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Mighty Assault, Possibly
Under Stalin, Smashes
Nazi Lines Chiefs Flee
London, Sunday. April 21
U.R The London Newt World
carried a banner headline today
which read: "Berlin may fall to
day." There wa no source given
for the dispatch on which the
headline was based.
London, Sunday, April 22
(U.R) A radio station which iden
tified itself as "the voice of free
Germany," said tonight in a
broadcast heard by the United
Press in London "we demand
Immediate peace. Only by acting
now can chaos be averted."
Moscow, Sunday, April 22
(U.R) The three Russian tank
spearheads which crashed Into
Berlin's northeastern and east
ern outskirts today were fight
ing toward the German capital's
circular boulevard as whole sec
tions of the city flamed under
intensive aerial bombardment
and shelling.
London, Sunday, April 22
(U.R) Red Army troops smashed
four and. one-half miles inside
Berlin yesterday, the German
radio said as Moscow triumph
antly announced that Soviet
forces were at the Nazi capital,
climaxing a 990-mile drive west
ward In three years from the
gates of Moscow.
Last-minute refugees reaching
Sweden said the German SS gar
rison was fleeing Berlin by a
narrowing escape corridor to the
southwest, leaving its defense to
ill-trained peoples' militiamen
who were being slaughtered In
the Russian avalanche.
Soviet shells were whining
and crashing into Under Den
Linden, the enemy's fading ra
dio said, and 18 Russian armies
were lunging against the city in
a mighty assault.
Massed Russian tank force'
possibly under the personal di
rection of Premier Josef Stalin,
smashed the German lines in a
vast three-way envelopment and
frontal assault on the burning
capital covering a front of 200
miles. , . .
While three tank wedges stab
bed up to or into the city on the
northeast and east, other forces
were reported by Berlin to have
swept 14 miles around south of
the city to within 11 miles of
Potsdam, the old Imperial gov
ernment seat.
Another powerful R"flan
spearhead had veered north in
the envelopment of Berlin and
struck almost to the southern
edge of the city at Koenlgswus
terhausen only 10 miles from
Erkner, on the eastern city lim
its, which Moscow announced
captured.
A Junction by the groups con
verging on Berlin from the south
and east would trap huge Ger
man forces holding 2.500
square salient extending east to
the Oder at Frankfurt.
Churchill Hopeful
Bristol, England, April 21
CUR) Prime Minister Churchill
said today that allied armies in
Europe were nearing the end of
"a long Journey" and Indicated
that victory against the Nazis
might come soon.
Although refusing to forecast
the exact date of VE-day the
prlrr.e minister added, "I do not
think it need be long delayed.'
Churchill spoke after receiv
ing the freedom of Bristol. He
also addressed students at Bris
tol university. He last visited
the city four years ago after a
heavy air raid.
VE-day will be announced
only after all, or almost all.
pockets of resistance have been
wiped out. he said.
"Premature rejoicing must not
be followed by the sorrow of
further European battles," he
said. "We have no Intention of
encouraging any festivities of
thanksgiving untl) we are as
sured from our military com
manders that the task is so far
completed that everyone may
cheer."
Germans Forced to View Their Own Atrocities
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At Camp Buchenwald, Nazi horror prison camp near Weimar, Germany, civilians from the town were brought
forcefully to the camp and made to view with their own eyes, the gruesome evidence of Nazi atrocities. Here
a corpse dangles from the ecaffold where his fiendish Nazi captors hung him as the civilians stolidly watch his
body swing In the wind. Signal Corps radlo-telephoto.
FATE OF ALLIED
FLIERS HELD BY
Nuremberg, April 21 (U.R)
The fate of thousands of Ameri
can and British airmen listed as
"missing" will be known soon.
Documents recording all. allied
fliers down in German territory
during the war were captured
today.
A master file, containing the
histories of more than 45,000
British and American airmen,
was found in the nearby town
of Buchenbuhl. Officers consider
it one of the most important
finds in Germany to date.
The last entry, dated April 7,
was of an American pilot who.
it said, was found dead. The rec
ords revealed that more than
$1,000,000 in various kinds of
currency, had been taken from
captive airmen. Of this amount,
only $4,000 was recovered.
Bushels of rings, watches, Jew
elry, flying orders, love letters,
photographs and other items
taken from fallen 'airmen
whether alive or dead were on
file. Some 400 displaced per
sons, including Russians, Dutch
men, Yugoslavs, Poles, French
men and Italians, worked In the
center. When German authori
ties fled they took many valu
ables. Slave clerks 350 men
and 50 women lived in the
same camp. Most of the women
either had .borne children or
were pregnant.
When Lt. Col. D. T. Fuller of
North Tarrytown, N. Y., heard
that women slave workers were
wearing American fraternity
pins, he assigned Capt. Carl
Luetke of San Antonio, Tex., to
investigate.
HOI AIR BASES
OF JAPS BOMBED
Guam, Sunday, April 22 (U.R)
A large force of American
B-29s roared back over Kyushu
this morning for the second time
in 24 hours to blast five Jap
anese airfields as reports of yes
terday's strike indicated that
three airfields have been at least
temporarily knocked out.
Between 100 and 150 big
bombers hit Izumi, Kushlra, Ko
noza, Tomitaka and Miyazaki
airfields today in continued oper
ations to neutralize Japan's home
island airfields, from which the
enemy can harass American
forces at Okinawa.
It was the seventh Superfort
raid on Kyushu since March 27
and included two new targets
Tomitaka and Miyazaki.
STAR UNDER KNIFE
Hollywood, April 21 (U.R)
Hurd Hatfield, the star of 'The
Picture of Dorian Gray," tonight
was reported in good condition
following an emergency appen
dectomy at St. Vincent's hospital.
E
DUE TODAY WITH
REDS UPON ELBE
Ike Credited With Master
Stroke in Ruhr Bavaria
Drive Opens.
Paris, April 21 U.R) The U.
S. army was alerted tonight for
a Junction, perhaps only hours
away, with the onrushing red
army charging towards the
American's Elbe river bridge
head southwest of Berlin.
(The Paris radio said the Junc
tion would be made Sunday.)
Enemy reports said the Rus
sians were at Treuenbrietzen, 23
miles so .thwest of Berlin, and
38 miles from the 9th army's
Elbe bridgehead at Barby. The
red army at that point was only
31 miles from the American 1st
army fighting In Dessau, on the
west bank of the Elbe.
Headquarters announced to
night that a reconnaissance plane
in contact with the 9th army's
83d division in the Barby bridge
head reported sighting Russian
tanks rolling westward toward
the Elbe late Saturday after
noon. As the gap between the west
ern and eastern allies that only
three and one-half years ago
measured 2,000 miles from the
Caucasus to the Englisn channel
narrowed to insignificant size,
one French and two American
armies exploded a powerful new
assault against the nazis' Ba
varian redoubt on a 225-mile
front.
With the Germans falling
apart on the road to Berlin, Lt.
Gen. W. Bedell Smith, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of
staff, said the double envelop
ment of the Ruhr which opened
the way for the sweep to the
nazl capital was planned entire
ly by Eisenhower and was one
of the great military feats in his
tory. Smith disclosed that Elsen
hower went ahead with the plan
despite the opposition of many
of his advisers.
lEPlDllON
NCREASE VOTED
Washington, April 21 (U.R)
The War Production Board to
night announced a new goal -of
11,763,000 tires for second quar
ter production,' 2.802,000 more
than previous schedules called
for.
WPB said increased supplies
of essential tire-producing ma
terials made the new schedules
possible.
The new schedules call for an
Increase of 1,035,000 In passen
ger and motorcycle tire produc
tion, 689,000 truck and bus. 7.500
airplane and 70,000 tractor-implement.
Also scheduled was an
Increase in camelback produc
tion for recapping from 72,000,
000 to 90,000,000 pounds.
(Acme RaJio-Tetephoto)
BY HEAVY BOAT
Ti
San Diego, April 21 (U.R)
When U. S. navy doctors at the
naval hospital here read the med'
leal history chart of Earl A. Baer,
boatswains mate . 1 c - of Salis
bury, Mo. they. Instinctively
shuddered but went ahead.
Injured on his carrier in the
south Pacific when a 6000-pound
boat crashed to the deck pinning
him beneath its ponderous
weight, the 11th naval district
tonight revealed how Baer was
rushed to a near-by island hos
pital and given emergency blood
plasma, penicillin and sulfa
drugs in preparation for his
journey to the states for much
needed surgery.
X-rays had showed that Baer
had contracted compound frac
tures of the leg, several fractured
vertebraes, a ruptured dia
phragm, and inverted (upside
down) stomach which had been
shoved high into his chest, and
several other organs out of po
sition. Among these was the
heart, which had been moved
more than an inch to the right,
and a left lung which had col
lapsed. Navy doctors said Baer show
ed no symptoms of the changes
which had taken place Inside his
body except that he had a slight
shortness of breath, mild discom
fort and a feeling of fullness
whenever he ate or drank small
amounts.
A major operation at the naval
hospital here forced the sailor's
organs back . into position and
again inflated the collapsed lung.
An eight-inch tear in the dia
phragm also was repaired.
At last word, Baer was report
ed on the road to recovery with
all organs "ship-shape."
BULLETIN
Night Games
R. H. E.
Hollywood 18 0
Portland 2 8 1
Marshal, Rager and Hall; Co
hen and Adams.
Seattle, April 21 (U.R) Oak
land's Carl Monzo kept the Se
attle Ralnlers handcuffed for five
Innings in a Pacific Coast league
baseball game tonight, but the
Ralnlers unleashed their batting
power in the sixth to coast to a
6-2 victory over the Acorns.
R. H. E.
Oakland 2 7 1
Seattle 6 9 2
Munzo and Fenech; Speece and
Finlcy.
Day Oamts
San Diego 3 13 4
Los Angeles . S 8 1
Valenzuela, Bailey (5), Eaves
(8) and Ballinger, 'Osborn and
Kreltner.
Sacramento - 6 11 ' 1
San Francisco ............ 3 11 2
Fletcher, Plllette (9) and Mar
cuccl; Barthelson, Buzolich (8)
Flowers (8) and Ogrodowskl,
Sprinz (8).
TO
HORROR 'VICTIMS
Gen. Eisenhower Orders De
cent Burial by Germans
Nearest Death Camps
(By United Press)
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower has
ordered that each victim of tor
ture and starvation in German
horror camps must be given a
decent burial by German civil
ians. Burial parties will be re
cruited from towns closest to the
camps.
Gardelegen, Germany, April 2
(U.R) American soldiers who
have learned to hate stood guard
today while fat, prosperous nazl
civilians disinterred with shovels
and their bare hands 500 corpses
hastily buried after a wanton
massacre Friday.
More than 1,100 antl-nazi
French, Belgians, Russians,
Poles and Dutch were foully
killed. SS troops, aided by volk
strumers packed them Into a
stone barn on the outskirts of
Gardelegan, sorinkled gasoline
on the straw flooring and set it
afire with grenades.
American troops arrived last
Saturday, the following. A few
hours before, the nazis had -dug
a trench 60 yards long and three
feet deep behind the barn and
dumped 500 charred corpses In
it.
An Investigation began in
Gardelteri. More than 90 per
cent of the townsfolk were touna
tn be nazl party members, with
husbands, sons or fathers in SS
troops of among Hitler's mur
derers In the lugend.
For six days the Americans
rounded up groups of civilian
men. women and children and
marched them to the scene of the
massacre. A German speaking
American officer told them:
"You supported and encouraged
the regime responsible for this
hideous scene."
The civilians protested that
they hadn't known about the
death barn. Only 300 yards from
the barn were rows of houses.
Officers said it was Impossible
that their occupants hadn't
heard the screams of 1,100 mur
dered. TO
ATTEND OPENING
OF PEACE PARLEY
Washington, April 21 U.R)
Former Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull, told the Allies tonight
that the San Francisco World Se
curity Conference will be "an
acid test of whether mankind
has suffered enough and learned
enough."
The 73-year-old statesman an
nounced In a letter to Secretary
of State Edward R. Stettlnius,
Jr., that he would be unable to
take his place as senior adviser
to the United States delegation
when President Truman starts
the conference with a broadcast
of welcome from the White
House next Wednesday.
Hull told Stettlnius and "all
participating nations" that there
are "no differences or difficul
ties" between them that cannot
be overcome within the United
Nations Security organization.
"I have profound faith that
whatever the difficulties, the la
bors of the conference will be
crowned with success," he said.
"I shall follow Its work from
afar with absorbing Interest."
Hull's confident prediction
the eve of Imnortant dis
cussions of those "differences and
difficulties" among big five dip
lomats gathering here.
, The talks will begin soon af
ter Russian Foreign Commissar
V. M. Molotov arrives here from
Moscow lata tonight or tomor-
, San Francisco, April 21 U.R)
Two German prisoners of war
escaped last night from a work
camp Just north of Santa Bar
bara, Cel., tha Federal Bureau
of Investigation announced today.
SIX-POINT PLAN
Executive and City Council
Draft Program to Meet
Growth Need Million
Presenting a comprehensive
picture of needed improvements
and expansion of city facilities.
Mayor Clarence A. Meeker Sat
urday explained plans which the
council and department heads
have drawn for submission to
citizens in the near future. Many
of Medford's facilities have been
outgrown, the mayor pointed
out, and added that the city must
provide for an even greater pop
ulation In the next few years.
The mayor Itemized the six
point program as follows:
Trunk line sewer.
Park improvement.
Jackson Street Bridge.
City Library addition.
Storm sewers, drainage.
Sewage disposal plant enlarge
ment.
$1,000,000 Needed
The nroiect will require float
ing of bond issue of approxi
mately $1,000,000, the mayor
said, but the plan will be pre
sented at an election, probably
about June 5, in such a manner
that citizens may vote upon the
Items separately.
"The city was never in better
financial condition," Mr. Meeker
pointed out, "and at the present
rato of Interest the city could
carrv four times as much obllga-
tlon as a few years ago, at the
same cost." He quoted an official
of Blyth and Co., bond dealers, as
saying Medford could marnet up
to. a million dollars worth of
bonds at IVi per cent interest, or
less.
At present the city owes
around $600,000, the mayor sam,
"with only $35,000 of this sum
not self-liquidating. There is a
cash reserve of su.uuu.
Noeds Lona Studied
"The city administration has
drawn the program alter long
study 'and much consultation,"
the mnvot said, "and the plans
are intended to meet the needs
of the city as generally agreed.
niMisinir the Dronosed items
the executive gave the following
hrlpf resume:
Th nrcsent trunk line to the
sewage disposal plant is Inade
quate even to serve me west aiuc
nf the citv. Much sewage from
the east side, except in the driest
months, has to be released Into
Bear creek at the Jackson street
bridge. A $75,000 Installation Is
needed to remcd this situation
Public spirited citizens have
presented the city with a 15-acre
(Continued on Paga Ten)
SEN. VAlENBERG
ARRIVES ON BAY
San Francisco, April 21
(U.R) Sen. Arthur rl. vanaen
berg, R., Mich., and Dean Vir
olnln nilrieraleeve. Barnard col
lege, the first members of the
TTnltprf States delegation to the
United Nations conference on
International organization to ar
rive here, landed at Municipal
Airport aboard a C-54 army
Irani nnt-t tnniffht.
With them were John Foster
n,,llr.. nrfvlwr to the U. S. dele
gallon, and several Hides and
secretaries.
Armv Fliers Found
Alive After Jump
MrChord Field. Wash.. April
21 UR Eight army air-
me'i, who were missing after
they balled out from a B-24 Lib
erator bomber In the Etonvllle-
F.ntimrlaw area this afternoon
werm fniinrl alive and safe to
night. The men Jumped after
the bomber developed engine
trouble, McChord Field officials
said. The pilot remained with
the plane and reiurnea h sareiy
to McChord Field.
MOSQUITOES HIT KIEL
London, Sunday, April 22
(U.R) RAF mosqultos last night
attacked the big German U-boat
bare and port of Kiel.
WAR BULLETINS
London, Sunday, April 22
German broadcasts said to
night that Nail Propaganda
Minister Paul Josef Goebbels
had called upon Berliners to
fight for their city as if they
were guarding all Germany,
but radio listeners in Britain
reported that the voice of
Goebbels himself was not
heard.
Manila, Sunday, April 22
(U.R) American troops on Min
danao have captured tha Pal-du-Pulanga
road terminus, 32
miles inland from tha south
west coast. In a swift amphib
ious advance up the Mindanao
river, and are driving a Jap
anese force opposing them Into
marshy country around Lomo
pog, it was announced today.
BITTER STRUGGLE
FOR HILL 178 ON
Fleet Barrage Softens Foe
Doughboys Register
Small Gains.
Guam, Sunday, April 22
(1I.P1 Amirlnnn Tnfonlnman rn
southern Okinawa were locked
in a bitter struggle for Hill 178
guarding approaches to Yona
baru airfield Saturday and made
small gains along the entire line,
it was announced today, as the
United States flag was raised on
Iegusugu peak on Ie island. .
, Several times the Infantrymen
were thrown off the high ground
around the strategic hill. But
each time they came back and
pressed their assault throughout
Saturday.
For the third day the thunder
ing barrage thrown Into the
southern Okinawa sector by
Dime nf PaHflp Fleet hflttleshlDS.
cruisers and destroyers and mass
ed army and marine artillery
continued to support the advanc
ing Seventh, 27th and 96th Divi
sions.
Carrier aircraft made constant
nln-nnint attacks aeainst the nu
merous strong pillboxes, block
houses ana cave posmons
through which the tank-led in
fantrymen slowly pushed their
way.
On the approaches to Hill 178,
overlooking Shurl, a city of 60,
000 population In the center of
the line, American and Japanese
forces were locked in the bitter
est type of warfare, Fleet Adm.
Chester W. Nlmltz said.
The rugged terrain around
the hill changed hands several
times during Saturday's action,
he reported.
Nlmltz gave no indication of
the distance gained through
Saturday on the western coast.
American troops had last pushed
to within a mllo and a half of
Machlnato airfield, two miles
above Naha.
On the east, they were last re
ported only 214 miles from Yon
abaru town. The Vonabaru air
field Is less than a mile from the
most advanced Infantry forces in
that sector.
Small gains were cut out over
the ravine-cross terrain, how
ever, and the heavy bombard
ment plastering Japaneso troop
concentrations and emplace
ments wag expected to greatly
soften up the enemy defense
line.
Cnrtiallix WidoW 1 8
Oregon Mother, 1945
Portland, Ore., April 21 (U.R)
Mn n r. HvsIod. Corvallls
widow and tho mother of six
children, is Oregon mother lor
1945 and candidate tor me uue
of American mother, Mrs.
George R. K. Moorhead, selec
tion committee chairman, an
nounced today.
Mrs. Hyslop was nominated by
the Corvallis Women's club, of
u,hlrh h la nresident. She is
active In Red Cross, USO, and
numerous other patriotic ana
civic Improvement organizations.
NAMED STASSEN AIDE
Palo Alto, Calif., April 21
(U.R) Professor Harold Fisher of
Stanford university will assist
Cmdr. Harold Stassen, Rcpuun
can member of the U. S. delega
tion to the United Nations con
ference, it was announced looay
ALLIES CAPTURE
BOLOGNA TO END
Nazis Flee in Disorder
Poles and 91st Infantry
First to Enter.
Rome, April 21 (U.R) Al
lied troops captured the forl
ress city of Bologna today and
spread out over the Po valley
in swift pursuit of the disorgan
ized German army. Their vic
tory was described by Gen. Mark
Clark as "the beginning of tha
end In Italy."
Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L.
G. Alexander, Mediterranean
commander-in-chief, bailed tha
fall of Bologna with r special an
nouncement as the American 5th,
and British 8th armies, after
months of stalemate fighting in
bitter weather, swept nine milea
north of the city.
Polish troops of the Eighth
army and elements of the U. S.
34th and 91st infantry divisions
were the first inside Bologna.
Opposition was neglible. All ot
the city came into Allied hands
speedily.
Fifth army armor, raced
through the ancient university
city and capital of Emilia prov
ince, without pause and fanned
out over tha Po plain beyond in
hot pursuit of the disorganized
and fleeing German army.
' Bologna had a peacetime popu
lation of 246,280. It Is in a fer
tile" plalrr at tha foot of tha
bristling Apennines mountains
where groups of Lt. Gen. Trus
cott's Fifth army broke through
formidable defenses yesterday to
clear resistance on the south and
southwest and make way for Ui
capture.
Capture of Bologna gave the
Allies control of the entire south
ern portion of the Po valley and
ends a four-month stalemate dur
ing which the 15th Army group
battled not only a fanatical en
emy but bitter cold and tortuous
mountain terrain. The break
through to the Po plain will en
able tha Allies to us tanks and
heavy armor in a large scale
offensive to destroy the German
army In Italy.
NOTED MUSICIAN
New York, Sunday, April 22
(U.R) Heiress Gloria Vander
bilt and Conductor Leopold
StokowskI were married Satur
day in Mexico, a day after she re
ceived a divorce from Pat Dl
Clcco, Hollywood actors' agent.
It was disclosed early today.
The marriage of the 58-year-old
musician, who gained fame
as conductor of the Philadelphia
Philharmonic orchestra, and the
youthful Miss Vanderbilt waa
announced here by Otto E. Koe
gel, attorney for Mrs. Reginald
Vanderbilt, Gloria's mother.
BRITISllPORT
Calcutta, April 21 (U.R) Brit
ish 14th army infantry and
tanks, continuing to exploit
their spectacular breakthrough
to south-central Burma, made
good progress south along tha
Mnndalay-Rangoon railway, an
allied communique announced
today.
Other 14th army treops ex
tended their lateral drive across
the central Burma plain and oc
cupied the town of Scikpyu, on
the west bank of the Irrawaddy
opposite the communications city
of Chauk. Selkpyu li 32 miles
southwest ot Pakokku.
NAME PEAR BOARD
Sacramento, April 21. (U.R
Tha state agriculture department
today announced the producer
and handler members of tha
fresh fall and winter pear ad
visory board for tha 1945-46
marketing season.