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Newspaper Page TextUse The Mail Tribuae Want Ad Way Quisle RMultt At Small Coit Weather Tribune 'A Tortvit Sunday partly elovdr, lfttla changa In tvroperatur. . Tamp. Hlihtit yitrday 11 Lowett thlt morning , ...... SI Precipitation to a a. m aona United Preta full Leased Wire United Prase Full Leased Wire fortieth ear MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRII 45 NO. 32 IS m Mi WOK IS FALSE mora White House Issues Denial; V Report Based on State ment by Sen. Connally. Washington, April 28 J(U.R) President Truman tonight per sonally spiked false German sur render rumors from San Fran cisco and Europe. He announced to newsmen ' aummoned to the White House - that a telephone check with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower disclosed that the rumors were without foundation. ' . The president's announcement, gravely made, dashed hopes that had been built up all over the nation by false reports carried in radio broadcasts and blazoned in mammoth type on the front pages of extra editions of some Hawinarutri Tha Whifa TfnneA narmited the president's verbal announcement . ... TI tt Imt to De quoiea airecuy. ne ii. i. "Wall T urn. nvar here as vou ean see doing" a little work and this rumor got started. "i hBrf a mil frnm San Fran elsco and the State Department i "I just got in touch with Adm t a.hu r AHm William D. Leahy his personal chief of staff), and had him can our neuMuo. Commander-in-tniei iuen. jdiscu hower) in Europe and there is no foundation for the rumor. "That is all I have to say." "A P" Statement. Ounftna an unnamed Amer ican official in San Francisco to the effect that the Nazis had 4 ,a Anrinted Press Up, " " . rannrt touched off a series of reactions that brought President rr 4 ika White House at f :35 p. m. EWT prepared to issue a proclamation. Later the AP Issued this alate- tnent: "The report of the German surrender transmitted by the AP i . t . c.n. f ronriRrn and lomgni irum - - attributed to a "high government official" was an factual account of a statement to AP staff men by Senator Con nally, vice chairman of the U. S. delegation to the United Nations m ... .nrf chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee. . i, a IV.n. marnhpr Of the U. 3 jaiaaaiinn supported Senator Connally'i statement. "Senator Connally, at the time, stipulated that his name not be used. After President Truman in Washington said the report was unfounded, the vice chairman of the U. S. delegation In San Francisco again said the announcement of German sur render was expected momentar ily, and removed the stipulation that he not be quoted directly. Solon In Denial San Francisco. April 2&MU.B Scn. Tom Connally, D., Tex., denied tonight thrt he had any official information on the re ported end of the European war or that he made any statement upon which the false war-end re port was based. Connally, grave-faced and ob viously shaken, protested to newspaper iiien that all the In formation he had was from vari ous sources," and that he did ex pect the war end announcement momentarily. BY ALLIED WRITERS With U. S. First Army, Ger many, April 28 (U.R) All war correspondents have been ordered to remain west on the Allied side of the Elbe river and discontinue visits to the Rus sian lines. The order came from army authorities, but was made at the request of the Russians, who do not permit correspondents to rove about as freely as do the American armies. London, April 28 (UP.) Babies born after today will not be issued gas masks, the min istry of home security announced. Hanged for Surrender Wish" I...: ill (Acme RadithTelpphoto) This German lieutenant was hanged because he wanted to surrender to units of the American Seventh Army attacking Aschaffenburg. His com manding officer sentenced him to be hanged in public. American sol diers, who cut body down, look up at sign from which his body was strung. The sign reads: "Cowards and traitors are hanged). Yesterday an officer candidate from Alsace Lorraine died a hero's death while destroying an enemy tank. He lives on! Today a coward In officer's garb Is hanged because he betrayed the Fuehrer and the people. 'He Is dead foreverl" Signal Coma radio-teleDhoto. . ' SUMMER CAPITAL OF PHILIPPINES FALLS TO YANKS Manila, Sunday, April 29 (U.pi A m e r i c a n infantrymen have captured tne Philippines' summer capital of Baguio, in northern Luzon, and have com pleted the eastward crossing of Mindanao to Davao gulf, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's commu nique announced today. Baguio, in the rugged moun tain country 12S miles north of Manila, fell to converging col umns of the 33d (Illinois) and 37th (Ohio) divisions. They quickly consolidated their posi tions and took Camp John Hay, just east of the city. The rampaging doughboys who had eliminated some of the toughest Japanese opposition of the Luzon campaign in the hills around Baguio then dashed northward toward Trinidad, four miles distant on highway num ber 11. Guam, Sunday, April 29 (U.R) Amnrican frnnnt moved slnwlv forward on southern Okinawa Friday, destroying pillboxes, caves and strongpoints with hoavv artillprv ucarl tn hreak no Japanese troop concentrations in rear areas. Navy and marine aircraft gave constant support ,to the ground forces. Large groups of Japa nese planes attacked U. S. ship ping off Okinawa and caused some damage, sinking one aux iliary vessel, it was announced. ITALYTAlOTS L London. April 28 (U.R) Beni to Mussolini has been captured and turned over to a people's tribunal at Milan for summary Justice, while six of his top drawer fascist henchmen also have fallen into the hands of Italian patriots apparently au thentic reports from northern Italy said tonight. Robert FarinaccI, former secretary general of the fascist party and one of the "tough guys" who surrounded Musso lini during his heydey. was said to have been tried and executed shortly after his capture. The patriot Milan radio was chief source of information that Marrhal Dodolfo Granziani. com mander in chief of fascist arrred forces: Achille Starace. another former party secretary; Guido Buffarini-Guidi, former secre tary, and Francesco Mario Bar raco, a minor official, also have been captured. POSTMASTER NOMINATED Harold M. Laws has been nominated as postmaster at Rogue River. Oregon, according to a Wellington news dispatch. If--TJfi f : FALL OF BREMEN SETS 4000 YANK PRISONERS FREE With the British Second Army, April 28 (U.R) British troops advancing east of con quered Bremen against stubborn resistance have liberated 4,000 United States merchant marine seamen and prisoners of war irom a camp at Westertinke, it was announced today. Tank-led British Irnnnf mat stiff opposition in the direction or .even. utner units advanced to within two miles of a camp north of Zeven. This camp re portedly holds 14,000 allied pris oners of war and 8,000 political prisoners, including 1,500 sick. The liberated men said con ditions in the camp had not been as bad as at most prisons. General Barker Rroman'. fanatical commander, blamed otn columnists among rich burghers as one reason for the city's sudden collapse. He said the burghers had offered Ger man soldiers Jobs after the war in order to divert th pir nftanfinn from the siege and speed the city s tan. LONDON EXCITED London, Sunday, April 29 (U.R) The Associated Press dis patch about Germany's "surren der" threw Fleet Street Lon don's Newspaper Row into a turmoil today, catching the main Sunday editions as they went to press. Editors hastily made over their front pages. The News World's Banner said: "All over. This is V-day." The Sunday Dispatch headline read: "Germany Surrenders. Of ficial announcement yet to Come." . Thousands of copies rolled off the Dispatch's presses and were dispatched by trucks to the out lying districts of London and to railroad station for delivery to the provinces. ONE SHOT Glendale, Cal., April 28 U.R) William W. White. 71, Glendae, purchased a revolver 53 years ago in Butte, Mont. But he never fired it until today. The Initial shot, police said, came when White ended his own life be cause he was "dying by degrees and didn't want to be bed ridden." Bulletin Hollvwood 8 13 1 Seattle - 3 3 1 Marshall and Hill: Spcce Mc Laughlin (8) Johnson (8) and i'inley. AND KIEL REVOLT, Patch and Armies Join ' Drive Into Austria, Near Italy Border. Paris, April 28 (U.R) War weary German soldiers revolted against nazi masters in Munich today as the American 7th army approached that birthplace of naziism from a distance of only 25 miles and also pushed into spearheads across the Austrian border to within 49 miles of Italy. Unconfirmed reports said Ger man sailor? had attacked the nazis in the Kiel naval base, scene of the first internal up rising which brought an end to the last war, and there were circumstantial reports that Hein rich Himmler was about to ac cept unconditional surrender. .Beaten German soldiers were surrendering in droves. More than 90,000 laid down their arms to the western allies in the past 24 hours. Resistance everywhere in the narrowing areas of battle was on the wane. Augsburg Falls Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's 7th army drive on Munich top pled the great aircraft center of Augsburg and joined with Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army to send five columns hammering down on Munich from the west, north and northeast. The Americans heard ' the Munich radio broadcast that German troops led by Gen. Franz Ritter Von Epp, governor of Bavaria and Reich minister, one of the - original organizers of the nazi party, was leading the revolt. It announced that Germans remaining loyal to the nazig would be treated as War criminals. The broadcast ap pealed for allied planes to bomb the headquarters of Field Mar shal Albert Kesselring, nazi commander on the shattered western front, at Pullach, six miles south of the city. Later broadcasts on the Mun ich wavelength claimed tile re volt had been quelled, indicat ing that nazis had recaptured the station or the revoltionists were using a different trans mitter. In the north, a station identi fying itself as the "German people's sender" said sailors had revolted in Kiel, killing those nazi party members in their ranks and then wiping out a nazi detachment sent to quell the uprising. French Delay Drive Patch's sensational drive into Austria was paced by the 10th armored division, which lunged 36 miles in 24 hours to capture the frontier city of Fuessen and roll on across the border to a point within 49 miles of Italy and 38 miles of Innsbruck, northern gateway to the Bren ner Pass. Meanwhile, allied supreme headquarters issued an official statement virtually charging Gen. Jean De Lattre Dc Tassig ny's French 1st army with de laying the 7th army's drive into Austria by refusal to give up the major German communica tions city of Stuttgart for a 7th army operational center. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' U. S. 1st army carried out only light patrols as the junction be tween it and the Russians was widened to 50 miles from the Chemnitz area northward to the Dessau sector as the result of the complete collapse of resist ance. SURRENDER OR DIE Guam, April 28 (U.R) Japan "must surrender or die", Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz de clared today as he presented more than 500 purple hearts to wounded veterans of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. BOMB KILLS Washington, April 28 U Ri Japanese bombs killed 12 per sons aboard the Liberty ship William Sharon in an attack off Mindaoan. the war shipping ad ministration announced tonight. But the ship survived, WSA said, and is now being repaired in this country. TO T OF BERLIN; CAPITOOOMED Nazi Paratroopers Dropped Into City Many Cap tured, Killed. London, April 28 U.R) The Red army, breaking through Berlin's last defense line to the Alexander Platz, captured parts of the three central districts of the doomed capital today and the German radio reported Nazi par achutists were dropping into the city in a last, desperate reinforce ment gamble. The First White Russian and First Ukrainian armies joined forces at the western edge of the Berlin downtown area, a Mos cow communique announced. More than 45,000 Germans had been killed in two days in the hopeless defense of the city and 14,000 prisoners were taken from a huge trap southeast of the city where survivors are be ing "annihilated." Forces of three Soviet armies were storming on beyond the falling capital and had gained up to 25 miles in an overwhelm ing offensive that was ripping what remains of Germany to shreds. A German high command com munique admitted that Zhu kov's tireless tank teams had broken through to the Alexander Platz, eastern anchor of the Un ter Den Linden line. They also penetrated to Berlin's Waterloo circle to the southwest, only l, 000 yards from the Reich Chan cellory, the communique said. German defenders of the erst while western front were re ported "turning their backs" on the Americans in an effort to fight through to the relief of Berlin. Parachutist reinforce ments were dropped to the des perate garrison as well as food and supplies, the German radio said. The Germans still held 30 square miles of Berlin, based on the Tiergartcn, Untcr Den Lin den and the Friedrichs' Potsdam and Anhalter stations. Heavy Soviet cannon, In one of the most terrible barrages of history, were obliterating everything in side that pocket. newsTlowTrks yank delegation San Francisco, April 28 (U.R) Members of the American delegation to the United Nations' conference were threatening to night to rebel against news poli cies Imposed by the State De partment. Unrest has been developing for several days. Some delegates feel that American newspaper readers and radio listeners are NOT getting their fair share of American angle conference news. It is a fact that much of the Information regarding confer ence business so far has reached American newsmen through foreign sources because of the silence Imposed upon the Amer ican delegation. Washington, April 28 (U.R) The first member of congress to return from a visit to Ger many'. Buchcnwald atrorlty camp reported today that the actual horrors he saw were worse than anything that can ever be printed in newspapers about them. Rep. John C. Kunkcl, R., Ha who visited the camp five dny after it was liberated, told re porters: 'Anything said about the place will be an understate ment. If you tried to tell the actual facts you'd get into a story of obscenity and filth that would be unprintable, ' WAR BULLETINS Guam, Sunday, April 29 (U.R) The Japanese threw two groups of planet against Amerirjin shipping oft Okina wa lay night and tank one auxiliary vessel and damaged othert, it wat announced to day, while army forces on the itland continued to move slow ly forward. London, Sunday, April 29 (U.R) A Finnish communique, heard by BBC, taid today that the last German unitt had been driven from Finnish ter ritory and lighting has ceased. F T Guam, Sunday, April 29 U.R A fleet of some 150 Superfort resses roared over southern Japan for the fourth consecu tive day today to continue the punishing aerial offensivo aimed at knocking out airfields on, Kyushu Island. The 21st bomber command headquarters announcement al so reported good to excellent results" in Saturday's strike against six Japanese airfields. The B-29 offensive is the greatest scries of attacks against the Japanese empire ever launched by the giant bombers. It was the 11th raid on Kyushu fields since March 27. The bombers flew at medium alti tude in good weather and bomb ed visually. Targets for today's raids were Miyazaki, Miynkanojo, Kokubu, Kushira and Kanyoya east air fields. No planes were lost In Satur day's strike, it was announced. Crews reported that heavy anti aircraft fire was met. Fighter opposition was rated as "nil to heavy." Heavy but apparently ineffectual use of phosphorous bombs against the B-29's was re ported. The raids over Japan arc set tling inte the "milk run" cate gory, in the opinion of fliers from Tinian bases. FRISCO IS CALM Havana, April 28 (U.R) This Cuban capital staged a wild "peace" celebration tonight aft er a local radio station broad cast the false report that Gcr mnay had surrendered. The station later said the re port was not confirmed but a hilarious celebration already was In full swing with rockets and pistols being fired, im promptu parades filling the streets and pedestrians whist ling and shouting. San Francisco, April 28 (U.R) This conference-conscious city showed little excitment today when the false surrender report was publicized. Police department officials reported "nothing to even talk about" after holding officers on duty to handle any emergencies that might have revcloped as the report spread. ERI DISPUTE SETTLED Paris, April 28 (U.R) The dispute between France and the United States over occupation of Stuttgart has been settled In a manner "satisfactory to all con cerned," sources close to the French government said tonight. These sources praised Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower's "spirit of lofty understanding," to which it was said, tho agree ment was due. Details of the agreement were not disclosed but it was under stood American troops would oc cupy Stuttgart as long as it Is necessary to provide the U. S. 7th army with a supply base but without prejudice to French claims of its postwar adminis tration. GOV. DEWEY SAYS WORLD COURT IS PEACE AIM NEED U. S. Delegates Bow to At tain Objectives at San Francisco Meet. New York, April 28 U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, titular leader of the Republican party, said tonight that creation of a permanent court of International Justice "is the heart and soul" of future peace plans. Speaking at the 48th annual American-Irish Historical So ciety meeting, Dewey said that thus far "practically nothing" has been heard from the San Francisco Security Conference dn the world court. "We have heard endless de bates about procedure, the use of sanctions and the ultimate em ployment of armies, navies and air forces to keep the peace of the world," he said. "In my opinion the court, of which we have heard so little ,is the heart and soul of all our ef forts. It represents, in truth, the ultimate ideal. The other mat ters are essential. They will be essential for many years. But if we do not lift our eyes and our hopes to the higher levels of set tlement of disputes by legal proc ess, we have made little prog ress away from international rule by force alone." San Francisco, April 28 (U.R) Two- American delegates promised tonight that the ob jectives of the United Nations conference will be accomplished "irrespective of how long it takes." . Assistant Secretary of Slate Archibald MacLcish at the same lima warned Americans not to expect tho creation of "a brave new world ' at Ban t rancisco. "We're not going to change ik. turM hv Tntarnational agree ment," he said. "Our task at San Francisco Is simply to bring an of the United Nations together in permanent association, not to create some sort of Utopia." MacLcish and Rcprs. Sol Bloom, D., N. Y.. and Charles Eaton, R., N. J., American dele gates, spoke on the State Depart ment's weekly radio program MacLcish from Washington and the Congressmen from the con ference. T HEADSFOR ALTAR Hollywood. April 28 (U.R) Humphrey Bogart, hard-boiled screen hero, will marry Lauren Bacall, the "dow.vundcr" girl of the movies, on Author Louis Bromficld's Ohio farm as soon as he is free from his present picture making and his present wife. Bogart said today. His wife. Mayo Mclhot, Is com pleting her six -weeks residence In Las Vegas, Ncv., preparatory to getting a divorce. FRENMELECTION FIRST SINCE '36' Paris, Saturday, April 28 (U.Rl French voters go to the polls tomorrow to choose more than 600,000 municipal officials in the first elections in France since 1936. Tho total vott Is ex pected to reach 23.000,000 with women, representing 60 per cent of the electorate, voting for the first time in French history. Several hundred candidates are women. OKAY REA LOAN Washington, April 28 (U.R) The senate agricultural com mittee voted today to divorce the rural electrification admin istration from the department of agriculture and then approv al hill tn authoriza a three- year. $590,000,000 loan proaram tor kla expanaiwn. EARLY SHOWDOWN ON SOVIET PACTS, European Situation Speeds Security Parley Finish Formal Speeches. Municipal Opera House, San Francisco, April 28 (U.R) Tha United Nations headed tonight into two more showdowns be tween conflicting .American and Russian viewpoints whether Argentina will be invited to San Francisco and whether the new world security organization shall have the right to revise or can cel such wartime treaties as the soviet have signed with France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Warsaw Polish regime. Weekend battle lines on the Ap gentine Issue were being drawn with prospects that the matter will be raised Monday at the conference executive committee. The treaty fight will come later when the American pro posal to amend Dumbarton Oaks to give the security council of the new world organization tha right to review treaties and in ternational agreements which create "Injustice to the peoples involved" is raised In commis sion 111 of the present confer ence. Public operations of the con ference today were given over to formalities for the most part speeches by the chairman' of the participating delegations, de livered in alphabetical order. Two plenary- sessions wera scheduled for today to get as many of the formal speeches out of the way and clear the decks for more rapid handling of the real business of the conference. With Germany cracking up and the end of the European war an early possibility, conference delegates were displaying eager ness to dispatch their business with promptness in order to get back home to tackle the huge problems of reconstruction which most of them face. Ren. Tom Connally (D., Tex.), said that if a quick surrender of Germany should come as was anticipated in many conference quarters today the conference would be likely to hasten ita work. He noted that It would ba important in event of conclusion of the European war for many of the delegates, such as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and others to return to their cap itals at the earleist possible mo ment. HIMMLER'S OFFER ' By United Prett Moscow radio said Saturday night that the official Tasi agency "hag been authorized to state" that reports of Hcnrich Himmler's offer to surrender Germany to the United State. and Great Britain are "confirm ed In responsible soviet quar ters." The Moscow announcement was reported by the Columbia Broadcasting system. San Francisco, April 28 U.R Diplomatic quarters suggested tonight that Hoinrich Himmler has put Adolf Hitler to death as cynical evidence to the allies of his "good faith" in a desire to surrender Germany. A nigh British source revealed the first evidence in what was seen here as a desperate plan by Himmler to attempt to save his own skin by negotiating the sur render of Germany. BETS IN BELFRY LondonApril 28 U.R Thd Salisbury diocesan guild of bell ringers today voted against a competition among churcn bell ringers because, according to Ex change Telegraph, a contest might lead to bets in the bel fries, DELEGATES CHEER San Francisco, April 28 (U.R) Security conference delegates in plenary session at the Civic Opera House broke into cheers late today when one of the dele gates held up a newspaper head lined "Nazis Quit."