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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. .
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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
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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."
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