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fo)fniMo) mm fo) EfFW fa v PI aft VI , Weather FORECAST: Clear to partlj cloudy tonight. Saturday, In creasing cloudlnesi with rain lata In evening. Little change in temperature. Temp HlKheit Yeiterday..., Loweit thii Morning ,,.,. Fortieth Year First U. S. Soldier 2.500 IN OF" TO BERELEASED J, 300,000 to Be Sent Home In First Year; Withdrawal From Europe Starts Soon Washington, May 11 U.R The first U. S. soldiers to be dis charged under the point system about 2,500, will be released at separation centers throughout the country tomorrow. The War Department said to day that this group, first of some 1,300,000 to be released during the next 12 months under the army's partial demobilization plan, include soldiers with long overseas service records. Home Before V-E All had been brought back to this country for res.t and recup eration before V-E Day. Repre senting all theaters, they have high point scores based on length of army service, overseas serv ice, combat awards, battle hon ors, and parenthood, the War Department said. Ai present 85 points make a man eligible for discharge, if he is replaceable. But many who are eligible may have to wait months before being released. The number, of. points may be decreased later. Meanwhile, the army is begin ning the task of withdrawing some 3,100,000 of its 3,500,000 men now in Europe. Rome, May 11 U.R) Allied headquarters announced today that about 11,000 American sol diers will leave Italy for the United States this month. The repatriation and redeploy ment of the United States army In Italy is beginning immediate ly, headquarters revealed. Depending on shipping space, about 13,000 will leave in June and a like number in July. A majority of the first 11,000 expected to be on their way by the end of May are eligible for discharge, personnel authorities reported. BIG3MNGIS TALKED IN LONDON London, May 11 OI.Rl Brit ish newspapers loosed a flurry of speculation today over the possibility of a Truman-Stalin-Churchill meeting in London, but official sources discounted the reports. The Evening News said Presi dent Truman was ready to visit London and that Prime Minister Churchill believes "an early meeting of the big three is ur gently required." The News diplomatic corres pondent said Whitehall believed the reported meeting should be held in London and the view was "shared in official Washing ton," but soviet agreement had not been obtained. FILM PROFIT JUMPS . Philadelphia. May 11 U.R) Profits of Motion Picture Pro ducers and distributors jumped from $49,125,000 in 1942 to $60. 153.000 in 1943. according to the Securities and Exchange Com mission's survey of profits and operations of American listed corporations released today. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mayor Meeker relieved to find one other masculine guest at a large feminine gathering. Charlotte Brenncman unable to cope with the paper shortage and doing up a package wnich had a beautiful face but didn't quite meet in the back. The post office boys proud of the gigantic VE gracing the facade of their wnrkshoo. bnti afraid few noticed it due to its' tlevaticn M United Pre" Succeeds Molotov (Acme Telephoto) Alexander A. Gromyko, Soviet am bassador to Washington, who be comes head of the Russian delega tion to the UNCIO replacing Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, who has returned to Moscow. TOF L DETERMINE MF No definite announcement can be made yet as to the opening date of Crater Lake National Park this year, E. P. Lea vitt superintendent, stated yesterday or as to the details of operation during the summer. First inquir ies of the season concerning the park are beginning to come in. Opening date of. the park de pends largely upon the amount of snowfall and the rapidity of its melting. A party of men, headed by R. A. Work of the snow survey staff, made a trip into the park yesterday and found six and one-half feet of snow remaining at park head quarters and nine feet at the rim, Work stated. The snow has been going, out .rapidly, . Work said, but he considered condi tions to be about normal. Superintendent Leavitt, Assis tant Superintendent Thomas Parker and R. J. Smith, chief clerk, returned this week from a meeting of region four super intendents, custodians and other staff members held at Yosemite National Park in California. The meeting was headed by Newton B. Drury, director of national parks, Chicago, and O. A. Tom- linson, San Francisco, director of region four. Leavitt states that increased travel into parks is anticipated, the amount of in crease depending upon the lift ing of travel restrictions. Accompanying Work' to the park yesterday were Archie Pierce, Charles Reames, Walter Lcverette, Raymond Reter. Henry Huencrgardt, Will Han sen, Bob Work- and Howard Oden of Ashland. The trip was made with J. C. Tucker's Sno Cat, with Tucker operating the machine. Northern California Mostly clear today, tonight and Satur day, but with increasing cloudi ness extreme northern part Sat urday; slightly warmer today. Congressman Would Vote Selves Added $2,500 Tax Washington, May 11 (U.R) House members were virtually assured today of a $2,500, tax exempt allowanre for the year beginning next July 1. The proposal, approved by the House after six hours of turbu lent debate, yesterday was the first effective move taken in re sponse to recent mounting pres sure for action to help congress men handle their personal finan cial problems. Although the Item, totaling $1,642,500 for 435 members, stil must be approved by the Senate, -tacb. bouse tradjUonaiyr nyi EDFORD full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 11, Discharges LAYS DOWNFALL AT HITLER Old Boss Responsible For Germany's Share in War Says Captive Nazi No. 2. Outside Augsburg, Germany, May 11 U.R) Paunchy Her mann Goering jumped complete ly off the wrecked Nazi band wagon today and tried to place all political responsibility . for Germany's share in the war on his old boss, Adolf Hitler. Allied War Correspondents were able to interview the sur rendered Goering, former No. 2 Nazi designated by Hitler him self as the man to succeed him. Medals Gone Not a single medal adorned Goering's powder blue uniform. He gave the impression of being jittery, if not frightened, and there was none of the bluff and boastful Relchsmarshal whose Luftwaffe once terrorized Eu rope. Goering looked 25 to 30 pounds lighter than the weight to which he had become accus tomed. But he still was fat. His paunch bulged his tunic In most unmilitarv fashion. Otherwise he appeared to be and said he was in good health. And his answers indi cated he still was able to think quickly and trickily. Goering claimed he last saw Hitler. April 20 in the German Chancellery at Berlin. It was then that Hitler bade him fare well, he said, as Goering pre- oared to depart for Berchtesga- den, to which Hitler also intend ed to travel. ' End Seen April 22 Asked why Hitler changed his mind, Goering said: "On the evening of April 22 certain events occurred in the Chancellery, and Hitler finally admitted the war was at its end and that it was useless to con tinue the fight in the south." Goering was evasive in many of his answers, especially those with- political implications. Fre quently he pleaded forgetfulness, especially about events occur ring, several years ago. But at other times he claimed to remem ber verbatim what he said five years ago. The conference was held in a hot sun beating down on the back yard of a German villa. More than 30 correspondents and about 10 photographers were grouped In a semi-circle around Goering. who was seated in a lounge chair under a willow tree. TRIAL OF QUIZLING DELAYED BY DEATH Oslo, Mav 1 1 (U.R) The trea son trial of Vldkun Quisling, de posed nazi puppet ruler of Nor way, was postponed today be cause of a death in the presiding judge's family. Quisling will be brought be fore the Norse civil court to morrow or possibly Monday for a preliminary hearing. Meanwhile, there were strong Indications that Josef Terboven. nazi governor of Norway, had escaped allied Justice by blow ing himself to bits. Loafer's Glory Is a hamlet in Mitchell County, N. C. Exempt Fund interference In the financial or organizational affairs of the other. The senators might in clude a similar allowance for themselves. An attempt to eliminate the provision from a $50,000,000 con gressional appropriation bill was defeated on a standing vote of 208 to 68. The House also re jected an attempt to cut the amount to $1,000. After staving off those amend ments, the House agreed to raise the pay of its Fages from $4 to S5 a day but refused to increase jb salaries Qi oepilaj pc-Uc em.cn. Saturday SMALL NATIONS BALKED IN PLEA FOR MORE VOICE Effort to Win Greater Share In Controlling Use of Arms In Enforcement, Fails. San Francisco, May 11 (U.R) Small nations today made new but apparently futile effort to win from the United Nations conference a greater share in controlling the use of arms for enforcement purposes in connec tion with the proposed world se curity organization. New Zealand proposed in a closed committee meeting that the general assembly of the or ganization be given a voice in decisions involving the use of force.' The proposal was sup ported by several other small na tlons but opposed vigorously by Big Three representatives. Big Three Adamant Russian, British and United States delegates were under stood tt have remained adamant in support of the original Dum barton Oaks plan provision whereby decisions involving the use of force shall be made only by the organization's security council. Meanwhile, it was learned that the United States and Brit ish will oppose any further invi tations to the conference to pre vent revival of Russian demands for admission of the Warsaw Polish government. The issue of other Invitations is expected to be raised formally again and soon: The Norwegian delegation may ask unless pre vailed upon not to do so that its Scandinavian neighbor lib erated Denmark be made the 50th participating nation here. Argentina became the 49th after a bare-knuckle row with Russia in a public plenary ses sion. More Delegates Leaving ' Meanwhile, the conference plodded on its way toward the writing of a world organization charter. More and more of the top delegates are leaving, or plan to leave soon. British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden will be flying back to London early next week. The conference work con tinues in secert committee meet ings while the top conference of ficials admit little or no progress on the remaining major un solved problems trusteeships, regional arrangements and the world court. CHECK SUSPECTS Leo H. Moon, 31, Portland, and Doris M. Johnson, 21, Mc Minnville, are in the county Jail on charges of passing spurious checks. They were arrested late yesterday afternoon by state po lice and a sheriff's deputy on a warrant outstanding in Yamhill county. The couple passed bad checks In several counties, Including Jackson, police said. The John son woman is said by police to have admitted passing checks In Medford and Ashland. Accord ing to a report from Yamhill county there are about $500 In bad checks written by the cou ple outstanding there, police said. It was undecided today If they will be prosecuted here or in some other county, according to police. FIVE MORE U-BOATS . SURRENDER AT SEA London, May 11 (U.R) Five more German U-boats from mar auding wolf packs in the Atlan tic surrendered at sea to British warships and headed for north c. Ireland ports today. A Londonderry dispatch said German submarines had sur faced to surrender all the way from the Arorei area to a point oil the Canadian, coast,. - 1945. 1 1 V T1:-m IIS l t.i (Acmw Radio-Telephoto) Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander, and Sir Harold M. Burroughs, OO of the Allied Navies, survey the damage done to Berlin by Allied bombings while In Berlin to sign the ratified sur render terms. They are accomDanled by Russians. Blenal Cores radlo-telephoto by NEA-Acme. U. S. Military To Exercise Firm Control Over Lives, Economy of German People By Fred Scherff United Press " Staff Correspondent Washington, May 11 J(U.R) The U. S. Military Government of Germany will exercise iron control over the lives of Ger man, people in the American- occupied section, it was revealed today by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. t 'Stimsori; outlining" the AMG setup for Germany, said Amer ica s uniformed bosses of the Reich would be charged with demobilizing the German army in their portion of the country, demilitarizing the entire area, wiping out the Gestapo and thoroughly "denazifying'' tne territory. Rule All Courts Thev will rule over all courts. over domestic and foreign poli tics, over manpower and the area's economy. They will con trol all forms of public expres sion and the domestic police. There will be censorship of news going to the outside world, but it will be based "solely on mili tary necessity" according to Stimson. One of the most Important agencies will be an intelligence section which will purge public Moscow. May 11. U.R) A Tass News Agency dispatch said fires were breaking out in vari ous parts of Berlin today, started bv die-hard Nail fanatics snu operating secretly in the fallen capital. Tass said Russian patrols ar rested several of the arsonists and were still combing the city for the remaining underground fighters. The dispatch also reported that Nazi elite guards who re fused to obey the German capit ulation order set fire to and de stroyed the city hall. The elite guards then flooded the city subway tunnels, drown ing hundreds of their ' own wounded troops as well as Ger man women and children shel tered there, Tass said. High School Band Concert Enjoyed By Large Throng Several hundred Medford res idents attended the concert of the Medford high school band given In the city park last night under the direction of Sidney Bouck. The concert was sched uled at this time in observance of National Music Week. The concert under the stars featured a program of varied and distinctive music , high lighted by an intermission fea ture of "Boogie Woogic" num bers. Later the girls' drum corps appeared in a number which accompanied a lively march, and the program fit tingly concluded with an im- crtstivf Il ceremony, . IRIBUNE United Press Survey Damage Done to City MM agencies and German industries of Nazis and ruthlessly suppress activities of any German under ground such as the "Were wolves." Stimson said this country had been working for many months with Britain, France and Russia to coordinate a "stern" program for Germany. As agreed on at Yalta, the four nations will sit on a- Joint control council or com- mlssion in Berlin and In addi tion each will occupy a .zone of Germany. Stimson did not delineate the zones of occupation, nor did he say whether the other three na tions had plans for military gov ernment of their areas similar to those of the War Department for the U. S. zone. The Secretary said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower would be the American representative on the control council and also com mander of the U. S. zone.' His deputy will be "tough-minded" Lt. Gen. Lucius' Clay, hand picked for the job by the late President Roosevelt. The army has worked out a BASEBALL National R. H. E. Cincinnati 3 9 0 New York 4 7 1 Dasso and Riddle; Mungo, Adams and Lombardl, Berres. Chicago !ZZIZ. 7 12 1 Philadelphia 15 2 Wyse and Williams; Sproull, Kennedy, Ripple, ' Schanz and Mancuso. St. Louis 0 7 1 Brooklyn 7 8 3 Wilkes, Burkhart and Rice; Scats and Owen. American Philadelphia 5 12 1 Chicago 2 7 1 Christopher and Hayes; Lopat and Tresh. New York 7 7 1 Detroit 3 9 4 Borowy and Crompton; Ncw houser, Houtteman and Richards. Boston, May 11. U.R) The worst May snowstorm in 25 years raged in northern New England today after taking two lives, causing more than $1,000, 000 crop and property damage, and leaving highways clogged with up to 15 inches of snow at some points. Brunt of the storm was felt by western Massachusetts, Vermont. New Hampshire and Maine. Many towns were In darkness during the night as power lines fell. Ploughs which had been put away for the season were hauled out to open snow-clogged high ways. Deepest snowfall was report ed on the route between Wood ford and Brattlcboro, Vt., where ploughs were battling through 15 inches of snow, Sf -?iiSi Full Leased Win NO. 43. of Berlin form of government for its area splitting governing functions up among 12 divisions. The heads of these divisions will also act for the U. S. In the four-power coun cil In Berlin. In some ways the 12 divisions correspond roughly to some of the departments of our own gov ernment though of course many of their functions are utterly dif ferent. Thero will be three military divisions, Army, Navy, and Air, charged with demobilizing the German armed forces and dis arming the American sector. AGAINST WOLF Judgi! H. K. Haima completed his instructions to the Jury and the case of James A. Wolf, ac cused of murder in the second degree, was given to the Jury at J:40 p. m. Closing arguments were com pleted by prosecution and de fense and final instructions of the court were given today in the circuit court trial of James A. Wolf, 63,- charged with the slaying of Percy H. Ijames at Gold Hill the night of February 4 last. Deputy District Attorney Alli son Moulton opened for the state yesterday afternoon. Attorney Don R. Newbury, counsel for the defense, started this morn ing and was followed by District Attorney George W, Neilson. Instructions to the Jury, com posed of seven women and five men, were given by Judge Her bert K. Hanna. Wolf, a small man, was first witness for the defense, and de nied he had seen Ijames the night of the fatal affray, or was present at the scene. It was testi fied Wolf and Ijames were good friends, no bad blood existed be tween them, and that no motive had been shown. Nurse Testifies Mrs. Edna M. Thompson, nurse, Gold Hill testified that when she was called to render aid, Ijames' wife had asked: "Did Shorty Wolf do it.", and Ijames had "replied "No". The state attempted to Impeach Mrs. Thompson's testimony on the grounds it had taken them by surprise, and that it was at vari ance with statements made to authorities. The state contended Wolf was at the scene, as testified by sev eral witnesses. One of the states' witnesses, Howard Kell, testi fied Wolf had made threats against Ijames In his presence several weeks before the stab bing. Other state witnesses locat ed Wolf on the sidewalk and said they saw him walking away from the scene. The trial opened last Monday. No session was held Tuesday on I acount of V-E Das y 1 . .1 GREAT JAPANESE L STATION Japan's Inland Sea Is Sown With Mines; Naval Air craft Plant, Cities Blasted By United Press Philippine based American bombers have wrecked the great Japanese naval station at Saigon, French Indo-China, it was dis closed today, while other raiding fleets rained bombs and sea mines down on Japan's inland sea area in a bid to choke off the enemy's remaining naval and air power in the home islands. Headquarters of the U. S. fifth London. May 11 (U.R) Plans for hurling 2,000 Super fortresses at Japan in an aerial campaign exceeding that against Germany were envis aged today at a press confer, ence of Lt. Gen. James H. Doollttle and his deputy com mander of the 8th air force. Doolittle and Maj. Gen. Or vil Anderson revealed that ' part of the famous 8th air force would stay in Europe a an occupation force. Part will be sent to the Padfie. air force In the Philippines said American warplanes gutted Sai gon's oil depots and submarine and ship repair yards in seven concentrated strikes between April 22 and May 4. They also destroyed or damaged 97 enemy merchant and naval vessels. Out For Duration Air force spokesmen said Saigon, second only to Singa pore as an enemy naval station in southern waters, may be use less for major ship repairs for the duration of the war. lvToanwhllA win, tVtnn 1 Ki superfortresses of the 21st bomb er command hit a large naval aircraft plant, airfields and two southern Kyushu cities around the Japanese inland sea today. Radio Tokyo said 16 mora B-29's followed through later in the day with an attack on the Kyushu sector and on the south western part of Shikoku island. The mine-laying operations were revealed for the first time by spokesmen for the 21st bomber command. They dis closed that superfortresses based on Tinlan island in the Marianas have carried out almost a dozen night mining raids over Japan since March 27. Inland Sea Mined Mines have been littered throughout the Japanese inland sea and Inside the enemy's major harbors in a full-scale attempt to bottle up the ocean-going shipping that handles about 75 per cent of Japan's war-time transportation. The Japanese radio also re ported a new raid on Formosa today by a force of about 70 Philippine-based heavy bombers and 40 fighters. The attack cen tered on the big port of Tainan, according to the enemy account. Allied ground forces, mean while, continued slow but steady progress in campaigns on south ern Okinawa, the rich oil island of Tarakan off East Borneo and In the Philippines. The B-29's returned to the Japanese homeland In excellent weather today to smash at the Kawanishl naval aircraft plant at Fukae on the Inland seacoast of Honshu. Fires still were burning near by In Japan's main fuel storage area from the record 400-plane superfortress raid yesterday. Central and northern Oki nawa were turned over to con trol of the island's military com mander May 4. Approximately 135,000 Japanese civilinns were under American Jurisdiction on May 8. A Japanese communique claimed Japanese forces on southern Okinawa killed or wounded 12,600 American troops between April 29 and May 7. It also claimed Japanese planes and submarines had sunk eight allied warships and damaged nine others off Okinawa since May 6. Two columns of American troops closed In today on the big Ipo dam northeast of Manila in an attempt to reopen one of the main water supplies for the city. On northern Luzon, a renewed aerial assault was made 1 on strong Japanese positions in the Cagayan valley, lying Just anead of American troops at the edga of Baleto Pass. Washington, May 11 U.R) Rep. Clyde Doyle, D Cal said today he has suggested to the di rector of the U. S. mint that the likeness of the late Franklyn Delano Roosevelt be placed oo the diipe, 1 t
