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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945.
NO. 48.
Nazi U-Boat Surrenders Off Nova Scotia
BIG 5 MAY ACI
Eludes r
Her.mann Worries
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A Gacman aubmarlne, the U889, proceeds under escort of a Canadian naval vessel to Shelbourne, Nova Bcotlv
af ter surfacing and surrendering- to an RCAF Liberator.
FROM PORTLAND
Y
Representatives of
courts, chambers of
county
commerce
and city officials who attended
a meeting of the state highway
commission in Portland Tuesday
to consider the proposed change
of highway 99 as the inter-re
gional highway for Oregon, re
turned yesterday and this morn
ing. About 30 men from districts
adjacent to highway 99 and coast
counties reached from 99, at
tended the meeting.
A comprehensive brief cover
ing facts showing why the
change to 97 should not be made
was presented and a few speak
ers backed up the brief with per
sonal comment.
Salem for 98
Included among the material
presented was a letter from the
Salem Chamber of Commerce
requesting that the highway com
mission designate highway 99 as
the main inter-regional road
Previously the Portland Cham-
Der 01 commerce romiiiiu uu
roads and highways had taken
aimilar action and the chairman
r( the committee attended a
. special meeting held here earlier
thia month to discuss me mat
ter. Attending from Jackson coun-
tv ware Commissioner A. J.
Powell, Engineer Paul Rynning,
Mayor C. A. Meeker, Medford;
Mavor T. S. Wiley. Ashland; W.
M Brlsffi. Ashland city attor
ney: H. L. Claycomb, Ashlano
automobile dealer: Representa
tive Frank Van Dyke, Senator
Earl T. Newbry and Ralph Koo-
ir. president of the Pacillc
Highway association, all of Ash
land; Archie fierce, nieaioro
auto freight operator, and Herb
Grey, Medford, president of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce.
Sacramento, May 17 (U.R)
The State Highway Commission
today listened to arguments by
Redwood Empire and Yreka civ
ic groups favoring designation of
U. S. Highway 99 from Weed,
Calif., to Eugene, Ore., via Ash
land, as an interstate route.
Charles H. Purcell, director of
public works, said the Oregon
State Highway Commission fa
vors an interstate route by, way
of ..lamath Falls. He added that
the California and Oregon com
missions must designate the
route between the two states by
July 1 as part of the National In
terstate System of Highways.
FREIGHT LOADING DIPS
Washington, May 17 (UP.)
I oadings of revenue freight
dropped 24,892 cars in the week
ended May 12 to 838,507 cars,
the smallest volume since the
week ended April 7, a report by
fie Association of American
Railroads disclosed today.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Don Newbury flashing two
S0 bills all at the same time.
Joe Earlcy receiving letter
from Bing Francis addressed to
"the man with the gold pan in
his hand."
Victor Sether successfully in
terfering with the freedom of
the press.
John Eby stnigRling with the
wording of church notice.
Nazi Big Shots May Try Escape
To Japan Aboard U-Boat, Surmise
Washington, May 17. U.R)
Surrender of a German subma
rine heading - for Japan with
three luftwaffe generals and two
Japanese aboard led to specula
tion today that Adolf Hitler,
Heinrich' Himmler or other high
Nazis might be trying to
escape under the sea to Japan.
Adm. Jonas H. Ingram, com
mander in chief of the Atlantic
fleet; revealed the surrender to
newsmen yesterday at a press
conference in which he reviewed
the entire course of the battle of
the Atlantic.
In addition to capture of the
Japan-bound U-boat Ingram re
vealed that:
1. Three weeks before Ger
many surrendered, one of the
UP TO SCHEDULE
Washington, May 17 U.P.)
Individuals were well on their
way today toward the $1,500,
000,000 mark in the seventh war
loan drive.
The first and easiest billion
wa chalked up yesterday when
the treasury department an
nounced total sales of $1,264,
000,000. That figure was 18 per
cent of the $7,000,000,00 indi
vidual quota. It included $1,
021,000.000 in sales of E-bonds
slightly more than 25 per cent
cf'the $4,000,000,000 quota.
Director Ted R. Gamble of
the treasury's war finance divis
ion said sales were approxi
mately what the treasury had
hoped for at this stage of the
drive. He added that as is
usually the case "the first bil
lion is the easiest." ,
Hitler Surprised By Luftwaffe Absence
After Allied Landing On Normandy Shore
By Jack Fleischer
United Press Correspondent
Obersalzberg, Germany, May
17. (U.R) The absence of the
luftwaffe after the Normandy In
vasion surprised allied leaders,
but it surprised Adolf Hitler
much more.
Hitler's official stenographers
said today he had counted on the
luftwaffe to play the main pan
In defeating the invasion. When
the necessary planes did not ap
pear. Reichsmarshal Hermann
Gocring began right away to slip
in Hitler's esteem.
Laughed At F. R. Death
The stenographers, Heinz
Buchholz and Gcrhardt Merge-selle,.-
also made these disclo
sures:
When Hitler learned of Presi
dent Roosevelt's death, he
laughed gleefully "like a devil."
Hitler and Admiral Kan
Doenitz turned down a Japanese
request for Germany's U-boat
fleet.
The shorthand reporters at
tended the daily conferences at
Hitler's headquarters during the
Normandy campaign. They said
he was not surprised by news
of the allied landing.
They said Hitler had counted
on having 1.000 to 1.200 fighter
planes to hurl against the inva
sion forces. Goering reportedly
had assured him the fighters
would be on hand.
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KM, . t
most powerful U. S. carrier and
destroyer-escort forces ever to
operate in mid-Atlantic broke up
a formidable U-boat pack. The
U-boat force had orders to "blan
ket the east coast from Maine to
Florida."
2. In more than 16,000 con
voys escorted by the Atlantic
fleet a total of 15 merchantmen
were lost to enemy submarines.
3. The U. S. navy definitely
accounted for 126 German U-
boats during the battle of the
Atlantic out of a total of about
500 sunk by the allies..
4. Convoy operations will
continue in the Atlantic until
every Nazi submarine is account
ed for. . .
.'The two Japanese aboard the
Japan-bound submarine were
not identified. They committed
hara kari the Japanese version
of suicide before the vessel sur
rendered.
- The identity of the three Nazi
air generals were not known
either.
TORCH CLUB HOLDS
FORMAL INITIATION
Second formal initiation of
the - Y.M.C.A. ; Torch club was
held May. 16 in the "Y" club
rooms. Bill Todd, Ralph Roth
ermel, Wayne Rose, Wayne
O'Neil, Bill Tarns and Dean Ep
pinger staged the initiation for
Bruce Stafford, David Chlrgwin
and Ramon Marion. Director
was Ben H. Schmidt.
Two guests were present to
observe the ceremony.
ATHLETE SENTENCED
Boston, May 17 (U R) For
mer Colgate athlete Josiah R.
Lancaster of New York was un
der a two-year federal peniten
tiary sentence today for failing
to report for his army induction.
"Up to the time of the Inva
sion Goering had been Hitler's
number one confidante, but
from then on the fuehrer stead
ily lost confidence .In him,"
Buchholz said. "Mter the luft
waffe's failure Hitler personally
took charge of airforce produc
tion. Hitler many times and in
an Increasingly obvious manner
showed his lowered respect Jor
Goering. Usually he just ignored
the reichsmarshal and often just
pushed him aside when Goering
tried to express his opinion at
conferences."
Hitler and the high command,
the shorthand reporters said,
were handicapped in their deci
sions on disposing their reserves
by the continued presence tn
England of "another army
group." They apparently meant
Gen. George S. Patton'i third U.
S. army, which landed in France
July fourth.
My informants said Hitler was
highly agitated by the way the
allied airforces paralyzed bis
communications, forcing him to
move only by night and even
then with limited success. They
said he made one last desperate
effort to have his roads by order
ing that all main highways to
Normandy be lined solidly with
flak guns. That, too, failed.
They said Hitler was deeply
disappointed when he saw Ger
many would lose all bold on
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U. S. Delegates Irritated by
48-Hour Delay Caused by
Reds Waiting Instructions
San Francisco, May 17 U.R)
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., called another
meeting of the Big Five today
to decide whether the United Na
tions . Conference should act on
the proposed regional arrange
ments compromise without ad
vance Russian approval.
If Russian instructions on that
issue are not here when the Big
Five convene late today. Stettin
ius is expected to serve notice
that the United States will spon
sor the Regional Formula alone
Several members of the U. S.
delegation are known to be ex
tremely irritated by the 48-hour
delay already caused by the Rus
sians. Other Progress
On the major unsolved issue
trusteeships there were better
siens of progress. The full con
ference trusteeship committee
began discussing the "working
paper" drafted by Cmdr. Harold
E. Stassen. The Russians also
were understood to be awaiting
instructions from Moscow on this
issue.
The U. S. delegation mean
while continued its study of
amendments submitted by other
nations. The objective is to de
termine the American position
in advance so that the U. S. rep
resentative on the confmittees
can act without continuous refer
ence back to the full delegation.
The U. S. delegation also re
ceived from a group of consultants-
representinaJabor, indus
try, agriculture and education a
series of proposed amendments
designed to broaden the scope of
the economic and social council.
One of the recommendations was
that the proposed council ar
range conferences with and re
ceive recommendations from the
major non-governmental organi
zations. Delegates were weary after
more than three weeks of delib
erations and many were openly
annoyed at the new delays.
Hopes of adjourning this confer
ence by June 1 again were fad
ing. Claudette Colbert
Collapses on Set
Hollywood, May 17 (U.R)
Screen Star Claudette Colbert
collapsed today on a sound stage
at International Studios for the
second time within ten days.
The actress had returned to
kvork today after spending the
last 10 days at home with influ
enza. Dr. Myron Prinzmetal ord
ered Miss Colbert .home for an
Indefinite stay.
Africa, and that he foresaw the
political implications,
Herrgeselle said he was pres
ent when Hitler heard of Presi
dent Roosevelt's death. Hitler.
Herrgeselle, and another short
hand reporter were alone in a
bunker behind the Berlin chan
cellory. 'There had been the usual
late night conference," the sten
ographer said. "Hitler had his
glasses on and was reading some
thing when suddenly the door
flew open and Oberreichslciter
Lorenz of Press Chief Otto Diet
rich's staff burst Into the room
without knocking. This was
highly Irregular for anybody to
enter the conference room with
out knocking.
"Lorenz waved a DNB news
sheet in one hand and cried out
Jo'yfully, 'My Fuehrer, I have
very Important report. Roosevelt
is dead!' Then he threw the sheet
on the table in front of Hitler.
'Hitler picked up the sheet
and read the two-line report of
the White House announcement
with wide open eyes.
'Then he threw his arms Into
the air with obvious glee and
laughed. It was a hideous laugh,
like a devil's laugh. There was
something unnatural about it."
Herrgeselle said Hitler cried
"I knew it. I knew it." He kept
repeating that, mingled with ex
clamations of "donnerwelter."
Air. , -M
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em4ii6-m3
(Acme ielephoioj
W. H. McDonald, 70, Australian-bora
friend and advisor to Chiang Kai
shek, pictured in San Francisco si tei
his liberation from Philippine prison
camp. High on Jap reprisal list, he
escaped detection because Nips be
lieved he vas a much younger man.
JAP EXTREMIST
By United Press
The Imperial Rule Assistance
Association. Japan s totalitarian
party, will be disbanded and its
member organizations absorbed
into the new "People's Volunteer
Corps," Tokyo reported Thurs
day in a broadcast recorded by
United Press, San Francisco.
Imminent dissolution of the
fascist-like association, or "Yoko
sankai," was announced by
Premier Admiral Baron Kantaro
Suzuki. It was expected to be
completed by June 10.
The Imperial Rule Assistance
Association, whose members In
cluded some of Japan's most in
fluential friends of naziism and
fascism, was for.ned in 1940 to
assist the government to execute
the nation s Imperial alms.
It has been under domination
of Japanese military extremists
generally credited with instigat
ing the attack on Pearl Harbor.
KILL PASSERBY
Miami, Fla May 17 (U.R)
Joe Munn, owner of seven bull
dogs was held on a manslaught
er charge today after the dogs
attacked Mrs. Micko Zinke, 38,
so viciously that she died in a
hospital a few hours later.
Mrs. Zinke, mother of a Mit
chell Field, N. Y., army sergeant,
was set upon as she walked near
the city limits last night.
Physicians said she "literally
was chewed to pieces."
Passing soldiers rescued Mrs.
Zinke and took her to a hospi
tal, where attendants said her
condition was the "worst ever
seen at the institution" and that
all sections of the body were
mutillated. Her clothing was
torn completely from her body.
She still was conscious when
brought to the hospital.
Abandon Hunt For
U-Boat Off Coast
Seattle, May 17 (U.R) A
search was abandoned today for
a German submarine reportedly
seeking surrender off the Wash
ington coast near Westport.
The search began after the
receipt late yesterday . by the
coast guard radio station at
Westport of a message purport
edly from the skipper of a Ger
man submarine.
Officials of the 13th naval dis
trict told of the incident and ex
pressed doubt as to the authen
ticity of the message.
Light Earthquake
Jars Bay Region
San Francisco, May 17 (U.R)
A light earthquake shook San
Francisco at 8:06 a. m. PWT to
day. There were no reports of
damage.
The Santa Clara university
seismograph registered the term
or and reported the epicenter as
SO miles north or south of Santa
Clar.
Occupants of downtown build
ings felt the Jar.
BASEBALL
National
St. Louis 7 11 0
Boston 4 7 1
Partcnheimer, Burkhart and
O'Dea; Andrews. Hutchings,
Shacker and Klutiz.
OF NAZILEAOERS
Von Papen Indictment Virtu
ally Assured; Eden Hopes
For Early Goering Trial.
London, Mny 17 (U.R) Indict
ment of Baron Von Papen as a
German, war criminal was re
ported today to be virtually as
sured as signs increased that
plans were being speeded up for
bringing nazi leaders to Justice.
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, fresh from the San Fran
cisco conference, told Commons
that he hoped swift justice
would be visited upon Reichs
marshal Hermann Goering. He
was unable to specify the date
for beginning the trial of war
criminals, but said the allies
were busy with arrangements.
Investigate Von Papen
Sources close to the allied war
crimes commission revealed that
it was investigating Von Papen,
ace diplomat of Germany In
both world wars. These sources
said he already had been charg
ed with complicity in systematic
terrorism and other crimes.
The commission was disclosed
to have indicted H J a 1 m a r
Schacht, German financial wiz
ard, and Count Schwerin Von
Krosigk, former nazi finance
minister now designated as for
eign minister by Admiral Karl
Doentz.
Eden told Commons that the
question of Doentz' guilt in con
nection with war crimes is un
der investigation, and that ac
cording to newspaper reports he
has been arrested.
Ribbentrop Missing .
Former German Foreign Min
ister Joachim Von Ribbentrop is
missing, Eden said, adding that
every effort is being made to ar
rest him and bring his to justice.
The status of other big names
In the actual or potential field
of war criminality included:'
Heinrich Himmler according
to his wife who was found near
Bolzano, Italy, he was believed
killed In Berlin with Adolf Hit
ler. This view lacked convincing
support.
Robert Ley Leader of the
nazi labor front captured by
American airborne troops 40
miles south of Berchtesgaden.
Marshal Henri Phillippe Pe-
tain tried at preliminary ques
tion to shift full responsibility
for his government's collabora
tion with the nazis to Pierre
Laval.
Laval still In Barcelona,
where he and some of his hench
men fled by air, so far as was
known.
High Wind Levels
Circus "Big Top"
Greensburg, Pa May 17 (U.R)
A crowd of 3,500 spectators was
led to safety as high winds cap
sized the "big top" of the Clyde
Beatty wild animal show on the
hillside circus grounds here.
Three circus attendants and
one spectator were injured
slightly as the crowd filed out.
None of the animals escaped. A
few seconds after the last of the
wild beasts had returned to their
cages, the main tent collapsed.
GESTAPO CHARGED
San Diego, Cel., May 17 (U.R)
San Diego grand Jury mem
bers today subpoenaed a half
dozen police officers and Jail
matrons for questioning In an in
vestigation of police methods
ard jail conditions. The investi
gation was prompted oy a num
ber of deaths In the city Jail,
esDecially that of Patricia Lee
Tragise, 16, of Oakland, Cal..
who died last November of pneu
monia while held as a runaway.
Combat Casualties Over Million
Wnthlniitnn. Ma'v 17. (U.R) U. S. combat casualties officially
announced here totaled 986,214 today. This means that the actual
total, including thousands not yet transferred to the records In
Washington, has passed 1,000.000.
The 986,214 figure Is 13.560 greater than that for a week ago.
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson Teportcd that the
Philippines campaign up to May 9 has cost 46.038 army casualties.
Patterson estimated that army forces in the Pacific have killed
about 360.000 Japanese since the Guadalcanal campaign but not
counting the fighting on Okinawa.
Of army wounded In all theaters, Patterson said 294,208 have
returned to duty.
The overall casualty table:
Army Navy Total
Killed . ., 178.854 41,986 220,840
Wounded - 844,249 . 50.421 594.670
Missing - 66.684 10.620 77,304
Prijoners : 89,152 4,248 93,400
Totals
,..878,939
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Mem Ttlephoto)
Hermann Goering. No. 2 Nasi, ap
pears sober and apprehensive as hi
was interviewed alter his surrender.
Be attempted to shift blame fat
atrocities to Hltlex.
San Francisco, May 17 (U.R)
The British Information Ser
vice distributed an announce
ment today that Britain, after
the war, will grant full self-government
to Burma when internal
conditions permit free elections.
In London, a government
statement of policy on Burma
suggested - that an executive
council be formed to supplement
the present government of Bur
ma until a general election can
be held. .
The BIS said that when It be
comes possible ito hold elections,
a new Burmese legislature win
take over law-making functions.
T
Tnnrinn M.V 17 (U.R) Eieht
Engineering factories in suburb
an Acton marched into Hyde
Park today, shouting "We want
work."
About 2,000 of the workers
had been declared "redundant"
no longer needed for war
work and the remainder de
clared a strike in sympathy.
Demonstrators carried Dan
ners bearing the slogans "We
produced for war, we can pro
duce for peace" and "Unemploy
ment In 1918. has this war been
in vain?"
Von Papen Record
Eyed by Captors
London, May 17 (U.R) The
United Nations War Crimes com
mission is examining the records
of Baron Von Papen, Germany's
ace diplomatic troubleshootor In
two wars, and his indictment as
a war criminal was reported to
day to be a virtual certainty. '
Responsible sources said von
Papen had been charged before
the commission with "complicity
In systematic terrorism and oth
er crimes."
Von Tapen, the so-called
"Gray Fox" of German diplo
macy, was taken when the allies
encircled the Ruhr.
TO SEEK STRIKE END
Hollywood. May 17 (U.R) -
The National Labor Relations
Board moved today to end
nine-week film studio strike by
setting May 24 for a bargaining
election among set decorators,
over whose Jurisdiction the
walkout began.
107.275
686,214
Guam. May 17 (U.R) The
enemy reported today that
mine - laying Superfortresses
and Iwo-based Mustang fight
ers attacked Tokyo and Its in
land sea lanes several hours
after 500 B-29s touched off
huge fires, visible 150 miles.
In industrial Nagoya.
Tokyo said Superfortresses
dropped mines In waters near
Cape Kamon at the outlet to
Tokyo bay. Cape Kamon juts
into Uraga strait south of To
kosuka, site of Japan's largest
naval base.
By United Press ,
Great waves of American
superfortresses spread fires thru
16 more square miles of indus
trial Nagoya today in the fourth
of a series of raids to obliterate
the enemy's largest aircraft
manufacturing center.
A Japanese Dome! dispatch re
corded by the FCC said that 40
small allied planes from Iwo
bases flew over Tokyo for 30
I minutes today, straNng the Fuji-
sawa area outside the metropoli
tan area.
Drop Huge Bombs
The Nagoya raiding force,
equaling or perhaps exceeding
the record 500-plane B-29 force
which fired nine square miles tn
the city Monday, raided 575,000
fire bombs weighing 3,500 tons
on the city's southern factory
district In 90 minutes hefora
dawn.
In each of the last two raids,
the bomber tinlnnrlpH m await
weight of fire bombs than ever
was dumped on German city
in a single allied raid.
The tarffet area Inrliirlori th
Mitsubishi aircraft plant, largest
oi us kind In the world, five
other major war plants and less
.iiipuiiniii war lactones, trans
portation facilities, warehouses
and workers' home Industries,
Half In Ruins
coupled with previous raids,
the damage possibly left half of
the city, Japan's third largest, in
ruins.
Meanwhile the battle across
southern Okinawa raged with
unparalleled fury.
Tenth army troops, killing
Japanese at the rate of one a
minute, drove Into the outskirts
of Yonabaru on the east coast
and tightened a nlnrera mltVtin
200 yards of Inland stronghold
of Churl.
At the western end of the line,
marine patrols probed through
Naha, the capital, within 300
yards of the business center.
They found streets and build
ings littered with hundreds of
dead Japanese.
A Pacific fleet communique
said 46,505 Japanese had been
killed and 1,038 captured thru
Tuesday. In the last five days
the Americans have been killing
Japanese at the rate of 1,400
every 24 hours.
20,950 U. S. Casualties
American casualties for the
first 44 days of the campaign
were set at 3.781 dead. 17.004
wounded and 165 missing a
total of 20,950.
Twelve Japanese planes ap
proached American warshins off
Okinawa Tuesday night but
were Intercepted before they
could cause damage. Nine were
shot down.
U. S. navy planes continued
attacks on shinning off the Jan.
anese homeland yesterday, sink
ing two small vessels and five
fishing craft off southern Hon-
shu.t
Tokyo said today that a Brit
ish task force had Denctrated
Malacca strait between Malaya
and Sumatra for the first time in
nearly three years and en gaffed
Japanese warships. A Tokyo
broadcast said the Japanese
ships, presumably based at Sing
apore, south of the strait, sank
one destroyer.
American troons on Mindanao
advanced another five miles to
within eight miles of Valencia,
the enemy's last big air base on
the island. Troops closing in on
Valencia from the south were
within, 40 miles of another force
driving from the north. A junc
ture of the two forces would
bisect the Island lengthwise.
Two British forces which have
been moDoing un north of Ran
goon have linked up at a point
oo miles north of the city.
Golf Club Making
Given Green Light
Wasl. .Ion, May 17 (U.R)
The War Production Board to
day lifted the ban on manufac
ture of golf clubs, which up to
now have been manufactured
only to meet military needs.