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Cm The MaU Ttlbuae Want Ad Way Quick Raiulta At 8mall Coat Weather FORECAST: Fair Sunday with little change In temperature. Hlgheit yesterday ,...7 Lowest this morning 45 MEDFORD Tribune United Pint Full Leased Wire Unlttd Press Full Lr I Wix Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1945 NO. 38 J o)M a- in IF A Nlfp Nl A OF No Formal Surrender to "Big Three" Expected Guer illa War with Reds Seen. Paris, Sunday, May 6 U,PJ The German 1st, 19th and 24th armies of possibly 400,000 men surrendered unconditionally to American and French forces in Austria and southwest Germany yesterday and Stockholm dis patches said early today that the capitulation of Norway had been signed. The sole remaining other pocket of resistance, in Czecho slovakia, also was reported on the verge of surrender as Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. 3rd army stormed toward Prague against the German 7th army, last intact enemy group facing the western allies. The Stockholm newspaper Da gens Nyheter said that the Ger mans had signed a capitulation covering Norway, at the same time they agreed on the surren der of Holland and Denmark. The surrender would not take effect until late today or tomor row, the dispatch said, due to "formalities." Records Burned Reports from Oslo to Stock holm said that black smoke swirled up from the German ges lapo headquarters in the Victoria terrace of the Norse capital, In dicating the Germans were burn ing records. The German commander in Norway, Gen. Franz Boehm, was reported preparing to surrender his forces of 200.000 to 250.000 men. The puppet premier. Vid kun Quisling, said he would re main in office until a legitimate government could be formed and would do his utmost to prevent civil war in the interim period before allied forces can occupy the country. Patriots in Czechoslovakia re volted as Patton drove in from the west and the Russians at tacked from the east. The Czech government in London an nounced they had seized Prague, the capital, and raised the Czech flag for the first time since the Germans overran the country on March IS. 1939. Quit Near Munich The nazl 1st and 19th armies laid down their arms to Gen. Jacob L. Dever's U. S. 6th army group after negotiations ironi cally conducted near Munich, cradle of nazidom. The 24th sur rendered to Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tasslgny's French. Almost 3.000,000 Germans had surrendered to the western al lies in a three-day period over 1,000,000 in northern Italy and Austria: more than 1,000,000 in Denmark, Holland and north western Germany; possibly as many as 500,000 on the American-French front and entire di visions In other areas. The nazis were ordered by their new fuehrer, Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz who reportedly had gone to Norway, to continue re sisting the Russians in the east. Post War Alibi The nazis already were pre paring their post-war alibi pro claiming they would fight the red army to the end "to save Europe from bolshevism" and deploring the fact that they had to surrender forces In the west which could have been used in the east. As the result, it appeared ccr- tain that the nazis would not make a final, overall capitula tion to the "big three." Victory day in Europe thus probably will be Just what many had expected a joint announcement by the United Slates. Great Britain and Russia that all organized resist ance had ceased and nazis fight ing thereafter would be treated as guerrillas. It appeared that such a proclamation could come any time. A British military com mentator revealed in London that the nazi armed forces which totaled over 8.000.000 men had been reduced to a beaten, con glomerate force of 1.765.000 men scattered Irom Latvia to Uic French coast. (Acme. Tele photo) One of the few controversies ever aired In an open meeting at an International conference had reached a cli max when this picture was taken in the San Francisco Opera House. - Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo tov Is shown (right) as he stands to vote against the Issuance of an Immediate invitation to Argentina to at tend the UNCIO. Evan Subasic (left), Yugoslav Foreign Minister, was one of the few delegates who rose in nnnnrt of the Russian stand. ALLIED LEFT BERLIN ,1 OF Answer to V-1 Raids On .London, . Grand ; Scale Retribution...' By Edward W. Beaiti Paris, May 3 (U.R) Three months ago before the last cli mactic air raids and before the Red army's tanks and self-propelled guns had battered their way into its heart Berlin was the world's number one example of retaliation. It was grand-scale retribution, by allied air power, for what the Germans had loosed on the world. I last walked the streets of Berlin January 25. At that time it was at least 60 per cent de stroyed. I know it, because over a space of three months I bribed my nazi guards with clgarets or with soap, often enough to re visit every section of the town I had known well during four years' pre-war residence. The bombing had reduced oc cupants to communal feeding, communal herding against dan ger, communal dread of every nightfall and every dawn. The night was sure to bring RAF Mosquito bombers; it might bring swarms of heavy Lancas ter bombers. Daybreak brought the threat of deadly Flying Fortresses and Liberators whose bombs struck like surgeons' knives at the city's vital organs. I watched the "Forts" wipe out targets north and south of us in broad daylight while American Mustang, Lightning and Thunderbolt fighters traced a lazy challenge through the skies over the city. The Ger man sentries had a grim joke: They would remark that Reichs marshal Hermann Goering's Luftwaffe must be taking its 500th successive day off. The Berlin which I saw was the real heart of Germany, laid oprn. The Potsdamerplatz, generally accepted as the center of Berlin, was a semi-desert. Everything around the intersection of the Fricdrichstrasse and the Leipzi gcrstrasse was torn apart dur ing the raid of last June 23 in which. 800 Fortresses made cen tral Berlin their target. The raid was an answer to the V-1 flying bomb then operating against London. UNITY FOR PEACE Los Angeles. May 5 U.R) Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, foreign minister of Mexico, tonight said that the international situation that has been forced upon the nations of .he world by war must be maintained in peace. London, May 9 (U.FD Vid kun Quisling, head of the nazi puppet regime in Norway, as serted tonight in a radio broad cast that he and his "govern ment" would attempt to keep Norway from becoming a battle- I field. A Diplomatic Drama at San Francisco ' ' ' "13" Influence San Diego, May 5 (U.R) When Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lemons decided to move they didn't figure on the number "13." Moving on Friday, April 13, the Lemons found residence at 1313 W. 13th street. Today they received a moving bill for $13.13. EZRA POUND, YANK POET, EXPATRIATE IN ITALYJAILED U. S. 4th Corps Headquarters, May, 5 (U.R) Ezra Pound, Amreican-bor'n poet and self styled expatriate, who is under indictment for treason, was ar rested near Genoa, Italy, it was announced officially tonight. Pound was indicted July 26, 1943. U. S. Attorney Gen. Fran cis Biddle said at the time he would be brought to trial when caught. The charge carries a possible death penalty. Pound left America at the age of 22 and returned in 1939 after an absence of 31 years. In 1942, he tried to get back to the United States but was left to continue unwillingly his 33-year exile. A prolific writer of poetry and prose. Pound made many broadcasts from Italy advocating that the United States stay out of the war. Then, when the U. S. entered the conflict, he sought to persuade Americans to de cline to support the war effort. Born in Idaho in 1885, Pound said when he left America: "For 22 years I have strug gled against the appalling waste of opportunity in America's men tal affairs." During a visit to the United States in 1939, he expressed great admiration for Benito Mus solini and fascism and described Italy as the "seat of culture in the Occident." WAR BULLETINS Aboard Adm. Mitehtr'f Flag ship, Mar 5 (U.R) (Via Navy radio) Eight navy tighter pilots stt a record for speedy destruc tion of Jap plants today whan they shot down a formation of 12 in 35 seconds. San Francisco. May S (U.R) Franca and ciecnosiovaxia nev taken the initiative in demand inn .thlithmnt a! lntarnation- al control over all great arma ment industries and in loiai elimination of Krupps and othef Carman arms plants. By United Press With the surrender of Cop. nhagtn and the Hague Satur day and the teisura of Prague by Czechoslovak patriots, the German 'empire" which ones held away over 23 European capitals was left with but one govarnmen seat at Oslo, San Diego. May 5 (U.R) Champion Welker Cochran of the billiard table bowed In de feat for the second consecutive time today on the short end of a 60 to 43 score hanrird io him by Challenger Willie lloppe. HITLER DIED IN T IS Russians Unable to Find T,race of Fuehrer's Body; Mystery Deepen:. . London, May 5 (U.R) The mystery of what happened to Adolf Hitler deepened tonight with a Radio Moscow announce ment that neither the fuehrer's body nor that of Paul Joseph Goebbcls, nazi propaganda min ister, had been found in Berlin. Hans Fritsche, Goebbcls' dep uty, , was quoted by the broad cast as saying Hitler's corpse is hidden so well it cannot be dis covered. Meanwhile, a new possibility as to what actually happened to Hitler was raised by Edward W. Bcattie, United Press corres pondent, freed yesterday after eight months as a prisoner of the Germans. Beattie said many Germans be lieve Hitler has been dead since July 20, 1944 a victim of the bomb plot against him by Oer man army officers. GASOLINEPOURS Kunming. May 5 (U.R) Gaso line, the life blood of modern war and lone one of China's most critical shortages, now is pulsing Into U. S. airbascs and commun ication centers in southwest China through the world's long est pipeline. Opening of the pipeline, which rivals the Stilwcll road as an engineering marvel and which may prove to bo even more im portant In solving China's sup ply problems, was announced to day by Gens. Gilbert X. Chcvos and William Covcll, command ers of services of supply in the China and India-Burma theaters, respectively. LONDOWSET FOR VICTORY JOY London, May 5 U.R) The sand bag barricades are down in London, The victory flags are up. The bomb-scarred British capital is ready for V E Day. Batteries of giant floodlights are being placed in the court yard outside the Houses of Par liament to illuminate the historic buildings when the war with Germany is officially .declared over. Other lights will pick out Buckingham Palace and Trafal gar Square. In Parliament Square work men are fixing loudpcakrrs in the Iron to broadcast the King's VE Day speech. 1 MILLION YANKS Army Redeployment Plan Is Announced Physically Fit Go Overseas. Washington, May 5 (U.R) The' war department turned to night toward the war still rag ing in the Pacific and disclosed a manpower redeployment plan calling for an army of 6,968,000 to defeat Japan. At the same time it said that 2,000,000 men now in service will be released within a year. The army emphasized that the men to be released would in clude those with service in the Pacific as well as those in the European theater. At the same time the army an nounced it intended to move overseas "every physically fit soldier in the United States who has not yet served overseas," it said, "will be assigned to foreign duty when he completes his training or, If he is performing an essential administrative or service function, as soon as he can be replaced by a returning veteran. The army gave this summary of its redeployment plan: "1 We believe that a pro gram which gives us an army of 6 9H8.000 (it is now 8,300,000) in 12 months from now will pro vide an adequate force to defeat Japan, "2 About 2,000,000 men will be returned to civilian Ufa dur ing the next 12 months. "3 About two-thirds of the combat units will come through the United States and have fur loughs. (It was understood the furloughs would last up to 30 days.) "4 The larger proportion of service troops urgently needed in the Pacific will go there cu rectly. "5 Transportation shortages, even with the 800 transport planes being used, will not get the last of the men who are to be discharged back to the United States before 12 months." HELD IN MANILA ON SPY CHARGES Philippines President Sergio Os- mcna saia xoaay ne nau bku .. n.,iK.vitiA. in front two of his sons accused of helping tne Japanese just line any ouier suspects."' "I do not know whether my sons are Innocent or guilty," he said, "but I believe anyone close to me who is under suspicion should be investigated." The gray-haired Osmcna said his sons, Nicasio, 35, and Ser gio, 28, were taken in army custody after Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's forces recaptured Ma nila. They are suspected of sell ing to the Japanese goods which "may have been war materials," the president said. Nicasio and Sergio were com mission merchants who remain ed in Manila after the Japanese came. They are now In a con centration camp near the Philip pine capital. Bulletin (Night Game) Sacramento, Cel.. May 5 (U.R) Th. cnn ITranriapn Kr-altt Scored an 8 to 5 victory over Sacra mento in tonight s I'acnic oaai League baseball game with home runs by Joe Futcrnick and Roy Nicely accounting for six of the Seal tallies. San Francisco ............ 8 10 2 Sacramento 5 5 0 Miller, Ehrman (8), Pierccy i) ana ugrnn'jar.iKi; la-jwuii. Babbitt (5), Pitar (8) and Schleuter. OKINAWA ATTACK JAPS 3000 Fleet Aides Barrage; Troops Advance Enemy Dead, 33,462, American 2,337. Guam, Sunday, May 6 (U.R) At least 3.000 Japanese troops were killed in heavy fighting on Okinawa Friday when American army and marine divisions re pelled a desperate large-scale counterattack, it was announced today. One hundred and sixty-eight enemy planes were shot do,wn during a co-ordinated aerial as sault against the U. S. Pacific fleet warships. Enemy casual ties now total 33,462 killed on the island. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that the veteran arm yand marine division along Okin awa's southern line beat back the enemy ground assault in sav age engagements through Friday and at mid-morning Saturday re sumed the American advance southward. The enemy counler-atlack fol lowed Thursday night's abortive attempt to land forces behind the U. S. lines. Heavy artillery fire supported the Japanese push and tanks led the offensive which was directed mainly at the 7th and 77th divisions. With the support of a heavy barrage by army and marine ar tillery and low-level strafing by carrier and marine aircraft, the 10th army's ground troops smashed the attack. They imme diately resumed their advance to take advantage of the disor ganized state of the enemy's lines after his failure in these oper ations. The marines began an assault on Hill 187 east of the Asa river mouth on the west coast as the southern offensive wnt on. Nimitz disclosed that the total of 33,462 enemy dead compared with 2,337 American soldiers and marines killed in the bloody battle for the 70-mile-long island. NAZI BRUTALITY WELL ORGANIZED Paris. Mav 3 (U.R) Eighteen newspaper and magazine editors who toured uerman prison rnmn rimnrted todav their "in escapable conclusion" that the Germans administered me camps "rtn n nnllpv nf ralcillntcd and organized brutality." The urged that war criminals be brought to speedy Justice. Basing their report on an ex tensive tour of the horror camps at RtiphnnwalH and Dachau, a study of documents, and per .mini talks with rjolitical prison er, .lav lahnrrrs and civilian prisoners, the editors said they had received "convincing proui tnat bruta ltv was ine dhbic ui ivrtrm and method. The report, made alter me oHHnr. vi.ilfrt Ciermanv ana German-held territory at tne sug gestion of Gen. uwlgni u. tisen hrturi.i mIH In Dart: "The conclusion is Inescapable that the nazia had a master pian fr.r Ihnlr nnllllc&l orison camps Tta nl.n warn haspri tinnn a ool nt mini aim ana oraanizca hmtnlltv. The evidence we have seen is not a mere assembling of local or unassociaiea inci 'nnl. "Brutality took different forms In different places and wun au ferent groups. The basic pattern uarlrri little. "Actual nazl methods ran the nrr,,.t frnm rinlihcrate starvation and routine beatings to sadistic tortures too horrible ana too per verted to be publicly described. Murder was communpmts. TRAGEDY IN HOME Tillamook,. Ore., May 5 (U.R) Four-year-old Lynn Robert Van Winkle died today from burns received when he played with matches and birthday can dles, setting his nightclothcs afirw. V-E Day Closing Medford retailers Saturday adopted a new V-E Day clos ing plan, based on rules re cently adopted by the Port land Retail Bureau and advo cated by the Oregon State Re tailers' Council. The plan as adopted here includes all types of business, Medford restaurants planning to con form as far as possible. . The revised closing pro gram follows: 1 If .victory news Is re ceived between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m. retail establishments will close balance of that day only. 2 U n d e r any circum stances, stores will open tor business the following day. T, 3 TIMES IN DAY Guam, May 5 flJ.R) Super fortresses, making their first triple attack on Japan In one day, bombed the big Hiro air craft plant on Honshu and four "suicide" air bases on Kyushu today. Close to 300 B-29's participat ed in the raids In early and late morning and in late afternoon. Japanese suicide planes which sank five American light naval units - and damaged others off Okinawa yesterday are belioved to have come from Kyushu air fields which have been heavily plastered by Superfortresses the last three days. In the day s heaviest attack. between 150 and 200 of the giant bombers struck at the Hiro na val aircraft factory, five miles east of the Kure naval base on southern Honshu, shortly before noon. It was the first Superfort raid on Industry In the Kure area. Members of B-29 crews said the bombs were on the target, The Hiro plant makes airplane engines and airframes for naval planes. It occupies more than 1,036,800 square feet. From 25 to 50 Superforts be gan the day work with a morn ing attack on Oita and Tachlarl airfields on northern Kyushu Ma, Gen. Curtis E. Lemay's 21st bomber command In the Marl- anas reported 'good to excellent" results at the air bases, which have been bombed six times since March 27. In the late afternoon raid 50 B-29's bombed Chiran Ibusuki and Kanoya air fields on southern Kyushu. PATRIOTS FIGHT Stockholm, Sunday. May 6 (U.R) More than 48 persons were killed and 200 were wounded in Concnhagen yesterday In fight ing between Danish patriots and recalcitrant Danish nazis who refused to recognize the German capitulation, Swedish newspa pers said today. A token force of 400 British airborne troops, commanded by MaJ. Gen. Richard Henry Dew ing, arrived in the Danish capi tal late Saturday, presumably to crush resistance which started Friday night when the Danish nazis sniped at patriots from roof tops and fought street bat tles. Oregon Auto Death Toll In March, 23 Salem, Ore., May 5 U.R Twenty-three persons, eight of them pedestrians, died in auto- mobilo accidents during Marcn In Oregon, the secretary of slate said today. Nearly half of the deaths occurred In rural areas. CURFEW NEAR END Washington, May 8 U,R) Its official that the prownom will be lifted when victory in F.urnne hpenmes final, and the betting here tonight is that re- vocation of the midnight curiew and the racing ban wulIoliow nhuilly thereafter. 'BIG 3' BLOW UP PERILS SUCCESS Stettinius and Eden Angered When Molotov Reveals 16 Poles Jailed. San Francisco, May 8 U.PJ- The success of the world security conference was endangered to night by a big three blow-up on the Polish question caused by an "off hand" soviet revelation that 18 Polish democratic lead ers have been arrested and are held for trial in Russia on charges of "diversionist activity against the red army." The revelation was made by Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo tov after the British and Ameri cans had been persistently de manding information on the fata and whereabouts of the Poles for neatly six weeks. Its Immediate effect was tot 1 Cause the immediate sus pension of big three Polish con versations. 2 Bring a sharp demand from Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden for a full explanation of the arrests. 3 Cast a grave and disturb- ' Ing shadow over the whole con ference designed to erect the ma chlnery of the world's postwar peace and security machinery. ..... Moral Lowered There was no doubt that tha conference would go ahead with its business, despite tha Polish crisis, but the psychological ef fect of the development sent con ference morale sinking to low ebb and there was grave doubt that high hopes of charting tha draft of a new world security order could ba fulfilled in tha light of the grave split between the leading participant! In tha discussions. (Radio Moscow announced that the 16 Poles had been arrested by tha red army on a charge of operating an "illegal radio" in the rear of soviet troops.) 1 Both Stettinius and Eden la- sued parallel, strongly worded statements emphasizing their concern and alarm over the Rus sian development. They empha sized their view that it was a "grave" development and sharp ly broke off all talks on Poland with Russia until and unless tha soviet makes a full explanation of the affair. The news broke Ilka a bomb shell upon tha startled confer ence delegates who had been lulled to think that actual prog ress had been made in tha Polish talks and who had seen in the general satisfactory big four con sultations on amendments to Dumbarton Oaks a sign of im proving collaboration between the United States, Britain and Russia. Hull Speaks Washington May 5 (U.R) Former Kocrptarv nf State Cor- dell Hull declared tonight in a message to tha big inrce tor elgn ministers In San Francisco that allied leaders "cannot fail to meet the challenge of this his toric hour." At a time when bitter contro versy was raging among the big three nation! over Poland, Hull expressed confidence that the United Nationa "will not lose alght of the great objective! which give our common victor" iti meaning." NAB NWlEF With the U. S. 7th Army, Aus tria, May 5 (U.R) Dr. Hans Frank, Nazi governor general of Poland, regarded by Russia and Poland as a war criminal, was captured today after an unsuc cessful attempt to commit sui cide. Frank, who tried to take his life by alashipg his wrists, was placed under American medical treatment, A search of Frank'! home re vealed a collection of stolen Polish art valued i $30,000,000. n
