Three Armies Near Hannover in Drive Through Weakening Defense
Medford
Uilted Pre
Fortieth Year
WATER PROSPECT
SOUTHERNJREGON
Annual Forecast Shows Tal
ent Irrigation District
Facing Restricted Supply.
Irrigation water prospects in
louthern Oregon both east and
west of the Cascades are about
average, it was reported at the
annual water forecast commit
tee meeting here today.
Snow cover in southern Ore
gon mountains has been remark
ably improved by March storms,
it was reported by R. A. Work,
snow survey supervisor for the
soil conservation service and
Oregon agricultural experiment
station.
Water supplies in prospect for
1945 are now listed as slightly
better than last season and are
nearly average.
This year's crop production on
most irrigated lands in Jack
son and Josephine counties is
not expected to suffer materially
bvause of water shortage.
Ample water supplies are In
prospect for Klamath county.
Reservoir storage in the Med
ford -Rogue river irrigation dis
tricts was pronounced generally
sood. Superintendent J. M
Spencer of Medford Irrigation
district reported that reservoirs
of that district are now about
one-half filled with prospects of
run-off to "come which assures
some holdover in the reservoirs
at conclusion of this irrigation
season.
Concern over shortages of
nrosriective water supply was ex
pressed for lands served by the
Talent irrigation district.
Hyatt Prairie reservoir is ex
pected this year to fill to less
than one-half capacity. Aitnougn
Emigrant reservoir is full Talent
irrigation district is sure of not
more than 80 days irrigation
supply. The only other areas of
prospect water snoriage is xne
Applegate river where late wa
ter rights are likely to be out of
water by Aug. 15. Applegate
river flow is not expected to ex
ceed 75 per cent normal.
Canal alteration is not likely
to be required this year in the
Grants Pass irrigation district.
Seventh n Series
This was seventh in a series
of meetings being held through
out the state under the leader
ship of R. A. Work and W. T.
Frost in charge of snow surveys
nd water forecasts for soil con
servation service and O. S. C. ex
periment station.
Other participants in today s
meeting included representatives
of Klamath basin irrigation and
power interests, county water
masters and agricultural repre
sentatives. The forecaster's conclusions
were based on April 1 snow sur
vey measurements, watershed
soil moisture tests, reservoir
storage records and stream flow
readings.
Washington, April 6 (U.R)
Ceiling prices for Oregon fresh
strawberries this year have
been announced by office of
price administration as follows:
County shippers' ceiling. 13
cents a pint, 27 cents a quart,
18 cents a pound, F. O. B. coun
try shipping point for entire
season.
Highest wholesale ceilings,
16.3 cents a pint, 32 cents a
quart, 21.3 cents n pound.
Highest retail ceilings, 20.8
cents a pint, 44.8 cents a quart,
28.5 cents a pound.
FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES
2 MILES IN MOUNTAINS
Rome, April 6. U.R Ameri
can fifth army troops advanced
nearly two miles In a new drive
in the mountains dominating the
Llgurian coastal plain southeast
of La Spezia, it was announced
today.
The surprise attack south of
Massa in northwestern Italy ap
parently was the onslaught
which the German radio describ
ed as a major offensive along
the Llgurian coast.
The only commercial airport
in the world that has dual run
ways in all directions Is the Chi-1
cago Municipal Airport.
Full Leased Wire
Japanese Defenders of
Stage First Heavy
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WShichan
(Acme Telephoto)
The showdown battle of southern Okinawa and the Japanese island's Bas
tion's capital city of Naha appears to be shaping up or already mounting
to full fury. The 10th Army has driven to within four miles of Naha aa
Ma. Oen. Oelger's Third Marine Amphibious Corps continues advance
across Ishlkawa Isthmus which has completely sealed off northern part
of island. Black portions of map Indicate the eighty square miles of
, choice territory now solidly controlled by Americans.
Japan Prepared For Change
In Relations With Soviets
London, April 6. (U.R) Tokyo said today that Japan would
make the "greatest possible effort" to remain at peace with Russia,
but was fully prepared for any
Tokyo Tried Hard
To Keep Russian
Agreement Alive
Moscow, April 6. W.) Japan,
it was rumored In diplomatic
circles today, attempted to make
far-reaching concessions to Rus
sia Including nullification of the
treaty of Portsmouth, in an
effort to keep the Soviet Union
from denouncing the Russo-Japanese
neutrality pact.
These rumors could not be
confirmed but it was reported
the Japanese were willing to
pay almost any price to main
tain the status quo with Russia.
(Under the treaty of Ports
mouth Russia was forced to give
up Port Arthur, surrender her
lease of the Kwantung Peninsu
la, evacuate Manchuria, recog
nize Japan's sphere of influence
in Korea and surrender the
southern half af Sakhalin island
The treaty ended the Russo
Japanese war and was negotiat
ed at Portsmouth, N. H.)
The Russians, it should be not
ed, have long memories. The
Russo-Japanese war was launch
ed by the Japanese with an at
tack which preceded declara
tion of war.
The Russians forget nothing
and the treachery of Pearl Har
bor did not fail to mal-e a pro
found Impression in Mo.-cow.
Jimmie Stewart
Becomes Colonel
U. S. Eighth Air Force Head
quarters, England, April 6 (U.PJ
Former Film Star Jimmie Stew
art of Indiana. Pa., has been
promoted to the rank of colonel.
it was disclosed today.
Stewart, who has flown 20
combat missions as a bomber
pilot, rose from captain to lieu
tenant colonel during his 18
months in the European theater.
He u now serving as chief of
staff of a liberated combat wing
in MaJ. Gen. William Kepner's
second air division.
German Cruiser Is
Sunk, Photos Show
London, April 8. (U.R) Air
reconnaissance photos today dis
closed that the German light
cruiser Koeln, was sunk during
the American air attack on the
Wllhelmshaven naval base Mar.
30.
The Koeln is a 6,000-ton light
cruiser, built by the Germans In
1928.
The photos showed the Koeln
apparently resting on the bot
tom with damage amidshlp and
ait and on hole on the port side.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 194F
Mom
fit
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STAJOTE MUES
abrupt change" in their relations.
London newspapers predicted
Russia would follow up her de
nunciation of the soviet-Japanese
neutrality pact with a grant
of Siberian bases to the allies or
even a declaration of war
against Japan.
Japanese hopes that a new
cabinet would be completed to
day to succeed the resigned
Koiso government in meeting
the country's gravest military
and political crisis were
thwarted.
Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki,
premier designate, ended his
first day of conferences without
submitting a list of ministers to
Emperor Hirohlto for approval
as expected, Radio Tokyo ad
mitted. Suzuki did succeed In obtain
ing the co-operation of the army
and navy, Tokyo said, and ex
Dects to take un the naming of
candidates for those and other
portfolios at 8 a. m. tomor
row (Tokyo time).
scioTsTi
E
C. R. Bowman, county school
superintendent, has issued a bul
letin to all rural schools, seek
ing their participation in the
United National clothing drive,
sponsored In the county by Med
ford Junior chamber of com
merce. The schools rre to bring
their collections to either collec
tion depot Humphrey Motors,
33 South Riverside or Fichner
garage, 104 West Sixth street.
Joe Early, representing the
Kiwanls club, is contacting all
granges in the county requesting
their aid In the drive.
CENTRAL POINT PLANER
TO BE RECONSTRUCTED
Preliminary steps for recon
struction of the Southern Ore
gon Planing mill near Central
Point which burned last Mon
day with a partially insured loss
of $15,000, are now under way
and work is Sue to start soon.
Harry G. Dowson and A. W
Lingaas, operators of the mill,
have made arrangements for
new planers. The old ones were
ruined by the flames.
MORMONS WARNED TO
PREPARE FOR SLUMP
Salt Lake City, April 8. (U.R)
The first presidency of the
Latter Day Saints (Mormon)
church today warned nearly one
million church followers to pre
pare for the days ahead by be
coming as nearly self-sustaining
as possible.
Okinawa
Counterblow
T
SEEN AHEAD FOR
NVASION FORCE
Guam, April 8 (U.R) Japa
nese defenders of Okinawa
opened their biggest counterat
tack of the campaign today,
bringing the Amercian invasion
forces to a virtual standstill in
the west and central sectors of
the island battlefront.
A United Press correspond
ent reported the Japanese coun
terblow in a dispatch from Oki
nawa. Ii coincided with numer
ous signs that the walkover
phase of the invasion was fin
ished and bloody fighting lay
ahead.
10th Storms Hills
Resistance was reported stif
fening all along the Okinawa
front. The stalemate in the west
and central parts came as 10th
army forces stormed the slopes
of three hills anchoring the de
fenses of Naha, smouldering and
deserted capital city some four
miles to the south.
The hills before Naha blocked
the United States passage down
the isthmus to the southern part
of the island.
Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner's
forces were pushing down the
east coast toward the town of
Tsuwa, three miles north of
Yonabaru, the island's principal
east coast port.
Near Air Strip
The American vanguard was
within two miles of Yonabaru
air strip, which the 'Japanese
had partly constructed when the
invasion began. Front reports
said It probably could be made
usable in a short time.
On the west coast, the Amer
icans were bogged down about
a mile north of Nakama, atop a
high ridge running inland. Jap
anese artillery on the ridge was
pounding our forces. A curtain
of smoke hung over the ridge
as naVal guns and land-based
artillery teamed with bombers
in a concerted assault on it.
THREE FIRE ALARMS '
THURSDAY EVENING
' Firemen were summoned
three times last night. First call
was from the home of Ed For
rest, 511 East Main street, to
extinguish a trash fire. Another
run was made to the West Main
apartments to put out a flue
fire which caused no damage.
The third call was to the home
of Charles Reider, 306 Willa
mette avenue to extinguish a
fire which caused considerable
damage to a children's play
house.
LUXURY TAX
Mexico City, April 6 (U.R)
A three per cent luxury tax was
decreed on a large number of
articles today, to become effec
tive May 1. The articles includ
ed antiques, carpets, radios,
cameras, glass and chinaware,
jewelry, toilet and beauty prod
ucts, automobiles, pianos and
furs.
German Archbishop Complains Because
Freed Slaves Plundering Nazi Homes
Br Jack Fleischer
United Press Correspondent
Sendenhorst, Germany, April
6 (U.PJ Archbishop Count Von
Galen of Muenstcr, outspoken
critic of the Hitler regime, still
Is against the nazis but he still
is "loyal to the Fatherland."
"I am and I remain a German
and I will not discuss politics,"
the 67-year-old Catholic arch
bishop said in an informal in
terview in the reception room
at the Catholic hospital here.
He has lived in two rooms In
the hospital since he was forced
to leave Muenstcr, 11 miles to
the northwest, by heavy air
raids last October.
! had hoped he would talk
about what had happened inside
Germany and of possible con
flicts h: had had with the nazls
since I left the Berlin Bureau of
the United Press after Pearl
Harbor.
At that time, I had copies of
nry-BTl TTTTX
United Press
DUMBARTON PLAN
OPEN TO CHANGE
SAYS STETTINIUS
Sec. of State Disputes Rus
sian Claim Big 4 Agreed
Against Amendments.
Washington, April 6 (U.R)
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., said today that
the Big Four powers who draft
ed the Dumbarton Oaks propos
als for world organization would
be free to sponsor any amend
ments to that plan at San Fran
cisco. A soviet publication had sug
gested that the Dumbarton Oaks
proposals "virtually amount to
an agreement" among the Big
Four not only to refrain from
repudiating or amending them
but to defend them against pos
sible attempts of others to
amend or weaken them. The
article appeared in the soviet
embassy's information bulletin
earlier this week.
Stettinius' press conference
came shortly after President
Roosevelt named him tempor
ary chairman of the San Fran
cisco conference. The appoint
ment followed regular proce
dure for the chief executive of
the host government. The con
ference itself will elect Stettin
ius permanent chairman.
Stettinius also announced that
the preliminary meeting of
United Nations jurists will con
vene here next Monday to be
gin drafting the legal structure
for a new world court.
BABYlLDl DOG
GIVEN MORE Til
Los, Angeles, April B. (U.R)
Woof, five-year-old Stafford
shire bull terrier, today won an
other week's reprieve from a
death sentence imposed for kill
ing 21 months' old Marguerite
Derdenger.
Superior Judge William Mc
Kay said he would need another
week to determine all legal facts
in the entangled case and decide
whether to grant a permanent
injunction against the dog's exe
cution sought by 'cafe owner
Grady C. Terry, self-styled
"friend of all dogs."
Worried Woman
Makes Torch of
Children, Self
Marengo, la., April 6. (U.R)
Worry that her husband might
be called for military service
caused Mrs. Elsie Krakov. to
pour gasoline on herself and
three children and set a match
to It, police said todcy.
Carol Krakow told police that
his five-year-old daughter, Mary,
rushed out of the house yester
day, her clothing in flames
shrieking, "Mama poured gaso
line on us and set us on fire."
Inside, Krakow found his wife,
two-month-old son, Michael,
and another daughter, Carline,
2, burned to death on the kitchen
floor. Mary died later in Ma
rengo hospital.
telegrams he had sent Adolf
Hitler and Rcichsmarshal Her
mann Goerlng vigorously pro
testing nazi "mercy killings" of
Insane or physically unfit Ger
mans, confiscation of church
buildings by the Gestapo and
the turning of monks, nuns, and
other members of Catholic In
stitutions into the streets t o
make way for the nazis.
The archbishop reaffirmed
ills opposition to such practices,
but reiterated he would not dis
cuss politics further while the
war continued.
Instead, he expressed concern
over what arrangements would
be made to care for the thou
sands of liberated foreign slave
workers and war prisoners
wandering along every road to
the west.
He referred to all the liber
ated, wandering peoples as
"Russians" and accused them of
plundering German homes. He
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Full Leased Wlr
NO. 13.
E
2 Armies Storming Capital
After Cutting Supply Line;
Eastern Edge Penetrated.
London, April 6 (U.R) A
Moscow dispatch said today that
Soviet forces had three-quarters
encircled Vienna and were bat
tling in the eastern outskirts.
Two soviet armies were
storming the Austrian capita
from the east, west and south,
after cutting the main German
supply lines southwest of the
city. .
Moscow said assault units of
Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's
3rd Ukrainian army had pene
trated an industrial settlement
on the eastern edge of the city.
Resistance at Vienna appar
ently was considerably stiffer
than that at Bratislava, which
fell two days ago after one-day
battle. Front reports said, how
ever, the Russians were driving
with all possible force in an at
tempt to capture the city before
it suffered the disastrous fate
that befell Budapest.
JOEL
OF
Joel Huntsman, 32, chief avia
tion machinist's mate in the
navy, died recently as the result
of wounds suffered during ac
tion in the Pacific, according to.
a wSta from the war department
received Wednesday by Mrs.
Huntsman, who resides at 613
South Ivy street. Huntsman had
been in the navy 18 years, hav
ing enlisted at the age of 14,
and was a crew member of an
aircraft carrier.
Survivors are Mrs. Huntsman
and four children. The family
came here the first of January
from Portsmouth, Va., in order
to be near Mrs. Huntsman's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harris,
route 4, and Mr. Huntsman left
Jan. 20 for overseas duty.
Peterson Becomes
S.P. Passenger Head
Portland, April 6 Appoint
ment of Claude E. Peterson as
vice-president in charge of sys
tem passenger traffic for South
ern Pacific was announced to
day by A. T. Mercier, president
of the railroad. Peterson suc
ceeds the late Felix S. McGlnnls.
The appointment is effective im
mediately. Peterson moves up
from assistant vice president In
the passenger traffic department,
a post he has held since June of
1842.
DELEGATE
Berkeley, Cal., April 8. (U.R)
Ernesto Quiroga-Ocampo, 23-year-old
sophomore student at
the University of California, has
been designated a delegate of
Bolivia to the United Nations
conference on International or
ganization at San Francisco, It
was disclosed today.
expressed deep concern that the
Americans did not exercise
more control over them, "espe
cially since the German police
are now disarmed."
The cleric appeared piqued
that thus far no high-ranking
American officer had visited
him. When he found we were
newspapermen, he said:
"I don't want to have any
thing In the press It would be
better if an American general
called on me."
He was deeply grieved rather
than angry about the allied
bombings of Germany. Ha said
bombs had destroyed his resi
dence, the cathedral and other
"culture monuments" In Muen
ster and added that one "also
almost got me while I was sit
ting at home during an attack.
Asked Just when he moved to
Sendenhorst from Mucnster, he
replied:
"Ask the Americans when
they bombed me out.'
Breakthrough by 9th Army ,
Sparks Powerful Surge of
Allied Forces Over Weser
Paris, April 6. (U.R) Two American and one British army
rammed through wilting Nazi defense lines today to plunge within
17 miles of Hannover, 138 miles west of Berlin, and the great North,
Sea port of Bremen was flanked in a drive across the open north
German plain.
The American 1st army joined the British second and the Amer
ican 9th in a new offensive that rolled up the Weser river line,
last German river line before the Elbe which lies Just beyond the
city's western suburbs.
8TH ONLY 17 MILES FROM HANNOVER
The 9th army was within 17 miles of Hannover and the 1st army
swung forward as much as 23 miles to reach the Weser about 160
miles southwest of Berlin.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army, which has paced the at
tack across Germany, drove forward seven miles southeast of Gotha
to a point less than 60 miles from Leipzig.
Reports from returning fighter pilots said that heavy German
military movement had been noted on the highways leading to
Leipzig.
That might indicate extensive Nazi preparations In an attempt
to halt Patton's rampaging columns before they can reach Leipzig,
which is a likely Junction point with the soviet forces of Marshal
Ivan S. Konev. At the closest point Patton was little mora than
160 miles from achieving this juncture.
AMERICAN GLIDERS LAND LIGHT TANKS
A German report said that American gliders had landed light
tanks at Langensalza, 17 miles north of Gotha, where heavy fight
ing was reported. Langensalza is 79 miles southwest of Magdeburg.
The report, If correct, might Indicate that Patton's advanced
spearheads now are placing more reliance upon air transport due
to the rapidity of their advance.
Third army registers showed a total of 84,614 prisoners cap
tured this week 42.649 last week. There have been 71,670 proc
essed in the last 15 days and an estimated 92,300 captured in that
period to bring the total to 200,000 since March 7 and 400,000 since
August 1.
Late field dispatches said the American!" were 87 miles or less
from the northwestern corner of Czechoslovakia, 60 miles from
Leipzig and 166 miles away from the westbound red army.
Lt Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army tanks officially were 128
miles southwest of Berlin, but still-unconfirmed reports placed
them inside the Harz mountain range 120 miles or less from Hit
ler's dying citadel.
7TH ADVANCES SLOWLY EAST
On Patton's right flank, the U. S. 7th army advanced slowly
but steadily east and southeast toward Nuernberg against fanatical
opposition from German volksturm and regular army units de
fending the approaches to the nazls' "last redoubt" in the Bavarian
mountains.
French 1st army forces In the extreme south wera reported 25
miles or less from Stuttgart, 112 miles northeast of Munich and less
than 40 miles from the headquarters of the Danube.
North of the 3rd army, the American 1st army broke through
the hilly Hardahausen forests In a 22-mile eastward surge that car
ried almost to the Weser river at a point 161 miles due west of
Berlin.
Simultaneously, the 1st army wheeled strong tank and Infantry
forces mto the southeastern corner of the Ruhr basin, teaming up
with American 9th army doughboys in a drive to wipe out an esti
mated 150,000 Germans trapped in the Ruhr.
Massive assault teams of the 9th army's 30th Infantry and 2nd
armored divisions sparked the drive on the Weser river and
Hannover.
The doughboys crossed the 240-foot Weser In assault boats early
Thursday at a point two miles south of Hamelin, 22 miles southwest
of Hannover, and advanced more
village of Tuendern, 153 miles west of Berlin.
Armored units followed the Infantrymen across on hastily-
erected pontoon bridges, and struck up. for Hannover against fcebla
resistance.
FEDERAL COURT IN
E-DAY HEARI1
i
Federal court reopened here
today for a brief session to han
dle one land condemnation case.
Judge James Alger Fee is pre
siding. The action, that of the United
States versus Llona Creason
Koff, Kenneth W. and Halllc
Ford, the city of Roscburg and
Douglas county, concerns a tract
of land on which a railroad spur
connecting with a sawmill has
been constructed by the Defense
Plant corporation of the Recon
struction Finance corporation
Jurors drawn to hear the case
were Elmer C. Boiled, Ashland:
Harold A. Frye, Robert B. Ham
mond, Medford; Chester Wendt.
Jacksonville; Lowell Ager, Beat
ty; Leo T. Saner, Grants Pass:
Donald C. Reames, CottaRe
Grove; Dom Provost, Ashland:
Douglass Talbott, Rogue River:
R. C. Hartley, Ashland; Frank
Kllngle, Brownsboro and Elwyn
Hamacher, Klamath Falls.
Attorney for the plaintiff are
Bert C. Boylan and Linus M.
Fuller.
Court will open In Klamath
Falls next Mor.day to try a num
ber of condemnation cases.
RODEO PERFORMER IS
HELD ON RAPE CHARGE
Burns, Ore., April 6 (U.R) A
long time rodeo performer
Thomas Dunn, Sr., known as
Shancko Red, was held In Burns
today for California authorities
The 43-year-old cowboy was
arrested by federal bureau of In
vestlgation agents and Harney
county officers at Wagontlre. A
federal warrant charges him
with unlawful flight from Stock
ton, Cal., Oct. 8, 1944, to Burns
to avoid prosecution on an at
tempted rape charge. A Callfor
nla warrant charges him with
attempted rape.
than a half-mile to capture the
Pravda Attacks
Hoover Proposal
To Limit Powet
Moscow, April 6 (U.R) Tho
communist party newspaper
Pravda today bitterly attacked
former President Herbert Hoov
er's proposal to limit the powers
of the American delegate to tha
security council to bring the
United States into war against
an aggressor.
Pravda said Hoover desired
that this power be reserved to
the President of the United
States, acting only upon the con
sent of the senate and House
Foreign Relations committees.
ft charged that this proposal
was "the most suspicious of tha
many schemes in circulation."
It really aimed, Pravda
charged, at sabotaging tha
peace. The newspaper claimed
that Hoover "feared" a long
peace.
BILLY L Ji
KILLED IN ACTION
Mrs. Lucy Lyman, 43 Rosa
Court, received information yes
terday that her grandson, Billy
Lyman Jackson, was recently
killed In action aboard an air
craft carrier. Tha young man,
in the navy 10 years, was a chief
pharmacist's mate.
Young Jackson had made his
home with his grandmother
since Infancy and was well
known here. He attsnded Med
ford schools and after graduat
ing from high school attended
the Southern Oregon College of
Education In Ashland.
TO BERLIN
The nearest distances to
Berlin from advanced allied
lines today:
Eastern front 31 miles
(from Zaeckerlck),
Western front 128 miles
(from Schlotheim; 120 miles,
by German report, from Hara
mountains).
Italian front SIS miles
(from near Comacchtt).