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(at left with Mri. Stauen); and (at right) Dean Virginia Gildersleeve and Sen. Arthur Vanden
burg of Michigan.
HIGH COURT NULLS
TREASON PENALTY
f .
Washington, April 23. U.B
The supreme court, ruling on a
treason case for the first time in
ita history, today set asroe the
conviction of Anthony Cramer,
German-born citizen of New
York City, for giving aid to two
of the Nazi saboteurs who land
ed in this country in the summer
of 1942. .
The court found that the overt
acts charged by the government
against Cramer were not suffici
ent to support a conviction for
treason.
The S to 4 decision was read
by Justice Robert H. Jackson.
Justice William O. Douglas' dis
sent was signed by Chief Justice
Harlan P. Stone and Justices
Hugo L. Black and Stanley
Seed.
Cramer wai sentenced to a 45-
year prison term by the federal
district court at New York.
It was charged that Cramer
committed overt acts of treason
by meeting with Werner Thiel
nd Edward John Kerling two
of the eight Nazis landed by sub
marine at Florida and Long
Island accepting money for
safe keeping and concealing
tneir identity from federal bu
reau of investigation agents.
COL MM
LOCAL AIR BASE
Lt. Col. William F. Kyle has
. arrived in Med ford and today as
sumed his duties as command
ing officer of the Medford army
air base. The colonel has been
stationed at Spokane with the air
technical service command head
quarters. Capt. O. M. Smith, who 1ias
been commanding officer at the
base for the past 27 month, is
leaving tonight for Spokane,
where he will be stationed. He
will be accompanied by Mrs.
Smith and their son.
Col. Kyle will bring his fam
ily to Medford when a residence
can be secured.
T-5 WALTER L DYE IS
WOUNDED IN EUROPE
Walter L. Dye, technician Sth
grade, has been wounded while
serving in the European theater,
according to the office of war in
formation. He is the son of Ber
nard L. Dye, 527 Mae street,
Medford.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Anne Boitano deciding that
the shortages of certain foods
might be a blessing in disguise.
Frank Humphrey compliment
ing a friend on her cooking tal
ents and declaring she made even
turnips taste good.
Paul Hanlin endeavoring to
goad the Tribune reporters into
action by passing along a few
hot tips.
Life Insurance owned per fam
ily in the United States is now
approximately $4,400, up almost
20 per cent ip the past live
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EDFORD
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IS. S. Delegation Holds First
Meeting in Conference City
San Francisco, April 23 U.R)
The United States delegates to
the Undo conference met for the
first time here today as the Big
Three Powers conferred at Wash
ington in a last minute attempt
to iron out the Polish dispute.
Planes landing at nearby air
fields and every train crossing
the Sierras brought more dele
gates and advisers to the confer
ence. But most of the principals
still were absent.
French Foreign Minister
George Bidault, chairman of his
delegation, and French Minister
of Public Health Francois Bil-
ACTIVE IN CITY
An epidemic of bad check
passing has again hit this city
and county with 15 cases report
ed last week. District Attorney
George W. Neilson reported to
day. He admonished merchants
and others to scrutinize the
paper of all strangers, as the
chances of recovery are slim.
Wyatt Drennan, who is want
ed in several Pacific coast cities
on bad check charges, is now
held in the county jail awaiting
sentence, Neilson said. Several
others are being sought on the
same charge, the district attor
ney added.
The district attorney reports
some of the checks are crudely
drawn and easily detected. In
several instances the handwrit
ing is identical, from payee to
indorser. Some of the check
artists have departed and if
caught, the cost of returning
them would be more than the
check amounts. Neilson said his
office had been swamped with
bad check reports most of last
week with more coming in to
day. BREAD AND WATER
DISCOURAGE P-W'S
Rupert, Ida . April 23 (U.R)
German prisoners at the pris
oner of war camp here prepared
to return to work today after
calling off their three-day strike
started last Thursday when they
refused to take orders from
camp-appointed German non
commissioned officer "straw
bosses."
By orders of Lt. Col. D. E.
Smith, commanding officer of
the camp, a bread and water
diet was given the strikers fol
lowing their action. The prison
ers, 285 nazis, finding their bluff
called, pleaded Sunday to re
turn to work.
Some of the striking- prison
ers were placed in the guard
house and slept on the floor
Cots were removed. Others were
placed behind barbed wires and
quite a number of them had
their sleeping quarters on the
ground.
WEATHER
Northern California: Clear to
day, tonight and Tuesday, warm-
ex interior valley, today, -
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1945.
loux, a delegate, were included
in today s arrivals.
Five of the seven U. S. dele
gates met in an apparently rou
tine preliminary session at their
Nob Hill Hotel here. They were
Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, R,
Mich.; Rep. Charles A. Eaton
R., N. J.; Rep. Sol Bloom, D.
N. Y.; Cmdr. Harold Stassen, and
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve pf
Barnard College.
Secretary of State Edward R
Stettinius, chairman of the dele
gation, was in Washington
where he conferred with British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Edenr
and Soviet Foreign Commissar
V. M. Molotov on the thorny
Polish problem. He later confer
red with President Truman at
the White House.
Netherlands Foreign Minister
E. N. Van Kleffens, chief of his
country's delegation, said the
Dutch group would propose
seven amendments to the Dum
barton Oaks plan. One would be
concerned with voting proced
ure, and would be in opposition
to the veto power now proposed
for the five great powers the
United States, Britain, France,
China and Russia.
21 CALLED SINCE
FIRST OF MONTH
Twenty-one Jackson county
men have been approved for
service with the armed forces
through Jackson county draft
board No. 1 since April 1.
Men approved for general
military service at Portland on
April 17 were Burr Edward Tye,
Jack Hall Ghere. Berle George
Thornton. Ausie Clarence Rock,
Wilfred Scott Huffman, Robert
Louis Higgins, Donald Edward
Knips, George Frederick Davis,
Leonard Robert McMahan, Rob
ert Adrian Nelson, Harold Ernes
son Archer, William Meyst, Jr.,
Donald Even Jones, Everette
Lionel Hagbusch and Thomas
William McFadden.
Joseph William Roberts and
Robert Howard Pof fenbarger
were accepted at other dates.
Edward Ralph Arnold was ac
cepted for limited service and
John Wally Smith for military
service. Frederick Wilton Young
er and Luke Erwln Lange were
accepted for general service at
San Francisco.
. L. Brooks Hurt
In Auto Smashup
Z. L. Brooks, 57, night watch
man for the Bear Creek Or
chards, is recovering in Sacred
Heart hosniUl from injuries sus
tained in an automobile accident
Sunrinv afternoon. Brooks was
injured when his outomoblle col
lided with a truck of the Oregon-Nevada-California
fast freight
line at the corner of North River
side avenue and Edwards street.
He was taken to the hospital
after complaining of back in
juries and hospital attendants
this afternoon stated he was re
covering satisfactorily.
LAST FROM BERLIN
Stockholm. April 23. U.R)
The last German passenger
plane from Berlin arrived at
Stockholm today with only one
passcfissf. Swedish couritt
126 JAP PLANED
AND SIX VES
Attack In Okinawa Area
Costs 49 Airplanes More
Islands Occupied by Yanks
By United Press
American Air Forces struck
damaging blows against the Jap
anese over the weekend. Marines
landed on two more islands off
Okinawa where U. S. Army
troops battled with little success
for the fourth straight day
against Japanese defenses above
Naha. the capital.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
disclosed that the airmen had
wrecked 126 Japanese planes and
six ships in two days of action
along an 850-mile front from
Japan to the southern Ryukyus,
Rake Kyushu
Additional planet may have
been destroyed in two raids by
Superfortresses on Kyushu air
fields from which Japanese air
men have been flying against
ground and naval forces in the
Okinawa area.
Carrier planes shot down 49
Japanese aircraft from a force
which attacked the Okinawa area
Sunday afternoon. Four other
Jananese nlanes were downed
Saturday. Nimitz said the Jap
anese sank one light fleet unit.
Mustang fighters from Iwo
Jima destroyed or damaged 47
enemy planes in an attack on su
zuku airfield, 32 miles southwest
of Nagoya on the Japanese home
island of HonsHu Sunday.
The Mustangs also swept Ise
Bay south of Nagoya and sank
two small oilers, a small tanker
and a 6,000 to 8,000-ton cargo
ship and damaged a coastal ves
sel. Carrier planes raided enemy
airfields at Amami in the north
ern Ryukyus Sunday for the
fifth straight day. In the last two
days they shot dowi 16 planes,
destroyed 10 on the ground and
set a smell cargo vessel afire
east of the Ryukyus.
Nimitz announced that ele
ments of the Third Marine Am
phibious Corps occupied take
Banare island east of Okinawa
and had seized half of Sesoko
island west of Motobu peninsula.
Bitter fighting was reported
continuing on southern Okinawa
but Nimitz said there had been
little change in American posi
tions. He disclosed that Amer
ican troops had killed 11,738
Japanese and captured 27 so
far in the southern Okinawa of
fensive. U. S. troops continued to push
across Mindanao in the Philip
pines against light resistance and
were reported less than 50 miles
from the large port of Davao.
Strawberry Fields,
Pear Orchards Are
Now In Full Bloom
Strawberry patches of the val
ley are now in bloom, though in
some areas they have been nip
ped by frost. The crop will not
be as large at last year, due to
a reduced acreage, according to
Assistant County Agent Clifford
B. Cordy.
Little of the local crop will be
on the market before the first of
June, and a week or ten days
later in the hill sections.
The fifth smudging of the
season occurred in the pear
orchards Sunday morning. The
firing and the frost were light.
Temperatures ranged from 28 to
34 degrees.
The pear orchards are now in
full bloom with the exception
of a few Boscs. The warm weath
er last week brought them out
in a hurry.
Judy Garland To
Wed No. 2 in June
Hollywood, April 23. U.PJ
Judy Garland, singing screen
star, disclosed today she and
Director Vincente Minnelli
would be married in New York
City, probably in June.
The place will be the Little
Church Around the Corner in
New York, she decided today.
The exact date hasn't been set,
but it will be soon after June 7,
when her divorce from Com-
ffOKt Dava Rom becomes. final,,
Tribune
United Preis
jef Ceiling Boost
Only Way to Gain
Supplies, Is Word
Washington, April 23 U.R)
A spokesman for cattle pro
ducers told the senate food in
vestigating committee today that
the only "sound way" to increase
the meat supply is to boost ceil
ing prices on top grades of
beef.
F. E. Molin of Denver, Colo.,
secretary of the American Na
tional Livestock association, said
the plan announced today by
Economic Stabilization Director
William H Davis does not go
far enough.' Under the new plan
the government will pump an
additional $34,000,000 a year
into the meat industry in an ef
fort to kill the black market
and increase supplies.
Rome, April 23 U.R) Amer
ican and British tanks neared
the Po river today after surging
20 to 35 miles north from Bolog
na in less than 48 hours.
Eighth army units had smash
ed within 2,500 yards of the air
field at Ferrara, key road center
three miles south of the Po.
Modena, other Immediate ob
jective of the northward push,
also was directly threatened, but
a partial news blackout hid the
position of 5th army forces driv
ing on the city.
On Wide Front
Allied force headquarters re
ported that after "good prog
ress," Sth and 8th army troops
were nearing the river Po at
several widely separated places
an indication they had fanned
out along a wide front after
breaking loose on the Po plain.
Measured due north of Bolog
na, a 35-mile advance would put
the Americans virtually on the
banks of the Po, last big river
barrier south of the Italian Alps,
guarding the back door to Hit
ler's Bavarian redoubt.
The Germans were fleeing In
disorder after the Bologna
breakthrough, their retreating
columns hammered and harried
by allied air forces. Minefields,
rather than enemy resistance,
slowed American troops In the
area northwest of Bologna and
just south of the Panaro river.
British Advance
The British advanced toward
Ferrara astride the Po di Prl
maro river, which flows through
the city.
Adding to the German woes.
Italian patriots were reported on
the rampage behind the n a z i
lines in northern Italy. A com
munique from patriot headquar
ters in occupied territory told of
numerous successful ambushes
throughout Piedmont.
CANADIANS SWITCHED
Ottawa, April 23 (U.R The
first Canadian corps and attach
ed troops which had been serv
ing in the Italian theater of op
erations since 1943 have been
transferred to western Europe
where they Joined the first
Canadian army, acting Prime
Minister J. L. Ilsley announced
today.
Congressmen and Editors Go
To Eye Nazi Camp Horrors
Washington. April 23. (U.R)
A delegation of 30 congressmen
and newspaper and magazine
editors speeded toward Germany
today to obtain for the Ameri
can people more eyewitness evi
dence of nazi concentration
camp atrocities.
Six senators, six members of
the house and 18 editors com
prised the delegation which left
for Germany by air after a
weekend of hurried preparation.
The group made the trip un
der war department sponsorship
at the invitation of supreme al
lied commander Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
Meanwhile, Rep. Richard Har
less, D., Ariz., told the United
Press he had begun a drive to
get at the truth regarding re
ported coddling of German lris-
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NO. 27.
BIG THREE ENVOYS
IN ELEVENTH-HOUR
EFFORTFOR UNITY
Molotov, Eden and Stettinius
Confer Before Leaving for
San Francisco Conference
Washington, April 23 U.PJ
The urgent necessity of resolv
ing political differences among
their governments forced for
eign ministers of the big three
today to postpone departure for
the San Francisco conference.
The foreign ministers met
again today for an hour and a
half and scheduled another con
ference for tonight.
Washington, April 23.-(U.R)
The foreign ministers of the
United States, Great Britain and
Russia conferred for an hour and
a half again today in an eleventh
hour attempt to straighten out
big three disagreements before
the San Francisco conference.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing, the second since Soviet For
eign Commissar V. M. Molotov's
arrival by airplane yesterday,
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., hastened to the
White House.
It was assumed he went there
to report to President Truman
on today's discussions with Molo
tov and British Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden.
To Meet Again
The foreign ministers, striving
to achieve a united front on the
organization of the Polish gov
ernment and other problems, in
dicated they would meet again
later today. The three men ex
pect to leave tonight for San
Francisco where the world
security conference opens on
Wednesday.
Eden talked with Stettinius
alone before Molotov's arrival at
the secretary's office and for five
minutes after Molotov left the
meeting.
Stettinius refused to say
whether the foreign ministers
made any progress in today's
discuss ions. Throughout the
meeting, the corridors outside
the secretary's office were pa
trolled by both Russian and U. S.
secret service men.
The consultations were car
ried out with the aid of English
and Russian interpreters.
JAMES WOLF ENTERS
PLEA OF NOT GUILTY
James A. Wolf, 63, charged
with second degree murder for
the slaying of Percy H. Ijames
at Gold Hill last February, en
tered a plea of not guilty in
circuit court today. The trial
was set for May 7. An early date
was asked by the state but
Attornew Don R. Newbury stat
ed it would take that long for
the defense to secure deposi
tions. Wolf, held In the county Jail
since last February 4, date of
the affair, was re-indicted by the
grand Jury last week after a
defense demurrer to the original
indictment was granted by Cir
cuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna.
Despite denials by Chairman
Andrew J. May, D., Ky., of the
house military affairs commit
tee that German prisoners are
receiving special treatment,
Hnrless said he saw evidence In
prisoner-of-war camps in his
own state that prisoners not only
are being pampered but that
nazi military customs are al
lowed to prevail.
Just back from a visit to the
Papago Park, Ariz., prisoner-of-war
camp, Harless said: "I found
pampered, well-fed German pris
oners of war as fut as hogs
there."
"The people who have seen
pictures of our own boys, ema
ciated and mistreated in enemy
camps, are in a frenzy over this
matter, which has become a na
Uuoai issue," bo dedaxed. -.
Armored Spearheads
Probe Berlin's Heart
In Triple Onslaught
London, April 23. (U.R) Russian armored spearheads were re
ported probing into the heart of Berlin from three directions today,
clanking along Unter den Linden and other famous streets within
one to four miles of Potsdamer Platz.
The German radio said Adolf Hitler was in personal command
of the defense of Berlin. The red army had driven 10 miles deep
into the enemy capital and held possession of a fourth of it.
BATTLE SAID PRACTICALLY OVER
A dispatch from Germany through Switzerland said "the battle
of Berlin is practically over" and a United Press report from Mos
cow said the plight of Berlin was becoming graver by the hour.
The Luxembourg radio reported without confirmation that Rus
sian and American forces had met south of Berlin in the area of
Torgau, on the Elbe, but dispatches from the U. S. 9th and 1st
armies said the historic junction apparently had not been made.
A late Nazi broadcast said other soviet tanks were in the Marien
dorf district, three miles south of Potsdamer Platz, and Licheter
felde, four miles southwest of the famous crossroads in the heart of
Berlin, from which Unter den Linden is a mile or so distant.
CHAOS AND ANARCHY REPORTED IN CITY
Swedish reports quoted one of the last air passengers out of '
Berlin as saying the city was in a state of chaos and partial anarchy.
In many districts, he said, civilians were hunting down gestapo
agents and dealing with them summarily.
A Moscow dispatch said Russian siege guns lined up hub to hub
from the northwestern to the southern fringes of the city, together
with hundreds of Stormovik assault planes, had "pulverized vir
tually the entire area toward the center of Berlin." (
Hitler Said Present
OPEN FIGHT FOR
LAST NAZI HAVEN
Paris, April 23-XU.R) Three
American and French armies
opened the battle for Nazi Ger
many's last retreat in the Bavar
ian Alps today amid a flurry of
reports that other American
forces south of Berlin had linked
up with the red army to merge
the western and eastern fronts.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
U. S. third army shot out in
front of the Bavarian offensive
with a sudden armored lunge
south along the Czechoslovak
border into the Danube valley
130-odd miles northwest of
Berchtesgarden.
Germans Stunned
Patton's flying tank columns
reeled off gains of as much as
32 miles in as many hours,
sweeping up thousands of stun
ned Nazi prisoners and liberat
ing at least one enemy prisoner-of-war
camp with hundreds of
allied captives.
Late dispatches said the third
army crossed the Naab river on
a seven-mile front after captur
ing Nabburg and Schwarzenfcld
and pushed southeast four to
five miles to the Kemmath and
Wilhof areas. At Kemmath,
they were 23 miles north of the
Danubian fortress of Regens
burg, little more than 70 miles
from Munich and 123 miles from
Berchtesgadcn.
Other third army forces were
moving down on the Danube
along a front of more than 30
miles extending west from the
Naab river to Neumarket, 18
miles southwest of Nuernberg.
Amberg, 14 miles west of the
river, was captured by an un
identified third army Infantry
force.
At the same time, tht U. S.
seventh army broke across the
Danube at Dillingen, 64 miles
southwest of Nuernberg, and
fanned out along a seven-mile
stretch of the river's south bank
to Hochstadt and Lauingen,
about 53 miles northwest of
Munich.
Another seventh army column
reached the Danube farther west
at Ehingcn, moving within 10
miles of French first army
troops who pushed 18 miles east
ward from their Danube bridge
head at Sigmaringen to Keppcl.
SEEK FUNDS FOR
T
Portland, Ore., April 23 (U.R)
Townsend groups and support
ers throughout the United States
will found a national daily news
paper with which to fight for
social security for uncmploy
nblcs, if funds can be raised, Dr.
Francis E. Townsend, national
president, announced here Sun
day. The new daily would supplant
the organization's weekly, which
hax a circulation of about 150,
000. Dr. Townsend blamed
'grudging publicity from radio
and newspapers" as chief cause
of defeat by voters last fall of
the Townsend employment and
irstyemwit propojal. -
The German radio said Hitler
was in the "main fighting line"
in embattled Berlin and had
thrown into the capital's defensa
"all the military power avail
able to Germany."
Official American and soviet
reports said the two armies still
were 34 miles apart, however,
and supreme headquarters said
the Junction probably would ba
announced Jointly by Washing
ton, Moscow and London.
The 10-mile soviet break
through to the Unter den Linden
from Berlin's eastern limits waa
reported by the neutral Swiss
radio and by Swedish corres
pondents filing the first uncen
sored dispatches of the war from
the doomed capital.
They said soviet tanks wera
rolling along the broad tree
lined avenue with guns blazing.
White flags were flying in tha
center of th. city, the Swis
radie said. ,
Goebbels Flees
Paul Joseph Goebbels, nasi
propaganda minister and gaulei
ter of Berlin, was reported to
hava fled the capital less than
24 hours after promising to re
main with the inhabitants In a
stand to the death.
More than 8,000 Germans
r-ere killed or captured yester
day, the soviet high command
said. It reported that fighting
continued "day and night with
out a single hour's interruption.
While the main Russian ar
mies aimed at the heart of Ber
lin, reserves of Marshal Greg
ory K. Zhukov's 1st White Rus
sian group swung northwest and
southwest in a bid to encircle
the capital and its defenders.
Dorothy Jeanne Rees, 27. is
lodged in the county Jail after
being arrested Saturday by Juve
nile authorities on a charge of
contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. She has been resid
ing as man and wife with a 16-year-old
Medford youth sine
early in 1944. They have been
living In both Klamath and Jack
son county.
Mrs. Rees, who is dlverced
from her husband, Is the mother
of three children given to cus
tody of her husband at the time
of the divorce, accordnlg to Rob
ert M. Elder, Juvenile officer.
They are now with her mother
in Josephine county.
The youth has been "known"
to local Juvenile officers In tha
past, Elder said. .
WAR BULLETINS'
Washington, April 23 OJ.RJ
The German government has
offered to leave all allied pris
oners of war In prison camps
as the allies advance, the war
department announced today.
London, April 23 (U.R)
Joseph Kramer, S3 command
ant of the Belten "death
camp." has been tried and
executed, the Evening Stand
ard said today
London, April 23.x-0J.RW
An Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from tha northwestern
front tonight said a question
has been raised whether on
of three bodies found in a
wrecked car might be that of .
Heinrich Himmler, gettapa
chief and commander ot tha
CaimtB bom urn
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