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mm ID I o)M A M f M UVL a Weather FORECAST: Increasing cloudi ness tonight and Wednesday. Slightly cooler Wednesday. ' Temp. Highest Yesterday .83 Lowest this Morning ......48 Fortieth Year Borneo E RICHES! ISLAND Australians and Americans Team Up To Attempt Lib eration Oil, Rubber Region By United Press Allied troops have invaded Borneo, oil and rubber rich island in the Dutch East' Indies, Australian government officials announced in Canberra today. Australian Treasurer J. B. Chifley said Australian troops participated in the landing, indi eating that American forces also were involved. There was no immediate con firmation of the report from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head quarters. In Fierce Combat Earlier, Radio Tokyo said allied invasion forces landed last night on the Borneo coast and were engaged in "fierce combat'' with the Japanese garrison. The broadcast said the landing was made under heavy naval bombardment in the Tarakan area on the east coast, 175 miles southwest of American-bases at the southern end of the Sulu archipelago. It said an earlier landing attempt at noon had been repulsed. Bornea, third largest island In the world with 392,000 square miles, had been bombed repeat edly since Gen. Douglas Mae- San Francisco Excited, Self-Conscious As Conference.Focuses Eyes of World Br Alicia Ruh! San Francisco, always an alert city, has been particularly "on her toes" during the past week. The air is brittle with suppressed excitement which is as epidemic as it is intense, and native San Franciscans are self-conscoiusly aglow with civic pride, sensitive about their weather, inordinate ly curious about their distin guished guests. The city has been arrayed, of course, in her best bib and tucker. Department store windows have been ar ranged with particular care, some displaying fabrics pattern ed on International themes, some, such as the City of Paris, concentrating on specific exhib its for the various countries rep resented, all festive with flags and flowers. Union Square is glorious with immense dark red rhododendrons Installed especi ally for the occasion. Interesting people are para mount. One sees few recogniz able celebrities wandering about unattended, but one does see mall groups of burnoosed Arabs: frock-coated East Indians and Russian soldiers, tough fibred and unamused; an occa sional French sailor; a French general or two: Latin Ameri cans, excited and gesticulating: and a few unmistakable British, distinguished looking. The St. Francis is perpetually mobbed, both Inside and out. about 60 per cent self-conscious sightseers, about 40 per cent actual delegates. The Fairmont and Mark Hopkins more out of the way, are less Jammed with tourists although almost as alive with celebrities. The general atmosphere among the interested spectators, as well as among the delegates, seems to be one of determination and something closely akin to optim ism. They seem to feel that "where there is a will, there is a way" and the will they have, though the way appears some what less obvious. This feeling was expressed rather well. Ii thought, by an English parlia mentarian, a Miss Wilkinson, member of the labor party, who has held some very responsible positions in England's war gov ernment. Miss Wilkinson, in a very unassuming way, impressed out aj being competent, realiiUe MEDFORD United Fnu-Full Invaded Soviets Celebrate May Day With Huge Display Of Power Moscow, May 1 (U.R) The Red army celebrated May Day today with the most impressive display of soviet power in his tory, marching 100,000 strong before an imposing array of dig nitaries including Japanese Am bassador Naotaka Saito, who stood grim and alone in a corner of the diplomatic box. Moscow's first May Day mili tary parade of the war brought again to the capital the pomp and panoply of the holiday in peace time. The celebration was tensed to the verge of exultation by word from Berlin that the Red banner fluttered over the Reichstag and final victory was at hand. Marshal Stalin reviewed the parade. He stood practically mo tionless for two hours, his fin gers touching the visor of his cap, as Red army men and steel streamed across Red square and hundreds of planes zoomed over head in perfect formation. Arthur's forces moved into the southern Philippines. -" Tokyo reported that American superfortresses attacked Kyushu southernmost of Japan's home islands, today for the sixth straight day in the assault to knock out bases from which Jap anese suicide planes have been attacking in the Okinawa area. The 21st bomber command re ported that B-29's yesterday set huge fires in the Tachikawa army arsenal near Tokyo and nt Hammatsu, 60 miles northeast of Nagoya. Some of yesterday's raiders also hit Kyushu. American troops on Okinawa drove within two miles of Naha. the capital, and brought its northeastern outpost at Shuri under tank fire. and uncompromisingly honest, and when asked during an inter view with the press tHe very direct question as to whether she approached the conference with confidence or only with hope, she hesitated for several long minutes. The moderator asked, rather nervously, wheth er she had gotten the question, only to get an impatient wave of the hand. "Yes, I got the ques tion, Ira thinking, she said, and then finally answered slowly, as If analyzing her Innermost con victions, "Yes, I have confidence I have considerable confi dence, as a matter of factl There is such intense .feeling, some thing must come of it l" She went on to point out, as almost everybody has been careful to do, that we can't expect much in the way of concrete solutions from this conference, but rather the setting up of machinery, (a much hackneyed but apparently indispensable term), which could eventually be used to grind out these solutions. There were several Interesting sidelights to the main theme the press conference with Mrs. Pandit, for example, the unoffi cial representative of "India for the Indians". A small, dignified, highly Intelligent little woman, she presented a cause which seemed comparatively local and rather tenuously connected with the theme of world peace. After a statement which devoted con siderable space to discrediting the official Indian delegation, as appointed by the viceroy and therefore exclusively pro-British she asked for questions from the floor. A young Indian jumped to his feet and presented a question somewhat too' well phrased to be completely spontaneous, and very embarrassing to Mrs. Pan dit's cause: "Was it not true that in April, 1942, there were upris ings In India which disrupted the railroads and coincided with Japanese activities?" Mrs. Pandit admitted that there were uprisings, but that tl.ey were In reaction to British mistreatment of Indian leaders and had no intention of aiding the Japanese. Her answer was convincing to everyone except the young Indian who continued to be embarrassing until Mrs Pandit, eitentibly ior Ult benefit Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 1,V by Allied Force TO STATIN PITS Ickes' Notice of Government Seizure Fails to Move Members of United Miners Washington, May 1 -U.R) Shortly after Coal Administra tor Harold L. Ickes said the gov ernment was prepared to seize hard coal mines, the United Mine Workers today rejected a war labor board order to extend their wage-hour contract with anthracite operators. UMW spokesmen, summoned to a WLB hearing here after 72,000 hard coal miners left their jobs, also refused to give any reason for the union's fail ure to comply with a WLB order to continue uninterrupted pro duction of anthracite. The order was issued last night before the 1943-1945 wage-hour contract expired at midnight. Ralph E. Taggart, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co., told the WLB at today's hearing that anthra cite operators would accept an extension of the contract and woulj abide by last night s boairl order. He said the opera tors asked, however, that the extension be only for 30 days, with both parties required to re port to the WLB one week from now. of the other newspaper men, but possibly because she "smelled a rat", asked him to give his name and the name of the organization he represented. He was happy to give his name, but reticent about the organization, because, as it turned out, he wasn't represent ing one just then! The little woman knew her rights, and pointing her finger toward the door like an avenging angel asked him to kindly leave the room. The young Indian was de lighted, snatched the opportu nity to make an impassioned little speech, and left the room with a broad grin and flash bulbs exploding in his face. It was hinted later that he was connected with the official In dian delegation. Another rather amusing angle to the conference was Thurs day's Town Meeting of the Air, held In the enormous civic audi torium. The authorities pessi mistically issued three times as' many tickets as they had seats, not counting on the show of en thusiasm, which left several thousand angry ticket holders outside locked doors. The lucky 10,000 within were amused for the half hour before the pro gram went on the air by the furious poundings on the vari ous doors. Among those not amused was Mr. Denny, the moderator, who was locked out for half an hour and when pounding, pleading and cajoling failed to move the adamant door keeper, finally had to break in through the basement. The alert, responsive audience was highly indicative of the intense public Interest which exists throughout the country. On my way out of the city I shared a taxi with a young and pretty English girl who turned out to be a member of the Brit ish delegation. It was her first trip to the United States, her first American city, and she wis amused by how hard it was to make herself understood peo ple looked at her as if she were speaking a foreign language. She loved San Francisco, was still slightly confused ' by the money, and religiously avoided all cable cars, explaining that she felt it would be highly anti climatic after surviving the blitz to ba killed by t streetcar. - S00N.F0R HOME, CONFEREES TOLD Decision Attributed to War End Imminence Report Heightens Urgency Air. San Francisco, May 1 (U.R) Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov is expected to return shortly to Moscow, it was learn ed today, but the decision was attributed to the imminent end of the European war rather than conference disputes with the Americans and British. The exact date of Molotov's departure is expected to be fix ed within the next 24 hours. British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden, who is under simi lar pressure to get back to Lon don, will slay in San Francisco at least two weeks more, it was understood, and probably through the duration of the con ference. Overstayed Now It was earned that Molotov in dicated when he came to the United States that his stay must necessarily be very brief. Some quarters said he had already stayed here longer than he origi nally planned. The impending departure of Molotov cast an air of urgency over conference deliberations. Atlhough delegates have been here a week, the organization of the commissions and committees which will do the actual work is only being accomplished today. It was regarded as imperative that as much work as possible be accomplished before Molotov leaves since, if past experience is any precedent, Russian de cisions will have to be referred back to Moscow on all contro versial questions after he goes. This, it was noted, might drag out the conference indefinitely. Others Would Leave Many other European dele gates are equally eager to get back to their home countries where problems of rehabilitation and reorganization await their urgent attention. It was learned that: 1 The United States will pre sent to the conference 16 amend ments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world organization. They will be made public as soon as they have been delivered to the other sponsoring govern ments. 2 The United States plan for international trusteeships takes into account four basic factors the future security of the United States; future world security and stabilization of international re lations; the problems of depend ent peoples; natural resources in such areas. 3 The United Nations sub committee on world court has failed to agree on whether to continue the present world court, on a system for nominat ing judges, or on the question of compulsory jurisdiction for the court. GERMAN PW'S ESCAPE CAMP AT SACRAMENTO San Francisco, May 1. (U.R) 1 FBI agents and military police continued a state-wide search to day for four German prisoners of war who escaped from a camp at the Sacramento army signal depot. Nat Plcper. special agent In charge of the San Francisco FBI office, Identified the prisoners as Kurt Damreau, 19, ex-member of the Herman Gocring division, who sneaks some English: Erich Kronbcrger, IS; Robert P. Pic tarski, 20, and Herman Prchn. 22. FIND LAWYER DEAD San Francisco, May 1 (U.R) Robert P. Troyn, attorney and former California democratic party leader, was found dead In his 10-room San Francisco home last night. The once well-to-do lawyer apparently had been dead two weeks from a heart at tack. He had led a secluded life la recent eu. i The Father (Aetna RattioTflphato) There lies the once mighty Mussolini, his bullet-riddled head resting on the body of his young mistress, Clara Petaccl, who whs slain with him by Partisans in Milan. As this grim and historic picture woJ taken, armed Partisans were fighting to restrain crowds that sought to trample the body of the fallen dictator. CHURCHILL MINIS EARLY CLEARING OF PEACE EFFORT London, May 1. (U.R) Count Folke Bornadotte, Swedish emis sary reputed to be negotiating with Nazi leaders for Germany's surrender, confirmed today that he had conferred with Hcinrich Himmler 10 days ago. A Swedish foreign office spokesman Insisted, however, that Bcrnadotte had not brought back any new peace message from Himmler to be transmitted to the allies through the Stock holm government. Prime Minister Churchill, meanwhile, hinted In commons that an official statement clari fying the entire situation might be expected soon. Churchill said he would In form commons Immediately of any major developments and the British home ministry said the prime minister would broad cast as soon as word of Ger many's surrender was received. Details Refused Bcrnadotte partially lifted the secrecy covering his recent ac tivities during a press confer ence late today in the Swedish foreign office in Stockholm. He refused to give details of any of his discussions with Himmler, beyond the fact that they had met 10 days ago in the Baltic port of Luebeck obvi ously to discuss the allied de mand that Germany surrender unconditionally to the United States, Britain and Russia. Bernadotte and the foreign of fice spokesman emphasized that no new reply from Himmler had been transmitted to the allies through the Swedish govern ment today. Army Liberator Bomber Crashes Wiltiamihiirff. Mass.. Mav 1 (U.R) An army Liberator bomb er ploughed through a third of a mile of woodlands today and crashed on Briar Hill near here. Two crew members were killed. Five others were Injured, one seriously. Names of casualties were withheld pending notification of next of kin. MEDFORD GROUP ENJOYS KLAMATH HOSPITALITY Ten Medfnrd people were In Klamath Falls yesterday to at tend the annual meeting and banquet of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. Making the trip were Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle, Mr. and Mrs. Don New bury, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Earley, M. and Mrs. Dwight Houghton, Frank Hull, manager, and Herb Grey, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Grey Inspected the Klamath marine camp during the alter oooa. Tribune United Press of Fascism Comes to Mussolini and Mistress Interred In Unmarked Potter Field Graves Milan, May 1 (U.R) Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petaccl, were buried secretly In unmarked graves in the Potters' field of the Magglore cemetery late yesterday, it was revealed today. Former Fascist party secre tary, Achllle Starace, who was executed yesterday, was in terred a short distance away in the same plot of ground. The only witnesses to the Ig nominous burials were 15 mem- ON DEFEAT BRINK London, May 1 (U.R) Dying Berlin tottered on the brink of defeat today and nazl broadcasts said Adolf Hitler was fighting in the midst of his soldiers defend ing the capital to the end. The Moscow radio said the Russians expected the Red army to complete the conquest of Ber lin In time for a May Day an nouncement. Already the soviet banner was flying over the Reichstag and other administra tive buildings In the heart of the city. A nazl broadcast recorded to night by the Exchange Tele graph said that at midday Hitler was fighting among his soldiers, with bloody struggles whirling through the streets around him. Marshal Stalin Issued a spe cial order of the day announcing that Rokossovsky had captured the big Baltic port of Stralsund, isolating the northernmost tip of Germany, TO BE AVAILABLE Washington, May 1. (U.R) sugar available to ration book holders and home canners will be about one-third less than the amount alloted last year, It was annotinced today by three gov ernment agencies. The new sugar ration Is fixed at IS pounds annually for each individual compared to 24 pounds last year. In addition, sugar stamp 36 which becomes valid today must last for four months. It Is good for five pounds of sugar. Home canners will receive al together only 70 per cent as much sugar this season as they received last year. Local ration boards will limit the amount of sugar for such purposes to IS pounds for each Individual com pared to 20 pounds last year. The maximum amount available to o lamily will b 120 pounds Full Leased Wire NO. 34. Inqlorious End bers of the cemetery staff who were sworn to secrecy to pre vent mobs from learning the graves location and possibly ex huming the remains of the for mer dictator. The three bodies were In rough, unpainted pine coffins. the tops of which were screwed on. A military chaplain offered a brief Catholic benediction for all three as they were lowered Into the ground. An Italian Red Cross truck had transported the three bodies from the morgue to the burial site under some fir trees. Vltlorio Vertova, cemetery di rector who supervised the bu rials, said the brain had been removed from Mussolini's body and criminologists were exam lng it. OF Rome, May 1 (U.R) Mar shal Rodolfo Grazlanl uncondi tionally surrendered the German- controlled Italian-Llgurian army to the Allies today, while New Zealand troops of the 15th army group made contact with Mar shal Tito's Jugoslavian forces 16 miles northwest of Venice. Grazlanl told German and Ital Ian troops of the Ligurlan army that "further resistance would be useless" and ordered his troops to lay down their arms. The second New Zealand Divi sion crossed the Isonzo river In northern Italy and made contact with Tito's forces In the Mon- falconc area. General Mark W. Clark's Al lied armies In northern Italy continued to slash through brok en enemy ranks. Fifteenth army group forces were within 139 miles of the Seventh American army on the north and 22V4 miles from the French on the west. MEDFORD MAN LISTED IN ISLAND LIBERATED Pfc. Truman J. Crawford was listed today by the war depart ment as being among additional military and civilian personnel liberated in the Philippines, with next-of-kin listed as Mrs, C. T. Conner, 540 West Talm street, Medford. No record of Pfc. Crawford was available at either selective service board and Mrs. Conner Is not listed In available directories. Cpl. Charles F. Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rice, 1U West Eleventh street, .has been wounded while serving with the army in the Pacific region ac cording to today's casualty list of the Office of War Informa tion. , ... - FUEHRER FELL IN BERLIN FIGHTING S ANNOUNCEMENT Admiral Karl Doenitz Takes Leadership; Resistance Will Continue, He Says. London, Mar 1 (U.R) The German radio announced , tonight that Adolf Hitler had been killed at a command post in the middle of the ruins of his once proud capital of Ber lin. Admiral Karl Doenlti, chief of the German navy, takes over the leadership of the na tion, the enemy broadcast said. Apparently the Germans, beat en to their knees by the Rus sians and the western Allies, plan to go fighting for a while. Doenits called on the nation to continue resistance. There was a mournful dirge of music on the Hamburg ra dio tonight and then the an nouncer said: "It Is announced that our Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, this afternoon at his command post in the Reichschancellory, fighting till his last breath against Bolshevism, fell for Germany." There was no Immediate re action or confirmation from Allied capitals. 'S VETS IN FAST SWEEP Paris, May 1 (U.R) Ar mored columns of the American Third army rolled up to the out skirts of Braunau, birthplace of Adolf Hitler, today In a spectac ular 25-mlle sweep that carried to the Inn river only 43 miles from Berchtesgaden. Toa nil. I, !t arfl-na m penhagen said the Germans had withdrawn from several towns In Denmark, leaving them un der control of Danish police, and the British radio quoted a Ham burg broadcast as saying that American Airborne troops had landed beside the British Second army on the north German plain. Yanks Move Fast Along a 100-mile front stretch ing eastward from the Munich area to the Bohemian plateau. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army veterans were advancing Into the Bavarian Redoubt with terrific speed and power. They reached the Inn river, main communications line of the Redoubt, opposite Braunau. In full view of the Austrian town where Hitler was born 56 yean ago. U. S. Seventh army troops to the southwest sent a half-dozen armored and Infantry columns racing through the Austrian Ty rol at the center of the Redoubt, driving within nine miles of Innsbruck, northern exit of the Brenner Pass. In the far north, British Sec ond army troops plunged half way across the base of the Dan ish peninsula, pushing out from their Elbe river bridgehead with in 16 miles of the Baltic port of Luebeck. Chutists Used German radio spokesmen said American Airborne troops were dropping on the flat plains near Hamburg In supvort of the Brit ish drive and United Press dis patches from Stockholm, report ing that Danish police were re assuming control In a number of towns in Denmark, Indicated strongly that the Germans were writing off their hold on the little Scandinavian kingdom. Three other 11th armored col umns struck east Into Austrian soil along the north side of the Danube valley within 18 miles northwest of Llnz apparently headed for a juncture with Rus sian troops advancing on Linl from the southeast. Reach Inn River Units of the 13th Armored Di vision also broke through to the Inn river at Kosslarn, eight milei northeast of Braunau. . On the Seventh army front. Vi lnard Infantry Division sent a fast task force across the Aus trian border Into the Tyroiese town of Scharnitz, only nina miles northeast of Innsbruck, Zurich dispatches said the fortress city of Bregenz had fall en to the French and that the Germans were hanging out white flags In towns and villages throughout the western border ,rea.
