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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.
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,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
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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-
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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. -