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The U. S. Third Army runa loos
southwest of Berlin, while other
Russian troops battle In outskirts
River appears likely. To north,
AUSTRALIANS WIN
FIGHT WITH JAPS
ON BOUGAINVILLE
B7 United Press
Australian troops, In savage
fighting won a fierce and bloody
battle against the fanatical hold
out Japanese garrison on by
passed Bougainville In the Solo
mons Easter week-end, front
dispatcher reported Wednesday.
The Aussies, attacked repeat
edly by banzal-charging Japa
nese, were In a desperate plight
and facing possible defeat when
Australian-built Matilda tanks
arrived and broke up the enemy
offensive.
An account of the battle was
sent from the scene by carrier
pigeon. It was written by
Arthur Mathers, correspondent
for the Australian broadcasting
network, broadcast by Mel
bourne radio, and recorded by
United Press, San Francisco.
Fiercest Battle'
Mathers described the Easter
battle as the fiercest ever fought
on Bougainville, which original
ly was invaded by U. S. ma
rines In November, 19 4 3.
Leathernecks went ashore at
Torokina, Empress Augusta
Bay, on the western shoreline.
Australian forces In the south
ern part of the island "had been
cut off and decimated by the
Japanese, who for days had
been making one large scale
banzai charge after another,"
Mathers reported. He said the
Australians had been without
food for two days and their am
munition was almost exhausted.
TO BERLIN ,
By United Press
The nearest distances to
Berlin from advanced Allied
lines today: Eastern front 31
miles (from Zaeckerick). West
ern front 130 miles (from
Erfurt area). Itclian front
918 miles (from near Com
machio). SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ruth Esther Meeker deciding
that her education had been
neglected as far as the making
of fancy sandwiches was con
Cerned.
Pauline Bush carrying on an
enthusiastic conversation about
her favorite tuberous begonias
Esther Kirby feeling bit
tired after having been a guesl
at two social functions and host
ess at another all in one day.
Heny Zacharisen reluctantly
agreeing to match coins for
morning coffee, he being sure
of losing in advance.
M
U -ited Press Full Leased Wtr
again, sweeping through central Germany towards Erfurt, 130 mllei
American units slashed within 65 miles ot the old Chechoslovakian border.
of Vienna. A Juncture of Patton's forces and Soviet troops now on Odef
British and Canadian forces race for North Sea to close trap on Nazis In
Holland, seize ports ot Bremen and Emden.
B-29s Light Fires
On Honshu Island
Guam, April S (U.R) Big
fleets of B-29 Superfortresses
left fires burning in five target
areas after yesterday's pre-dawn
attack on Honshu Island,- 21st
Bomber Command Headquar'ers
announced today.
Three of the targets were
bombed for the first time by the
big raiders an aircraft engine
plant at S h i z u o k a, 89 miles
southwest of Tokyo, and the
Tachikawa and Nakajima air
craft plants in the Tokyo sub
urbs. STUDIO UNIONS
ARE TERMINATED
Hollywood, April 5 (U.R)
The Motion Picture Producers
Association today announced
termination of collective bar
gaining contracts now in force
between nine film studios and
the striking conference of studio
unions.
The action followed notifica
tion of 10.000 striking employes
yesterday that they were fired
for refusing to end the 25-day,
AFL Jurisdictional strike of
craftsmen In the film industry
The major producers said such
action was taken because of the
striking unions' "failure of its
members to perform their serv
ices in accord with contracts
with the producers."
The Producers Association
sent wires to the painters, In
terior decorators, mechinists,
electricians, and set decorators
unions, all out on strike.
U.S. Casualties Now Over 900,
Washington, April 8. (U.R) U. S. combat casualties officially
compiled and announced here reached 892,909 today. This means
that the actual total. Including losses yet to be recorded in Wash
ington, has surpassed 900.000.
Today's official figure was 20.047 greater than that announced a
week ago. It included 798,383 army and 94,528 navy, marine corps,
and coast guard casualties.
The figures:
Army Navy Totals
Killed
Wounded , ,
Missing
Prisoners
Totals
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said at his news conference
today that 187,799 dead Japanese have been counted in the Philip
pines. He estimated total enemy casualties In the Philippines at
more than 311.000.
U. S. casualties in the Philippines now total 8,138 killed, 28,356
wounded, and 487 missing, he said, pointing out that the ratio of
Japanese counted dead to Americans killed is 23 to 1.
When units of the 77th division landed in the Kerama Islands
In the Ryukus. Stimson said, the U. S. losses were 24 killed and
61 wounded. The Japanese lost 308 killed, 140 sealed in caves and
99 captured.
EDFORD
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY,
I Armm Ttnhnlnl
ICKES IN FAVOR
MINES AT ONCE
Washington, April S U.R
Fuel Administrator Harold L.
Ickes said today he belived the
government should take over the
soft coal mines at once
"I don't think we ought to
wait." Ickes told a press con
ference," In view of continued
wild-cat strikes that have cut
soft coal production to 65 per
cent this week.
"Witn the demand what it is
today and the prospects in Eu
rope, we seem to be running into
trouble.
"I don't think any miners have
the right to lay down their tools
at a time like this when all we
need is to continue what we are
doing to win through to victory
In Europe. It Is unsupportable
and inexcusable."
Ickes' call for seizure of the
mines came as an open revolt
against United Mine Workers'
leadership In Pennsylvania cut
production again today. Wage
contract negotiations here con
tinued with the same futile ap
pearance which has marked
them for more than a month.
Roving pickets in Pennsylvania
discouraged back-to-work move
ments at many mines.
Three Dog Owners
Assessed $1 Fines
Sam Gilbert, Ted Sidwell and
James Bishop paid $1 fines to
city police today for permitting
doas to run loose during the gar-
denlns season. Police warned
citizens again that dogs found
running loose will be picked up
and their owners arrested.
ism7l 38.649 193,120
n?Q 42,988 529,917
88,755 10.623 99.378
66,228 4,268 70,494
798.383
94,526
892,909
o
2 Ya f .c
To Finish 150,000 Trapped Nazis
TANK SPEARHEAD
RACES EASTWARD
TOWARD BERLIN
Western Front Ablaze as
7 Allied Armies Surge For
ward; Defenses Erased.
With American Ninth Ar
my, April 5 (U.R) The 9th
.army today crossed the Weser
river, last major barrier on
the highway to Berlin short
of the Elbe.
Paris, April 5 (U.R) T w o
American armies stormed into
the Ruhr valley to finish off an
estimated 150,000 trapped Ger
mans today. Other American
tank forces were reported rac
ing eastward into the Harz
mountains, 120 miles from
Berlin.
The Western Front from the
North Sea to the Black Forest
blazed with seven Allied armies
surging forward in a coordin
tted onslaught that sent the Ger
mans reeling back.
Cut Off Escape
. British and. Canadian -armies
at the top of the assault Jlne
drove across the flat coastal
plains toward Bremen and the
Dutch Zulder Zee to cut off the
last escape routes for the Ger
mans. In the western Holland.
American Ninth Army troops
stormed up to the Weser river.
Germany's last bl natural bar
rier short -f the Elbe river and
Berlin, and teamed un with the
U. S. First Army to destroy the
enemy divisions In the Ruhr.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's.
American Third Army troops
were renorted sweeping agnlnt
weak opposition through a 100
mlle breach In the German cen
tral defenses warding the cen
tral roads to Berlin.
To the south. French First
Army forces struck for Stutt
eart, and Berlin reported that the
U. S. Seventh Armv was swing
ing southeastward from captured
V'uerzburg in a bid to outflank
the Nazi shrine city of Nuern
berg. Defenses
Whatever defenses the Ger
mans had left In front of Berlin
anoeared to have been sweot
awav by the Allied drive, on the
northern and central fronts at
least.
Aerial reconnaissance renorts
said that the roads east of the
Weser river as far back as Hann
over, 136 miles from Berlin,
were jammed with flceln Ger
man transoort, suggesting a
wholesale Nazi flight behind the
Elbe rler. which Joons back to
within 43 miles of the capital.
American Ninth Army troops
cleared a 40-mile strotch of the
Weser river's west bank, cap-
turine Mlnden, Bad Oyenhausen
and Hamlin, and deployed for a
crossing into the open plains
stretching back to Berlin.
Simultaneously, the British
Second Army sent a half-dozen
mile-Ions columns of troops
tanks, and Buns speeding 26
miles northward Into the rail
way center of Diepholz, 37 miles
southwes't of Bremen and Bi
miles southwest of Hamburg.
Bombers Rake Ports
Both great ports were raked
for the first time by low-flying
Allied tactical bombers swarnv
Ing out In front of the advancing
ground trooos.
In the Ruhr pocket battle the
First Army struck on a broad
front west and northwest from
the BerleburK area, at the soutn-
eastern corner of the pocket 69
miles southeast of Duesseldori
American Ninth Army troops
on the northern flank of the trap
hroke across the Llppe river
southwest of H a m m and ad
vanced l.ito the outlying factory
towns less than three miles from
the big Industrial city of Dort-
mund.
The Egyptian lotus, or blue
Illy, Is the characteristic flower
of the Nile river.
5, 1945
Armies
Eisenhower Expects Nazi Forces
To Continue Guerrilla Operation;
No Clean Cut Surrender of Arms
Washington, April 5. (U.R)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, su
preme commander of allied arm
ies in Europe, has written Presi
dent Roosevelt that there prob
ably "will never be a clean cut
military surrender" of the Ger
man armies, the White House
disclosed today.
Eisenhower said that if the
.present situation continues, V-E
Day (victory in Europe) will be
signalized only by an allied pro
clamation and not by any defin
ite collapse of German resist
ance.. Many Troops Needed
He foresaw "guerrilla warfare
which would require for its sup
pression a very large number of
CITIZENS HONOR
WAR HEROES ON
Tnrfav I. hnm.i,rtmlha Ir,
Medford ana Jackson county for
the heroes of Bataan and Corre
gidor recently released from
Philippine prison camps and for
other veterans home after long
months of service overseas.
School children, civic and lodge
groups and bands paraded
through flag-lined streets with
the soldiers and navy men, and
a program of honor and memor
iam was scheduled at the city
park immediately following.
State Senator Earl Newbry of
Ashland was to deliver the ad
dress of welcome, and a program
of patriotic music, prayer and
meditation was to precede the
introduction of the honored vet
erans. Upon conclusion of the
park service, the honored serv
icemen and their families were
to be entertained at Riverside
USO. A specially decorated large
cake from Fluhrer's bakery and
Ice cream from Snlders', Dairy
were to be served.
Heading the citizens' commit
tee on arrangements was Larry
Neeley.
BOGUSlfPOINT
UP
New York, April 5. (U.R)
Daniel P. Woolley, OPA region
al administrator, disclosed today
that "a gang of mobsters" from
New York's East Side had been
rounded up for peddling coun
terfeit red ration points "on a
laree scale" in New York and
Boston.
Woolley made his announce
ment after Sen. Burton K
Wheeler. D.. Mont., had charged
In Washington that red points
"nhtnlned from the OPA" were
being sold at 6 a thousand in
Npw York.
Woolley denied that any red
uolnts were trickling from OPA
offices, and said that 'what has
apparently reached the senator
Is a garbled version of the drive
the OPA has made ana is con
tinuing" against red point coun
terfeitlng.
Youngest Slayers
Due For' Hearing
Glendale, Calif., April 8. (U.R!
Two tousled-haired brothers
11 and 14 years old, described
by police as the ' youngest slay
era In California history," ap
pear today at a predetentlon
hearing to determine If they
should face murder charges In
an adult court.
The youths, Lee McKay, 14.
and his brother, William, Jr., II
confessed the fatal shooting of
Donald Keikle, 28, when he sur
prised them burglarizing his
borne Feb. 16.
Tribune
United Pint
Storm Into Ruhr
troops."
The further the European
campaign progresses, Eisenhow
er wrote Mr. Hoosevelt, 'the
more probable lt appears that
there will never be a clean cut
military surrender of the forces
on the western front."
"Our experience to date Is
that even when formations as
small as a division are disrupt
ed," he said, "their, fragments
continue to fight until surround
ed. This attitude if continued
will likely mean that a V-E-Day
will come about only by a pro
clamation on our part rather
than any definite or decisive col
lapse or surrender of German
resistance.
"Projecting this Idea further
it would mean that eventually
all the areas in which fragments
of the German army, particular
ly, the paratrooper, panzer, and
SS elements, may be located,
will have to be taken by the ap
plication of or the threat of
force. This would lead into a
form of guerrilla warfare which
would require for Its suppres
sion a very large number of
troops."
REDSTAYlGE
TO
FIFTY-MILE ARC
London, April 8. (U.R) Rus
sian troops and tanks laid siege
to Vienna along a 50-mile arc
today. Vanguards were fighting
through the southeastern out
skirts of the Austrian capital.
Massed Russian artillery and
red air force bombers pumped
ton after ton of explosives into
the burning city, which Adolf
Hitler has ordered defended to
the death to protect the back
door to Germany.
A Moscow dispatch said as
sault forces fighting In the sub
urbs of Vienna had been joined
by the vanguards of other army
units racing westward from cap
tured Bratislava, and the junc
tion of the two armies was ex
pectcd to result in the speedy
fall of the capital
Vienna's last big outer fort
ress, the Slovaklan. capital of
Bratislava, 25 miles to the east
was toppled yesterday by Mar
shal Rodion Y. Mallnovsky's
second Ukrainian army group.
Legion and Leaders
Discuss Jobs For
All At War's End
Washington, April 8. (U.R)
Leaders in government, indus
try, labor, agriculture and veter
ans affairs meet here as guests
of the American Legion today to
discuss postwar jobs for all.
Lawrence J. Fen Ion of Chi
cago, chairman of the Legion's
national employment committee
said the emphasis would be on
Jobs for returning veterans but
not confined to that.
"We should do them (veterans)
no favor If we found Jobs for
them and left other millions un
employed," he said. "That way
iis economic collapse. And so
we must find Jobs for all
TURKEYS FOR CIVILIANS
PLACED UNDER EMBARGO
Washington. April 8 (U.R)
Civilians may as well add tur
key to the growing list of foods
they probably can't buy.
The War Food Administration
today announced its annual em
bargo on sale to civilians of tur
keys grown In major producing
areas Including Oregon. All
birds produced in 21 states and
nine counties of two other states
must be offered to the army be
fore April 8 until military, re
quirements are met, probably
shortly before Thanksgiving.
Full Leased Wlr
NO. 12.
HITLER APPEALS
TO SOLDIERS FO!
CLIMAX EFFORT
First Public Utterance Since
Allied Breakthrough Says
New Offensive Coming.
London, April 8 (U.R) A
Nazi broadcast said today that
Adolf Hitler, in his first public
utterance since the Allied break
through in the west, appealed to
German soldiers to hold until a
new German offensive Is
launched soon.
Hitler made the appeal a few
days ago while addressing an
army unit which had distin
guished itself on the eastern
front, a brief broadcast by the
German Westphalian station
said.
Offensive Promised
tie told the soldiers lt was
necessary for the German army
to hold firm against the enemy
until the new offensive could be
launched in the near future, the
station said In a broadcast re.
corded by the BBC.
European reports said Hitler
was believed to" have moved
every prominent Allied person
age in German hands Into
"last-stand zone" around Berch-
tesgaden where they will be used
as hostages to bargain for the
lives of Nazi war criminals.
Among those shifted to hide
outs in the Bavarian Alps, the
London Daily Herald said, were
reported to be King Leopold of
Belgium, former French Pre
mier Paul Reynaud, Jakob Sta
Un, son of Premier Stalin, and
Kurt von Schuschnlgg, former
Premier of Austria.
The Herald suggested that
Hitler was planning to threaten
to kill these hostages unless he
and members ot the Nazi gang
were granted amnesty.
A Zurich dispatch to the Lon
don Dally Mall said Hitler alter
nates between long spells of si
lence and violent, screaming at
tacks of rage. He sleeps rarely
and his face Is lined with worry,
the dispatch said.
It added that Hitler was be
lieved scared of British para-
chutists.
Another Dally Mall dispatch
this one from Stockholm, said
Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul
Goebbels was injured when the
automobile In which he was rid
ing last Saturday near Berlin
crashed Into the rear of another
In which assassins killed two
Gestapo guards and their chauf
feur.
Worried Japs Seek
Peace'With China,
Says Adviser Koo
Hamilton, N. Y., April 8 (U.R)
T. Z. Koo, adviser to the Chi
nese delegation to the San Fran
cisco conference, said today that
Japan has been trying desper
ately to make peace with China
before the defeat of Germany.
Koo said that Japan's atti
tude toward China changed
markedly a year ago "when
Japanese leader whose name
known to most Americans came
to me as emissary and opened
the conference with an admis
sion that the war had reached
a most critical stage for Japan
When thoy could reach no
basis for an agreement, Koo
said, he was asked what advice
he had for Japan.
Koo said he advised Japanese
army leaders that their cruel
ties would one day react against
their country. Since then, Koo
said, the Japanese army has
been less cruel In its treatment
of the Chinese.
SCIENTIST DIES
Berkeley, Cat., April 8. U.R)
Dr. Harry Edmund, 83. Inter
nationally known mathematician
and expert on the magnetic com
pass, died at his home her yes
terday after short illness.
BLOW FALLS SOON
AFTER RESIGNING
OF
Soviets' Action Is Believed
Forerunner of Entry In
Pacifio War With Allies.
T.nnHnn. Anrll Rjfll ftRim.
sla today renounced her neutral,
ity pact with Japan in an action,
believed to foreshadow her ultl
mate entry Into the Pacific war.
Announcement of the action
came a few hours after the fall
of the Japanese government of
Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso.
presumably upon the receipt of
word from Moscow of the Rus
sian action.
(After a conference of elder
statesmen, it was announced
that Admiral Baron Kantaro
Suzuki, 77-year-old president
of the Privy Council, has been
ordered by the emperor to
form a new cabinet.)
Ambassador Told .
Foreign Minister V. M. Mnlrv
tov nnnnnnrwl th Rnvlpt artlmi
to Japanese Ambassador Naotakl
Sato In Moscow.
As a result of the Soviet
action, Russo-Japanese five-year
neutrality nact nutnmntiraUv
expires at midnight April 24,
1U40.
The Soviet action lmmediata-
ly opened grounds for specula
tion upon Soviet entering the
Pacific war and moving Into
action her powerful far eastern
red banner army which has
stood guard at the frontiers of
Siberia and Manchuria since
long before the outbreak of tha
European war.
Situation Changed
Molotov'a action vri annonnA.
ed by Radio Moscow.
The foreign minister advised
Sato, the account said, that since
the pact was signed on April 13,
1941 the world nitimtlnn h1
changed considerably.
liermany, he noted had at
tacked the Soviet Union rnrl
Japan has aided Germany in the
war against the Soviet Unidn.
In addition, ha unlrt Jar, an I.
at war against Great Britain and
the United States who are tha
allies of the Soviet union.
Therefore, he told Sato, th
pact of neutralitv 'hn lnt it.
sense" and it is Impossible for It
to do continued.
Japan's second wartime cab
inet fell onlv four rinv. nft.
American Invasion forces storm
ed ashore on Okinawa Island,
330 miles southwest of the en
emy's home islands, against al
most non-existent opposition.
Japs nee Gravity
The Janjnese hnnrH nf Infnn.
matlon announced that tha r...
nations were decided upon "in
view of the gravity of the war
situation and In order to bring
more powerful cabinet" Into
office.
The KoflO CflhlriAt wan. InlA
office elsht and a hair
ago after the overthrow of the
extremist government of Gen.
Hldeki Tojo In a political crisis
touched off by the loss of Saipan
In the Marianas.
Kol.io's ministers, mostly con
servative elder army, navy and
business leaders, had been ex
pected to rally the Japanese
peopie ana armed forces for
new exertions to stem the allied
march toward Japan.
Wo Follows Wo
But Instead disaster followed
disaster. The cabinet weathered
the furore caused by the Super
fortress offensive against Jr.pan,
the Invasion of the Philippines
and even the loss of Iwn KinnH
only 750 miles south of Tokyo;
io nmencan marines last month.
The successful Invasion ot Oki
nawa was the final straw, how
ever. Who will succeed Kolso was
problematical. Kolso, like Tojo,
was a product of the ruthless
Kwangtung army In Manchuria,
through perhaps slightly more
moderate than his predecessor.
Should another army or navy
mon be chosen to succeed Kolso,
far eastern observers looked for
a final frantic effort to prepare
Japan to. repel the ultimate al
lied Invasion of the homeland
itself. '
An all-civilian cabinet, how
ever, might be tha first step
toward peace.
CHAPULTEPEC FINAL ACT
SIGNED BY ARGENTINA
Mexico City, April 4 (U.R)
Argentina signed the final act
of the Chapultepec conference
today.
Signing was done in tha big
ornate reception room of the
foreign ministry by Argentine
envoy extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary Adolfo N.
Calvo.