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MSI 15) fo) 0) la JVL it M aV H HKH.VH H aaai asaa M IK f T.TW " "7". I ' Vtt M II U Mted Press Fortieth Year BATTLE FURY BUSY Americans Killing 3 to 18 Japs for Each Loss to Own Side Amaml Isles Hit B7 United Press Fighting on Okinawa Island was reported approaching the fury of Iwo s bloody campaign today as American invasion troops drove into the first major Japanese defense line before Naha, the capital. Dispatches from the front said casualties were mounting on both sides with- the Americans killing from three to 18 Japa nese for every American killed. Yanks Advance ' Units of the 24th corps pene trated the Japanese line in ad vances of 200 to 400 yards Sun day after capturing Uchitomari, four miles north of Naha, and Kaniku, four and a half miles northeast, Saturday. -The Japanese were fighting from caves, interlocking pill boxes and hills from which they could sweep the advancing Americans with a savage cross fire. Superfortresses and carrier planes followed up Saturday's smashing victory over the Japa anese fleet with new attacks on Japan and the Amaml islands. The B-29s smashed at airfields on Kanoya and kanoya East at the southern tip of Kyushu, pre sumably the bases from which the Japanese carried out mass attacks Friday and Saturday against the American fleet off Okinawa. Japs Boait A Japanese communique said aerial attacks were continuing against the American fleetv A Tokyo dispatch, reported by the FCC, said the Japanese navy was "mobilized for a grand of fensive" and told of naval bases "resounding with .he roar of special attacking planes taking off for Okinawa." Japan's new premier, Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki, told the people in a gloomy broadcast Sunday that they could expect Invasion "soon." He called on 100.000,000 Japanese to "rise with every ounce of strength to the momentous task for safe guarding our homes." In the Philippines, 1st cavalry division troops ncared a Junc tion ,with airborne forces along Tayabas bay after a 17-mlte ad vance which virtually cut all enemy escape routes from south ern Luzon. WAR BULLETINS A British broadcast record ed by CBS today said the great Krupp armament works in Essen "are in the hands of the American ninth army." Front dispatches had reported street fightina in Essen. London, April 9. (U.R) Great fleets of American and British bombers late today dropped 11-ton bombs on U boat shelters at Hamburg and lesser missiles on 10 air fields within a 60-mile radius of Munich. Italian front 816 tulles from near Comacchlo). TO BERLIN By United Press The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Eastern front 31 miles (from Zaeckerick). Western front 128 miles (from Schlotheim and Allmen hausen). SIDE GLANCES bt tribune reporters Pep. Hilding Bengtson tact ful!;' dec:aring that freshman legislators should be seen and not heard. Chief McCredle handing out information on how to cure cold Just before going to tne hospital with the said disease. ' WUman Gray worried about telegraphic facilities from the San Francisco conference. Full Leased Wit Clothing R - "wr -tfr tf-'ii"i tfcsil ITifllii ilir i-Miiisftai itoi V? XT ill Uli SB E a sr . t narw --.. . . m, MflT.M7t t The Los Angeles Lions Club really rolled out the barrels In their all-out drive for donations to the United National Clothing Collection Drive. The "oaken suits" were conveniently bandy when they staged this im promptu demonstration. Note the gent draped in a tablecloth. He was caught in the barrel shortage. 20 REPUBLICS 10 TAKE ARGENTINA BACK INTO FOLD Washington, April 9. OJ.PJ Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., announced today that the 20 American republics have decided to resume diploma tic relations with Argentina. London, April 9 (U.R) The Paris radio said today that France had recognised the government of Argentina. Th announcement was made ho Ktottlniiin at a Dress confer ence. The department instructed pVinran ri'nffair in Buenos Aires to inform the acting for elgn minister of Argentina of the action. Th. rhsi-M d'affairs' call on the foreign minister was the first formal contact that the United States has had with the regime nf Pimfripnt Edelmiro Farrell since it assumed office more than a year ago. Unanimous Action sMtinlu ualrf that all of the American republics had reached their decision unanimously alter consultation. H nlH "thin decision follow ed the reorientation of Argen tine foreign policy reflected Dy her declaration of a state of war against axil countries and her adherence to the acts of the Mex- leu ntv conference on March 27 and her subsequent steps of a nrnrtiral nature contemnlated in the declarations made in the resolution on Argentina by the inter-American conference on problems on war and peace. American officials said they expected the resumption of dip lomatic relations to nave a very nnwprful affect within Arson tina and possibly to result in an election being held there some time this fall. One state of Venezuela, Boli var, takes up more than a quar ter of the territory of the entire country. New Springfield Sawdust Rendering Plant Drugs, Food and Alcohol, Rep. Ellsworth By Frederick C. Othman . (UP Staff Correspondent) Washington, April 9. U.R Vou put the sawdust ir at one end, see, and out of the other comes molasses. Now you're set to make alcohol, aspirin tablets fodder, perfume, vanilla and other things that Rep. Harris Ellsworth of Oregon gladly will mention. What brought this up was the cattle shortage, caused by a lack of feed. I was talking to Rep. Ellsworth and he said this was a shame, becauje sawdust, which piles up In mountains at every sawmill, can be turned into cattle food as rich or richer than soybean cakes. Fathers Big Plant It turns out further that Rep. Ellsworth, Roseburg, Ore., newspaper publisher when he 4nt tnurmnkln, la one of the sparkplugs behind the world's greatest sawdust rendering plant, now being built at Spring MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1945 Drive Makes Nudists . jiifrf rltr Tint i lsi inii-r i itr j- sfa Mirr HfHriT! --t H pi J Drop Clothing for Needy Allies In Street Receptacles, is Pica Reginald A. Stagg, general chairman of the United National clothing drive in Jackson county, today urged all persons to con tribute old clothing for the aid of needy persons in foreign countries. Stagg said anything usable will be accepted and a great need is placed on chil dren's clothing. All suits and other articles which contain more than one piece are to be VALLEY SOLDIERS Three additional valley men have been wounded in action according to the casualty lists of the Office of War Information released today. Listed as hav ing been wounded while serving In Europe with the army are Pvt. Harold L. Sieg, husband of Mrs. Ruth C. Sieg, Box- 765. Medford, and Pfc. Daniel D. Wy ant, son of Mrs. Harriet I. Wy ant, 710 Palm street Staff Sgt. Robert J. Sharyon, son of Mrs. Angela C. Sharyon, 31 Gresham street, Ashland, Is reported wounded while serving with the army in the Pacific theatre. MEAT SHORTAGE MAY ' CLOSE DETROIT SHOPS Detroit, April 9 (U.R) Half of Detroit's meat markets were ex pected to close today as a result of a severe meat shortage which Martin Bonkovitch, president of the Detroit meat dealers, blamed on shipments to England, im practical price ceilings, and In creased consumption by rural communities. Bonkovitch said that there was "no immediate relief in sight," and pointed out that 136,000 hogs were delivered to the marketing centers in 1844 as compared with 23,000 during the same period this year. field, Ore. He chose that particular spot because 825 tons of sawdust pile up there every day, more than any place else In the country. Before the end of the summer the experts will be percolating sawdust in a solution of acid, thereby releasing sugar In the form of molasses. This they will turn Into alco hol at the rate of 4,100.000 gal lons a year. That's a lot of alco hol, but It's only the beginning. Also Make Llgnin The alcohol comes out of one spigot; from another comes llg nin. a kind of chemists' Chinese puzzle, but similar to coal and petroleum. From it Is made the vanilla, the aspirin, and all the other products upon which the chemists now are working. "If we can sell the llgnin for 2Vi cents a pound, the alcohol won't cost us anything," Ells worth said. "What we need Is further experimentation and of Lions f Acme Telephotoj tied together, Stagg said. Hats are not w.qjed. All old cloth ing will be" processed at state prisons, it was stated. Receptacles were being placed on the streets today In which persons may place their dona tions. This work is being car ried on under the direction of E. C. Corn, chairman of the pro motion and special events com mittee of the Rotary club, which is cooperating with the junior chamber of commerce In pro moting the drive. E. H. Hedrick, superintendent of city schools, has arranged for all school chiluten' to- bring in clothing today and Tuesday. It will be the only collection by students and Hedrick said he hoped th.at citizens will give the children their support by donat ing serviceable and discarded clothing. -The Klwanls club committee, headed by Joe Early, will re ceive clothing donations at the Holland Hoel from outlying sr-'iools and granges after Hum phrey's Motors and Fichtner's Garage, other receiving depots, are closed t night. Jackson county's quota of clothing is 250,000 pounds, Stagg said. Hitler in Charge Of German Army in Gravest Hour London, April 9. (U.R) Adolf Hitler again has taken full per sonal command of the army in Germany's gravest hour, re ports from the western front said today. Documents captured by the allies showed that all German attacks, withdrawals or other operational movements nad to be approved by Hitler in ad vance, BBC correspondent Ches ter Willmot reported from Ger many. All generals down to division al commanders must consult Hitler before acting, and must do so In time for Hitler to coun ter the orders if he feels so in clined. Willmot said. that takes more money for the feceral forest products labora tories at Madison, Wis., which have been doing a marvelous Job on limited appropriations." He said and it's not easy to disagree that here's one place the government can sink some cash and come out with a profit When you chop down a tree and make lumber, It develops, you waste 70 per cent of the wood In the iform of sawdust, chips and useless branches. The saw dust conversion plant uses the waste. "Which makes the process a little like finding a gold mine In the sky," Ellsworth added. "We're getting something most of us never knew existed." Germany Has 20 Germany has some 20 of these sawdust factories. Japan has two. The original developer of the German sawdust plant was Jewish. So were his chief en gineers. They eventually es RIBUNE 1 United Press Full Leased Wire E IS REDOING PLAN Rep. Engle to Lay Proposal Before Veterans Adminis tration; Committee Busy Washington, April 9 (U.R) A proposal to construct a Vet erans' Hospital on the shores of sprawling Shasta Lake near Red ding. Calif., will be laid before the Veterans' Administration by Rep. Clair Engle, D., Calif. He will submit a 26 page Il lustrated and Indexed brochure, including maps, sent to him by the Redding Veterans' Hospital Committee which has selected five possible sites for the pro ject. "Redding would be a logical place for the location of the Veterans' Hospital to fill In be tween the facility in Oregon and the one in San Francisco," Engl- said. On Wooded Slope Site C, and the one favored by the Redding Committee, is lo cated on a wooded slope above the 25,000 acre lake created by construction of the Shasta dam. The only disadvantage the com mittee coud think of was the sslble Increased cost of con struction because of the slope which would afford patients an unobstructed view of the lake. "That view In itself should have a certain curative value," Enele said. , The Beddlcg Committee, in Us attractive ana comprenensivc brochure, described the sites from standpoints of transporta tion, climate and medical facili ties as ideal. The sites are from 11 to 30 miles north of Redding. Merchants Decide ' V-E Day Program On Store Closure Looking ahead to victory day for the war in Europe, the Retail Merchants' division of the Chamber of Commerce to day Issued a statement con cerning tho recommended plan for closing of businesses In Medford In celebration of the day. It Is suggested that the statement be saved for refer ence. . According to the statement. If the victory announcement Is received after 12 noon, stores will be closed immediately and will remain closed the follow ing day. If the announcement Is received before 12 noon; when the stores are open, the stores are to be closed imme diately for that day only, and will be open t'..e next business day unless announcements to the contrary are made. If the announcement Is received at night, stores will remain closed the next business day. There are twenty-two colleges and three private halls In the University of Oxford; seventeen colleges and one hall In the Uni versity of Cambridge. Promises lens writer caped a concentration camp, went to England and finally came to America to work for the National Lumber Manufac turers' association. "But wjjen they saw what was being done by Dr. J. Alfred Hall then chief biochemist of the forest service, they almost stood around with their mouths open," Ellsworth said. "They had never seen anything like this plant In Oregon. It Is four times bigger than the biggest German factory. Where the Ger mans took 24 hours to turn one pile of sawdust into alcohol, we do it in seven." The new factory, ordered by the War Production Board, built by the Defense Plant Corp., and operated by the Willamette Val ley Wood Chemical Co., cost the taxpayers $2.237.00V If they don't get their money back, Ellsworth will eat sawdust. Maybe he will anyway. And you, too, some time In the fu ture. Properly prepared, saw dust makes a tasty dish. NO. 15. HALF OF VIENNA CIVILIMLT Ruthless SS Commander Is Assassinated Hand Gre nades Thrown at Nazis London, April 9 (U.R) Berlin admitted today that Rus sian siege forces had smashed more than half way through Vienna into the north part of the city, the fall of which ap peared near. Vienna's historic landmarks were falling by dozens to Red army forces fighting through the Austrian capital. The free Austria' radio said In habitants of Vienna were rising against the Germans. Angry crowds' demonstrated in the streets of the occupied portion of the capital and hand grenades were thrown at German troops, the broadcast said. Radio Moscow reported that SS Gen. Sepp Dietrich, ruthless Nazi commander in Vienna, had been assassinated by patroits who pumped five revolver shots Into him at virtually point-blank range while he was en route to give a pep talk to his troops. Incomplete reports showed 6, 000 Germans were killed In cat tle in 24 hours, a Soviet com munique said. FIFIHlLFliS JEWI STOLEN BY NAZIS Wllh thu 9rH Armv. Germany. April 9. (U.R) A huge collec tion of priceless Jewish manus cripts, paii.tings and other cul (nral nhtprt stolen bv the Nazis all over Europe was recovered by the 5th division today at nun- gen, 10 miles southeast of uies- sen. The collection, which Includes nhWta rintins hack to the 14th century, was the second treasure trove uncovered by the 3rd army in ihree days. Gold bui- Chicago, April 9-(U.R) Dr. Melchoir Palyi, former chief economist of the Deutsche Benk of Berlin and adviser to the relchibsnk, said today that the allied seisure oi a S10Q.CSd.00 Nasi board was certain to paralyse Germany's financial operations. The hoard, most of It In gold bullion, was found Saturday in a German salt mine. It con stituted all of Germany's pre war gold reserve, Palyl said. "The leisure of the gold leaves Germany In a state of financial paralysis," he said. lion worth $100,000,000, paint ings and other treasures were found Saturday in salt mine at Merkers. The Jewish collection had served as the basis for the pscu do-scientific attacki made by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, notorious nazl propagandist, again it world Jew ry. Clippings Saved With the collection was seized a clipping bureau of foreign newspapers conducted by Dr. Berthold Gucnsche. Most clip pings concerned Jewish activi ties all over the world. Lt. Robert Schoenfcld of Brooklyn, N. Y., led the detail which found the giant collection, most of it In an ancient castle. The art collection alone In cluded 200 paintings, several of them by Degas. In addition, there were many hand written manuscripts by Jewish authors dating bark to the 14th century and a number of other ancient books about Jews. Most of the manuscripts and books were believed to have been taken from the Oppenhelm Museum at Frankfurt, the Jew ish ' Historical Museum at Am sterdam, and other museums In Pari. Armored Forces Wheel Through 25-Mile Breach Paris, April 9. (U.R) The American 1st army burst out of its Weser river bridgehead today and raced 18 miles or more to within 70 miles of Magdeburg, Berlin's main outer fortress on the Elba river. The new 1st army drive on Magdeburg came as American 9th and British 2nd army forces stormed the outskirts of flaming Hannover and Bremen and swung eastward for Brunswick, 104 miles from Berlin. The 1st army's tanks and armored troop carriers were charging through a 25-mile breach in the German defenses in a headlong drive to turn the northern flank of the Harz mountains covering Magdeburg and Berlin. PARATROOPERS LAND BEHIND GERMANS Berlin said hundreds of American paratroopers were loose be hind the German lines farther south, apparently supporting the armored spearheads and paving th way for a juncture with the American 3rd army. Late field dispatches said the Yanks drove 12 miles due east from their last reported position at Goettingen to reach Duderstadt. Another tank column spurted 18 miles northeast from the Weser river to rfortheim, 73 miles from Magdeburg and 136 miles from Berlin, while a third striking force captured Elnbeck, eight miles northwest of Northeim. At Einbeck, a German major general cam out to meet the Americans and surrender the town. Jittery German spokesmen said the American paratroops, about 500 strong, dropped far behind the German lines facing the 1st army's southern flank, In the 38-mile corridor between Muenden and Muehlhausen. - SECOND AIRBORNE STRIKE IN HOURS It was the second airborne allied strike against the crumbling German positions in little more than 24 hours. British parachutists who showered down Into northeastern Holland early Sunday morn ing joined up with the Canadian 1st army and sealed off possibly 50,000 Germans along the V-bomb coast to the west. Hannover and Bremen were aflame and mysterious fires, ap parently set by the fleeing Nazis, were reported leaping through Hamburg, Luebeck and dozens of other towns and cities In the path of the Invaders, American 9th army troops fanned out southeastward from be sieged Hannover toward Brunswick and unconfirmed front reports said they were, bypassing the latter city in a thrust for a giant Hermann Goering tank plant 15 miles farther south. The Germans, shaken by casualties that headquarters spokes men estimated at a half-million killed, wounded or captured in th past 10 days alone, faced a new threat from the reported para troop assault on the 1st army front. . jr HAMiiutr vL . iuuihu',,!!y FGERMANY IV. V:...A- .u.s, uiis (ll. 1 7.0 "ie. V I nMBSSMk Ktrtirwfcf FRANC! rrrntTifffiTM llllswiTZESLAND Rr MANKNIir Mannkfta J. llllllllNr: '"l (A-m Ttle photo) The British Second Armv is pushing ahead at a rapid pace to come down on Bremen from the wt??t and north while the U. 8. Ninth Arfhr Is en veloping Hannover an'. Brunswick to strike at famous North ECa port from the south. ParUier south. General Patton's Third Armv lias met frenzied counter-attacks on Its road to Berlin, but Is only temporarily halted on the drive for the German capital. ONLY ESSENTIAL NEEDS TO GET REFRIGERATORS Washington, April 9. U.R) Householders will get no more mechanical refrigerators from th nation's stockpile, the war production board said today Only 38.000 domestic refrig erators of the 700,000 are left in the national reserve and these will be assigned only for the most essential military and pub lie health needs, WPB said. Himmler's Paper Sees Fall Of Germsuiy in Short Time By W. R. Higglnbotham (UP Staff Correspondent) London, April 7. (U.R) Das Schwartze Korps, organ of Heln rich Himmler's SS elite storm troops, confessed today that Ger many was "perhaps only a few days or weeks" from complete collapse. The remarkably frank article was quoted In a Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyhcter. It added the Implied warning, however, that SS troops would fight on to the death, despite the Impending collapse., "We feel we should give the world a last warning," Das 5Swftrl MECKLENBURG UiUWlUIS r PDttklf .fe-t.fwi - S o. , , o.t...w MUlNlHJtrHH JAXONY 1 IAVAKIA 8436 Killed By Nazi V-E Bombs London, April 9. (U.R) Ger man V-bombs have killed 8,439 persons and Injured 25,101 since the offensive began last June 19, It was announced today. At Newcastle, Miss Ellen Wil kinson, parliamentary secretary to the home security ministry, said that the German V-2 rocket bomb campaign against England had ended. Schwartze Korps said. "Wa might be defeated militarily, but we shall never loss faith In our task." Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Gorbbcls, writing In his newspaper Das Reich, said Germans already were begin ning to look around for some one to blame for their plight. "It Is a cheap method to look for scapegoats at this moment," Gocbbels said. "We must faca this war In complete unity . . the kernel of the German war effort Is- to prevent the allies under all circumstances and by the use of our national strength from distributing Germany be tween theirt as their booty." nikuVV. ' ' I y MUNICH f
