Writers Get Rare View Of
Reds In Trek Behind Lines
By Robert Vermillion
United Press Correspondent
With the Russian Army South
of Potsdam, Germany, May 2
(U.R) Four Americans, "lost" In
the middle of the Red army,
drove 30 miles behind the Rus
sian lines today.
We proceeded through crowds
of cheering, saluting soviet
troops after the U. S. 9th army's
junction with Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's men southwest of Ber
lin. Those with me are Holdbrook
Bradley of the Baltimore Sun,
Martin Harris of Stars and
Stripes, and John Raymond.
We got a view of the Russian
army rarely accorded foreign
correspondents. We rode In a
jeep bp the road toward Berlin,
and got within 26 miles of Pots
dam. Germans Halt Ride
Our ride toward Berlin was
halted by the presence of Ger
mans astride the main road to
the capital.
From the time we entered the
Russian lines we were shaking
hands, grinning till our faces
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hurt, and sharing vodka with
tne Russians.
We saw soviet tankers moving
toward the Germans on what
they seemed to consider a mere
frolic.
As a matter of fact the Rus
sians we met and they included
Russians from Siberia to Poland
treated the whole subject of
the war as if It were over al
ready.
Prussians Fraternise
In the dozen towns and ham
lets through which we passed
the soldiers were fraternizing
freely with liberated girl -slave
laborers, to say nothing of some
highly attractive Russian WACS.
The Russians were not very
tall. And most of them appered
to be quite young. All insisted
on shaking hands with the
Americans. They were cheerful
but dirty, and were dressed in a
variety of uniforms.
Yanks Good "Tovarichs"
Their attitude toward the
Americans seemed to be based
on the idea all Americans were
good "Tovarichs" who have been
a great deal of help, but that
it was really the Russians who
have won the war.
The half dozen grinning Red
army men at one point stood
around almost shyly until one,
more emotional than the others,
stepped up, threw his arms
around me as if I were his sweet
heart, and planted a long moist
kiss on my left cheek.
We drove into Wittenberg past
startled Russians who at first
did not recognize the strange
uniforms and jeep markings.
Populace Saddened
The German civilians recog
nized us immediately and our
appearance was the bright spot
on their day. They mistakenly
believed the Americans were go
ing to take over the town.
One civilian stepped up, asked
"will your Americans occupy
Wittenberg?" and became sad
when we said no.
EXCESS WATER USED
TO FULL ADVANTAGE
The spring run-off is now In
full swing in the streams of the
county and valley and irrigation
ditches of the Talent and Med
ford districts are using the ex
cess water for irrigating orch
ards, pastures and alfalfa fields,
J. M. Spencer, manager of the
Medford district reports. It Is
planned to use every available
drop now and soak the ground
as much as possible to delay the
need of storage water.
At Four-Mile Lake, one of the
water sources of the Medford
district, 48 inches of snow, melt
ing slowly, was reported yester
day. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada.
Paratrooper Film At Craterian
With an all-male cast of per
formers Including Errol Flynn
who is starred and William
Prince, Henry Hull, George To
bias, Dick Erdman, Warner An
derson and many others "Objec
tive Burma" opens today at the
Craterian theatre. It is the
action-packed saga of parachute
shock troops dropped into the
dank Burma jungles long before
allied fighters cracked back at
the Japs.
"Hangover Square" Showing
"Hangover Square", crime's
most shocking story, the drama
tic revelation of a many's fury
unleashed by a woman's scorn,
opens a four day engagement at
the Rialto theatre today.
Starring Laird Cregar, Linda
Darnell and George Sanders,
"Hangover Square" is acclaimed
as more terrifying than "Gas
light" and "The Lodger".
Boris Karloff in "The Walk
ing Dead" is the companion fea
ture on this exceptiqnal all mys
tery program.
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
GIVEN NAVAL APPROVAL
Washington, May 2. (U.R)
Secretary . of Navy James For
restal today approved 25 addi
tional colleges and universities
for naval reserve officer training
corps units, the navy announced
today.
Courses will begin around
Nov. 1, 1945, the navy secretary
said. These courses will be in
addition to 27 units now in oper
ation. The new units include
Oregon State college.
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In Holly Role
Merle Oberon as she appears
in the role of the beguiling
George Sand, French authoress,
'in' the all-technicolor film classic
"A Song to Remember", current
ly co-starring Paul Muni and
featuring Cornel Wilde at tho
Holly theatre. The film will be
featured on the Holly screen for
the remainder of the week.
SCOTTISH RITE TO
STAGE REUNIONS
Medford Scottish Rite bodies
are preparing for their Spring
Reunion which will be held Sat
urdays and Sundays, May 5 and
6, and May 12 and 13. Dinners
will be served on both Sundays
at 6:30 p. m.
A large class of Master Masons
will be given all the degrees 4th
to 32nd .
All Scottish Rite Masons In
this vicinity are expected to be
present.
These reunions are held twice
each year for the convenience of
Master Masons who desire to re
ceive more degrees in Masonry.
DIVORCEE SENTENCED
TO SIX MONTHS TERM
Dorothy .Jeanne Reese, 27,
divorcee, who entered a plea of
guilty to contributing to the de
linquency of a 16-year-old boy,
was yesterday sentenced to
serve six months In the county
Jail. She is a former resident of
Grants Pass where her husband
now resides. Authorities claim
she lived with the youth as his
wife in Klamath and this county.
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OF NEW OPA ACT
Provisions of the new OPA
act which it is believed will
bring about stricter control of
meat, stamp out the black mar
ket and result in better distribu
tion were explained by OPA
district officials at a meeting
last night at the Chamber of
Commerce. Attending were
stock raisers, slaughterers and
meat retailers.
Frederic Janney OPA district
rationing executive, Portland,
explained the new order, point
ing out that Oregon had been
fortunate in the matter of fresh
meat supplies in the past. Jan
ney stated that the meat prob
lem Is due largely to the demand
from armed forces and from
people living in congested war
work areas where the supply
must be federally Inspected. To
meet the problem, the govern
ment must either increase the
volume handled by government
inspected plants or induce non
federal plants to undertake fed
eral inspection, the speaker said.
Even this will have little affect
on the consumer supply here, he
declared.
Under the new act, non-federal
inspected plants handling
more than 6000 pounds of dress
ed meat per year must register
with OPA in Portland, before
May 14, Janney said. Farm
slaughterers, or those who
slaughter less than 6000 pounds
per year, must register with the
local board, and slaughter for
home use is not affected. Slaugh
terers will be mailed applica
tions and instructions.
The speaker said that meat Is
the only rationed commodity
which cannot be controlled at
the inception of the product, as
is gas, sugar and other products.
Tips has resulted in extensive
black market operations, he de
clared. It was brought out dur
ing the talk that a person with
out a farm cannot legally buy an
animal, have it raised or fat
tened and slaughtered for him.
Following the speaker there
was discussion of OPA practices
to affecting the stock industry,
with Vern Brophy and C. C.
Hoover raising questions. Also
here for the meeting was John
Ferris of the district OPA at
Portland.
Wednesday. May 2, 194S MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THRES
THE GRANGE
Central Point Grange
Due to a conflict in schedules,
Dr. James Millar will not be able
to speak at the meeting of the
Central Point Grange Friday
evening, it was announced today
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