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
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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
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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
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A Ac: x r 1
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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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