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I Tffi 0)D) mi Weather rorecattt Inereaslnr clou din with rain showeri tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight. Temp. Hlffheit yeiterday 52 Loweit thii mornlnf ...... 37 precipitation to A a, m.t none Fortieth Year Red Drive Nears Vienna Outskirts I HEAVY FIGHTING Stalin's Forces Capture In dustrial Centers in March Toward the Capital City. London, April 3. (U.PJ Red army troops tonight drove to ward the outskirts of Vienna after capturing the chief Aus trian industrial centers of Wei-ner-Neustadt, Neunkirchen and Gloggnitz. , At last reports red army ad vance columns were only 11 miles south of Vienna. Wiener-Neustadt is 23 miles south of Vienna. Neunkirchen lies 13 miles to the south and Gloggnitz is eight miles south west of Neunkirchen. Rail Lines Cut. The advance cut all of Vienna's direct southward rail connec tions, forcing the Germans to use a roundabout route through LInz. The red army successes were announced by Marshal Stalin in an order of the day addressed to Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin. Eisenstadt, 13 miles east of Wiener-Neustadt also was taken. The Germans reported heavy fighting in Baden, only 11 miles from Vienna and in Bratislava, capital of the puppet Slovaklan state. TAX COMMISSION Salem, Ore., April 8 U.R) The Oregon State Board of Con trol was tentatively considering possible replacements., to., the State Tax Commission today, following a motion by Secre tary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., that the two members whose terms expire on June 4 not be reappointed. No action was taken on the motion, and the board decided to consider further whether the two men, Charles Galloway and Earl Fisher, be reappointed or whether two new men be named to take their places. Farrell explained that there was "nothing personal" in this motion, but that he felt that two new men could better serve the state on the tax commission. He said that if they were not' to be reappointed that he felt it only fair to give them notice of the fact. Gov. Earl Snell said he felt that the two men had done "an outstanding Job," and would be sorry to lose them. London, April 3 (U.R) Field Marshal Jan C. Smuts, prime minister of South Africa, arrived today to take part in commonwealth talks pr-"min-ary to the San Francisco confer ence. Captured Nazi Hitler Plans to By W. R. Higginbotham i UP Staff Correspondent. London, April 3. (U.PJ A cap tured German general told front correspondents today that Adolf Hitler plans to die In battle at the head of S3 elite guard troops especially picked for the honor of dying with the fuehrer. SS units already were being designated for the sacrifice, Ger man MaJ. Gen. Hans Boehlsen said In an interview with a Lon don News-Chronicle correspond ent on the 3rd amy front. Another captured German, Prince Engolbert Charles Arcn berg, first German prince to fall into allied hands, said he had received private word that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering was dead. M United Presi U.S. Not To Ask For Added Votes In World Assembly Is Decision Of Roosevelt Washington, April 3 U.R) President Roosevelt has decided that the United States will not ask for additional votes for this country in the proposed world assembly, it was announced to day. It was disclosed last week that during the Crimea Conference, Russia asked for three votes in the assembly. The White House said then that Britain and the U. S. agreed to support this re quest in the San Francisco con ference. Would Follow Russia The White House added in last week's announcement: "But the American representatives stated that, if the United Nations Or ganization agreed to let the So viet Republics have three votes, the United States woud ask for three votes also." Today's announcement meant that the U. S. apparently will continue to support the Russian request for three votes, fulfill ing the promise made at Yalta, but will not follow this up by asking the three votes for this country. The announcement was made by Secretary of State Edward R. SENATE REJECTS MANPOWER BILL Washington, April 3 (U.R) The senate today rejected the compromise manpower bill. The vote was 48 to 29. i The decision had been expect ed ever since the bill came to the floor last Wednesday. Washington, April 3 (U.R) Oregon's senators Guy Cor don and Wayne Mori voted against the compromiie man power bill. The house - previpusly had adopted the bill by a small mar gin. Sen. Carl A. Hatch, D., N. M., made the concluding argument for it. He said it was needed for increased war production and as. a boost for the morale of the men at the front. Sen. Forrest C. Donnell, R., Mo., made the concluding argu ment against the measure. He said the morale argument was not valid, and that the bill would do more harm than good to war production. After rejecting the measure, the Senate voted unanimously to send it back to conference with the House, with the same Senate conferees as before. Rome Area Allied Command in the Mediterranean Theater plans to open high school and university classes for officers and enlisted men in that city. General Says Die Fighting Other high nazl chiefs still were alive and making their es cape to some hideout, presum ably in the Bavarian Alpos, he told London Daily Telegraph correspondent on the American 9th army front. The prince, along with his princess, Valerie Marie, who claimed to be great grand daughter of Queen Victoria and a distant cousin of King George VI, were found in their 300-room palace at Norkirchen near Lud inhauscn in Westphalia. A dispatch from the Swiss bor tler said Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler spent Easter at the Ba varian town of Bregcnz with other members of the nazi Inner gang planning a last stand in the Bavarian mountains. EDFORD Full Laued Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, Stettinlus, Jr., at a record-breaking press conference attended by nearly 100 correspondents. No Postponement ' Stettinlus also announced that plans for the April 25 San Fran cisco conference are proceeding with no thought of postpone ment. On the contrary, because of the rapid tempo of military and political events, it is in creasingly necessary that the plans for creating a world or ganization be carried on prompt- Stettinlus declined to reveal when President Roosevelt de cided to drop the plans for this country to request additional votes. His formal statement merely said: "The president has decided that at the San Francisco con ference the United States will not request additional votes for the government of the United States in the general assembly." Questions Answered Stettinius opened the confer ence by reading a long state ment which he said was the de partment's attempt to answer the 33 questions on the secret Yalta voting agreement submit ted by correspondents last week. On the question of why the Yalta agreement on the proposed Russian votes was kept secret for 47 days, Stettinius statement said that the president had want ed to discuss it with the U. S. delegation and make a final de termination of the course to be followed before announcement. Stettinlus' statement was made prior to an unusual con ference with the British, Russian and Chinese ambassadors this afternoon. He insisted that the meeting concerned routine mat ters and preparations for San Francisco. E PROGRAM TO BE HELD IN STATE Police officers of southern Oregon will meet tomorrow morning in the auditorium of the county court house for final In structions on the nation-wide brake testing program to be con ducted from April 15 to June 1. The program Is sponsored an nually by the International As sociation of Chiefs of Police for the purpose of emphasizing the importance of checking auto mobile brakes periodically to assure highest possible efficiency in their operation. Local police said that traffic enforcement officers will make a simple brake check on vehicles stopped during routine traffic enforcement procedure during the period. The check consists of a small slotted block of wood, one inch thick, on the floor board under the brake pedal, po lice said. If the pedal strikes the block before it starts taking hold, It is evidence the brakes need attention, according to police. In Oregon, city police depart ments, county sheriffs, state po lice and other law enforcement officers are cooperating in the program. TEST FOR PERSONNEL DIRECTOR IS PLANNED An examination for director of personnel and placement for the state unemployment compen- sation commission, state public welfare commission, state board of health and the crippled chil dren's division of the University f Oregon medical school as of ten as enough applications are received to mako the procedure practicable. Any person wishing further Information mav contact Profes sor William Griffith, Merit Sys tem Supervisor. 818 Mead Build ing, Portland, 4, Oregon. RETURNED VETS TO BE HONORED E Parade, Program Will High light Celebration Honor ing War Vets of County. To honor returned veterans in the county at this time, and particularly those men who were released recently from Jap anese prison camps in the Philip pine islands, Thursday of this week has been set as "heroes' homecoming day." A citizen's committee has made arrange ments for s parade at 2 p. m., to be followed by a program at the city park. Relatives and friends of serv icemen who are in the county now on leave or furlough, who have returned after discharge or who are visiting in the county are asked to register these men at once at the Riverside USO with Miss Berniece O'Denny or Miss Nancy Lee Hough, giving their name, address and the theater of war where they serv ed. This is to be the start of a permanent registration of return ing servicemen. Extended special Invitations will be Cpl. William E. Davis, Sgt. Lome B. Cox, Sgt. William Dispell, John F. Eatchclcr and Sgt. BUI J. Lorton, all veterans of Pataan and Corregldor and all former prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands, now in the county. Plans call for the forming of the parade at Ninth street and Riverside avenue from where it will proceed on Riverside to Main street and up Main to the city park. There will be speak ers and veterans will be intro duced and interviewed. Schools, service clubs, veterans' organi zations and lodges will partici pate In the parade and celebra tion. Downtown business places are asked to display the colors. Proclamation Issued Mayor Clarence A. Meeker to day issued a proclamation set ting aside Thursday as heroes' day. It reads: "Whereas Thursday. April S. 1945. has been declared the day of observance in honor of heroes of the present war now returned to their homes In the city of Medford. now, there fore, as mayor of the city of Medford and with the consent of the council hereof, I do hereby proclaim that said day from and after the hour of 1:30 p. m. be set aside for the purpose of Joining with the citisens of Medford In giving due honor to our returned heroes and request that In so far as may be practical, that the citisens of Medford Join In such observance." Larry Neeley is serving as chairman of the committee on general arrangements and mem bers of the parade committee are Frank Cullen, C. Lyall Fidlcr, Eugene Thomas and George Goodman. Tony Manno is pub licity chairman and Bill Law rence, Victor Milnes and Roy Elliott are the program commit tee. FLIERS DESTROY 92 JAPPLANES Chungking, April 3 (U.R) U. S. 14th air force pianos, striking at the Shanghai airdrome 500 miles from Okinawa, destroyed 92 Jap planes and damaged 16 in surprise raids Sunday and Monday, it was announced to day. Other P-51s, swooping down on Japanese troops at Sinsiang nnrih nf the Yellow river, killed 1,200 of the enemy, a commu nique said. Fighter planes of the U. S. rhln. air force, attacking the Shanghai airdrome in blows co ordinated with the Okinawa in vasion, shot down six enemy planes and blasted the rcmaind v on tbi ground. 1945. EARL IOLDRIDGE DIES IN SMASHUP Medford Man In Smashup En Route to Nebraska Ashland Man Is Injured. Earl Wooldridge, 38, well known Medford chef and res taurant owner, . was killed and Charles Walters, part-owner of the Plaza cafe in Ashland, was seriously injured about 3 a. m. today when the car Wooldridge was driving struck the end of a loaded freight truck a short dis tance north of Redding, Calif., and rolled over several times along the highway. Walters was taken to a Redding hospital. By a strange coincidence, Vin cent Swinney, route 4, Medford, driver for the Pierce Auto Freight, went to the scene of the accident shortly after it oc curred, aided in loading the two men into the ambulance and dis covered upon searching the wrecked car for identification papers that the victim was his uncle. Swinney was at the freight station In Redding when a driver brought in word of the accident. Car Demolished Swlnnoy stated this noon that Wooldridge had apparently mis calculated distances and struck the corner of the truck, a Mitch ell Freight company truck from Seattle loaded with a flat-rack of airplane motors, as he attempted to pass. He said the car, a 1939 Buick master sedan, was com pletely demolished. Wooldridge was said to be en route to Sidney, Neb., where Mrs. Wooldridge and their three children had been visiting rela tives. Native of County Wooldridge was a native of the county, having been born in the Missouri Flat district, and had resided here his entire life. He was chef at the Holland and Medford hotels for a number of years and recently purchased and operated the Dixie cafe. The family home was at 1405 West Eighth street. Survivors Include his wife, a son 3i years old and twin sons 2 years old: his mother, Mrs. Rhoda Wooldridge, Medford; two brothers, Walter Wooldridge. route 4, and Frank, who lives near Central Point, and three sisters, Mrs. George Swinney, Medford, Mrs. Alflcda Sharp, Charleston, Ore., and Mrs. Ray mond Lalhrop, Grants Pass. Relatives stated that the body would be brought to Medford soon an funeral arrangements announced. KIEL ATTACKED BYUSJPBERS London, April 3 (U.R) Amer ican 8th air force bombers at tacked the big German base and Baltic port of Kiel today in a renewal of the campaign against the shipping facilities behind the threatened defenders of northwest Germany. About 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators bombed Kir'.. one of the main harbors of S c h 1 e s w I g-Ho'.steln, toward which the allied 21st army group was pressing. Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle sent some 850 Mustang fighters to escort the heavy bombers on the Kiel mission. Allied bomb ers last Saturday struck the heaviest blow of the war at ports and shipping centers In northwest Germany. British Mosquito bombers last night attacked Berlin and the synthetic oil center of Mag deburg. INDIANS PROTEST Bombay, April 3 (U.R) Busi ness houses were closed in vari ous parts of India today In pro test against the scheduled hang ing later this week of seven men Brirsled after the widespread rioting In 1812. Tribune United Press On Jap Kol.no fK KERAMA IS. AKA TOKASHIKI ov a-?" I c IU1MA -Bf -' N3s3" OKINAWA y OnnJT (Armm Tclrpholol American Invasion forces sweep deeper Inland on Okinawa Island against light resistance, although Japan proper Is only 362 miles away. Airfields at Yontan and Katena were captured, and troops were pressed on Naha, the capital. .The Kerama Islands were seized preparatory to the Okinawa sweep. Japs On Okinawa Gird For First Major Stand Guam, April 3 (U.R) Front dispatches said today that the Japanese defenders of Okinawa appeared to be making prep arations for their first major defensive' effort against Ameri can soldiers and marines who thus far have been virtually unopposed. The enemy stand, it was be lieved, will be made across the narrow, bottleneck isthmus guarding the approaches to 'the capital city of Naha and its huge, nearby airfields. - At last report, units of MaJ. Gen. John R. Hodges' 24th army corps were a little more than six miles from the city. The doughboys who severed Japanese defenses on Okinawa by dashing six miles to the east coast in less' than 30 houts widened their hold on the vital Nakagusuku Bay naval anchor age to at least three miles and still were pushing forward be hind tank companies. United Press Correspondent Edward Thomas reported that if the Japanese attempt to mass troops along this' front they will be exposed to American battle ship and cruiser 'fire, plus straf ing and bombing attacks by car rier planes. Marines at the northern end of the 10th army's front broad ened the west coast beachhead to at least 10 miles with an ad vance of more than a mile. Thomas said the troops sliced through meager Japanese resist ance "like a hot knife through butter" in their dash to the east coast. Ever-increasing numbers were pouring out of the lime stone hills onto the eastern beaches, he said. Japanese planes made a fee ble attack on the Invasion ar mada Sunday night, and five were shot down. A Japanese communique, however, claimed that 13 more American war ships had been sunk and 17 damaged. (A CBS correspondent broad casting from the fleet said Tok yo claims that 150 ships had been sunk since the start of the invasion operations were "Just about 99-44100 per cent wrong.") RETAILERS TO ELECT WEDNESDAY EVENING Election of officers and other Important business Is slated for the meeting of the recently formed retailers group of Med ford io be held Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the Chamber of Com mcrce building. H. L. Brown Is chairman of the nominating committee. First meeting of the gr.jtip was attended by about 20 retail ers. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Little Dickie Phalr raising his voice to inquire why he hadn't received a certain Sunday school award. Hcmmcrlcy Conger receiving overparklng tickets with remark ab'.e regularity. Jack Bicrma, fire warden, deeply chagrined to find that he slept lliruugli a neighborhood Xu a. Full Leased Wire NO. 10. Doorstep (Sihlcho B MIUS 5 STAGE TO HEAD CLOTHING DRIVE Reginald A. Stagg, civic di rector of the Medford Junior chamber of commerce, was ap pointed general chairman of the United National clothing collec tion drive at a meeting held In the Jackson county chamber of commerce building last night. Because of the urgent need for serviceable clothing, Junior chamber officials have called for assistance from other service and civic organizations. Plans were outlined before representatives of the Lions, Rotary, Kiwanls and school officials. Other Clubs Aid The Lions club will be in charge of budget and collections, Rotary club will conduct special events, the Kiwanians will be in charge of collections from rural schools and granges and E. H. Hcdrick will be in charge of collections by the city schools. Any clothing which is now ready may be left at Humphrey Motors, 33 South Riverside ave nue. Other depots will be estab lished soon. What Is Needed Most urgent needs are for the following: Infants' garments all types, particularly knit goods; mens' and boys' garments over coats, topcoats, suits, coats, Jack ets, shirts, all types of work clothes, including overalls, cov eralls, etc., sweaters, underwear, robes, pajamas, and knitted gloves; women's and girls' gar ments overcoats, Jackets, skirts, sweaters, shawls, dresses, under wear, aprons, Jumpers, smocks, robes, nightwear, knitted head wear (such as stocking caps), women's hats, dress hats, and derbies cannot be used. Bedding blankets, afghans, sheets, pillow cases, quilts. (These are needed If In service able condition); shoes either ox fords or high shoes of durable type with low or medium heels. (Shoes with high heels, open toes or open backs, evening slippers, and novelty type cannot be used. All shoes contributed should be mated and tied se curely Into pairs.) Usable rem nants and piece goods in cut or uncut materials of one yard or more in length are wanted but not rags or badly damaged, dirty, or worn-out fabrics. Petty Officer Here Chief Petty Officer and Mrs. Robert L. McLean, former residents of Medford, are visiting his par- ems, nir. and Mrs. Roy McLean. 227 South Oakdalc avenue. They came to Medford from Kctchi- CITY REDUCED TO RUBBLE HEAP IN THREE-DAY FIGHT, i Tank Columns Race Far Be yond to Envelop Holland; Mop-Up Starts in Hamm. Paris, April 3. (U.R) Lt. Gea. George S. Paiton's tanks today roared Into Gotha, only 150 miles from Berlin and a scant 185 miles from Junction with the red army. Kassel, Germany, April 3. (U.R) The 80th division cap tured historic Kassel today after three days of the blood iest fighting by 3rd army forces since the crossing of the Rhine. Paris, April 3 (U.R) Amer ican and British troops captured tne westphalian capital of Muenstcr today while tank col umns raced 50 miles and more beyond the city in twin drives to envelop Holland and force ' the Weser river line on the main superhighway to Berlin. Muenster, 227 miles due west of Berlin, fell to the Allies after more than three days of savaga street fighting and a raking ar tillery bombardment that re duced the city to a blackened rubble. Mop Up Hamm 1 Twenty miles to the south west, soldiers of the American 9th Army fought their way into Hamm, the biggest railway cen ter in western Germany, and be gan a house-to-house mop-up of its by-passed Nazi garrison. Armored spearheads of tha 9th Army already were mora than 50 miles east of the Muens-ter-Hamm line, splitting through the hinge of the German de fenses to the Weser river on tha Ruhr-Berlin superhighway 178 miles from Berlin and only 37 miles east of Hannover. . Another 9th Army column was) reported racing for the Pied Piper town of Hameln, on tha Weser 158 miles due west of tha German capital. Far to the south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American 3rd Army appeared to have broken loose on another armored run - through central Germany. Official spokesmen said Patton'a men were only 160 miles from a Juncture with the west-bound Red Army at an undisclosed point. Kassel Captured Berlin ald Patton's men had captured Kassel, pivot of tha German defenses on the Fulda river line 165 miles southwest ot Berlin, and another 3rd army force was only 152 miles from the enemy capital at Eisenach, Southeast of Eisenach, 3rd Army forces were almost three quarters of the way across cen tral Germany in the Mciningen area 77 miles from the old bor der of Czechoslovakia and 180 miles inside the Reich. Between the Berlin-bound 3rd and 9th Armies, the American 1st Army began chopping through the eastern wall of tha great Ruhr pocket to finish off a trapped force of perhaps 150, 000 Germans. Victory Helled Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower hailed the Ruhr trap as one of the biggest Allied victories of the war and predicted that the certain destruction of the pocket ed Germans would speed the enemy's final collapse. Censored field dispatches from the blackcd-out 9th Army front said American tank col umns enveloped the German stronghold of Bielefeld, 189 miles west of Berlin, and were closing fast on the Pied Piper town of Hameln on the Weser. The American thrust split through the hinge of the Ger man defenses which were wheel ing north In a desperate effort to check the British and Cana dian drive. Near Hannover At Hameln the Americans would be only 24 miles southeast of Hannover and fewer than 95 miles due west of the Elbe river line at Migdchurg, the last big water barrier before Berlin, MORE DIVORCES THAN WEDDINGS IN COUNTY During the first quarter end ing March 31, thero were even mora divorces filed than mar riage licenses Issued In Jackson county, according to the records of the county clerk's office. Tho number of divorce suits was 77, and the number of marriage li censes 64 for the three month period. April started off yesterday with three marriage licenses two civilian and oat soldier, ...
