Yankee Invaders Smash Halfway Across Okinawa;
British Armored Force in Dr -e to Liberate Holland
NAZI REIMS
FLEE EASTWARD
TO ESCAPE NET
Vanguard of Tommies 74
Miles Southwest Bremen
Yanks Close Ruhr Ring
Paris, April 2. (U.R) British
armored divisions drove more
than 15 miles beyond Muenster
today and struck for Bremen
and the Dutch North sea ports
in a bid to knock out the Na2i
V-bomb bases and liberate Hol
land. Armored vanguards of the
British second and Canadian
first armies were 74 miles south
west of Bremen, Germany's see
ond nort. and about the same
distance south of the Dutch sea
coast.
Resistance Broken
German resistance was broken
all along the broad British front
and a swift dash to the coast that
would complete the liberation of
Holland appeared well under
way.
Official reports said the Bril
ish and supporting American
units were in Muenster and 13
miles beyond at an undisclosed
point. Berlin spokesmen placed
the allies 36 miles farther east
on both sides of Bielefeld, 189
miles from Berlin.
Remnants of the German 25th
possibly 50,000 strong, were rac
ing eastward from the Dutch
seacoast in disorderly flight to
escape the British tank columns
closing across their line of re
treat. Yanks Close Ring
Simultaneously, the American
first and ninth armies closed an
armored ring around the Ruhr,
and perhaps 150,000 crack Nazi
troops were trapped in the in
dustrial basin.
At the center of the collapsed
German battle screen, Lt. Gen
George S. Patton's third army
tanks drove more than half-way I
across the reich to within 152
miles of Berlin.
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L
Montgomery's 21st army group
headquarters lifted the securit
blackout on the British second
army today to reveal that the
Britons were in and beyond the
Westphalian capital of Muenster,
227 miles west of Berlin.
Scottish and English veterans
of 1 Alamein and Montgomery's
march across North Africa were
out in front of the blazing tank
drive that promised to clear the
Nazis from all Holland in a mat
ter of days and lay open the
short road to Berlin.
Osnabrueck Msnaced
Osnabrueck, 27 miles north
northeast of Muenster, was men
aced by the British advance.
Tank columns stabbing in from
the west were reported eight
miles from the -Hy this morning
and going fast.
Forty-six miles west of Osna
brueck, the British captured
Enschede, the main escape port
for the German 25th army flee
ing Holland.
Allied fliers swarming over
the battle area reported that the
Germans were abandoning Hoi
land at top speed, giving up
their V-bomb bases on the sea-
coast opposite London.
At least 10 British tank col
umns were through the German
battle screen, with their eastern
most units 190 miles or less due
west of Berlin.
Batln Enveloped
All of the Ruhr basin, Ger
many's last and greatest military
arsenal, was enveloped by the
American first and ninth armies
and doughboys of the two strik
ing forces were driving in swift
ly from the west, north and east
to finish off the remnants of 16
German divisions caught in the
4,500 square mile pocket
Estimates on the size of trap
ped enemy force ranged all the
way from 30,000 to 100,000
troops, comprising the last ma
jor fighting force left to the
Nazis in northwestern Germany.
On the seventh army's right
flank, vanguards of the French
first army were across the Rhine
in force on a front of more than
12 miles. Late dispatches said
the French were more than 19
miles beyond the Rhine and
moving fast toward Stuttgardt.
31 miles southeast of their ad
vanced spearheads.
French On Move
The avenging French army,
led by fierce Moroccan and Al
gerian veterans, were heading
for the castle town of Sigmarin
gen, 46 miles south of Stuttgardt
where the aged Marshal Henri
Petain and the traitor Pierre
Laval last were reported hiding
Medford
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Fortieth Year
Where Yanks Made Latest Landing
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RAZED BY BLAZE
Fire early this morning com
pletely destroyed the planing
building of the Southern Oregon
Planing Mill company at Cen
tral Point. Damage was esti
mated at $15,000 with insurance
partially covering the building.
state police -said.
The mill, which is operated
by Harry G. Dowson and A. W.
Lingaas, had been operating
about an hour this morning
when it was shut down .because
of a broken conveyor cnain. A
workman noticed a fire in a
100 horsepower motor which
spread rapidly, engulfing the
mill, police said.
The Central Point fire depart
ment was called but the blaze
had gained too much headway
to be extinguished. The office
building and filing shed were
saved, according to police. Three
freight curs on a siding to be
loaded were moved out of dan
ger, but only after one had been
slightly damaged by the fire.
There was a t-artial loss to stock,
police said.
Lingaas could give no expla
nation for the motor catching
fire. He said plans for rebuild
ing the mill had not been dis
cussed as yet.
out under protection of the
Gestapo.
Even more sensational ad
vances were reeled off at the
northern end of the battlefront,
where Field Marshal Sir Ber
nard L. Montgomery's American
and British forces of the 21st
army group were sweeping al
most unchallenged across the
Wes'phalian plain on the wide
open roads to Berlin and the
north German seaports.
Montgomery's American ninth
British second and Canadian
first armies were operating
under a complete spcurity black
cut that cloaked the location of
their foremost units.
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WAR BOND RALLY
WILL BE HELD AI
ASHLAND TUESDAY
As a "kick-off for the seventh
war loan drive in Jackson
county, a rally will be held at
the Elks club In Ashland Tues
day at 8 p. m. with E. C. Sam
mons, state chairman for war
bond drives and new president
of the United States National
bank, In attendance.
Henry Zacharisen, Medford,
county war bond chairman,
stated today that the drive has
been termed "the mighty sev
enth" and that Jackson county's
"E" quota has been set at $1,
067,000, almost twice what it has
been in recent drives. But two
drives will be held this year, lt
is understood.
Zacharisen stated that em
ployers of the Ashland district
are urged to attend the meeting
Tuesday night. Howard Oden
ahd Miss Alice Patterson are co
chairmen for the Ashland drive
and Zacharisen states that 25 per
cent of the county quota has
been assigned to the Ashland dis
trict. Sammons is to arrive by plane
Tuesday afternoon and will
spend part of the afternoon con
ferring with Zacharisen, George
Frcy, drive chairman, and other
drive workers.
Jaycees To Plan
Clothing Drive
Medford Junior chamber of
commerce officials will meet to
night at 7:30 in the Jackson
county chamber of commerce
building with representatives of
other service clubs to discuss
plans for participation in the
United National -clothing collec
tion and to complete organiza
tion of the local set up.
Plans are being made by Jun
ior chambei officials for open
ing of a downtown receiving de
pot where old and discarded
clothing may be left.
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medford, Oregon, monday, april 2, 1945
Above
a view ot Itoman,
Okinawa, looking across town
toward Lifu Island. Itoman is
southern terminus of a narrow
gauge railroad from Naha. the
island capital. The thatched and
tile roofed houses are typical of
the native homes which house
the islands 435.000 inhabitants
910 to each square mile. Hidden
In one of Okinawa s many shel
tered cores is the Jap midget
submarine., and ..torpedo., base
shown at left. Anchored in the
base is a Jap ' Sea Truck," which
has just narrowly missed bomb
from attacking American naval
plane. Midget sub is seen in fore
ground. Several torpedo boats,
covered with palm leaf camou
flage, are tied up at right -angle
to sub. Yanks Invading Keramo
Retto discovered and destroyed
290 Jap "suicide' boats of secret
fleet which apparently planned
to attack invaders. U. S. Navy
Photo.
200 Jap Civilians
Try Mass Suicide
in Fear of Yanks
By E. Q. Valens
United Press War Correspondent
with 77th Division, in the
Ryukyus, April 1 0J.R) Fear
Implanted by their own author
ities caused an estimated 200
Japanese civilians to attempt
mass suicide on Tokashikl is
land In the Keramas.
Some disemboweled them
selves with grenades, others
hanged themselves from trees. A
number of them still were living
when the Yanks reached the
scene, but a Japan" machine
gunner cut down the . -st litter
bearers. Hp was quickly elim
inated, however.
The mass suicide, the first
recorded since Saipan, was dis
covered when one battalion pre
pared to bivouac for the night
about three miles north of Toka
shikl town. Horrible cries of
pain came from a small valley
almost a mile away. When the
troops investigated they found
the civilians scattered about,
some dead, some dying.
SlDlPi LIT
FOR FIRST FROST
Temperatures dropped to 22
degrees in some orchard areas
this morning and ranged up to
26 degrees in other sections.
Frost Observer Roy J. Rogers
reported. He forecast slightly
wanner temperatures tonight,
but with frost.
Lighting of smudge pots was
general throughout the valley
early today for the first time
this season. A heavy pall of
smoke covered the fringes of the
valley. Assistant County Agent
C. B. Cordy said the buds were
still tough and able to resist the
cold. He estimated the com met
cial damage as negligible.
Smudging was heaviest in the
Central Point district.
NAVY STATION FIRE
Alameda, Calif., April 2. flJ.PJ
Two firemen were overcome
by smoke today when a $100,000
fire severely damaged two piers
at the Alameda naval air station
Eleven fire boats and air station
apparatus brought the fire under
control within hc!f hour.
AS
0FFIOICT0R
Roosevelt Nominates Fred
M. Vinson, Federal Loan
Agency Head, Successor
Washington, April 2 (U.R)
Justice James F. Byrnes, predict
ing that "V-E day is not far dis
tant," resigned today as director
of the office of war mobilization
and reconversion. .
President Roosevelt, express
ing "heartfelt regret," accepted
the resignation and Immediately
nominated Fred M. Vinson, head
of the federal loan agencies, as
Byrnes successor.
Vinson formerly was director
of economic stabilization. He
took over the loan job only a
few weeks ago after Jesse H.
Jones was ousted by the presi
dent. Year In Office .
Byrnes had been mobilization
director for a yepr and 10
months. He was charged with co
ordinating all home-front phases
of the war effort and settling dis
putes among government
agencies.
He Issued the disputed orders
closing race tracks and Imposing
a midnight curfew on entertain
ment places. He promised on Sat
urday these bans would be re
voked on V-E day.
MANPOWER BILL
IN MAIDEN TALK
Washington, April 2-rU.PJ
The resignation of War Mobilizer
James P. Byrnes appeared today
to have clinched Senate defeat
of the compromise Manpower
Bill.
Senate opponents of the con
troversial Job-freeze measure
had been confident before the
Byrnes announcement that the
bill would be defeated. Now,
they said, the margin will be
greater.
Vote on the bill may come
late today, but more probably
tomorrow or Wednesday.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse, R., Ore.,
former member of the War La
bor Board, attacked the bill in
his first speech in the Senate as
"going further down the road to
give men arbitrary and un
changed power than any other
bill ever proposed by this ad
ministration." Morse said he was "satisfied
the bill is being pushed by the
administration to carry out a
program which will not be in
the best Interests of representa
tive government In this coun
try." Those who talk about a tren
power shortage, he said, "are
simply Ignorant of the facts."
"In Portland, Ore.," he said,
"10,000 wat workers are out of
Jobs today because of the can
cellation of ship-building con
tracts." "There Is a rising unemploy
ment problem." i
"Don't tell me" he said, "that
this administration proposes to
meet unemployment by passing
a bill to put workers in Jail if
they don't take the Jobs the ad
ministration wants them to."
FEDERAL COURT
TO RETURN HERE
Federal court will resume In
Medford April 6, instead of at
Klamath Falls April 5, accord
ing to a dispatch In a Portland
r.ewspaper Sunday quoting
Judge James Alger Fee. No of
ficial notification of the change
has been received bv court offi
cials here.
Court recessed here last week
and Jurors were Instructed to
report in Klamath Falls April 5
to hear a number of land con
demnation cases. No informa
tion was obtainable today on the
cause of the change of plans.
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GOODRICH FAMILY
HAS CLOSE CALL
E
Medford Dentist Rescues
Family As 3 A. M. Blaze
Razes Griffin Creek Home
Dr. George K. Goodrich, Med
ford dentist, was hospitalized
early yesterday morning for
burns suffered when the Good
rich home on the Upper Griffin
Creek road was destroyed by
fire. Dr. Goodrich, his wife and
two small children escaped from
the burning dwelling about 3
a.m. and saved none of their
possessions but the family car,
friends report.
Neighbors stated this morning
that Dr. Goodrich was forced to
break a window in order to
rescue the children. He then re
entered the building In a vain
effort to save some clothing
while Mrs. Goodrich moved the
family car from under a burning
tree. His physician stated that
tho dentist suffered burns to his
face, left arm and left hand but
that they were not serious and
he would be able to leave the
hospital in a short time. It is not
known when the Injured man
will be able to reopen his office.
House Being Enlarged
It was thought that the blaze
may have started in a section
of the house undergoing enlarge
ment, workmen having been en
gaged, in raising the floor and
enlarging the kitchen. The loss
was partially covered by Insur
ance. Mrs. Goodrich and children
spent Sunday night In the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bierma,
next-door neighbors, and are
now with Mrs. Goodrich's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Ste
phenson, who also reside in the
Griffin Creek district.
iNTS
LISTED BY BOARDS
New selective service regis
trants for March with Jackson
county board number one are
Robert Lew Kulbe, James Sam
uel Woods, Elzle Lemmons.
Charles Alfred Burcher and
Melvin Monroe McCalcb.
New registrants at board num
ber two are Alfred Christian
Hagcrty, Robert A. Wilcox, Ar
thur Clinton Kent, Clyde Everett
Thompson, Bobby Ray Lee, Will
lam Theodore Buehling, Fred
David Prettyman, Jr.; Irvin Lee
Moore, Wilmur Wesley Robert
son, Lloyd James Rogers. Jack
Lloyd Chamberlain and James
Everett Pleyer.
Adalbert Nichols was Inducted
Into the navy at Seattle March
29 and Herbert Kenneth Dawson
was approved for general service
after a pre-lndustion physical ex
amination at Portland, March 26.
The six-section organ In San
Francisco's Civic Auditorium has
one pipe 32 feet long.
308,180 Japs Killed or Captured
In American Philippine Campaign
By H. D. Oulgg
United Press War Correspondent
Manila. April 2 (U.R)
American troops killed or cap
tured 308,180 Japanese in seiz
ing control of 32 islnnds In the
Philippines during the last six
months, lt was announced today.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
communique, In disclosing the
Japanese casualties, also an
nounced continued gains by U. S.
forces on Luzon, Ncgros, Cebu
and Mindanao.
In the last five days through
out the Philippines the Japanese
casualties amounted to 10.971
killed and 185 captured, while
the American losses for the same
period were 340 killed, 48 miss
ing and 919 wounded.
The heavy casualties on the
Japanese were Inflicted by the
U. S. Sixth and Eighth armies
which reconquered the main por
tion of the Philippines, includ-1
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Less Delinquency
Among Juveniles
Shown For 1944
Washington, April 2. flJ.R)
Juvenile delinquency through
out the United States showed an
overall drop in 1944 of five per
cent from the preceding year,
the children's bureau of the U.
S. department of labor reported
today.
Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of
the bureau, said preliminary
data showed 815 cases for San
Francisco, a decrease of 14 per
cent, and 4108 cases for Los
Angeles, a decrease of eight per
cent.
Other western cities for which
preliminary figures were report
ed:
Portland, Ore., 3205 cases, up
18 per cent; Ogden, Utah, 1680
cases, up 27 per cent; Salt Lake
City 2527 cases, down three per
cent.
Highest figure for the nation
was reported In Philadelphia,
with 9395 cases.
J'TijnuPT
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London, April 2 (U.R) The
red army today captured the
Hungarian transport hub of
Nagykanlzsa, and Berlin said lt
had Irreparably flanked Vienna
in a lightning thrust to Semmer
lng, key mountain pass on the
trunk railway 42 miles south
west of the Austrian capital.
Vienna Itself was threatened
directly. Soviet spearheads were
reported only a dozen miles from
the outskirts of the metropoli
tan area. Russian advices said
disorders had broken out in the
capital and elsewhere In Aus
tria.
Nagykanlsia Taken
Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhln's
3d Ukrainian army captured
Nagykanizsa, Hungarian oil cen
ter and hub of the transport net
work of all southwestern Hun
gary. Marshal Stnlln, announc
ing the victory, called It a pow
erful German stronghold. It is
20 miles southwest of Lake Bala
ton and 64 miles northeast of
Zagreb.
(A broadcast dispatch of the
DNB News agency reported the
soviet push to Semmerlng. It
represented a gain of almost 25
miles from the advanced red
army positions reported yester
day).
Disorders Spread
The Moscow radio reported
that Increasing disorders were
spreading In Carinthla and
Styrla and also In Vienna Itself.
The London Dally Mall quot
ed unconfirmed German reports
that 30 Russian divisions, possi
bly 450,000 men, had begun a
massive assault on Stettin, Ger
many's bigRest Baltic port, from
points on the east ban; ol mo-
Oder opposite the city.
Dog Owners Given
Warning by Police
Dog owners are warned by
city police again today that any
dogs found running loose during
tho next three months will be
picked up by the poundmaster.
ing the capital of Manila, and
left only one major Island
Bohol still under Japanese
control.
On Luzon, ground forces con
tinued to compress the Japanese
pockets while Fifth Air Force
bombers again hit the shattered
port of Legaspl, on the south
eastern tip of the island, with
200 more tons of explosives.
Elements of the 11th Corps
pushed into the Santa Maria
river valley east of Manila at a
point nine miles southeast of
Tanay, but were meeting in
creasing resistance.
Two columns of American
troops were moving slowly over
the rugged terrain In northern
Luzon against Baguio, former
summer capital and Japanese
headquarters In the Philippines.
One force was less than three
miles south of the city and the
second contingent had moved
within five miles from the north.
TOKYO REPORTS
ISLANDJf KUI
Hard Fighting Flares on
t Southern Flank Okinawa
Front; Drive Near Capital
Guam, April 2. (U.R) Ameri
can invasion troops have smash
ed forward more than halfway
across Okinawa In a swift ad
vance against scattered Japanese
sniper and pillbox resistance,
front dispatches reported today.
An announcement that Okinawa
had been split in two was ex
pected hourly.
Hard .'ighting flared on the
southern flank of the American
army-marine front where tank
led infantrymen were driving
toward Naha, the island's burn
ing capital, less than seven miles
distant.
Kuma Invasion Told
Tokyo radio reported without
allied confirmation that Ameri
cans completed a new landing
today on the island of Kume, 52
miles west of Okinawa, and 340
miles northeast of Formosa.
Tens of thousands of troops
of the new American 10th army
swarmed ashore along a wide
beachhead. Two air fields and
more than a dozen villages were
captured. It was indicated U. S.
planes soon would be using at
least one of the two captured
airdromes.
United Press War Correspond
ent E. G. Valens, accompanying
forward elements of the two
army units driving across Okin
awa from the captured Kadena
air field, said resistance con
tinued comparatively light. This
column was heading downhill
toward Noza and the Nagusuku
bay naval anchorage on the east
side of the lstand.
Resistance Spotty
"The only enemy resistance,"
Valens said, "is from a few
scattered pillboxes, snipers and
100-pound land mines."
-The' hardest fighting raged In
the "badlands" north of Naha,
prime objective of this amphib
ious operation on the main guar
dian Island of the southern ap
proaches to Japan.
There the troops under Lt.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner
collided with Japanese prepared
positions and machine gun nests.
Roads were heavily mined. But
when the mines were neutral
ized, soldiers riding cowboy,
style moved In on bulldozers to
triple the width of the roads.
Carrier planes from the vast
Invasion armada lying offshora
pin-polnte'l individual enemy
targets In front of advancing
army and marine Infantrymen.
They drew anti-aircraft firs
from the Japanese.
Valens saw one dauntless diva
bomber make an emergency
landing on Kadena airstrip. It
was the first large American
plane to land there.
Emplacements "Bluff"
Kadena was reported to be
a Japanese defense "bluff." Un
derground gun emplacements
were described as little more
than wooden pigstyes. The
wreckage of Japanese planes lay
scattered across the captured
airfields, attesting to the effect
iveness of the pre-lnvasion bom
bardment and carrier strikes.
SUMMONS HEADS
U. S. NATI
Portland, April 2. The board
of directors of the United States
National Bank of Portland, at
lis regular monthly meeting Fri
day, voted several changes
among top-flight executives of
that Institution.
Paul S. Dick, president of the
bank since 1931, was elevated to
tho position of chairman of the
board; E. C. Sammons was elect
ed president; A. M. Wright, pres
ent first vice-president, tendered
his resignation and A. L. Mills.
Jr., was promoted to the position
vacated by Mr. Wright. All
changes became effective imme
diately. Medford Soldiers
On Casualty List
Pfc. Clarence P. Nelson, son
of Mrs. Mary E. Nelson, 308
Hamilton street, is listed by the
war department as a prisoner-of-war
of tho Germans, accord
ing to a releaso of the Office of
War Information.
Another release stated that
M. Sgt. Earl D. Williamson, hus
band of Mrs. Blllie J. William
son, B Rose avenue, had been
wounded while serving In the
European war theater.
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