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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1945
NO. 38 J
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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