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Thlt li th stsga and her ere the actori in San Franciico'i great drama of peace. The picture
wai taken delegate! of the United Nalioni conrened in th great San Francisco Opera Home in
a glare of Klieg lights and agaimt a spectacular back-drop of maned flagi to open the World.
Security Conference.
FIVE DAUGHTERS
AND SELF. REPORT
London, April 27 (U.R) A
Zurich dispatch of the Exchange
Telegraph said today that
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer
ing shot his five daughters and
then himself when the nazis sen
tenced him to death and ordered
him to execute his own death
aentence.
(The British Who's Who says
Goering has only two daugh
ters.) The Exchange Telegraph dis
patch said the commandant of
Gestapo Chief Hcinrich Himm
ler's bodyguard read nazi
death sentence to Goering. new
ly replaced as head of the Ger
man air force, and ordered him
to carry it out.
Melodramatic End
An unidentified Zurich dip
lomat was quoted by flie Ex
change Telegraph as giving this
melodramatic account of the
crackup in the top ranks of the
nazi party:
"Last Monday Goering sent
Hitler an urgent letter request
ing him to accept with the nazi
Party the consequences of a lost
war and thus spare the Germans
further bloodshed.
"The same night Himmlcr re
plied by sending his own body
guard to Gocring's home, where
his wife, Emmy, was present,
nd Goering's fate was sealed."
The diplomat was quoted as
a'ing that, according to one
version, the bodyguard shot
down Goering and his w-ife
without warning. Goering was
married to Emmy Sonncman,
former . actress.
An earlier Moscow radio re
Port said Goering escaped from
Berlin by plane with a $20,000,
000 nest egg.
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Conference
San Francisco, April 27. (U.R)
Sidelights on the United Na
tions conference:
Anthony Eden, Britain's good
looking and well-dressed foreign
secretary, is the favorite sight of
feminine eyes in San Francisco.
As he walked into the War
Memorial opera house yesterday,
an usherette gazed after him and
then remarked, to no one in par
ticular: "Gosh, he's handsome."
The conference has only one
set of flags of all 46 United Na
tions present here. When the
sessions move to and from the
veterans buildings and opera
house, workmen hurriedly take
down the flags from one build
ing and rush them over to the
other.
All conference cars and buses
are identified by Red and Green
stickers on the Windshields. The
red and green combination was
TEEN-AGERS FACE
t 1 4.viar-n1H hovs and one
iflo.rniH M nrhonl children
at Eagle Point, were scheduled
to appear before Circuit Judge
H. K. Hanna at 2 o'clock this
afternoon on a charge of stealing
government property from a
warehouse ai ump mmc.
Tho hnrelaries are reported to
have been going on for the past
month and wherr government
personnel began missing articles
a guard was placed at the ware
house. One of the boys is said
to have entered the warehouse
and when caught, he implicated
the others.
Autos Need Chains
On Fish Lake Road
rnltnwine numerous Inouirics
the Rogue River National Forest
service announced this aiternoon
that the road to Fish lake is
.....ohio at this time, but that
cars need chains for the trip
The road to Squaw lake in the
Applegate district is open and
in good condition, the service
reports. Fishing seann in uie
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Sidelights
selected because it doesn't favor
the flag of any of the nations
represented here.
The weather continues clear
and cool, to the amazement of
all the delegates and the delight
of San Franciscans.
French and English have been
designated the "working" Ian
guages of the conference, altho
there will be five "official ' lan
guages French, English, Span
ish, Russian and Chinese. All
conference documents will be
distributed in the official Ian
guages.' Discussions at meetings
will be translated in French and
English, the working languages
The city of San Francisco has
invTrcd all delegates to a special
concert tomorrow night to hear
Ychudi Menuhin, the celebrated
violinist.
JOHN MOFFAT WOUNDED
IN ACTION IN GERMANY
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Moffat.
Sr., 34 North Berkeley Way,
have received word from the
war department that their son,
Pfc. John P. Moffat, Jr., was
slightly wounded in Germany
April 11. No other details were
given.
Pfc Moffat entered the serv
ice about a year and a half ago
and has been in Germany about
two months, his father said.
Prior to his enlistment he grad
uated from Medford high school.
PARK EMPLOYEES TO
ATTEND FIRE SCHOOL
Staff members of Crater Lake
National Park service are leav
ing this afternoon for Yosemite
National Park, Calif., to attend
a fire school for region four of
the national service. Attending
will be E. P. Leavitt. superinten
dent: Thomas Parker, assistant
superintendent: and Richard J.
Smith, chief clerk. Mrs. Leavitt
Is also making tke trip.
The group vgll return In
about week.
The War Food Administration
predicts more sauerkraut this
year, due to a winter cabbage
output of 421.S0O tons In the
seven southerr producing states.
That 56 per cent above the
1934-43 Ycrae production. ,
Compromise With Russia
Reported At Conference
PLAN TO ROTATE
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Secretary of State Stettinius
Would Be Permanent
Head of Executive Group.
San Francisco, April 27.
(U.R) Soviet Russia, victorious
In its first two major demands
on the United Nations security
conference ,agred today to a
.compromise on its third
whereby Secretary of Stat
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., gats
the conference's two most im
portant jobs.
Stettinius will be chairman
of th conference's two most
important sub-units its exec
utive and steering committees.
San Francisco, April 27. (U.R)
Russia was reported this after
noon to have agreed, in effect,
to the British compromise on the
security conferenc chairman
ship. There were no immediate
details on the agreement but the
steering -committer lesaion- was
described as "smooth in con
trast to yesterday's stormy meet
ing. ' '
The British compromise pro
vides for rotation of the chair
manship of public plenary con
ference sessions among the big
four while Secretary of State
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., would
be permanent chairman of the
private executive committee
meetings. '
Molotor Early
Soviet Foreign Commissar V.
M. molotov, whose refusal to
agree to designation of Secre
tary of State Edward R. Stettin
ius, Jr., as conference chairman
had brought about the stalemate,
arrived at the veterans building
in this city's ornate civic center
at 10 a. m., a half hour ahead of
the meeting's scheduled time.
Other delegation chairmen fol
lowed him in.
Molotov, Stettinius, Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and
Foreign Secretary T. V. Soong
met half an hour before the
steering committee session, pre
sumably to attempt to settle the
chairmanship issue before the
full committee gathered.
The United States, Great Bri
tain and China agreed In ad
vance of the steering committee
meeting to stand firmly for the
British compromise proposal on
the chairmanship. , ,
Russian Is Key
But the solution of the prob'
lem remained with Molotov. The
other three foreign ministers of
the big four sought at a prelim
inary meeting with Molotov' to
swing him to their point of view.
The compromise proposal
which Stettinius, Eden and
Soong backed calls for rotating
the Job of presiding officer at
the open plenary sessions, but
preserving American leadership
in the important steering and
executive committees.
The Russians were conceded
to have won already two major
demands for three votes in the
assembly of the world organiza
tion to be created here, and for
the right of a major power to
veto military action against
itself.
SIDE GLANCES
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TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Gene Thorndike giving Bob
Fowler valuable Information on
how to raise chickens.
Angus Bowmer scouting for
talent for the latest Little The
atre play.
Don Newbury claiming three
of his Legion comrades were try
ing to take credit for the "big
year" of the local post, when he
was commander.
Coast War Plants
Prove Opportunity
Unlimited In Area
Washington, April 27 (U.R)
Rep. Homer Angell, R., Ore.,
said today the successful oper
ation of war plants in the Pa
cific northwest has illustrated
the "unlimited industrial oppor
tunities" of that area.
"These plants have saved the
government millions of dollars,
mainly because of our cheap
power," he said. "We must see
that they are converted to peace
time use without too great a
letdown in production."
He estimated that in alumi
num production, the northwest
had saved the government $15,
000,000 a year on power costs.
The cost of the aluminum itself,
he said, has been reduced 5 cents
by northwest producers. Bonne
ville power also has been used
at the Kaiser shipyards In the
northwest, he said.
DRAFT EXTENSION
OF 18-YEAR-OLDS
Washington, April 27 U.R)
The house today unanimously
adopted a' draft extension bill
carrying a provision banning
future, use. of. 18-'car-oId
draftees in combat until they
have had six months training.
" The legislation, which now
goes to President Truman, ex
tends the Selective Service act
to May IS, 1946, or to the end
of the war, whichever comes
first.
8nat Action
The provision on training of
18-year-olds was placed in the
bill by the senate. The house
military affairs committee ap
proved the amendment unani
mously in a closed session yes
terday and it was offered to the
house under unanimous consent.
The amendment contains no
restrictions on the use in com
bat of 17-year-old navy and ma
rine corps volunteers, nor
does it say anything about the
training of inductees 29 and
older.
It does not prevent the navy
from assigning IB-year-olds to
warships for completion of their
six-months training although the
ships -may find themeslves In
combat.
Washington, April 27 (U.R)
A chartered traaiport plane en
route from Miami, Fla., to Ro
cj.ester, N. Y., careened off the
end of a runway at Washington
national airport, today and was
destroyed by flames.
Surprise Meeting On Elbe
Precedes Formal Juncture
By John B. McDermott
United Press War Correspondent
With the United States First
Army In Germany, April 27
(U.R) The first Juncture between
the American and Russian forces
actually took place Wednesday
nd by accident!
A 20-man American patrol,
which failed to receive orders to
halt its advance, walked into the
Russian lines. The formal junc
ture at Torgau did not take place
until later.
The surprise meeting occurred
at the little town of Riesa on the
Elbe river. A radio message had
been sent to the little American
task force, ordering it to halt
after It readied five miles be
yond the Mulde river. But the
Americans never got the mes
sage.
On and on they went, mile af
ter mile, until they were 23
miles beyond the point where
their orders had told them to
halt.
There they met the Russians.
None of the Ar.Tirrra rpoke
.Russian, but it didn't matter.,
OPA TO PROVIDE
PACKERSRELIEF
Food Investigation Chair
man Says Control Ex--tension
May Be Amended.
Washington, April 27 U.R)
Chairman Elmer Thomas, D.,
Okla., of the Senate Food Inves
tigating Committee today threat
ened to force the Office of Price
Administration to save Meat
Parkers from going broke.
Senators will seek to amend
the Price-Control Extension Bill
unless OPA provides relief im
mediately, he said. If that fails,
Thomas added, they will demand
replacement of OPA meat execu
tives. Thomas Issued his ultimatum
after three hours of testimony by
meat-industry spokesmen that
OPA's recently-revised subsidy
program will cause them to "lose
more money than before."
The Senate Banking Commit
tee has withheld price control ex
tension legislation from the floor
for mdre than a month because
of the meat situation.
OPA Had Irks
Earlier the food investigators
had threatened to hit back at
OPA via appropriations for a
critical statement by Eldon C.
Shoup, OPA administrator at
Boston.
Shoup said In a recent press
release that testimony before the
committee against OPA consti
tuted an "attack on price con
trol" through "visious pressure
group tactics."
Thomas read the release Into
the record and accused Shoup of
attacking the constitutional right
of -citizens to petition congress.
Bowlti Warns
This flaring of senatorial an
ger came as Price Administrator
Chester Bowles was starting a
new enforcement program which
he hoped would "go a long way
toward licking" the black mar
ket in meat. Bowles warned, the
public to boycott the black mar
ket and said "drastic penalties"
await those who disobey.
Bowles In launching his new
enforcement program said cus
tomers "make black markets."
PAULEY APPOINTED
Washington, April 27 U.R
Edwin W. Pauley, 42-year-old
treasurer of the Democratic Na
tional Committee, was named by
President Truman today to serve
as the American member on tne
Allied Reparations Commission
which meets in Moscow next
month.
Llcht. Albert Krevetcrew of the
American patrol, his uniform
covered with dust, walked to
ward the Russians and stuck out
his hand. A Russian soldier
shook hands with him.
History may record that the
official juncture took place at
Torgau. but the men of the little
V. S. patrol who-reached Riesa
have their own ideas about that.
I made a wild Jeep ride to Tor
gau and when I arrived the
downtown part of the town still
was burning from Russian shells
that dropped into It two hours
earlier.
American and Russian soldiers
were whooping it up. It looked
something like a country fair In
the United Slates with the Rus
sian soldiers singing and playing
Balalaikas. Vodka was being
passed around and. although no
body understood what the other
fellow was saying, everybody
was having a good time.
Some of the Russian soldiers
were demonstrating their guns
to the G.I. s by firing into the
Elbe river.
London, April 27 (U.R) Russian armies captured th Ber
lin anchor posts of Potsdam and Spandau today, reached th
Elbe at Wittenebrg, and neared it due west of th capital with
in a doin miles of th U. S. 9th army.
Th fall of Potsdam and Spandau unhinged th wtittm d
fames of Berlin, and a nazi broadcast said the situation in
the capital had becom "still mor critical" after soviet forces
drov to its heart.
Paris, April 27. (U.R) American and Russian armies have
joined forces on the Elbe river below Berlin in a historic juncture
that cut Germany into three broken fragments and sealed the
doom of Hitler's Nazi regime.
Vanguards of the two armies merged their eastern and western
fronts yesterday at the river town of Torgau, 75 miles south of
the German capital, at the crossroads of the long and bloody trails
from Stalingrad and the beaches of Normandy.
SPLIT REICH INTO THREE ISLANDS
The juncture split the reich into three crumbling islands of
resistance centering around the North sea ports, Berlin and the
Bavarian redoubt in the mountains of southern Germany and
Austria.
Still another American-Russian linkup appeared Imminent in th
Bavarian foothills bordering Hitler's Bechtesgarden retreat, where
Gen. George S. Patton's third army established radio contact with
a red army force apparently only 30 to 40 miles away.
Doughboys of the U. S. first army's 69th infantry division pushed
out from the Mulde river, 30 miles from the Elbe, to join up with
the 173rd Russian guards regiment in Torgau, on the west bank
of the Elbe.
GERMAN PRISONERS WATCH ADVANCE
' As they went forward, hundreds of war-wearied German prison
ers lined the roadsides to watch the parade of American power
that foretold the death of Nazidom and the final destruction of
Germany's military might.
The electrifying news of the Juncture on the Elbe was announced
simultaneously in Washington, London and Moscow. Leaders of
the big three hailed the event as th decisive triumph of th
European war
"This is not the hour of final victory but th hour draws near
. . . ." President Truman declared In a brief White House statement,
"The last faint, desperate hope of Hitler and his gangster govern,
ment has been extinguished."
BY FIFTH ARMY
Rome. April 27 (U.R) U. S.
5th army troops captured the
big Italian town of Genoa to
day.
Rome, April 27 (U.R) Amer
ican 5th army forces raced 40
miles in 24 hours to capture
Piacenza, 33 miles from Milan,
and drove Into the Alps foot
hills within 90 miles of the Aus
trian frontier today.
With the German defenses
collapsed completely and Ital
ian patriots claiming control of
much of tvrthern Italy, the 5th
and 8th armies were advancing
at will.
Today's allied force headquar
ters communique said 5th army
forces were operating west of
Lake Carda, which runs from
60 to 90 miles south of the Aus
trian border. This put the
American units 25 miles west
of their last reported positions
in that area of Verona,
PAY-OFF BATTLES
By United Press
American ground forces
moved toward the payoff today
in battles for southern Okinawa
and for Bagnio on northern Lu
zon and Mindanao in the Philip
pines.
Japanese resistance was re
ported cracking on southern Oki
nawa. Troops of the 24th army
corps captured Sawtooth Ridge,
highest point on the island, and
moved into position for a down
hill battle to the south coast.
Land on Motobu
Radio Tokyo reported the
Americans also had landed men
and material behind a Japanese
pocket still holding out on Moto
bu Peninsula, which Juts from
Okinawa's northwest coast.
Some 400 miles to the north
east. Superfortresses blasted for
the second time in 24 hours at
seven Japanese suicide plane
bases on Kyushu, southernmost
of the enemy's home islands.
7 JACKSON COUNTY MEN
ARE TAKEN INTO ARMY
Seven Jackson county men
were Inducted into the army at
Ft. Lewis, WbsIi., on April 20,
through Jackson county board
No. 1.
Inducted were Gail Joseph St.
Arnold, Leroy Kyker, Daniel
Marion Frye, Glen Alfred Lamb,
Robert G. Harper, David T.
Lute, and Thomas Merlin Rich
ardson. Floyd Leroy Walsh
was qualified for general mil
itary service after a pre-induc-tion
physical April 20 at Port
land i
Mt Ai Torgaa
Patrols from th two arm!
met for th first time on th
Elbe Wednesday at 4:40 p.m.
(10:40 a.m. EWT) but the first
junction in force was not effect
ed until. 8 p.m. (2 p.m. EWT)
yesterday when the 69th and
the soviet . guards regiment
joined hands In Torgau.
Major-Gen. E. F. Relnhardt,'
commander of the 69th, led his
division into th battered river
town where almost two centur
ies ago another Russian army
joined its Austrian alUes to fight
Frederick the Great of Prussia,
their common enemy in th
Seven Years' War.
German resistance appeared
to hava collapsed completely in
the juncture area. The dusty
roads west of Torgau were re- '
ported choked with thousands of
beaten Nazi soldiers and Ger
man civilians, all fleeing for th
Mule river In a panicky rush to
enter the American lines and
escape the avenging red army.
Remnant Circled .
The remnants of Germany's
northern armies wera going
down In the smoke and flame of
encircled Berlin and in tha
wrecked North sea ports of
Hamburg and Bremen, taking
with them the Nazi dynasty that
Hitler boasted would endure for
a thousand years.
Another large Nazi force was
trapped hopelessly In central
Germany and Czechoslovakia,
pinned between th merged
American and Russian lines in
north and the rampaging Amer
ican third army Into Austria in
the south.
The size of tha central Ger
man pocket was uncertain, but
the cornered enemy forces there
were showing little signs of
fight and there appeared little
likelihood that they would con.
tinue the battle after the fall of
Berlin.
Hitler and his chief Nazi aides
variously were reported trapped
In Berlin and hiding In their
Alpine hideout at Bcrchtes
gaden. In either event, their
chances of remaining free for
more than a few days or weeks
at best were slim.
Premier Stalin hailed tha
Elbe meeting with a special
order of the day that set Mos
cow's victory guns booming in
salute to the allied armies.
London more soberly announc
ed tersely that a firm contact
between the soviet and Amcri
can forces had been established
and that a mutual exchange of
prisoners was discussed.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, com
mander of the U. S. 12th army
group that includes the first
army, followed with an order
of the day paying tribute to the
Russian veterans of Stalingrad
and Sevastopol and the battle
hardened American doughboys
who met for the first time at
Torgau.
Dayton, O., April 27 flj.f?)
The National Professional Golf
ers Association Tournament will
be held at Moraine Country Club
here July 8-15, it was announced
today.
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