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Newspaper Page TextWeather Use The Mall Tribune Want Ad Way Oulek Results At Small Coal MEDFORD Tribune foreeattt Cloudy with ihowerft tonight. Thursday, partly cloudy with showers. LHtl ctaanie In temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday - 59 Lowest this morning 41 Precipitation to t a. xn.j trace United Pr Full Ltatod Wlr United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APF o, 1945 No. 29. Big Three in Pre-Conference Session PACIFIC HIGHWAY PROPONENTS PLAN Six-T Bombs Blast Berchtesgaden; 1 xt 17 i II i n i. jrnerea nazis rigni nara in oerun 4 - I (Acme Telephoto) ,The delicate question of Polish representation at the S an Francisco Conference was the foremost topic of this meeting In Washington between Anglo-American and Soviet leaders. Left to right: Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister: Secretary of State Edward Stettinius; V. N. Pavlov, of the Soviet Foreign Ministry; and V M. Molotov. Soviet Foreign Commissar. Delegates From Far Corners Of Earth Open Meeting To Seek Enduring Peace By Lyle C, Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent San Francisco. April 25 U.R British Foreign Minister An thony Eden arrived today to join ranMBOntoHvixi nf th 46 United Nations who meet here at 4:30 p. m., PWT, determined to create an enduring peace.' The delegates meet this after noon in the opening planary ses sion of the United Nations con ference on International Organi zation. Their objective of mak ing the post-war world safe for peace-loving peoples ig the same at which the world shot after 1918 and missed. Favorable Day A beautiful, sunny California day furnished a favorable aug ury for the opening of the con ference and greeted the hundreds of delegates as they awoke on this fateful day which may mark the opening of a new chapter in world history a chapter of international peace. Eden, the last of the top dele gates to arrive, stepped from a plane at suburban Mills Field ihnrtlv after 2 a. m. and went immediately to his hotel. He declined to discuss the confer ence or his week-end talks In Washington with American and Russian officials on the ticklish Polish questions. The delegates gathered here en the shores of the Pacific do rot Intend that the world shall miss-fire on its goal, as it did after World War I. This time, they meet with war still raging. Mixed Croup The hundreds of delegates, experts and aides are as mixed a OF By United Prtii American troops broke through Japanese defenses in southern Okinawa today to seize an im portant hill feature north of Naha, the capital, while marines occupied three more nearby islands. Radio Tokyo meanwhile ad mitted "nothing seems possible now to stop extermination of the Japanese nation." The broadcast disclosed that American Superfortresses had destroyed 770.000 homes, mak ing 3,130,000 homeless at Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and Najr.ya. Crewmen of Superfortresses which bombed the huge Itachi aircraft plant, 14 miles west of Tokyo, yesterday reported they "blew the factory all to hell." 4 B-29s Missing During the attack the Ameri cans shot down 13 Japanese fighters and probably destroyed 18 others. Four Superfortresses were missing. The break-through on south ern Okinawa ended a six-day deadlock. A terrific naval bom bardment blasted a path for the seventh army troops who battled across hilly terrain to reach the new position west of Ishin vil lage. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced that marines had landed on Heanza Island east of Okinawa's Katchin peninsula and on Kturi and Yagachl north of Motobu peninsula. The only opposition was at Yagachl, where enemy remnants were be ing mopped up, , TODAY'S SCHEDULE San Francisco, April 25 (U.R) Here is the tentative schedule for the plenary ses sion officially opening the United Nations' conference to day: 4:30 p. m. PWT Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., accompanied by Gov. Earl Warren of California and Mayor Roger Lapham of San Francisco, appear on the stage of San Francisco's War Me morial Opera House. 4:33 p. m. Stettinius speaks briefly and Introduces Presi dent Truman. . 4:35 p. m. President Tru man speaks from Washington. 4:46 p. m. Stettinius intro duces Gov. Warren for brief address of welcome. 4:50 p. m. Stettinius intro troduces Mayor Lapham- for brief address. 4:54 p. m. Stettinius ad dresses session briefly. 5 p. m. Adjournment. group as ever is likely to gather. Almost all the world's languages are spoken here today. There are men from the desert, men ana women from great cities, spokes men of poor nations and spokes men of the rich. But they have mni-h in common. They know that men of anti-Axis armed for ces are being killed or wounaea as they sit down together and talk today. They call this the United Na tions conference on International Organization. The first session will be brief. It takes place un der the shadow of a stubborn Big Three, dispute oyer the sta tus of the Russian-sponsored pro visional government of Poland. Serretarv of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., chief of the Amer ican delegation, will open today s session and Introduce President Trnmnn whn Virill broadcast a 10- minute opening address from Washington. Local otnciais win rtHvpr messaffes of 1 welcome. Stettinius will speak again and the opening session win ena. Mourn Roosevelt It is 23 years since the United States was host to a great inter national Catherine such as this.' That was the occasion of the Washington Arms conference which undertook in 1922 to start a war-weary world toward dis armament. This conference, conceived by Nazis Expected To Be Well Versed In Organized Whining London. April 29. U.B Brendan Bracken, minister of in formation, said today that the allies can expect the Germans to be as adept at "organized whining" after the war as- they had been at organized fighting. When the question arose in commons whether the majority of Germans were ignorant of concentration camp atrocities, Brocken issued a stem warning to beware of future Nazi propa ganda. He said the successor to Jo seph Goebbcls. rcich propaganda minister, undoubtedly would at tempt to capitalize on the propa ganda that the majority of the German people did not know what was happening. SLAVS IN FIUME London, April 25 (U.R) Yugloslav troops have crossed the old Yugoslav-Italian frontier and are fighting in the outskirts of the Adriatic port of Fiume. Marshal Tito's communique said tuday, 1 the late Franklin Delano Roose velt, meets in sorrow caused by his death. But the 300-odd dele gates find an inspirational text in .the late president's words on the occasion of his last public appearance on March 1. He then told a joint session of the con gress: "The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests upon the co-operative effort of the whole world." In that spirit these delegates approached the differences raised among them. Their goal is to prepare "a charter for a general International Organization for the maintenance of International Peace and Security." The United States, Great Brit ain, the Soviet Union and China jointly on March 5 invited the 41 other members of the United Nations to meet here today for that purpose. Last autumn in the Dumbarton-Oaks conference, the sponsoring powers devised a tentative charter for the World Security Organization. It is the basis upon which the delegates begin their work today. RETAINlTPETAIN Fl Paris, April 25 (U.R) The ministry of justice today issued a formal denial of a French News agency report that . Mar shal Henri Philippe Petain had crossed the border from Switzer land into France. The AFP agency said In an Annecy dispatch that Petain had returned to France after a day's stopover in Switzerland, which yesterday granted him admis sion as a transient on the way to France. Paris. April 25 (U.R) The Swiss government refused per mission to Pierre Laval to fol low Marshal Henri Philippe Pe tain through Switzerland to France, it was learned authori tatively today. Laval, premier of the nazl controlled Vichy government, asked to be allowed to surren der to French authorities despite the fact he already has been sentenced to death "In absentia" by the French high court for treason. NAVY AUTHORIZED TO SEIZE SF WAR PLANT Washington, April 25 U.R) President Truman today author ized the Secretary of Navy to take over the plant of the United Engineering Co., Ltd., of San Francisco, where wartime ship building had been upheld by a labor jurisdictional dispute. The White House said that this was the first time the navy had recommended to the presi dent seizure of an industrial plant under such circumstances. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Marian Farrell declaring that her stunning new hat could be duplicated with a few paper nap kins and little shellac. Bob Fowler getting a laugh with a two-word speech. "Hap" Gillette remaining In "1-A" even after showing other draft board members wounds re ceived while meeting an Ashland sidewalk yctterda Advantages of 99 Over 97 Will Be Presented Oregon, California Road Heads. Data setting forth the advant ages of highway 99 over 97 as an inter-regional highway and a link of the proposed highway system, were prepared at a meet ing at the Chamber of Commerce here today attended by repre sentatives from Oregon and California Chamber of Com merce, county courts and others interested. Ralph E. Koozer, Ashland, president of the Pacific Highway association, stated at noon that the material would be presented by a committee which would at tend the next meeting of the Oregon highway commission. May 12, and that similar mater ial from a California angle would be presented by Californians at the next meeting of the highway commission of that state. The briefs will set forth comparative facts on the tonnage carried over both highways, the weather con ditions, scenic attractions and industries and populations of the districts adjacent to each road, Koozer staled. .'., Due July 1 Today's meeting was called by Koozer after Arthur Shcaupp, Klamath Falls, member of the Oregon commission, proposed that 97, from Eugene to Klamath Falls, be designated as the main inter-regional highway. The commissions of the western states have been asked to recom mend to the federal bureau of roads their main inter-regional highways and the connecting points with other states and these are to be in the hands of 'the federal bureau by July 1, Koo zer declared. A R. Trombly, "Portland, chairman of the Portland Cham ber of Commerce committee on roads and highways and a direc tor of the Pacific Northwest Trade and Commerce associa tion, attended the meeting and stated that completion and mod ernization of highway 99 is an important part of the general highway program for the state of Oregon adopted by the board of directors of the Portland chamber. Trombly, identified with highway legislation and projects for many years, spent the past three years in Washing ton, D. C, and while there worked closely with Oregon and Washington senators and con gressmen on matters concerning the highway systems of the far western states and aided them in securing priorities permission for improvement of 99 and a Washington coast highway, in the army strategic highway des ignation, to remove "bottle necks." Many Attend Attending the meeting were Mr. Trombly, Portland; H. E. Eakin and A. W. Helliwell, Cot tage Grove; H. C. Wells, Harold J. Hickerson, P. H. Croft, H. B. Roadman, D. N. Busenbark, and J. Ross Hutchinson, Roseburg; W. A. Johnson, C. H. Demaray. Franklin J. Smith, Dan Mc Gregor and Lucius Robinson, Grants Pass; Ralph E. Koozer, Earl T. Newbry and Frank Van Dyke, Ashland; W. T, Davidson, Fort Jones, Calif.; Fred C. Bur ton, Dr. G. C. Kleaver, W. B. Hibbard, Albert Wedin and O. G. Steele, Yrcka; Gordon Ja cobs, Hornbrook, Calif.; T. R. Douglass, Mt. Shasta; and Paul B Rynning, Joe E. Earlcy, Frank Hull, C. A. Meeker, E. P. Leavitt, C. E. Gates, William Perry, A. E. Powell Frank Rogers Mark A. Goldy and Herb Grey Mcdford. DENIED REFUGE London. April 25 U.R) Like rats deserting a sinking ship, axis "small fry" clamored vainly for sanctuary in Switzerland to day as allied armies engulfed Germany. Switzerland refused entry to all known nazls and fascists ranging from a son of Benito Mussolini to a local gestapo chief. Thousands of other refugees, mainly slave workers and allied prisoners of war, were flowing across the border from Germany, however. A Swiss broadcast said 13.040 had entered the country between AptU 18 and 22. T" BY LANCASTERS Reconnaissance Pilots Say Fires Burn for Hours After Bombing of Hideout. London, April 25. (U.R) The royal air force wrecked Adolf Hitler's country house near Berchtesgaden today with a direct hit by a six-ton earthquake bomb. It seemed certain that no body in the house could have survived, but there was no assurance that Hitler was there. The German radio has insisted for three days that he is leading the defense of Ber in. London, April 25 (U.R) Brit ish Lancasters attacked Adolf Hitler's Berchtesgaden hideout with six-ton earthquake bombs today and American reconnais sance pilots said fires still were burning close to It more than four hours later. There was no indication whether Hitler was at his moun tain retreat when the Royal Air Force's biggest bombers struck at it for the first time, possibly in an attempt on the fuehrer's life. Intense anti-aircraft fire from the batteries around Berch tesgaden led some observers to speculate that Hitler was there. The nazis, however, had insist ed he was directing the defense of Berlin. Three Targets There are three primary tar gets in the Berchtesgaden area. One is the country home of Hitler. The second is the SS barracks on the grounds. The third is Hitler's mountain re treat, about five miles from the country home, and called "The Eagle's Nest." The "eagle's nest' is built on top of the Kehl stein, a rock formation that tow ers 1,800 feet. Years ago Hitler ordered that a glass and steel pavilion be constructed on the Kehlstein. An elevator shaft was built up through the solid rock, and it was said that 12 workmen lost their lives in the hazardous job. The "eagle's nest" has sev eral rooms where the most con fidential nazi documents are be lieved to be kept. Smoke Hangs Low Lt. Richard Brunell, of Riv erside, R. I., flew over Berch tesgaden five hours after the British bombers struck. He said heavy concentrations of bombs had fallen into the area Just east of Berchtesgaden and that smoke hung low in the valleys of the wooded, rugged area where scattered fires still burned. YOUTHS CHARGED WITH CAR THEFT Jack Sparks, J. W, Pembcrton, Rosemary Oleman and Lucille Sparks, who allegedly stole an automobile belonging to Ernest While, 26 South Orange street, Monday night and lBter wrecked It on the Siskiyou highway, are held In the county Jail In lieu of $500 ball each for further in vestigation. They appeared this morning before Judge W. P. Tucker in Justice court to answer to a complaint filed by White charging them with larceny of his automobile. The young couples are report ed to have taken up residence in Mcdford after hitch hiking here from Toledo, Oregon, and are said to ruve stolen the car fol lowing a drinking party In a lo cal tavern Monday night. The girls, who were injured in the wreck, were released from an Ashland hospital yesterday afternoon. MEDFORD GETS $561.01 FROM BEVERAGE TAXES First quarter apportionment of state beverage taxes totaled $54,198, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell said today. Of the $808 09 proportioned to Jackson countv, Medford's share Is $16101, a United Press dis- DS.IU) Mid. ' " "EAGLE'S TARGET Berlin-and hau GERMANY Jl iiT'urk .: W Hamas y vl "V TsUINIUlfjUN m W"V" &,.. J v ;-".-7,1hw,t V "0"a" HiuirTnjiaty ttu,i.i um"" 1U i IItI .,CJv'$N '.A 1 ' J I chimhiti n1T-.. omiM V HP slW' ' J S S & ,x BAllIUTHliau MisBtilk j- Xa jV ffr-rr. U czecho. """ 1 VmnuvkV - . sow V- V. "V JNVAHCK f. (.UUMtlll 'v f j " (Acma Telephoto) Soviet forces battled through the heart of blazing Berlin today, and Gen eral Pattern's U. S. Third Army pulled a "sneak play" on the Germans shifting main weight from a thrust toward Dresden, to the south, aiming at Hitler's Bavarian Redoubt, with headquarters at Salzburg and Berch tesgaden. He Joined U. S. Seventh and French First Armies in the smasb toward Hitler's hideout Juncture of American and Russian troops was unofficially reported near Torgau. Soviets have almost encircled Berlin IN ANNUAL MEET More than 200 members and guests of Jackson County Home Economics Extension units at tended the annual spring festival of the units held yesterday, with sessions at the high school audi torium and St. Mark's parish hall, and exhibits in the girls' gymnasium at the high school. Because of the world security conference now in session at San Francisco, an inter national friendship theme was developed in both the program and in one of the exhibits. Main speakers at the luncheon meeting were Mrs. Kay Ethel Lathrop, Oregon state chairman for the Associated Country Women of the World, and Arthur E. Powell, county com missioner. Mrs. Lathrop explain ed the ACWW, stating that its purpose was to promote friend ship between women of the world, especially country wom en, by means of exchange pro grams, correspondence between women of different nations and international gatherings. Women Complimented Commissioner Powell comple mented the women on their efforts to Improve their homes and family living conditions and pointed out that the most pro gressive nations are those who lay the most emphasis on the home and family life. Commis sioner William Perry was also introduced and pledged support of the county court to the exten sion unit program. The International theme was further carried out with the in troduction of Mrs. II. J. Roomer, Mrs. Grudrun Vognlld, Prospect, and Miss Evelyn Byrnes, in European costumes. Mrs. Roem er wore a Viennese dress and the other two were In Norwe gian costumes. They were Intro duced by Mrs. Eudora Bohnert. Girls Model Clothes Miss Marian Farrell intro duced four 4H club girls who won clothing prizes in the state contest last fall and they mod elled clothing which they had made. Introduced were Jean Hamilton, Table Rock; Marian Wisdom, Eagle Point; Dorothy Stanley, Lake Creek, and Pearl Henry, Bcllvicw. Others introduced at the lunch eon were Mrs. Arthur E. Powell, County Agent R. G. Fowler. Earle Jossy, 411 club agent; Miss Lois Lutz, specialist in home management from Oregon State college extension service; Dr. Jumes Millar, main speaker for the festival, and members of the county extension committee. The committee Includes Mrs, Jason Ottingcr, chairman, who presid ed at the luncheon, Mrs. Al. Floyd, Mrs. B. A. Clark. Mrs. A. E, Stevens, Mrs. John Elsun, Points South! Hood River Neisi Gets Silver Star For Leyte Action Hood River, Ore., April 25 (U.R) Hood river where the American Legion post was spur red by the National Legion into restoring names of Japanese- Americans, expunged from its war honor roll today had a Japanese-American hero. He w a s Frank T. Hachlya, technician third grade, Hood River native, who posthumously was awarded the silver star medal for gallantry in action on Leyte. Hachlya's name figured In the news of erasure, but It later de veloped that his name had never appeared on the honor roll. The roll listed only men inducted through the Hood River draft center, and he had enlisted else where after Pearl Harbor. Hitler Reported Severely Injured Ctnnkhnlm Anrll 2S (UP). Wholly unconfirmed press re ports saia tooay tnai aooii nii ler had been injured severely in a "serious accident" In Berlin. No details of the supposed ac cident were available, but the German radio announced earlier this week that Hitler was re maining In the "main defense line" In Berlin. Washington, April 25 U.R) The war department today au thorlzod construction of postal concentration center No. 2 at the Oakland army base, Califor nia, to cost $2,000,000. Texas has 26,439 miles of state highways. Mrs. Richard Tubman and Miss Claire Hanlcy. Units Exhibit Participating in the festival exhibit at the gymnasium were the Ashland unit, conserve with the scrap bag; Bcllview, needle' work; Central Point, color in the home; Eagle Point, furniture up holstery; Gold Hill, food for mailing; Griffin Creek, repair ing inner spring cushions; How ard, professional touches in home sewing; Lost Creek, hob bies; Mcdford, dish gardens and door swags; Oak Grove, party favors and flower arrangement; Phoenix, decorating the home Prospect, conserve with the scrap bag; Reese Creek, preven tion of spoilage and accidents In home preservation; Talent, housework the healthful way; ' e s t s 1 d e, cookbook; county alumnae committee. Associated Country Women of the World. Displayed In the ACWW ex hibit were articles from Scot land by Mrs. Suslo Maust, Mrs, Tom Scmple and Mrs. Perl; Russia and China, Mrs. Fred Sander; Norway, Mrs. Alice An derson Webb and Mrs. M. Vog- nild; Australia, Mrs. Marmie Olsen; West Africa and South America, Mrs. Ernest Scott; Mexico and Germany, Mrs Maud Port; England, Mrs. Eudora Bohnert and Mrs. A. T. Lathrop; Austria, Mrs. 11. J Rocmer. 'El POUR INTO city; FORLASTSTAND U.S. 1st and 9th Mass Along Elbe and Mulde;3rd Opens Assault on Regensburg. London. April 25 flJ.R) Two Red armies completed the encirclement of Berlin today, snapping a trap on its fanatical Nasi defenders and dooming them to surrender or stand and die without hope of rein forcement. By United Press Cornered Nazi troops fought savagely in the ruined streets of Berlin today as the Russians bat tled Into the center of the capi tal from the north, east and south. Soviet forces held from one half to two-thirds of the doomed city, but instead of trying to es cape the Germans poured in reinforcements through the nar now gap remaining to the west for a death stand. At the same time, Nazi officials were report ed fleeing by air and Moscow reported panic spreading in the city. ' Allies Mass . West and southwest of Berlin, the American First and Ninth armies were massed along the Elbe and Mulde rivers for the final sweep of northern Ger many alongside the Russians. , In southern Germany, Amer ican Third army troops rolled up, to the Danube on' both sides of Regensburg and opened the as sault on that citadel. The Amer ican Seventh and French First armies streamed beyond the Danube In a combined drive to ward the Nazi Alpine strong hold, with advance Seventh army units barely 40 miles from Munich.. Near Climax The battle of Berlin appeared to be roarini, toward its climax. Moscow press dispatches said Soviet Assault units were smash ing block by blocH to the center of the city and German machine gunners were emerging from subway tunnels for their last fanatical resistance. The capital was almost encir cled and a Moscow dispatch said for all practical purposes it was Isolated. The troops which had been pulled In before the gap could be closed and rallied by stories that Adolf Hitler, Paul Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi leaders would fight with them to the end had little chance of es cape, Natl Leaders Flee The Luxembourg radio report ed that these valiant leaders now were flying to safety from one or two airfields still in Nazi hands. If they were headed for the "national redoubt" in the south, they were fleeing toward shrinking stronghold. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army was racing for the Austrian bor der and the Salzach valley pas sageway to Berchtesgaden only a little more than 80 miles away, overwhelming thousands of crack Nazi troops In their path. More than 19,000 German pris oners were taken by the Third army In an advance that swept forward as much as 28 miles in 24 hours along an 85-mile front. Third army columns were little more than 30 miles from the Austrian border and were roll ing rapidly southward along the Czechoslovakian frontier to iso late that country. Pour Over Danube The Seventh army on Patton's ' flank poured men and machines across the Danube through seven bridgeheads. The French First army rolled eastward along the German-Swiss border around the shores of Lake Constance and were clearing out thousands of Germans from three pockets be hind its lines. In northern Germany, tank and Infantry of the British Sec ond army fought through the streets of the great port of Brem en, whosj burning center was being blasted by heavy guns. ARCHITECTS ELECT Atlantic City. N. J., April 2S (U.R) James R. Edmunds, Balti more, Md was elected president of the American Institute of Ar chitects today at the annus! con terenca here. -