Australian troops haye
trapped 32.000 Japanese in the
Gaxelle Peninsula at the east
ern end of New Britain, the
Melbourne radio, quoting an
official army report, said Sat
urday. Two-thirds of the by-passed
islands have been regainod
and the Australian Air Force
now has a new airstrip at
acquinot Bay in the southern
sector.
' By United Press
The Tokyo radio said Sat
urday that Japanese forces
were attacking Laohokow in
China after seizing the former
American air base outside the
city on Tuesday.
PLAN MORE BEEF,
Slaughter Subsidy and
Dairy Benefits Continued,
OPA Announces.
Washington, March 31 (U.R)
Government food officials to
night announced two steps de
signed to step up production of
eef anu to maintain the present
high output of dairy products.
They were:
,The present 80 cents per hun
dred pounds subsidy to so-called
non-processing cattle slaughter
ers will be continued at that
rate, instead of being cut to 30
cents per hundredweight on
Sunday as had been scheduled
2. Dairy production payments
ranging from 60 to B0 cents a
hundred pounds of milk also will
be continued, instead of being
cut tomorrow by 35 cents per
hundredweight as had been
scheduled.
The order maintaining the
present rate for the non-process
Ing slaughterers subsidy grew
out of two factors 1, com
plaints by small slaughterers be
fore a senate investigating com
mittee this week that they
already were losing money and
would lose even more when the
subsidy was cut; and 2, a ruling
by the emergency court of ap
peals on Thursday that beef
ceilings already were so low
that small slaughterers were los
ing money.
The decision to maintain the
now-processing slaughterers' sub
sidy at its present rate was an
nounced by price administrator
Chester Bowles. He also reveal
ed that OPA has petitioned the
emergency court a tribunal set
up for the specific purpose of
considering litigation arising
from OPA rulings to reconsid
er its decision.
Extension of the dairy subsidy
was announced by the war food
administration. WFA said the
action was approved by econo
mic stabilization director Wil
liam H. Davis because dilrymen
are bearing unusually heavy
burdens in wages and feed costs.
Bowles said the emergency
court will consider OPA's ap
peal for reconsideration on Mon.
day.
ALLIESlfLETE
By United Press
The British radio said Satur
tr that hleh officials of the
Allied Control Commission have
completed plans for the occupa
tion of the Reich and will leave
soon for Germany.
Quoting the London Dally
Telegraph, the broadcast said
that "complete understanding
has been reached by Britain,
America and France as to the
local administrations of the oc
cupation zones, and close contact
is maintained with the Rus
sians." The broadcast was re
ported by CUS.
"The general Impression here
is that there will be no place in
Germany which will capitulate
In the name of the Reich," the
broadcast said. "Therefore, a
complete military occupation is
the only solution."
VETERAN CONVICTED
Newark, N. J., March 31
(U.R) John J. Keegan, 25-year-old
discharged psychoneurotic war
veteran, was convicted tonight
of second degree murder In the
laxicab slaying of his wife.
L
Surrender Rules Given
Nazis as Nine Armies
Drive to Berlin
Paris, Sunday, April 1 j(U.R)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower put
a fresh, new American army on
the high road to Berlin deep in
side central Germany today and
issued detailed surrender in
structions to crumbling German
forces as h I tani,. ma.oj
through a town only 170 miles
irom me nazl capital.
As the 15th Amopinan r.-...
joined the American 1st and 3d
armies in the final battles of the
European war, the French 1st
army stormed across the Rhine
on a 10-mile front around Speier
and made contact with the U. S.
7th armv in the vininitw zjw
enhelm, 21 miles north of Karls-
rune.
The French ncemtlt aln.A.3 .
- . V, BUUCU Ofc
the Bavarian Alps, where the
nazis nope to make their last
stand, gave Eisenhower fntal
of nine armies racing across in
ner oermany thunderously ac
centing his Invitation to all
enemy forces to surrender forth
with and avoid unnecessary loss
of life. .
High Command Sags
The allied supreme command
er, declaring the German high
command had lost control, told
enemy units to send surrender
emissaries to the nearest allied
command post. They were told
to maintain discipline and dis
play the customary signs of sur
render, particularly by adandon
ing their arms.
An announcement from Gen.
Omar N. Bradley's 12th army
group headquarters said the new
15th army of Lt. Gen. Leonard
T. Gerow had joined the Amer
ican 1st and 3d armies In cen. .
tral Germany. ,
Third army tanks were in tha
outskirts of the great 18-way
road and rail hub of Kassel .
only five miles away from the
south. Other tank spearheads
drove even closer to Berlin,
reaching Lautenbausen, seven
miles east of Hcrsfeld and only
170 miles from their goal.
Keeping pace with this crush
ing drive in the center. Field
Marshal Sir B. L. Montgomery's
British and American armies ad
vanced on the Westphalian plain
and the American 7th army mov
ed ahead on the approaches to
the nazi shrine city of Nern
berg. Montgomery's armies drove a
tank wedge 65 miles beyond tha
Rhine, according to latest of
ficial announcements. The exact
point of the wedge was cloaked
by a security blackout, but there
was no doubt the British were
well beyond the great rail cen
ter of Muenster, which is less
than 50 miles from the Rhine.
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
7th army, paced by the 12th ar
mored division, smashed a deep
hole in German defenses along
the Main river at Amorbach, 20
miles south of Aschaffcnburg.
Tanks and armored cars raced
more than 25 miles east, vaulting
the Taubcr river and driving
within six miles of Wuerzburg
at Waldbrunn.
At this point the 12th armored
was within 60 miles of Nuern
berg and the alarmed German
radio declared also that the drive
was aimed at the great ball-bearing
manufacturing center of
Schweinfurt, 20 miles northwest
of Wuerzburg, where one of the
greatest air battles of the war
was fought Oct. 14. 1943. In that
battle the Germans lost 185
planes In attempts to protect
their phnts.
Washington, March 31 U.R)
The office of price administra
tion tonight announced a revi
sion of Its ration point system
whereby blocks of five red and
five blue point stamps will be
come valid on the first of each
month.
OPA described the step as a
move to make it easier for house
wives and storekeepers to re
member what stamps are good. ,
The new system becomes effec
tive tomorrow, when red stamps
K2, L2, M2. N2 and P2 and bluo
stamps T2, U2, V2, W2 and X2
become valid.
All stamps henceforth will be
good during the four months fol
lowing their validation, OPA
said. Thus the two new blocks
will be good until July 31.