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Newspaper Page TextWeather FORECAST! Pair tonight and Thursday. LHtU chauf la temperature. Temp. Highest Yeaterd ay ...... . 80 Loweat thla Morning 40 Fortieth Year Reds In Yanks E 10 ESCAPE I IT Third Army Spearhead With in 100 Miles of Prague; Germans Fight Savagely Paris, April 18 (U.R) Lt, Gen. George S. Pattern's Ameri can 3rd army broke across the German border into Czechoslo vakia today and pushed on to within 100 miles of Prague in a bid to cut off the last line of escape for the nazi forces flee ing southward into the Bavari an redoubt. Tanks and armored troop carriers of Patton's 80th infan try division cracked through the German border defenses near the village of Kaiser- hammes, eight miles east of Hof, and pushed three miles in to the enslaved republic against stiff opposition. Troops Fan Out United Press War Corres pondent Reynolds Packard first American reporter to en ter Czechoslovakia, r e p o r t ed that the doughboys were fan ning out southeastward on the main highways to Rossbach and Asche, the latter only 98 miles due west of Prague. German tanks and Infantry forces fought back savagely be hind road blocks and from im provised machine gun nests set up in Czech farmhouses along the border, but Packard report ed that they were being driven steadily eastward,-.-. . . - Gottmannsgruen, two miles Inside Czechoslovakia and six miles north of Asch, was taken In the advance. Other Forces Gain Other 3rd army forces ham mered out advances of as much as 10 miles on either flank of the 90th division. The northern wing was cutting across German soil just above the Czechoslovak border and the southern flank was closing on the border from a point south of Hof. The dramatic crossing, which cut Germany in two geographi cally and raised a new threat to the enemy's escape corridor at Prague, came as other Amer ican forces stormed the five key citadels of Hitler's collapsing Reich In a general offensive that German spokesmen admit ted had wiped out their western front. Patton's northern wing storm ed into Chemnitz, one of the five nazi keystones, about 50 miles northeast of the Czecho slovak border and 80-odd miles west of the oncoming red army. PERMITTING E Sacramento, Calif., April 18. (U.R) Director A. A. Brock of the department of agriculture today announced the marketing order for fresh Bartlett pears was overwhelmingly approved by producers and handlers in the third biennial referendum held during February and March. The balloting showed produc ers voted for continuation of the order at a ratio of six to one while handlers favored it Viree to one. The order, established in 1937. requires a minimum grade and a minimum size for fresh Bart lett pears sold in markets within the state and inspection to in sure maintenance of quality standards. AUTHOR DIVORCED Las Vegas, Nev., April 18. (U.R) Rosamond Marshall, auth or of the best-selling novel, "Kitty", today was divorced from Earl Marshall of New York executive of the Radio Corpora tion c America. COLONEL LOCKED OUT Los Angeles, April 18 U.R) Superior Judge George A. Dock weiler yesterday gave Mrs. Maria Teresa Kimberly the right to lock her bedroom door while Col. Allen Kimberly, whom she is suing for divorce, sleeps in the dining room. MEDFORD U'ited Press Sight Of Burning Berlin; Wheel Into Czechoslovakia Squeeze SrSf auncsE. y ?' '""rC hAMBUG - Nsf? folil ' ' Seht,m, POMERANIA J Ws.cmC,LZJ?Vv MECKLENBURCffm7vSM'S''''' J MUINSTII V , TJTi i-: ;:::. : T I Hildeihcim '.A33tua6 vd. v- f H.ltc.iroJie f&: ?laA ::ii'AmCubaiX .' S-eMuUhnuicn (;,!, jjiUV - Ei.cnochi DIIlSOtftrrf.:!. - .7 Irlr CHIMNIU SrfV''- ' -r HiWbuij . s r "', FRANKFURT c k. i S A rTr -?';BOMtMIAv.:..1wuo V?CTj ' ! Wudbu.j 3 fihci ;,K'..yw-Y' mora via M.,, V l s-TV V,CZECH0. 01 .STUTTiART ' J S '0 VURTTEMBERG J "BAVARIA x;fT'--''' ' jtl , Ulho-- V -V"" S Vilinz ( SWITZ.k' V iHliKlllllllUllV : i i - - i vi ' (Acmt Telephoto) The assault on Berlin from wesi and east reaches a crescendo of fiirj with Russians reported within 17 miles of capital while Americans storm Elbe Valley less than 45 miles from goal. To the south, Yank troops bat tled In Leipzig and Nuernberg, near juncture with Soviet troops in at tempt to halt Nazis' flight from central Germany to Hitler's Bavarian redoubt. PETITIONS SEEK L Salem, Ore., April 18 (U.R) Preliminary referendum peti tions designed to repeal the so- called milk control laws of the recent legislature, were filed with the secretary of state here today. The petitions were signed by seven members of the dairy in dustry, most of them affiliated with the Oregon Dairy Alliance, of Portland. The laws, (House Bills 234-370- 371) provide for the compulsory pasterization of all milk except that from certified disease-free herds, for the grading of food products and for the fixing of standards for fluid milk and cream by the department of agriculture. The preliminary petitions now go to the attorney general who has 10 days in which to prepare ballot titles. Full petitions, bearing 14,442 signatures, must be filed by June 15 to put the measure on the 1948 general election ballot. KLAMATH NAVAL DEPOT IN SPENDING PROPOSAL Washington. April 18 (U.R) The Navy plans to spend $2,- 593,000 refurnishing air facili ties in the Pacific Northwest, it was announced today. Proposed facilities include fire protection at the Colon Naval Air Station, Klamath Falls, Ore., $36,000; quarters at the North Bend, Ore., auxiliary air station, $35,000. Japanese Exclusion To Incorporate Upheld in Oregon Salem, Ore., April 18 (U.R) Attorney General George Ncun er ruled today that the articles nf incorporation of the "Japa nese Exclusion league" should be accepted by the state corpora tion commissioner. The organiz ation has its headquarters In Gresham. "Regardless of the vagueness . of the objects, business and pursuit of the corporation set forth In the articles, It Is my opinion that, upon receipt of the statutory fee, you should file the articles and issue a certificate," Neuner said. He said that there is no unlaw ful purpose evident on the face of the articles. The organization is headed by Dal Berga, president, who was Full Leased Wire of Death Half -Mast Flags Rule for 30 Days Flags should remain at half mast for a thirty-day period, according to Friti Nisien, for merly of Medford, now state adjutant of the American Le gion, in Portland. Nissen gave the information today in reply to inquiries as to the proper display during the period of national mourning. II E Salem, Ore., April 18 (U.R) It will probably be another two weeks before all state Income tax returns are tabulated, Earl Fisher, tax commissioner in charge of income taxes, said to day. There were nearly 50,000 un opened envelopes containing mailed-ln returns yesterday, he said, following the Monday mid night deadline. About 450,000 returns were sent to taxpayers this year. To tal Income tax receipts may to tal more than $12,000,000 this year, Fisher estimated. LIVESTOCK MEN MEET WITH 0PA THURSDAY All slaughterers and produc ers of UvesOck in this district are asked to attend a trade meet ing at the office of the Medford war price and ration board In the city hall Thursday at 8 p.m., the price clerk stated today. Here for the meeting will be H. P. Maddison of the food price division of OPA, Portland, and he is to discuss MPR S74 dealing with ceiling prices on livestock. It is stated that the meeting will be held In the main office oi the local board. League Right also one of the officers of the "Oregon Anti-Japanese Inc.", which was refused articles some time ago. He Is also an officer of the "Oregon Property Owners Protective league." Other officers Include C. C. Schneider, who was the attorney for the "anti-Japanese" group, also of Gresham, and Ralph Han nan. The articles as filed are aimed at the Intention of the return of Japanese to the west coast dur ing the war, and to conduct an "educational" program with the ultimate aim of denying citizen ship to all Japanese, after the war. Amendment to the federal constitution is the only way in which the latter objective could be realized. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1945 250 SOVIET W E NAZI LINE Germans Admit Armored Attack Carried Invaders , Across River near Wriezen London, April 18 (O.R) Moscow said the Russians were fighting in sight of burning Ber lin today, and the nazis report ed that a charge of 250 soviet tanks opened a new breach in line through Seiversdorf, 17 miles east of the capital. Late German broadcasts- ad mitted that a Russian armored onslaught carried across the Alt Oder, or old course of the river, in the area southeast of Wriez en. The Russians reached Wulkow - Sieversdorf line in what Berlin called extremely violent fighting. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's first Ukrainian army was reported to have broken into Forst, stra tegic base on the west bank of the Neisse river 68 miles south east of Berlin and 62 miles northeast of Dresden. Besiegers Gain Ernst Von Hammer, nazi mil; itary commentator, said the Russian army besieging Berlin's defense ring scored gains in sev eral sectors east and northeast of the city. On the right wing of what he called the Kuestrin front the Russians threw in at least 250 tanks. The armored superiority enabled them to smash across the Alt Oder at several points. Gains were run up in the area of Freienwalde, 25 miles northeast of Berlin, and southeast of Wriezen the Soviets slugged ahead in a bloody fighting around Neutrebbin, 25 miles from the city line, and Kuners dorf Heights, 23 miles from Berlin. Climactic Phase A German DNB dispatch said the offensive had reached its "climactic phase" with nine at tacking soviet armies scoring new penetrations west of Kues trin. on the Warsaw-Berlin su perhighway and north of Wriez en, 23 miles northeast of the capital. Berlin earlier revealed that the Red army also had linked up all its Oder river bridge heads to form a solid 45-mile front east of Berlin and had all but isolated Frankfurt, the cap Hal's outer defense bastion. To the south, the Germans said, other Russian forces stormed nine miles beyond the Neisse river, a tributary of the Oder, to the Niesky area, 45 miles northeast of Dresden and possibly 65 miles from a Junc tion with the American 3rd army. Altogether, perhaps 2,000,000 soviet troops were on the march to the west along a 180-mile front from the Baltic port of Stettin to Goerlltz in the Sude ten foothills, the nazis said, . 2,350B0MBERS London, April 18 (U.R) More than 2,350 American and RAF bombers and fighters at tacked rail targets and German air fields throughout the Reich today continuing their reduc tion of the Luftwaffe's waning air strength. The 8th air force sent our 1, 350 bombers and fighters to hit rail targets and air fields In southern Germany and western Czechoslovakia. RAF targets were the Heligo land naval base and the airfield on the Island of Dune nearby. More .than 1.000 bombers, es corted by an unannounced num ber of fighters, concentrated their attack in good weather. SKY THE LIMIT Burbank, Cel., April 18 (U.R) Hall Hibbard, Lockheed Air craft Corporation vice president and chief engineer, predicted today that by 1955 rocket planes will be flying 100 miles high After tl rt. he said, the sky wilt be the limit SI ?S TALK ON O .'WAR PLANS vements Necessary by Iwth of City to Be Topic uf Discussion Tonight. Reports on development plans for the new city park, on a pro posed additioi,to the city sewage disposal plant, a proposed new bridge for Jackson boulevard, and an addition to the city library building will be discuss ed tonight at a meeting of the city planning commission. Meet ing with the commission will be Mayor Clarence A. Meeker, the park committee of the council and other city officials. Mayor Meeker stated today that preliminary plans on vari ous city projects deemed neces sary because of the growth of the city and in the way of ordin ary maintenance had been under way for some time and that these would be reviewed at the meeting tonight. A bond issue will probably be proposed to cover cost of some of the pro jects. During discussion on the new park, Mayor Meeker will report on results of a conference with Ben Evans, recreation director for Seattle, who is aiding the city with park development plans. Members of the planning com mission are Bernard Roberts, chairman, Ben Trowbridge, J. F. Fliegel, R. S. Daniels, Eugene Thomas, Dwight Houghton and Dr. B. L. Lageson. City Recorder Woodford acts as secretary. JUVENILES STAGE DIKING PART!; COPS PAY CALL State police and sheriff's offi cers broke up a "wild" juvenile party at a suburban residence Sunday night, Juvenile Officer Robert M. Elder revealed today. The officers, called by a neigh bor, found nine people, mostly under 18, at the party and found evidence of considerable drink ing, Elder said. Two cases of empty bottles were gathered up by the officers? it was stated. Names of those Involved were withheld pending further inves tigation and possible court ac tion. Two boys and a girl were found in a back bedroom, one couple was found in a car parked in the yard and another couple was found embracing in the shadows of the house. Beer bottles were found scattered throughout the house, the officer said. Elder was called to the house by police and was told "40 or 50" boys and girls had attended the party during the evening and all indulged in dancing and drinking. Elder said several parties have been held at the residence In the past, as well as other "wild" juvenile parties In Medford which have been a constant source of trouble to the juvenile office. All "wild" parties Involv ing Juveniles will be Investigat ed and those responsible will be prosecuted in an effort to bring the trouble to an end, Elder said. MINES RELEASED Washington, April 18 (U.R) The government has returned Anthacite mines of 'the Phila delphia and Reading Coal Co., to their owners after more than seven months of government op eration. The mines, near Shen andoah, Pa., were taken over ug. 23, 1944, on a presidential order following a local strike. BASEBALL American Boston ..... - 3 8 0 New York 8 8 1 Wilson and Walters; Borowy and Garbark. Chicago at Cleveland, post poned, cold. National Philadelphia 8 1 Brooklyn - 2 7 2 Barrett and Mancuio; Chap man and Owen. New York 8 10 1 Boston 4 10 1 Mungo and Lombardl; An drews and KlutU. 1RIBUNE United Press Yanks Capture wn mm . jr. (Acme Telephoto) On the roster of big-name Germans In Allied hands are Prince August Wllhelm of Prussia (upper left), son of the Kaiser, end his mother (upper right), Empress Hermlne, widow of Knlser Wilhelm of World War L Captuv.-d also were Marshal August von Maokensen (lower left), 95-year-old f man Army commander of World War I, and Dr. Mn""'re' ' app (1 .er right), chief Nazi propagandist in the U. S. from 1038 to 1941. SUICIDE BASES ON AGAIN BY YANKS By United Press American Superfo rtresses blasted Japanese suicide-plane bases on Kyushu again today, extending the crushing aerial offensive against the enemy's dwindling air power and home land war Industries. The attack, the second within 12 hours, came on the third an niversary of Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle's historic raid . on Tokyo. More than 100 big bombers struck at the six main airfields from which Japanese suicide pilots have been attacking Amer ican warships off Okinawa. Roaring out from the Marianas early today they passed some of the Superfortresses returning from yesterday afternoon's raids. The 21st bomber command an nounced that the B-20 raid early Monday had burned out an addi tional 5.2 square miles In Tokyo, boosting the total destroyed to' 32.7 square miles nearly a tenth of the capital's 360. square miles. Lend On Monne Tokyo announced that Ameri can troops had landed' on tiny Menna island three miles off west central Okinawa in a bid to obtain more airfields. Pacific headquarters did not mention the landing but said Ie island Just north, had been two-thirds cleared. . On Okinawa marines battled 1,300 to 2,200 Japanese In the hills of Motobu peninsula In the northern sector. The Japanese counterattacked four times yes terday In a battle for an Import ant hill. The marines counted 300 enemy dead after finally winning the position. On Luzon In th Phllinnlnoi American troops stormed into me outsKlrts of Baguio from which Filipino guerillas rescued more than 7,000 civilians in the last three weeks. Marrying Barber Plans 12th Trip Reno, Nov., April 8 (U.R) Arthur (Frcnchy) D u p o n t, Reno's marrying barber, will wed his 12th wife Sunday If his divorce from number 11 Is com pleted by that time, he disclosed today. Dupont planned to marry Marguerite McMIIIln Proctor 27, Kansas City, Mo., the dl vorced wife of TSgt. William Proctor, now In Burma. The ceremony was scheduled for "Honeymoon Lodge" In north Reno. FEATURE CHIEF DIES New Rochelle, N. Y., April 18 (U.R) Joseph V, Connolly, 60, president of Kln Features Syn dicate, the International News Service and International News Photos, died early today of heart attack. Full Leased Wire Reich Celebrities J Note From Russia Hints Settlement Big Three Dispute Washington, April 18 (U.R) A note from Soviet Russia brought nearer to settlement or deadlock today the Big Three dispute over Polish representa tion at the San Francisco secur ity conference. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettlnlus, Jr., told his news con ference that the United States had received a new note from Russia on the ticklish question He did not, however, discuss the note's contents. Ho said it had Just arrived and that he had not bad time to read it. Meanwhile, the secretary said, the eight-member U. S. delega tion to San Francisco has reach ed agreement "on all major points." POPE IN PLEA FOR FAIR, JUST PEACE Rome, April 18 (U.R) Pope Pius XII today placed the spirit ual weight of the Vatican be hind the San Francisco confer ence with a special encyclical epistle warning that both vic tors and vanquished will face a new war unless a fair and just peace organization is establish' ed. The Pope addressed his mes sage to the Episcopacy through out tha world, inviting all to increase their prayers In order that God may grant peace "and not only peace but a peace or ganization based on justice and fairness." "Otherwise," said the mes sage, "some day both the van quished and the conquerors will bear the grievous consequences oi a new war. HAITIAN NEWSPAPERS . OUT OF PAPER SOON Port-Au-Prlnce, Haiti, April 18 (U.R) Haitian newspapers nave announced that unless re lief is obtained from a news print shortage by Friday, they Will be forced tn rilimntlniip Publication. Dun tn tha nhnrt. age, the newspapers already nave been reduced to four-page size. GANDHI FEARS AXIS MAY BE HUMILIATED Bomhnv. Anrll 18 (IIP) Mohandas K. Gandhi said In a statement today that India's com plete freedom, from all foreign control is an indispensable pre liminary to peace. The statement regarding the San Francisco conference said that Germany and Japan should not be humiliated. o.Tr.T Drnifim Sail Lake City. April 18 - (U.R) Salt Lake City entertain ment-seekers were confronted with this sign over a downtown amusement confer today: "Out of cigarettes, out of money, out of merchandise, out of custom ers, out of help, out of patience and out of town'" Use The Mail Tribune Want Ad .Way Quick Result! At Small CoiJ NO. 23. ERNIE PYLE DIES BY JAP BULLET ON PACIFIC ISLAND War's Greatest Correspond ent Meets Death on Out skirts of le Near Okinawa; Washington, April 18. U.R) Ernie Pyle, a pleaceful little guy who became this war's greatest correspondent, has been killed la frontline action. , Secretary of Navy James For restal announced that the 44. year-old Scripps-Howard col umnist was killed instantly by a Japanese machine gun bullet oa Ie, a little island off Okinawa. With Foot Soldiers He was killed, Forrestal said, in the company of "the foot sol diers, the men for whom he had the greatest admiration." It was because he always sought the company of the foot soldier that Pyle became known as the fox-hole reporter. (Dispatches from Guam said Pyle was killed on the outskirts) of the town of Ie at 10:15 a.m. today, Guam time Tuesday night, U. S. time.) The famed correspondent was) shot three times through tha temple while under Japanese) machine gun fire, Blue Network Correspondent Jack H o o 1 e y broadcast from Ie Shima. (Pyle was headed for the front line fighting with Lt. Col. Joseph Coolldge of Arkansas when sudden burst of fir sent them scrambling from their jeep into a ditch bes.lde a narrow coral road, Hooley said.) y (After a few minutes they peered over the edge of the ditch and the gun rattled again, Cool ldge ducked back to find Pyle dead beside him.) President Truman received the news in an already bereaved White House while conferring with Forrestal, Secretary of War? Henry L. Stlmson, and Secretary of State Edward H. Stettinlus Jr. Saddened Again ' The . president immediately wrote out a statement in which he said the nation, sorrowing for its late president, was "saddened again by the death of Ernie Pyle." "He deserves," the president added, "the gratitude of all his countrymen." Forrestal subsequently issued a formal announcement at the navy. He revealed that Pyle was standing at the time beside the regimental commanding officer of headquarters troops, 77th di vision of the army. The secretary's statement said: "He was killed Instantly by Japanese gun fire while stand ing beside the regimental com manding officer of headquarters troops, 77th division, U. S. army. At the time of his death he was with the foot soldiers, the men for whom he had the greatest admiration." Pyle's father, W. C. Pyle, lives In Dana, Ind. His wife lives in Albuquerque, N. M. ANOTHER TRIAL Hollywood, April 18 (U.R) Charlie Chaplin will appeal the verdict that declared him the father of baby Carol Ann Barry, his attorney announced today. Loyd Wright, Chaplin's attor ney for most of the many years the veteran British comedian has been in Hollywood, said tha appeal from yesterday's Jury verdict would be taken on "legal grounds." "We feel that it was simply Impossible to get a fair Jury here," Wright added. A verdict, naming Chaplin tha father of Carol Ann Barry was returned late yesterday by a superior court Jury which voted 11 to one against the British born comic. CIGARETTE FATAL Salt Lake City, April 18 (U.R) Mrs. Cristina Scheanker, 87-ycarold Salt Lake City wom an, died of suffocation today In a fire started when she appar ently fell asleep while smoking a cigarette, firemen reported. CALL OFF STRIKE San Francisco, April 18 U.R A strike by 4,000 employes of the Pacific Gas Si Electric Co., scheduled for tomorrow, has been called off, Charles W. Ma son, International Representa tive of the AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers announced today.