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Reds Capture Prague In Roundup of Diehard Germans Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with occa sional light rain tonight and Thursday. Cooler daytime temperatures. Temp. With fit Yesterday 83 Lowest this Morning ..48 Fortieth Year UNCIO Delegates Celebrate With Work j wAiSu' itfcV iis I? i' ? . K f f , rv.: fe- i--- ?i IJ. . . i - in Lb. x&v.-r-ssi-.-rt Memberg of UNCIO executive committee meeting at San Francisco War Memorial Opera House tand for a moment of silent meditation before starting "business as usual" on V-E Day. Presiding over session at far end of conference table is Secretary of State Stettinius. On Stettinius' light is Chinese delegate Wellington Koo and en his left is UNCIO secretary general, Alger Hiss. Hermann Goering Surrenders Claims Hitler Sentenced Him With U. S. Seventh Army, May 9 U.R) Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering has surrender ed to the Americans, telling them that he had been in hiding since April 24 when Adolf Hit ler condemned him to death for expressing a desire to take over control of the German govern ment. An announcement today that Goering was in custody of the U. S. 7th army also revealed the capture of Marshal Albert Kes 'selring, former commander of Germany s western front. First of Big Three Goering was the first of the old guard nazl triumvirate A. P. TALKS OF PEACE. EISENHOWER SAYS New York, May 9 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to day authorized a statement that Edward Kennedy of the Asso ciated Press imperiled peace ne gotiations between the Russians and the Germans by sending an unauthorized dispatch on the German surrender at Reims. A United Press dispatch from Paris said Eisenhower authorized Brig. Gen. Frank Allen, supreme headquarters press relations offi cer, to make the statement, and to say that Kennedy's action put Eisenhower in the position of naving broken his word to the Russians. He had promised the Russians that the news would not be released until they were satisfied that the surrender was genuine on all fronts. The general added that he could not act against an entire American organization under War Department rules but indi cated that the individual corre spondenls involved would be dis ciplined. Meanwhile, in New York the AP released the text of a state ment which Kennedy had placed on the Bulletin Board at Allied Headquarters in Paris yesterday. This said: "I saw the representative of the existing German government sign the agreement of uncondi tional surrender. "I was informed by a repre sentative of SHAEF Public Rela tions that, although no issue of military security was involved. SHAEF Public Relations intend ed to suppress this news from the public until a later time. "I infr.rmed a representative of SHAEF Public Relations that I could not accept this view since it had been conceded that no military security was involved and that I intended to send this story. I sent the story-" COAL SHIP MISSING Boston, May 9. UR Eleven merchant seamen and one navy man are missing and believed dead in the torpedoing of a mer chant coal carrier by an enemy submarine May S off the Rhode Island coast, the navy announc- M United Press Hitler, Goering, Goebbels to be accounted for officially. He sur rendered to the - 36th division. which was engaged in the 7th army mop-up of the surrendered area on the southern wing of what was the western front. Reichsmarshal Goering the rank was his alone in the heydey of naziism gave up to Brig. Gen. Robert J. Stack, assistant divisional commander, at Rad' stadt, about 35 miles southeast of Salzburg. He told Stack that Hitler who was reported by the nazis to be dead in the ruins of Berlin sentenced him to death on April 24, when the handwriting was on the wall for even the most nearsighted nazi to read. Hitler's SS elite guards ar rested him, Goering said. But members of the German Air Force, from the command of which he was ousted in the nazi debacle, rescued him, he said. Went To Hideout He streaked for a hideout In the Bavarian Alps, the touted "national redoubt" in which the nazi fanatics were going to hold out after the rest of Hitler's rcich was gone. When the 36th division ap proached his hideout, Goering sent his personal adjutant, Col onel Von Brauchitsch, a son of the commander in chief of the ,18, GET 6 Washington, May 9. (U.P.) President Truman today signed with reluctance a draft act ex tension measure which carries an amendment requiring that 18 year old inductees be given six months training before being sent into combat. The president said he signed the legislation only because Im mediate extension of the select ive service act is necessary for continuing the war against Japan. The measure extends the act for one year after May IS. Kaiser Will Build 6,000 Residences in Coast Sections San Francisco, May 9 (U.R) Henry J. Kaiser, wartime ship building genius, celebrated his 63rd birthday today by announc ing the formation of a new $5, 000,000 corporation for construc tion of two-bedroom houses on a mass, nation-wide basis, begin ning immediately. The houses will cost between $4000 and $5000 and will in clude not only standard equip ment but also stoves, refrieer- ators. hydraulic dish washer.fl clothes washers, garbage disposal units and airconditioners. The financier said that the Kaiser community Homes cor poration is ready to start con struction of 6,000 houses in com plete new community groups to be established in the San Fran cisco bay area, Los Angeles and Portland. Sub-contractors will be given jobs building another EDFORD Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945 to Yanks, to Death German army in the early days of the war, to divisional head quarters with an offer to sur render to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower and Gen. Jacob L. De vers, commander of the 6th army group. Von Brauchitsch arrived at a command post at 9 a. m. yester day. He explained his mission to Stack and Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist, division commander. With Family Stack went with Von Brauch itsch to the Radstadt hideout, meeting the Reichmarshal on the road. Goering was accom panied by his wife, a child, and several military aides and per sonal retainers. The entire party went to a castle near the famous ski resort of Kitzbuhl, which was occupied by friends of Goering. They ar rived at 10:30 p. m. yesterday. FROM ITALY FOR J . Rome, May 9. (U.R) The allies already have begun ship ping combat and service troops from Italy directly to the Pacific for the war against Japan, Gen. Joseph T. McNarney revealed today. McNarney, deputy supreme commander in the Mediterran ean theater, said other troops would be sent from Italy to the States. It generally was known that engineering and other technical troops, as well as certain air force personnel, had been em barking for the Pacific for sev eral weeks, but McNarney' speech was the first confirma tion that combat troops already were on the way. McNarney said that his an swer to persistent questions from allied troops as to when they would be permitted to go home would be disappointing. "But it would be unfair If I were not absolutely frank in an swering that question even if it is unpleasant, he said. The return to civilian life for the majority of troops in Italy would come only after Japan has been defeated, he said. BASEBALL National St. Louis 4 10 1 Brooklyn 6 11 1 Brcchcen, Byerly and Rice; Lombard! and Owen, American New York 1 7 1 Detroit 4 8 0 Gcttel. Zuber and Garbark; Trout and Swift. Philadelphia .... 4 7 3 Chicago - 6 10 1 Black and Hayes; Lee and Tresh. There are three Chinese tem ples and seven Christian church es in Sao fivvcisjo i Cbinvjwa. Peace Brings Curfew Liftrg; Home Front Changes Def iled MANUFACTURE OF HOUSEHOLD AIDES TO BEGIN AT ONCE Director Vinson Is Confident Americans Will "Keep Feet on Ground." Washington, May 9. (U.R) War Mobilization Director Fred M. Vinson today lifted the mid night curfew on amusement places but said restrictions on transportation must continue. He also revoked, effective at once, the government ban on racing. Vinson discussed almost every phase of home front activity at a press conference in which he said that he was confident the American people would "keep their feet on the ground and not go haywire" during the coming months. Refrigerators Soon Vinson said production of elec tric refrigerators and washing machines will be started imme diately in "moderate" quantities. Reconversion, he continued, must proceed "vigorously." He warned, however, that complete change-over to a civilian econ amy must await the defeat of Japan, Vinson also announced that: 1.- War plants will continue on the 48-hour week, 2. The little steel wage formu la and other stabilization poli cies will be retained. 3. The administration still fa vors legislation to put manpower ceilings on employment. 4. Strict manpower controls will continue to be necessary. Mora Gas Soon S. There will be an increase soon of 8 to 16 per cent in gaso line supplies available for civil ian use. The increase will be distributed primarily to "A" and commercial card holders, with "B" card drivers possibly get ting some of it. Vinson said that generally speaking, the objective will be to bring consumer goods back at the same prices charged before they went out. Concerning civilian food sup plies, Vinson said he saw no prospect for early improvement. Vinson not only said that present restrictions on travel would have to be continued but also that "further curtailment" may be necessary. "Transportation," he said, "is one of the tightest, one of the most serious problems we have. There is no hope of increasing transportation facilities for some time. "Present government controls on civilian freight traffic must continue. The ban on conven tions will continue. "Further curtailment of pas senger service may be necessary, and present priorities on air travel will have to be contin ued." Vinson's report oroiected this picture of civilian life in the months ahead: Rationing will continue. The most serious food shortage is In meat, and sugar is next. Butter and other fats and oils also will be scarce. Supplies of cereals, except rice, are adequate. There is plenty of fish. The outlook for fresh vegetables and fresh fruit is bright. Nylon and silk stockings can not be expected In any large quantities until well after final victory. The government's current pro gram to increase output of low cost clothing should meet at least the minimum demands. Shoes must continue to be ra tioned. Some civilian radios should be available within the year. A few passenger cars may be coming off assembly lines in six to nine months but it will be "a long time' 'before they are produced in large quantities. Stockholm, May 9. (U.R) Unconfirmed reports reaching here said today that Gestapo Chief Heinrich llimnilcr rnd other prominent Kazu were in KorwA - ' Widow No More 1 1 9 A Acm Telepholo) A real dilemma faces Mrs. Robert A. MacOowell (above), 22, Long Beach. Calif., who remarried after her first husband was reported killed in Bur ma. Now Lt. Harold Goad, whose "death" she mourned for six months before marrying Ens. Robert A. Mac Dowell of Saugerties, N. Y, has been (ound alive in a Rangoon hospital Army Beats Navy In "Enoch Arden" Wartime Dilemma Long Beach, Calif., May 9 (U.R) Mrs., Helen Goad-MacDow-ell, 22-yeHr-old victim of wartime "Enoch Arden" dilemma, left last night for her home in Ports mouth, O., to "wait for the man I've always loved," a man she believed dead. He is Army Lt. Harold Goad, 27, her childhood sweetheart, who was found alive in a Ran goon hospital almost two years after the army informed his wife he. was killed in a plane crash. Mrs. Goad-MacDowell said she will seek an annulment of her December, 1944, marriage to Navy Ensign Robert A. MacDow ell, now overseas. "My marriage to Mbc was wonderful," she said, "but I know now I love Harold with all my heart. I'm sure Robert will understand. Quisling Reported Arrested At Oslo Copenhagen, May 9 (U.R) Maj. Vidkun Quisling, puppet premier of Norway during the German occupation, was arrested at an Oslo police station today, advices from the Norwegian capi tal reported. Quisling reported In person to the police station, the Oslo re ports said. He was accompanied by an unspecified number of his cabinet members. RED OFFICIALS GIVE NO INFORMATION ON POLES London. May 9 (U.R) Min ister of State Richard K. Law told Commons today that the Russian government has given no further information about 16 missing Polish politicians since their arrest was announced last week. Law said the British Charge D'Affaires in Moscow has been directed to seek further informa tion. Prisoners of War In U. S. To Wait Jap War and Return of Americans Washington, May 9 (U.R) The 393,000 German and Italian war prisoners in the U. S. won't be going home for quite a spell. With all our facilities directed toward the Japane. e war, some congressional sources estimate it will be at least a year before these prisoners can be repatriat ed. And perhaps longer. The war department Itself told the prisoners in effect yesterday: We'll try our best to follow the Geneva convention and get you home quickly. But the Jap war and the redeployment of our troops necessarily come first. Here's the war department statement posted today on bulle tin boards in all POW camps: "It is the policy of the war rirpi-tment to repatriate all en am ntitooeri oi war to Europe Tribune United Press PEACEJ01LAVE Other Members of Russian Delegation Remain; U. S. Draft Western Formula. San Francisco, May 9. (U.R) Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov left here at 10:30 a.m. PWT today by plane for Moscow. , Molotov left from Hamilton field, about 25 miles north of this city. A few news photogra phers were the only persons out side of the field's regular person nel who watched him take off. Accompanied by members of the Russian delegation to the United Nations world organiza tion conference, Molotov arrived at the field and boarded his plane immediately. It took off within a few minutes. Ean Francisco, May 9 (U.R) Gen. Alphonsa Juin, chlaf of the French ganaral staff and Rena Eleven, minister of finance anJ national economy, members of the French dele gation to the united nations conference, left by plane to day for Washington and Paris. Thay were recalled by the French government because of defense and economical pr6b lams arising from the end of the European war. All other members of the Rus sian delegation remained here. The only persons who accompan ied Molotov on the flight were his interpreter, V. N. Pablov; his secretarial staff, and his bodyguard. San Francisco, May 9. (U.R) The United States has drafted a compromise formula which would allow the western hemi sphere to settle its own disputes within the framework of the world organization, it was learn ed today. The formula, which would preserve the Pan American se curity system without weaken ing the authority of the world organization, was disclosed as the united nations conference devoted itself today to closed meetings of technical meetings. No plenary sessions were sched uled. Would End L. of N. European and Latin American countries proposed today that the old League of Nations hold a final meeting in San Francisco and hand all of its authority over to the new world organiza tion. Such action, they said, would remove any question of the legality of transfer of author ity over territories mandated to certain powers, especially Japan, by the old league. The new formula for settle ment of western hemisphere dis putes was designed to remove the fears of Latin American na tions that the inter-American security system set up at Mexico City recently would be lost in subordination to the new world organization. as required by the Geneva con vention as soon after the cessa tion of hostilities as it is feas ible. "Because of the necessary di version of shipping to the Pacific areas to assist in carrying on the war with Japan, the redeploy ment of U. S. military personnel to the United States and main tenance of our occupation forces In Europe, it may not be able to commence this process immedi ately." Of the 393,000 war prisoners affected by the unconditional surrender in Europe, 343,000 are Germans and 50,000 are Italians. Of the 50.000 Italians, 32.000 are members of Italian service units composed of men who signed a statement to work with us agaiiut the common enemy, Full Leased Wise,. 40. 41 E FACEDBY JAPAN Ten Million Men to Be Used Against Enemy; Weather Slows Okinawa Campaign By United Press . Admiral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed today that joint chiefs of staff are mapping plans for the invasion of Japan and prom ised an immediate increase of American air assaults on the en emy's homeland. Nimitz made the statement to a press conference as adverse weather slowed down the drive on southern Okinawa and Aus tralian and Dutch troops closed in on two rich oil fields on Tar akan island east of Borneo. To Use Tan Million Washington sources said a to tal force of 10,000,000 men is expected to be used against the Japanese. Nimitz said he was anticipat ing the shifting of large forces from Europe to the Pacific and said his command was endeavor ing to obtain ' areas to support them. He said Okinawa, at the threshold of the Japanese home land, was the most important island yet invaded by the Ameri can forces. Despite losses to Jap anese suicide planes, he said the campaign was going according to plan. ' Five American divisions are hammering at Japanese defenses across the southern end of the island a mile north of the capi tal, Naha. Close In On Oil On Tarakan the allied Inva sion forces tightened a pincers on Pamoesian oil field cast of Tarakan town and closed in on Bjocata oil field three miles north of the captured Tarakan airdrome. , American troops pushed out from liberated Davao on Min danao island In the Philippines were driving the Japanese back into the hills. Philippine-based aerial forces continued widespread attacks through the southwest Pacific and into the central Pacific. More than 300 tons of bombs were dropped on factories and rail lines on Formosa. Navy patrol bombers from the Okinawa area sank 14,000 tons of shipping and demaged 3,500 In a scries of attacks in Korean coastal waters Monday. Pope Pius Offers Prayer For "Just Peace" in Orient Vatican City, May 9. (U.R) Pope Plus XII expressed grati tude today for the conclusion of the war in Europe and offered a prayer for a "just end" to the "bloody struggle" still under way in the Far East. In a broadcast to the world, he said the European war had left In its wake the greatest "mater ial and moral ruin in the history of mankind." "Cries of gratitude break forth ardently," he said in hailing the end of hostilities. "They rise from the depth of our hearts toward the Lord Father of Mercy." LT. RICHARD HEWITT IS REPORTED MISSING Lt. Richard Hewitt has been reported missing in action over Germany, Information sent to his father, E. H. Hewitt, Kecnc Way drive, stated last week. The officer was declared missing as of April 4. Lt. Howltt, co-pilot of a B-24 bomber plant, was stationed at an English base of the Eighth air force. FARMERS ASSURED OF SURPLUS EQUIPMENT Washington, May 9 (U.R) Farmers were assured today by the surplus property board of an equal opportunity to buy surplus trucks, farm machinery and quiptoent. LAST NAZI NEST WIPED 00T AFTER Trial as Murderers, Arson fsts Faced by Men Refus Ing to Keep Agreement. London, May 9. (U.R) Tha red army, fighting on against outlawed German diehards after the official end of the European war, today captured the Czecho slovak capital of Prague in a pre-dawn attack. The Prague radio reported that the Germans in defiance of the unconditional surrender agreement, bombed the' capital and. two other Czechoslovak cities. Nazis garrisoning the Czecho slovak bastion were the onlv force of any consequence carry ing on after the officially pro claimed cessation of hostilities at iz:ui today. Other Pockets Give Up Reports from the continent said the garrisons of historic Dunkerque and the last enemy held pockets at St. Nazaire, La Rochelle and Lorient had given up. Marshal Stalin announced the capture of Prague. His broadcast order of the day said Marshal Ivan S. Konev's first Ukrainian army seized the capital in a tank and infantry attack. The Prague radio reported that German bombs crashed on the Czechoslovak capital and two other cities hours after tha official end of the war in Eur- ope. It added that Russian forces had entered Prague and with Czechoslovak patriots cleared the streets of German troops. -All Germans who refused ta lay down their arms after 12:01 a.m. today (6:01 p.m. Tuesday EWT), the hour fixed by th German high command for ca pitulation, faced possible trial as murderers, arsonists and sabo teurs outside the laws of war. A dispatch from the Ameri. can third army front revealed that other Soviet units some 140 miles south of Prague had linked up with the American 65th divi. sion southeast of the Austrian city of Linz on the Danube yes terday. Germans Split ' The junction split the remain Ing German forces In southern Europe into two pockets Bohe mia and southeast Austria, Throughout Europe, hundreds of thousands of German troops were tiling into allied prison camps In compliance with their high command's order to lay down their arms. The formalities of Germany's) unconditional surrender were completed at 12:45 a.m. today In Benin with the ratification of the capitulation act by repre sentatives of the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Ger many. Radio Moscow said the cere mony was held in the big hall of the German military engineer ing academy at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Rheinstein- strasse. Signing for Germany wera Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, su preme commander of the Ger man armed forces; Gen. Admiral Hans George Friedburg, com mander of the German navy. and Col. Hans Jurgen Stumpf. chief of the luftwaffc. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov signed for Russia and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Ted der, deputy supreme comman der, for the western allies. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, commander of American strategic air forces in Europe, and Gen. Jean de Lattro de Tassigny, commander in chief of the French army, were pres ent as witnesses. JAY VERL GIFFORD TO BE BURIED TOMORROW Graveside services for Jay Vcrl Gifford, 13, who was one of six killed in a mysterious blast near Lakcvncw Saturday, will bo held at Siskiyou Memorial Parle tomorrow at 2:00 p. m. He wai born in Ashland March 29, 1932, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Gifford of Lakeview, former Med ford residents, and was a nephew of A. Orin Schenck, 29 Summit avenue. Funeral rites are being held In Lakeview today. BRITISH LOSS HEAVY FROM GERMAN BOMBS London, May 9. (U.R) Sir John Anderson, chancellor of the exchequer, told commons to day that the Germans did mora than $400,000,000,000 damage to to British property by bombing. Anderson said reparation from Germany for the bomb damage will be considered by an allied reparations commission when 4 U esUWUhed, "
