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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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'"
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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.