Yanks Take Hannover, Sweep on at Mile-an-Hour Clip
Medford
U iitd Pretty
Fortieth Year
BOTH SHORES OF
OKINAWA ISLAND
New American Landing Re
ported; Greatest Artillery
Duel On West Section.
. By United Presi
Action flared along both
coasts of southern Okinawa to
day with a new American land
ing reported off the east side
and the greatest artillery duel
of the Pacific war thundering on
the west.
Tokyo 'said American troops
had landed on tiny Tsukata Is
land lying eight miles off the
southeast coast and controlling
the entrance to the newly-conquered
Nakagusuku Bay naval
anchorage.
Advance Mil
Other troops driving along the
bay shore on Okinawa advanced
more than a mile and a half to
Naha on the edge of the Yona
baru airfield and only a mile and
a half north of the Port of Tona
baru, an enemy broadcast said.
American destroyers and other
warcraft already were reported
to have entered Nakagusuku
Bay.
Tokyo claimed that during the
landing operation on Tsukata
Sunday afternoon, Japanese
forces, presumably artillery,
sank an American destroyer and
a small craft which entered the
bay. ,
There was no American con
firmation of the east coast opera
tions. On the west coast, American
troops battled from cave to cave
and from pillbox to pillbox
against savage resistance.
Advances were limited to
yards as they fought to enlarge
their wedge in the Japanese
main defense line four miles
north of Naha, the burning capi
tal. Gaeatest Barrage
Japanese guns laid down a
heavy barrage. Brig. Gen. O. P.
Smith, deputy chief of staff for
the 10th army, said the Amer
icans were being supported by
more battalions of artillerj than
ever used before In the Pacific.
Hundreds of American carrier
planes and big guns of the fleet
off Okinawa Joined In hammer
ing the Japanese positions. Naha
gradually was being flattened
by the bombardment.
Seven of 10 Japanese planes
which attacked the Okinawa
area last evening were de
stroyed. American troops in the Philip
pines steadily comprised three
large Japanese pockets on Luzon
while airmen bagged 12 more
Japanese ships in their blockade
of the China Sea.
Intercept Convoy
Liberators intercepted a 15
ship convoy leaving the Chinese
port of Swatow, sank one de
stroyer and an 8.000-ton trans
port and damaged another de
stroyer and a cargo vessel.
Fifth army bombers accounted
for eight merchant craft In raids
from the Dutch East Indies to
Honk Kong and Formosa.
Two U. S. divisions were re
ported closing in on Bagulo In
northern Luzon. In central Lu
zon the Sixth Division was ad
vancing slowly against stiff re
sistance. First Cavalry Division troops
were reported nearing a Junc
tion with airborne troops to
complete encirclement of Japan
ese by-passed south, of Laguna
Bay.
The 158th Regimental combat
team was reported still encoun
tering heavy resistance at a
point five miles north of Legaspi.
NAVY DESERTER JAILED
ON BAD CHECK CHARGE
Wyatt Drennan, Jr., 23-year
old navy deserter and eicapee
from a navy quarters In Sar
Diego, was arrested in a local
hotel last night by state police
on a charge of passing sourlouf
checks and lodged -In the county
Jail. He is wanted In several
cities on the same charge, police
said.
HITLER AIDE KILLED
London. Aoril 10 flJ R) A
German DNB dispatch said to
day that Col. Henrich Borgmann.
former aide de camp to Adolf
Hitler, had been killed on the
western front. Borgmann - was
standing beside Hitler when a
bomb exploded in the Fuehrer's
headquarters in the abortive at
tempt on his life last summer.
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Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki. 77.
president of the Japanese Privy
Council, was ordered by Emperor
Hirohlto to form a new Japanese
cabinet to succeed cabinet of Premier
General Kuniald Kolso which re
signed en bloc "because of the grav
ity of the situation-"
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FOR ELINOR BUSH
Funeral services for Elinor
Hanley Bush, pioneer resident of
Jackson county who passed away
at her home, 826 East Main
street Monday morning, will be
held at the Perl funeral home
Thursday at 11 a. m. The Rev
Harry Hansen of the First Pres
byterian church will officiate at
the ceremonies and cremation
will take' place at the Portland
crematorium.
Mrs. Bush was born on the
Hanley ranch near Jacksonville
Dec. 17, 1867, and lived in this
county most of her life, spend
ing 16 years In South America
between 1903 and 1919. She at
tended school in Jacksonville
and was married to Harry P
Bush at Punta Arenes, Chile, In
1903. Mr. Bush was a mining
engineer.
The deceased Interested her
self in community affairs and
was a member of Adarel chap
ter, O.E.S., of Jacksonville.
She is survived by four nieces
and three nephews, Alex, Mar
tha, Mary, Claire, Michael and
Edward B. Hanley and Katheryn
E. Heffernan.
ASHLAND COUNCIL TO
GROUP PETTY CASES
Ashland, April 10 The city
council will meet tonight to dis
cuss plans to group more than
75 types of petty offense and
health and safety into one ordi
nance. The proposed ordinance
would impose penalties from $1
to $200 in fines and not less than
one day or more than 30 days In
Jail for violation of the many
petty offenses.
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April Snow in Foothills Is
Unusual, Claim Old Timers
Long time residents of the
valley are unable to recall an
April like the present one, with
fresh snow glistening on the
foothills on the tenth of the
month. Few ever saw snow on
Roxy Ann at that late date
though William Bates remembers
a Fourth of July more than forty
years ago when it snowed on the
parade and melted as it fell.
Ludb Grieve, Copco superin
tendent at Prospect, reported an
Inch of snow at his place Sunday
and Monday morning which
melted by noon each day. He re
ports never having seen- such an
April in the hills.
The county agent reports the
pear crop is ten das behind and
crops and other vegetation being
retarded, but not hurt. Some
farmers recall the old adage "a
cold . April makes full barn."
Irrigationists report the new
snow in the hills will Increase
the spring run-off and be of some
benefit.
Frost Observer Roy J. Rogers
reports the fruit crop needs some
warm nights as well as days. "
Searching the w -ather bureau
records this morning, Robert
Church reports that snow In
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY,
TRUMAN DEFEATS
POSTWAR END OF
Vote Breaks Senate Tie on
Amendment to Prevent
Relief for Foreign Lands.
Washington, April 10 (U.R)
The senate today passed and
sent to the White House an
act to 'extend lend-lease until
June 30. 1946.
The action came by unani
mous voice vole after the sen
ate beat down two attempts
to amend the act.
Washington, April 10 flJ.R)
The vote of Vice-President Harry
S. Truman today defeated a pro
posed amendment to the lend
lease extension act which would
have prevented the use of lend
lease for postwar relief and re
habilitation of foreign countries.
The vote was 39 to 39. Tru
man's "no" vote broke the tie.
The amendment was proposed
by Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O.).
It would have strengthened a
house amendment which would
prevent the use of lend-lease for
rehabilitation but would author
ize settlement of contracts which
might extend Into the postwar
period.
The tie vote came after Sen.
Walter F. George (D., Ga.),
charged that the Taft amend
ment would strip the lend-lease
act of its original contract settle
ment provisions.
Truman voted Immediately
after the rollcall was completed.
"On this motion," he said,
"the vote Is 39 to 39. The chair
vote no."
Sen. Millard E. Tydlngs CD.,
Md.), had called for an end to
"the blank check era'' as soon as
the war is over.
ITALY DEFENSE
Rome, April 10 (U.R) A new
British 8th army offensive crum
pled the Adriatic wing of the
German defenses is Italy, car
ried over the Senio river on a
broad front, and today spilled
out over the eastern Po plain
between Bologna and Ravenna.
Gen. Mark W. Clark, com
mander of allied forces In Italy,
announced that the 8th army
attacked yesterday evening tit
er a pulverizing air assault in
the Senio sector by almost all
of the air forces i nthis theater.
The first onrush of Lt. Gen.
Sir Richard McCreery's forces
broke the Senio river line. His
assault forces swept across the
stream on a broad front around
Lugo, 27 miles east of Bolona
and 18 miles west of Ravenna.
The famous Egyptian crocodile
Is now found only in the ex
treme northern reaches of the
Nile Valley.
April, and even In May and
June, have been recorded in
past years. In 1912 two Inches of
snow fell on April 11, this being
the heaviest .snowfall ever re
corded for April. In 1929 snow
was recorded on five consecutive
days, .8 inches fell or April 3, .2
inches on April 6, .8 on April 7
a trace on April 8 and .4 inches
on April 9, this being the second
heaviest April snowfall of rec
ord. Third heaviest was half an
inch on April 17, 1933 and latent
snowfall for April was In 1913
when it snowed on the 29th.
The records further show that
It snowed in April last year, this
occurring on April 11 and April
20. Latest snowfall ever record
ed for spring was June 4 In 1914
and snow Is also recorded for
May in 1938. Mr. Church point
ed out that these observations
are taken at one point and that
conditions could vary In other
parts of the valley or district.
The cold predicted for the
west coast states last night failed
to develop In Medford when a
cloud covering brought by a
storm area off the coast devel
oped about 2 a. m. continuing
until past the danger point at
sun-up, Church said.
APRIL 10, 1945
Jet Planes Suffer
Record Mauling in
, Defense of Berlir
London, April 10. (U.R)
American airmen reporte
that they shot down 18 G
man planes and destrr
227 aground today in a rai.
by 2,150 U. S. bombers and
fighters on seven air fields
In the outlying regions
around Berlin.
The Germans sent a rec
ord force of Jet planes
against the 8;h air force
raiders and paid a record
price. The bag aloft and
aground was the greatest
ever scored by Lt, Gen.
James H. Doolittle's men in
one day.
Violent air battles raged
over the general area of
Berlin as formations of up
to SO Jotters attacked the
heavies which were plaster
ing their home fields.
FIVE CHILDREN DIE
IN TRAILER HOUSE
GASOLINE BLAZE
Portland, Ore., April 10 (U.R)
Five children are dead today
as result of fire caused by ex
plosion of a gasoline can in a
trailer house. Three were burned
to death while a frantic father
mistakenly believing his son
was In the inferno tore the
dwelling apart in attempts to
reach the youngsters. Two more
died in hospitals this morning.
The dead are: Donald Cumps
ton, 3, ' Lois Cumpston, 5, and
Barbara Cumpston, b all chil
dren of Bert Cumpston, widower,
in whose home the fire occurred;
Victor Jaeger.- 4, and Shirley
Jaeger, 8, children of Mr. and
Mrs. Victor L. Jaeger, trailer
camp residents.
Tots Build Fire ,
According to officers, Cumps
ton went to work, leaving the
children in the charge of his eld
est daughter, Mary Lou, 14.
With Mrs. Jaeger, she went about
100 yards from the house to do
some washing.
In her absence, Charles
Cumpston, 7, and Eugene Cumps
ton, 10, decided to build a fire
in a small "pot-bellied" stove.
Eugene poured gasoline from a
can over the wood in the stove,
and while still holding the can,
struck a match and dropped it
into the stove. There was a vio
lent explosion, and the two boys
ran out screaming.
Their c r I e s were heard by
John Lynn, 31, who told police
he believed his boy was among
those inside wailing pitifully.
With the doorway in solid flame,
Lynn tore out a section of the
house, but was unable to reach
the children in time. He was
later treated for burns to both
hands.
He had lifted the two little
girls out of the holocaust first.
BIBLE TEACHER IS
NTERVIEWED FOR
CITY SCHOOL POST
Miss Katherine Green of Pa
cific College, Seattle, appeared
before the regular monthly meet
ing of the Medford Ministerial
association as a prospective rep
resentative to teach Bible his
tory in the Medford public
schools, according to Rev. Fred
M. Weathcrford, president of
the association. E. H. Hedrlck.
city superintendent of schools,
was present to advise the asso
ciation and to interview Miss
Green.
The association again endor
sed the dally vacation Bible
schools and set June 4 to June
14 as the period for classes which
will be conducted by various
churches of the city. Rev. Wea
therford said the association
hoped that other organizations
sponsoring youth programs
would arrange their plans In
order not to Interfere with the
Bible school period.
The pre-Easter series sponsor
ed by the association was de
clared to be one of the most suc
cessful projects ever carried
through by the group, Rev. Wea
therford said.
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Agricultural Department Re
ports Production Will
Be 862,515,000 Bushels.
Washington, April 10 (U,R)
The Agriculture Department
today forecast the biggest winter
wheat crop in history for 1945.
The Crop Reporting Service
said production of winter wheat
would reach 862,515,000 bushels,
37.000,000 more than the pre
vious record crop of 1931 and
almost 100,000.000 bushels more
than 1944 production.
On Dec. 1 the winter wheat
crop was estimated at 761,591,-
000 bushels. Highest for that date
since 1919 and the condition of
rye is the highest since 1914. No
production estimate was given
for rye. '
The wheat crop apparently es
caped injury in the recent cold
wave which brought zero tem
peratures to many parts of the
northern plain, the board said.
A 1945 wheat crop of 862,515
000 bushels would be 37,000,000
bushels larger than the previous
record crop in 1931.
The forecast for wheat produc
tion by states:
Kansas 231,557,000 bushels;
Oklahoma 75,127,000; Texas 73,
420,000; Washington 45,292,300;
Ohio 54,816,000; Indiana 33,300,
000; Pennsylvania 21,850,000;
Illinols-26,028,000; Michigan 22,
517,000; ' Missouri 26,100,000;
Montana 28.899,000; Colorado
21,672,000; Oregon 17,031,000,
and Nebraska 70,818,000.
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NAZI WAR PLANT
CLIFF
By Clinton B. Conger
United Press Correspondent
With U. S. 84th Division, Ger
many, April 10 (U.R) The
Weser river slices through sharp
cliffs of the tortuous Westphall
an gate at the village of Ler
beck, a few miles south of Min
den, in some of the most attrac
tive terrain the 9th army has
seen.
Except for a small railroad
yard in Lerbeck Itself, there is
nothing an aerial reconnolssance
target maps to mystify a second
look.
Yet, when Infantrymen cross
ed the river and cleaned out re
sistance on the heights they
found a huge German war plant
factory cut into the solid rock.
The plant, burrowed at least
300 feet Into the cliff, was
Jammed with huge, Intricate ma
chines. I saw row upon row of
gleaming lathes.
Mostly the machines were
German made but several show
ed that the nazis supplemented
their machine shops with loot
from occupied countries.
Key workers were Germans
but several hundred Poles and
Ukrainians were herded into
the shops daily.
Only a few were above
ground and they were camou
flaged. Sweeney Heads
Ralph Sweeney, Jackson
county treasurer and Medford
resident, was elected and in
stalled grand commander of the
Oregon Knights Templar at a
streamlined conclave held yes
terday In Portland. He succeeds
J. Roy Roberts of Bend. Only
business sessions were conduct
ed, with no social events due to
the war.
Other officer! Installed were
Luke K. Knowlton, Portland,
deputy grand commander; J.
Donald Meyers, La Grand,
grand generalissimo; Edward M.
Keikkala, Astoria, grand cap
tain general; John A. Newbold,
Portland, grand senior warden;
Eugene H. Tardy, Grants Pass,
grand Junior warden; Albert H.
Trego, Portland, grand treasur
er; Richard H. Tusant, Portland,
grand recorder; Lyman C. Palm
er, Eugene, grand standard bear
er; R. H. C. Bennett, Portland,
grand sword btarer, Herbert
C. Staple, Bend, grand warder;
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MaJ. Gen. Maurice Rose, Denver,
Colo., commander of Third Armored
Division, shot to death by Nazi
tank men while taking off his pistol
to hand over to his German captors.
Del Norte, Colo., April 10
(U.R) Spinster Adele Sophie
Weiler, 42, short and plump,
was held in technical custody
today while unromantlc officers
Investigated her admitted ro
mance with a German prisonei
of war.
Miss Weiler had. been re
leased from the Rio Grande
county Jail but still was under
technical custody.
For at least three months, the
authorities said, Miss Weiler
and her 37-year-old German lov
er "had kept their tryst a secret
until last Friday night, when
officers surrounded her home
and found the war prisoner
there.
She Tells Story
Deputy Sheriff Harry Wells,
who headed the investigation
until army officers and FBI
agents took over, said that Miss
Weiler "told the whole story"
of her affair with the war pris
oner. She was employed at the
local cheese factory as a book
keeper, and it was there that the
romance developed, the deputy
sheriff said.
The war prisoner, because of
a shortage of help In the area,
was assigned to the cheese fac
tory. Miss Weiler, who speaks
German, told the deputy that
she "took a liking" to the oris
oner, and last January arranged
to drive 14 miles into Monte
Vista, where the war prisoners
are quartered nightly. She met
him near the prisoners quartet
and they drove back to Del
Norte.
From that time until last Fri
day night, according to Wells,
Miss Weiler and the German
held their trysts at least weekly,
and on some occasions "several
times weekly." Always, Miss
Weiler succeeded in returning
the prisoner to his quarters be
fore daybreak.
Indiana lost 74 men In the
Spanish-American war.
Oregon Templars
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Rtlph Sweeney
Homer Beale, Pendleton, grand
captain of the guard, and Dr.
Sherman L. Divine, Portland,
former Medford resident, grand
prelate.
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Of 9th Army Force in
Drive Toward Berlin
With U. S. Third Army, Germany, April 10. (U.R) Qaa.
Omar N. Bradley's 12th army group has captured 1,018.387
Prisoners since D-day, it was announced tonight. The 1st
and 3rd armies each took more than 400,000 prisoners.
Paris, April 10 (U.R) American troops captured Hannover
today in an armored sweep that caved in Germany's northern and
central defenses and rolled forward at a mlle-an-hour clip 115 an4
120 miles from the Nazi capital.
Two Doughboy regiments of the U. S. Ninth Army's 84ta)
Division stormed into Hannover from the northwest and southwest
early this morning. By mid-day they had reached the center of th
flaming stronghold that once was the 12th city of Germany.
ISOLATED POCKETS STILL HOLD OUT
A few Isolated pockets of German resistance stiU held out lata
this afternoon, but American riflemen were combing them out
one by one.
Crowds of curious German civilians thronged Into the streets,
ignoring the bullets, to watch the death struggle of the Nazi garri
son. Other Ninth Army Forces stabbed 23 miles beyond the city
toward Brunswick, 104 miles west of Berlin, and at last report
were only 16 miles from that town.
Far to the south, American First Army tanks broke Into the
Harz mountains covering the southwestern approaches to Berlin
after a 26-mile advance that met only scattered and disorganized
resistance.
Both attacks were rolling swiftly forward behind a blazing
Allied aerial bombardment that reached back almost to the gatea
of Berlin.
In an explosive burst of power that threatened momentarily to
cave in the Germans' entire northern flank, the Americans broke
loose on the main Hannover-Brunswick-Berlin superhighway lesa
than 16 miles from Brunswick and 55 miles from the Elbe river
line that forms the enemy's last big defensive barrier, in the west.
DOUGHBOYS STORM THROUGH HANNOVER
Doughboys of the 84th Infantry Division swarmed through
the streets of Hannover, Germany's 12th city, after a sudden break
through from the north.
Smutaneously, the Ninth Army's Fifth Armored Division
stabbed 23 miles northeastward to cut the superhighway at a point
mid-way between Hannover and Brunswick.
British Armored Forces to the north laid siege to Bremen and
wheeled northeastward within 60 miles or less of Hamburg, Ger
many's second city and greatest port. A third British column cut
the Hamburg-Hannover autobahn and raced eastward for Brunt
wick and Berlin on the Ninth Army's 'northern flank.
The strike across northern Germany shot the Ninth Army out
in front of the race for Berlin, only a few hours after Lt. Gen. Court
ney H. Hodges' American First Army had taken the lead with
new advance Into the fringe of the Harz mountains In central
Germany.
Hodges' men broke loose on an 18-mlle sweep beyond their
Weser river bridgeheads yesterday and followed through early to
day with an armored and infantry drive on Nordhausen, 115 mile
southwest of Berlin.
The Americans knocked a 30-mlle-wlde hole In the German
defenses and late field dispatches said they were closing fast on
Nordhausen against weak opposition.
PATTON'S ARMY ALSO ON MARCH
Lt. Gen. Gctorge S. Patton's American Third Army also was
on the move farther south. The Third's drive, a Berlin spokesman
said, was fanning out east toward the Czechoslovakia frontier and
south Into Bavaria toward Nuernberg, ..-
Powerful armored and Infantry forces of the American First
and Ninth armies also were teamed up In converging attacks on
ah estimated 100,000 or more Germans trapped In the Ruhr pocket
The Enemy Commander, Field Marshal Walther von Model, was
believed also to be in the trap.
The whole Ruhr was ablaze from Allied bombs and shellflre,
and field dispatches said the Americans advanced. t much at tlx
miles into the pocket today against weakening opposition.
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German report, to assist American drive streaming toward Berlin. Other
Allied spearheads pushed closer to the Nazi capital, while In the north
troops battled Into Bremen and Hannover. Par to south, the 0. 8. Sev
enth and French First made headway toward Bavaria, where Hitler It
expected to mate hit last stand.
1ST OF VIENNA
London, April 10 (U.R) The
red army announced tonight that
it had captured all of Vienna
lying west of the Danube canal,
leaving only a thin slice of the
northwestern part of the Aus
trian capital In nazl hands.
Stockholm reports said all or
ganized resistance In Vienna had
ceased. It was plain that the
Soviets had the second largest
city of Adolf Hitler's "greater
Germany" within their grasp.
A Moscow communique re
porting the virtual conclusion of
the battle for Vienna said that
the Germans lost 134,000 men
killed or captured at Koenlgs
berg, capital of east Prussia,
which fell yesterday.
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Ashland, April Id George
N. Kramer, 322 Hargadine
street, passed away at the Com
munity hospital yesterday. He
haci been a resident oi the city
for 40 years. His railroad career
as an agent and telegrapher be
gan In 1808. He retired in 1933
and In point of service was one
of the oldest operators on the
Southern Pacific system. He was
a member of the Elks lodge and
Masonic order.
He It survived by hit wife, a
ton Foss, a brother, James of
Hollywood and a lister, Emma
of Monmouth, Ore, Two grand
sons also survive.
Washington, April 10 (U.fi)
There has been no decision yet
on what to do with the art treas
ure! and gold found liy the U. S.
armies In a German salt mine, II
wat learned today.
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