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Fortieth Year
Early Showdown Seen In Conference
VE-DAY MAY BEAT
END OF MEETING
Molotov Banquet Is Surprise
Gesture; Vodka Flows
Freely; Support Pledged.
. :i na nitn
Moving in an environment of
anxiety that V-E Day may over
take this United Nations confer
ence before it completes its la
bors, the British delegation was
understood to have decided to
day to' urge an immediate
speed-up of proceedings.
The British were expected to
make their hurry-up proposal at
once, perhaps before tnere can
be a showdown on Russia's re
nuest for three votes in the or-
ganization assembly and her de
mand for admission of Poland
to this conference.
The state department has
been estimating upward of six
weeks for conference work. It
reported that the British
want the delegates out of the
conference trenches within four
weeks. The British were ex
pected to suggest' that this con
fnrcnrB slmolv outline the gen
eral structure of the proposed
international organization to
maintain neace. Details per
haps including the number of
assembly votes to be enjoyed by
R,i..imiBht be filled in later.
Russia, it appeared, may sub
mit to the initial meeting of the
conference steering committee
her reouest that the Ukraine and
Whit Russian republics be
vmnted seats in the conference,
. Whether Foreign Commissar
M. Molotov will also submit
for a third time a demand that
tha Warsaw provisional Tolish
regime be represented was not
yet known.
No Recent Change
However, it appeared that
there had been no actual devel
opments on the Polish matter
aince the big three discussions
were suspended in Washington
because of the imminent opening
of the San Francisco gathering
Some quarters said the Polish
tune would not be brought to a
showdown today but would
await further consultations be
tween Molotov. W. Averill Har-
riman, U. S. ambassador to Mos
cow, and -Sir Archibald i-iam
Kerr, British ambassador to Mos
cow. These three comprise the
commission set up at Yalta to
deal with Poland and there has
been no change in their author
ity to handle the issue.
The possibility of quick and
amicable settlement of the Rus
sian three vote request and the
Argentine representation issue
emerged sharply.
Molotov Host
Molotov made a surprise ges
ture which raised diplomatic
hopes that these hurdles to con
ference agreement might be
cleared more easily than expect
ed. He tendered a banquet last
nicht to some 30 persons, in
cluding the foreign ministers of
Mexico. Chile. China, Australia,
France, Yugoslavia and Czecho
Slovakia. "
Innumerable toasts in vodka
were drunk in the Russian fash
ion. It was learned that Molotov
was frankly told by the Latin
American diplomats of their de
sire to see Argentine invited to
San Francisco.
Molotov on his part reiterated
the statement made by Marshal
Stalin to President Roosevelt at
Yalta that Russia desired the
Ukraine and White Russia to be
represented as a tribute to the
suffering they have endured at
the hands of the Germans.
So far as was known no com-
mitmcnls were made on either
side. But the prospect emerged
that the Latin Americans might
support the three vote request if
i Russia agreed to let in Argen
tina. Britain In Favor
The Molotov dinner, it was
understood, was held in a most
cordial atmosphere.
Both ih United State audi
A smiling; V. M. Molotov (center), Soviet Foreign Commissar, is
by W, Averell Harriman (left),
State Department.
TRUMAN PLEADS
TO PREVENT WAR
Washington, April 26. U.R)
President Truman in- a raaio
address to the opening session
of the United Nations conference
last night called for . world
neace machinery which would
prevent "any nation or group of
nations" from settling "their
arguments with bombs and bay
onets."
Sneaking from the White
House, he told the conference
deleeates they had a choice be
tween two alternatives "the
continuation of international
chaos or the establishment of
a world oreanization for the
enforcement of peace."
"It is not the purpose of this
conference," he continued, "to
draft a treaty of peace in the
old sense of that term. It is not
our assignment to settle specific
Questions of territories, boundar
ies, citizenship and reparations."
Instead, he said, the task be
fore the conference is "the single
problem of setting up the essen
tial organization to keep the
peace."
"Our sole objective, at this
decisive gathering, is to create
the structure," he said. "We
must provide the machinery,
which will make future peace,
not only possible, but certain
Mr. Truman apparently was
mindful of international differ
ences which have flared before
the meeting.
"PW" FAD BANNED
St. Louis, Mo., April 26. (U.R)
School officials today announc
ed a ban on hieh school students
lettering the backs of their
denim Jumpers with the letters
"PW," a fad going the rounds
here. Authorities ann o u n c e d
"serious consequences might re-
suit" from wearing the prisoner
of war markings.
Britain are committed to support
the Russian request that the con
ference consider the admission
of Ukraine and White Russia
delegates. Britain will support
the Drooosal down the line
Whether the American delegates
will vote for it, as well as voting
that it be considered, was not
pertain.
There was no confirmation of
hotel lobby rumors that Molo
tov had received new instruc
tions from Stalin on the Polish
issue.
Molotov arrived at the veter
ans building, where the steer
Ina committee met, in a large
limousine with the red Soviet
banner flying from the front
rieht fender.
He strode into the building,
surrounded by staff and body
guards. A state department offi
cial greeted him and, sayw
"rmht this way", led him thru
a lane of spectators held back by
military police.
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden arrived a moment later.
"Can you tell me whether the
Polish question is coming up at
this meeting? a reporter asked
"T cannot," fca fiWly,,
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1945.
U. S.
Ambassador to Moscow,
TODAY'S SCHEDULE
San Francisco, April 26.
(U.R) Here is today's schedule
for the United Nations confer
ence: 3:30 p.m. Second plenary
session of the- conference to
hear report of the steering
committee.
4:00 p.m. (approximately)
After receiving the report of
the steering committee, the
plenary session will hear ad
dresses by Chinese Foreign
Minister T. V. Soong, Russian
Foreign Commissar V. M.
Molotov, and British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden. .
GOERJNG GUT AS
AIR COMMANDER
London, April 26 U.R)
The Hamburg radio reported to
night that Reichmarshal Her
mann Goerlng had been relieved
of the command of the German
air force.
Gen. Ritter von Greln was re
ported to have succeeded Goer
lng and to have been raised 10
the rank of Field Marshal alter
his appointment.
The Nazi radio said Goering
was suffering from acute heart
disease, asked to be relieved of
the Luftwaffe command, ana
Adolf Hitler granted his request.
Goerine. the No. Z Nazi whom
Adolf Hitler once designated as
his eventual successor, was the
first of the party hierarchy to
fade out of the picture in the
Jiour of Germany's supreme cri
sis, so far as enemy reports naa
revealed.
Packers Declare
Detectives Can't
Halt Black Mart
Washington, April 26. (U.R)
A spokesman for the "big four"
meat tuckers told senate food
investigators today that "all the
detectives In the world" couldn't
stop the black market in meat
now.
Jurice James D. Cooney of
Wilson and Co., Chicago, said he
"was not surprised at all" that
a subcommittee headed by Sen.
Burton K. Wheeler. D., Mont.,
found that 80 per cent of meat
sold in Pittsburgh is black mar
ket.
He added that the Washington
black market is "only slightly
less." and that in New York and
Boston it "might be a little bit
worse than here."
Meat black market operations
are "tremendously profitable,
Cooney said.
KATIE GILS0N LOGAN
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Katie Gilson Logan, Jackson
ville, passed away In a Mcdford
hospital this morning. Funeral
arrangements and an obituary
will be published Friday.
TO KEEP LILIENTHAL
Washington, April 28 U.R)
President Truman is reported to
day to be planning to renomin
ate David E. Lilienthal as chair
man of the Tennessee Valley
authority even though it causes
a fight with his former senate
nlluifii,tc t.ilu-nlhnV nrfHpnt
Aiorav too uiiifs W4 Ut!Iiie Uallic . Utft
met at San r rancisco Airport
and Gerald Drew of the U. S.
TALIAN UPRISING
BREAKS NAZI GRIP
T
Rome, April 26. U.R) A gen
eral uprising of Italian patriots
was reported unofficially today
to have broken the German grip
on north Italy and liberated
Milan, Genoa, Turin, Verona and
scores of other towns. - y
Allied . military authorities,
whose armies were sweeping
deep into northern Italy on the
heels of routed German lorces,
withheld immediate confirma
tion of reports from the north of
the rebellion against the Nazis
and Fascists.
But accounts of the uprisings
were supported by every evi
dence that the patriots had
seized and were operating the
radios in Milan and Genoa. Sup
plementary reports circulated
freely in the Swiss border areas.
Swiss advices quoted an Ital
ian press dispatch as hinting that
Benito Mussolini was trying to
make a deal with the patriots in
an effort to save his life. He was
reported to have been set up as
a Nazi figurehead in north Italy
after he was "rescued" by the
Germans -when his Fascist re
gime cracked up.
E
TAKEN CAPTIVE
By United Press
A Swiss telegraph agency dis
patch reported by the FCC said
today that according to reports
from reliable sources Benito
Mussolini was captured by Ital
ian patriots In Pallanza on the
west shore of Lake Maggiore
Mussolini was described ns
reaching Pallanza after flight
from Milan, where an Italian pa
triot uprising was said unoffi
cially to have liberated the city
Disintegration
Reminiscent of
By W. R. Hioginbetham
United Press Staff Correspondent
London, April 26 (U.R) The
German army was disintegrating
today amid scenes reminiscent
of 1918.
Even as In the last days of
World War I, fully-armed Ger
man soldiers were surrendering
in groups as large as 1.000.
The bag of prisoners grew
most rapidly in the narrow cor
ridor between the American and
RusKlBn armies on either side of
Berlin.
In Berlin Itself, the encircled
garrison was fighting fanatical
ly with the guns of the gas
tapo and SS at its back, but west
of the city all who could were
marching into the American lines
to escape the Soviet war ma
chine,
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UniUd Press Full
INAWA.F
LINE 0DEFENSE
Huge Fleet of Superbombers
Rain T.N.T. on Jap Home
land; Troops Near Nana.
By United Press
American forces pressed the
Okinaw campaign today with
new land, air and sea blows
against the Japanese,
At the southern end . of the
island, ground troops smashed
through the first major Japa
nese defense line in a half mile
advance that carried to within
less than three and a half miles
of Naha, the capital.
Two hundred to 250 Super
fortresses ranged over the- Jap
anese homeland again, attack
ing airfields on Kyushu and
Shikoku. '
Casualties Revealed
Admiral Chester W. Nimltz
announced that up to yesterday
American forces had killed 21
269 Japanese on Okinawa and
surrounding islands. American
casualties in the campaign as of
April 22 were: Army: 889 dead,
4,879 wounded and 289 missing;
marines: 257 dead, 1,103 wound
ed and seven missing.
The advance on southern Oki
nawa followed almost continu
ous bombardment ' of Japanese
positions since last Thursday by
naval guna and the greatest ar
tillery concentration of the Pa-
cific war.
v Japs Withdraw-
Thousands of Japanese were
reported killed and wounded in
the shelling. The enemy began
withdrawing surviving units
from the first defense line Sun
day. The withdrawal was com
pleted Monday night.
Americans encountered outer
opposition as the enemy fell
back, to deeper defenses and
were forced to burn and blast
the Japanese from- pillboxes,
blockhouses and caves.
Toungoo Capturad
In the Philippines, American
troops pushed into the central
hills of Mindanao in an advance
that carried within 49 miles of
Davao.
On northern Luzon, the Amer
icans encountered strong opposi
tion after driving within a little
more than a mile northwest of
Baguio.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced that Filipino guerillas
had cleared the Japanese from
the province of llocos Sur in
northwestern Luzon.
British and Indian troops cap
tured Toungoo, Burma's 10th
largest city, 140 miles north of
Rangoon after a 163-mile ad
vance south from Meiktila in 21
days, .
SCULPTOR ILL
San Francisco, April 26 (U.R)
Jo Davidson, bewhiskered New
York sculptor, whose work In
cludes likenesses of George Ber
nard Shaw and the late Presi
dent Roosevelt, is seriously ill at
a hospital here, it was revealed
today. Davidson suffered a heart
attack yesterday , following his
arrival to make sculptures of the
leading figures of the United Na
tion conference.
of Nazi Army
1918 Scenes
American First and Ninth army
patrols which headed east in an
effort to link up with the Rus
sians were forced to give up the
task and return to their own
lines. '
Russian-fearing civilians also
were clogging the roads west of
Berlin, hauling a few precious
belongings in carts and baby
carriages. It was like France
in the dark days of 1940.
Only German soldiers or sus
pected war criminals were per
mitted to enter the American
lines Bnd surrender, however.
Other civilians wcri turned back
and told to go to their homes
A BBC broadcast said a for
mer Lord Mayor of Berlin was
captured by the American Sec
ond Division as he attcmptea 10
flee smith between th Ainer-
iM9 li e.siw line. ,
Leased Wlra
NO. 30.
NEARLY ALL ME'
IS PLACED UfL,
All Meats Except Mutton to
Require Red Points Be
ginning Next Sunday.
Washington, April 26-4U.R)
Price Chief Chester Bowles to
day brought 99V4 per cent of all
meat under rationing in order
to spread more evenly civilian
supplies expected to drop an.
other six million pounds in May.
Beginning Sunday and contin
uing until the start of the next
ration period June 2, all meats
except mutton will require red
points, including cull and utility
grades of veal and lamb and all
grades of less popular cuts of
veal and lamb such as breasts
shanks, necks and flanks. .
Other changes In the meat and
fat rationing program for May
will be increases of one to two
points per pound for most cuts
of lamb and veal and one point
for most beef steaks; decreases
of one to two points on beef
roasts and other cuts of beef; in
creases of four points for marga
rine; and two points for grade
one cheese.
Butter and hamburger remain
unchanged at 24 and 6 points
oer riound. So -do ration values
of lard, shortening, cooking and
salad oils. ,
The expanded program for
May puts meat rationing back
where It was a year, ago before
most meats were made point
free. Since then point values
have been gradually restored
until in April 94 '4 per cent was
back on the ration list, loaays
action makes it 99Va per cent,
The only meat that remains
unrationed is some five million
pounds of mutton.
Bowles said the adjustments
were necessary to distribute the
available meat supply as evenly
as possible "during the period of
verv short civilian supplies.
He estimated civilians would
have six million pounds less
meat in May than they did in
April, but said there should be
Improved distribution of what
there Is as a result of OPA's new
ly-announced meat control pro-
iiram.
The plan calls for expenii
tures of $34,000,000 to insure
meat producers against loss, in
crease the amount of federally
insnected meat available for civ
ilians and stamp out the black
market.
In another move yesterday
aimed at increasing the supply
of lard the War Food Adminis
tration extended hog support
prices to Include good and choice
animals weighing Up to
300 pounds. Heavy hogs provide
mnrp lard.
id the return of
most remaining meals to ration-
"Ing would keep point Increases
nf more dcsiraDie cuis ai a mini
mum."
Prison Camp Map
Is On Display In
Tribune Windows
Mrs. Harry Holmes, Modoc
avenue, today brought a map to
the Mail Tribune office which
shows location of German camps
and hospitals where American
prisoners of war and civilian
internees are held. The map is
hnscd on Information received
n to rw. 31. 1944. and is pub
lihed bv the American Red
Cross.
It shows prisoner of war
camps, camps for airmen, naval
and merchant marine camps
hosnitals and civilian Internee
camps. It has been mounted and
Is on display in the Mail Tribune
windows.
ARGENTINES ARRESTED
IN EXTREMIST PL0
Buenos Aires, April 26. (U.R)
A number of persons were
hold in custody today followln
discovery of an extremist plot
which the government said was
riMiuned to nullify Argentina
recent action on international
policy.
The action referred to presum
ably was Argentina's declaration
of war on the axis ana us sigu-
, iiig of lUe Ckcpultcpcc Act,,
Largest Baltic Port
Taken In New Drive;
Viltic Wing Buckled
London, April 26 U.R) Tha Brussels radio said tonight that
American and Russian troops had Jolnad forces on a 12V4
mile front.
London, April 26 (U.R) Russian
Stettin, Germany's biggest Baltic port, and 80 miles to the south
west they burst into the heart of Berlin within 400 yards of where
Adolf Hitler was reported directing the defense of the gutted
capital. ....
Marshal Konstaniln K. Rokossovsky's army forced tha lowet
Oder and loosed a victorious blow at Stettin, unhinging the Saltie
wing of the German defenses in the north su' crippling any Nazi
bid to make a stand on the Mecklenburg plain.
FORCES FREED FOR
At the other end of the eastern
Brucnn (Brno) fell to Marshal Rodlon Y. Malinovsky's second
Ukrainian army. The fall of the big industrial and transportation
center freed strong Soviet forces for the push into Bohemia and
completion of the Czechoslovak campaign.
Stettin, on the west bank of
Soviet offensive synchronized with Marshal Stalin's end-the-war
push against Berlin and toward a junction With the Anglo-American
allies in the west.
Even as his troops drove into
garten in the middle of Berlin, threatening to overrun the pur
ported headquarters of Hitler nearby, Stalin broadcast a special
order of the day announcing that Rokossovsky's second Whits
Russian army had gone into action.
WHITE RUSSIANS
Smashing across the Oder south
swung a knockout punch against
outlet to the sea from the south.
miles, the new drive also overran
Berlin; Kasekow, 31 southwest of
of Stettin; and Gartz, 16 southwest
Stettin, the capital of Pomerania, was under assault from tha
south, a German communique said
broadcast from Moscow.
ALLIES CAPTURE
BREMEN; DRIVE
Paris, April 26 (U.R) Al
lied armies bending back both
wings of Germany's western
front captured the wrecked
North Sea Port of Bremen today
and drove within 8V4 miles of
the Austro-German-Czechoslovak
border triangle.
Gen. George S. Patton's free
wheeling Third army spurted In
over the approaches of Passau,
Bavarian fortress 67 miles from
Berchtcsgaden, and broadened
Its drive against the Nazis "na
tional redoubt" in thrusts to
ward Munich, Salzburg and
Linz.
Circle Regansburg
Regcnsburg, beleaguered Dan
ube stronghold, was almost en
circled by troops tumbling across
the Danube on a broad front.
Advanced spearheads were with
in about 40 miles of Munich.
Delayed front dispatches, lag
ging 12 hours and more behind
Patton's racing tanks, said the
Americans were only 11 miles
from Passau last night and roll
Ing unchecked through disorgan
ized German opposition.
Two third army Infantry di
visions forced the Danube bar
rier at three points on an 18-
mile front east and west of Re-
nensburg. 30-odd miles north
west of Passau, early today. They
broke into Regcnsburg and stab
bed ahead within about 30 miles
of Munich.
Near Munich
Other Third army troops
drove up to the Danube farther
west n the Innolstadt area, oniy
42 miles north-northwest of
Munich, Bnd a third column was
nearlng the river In the Straub-
Ing area, almost midway db
tweon Rcecnsburg and Passau
Munich, the capital of Bavaria
and cradle of Nazism, also was
menaced bv American Sevenin
Brmy troops farther west. Uncon
firmed reports saw me laims
there were only 30 miles nortn
west of the city.
"Just Seen Hell,"
Uays Visitor To
Buchenwald Camp
London, April 26 4U.R) Sir
Hcnrv Morris Jones told the lib
eral national party conference
today that "I have Just seen hell
In this world."
"I was brought up to believe
In heaven and hell," he said. "As
I grew older and more mature
I abolished the belief In hell.
But I have Just seen one In this
world."
He was one of the rarliamen
tary delegates who visited the
Buchcnwald camp.
NEW FREIGHT HIGH
Washington, April 28 (U.R)
Loadings of railroad revenue
freight In the week ended April
21 rose 17.672 cars to a new high
since Nov. 18 last year, the Asso
ciation of Amcricau Railroads
i reported today.,
storm troopa today captured
BOHEMIA PUSH
front the Moravian eapital of
the Oder estuary, fell to a new
the Potsdamer Platx and Tie-
SWING KAYO
of Stettin, the White Russlana
the city of 268,000 Berlin a
In advances of mora than IS
Schwedt, 43 miles northeast of
Stettin; Penkun, 15 southwest
of Stettin.
even before Stalin's order waa'
Hitler's Time Short
If Hitler was in Berlin as tha
Nazis have insisted for four daya
time was running short for
him. Berlin was surrounded by
red army troops and rescue by
land was all but impossible. Tha
Berlin garrison was being;
pressed into a tight pocket In tha
center of the city,
Moscow dispatches said Rus
sian troops had overrun tha
Templehof airdrome and cap
tured a number of planes with .
warmed-up motors, apparently
preventing a last-minute escapa
flight by Nazi leaders.
The Hamburg radio reported
the fighting in the Potsdamer
Platz area and In the middle of
Berlin'a Tiergarten.
T
London, April 26 flJ.R) '
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill told Commons today that
German V-2 attacks on England
ended March 27 and revealed
that the giant rockets killed 2,
754 persons and injured 6,523.
Churchill said London bora
the brunt of the attacks, which,
began last Sept. 8 and ended -when
British soldiers over-ran
tha launching sites.
Asked whether ha now waa
able to make a statement on tha
V-2 bomb raids, Churchill said:
"Yes, sir, they have ceased."
Tha attacks reached their
highest point during February.
Approximately 1,200 bombs fell
on England during tha entira
campaign.
Lt. Aida Ingraham
v nes To Portland
tor Further Duty
Lt. Alda Ingraham, recruiter
for the air corps division of tha
Women's Army corps, left this
morning for Portland where she
will rrport for further assign
ment. Lt. Ingraham stated yes
terday that the McdfoTd WAG
recruiting office Is now closed
and that anyone Interested in en
listing In the women's corpa
should call at the Chamber of
Commerce for Information.
Lt. Ingraham expressed her
appreciation to all the firms and
Individuals who had aided with
the recruiting program In re
cent months.
It la understood that the re
cruiting program of the WAC la
being reduced In all sections ot
the nation.
HERRIOT FREED
London, April 26 U.R) For
mer French Premier Edpuard
Hcrriot, twice reported dead
during the war, has been freed
by the Red army, a soviet com
munique reported today. No
details of Herrlot's liberation
were given Immediately.
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