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Hitler's Life Saved By Luck h When Briefcase During Military By Jack' Fleischer United Press Correspondent Obersalzberg, Germany, May jg (U.PJ Sheer luck saved the life of Adolf Hitler last July 20 when the bomb intended to kill him was shifted by a colonel un aware of the plot, an eyewitness to the assassination attempt told me today. "7he eytwltness was Heinz Buchholz, one of two stenogra phers at the regular military con ference at Hitler's headquarters where the bombing took place. He said Hitler was saved be cause the bomb, as originally placed, interfered with a Ger man colonel. He moved the bomb, thus diminishing the blast effect in Hitler's direction when it went off. At Headquarters Buchholz said the attempt was made at Hitler's headquarters, then located near Rastenburg in east Prussia. The headquarters comprised a number of wooden barracks, some with added con crete walls, and was known by the code name "Wolfschanze." According to Buchholz, the regular military conference July 20 was held at 12:30 p. m. The usual military and political lead ers wer- present, including Field Marshal William Keitel, chief of the high command, and Col. Gen. .ToHl A large map covered an obA long table which occupied most of the room and faced the win dows. Keitel stood at Hitler's left. At his right stood Lit Gen. Heusinger who was deputizing for Col. Gen. Kurt Zeitzler, chief of the general staff who was ill. A Col. Brandt, Heusinger's as sistant, stood at Heusinger's right handing him papers while he reported on the military situ ation. Other officers and offi cials stood around the table and along the walls. Some Officers Late Buchholz said: "Heusinger had been giving his report for about five minutes when several officers entered the room late, headed by Col. Count Klaus Von Stauffenberg. "Naturally at that time noth ing seemed unusual or suspicious but later we recalled that Stauf fenberg placed his briefcase next to the solid horse which support ed the table at the end whre Brandt was standing. Brandt ob jected that the briefcase was in his way and moved it from where it had been placed against the inside surface of the horse to the outer surface. "Although nobody paid any attention to it at the time, we later recalled that Stauffenberg was called from the room to answer the telephone shortly after he put the briefcase under the table." Buchholz said Heusinger con tinued giving his report until about 12:43 p.m. Terrific Explosion "Then there was a terrific ex plosion like a thunderclap," .aid Buchholz. "There was a yellow sheet of flame, and smoke filled the room. The walls were parti ally blown out and the end of the table to Hitler's right col lapsed. "Bits of glass from windows and lamps were blown around the room. The telephones were smashed.' "I climbed through a window and ran around to the frrfnt of the barracks and saw Hitler To the People of this Community The 7th War Loon objective If four billion dollars in Series t Bonds. About this time last year Americans had oversubscribed two war may be no higher than or even less than the combined amount you invested in War Bonds in the 4th and 5th War Loans. Why should you continue to put everv dollar above the cost of the necessities ot living into extra bonds? 1. To win the war. Up permost vou owe Bn obligation to vour fighting men and women to bark them to the limit as long as anr encmv military strength remains. Think about Iwo Jima for a moment. Sacrifice on the battlefields is still a way of life lor your relatives and friends in uniform. 2. To preserve econom ic stability. Civilian goods are now scarcer than evef before. Everv dollar you spend for non essentials works for higher prices. 3. To win the peace, ty enr dollar invested in war Bonds now contributes to your and the nation s well-being and security in the years to come. THE EDITOR Seventh War Loan Drive "E" Sales to date 1138.218 Quota SI. 067. 000 Total Sales to Date $399,229 Quota $2,087,000 , Joan quotas .rw. rvwSrTW ech lnr,e VJgOaSW" billion dol- A.L f) rics E War L'j.VJki Bonds. It is "!w II obvious V. jM I 3 your per Mk3 sonal snare sWpJHj Sv rmlst be llie any of the war loans. And yet it Bomb Moved Conference walking -to his bunker about 75 meters away." Buchholz said it later proved that Hitler suffered contusion of his right arm. From the knees down his trousers were burned and torn, and his skin burned slightly. His hearing like; every, body else's was affected for sometime, especially the left ear drum which never did recover completely. Buchholz said the police made an investigation and pieced to gether the story he told me. He said naturally he had seen only what happened in the map room. Phone Call Arranged "Stauffenberg had arranged to be called to the phone by an accomplice," the stenographer said. "The accomplice accom panied him to headquarters and made the call from another building. The switchboard oper ator said that Stauffenberg, after receiving the call, said 'I must go to another barracks' and left "Actually he hurried to the parking lot, waited for the ex plosion, and then drove to he airport with his accomplice. He talked his way past the guards with the plea that he was on an urgent mission to Berlin. "After his arrival in Berlin by special courier plane which the other conspirators obviously had arranged Stauffenberg im mediately went to a section of the war ministry and reported that the assassination had been successfully carried out and the revolt could begin. Buchholz said it was definitely established two or three hours after the explosion that Stauf fenberg was the would-be assas sin. It was believed Stauffenberg thought the attempt had been successful because he probably did not know that Brandt had switched the briefcase to the other side of the table horse. ALLIES TO RULE E London, May 16 (U.B-'-Prime Minister Churchill said today that the Germans will adminis ter their own country under strict allied supervision and su preme headquarters revealed that the regime of Admiral Karl Doenitz already is under full control of the allies. "We have no Intention of un dertaking the burden of adminis tering Germany ourselves," Churchill told commons. He spoke as a number of announce ments brought the setup in Ger many, present and prospective, into its sharpest focus since the Nazi surrender. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters made it plain that the Doenitz setup is being used solely as a tool to expedite the disarmament and demobilization of the German armed forces. After that the high command will be dissolved. Even now the Doenitz regime is not recognized as a "government." Churchill addressed commons after conferring with Eisenhow er, Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery and other military com manders. STEVE EARLY NAMED - Chicago, May 16 (U.R Pull man, Inc., announced today that Steve Early, former assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been elected a vice-president of the firm. The appointment becomes effective June 1. Conference Ending By June 1 Is Hope As Compromise Found In 10-Day Dispute San Francisco, May 16. U.R) The United Nations conference again set sights today on June 1 as a possible adjournment dead line The wav was cleared some what by a three-point compro mise formula solving a 10-day dispute over regional security systems. . " The formula for linking such groups as the inter-Amcrican system with the proposed world organization was announced by Secretary of State Edward R Stettinius, Jr. Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla immediately welcomed the plan In beha.f of the 20 Latin American nations as one that would strengthen the inter-American system. Accept Authority , The Latin American nations agreed to accept the paramount authority of the world organiza tion in enforcement action in re turn for specific recognition of the inherent right of individual or collective self defense. In addition, the ltin Ameri ,. rrrriveri the promise "i the iinitrd States to call another inter-American conference soon Medford United Pre i Fortieth Year Argentine Visitor (Acme Telephoto) Miss Stella Oarcano. daughter of Miguel Carcano, Argentine ambas sador to London and head of his country's delegation to DNCIO. takes tune out from her conference choree to feed pigeons In San Francisco Union Square. KLAMATH, BEND ARGUE FOR 97 IN Delegations from the Bend and Klamath Falls areas de clared that highway 97 provides a faster and shorter route from the Puget Sound and Portland areas ' to California than does highway 99 when the mer-is of the two roads were argued be fore the state highway commis sion Tuesday in Portland. Resi dents of the Central Oregon dis tricts are attempting to have the commission change the desig nation of highway 99 as the main inter-regional highway. Malcolm Epley, managing edi tor of the Klamath Falls News- Herald said that the Willamette route, which leaves the Pacific highway at Goshen and rejoins it at Weed, Calif., offers the fastest and shortest route, stating that it is not only shorter In miles but has less curvature and considerably less rise and fall than the Pacific route. Says Time Saved He declared travelers on the Willamette route save from two to four hours time as compared to the Pacific route. Epley dis counted snow as a hazard. Great er populations served by the Pa cific route should not weigh heavily in the concept of a fast express highway, Epley de clared. Representative William T. Niskanen. appearing for the Bend Chamber of Commerce, said the Central Oregon region has as great a potential agricul tural area through Irrigation, as does the Rogue River area. He added that designation of the Willamette route as the Inter regional highway would result in a better distribution oi iranic. which might choose any of sev eral alternate routes across the Cascades. Chicago has seven great ralt road stations more than any city in the world. for negotiating a permanent hemispheric collective security treaty to supersede the wartime "Act of Chapultepec" which was signed at Mexico City In March. The general reaction was that the gravest crisis of this confer ence had been liquidated. The delegates immediately turned to other unsolved problems inter national trusteeships, a world court statute, and the campaign of little nations to strengthen the general asembly. Formula Ready Today ' The U. S. formula on the re gional issue will be presented to a special subcommittee wnicn will pass It on Immediately to the full committee for almost certain and Immediate approval. The general principles tor solving the regional . dispute have been agreed upon since last Saturday. But the wording of them had stumped the hest minds here for three days. The result is a three-point formula requiring two specific amend ments to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. The three points are 1. Recognition of the para mount authority of the wurld feteT sT" "Ni f ' full Leased Wire City Cou On Mur READY TO SPIKE TITOTRIESTE Cruisers, Bombers Arrive to Back Up Protest Against Yugoslavs Seizing Control London, May 16 OJ.R) Brit ish cruisers and destroyers have anchored in the harbor of Trieste under a canopy of American heavy bombers, a dispatch from the disputed port said today. United Press Correspondent James Roper reported from Trieste that the British warships arrived Tuesday. He said Sher man tanks, manned by alert New Zealanders, were patrolling the streets of the dock area un der British control. With the permission of Marshal Tito,1 the British had begun unloading sup plies at Trieste for the allied armies of occupation in Austria. Await Reply The disclosure came while Great Britain and the United .States awaited replies to their notes to Marshal Tito protesting administration of the port by his Yugoslav forces. The allied position was that an allied m i H t a r y government should administer Trieste as it does all other former Italian ter ritory, and that any disputes be tween Italy and Yugoslavia over ownership of the port must wait. The extent to which the Yugoslav- have - seized . eontroU of Trieste was disclosed in a dis patch from the port itself by United Press Correspondent James '.oper. He reported the Yugoslavs have installed their own picked prefect, renamed a street Corso Tito, substituted Yugoslav time for Italiin time, and begun conscripting men from 15 to 60 for the Yugoslav army. League Planned An Istanbul dispatch said ru mors) were circulating in diplo matic circles in Balkan capitals that Tito is planning a league of Balkan states. These unverified reports said Tito envisioned a league of great er Yuoslavia, Including Fiume, Trieste, and Salonica, with Ru mania, Bulgaria, and Albania. It was said the organization would have Russian backing. Destroyer Davis Sunk In Atlantic Washington, May 18 U.R) The destroyer escort Frederick C. Davis was sunk recently by enemy submarine in the Atlantic with heavy casualties, the navy announed today. The vessel was commanded by Lt. James R. Crosby, 27, of 4437 39th avenue, S. W., Seattle, He Is among the missing. The navy said next of kin of casualties have been informed. organization In all enforcement action. (This is already in the Dumbarton Oaks plan in a sec tion which provides that no en forcement action by regional asencies shall be taken without authorization by the world security council.) 2. Recognition that the Inher ent right of self defense Indi vidual or collective must re main unimpaired In case the world security council does not maintain peace and an armed at tack against member tate occurs. (This will require an amendment to the so-called "enforcement action" section of Of Dumbarton Oaks. The amend mcnt will call for immediate re ports to the security council when this right of self dcfe.ue is exercised.) 3. Agreement that regional agencies will be looked upon as important because of their abil ity to settle disputes by peaceful methods in their early stages. (This Is Implied in the Dumbar ton Oaks plan but another amendment will be made to the so-called "peaceful settlement" section making it explicit.) MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1945 ficil Sets June 12 For Vote cipal Improvement Plans AMERICAN PILOTS TAKE HEAVY TOLL IN TWO-DAY RAID 284 Jap Planes Destroyed 19 Suicide Plane Bases in South Japan Neutralized. Guam. Thursday, May 17 (U.PJ (Via Navy Radio) More than 500 Superfort resses dropr .'. 3.500 tons of incendi ar bombs on the still-smouldering wreckage of industrial Nagoya today in a pre-dawn attack designed to obliterate the core of Japan's aircraft production. Guam, May 16 U.R Prelim inary reports indicated today that American carrier aircraft neutralized 19 suicide - plane bases in southern Japan at least temporarily in a shattering two day air assault Sunday and Mon day. The American navy planes de stroyed or damaged 264 and possibly 357 Japanese planes and wrecked airfield Installa tions on Kyushu and Shikoku islands, Pacific fleet headquar ters announced. The attack brought a sharp reduction in Japanese suicide plane raids on American ships and ground forces on Okinawa. Only 35 enemy planes reached the embattled island on the first day of the strike. Since then, only a handful of Japanese air craft have appeared. '' : Heaviest Raid The carrier-based assault wa announced while detailed results of Monday's record superfortress attack on Nagoya, Japan's big best aircraft manufacturing cen ter, were awaited. Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz in dicated the carrier raids were the heaviest on Japan since the March 18 battle of the Inland sea. About 10 American planes were lost and one major Ameri can fleet unit was damaged by counterattacking Japanese planes. Radio Tokyo said the task force turned south yester day. Br United Pre Bloody, r.o-quarter battles raged on southern Okinawa and on Mindanao in the Philippines today. Weary marines battled through mortar and shell fire within 1,000 yards of the center of Naha. Bloody fighting was pro gressing from house to house. Marine vanguards had crossed the Asato river which bisects the city but murderous enemy fire still cut down reinforce ments crossing the river. Shuri Besieged To the northeast Infantry troops laid siege to the inland citadel of Shuri after capturing Chocolate Hill, main enemy stronghold guarding the city, at bayonet point. Marines of the first division fought toward Shuri from-the northeast At the east end of the five mile line across Okinawa, other troops pressed toward Yonabaru after beating off an enemy coun terattack In the vicinity of re cently captured Conical Hill. A new Japanese attempt, the second within a week, to land troops behind ' the American lines near Mar-hinntn airfinM Was rcnuluvt hv naval annflra Ruch Youth Jailed For Theft of Auto A 16-yoar-old boy from Ruch Is in the county Jail on auto theft charges, according to a report from the state police of fice today. .He is charged with stealing a car belonging to Earl Hart of Ashland and was arrest ed by state police as h6 was leav ing Ashland. He has been turned over to Juvenile authorities. Ashland Soldier Killed in Europe Pfc. David M. Cox of Ashland has been killed while serving in the European theater with the army according to a release, of the Office of War Information. Pfc. Cox was the son of William A. Cox, Star Route, Box 76, Ash' land. Goering Pictured J I "I I A Ac: x r 1 ol , " i V j Bathed and refurbished. Relchmarshal Hermann Ooerlng finally con mil to ha Dhotographed against 36& Division flag after bis capture b American Seventh Armv. OF NAZI LEADERS With Sixth Army Group, Germany,, May 16 (U.R) Rob ert Ley, leader of the Nasi labor front, has been captured 40 miles south of Berchies gaden, it was announced to night. London, May 16 (U.R) The Moscow radio, joined the clamor over purported coddling of cap tured German leaders, said to day that the "only fit way of dealing with such criminals is the hangman's noose." Indignation mounted in Lon don with disclosure that Willi Messorschmitt was living in a pleasant residential district of London, the city- his planes helped to wreck living in lux ury a d comparative freedom, British newspapers said. Interview Denounced An English language broad cast from Moscow denounced the interviewing of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering by allied cor respondents. The radio said it was like talking to "a murderer who has Just killed a child and is still carrying a blood-covered hatchet." After prescribing the hang man's noose for "such crimi nals," the broadcaster attacked a Flensburg radio report that the Germans had some control over themselves and added: "It Is not martinis or fried chicken that will tame the Hit lerite gangsters. They need a radical cure. Sensation-seeking reporters would do better to go to Hollywood for a scoop Inter view." Would Hang Goering Minister of State Richard K. Law told the American and Brit ish Commonwealth Association today that he hoped Goering will be hanged. He said Goering was typical of the "silliness he said was. the outstanding characteris tic of the German people and added: " "He' is full of arrogance and posturing, but I don't believe for a moment that even now Goer- ing understands what it is all SOOUt I do believe that when I'le lioiiRiiimi noose that is what I hope it will be is fas tened round his neck he will just f on saying the British are Jolly i od people, the Germans are jolly good people, and that is war." MISSING YOUTH HOME; MAN TRAVELING SOUTH Bob' y Harp, 15, son of Mr. an.. Mrs. S. D. Harp, Route 1, box 456, who was reported mis sing from his home yesterday, returned last night, according to city police. The report did not say where the youth had been. John A. Houser, who was re ported missing from Ashland, has been traced as far as Yreka, state police said today. Houser sold his car to a Medford used car dealer before going south, police stated. Houser operated a hot dog stand near Jackson Hut J Spring! on Highway 89. Tribune United Press After Capture (Acm Radio-Tetepholo) Republicans Lose First Tariff Round Washington, May 16 (U.R) The Administration today won the first round of its fight for more liberal tariff-making pow ers. The House Ways and Means committee approved a recipro cal trade bill carrying additional authority to reduce import du ties. The committee voted 14 to 11 against republican amendments to extend the reciprocal trade law for only one or two years. The committee-approved admin istration bill calls for a three- year extenslbn. PRESENT YEAR IS Washington, May 16 (U.R) Henry P. Nelson, the govern ment's automobile reconversion chief, said today that present indications are that about zoo,- 000 passenger cars will be made this year and 400,000 during the first three months of lino. He also announced that all re strictions on the manufacture of spare parts will be lifted this week. This will help keep old cars going until the new ones roll off assembly lines In large quantities. The War Production Board of ficial would not set a date for the start of new car production. He said it certainly would not be before July 1. Nelson said that aulomomie producers could make any type of car they dcsirea io wm.-ii WPB gave them the go-aneaa iffnfll An Industry representative in tarmntprl in av "vou can be sure they'll look different than the 1942 V ...... The WPB official said that production of civilian trucks will he Blven nrecedence over passen ger cars. When war worn p mits expanded output of non- military trucks, prooucprs w... h iflvnn nil ntna and their re quests for priorities for materials will be approved lmmeuitnti,, Lt. CoL Floyd Hart Here From Pacific Lt. Col. Floyd Hart Is In Med trA .nt rvntml Point for a brief visit with Mrs. Hart and his family after nearly two years of service In the western Pacific war theater with the Seventh Air Force Col. Hart, in the serv Ice for about 3 years, wears the bronze star for meritorious serv ice while overseas. The officer will be in the val ley tor about a week and will then report to an undisclosed base for reassignment, probably in this country. He Is president of the Timber Products com pany. WEATHER Northern California: Cloudy in north portion with occasional light rain near the coast and in the extreme north portion with partly cloudy In south portion to day; partly cloudy tonight; clear ing Thursday; little temperature change. Full Leased Wire NO. 47. SIX PROPOSALS IN L T0TAU825.000 Voting Places in Each of 4 Wards; Storm Sewer System Largest Item.1 City councilmcn Tuesday night set June 12 as the date of a special city election to vote on a proposed bond issue for six muni cipal improvement projects. The six projects, including the new Bear Creek park, storm sewers, intercepting sewer line, enlarge ment of the sewage disposal plant, construction of a new bridge across Bear Creek at Jackson street and improvement of the city library, will have a total cost of approximately $825, 000 according to figures set forth in the special election ordinance. Provisions have been set up to allow voters to cast separate votes on each project. Ballot numbers 502 and 503 provide for bonding for the santtary sew er Improvement at a cost not to exceed $78,000 and numbers 504 and 505 for voting on enlarge ment of the sewage disposal at a cost not to exceed $235,000. Numbers 506 and 507 will pre-; vide for construction of the Jackson street bridge at a cost not to exceed $35,000. Library 1102.000 The library enlargement U provided for in ballot numbers 508 and 509 and Is not to exceed the sum of $102,000, while num bers 510 and 511, provide for construction of storm sewers and purchase of rights-of-way and easements at a cost not to exceed $300,000. The park Improvement ballot numbers are 512 and 513 and provide for bonds not to ex ceed $75,000. The special election will be held between the hours of 1 and 8 p. m., and voting will take place In all four wards. First ward residents will vote at the Boy Scout headquarters. East Main street; second ward voters at the courthouse; third ward, Flchtner's garage, corner Sixth and Fir streets and fourth ward voters at 'the city hall. In addition to passing the bond election ordinance, the council men voted the sale of lot seven, block 13 In the Imperial addition to A. R. Roberts at a cost of $175. Unionists Balk At Working With Japs Stockton, Calif., May 16. U.R) Three hundred members of Stockton local 6 of the Inter, n a 1 1 o nal Longshoremen and Warehousemen's union (CIO), today announced their refusal to work with returning Japanese Americans. E. M. Balattl, union business: agent, said that In order to pre vent a work stoppage he had been forced to remove three Nisei from a warehouse to which they had been assigned last week. WOMAN SUFFERS BURNS IN RESIDENCE BLAZE Mrs. R. A. Sutherland, 1217 West 11th street, was badly burned late last night when a piece of burning wall fell against her leg as she attempted to ex tinguish a fire at the Sutherland home, Roy Elliot, fire chief, re ported today. Firemen called to the home administered first aid to Mrs. Sutherland and extinguished the fire w' ' h was caused by a de fective chimney, the chief said. Exact .mount of damage waa not i .ported but the walla around the chimney and two rooms were damaged, according to the fire department report. 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