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Fortieth Year
Borneo
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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.