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President Harry S. Truman greets George Bldault (left). French minister
White House after his arrival In Washington with other French delegates
to right George Bldault. James E. Dunn, assistant secretary of state, and
Representatives
Converge For
San Francisco, April 20
(U.R) representatives or. me
anti-Axis world converged by
train and plane on San Francisco
today for the United Nations'
conference on International or
ganization. The few empty hotel rooms
tilled as statesmen, newsmen,
official secretariats and nonoffi
cial observers arrived In ever
Increasing numbers for opening
of the Uncio Wednesday, April
25.
The men and women selected
TO
By Richard D. McMillan
United Press War Correspondent
Belsen Camp Near Hannover,
Germany, April 20 U.R Nazi
SS elite guardsmen were put to
work today gathering the bodies
of the hundreds of inmates who
died in this hell hole.
Hungarian prisoners of war
also were brought in to help
with the mass burial. British
troons already had entombed
hundreds of bodies from the
mounds of dead the nazls left
behind.'
' ) Bodies Heaped
When 1 visiieo. me ramp w
day I had to stand in line with
150 or more of the Hungarians
and like them be fumigated be
fore I could pass down the lines
of huts where British doctors
estimated more than 300 persons
men, women and children
died last night.
Bodies still were being piled
In heaps outside the huts in
ooen spaces beside burial pits.
Beans of hundreds of bodies
awaited burial.
Women among the nazls who
ruled the camp were kept in
cells. I was told that "if we take
them out, the inmates would try
to kill them." . .
A British medical officer said
that one of these women used to
reserve her torture of the In
mates for Sunday afternoons,
when she lnshed her victims. In
mates said the women guards
, would tie a living body to a
corpse and burn both together.
Cremation Stopped
British doctors believed the
Germans stooped using mass
cremation to dispose of the dead
because they wanted to save
fuel. Instead they were believed
to have dug the burial pits, only
to fall behind the death toll.
I have seen many grusome
Ishts in this war, but never
have I set eyes upon such hor
ror as this.
SIDE GLANCES
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TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Gene Thomdike asserting
that Palm Springs and Califor
nia weather can't compare with
the Rogue River valley's balmy
spring days.
Clarence Wlnetrout admitting
1 that a change of residence
brings a change of viewpoint.
Commissioner Arthur Powell
Wondering if it wouldn't be a
good idea to give Klamath
county back to the Indiana.
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U Mted Prase Full Leased Wire
French Deleaates
Of Anti-Axis Countries
San Francisco Conference
by the governments of 46 Uni
ted Nations to draft a World Se
curity formula represented
many shades of political thought.
Farce to Indians
Dr. Anup Singh, secretary of
the national committee for In
dia's - freedom, issued a state
ment saying the people of India
consider their participation at
the San Francisco conference a
"farce."
Dr. Singh said the three offi
cial Indian delegates "would get
their instructions from London '
and would not represent the In
dian people. He is here to pre
pare for arrival next week of
Mrs. Vijaya Lakshml Pandit,
sister of Indian National Party
Leader Pandit Jawaharlal JJeh:
ru.
Tha nnpstlnn nf India's future
will be represented at the con
ference, Dr. Singh said, Decause
the problem of India's freedom
must be solved before a stable
peace can be realized In India.
John C. Ross, ueputy secre
tary General of the 'Conference,
nnnnnncpri that the United States
will propose that the conference
be divided Into four commis
sions. The commissions in turn
would be divided Into two to
four committees for a total of
12.
Tf such nlan Is adoDted a
delegates' proposal would be In
troduced in a steering commit
tee which in turn would refer it
4n th. nrnnpr commission for
handling. The commission would
send it to a committee for con
sideration. The committee would
return it to the commission.
Finally it would be given to a
conference plenary session ior
rejection or adoption.
Tain arrival! included a 10
man delegation from Haiti head
ed by Gerald E. Lescot, secre
tary of state, Velly Thebaud,
secretary of national defense,
Bombers, Fighters
Busy On Continent
LONDON, April 20 (U.R
More than 1.600 American
hnmhora and fiehtcrs raided
prime targets throughout Ger
many and CzechoslovaKia toaay
in Hirect suoDort of the Ameri
can and soviet armies.
The big 8th air force fleet oi
800 Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators with an equally strong
fighter escort concentrated the
attacks on railway Installations
in the Berlin area and between
Munich and Prague.
Mrs. Roosevelt Departs From White
House With Fastest Exit on Record
- Washington, April 20-flJ.B
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt de
parts from the White House to
day leaving nothing undone.
She is on schedule to the last
minute, thereby completing the
fastest exit any retiring first
lady ever made.
Except for Dolly Madison, who
was running from a fire set by
the British.
Mrs Roosevelt held her last
press conference yesterday after
noon over tea in the sof . y-1;
state dining room. She couldn t
go, she said, without bidding
goodbye to the friends she had
met so regularly for so many
years.
She told her all-female au
dience that she is going directly
r tirrioro ht has an
io new .7 .
apartment on Washington
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of foreign affairs. In garden of tha
to San Francisco Conference. Left
French Ambassador Henri Bonnet
nnrl Gen. Alfred Nemours, rjresl
dent of the senate. Sir Anthony
Rumbo, assistant secretary to
thr Rritish delegation. and Fran
cis Williams, controller of the
British Press and Censorship,
also arrived.
Srjeeial Trains Comina
Arrival of dignitaries will
rpn ch Its nonk Sundav. Monday
and Tuesday. State Department
officials announced five special
trains were scheduled to reach
hprA nn Ihnsp three daVS.
Tha Pacific Telenhone and
Telegraph Co., announced it had
put in operation a conterence
telephone exchange. It will be
serviced by 35 operators divided
n4n craws cnpnirinff bDanisn,
French, Portuguese, Russian,
Chinese and mignsn. . .
POSTAL OFFICIAL
MS AT Ml
SITES
Pursuant to an announcement
made in Washington, D. C, re
cently that Senator Guy Cordon
had stated federal building
needs In Medford would be sur
veyed, it was learned today that
such a survey was made yester
day. J. E. Fitzgerald, Seattle, post
office inspector, spent the entire
day here conferring with Mayor
Clarence A. Meeker, City Re
corder J. R. Woodford, Chamber
of Commerce officials. Postmas
ter Frank DeSouza, and others.
He inspected the present fed
eral building, looked at possible
sites for a new building and will
report on his finding to the
postofflce department, It was
stated.
For P. O. Use
It Is believed that if a new
building is erected, the new
structure would be used as a
postoffice and the present build
ing would house other federal
offices, some of which are now
scattered In offices throughout
the-clty.
Mayor Meeker Informed the
inspector that postofflce officials
should prepare for an Increase
In population of Medford and
vicinity, expected to reach
39,000, it Is reported. .
Square, then to Hyde Park on
Sunday.
First off she will dispose of
Mr. Roosevelt's belongings. That
will take some time, she ex
plained you know. Franklin's
great Interest in things his
torical.
Most of them will go to Hyde
Park after the children have
made their selection. It Is espe
cially difficult to decide about
these things, she explained, with
two boys In the Pacific from
whom we haven't heard since
their father's death.
She revealed that she expects
to keep on writing, though her
definite plans will not be made
until she is settled again. She
resumed her syndicated column
"My Day" last Tuesday.
' She stated definitely that she
doesn't aspire to public office.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY,
AMERICANS TAKE
OLD NUERNBERG,
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Once Beautiful City Gutted
in House to House Battle;
Vanguards Race South.
Paris, April 20 (U.R) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said
today in an order of the day
that the "ragged remnants of
Hitler's armies of the west
now are tottering on the
threshold of defeat."
Eisenhower's order of the
day was addressed to "ev
ery member of the allied ex
peditionary force" on the con
clusion of the battle of the
Ruhr, where more than 300,
000 German troops were
trapped and eliminated as a
fighting force.
Paris, April 20. (U.R) The
American seventh army cap
tured the ruined Nazi shrine
city of Nuernberg today and
struck south for Munich to open
the battle for Hitler's last retreat
In the Bavarian Alps,
All organized. resistance ended
in Nuernberg after a savage,
house-to-house battle that front
despatches said had gutted the
once-beautiful medieval city.
Last Elites Quit
The last survivors of a Nazi
Elite Guard corps surrendered
to the Americans inside the old
walled city in the center of
Nuernberg late this afternoon
Ironically on the 56th birthday
of the fuehrer who had ordered
his party shrine defended to the
death.
It was the 15th city of the
reich and the third big Nazi
stronghold to fall to the rampag
ing American armies in the past
24 hours. Halle and Leipzig
were taken by the U. S. first
army yesterday.
Armored vanguards of the
seventh army were racing 25
miles and more beyond Nuern
berg even beore the last enemy
resistance ended there.
They struck within 70 miles
or less of Munich, cradle of the
Nazi party and northern outpost
of the Bavarian redoubt where
Hitler had boasted his followers
would continue to fight even if
all else in Germany fell.
Important Gains
The seventh army triumph
highlighted a day of unspectacu
lar but strategically Important
gains scored by the allied armies
against by-passed German strong
holds up and down the western
front.
In the north, Canadian first
army troops completed the liber
ation of northeastern Holland
and wheeled northeast and west
for the naval base of Emden and
the V-bomb coast of western
Holland.
British second army forces
sealed off all but the sea escape
route for the Germans in the
burning port of Bremen, ram
med an armored spearhead with'
in three miles or less south of
Hamburg, and battled for a
crossing of the Elbe fewer than
120 miles from Berlin.
U. S. ninth army troops on the
British right flank deepened
their Elbe river bridgehead
southeast of Magdeburg against
fierce opposition add dispersed
a strong Nazi counterattack near
the American-British hinge after
the enemy had madosome Initial
gains.
9th and 1st Team Up
Units of the ninth army team'
ed up with Lt. Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges' first army troops to
overrun all byt about one-fourth
of the Harz mountain pocket,
where thousands of by-passed
Nazis were trying to wage a
semiguerllla war from the wood
ed caves and ravines.
The mop-up bagged a secret
hideout of the Berlin foreign
office and 30 carloads of German
army and foreign office papers.
APRIL 20, 1945.
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Three Divisions Smash
Bulges in Jap Line Defend
ing Okinawa Capital City.
n,,om Anril 90 fll.B
American troops lunged to with
in 4hrA an4 o half miles nnrth
of Naha, capital of Okinawa, in
the most powerful offensive o:
tne cacuic war toaay.
Rarllc. TnWvn snid other troODS
attempted to land on the south
coast of Okinawa aDoui eigni
miip southeast of Naha yester
day from a 30-ship Invasion fleet,
including ZO transports ana sev
eral battleships.
Would Flank Town
Such a landing would deeply
outflank Naha, a city of 65,000,
and clamp a pincers on its garri
son of 60,000.
Three army divisions possi
bly 45,000 men smashed deep
huiifps intn hnth flanks of the
Japanese line across southern
Okinawa yesterday unaer mci
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given American troops for the
size of the target anywnere
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Front reports said Americans
now were less than o.uu yarua
north of Naha and approaching
Machlnato airfield on the west
coast and nearing the northern
end of Yonabaru airstrip on im
east coast.
Marines on northern Okinawa
continued mopping up enemy
remnants on Motobu Island.
Td-va Stated
Army Mustangs from Iwo bas
es truck the first heavy ngni
blow against Tokyo yesterday
with an attack on the Atsugl air
field. Preliminary reports listed
102 enemy planes destroyed or
j i
American troops on Mindinao
In the Philippines arove uny
posed to within 80 miles of the
L:- i novnn The drive,
moving a mile an hour, already
had secured a uu-squmc-i....
beachhead on Moro uuu.
rn . tl Q Assault trOODS OC
cupied Balabac Island, south of
American coniroiiL-u rj.A".
without opposition. Balabac Is
only 45 miles from the northern
tip of Borneo.
On northern Luzon, American
troops met continued fierce re-
slstence in the oauieior
750 LIBERATED
AT
Boston, April 20 (U.R) Some
750 American soldiers, lioeratea
from German prison camps by
Russians, hurried
eagerly off an army transport
onto their native soil here toaay
on the last lap of their trip
home.
Tanned and somewhat rested,
the soldiers disembarked to mar
tial music and immediately en
trained for Camo Mylcs Stand-
Ish at Taunton, There they were
welcomed home by Brig. Gen.
raivin DcWitl Jr.. commanding
officer of the Boston port of
embarkation.
The men then received part
of their back pay in preparation
for 43-aay turiougns inning to
morrow. Their first meal at the camo
Incltirilne- ateak and Ice cream.
was In sharp contrast to the
moldy sawdust bread and nors
meat stew they had been doled
out daily by the Germans.
The nrlsnnera said "the Gcr
mans kept marching them thru
Germany and Poland.
More than 4,000 uses of wood
have been counted, and the lilt
is still growing.
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Capture of Leipzig by V 8. First Army toppled keystone fortress of Oer
man aelensea oelow Berlin. Americans also battled Inside Nuernberg,
Halle ana Chemnlts. with fall of those three major bastions expected
loon General Bradley announced Americans In eastern Oermany havi
reacneo Uieu immediate obiectlves and would pause ostensibly to wait
development oi Russian drive which Berlin said had reached within 14
miles ol Nazi ?spltai after seizing Seelow and Wrlezen Far to the north,
British and Canadians closea rapidly on Hamburg, reached Zulder Zee.
drove for Amsterdam.
No Celebration As Hitler Passes
56th Birthday, and Probably Last
By W. ft. Hlgglnbotham
United Press Correspondent
London, April 20 U.PJ Adolf
Hitler, defeated dictator, passed
his 66th, and probably last,
birthday today.
There were no celebrations in
his dying empire for tha most
hunted man in history. The only
victory salutes came from the
guns of allied armies closing in
on him from east and west.
Berlin, where in Hitler's hey
day the red flags with the black
swastikas flew and his storm
troopers paraded, echoed with
the artillery of the oncoming red
army.
The German radio which once
boomed Hitler's birthday
speeches from Berlin, had only
news of fresh defeats td offer.
There was no Indication the
fuehrer would make a birthday
broadcast, although a Swiss re
port said 21 gauleiters had asked
Goebbels last week to persuade
Hitler to speak for the sake of
morale.
The only birthday greeting to
Hitler made publicly was by the
NEW BLOWS HIT
London, April 20 (U.R) Ger
many's already Impotent navy
has suffered two further crip
pling blows, with the sinking of
the pocket battleship Luetzow
and the announcement that the
26,000-ton Gneisenau Is now In
Russian hands.
The 10,000-ton Luetzow, a sis
ter ship of the sunken Admiral
Scheer, was sent to the bottom
of the Baltic harbor of Swlne-
muende by RAF bombers last
Monday, the British air ministry
said today.
The RAF put the Luetzow out
of action with six-ton bombs and
the ship Is lying on her bottom
in the shallow water.
In addition to the Gneisenau,
the Russians may have captured
the heavy cruiser Seydlltz.
Ski
Luxembourg radio, In a broad
cast directed to the fuehrer per
sonally. Said Luxembourg radio:
"If the date is remembered at
all lt will be with horror and
disgust. You have had the war
you planned, the one you said
you would rather have at 50
than at 00. And now the war
will end long before your six
tieth birthday, which you will
not live to see."
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LOCAL COUPLE
LISTED MISSING
For the second time In recent
weeks Mr. and Mrs. Elverton
R. Claflln of Route 1, Box 343,
have been Informed by the gov
ernment that one of their sons
Is missing In action. The second
message, received Wednesday,
stated that Sgt. Lynn E. Claflln
USMC, Is missing after action
In the Pacific area. First mes
sage Informed the parents that
Sgt. Cecil Claflln, member of a
B-25 crew, was missing after a
flight over the Brenner Pasa in
the Italian theater.
Mrs. Claflln Is reported to be
prostrated with grief and anx
iety and permission has been se
cured for a third son, Flight Offi
cer Vincent Claflln, to spend an
emergency leave here and was
expected U arrive today from
Texas.
Sgt. Lynn Claflln has been In
the marine corps for the past
two years and was wounded earl
ier In the war during the battle
of the Solomon Islands.
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NO. 25.
CAPTURE VILLAGE
1 MILES EAST OF
Moscow Reports Red Patrols
and U. S. 3rd Army Prob
ably Linked Near Dresden
London. Anril 30 aim n,,
slan troops storming the last
kmn iHin Derore Benin Droke Into
a village seven miles en of n k
caDltal todav. the nn7l nmrt
and a moscow dispatch said U. s!
aa army ana soviet patrols prob
ably had met in the Dresden
sector.
'The battle for TWltn h..
reached the decisive stage," Ger.
man broadcasters anlrf p.n.oi..
ly during the day in describing-
ma struggle at tne gates of the)
burning and shell-swept city.
Ia Hangelsberg
The left wine of an intense!
concentrated mass of soviet
tanks and men charslna atralaht
In against Berlin was reported
Dy me uermans to have pushed
Into the streets of Hangelsberg,
on the Frankfurt highway seven
miles short of the city limits.
A Moscow dispatch Said the
outriders of the Russian and
American armies probably had
made their first contact around
Dresden. Relayed to Lt. Gen.
Georee S. Patton'a 3d r m v
front, a high-ranking source
denied that any such meeting
had taken place, "unless," ha
added jokingly, "some of our
troops deserted us."
But the nazls were paying
most of the!.' attention to tha
Berlin front, where their radio
commentators said the Russian!
had driven into the capital's "de
fense zone proper."
Situation Bad
The German high command,
acknowledging widespread re
verses in the fortifications in
front of Berlin, said frankly
that "the situation has deterior
ated." Other nazl broadcasters re
ported soviet tanks and infantry
were moving directly against
Berlin between Muencheberg
and Wrlezen. Their center had
reached Strausberg, nine miles
from the capital, and the lower
wing was at Hangelberg, seven
miles from Berlin.
Moscow dispatches, following
up the first soviet high com
mand confirmation of the show
down offensive on a broad Ber
lin front, reported that the Rus
sians had broken across the)
Spree river and were closing
against Dresden.
It was in that region that, ac
cording to a Moscow dispatch,
outriders of Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton's U. S. 3d army and Mar
snal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrain
ian army, probably have met.
20 KILLED WHEN
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Sweetwater, Tex., April 20-
(U.R) Between 20 and 25 passen
gers aboard a twin-engine army
transport plane were killed to
day when it crashed and burned
three miles south of here.
Arrny officials refused at first
to release the number of men
aboard the plane until an ac
curate check of the badles could
be made, but local undertaker
said that "more than 20 bodies"
were In Sweetwater funeral
parlors.
President Names
Press Secretary
Washington, April 20 U.R
President Truman announced to
day that Charles O. Ross, 69-year-old
Washington correspond
ent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
will become hi press
secretary on May 15, , .