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"1 Roosevelt In Honolulu 1 Sees Victory Assured In Pacific War Effort Honolulu, July 29. (U.PJ President Roosevelt today completed his first on-the-scene inspection of the war against Japan, confident after conferences here with his top Pacific commanders Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester M. Nimitz that Japan will ue ctusnea into unconditional surrender Dy new allied offensives. The president spent three days here, talking at length with the key military, air and naval leaders of the Pacific war effort and visiting almost every war installation on this rugged island of Oahu from the giant naval base at Pearl Harbor to tiny mountain- lop posts. Steeped He steeped himself in the Pacific war, talking with generals and admirals, and with wounded buck privates as their litters were lifted from hospital planes Just in from Saipan. He saw hundreds of planes, many of them recently in from combat against Japanese aircraft. He saw powerful units of the fleet, at sea as well as at Pearl Harbor, now one of the most heavily armed spots In the world. From what he saw and what he heard, the president left the Hawaiian islands firmly convinced of ultimate victory over Japan and in admitted awe at the accomplishments of the armed services since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. In a press-radio conference shortly before he left, the chief executive said his three-days of strategy conferences and inspec tion trips around Oahu were extremely successful and that plans for future allied operations left him with more confidence than ever about the outcome of the Pacific war. To Report Soon Mr. Roosevelt plans to report to the American people soon, probably in a radio broadcast, on his trip. While here the president divided hjs time fairly evenly between talks with the top men of the armed services in the Pacific and touring the multitudinous defense and offense installations which literally cover this island. He reviewed a battle-hardened army division the seventh at Schofield barracks high in the jagged Waianae mountain range. He saw soldiers sweating out a jungle training course in a stinking swamp. He spent much time going through army and navy hos pitals, chatting with wounded, some who were literally fighting for their lives but still managed i Defenses One of the most satisfying phases of the trip to the president was to see the restoration and expansion of the Pearl Harbor navy yard and Hickam Field, the army air station, which were the primary targets of the Japanese in their 1941 attack. Instead of weak installations, unaware and ready for anything but surprise combat, the president found gigantic concentrations of power planes, ships and guns by the hundred. The president arrived here on July 26 aboard a cruiser which brought him from San Diego, Calif. It can now be disclosed that Mr. Roosevelt made his fourth term nomination acceptance speech from his train inside the United States marine base at San Diego on the night of July 20. He boarded the cruiser at San Diego late the next night for the five-day run to Pearl Harbor. Traveling with the chief executive were Leahy; the president's naval and military aides, Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson and Rear Admiral Wilson Brown; Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the presi dent's doctor and surgeon general of the navy; Samuel I. Rosen man, counsel to the president, and Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information who was enroute to the South Pacific ' to Inspect OWI stations. Political The president's ship left San Diego just a matter of a few hours after Sen. Harry S. Truman, D., Mo., had been nominated by the Democratic convention as Mr. Roosevelt's fourth term running mate, and when the cruiser headed out into the Pacific the presi dent went into what amounted to a political blackout. He told his press conference here today that aside from what he , called a very nice telegram from Truman, he had been so far 1 away that he had had no contact with the political situation back In the states. The president's wherelbouts were a closely guarded secret for the United States, but out here in the islands it was as well known as if a big circus had come to town. Crowds lined the streets of Honolulu for hours during each of the three days he was here, and were not disappointed. The president's entourage moved through the city, going from one part of the Island to another, several times each day. Despite the widespread knowledge of his presence locally, navy censors put a sharp clamp on any outgoing information In order to confine the facts of the president's trip to the island of Oahu, at least, until security permitted release of the stories. NAZIS ADD FIRE - London, Aug. 10 U.F9 The Germans have added fire to the terror of their robot bombs, the Ministry of Home Security dis closed today as a new barrage of the flying torpedoes ended London's longest respite since the start of the assault more than two months ago. Some of the robot bombs fired at southern England in the past few days have scattered a score of small incendiary bombs in all directions when they exploded on crashing to earth, the min istry said. The barrage today ended a 24 hour lull. SWEEPER AND PATROL LISTED AMONG LOST Washington, Aug. 10. (U.PJ The navy today announced loss v of the American mine sweeper Osprey and the patrol craft PC1261 during operations in the European theater. The 700-ton minesweeper was commanded by Lt. Charles H. Swlmm, who is listed as survi vor. SIDE GLANCES Bt TRIBUNE REPORTERS Lt. Margaret Nordberg de claring that in spite of her fond ness for her home state, Minne sota, she'd much father live in southern Oregon. Bankcr-Orchardist Dick Payne sitting on his Ford truck loaded with props and lamenting the small pear crop. Jack Nail and Paul Freer learnedly solving the world's problems. Bill Cate fondly polishing up his new gold bars, and practicing writing his signature, "Lieuten ant William F. Cate." In War - wan smiles, Restored Blackout Pearl Harbor, Aug. 10-(U.R) All organized Japanese resist ance on Guam ceased Wednes day afternoon and American oc cupation of that island is now complete after less than three weeks fighting, it was announced today. Marines and soldiers mopped up small, isolated groups of Jap anese on Guam to end the Mar ianas ground camprign eight weeks after the landing on Saipan. The Allies now hold a firm foothold within Japan's in ner defense ring. The American conquest of the principal Marianas Saipan. Guam and Tinian cost the Jap anese more than 45,000 killed and S3 ships sunk, and left our forces poised on the threshold of the Philippines, the China coast and the Japanese home land Itself. JACKIE COOPER TO FACE CIVILIAN COURT HEARING South Bend, Ind., Aug. 10 (U.PJ Jackie Cooper, film star and a naval V-12 student, has been turned over to civilian authorities by officers at the Notre Dame naval training school to face charges of con tributing to the delinquency of a 15-year-old South Bend girl, authorities said today. George Bender, 24, Sheffield, 111., V-12 student who was charged with having Immoral relations with the girl, also was turned over to Sheriff Steve Molnar. Cooper and Bender were released immediately un der bonds. MINERS MEET San Francisco, Aug. 10 (U.PJ A conference of mining offi cials and engineers from 11 western states opened today with several delegates calling for alleviation of government restrictions on the mining indus try and solution of the employ ment problem. Medford United Press Thirty-ninth Year New Allied AU-Air-L 3rne Army Ready to Join in Fight for Paris U.S. SUBS GET 16 MORE IN PACIFIC OPERATIONS Washington, Aug. 10 (U, gradually fighting themselves sunk 16 more enemy vessels, navy announced today. F.D.R.'s TIMETABLE By United Press The timetable of President Roosevelt's trip to Hawaii: July 13 Left Washington. July 14 Spent day at Hyde Park, leaving at night. July 19 Arrived at Marine base, San Diego, Calif. July 20 Made fourth term nomination acceptance speech from San Diego. July 21 Sailed for Hawaii. July 26 Arrived at Pearl Harbor and took residence on Waikiki beach section of Honolulu. July 27 Visited Schofield barracks for review and lunch in officers club. Conferences in afternoon and evening. July 28 Lengthy morning conference. Afternoon visit to jungle training center and Kanehoe naval air station. July 29 Visits to army and navy hospitals lunch with Admiral Nimitz in Pearl Har bor, tea at home of Gov. In gram Stainback and press radio conference. Sailed for next destination. NAZI MANPOWER FOR LAST London, Aug. 10 (U.R) In a new and ruthless "total war" de cree, the Nazis made further de mands on Germany's almost-exhausted home front reserves to day by ordering hitherto exempt men into uniform to reinforce the reeling Wehrmacht, and by mobilizing virtually all other civilians to work in the Reich s war industries. The official German DNB News Agency, announcing the decree of Reich plenipotentiary for total war effort Joseph Goeb- bles, said still further measures may be expected soon and added that "everything also must dis appear from public life which is not completely in accord with the harshness of the struggle of German destiny." Under the new decree, thou sands of government and Nazi party officials, key men in arma ment factories and others who have been reserved as indispen sable for the last five years, will be sent Into battle on the Reich's crumbling eastern, western and southern fronts. Medford Teacher Plays Princess in Hollywood Picture Miss Mary Anderson, physi cal education instructor at Med ford senior high school, is cur rently - in Hollywood and is working for Republic studios. Mjss Anderson is in the cast of 'Lake Placid Serenade, an ice skating picture starring Vera Hruba Ralston. Miss Anderson is playing the part of a princess in a South Seas setting and do ing line work throughout the picture. Before going to work in the picture, Miss Anderson attended U.C.L.A. The teacher came to Medford high school last win ter from the University of Ore gon, where she had Just com pleted her course, and was phy sical education instructor for the second semester of school. Find 100 Bodies Under Avalanche Sanitago, Chile, Aug. 10 (U.PJ Reports reaching here today in dicated that more than 100 bodies had been recovered from the debris of a miners' barracks in Sewell which was struck by two avalanches last night. There was no confirmation from mine officials. In 1938, per capita Income In Japanese-dominated Korea was less than $30 in terms of Amer ican money, compared with a per capita average of from $300 to $600 in the United State. Full Leased Wire R U. S. submarines, which are out of a Job in the Pacific, have including one combatant ship, the Their latest victims included five cargo transports, nine cargo vessels, one tanker, and one es cort vessel to Jpring the total number of enemy vessels hit by American undersea craft to 839 The total included 687 sunk, 37 probably sunk and 115 dam aged. Since the navy no longer announces the probably sunk and damaged categories, the overall total hit is undoubtedly more than 1,000 vessels. Although the navy did not specify the area where the latest enemy vessels were sunk beyond saying in the "pacific and Far East," American submarines have been known to operate in Japanese coastal waters and are now being forced to hunt ever closer to the Japanese mainland as targets become scarcer. F 16 DIVISIONS TO EASTERN FRONT Moscow, Aug. 10 (U.R) Adolf Hitler has sent more than 16 additional divisions 160,000 to 240,000 men from central Ger many and occupied countries In to battle on the eastern front and ordered them to "fight to the last soldier" 'for Germany's threatened eastern frontiers front dispatches said today. "Germany Is immediately be hind your back," Hitler was quoted by Nazi prisoners as sav ing in an order of the day. "If you retreat, you only open the door of your own home to the enemy." Ferocious Counters The Germans already were counterattacking with increas ing ferocity on the eastern bor ders of East Prussia and on the approaches of Krakow, key to the southeastern invasion route to Berlin, and apparently had stemmed the Soviet onslaught temporarily. (A German DNB agency dis patch said the Germans' last Vilkavlskis, 11 miles from the East Prussian border and 48 miles east of Insterburg.) Russian forces regarded the counterattacks as the Germans' last desperate attempt to save their borders, however, and were confident that the Soviet commanders would smash, into the "holy land" of the Reich af ter absorbing the full shock of the enemy's thrusts and regroup ing their own forces. A front correspondent for the semiofficial newspaper Pravda said German prisoners acknowl edged that the fate of the third Reich was being decided on the west bank of the Vistula. Prison ers of one division said they had covered the route from Germany to the Vistula in 24 hours and immediately were thrown into battle. Pepper Fears U. S. May Face Another Dole, Washington, Aug. 10 (U.R) Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., warned today that "another dole and another WPA" face the country after the war if con gress fails to pass the broad re conversion and demobilization program envisaged in the Murray-Kilgore bill. His warning came as the sen ate was called into session an hour earlier than usual in an attempt to expedite considera tion of the federal program for unemployment c o m p e nsation proposed in the Murray-Kilgore bill and the states rights pro gram in the rival bill by Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga. lead ers held only slight hope for a vote today. Denouncing those who raised the cry of "state's rights' In the demobilization fight, Pepper said in a statement that the "real" issues were whether con gress Intended to legislate for MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGIL , s 1944 ' i - i i . ii ii i E Spreading Walkout Ties Up Motor Freight Traffic in Two Additional States. Chicago, Aug. 10. (U.PJ A strike of an estimated 50,000 midwest truck drivers and freight handlers spread to two more states today, and a spokes man for the employers claimed a hundred Nebraska communi ties were cut off from meat, cheese, and butter supplies by the tieup of motor freight traf fic. The strike, which began in earnest last Monday in eight states, broadened to include Oklahoma and Colorado, and government seizure of the strike bound lines appeared Imminent. At Omaha, M. Krupinsky, Nebraska chairman of the Mid west Operators association, said the strike was depriving about 100 cities and towns of vital foods and that a number of "small communities" were with out gasoline and oil. Army Moves Own Food Highways into North Platte, Neb., were picketed by drivers, members of the General Drivers Union (AFL), who said they would allow no shipments to go through except those of oil, grains, and perishables. Maj. Alec Baxter, chief of the highway division of the arm transportation corps at Chicago, said the army was being forced to move food to camps in' its own trucks because commercial trucking facilities were not available in northwestern Wis consin. Further Paper Cut May Be Necessary To Supply Forces Washington, Aug. 10. (U.R) The War Production Board warned today that further cur tailments in civilian paper sup plies may become necessary to meet increasing military de mands for wood pulp and paper. Although newsnrint nllntmpnts are expected to remain stable during the fourth quarter, it was indicated that book, magazine and commercial paper allotments may have to be cut slightly as a result of increases in wartime paper needs. Military requirements of wood pulp in the production of explo sives and high tenacity rayon for tires have reached a wartime high, according to Harold Bocs chenstcin, acting director of WPB's forest products bureau. TEN KILLED IN CRASH OF LIBERATOR BOMBER Kiowa, Colo., Aug. 10 (U.PJ Ten men were killed when a Liberator bomber crashed east of Kiowa last night, it was an nounced by army officials today. Names of the victims were not immediately announced, pend ing notification of next of kin. Another WPA "full employment, postwar prosperity for the American people and a square deal for the veterans who risked their lives in the struggle to preserve de mocracy.' Without legislation like the Murray-Kilgore bill, he said, "We will face the peace with out any coherent scheme of re conversion and will be caught unprepared as wc were after the last war, and industry and labor alike will face the deso late prospect of another dole and another WPA." Meanwhile, sponsors of the Murray-Kilgore plan for federal stands rds on unemployment compensation ranging up to $39 a week sought a compromise with a seemingly stronger republican-democratic coalition backing the George state's rights bill. The coalition, however, showed little disposition to compromise. Photos Evidence c -1 v... (Acme Telephoto) These photos, purportedly taken by Mrs. Florence OUnl ol Corporal Helnrich Haider, German prisoner of war, and Mrs. Tsuruko (Toots) Wallace, Japanese-American Internee, embracing and kissing on Colorado ranch, where both were working, were submitted as evidence In Denver, Colo., treason trial of three Japanese-American sisters. B-29'S DROP EGGS Washington, Aug. 10. (U.R) American superfortresses today struck in two directions against strategic Japanese targets, the war department announced. One medium sized B-29 force struck at Nagasaki on Ihe island of Kyushu, which has been raid ed twice previously. The other attack was against targets near Palombong, Sumatra. The attack on Nagasaki was carried out from bases In China while the Sumatra raid was launched from bases of the south east Asia command. Nagasaki is one of Japan's principal shipbuilding and repair centers, and a major military port. It is also an important producer of naval ordnance and heavy industrial machinery. On the west side of Kyushu island, it is some 30 miles from the big enemy naval base at Soscbo, which was raided by B-20's on July 7. Nagasaki is a city of a quarter of a million. Palembang is the site of the Pladjoc oil refinery, largest in the far cast and principal source of Japanese oil supplies. PARIS VICINITY London, Aug. 10. (U.R) Eighth air force Liberator bomb ers attacked bridges and fuel depots in the Paris area today on the eleventh consecutive day of the allied aerial offensive against the European fortress, while 500 other American heavy bombers from Italy again struck at oil refineries and other instal lations near Flocsti, Romania. Two Liberators and nine fighter planes were listed as missing after the raid on the Paris arco, but fighters escorting the bmoblng fleet destroyed eight German planes in the air and 18 on the ground, lt was announced officially. An unonnounccd number of enemy fighters were shot down during the raid on Ploesti by the Italy-based feet. UNOCCUPIED BOMBER IS FOUND IN DESERT Delta, Utah, Aug. 10 (U.R) Military police today guarded a four-motored army bomber that was found in the desert 33 miles west of here late yesterday by a farmer. The bomber, only slightly damaged, was unoc cupied when it was found. Officers refused to say wheth er the plane was one reported missing 10 days ago from the Tonopah, Ncv., air base after Us crew had balled out. Tribune United Press Full in Treason Trial ms ) . mm m. i-y.z ; ; l7YMitt 1 ' J-: iW Mr, J FIELD FIRE Fire which broke out In a grain field on the F. W. Colgston farm on Route 1 yesterday after noon was confined to the straw through the efforts of the com bine crew and hurriedly sum moned neighbors. The blaze, thought to have been set from the combine, broke out Just as the crew had finished the field and even though the workers were on hand, was fanned to considerable proportions by a brisk breeze before being con trolled. A crew of men from the state fire patrol answered a call and extinguished the blaze with water. It burned over about half an acre. FOR APPLE Washington, Aug. 10. U.R) New price ceilings fo rthe 1944 apple crop were announced by the office of price administra tion todoy at levels reflecting an average consumer price of lOVt cents a pound, about a quarter of a cent below last year's costs. Effective next Wednesday, the new prices were established for shipping points and varied according to time of sale. They range from a low of 4.3 cents a pound for ungraded bulk apples In the Aug. 20-Oct. 31 selling period to 6.9 cents for packed and graded apples sold between April 0 and May 5 of next year. Kiwanis Governor Gives Report On National Meeting A report of the recent na tional Kiwanis convention, held In Chicago, was given at the Medford Kiwanis meeting yes terday by Del Carr, Rnseburg, lieutenant-governor of this dis trict. Mr. Del Carr also invited members to the Pa cific Northwest District conven tion which will be held August 13, 14 and 13 In Eugene, and plans were made for a delega tion of Medford Klwanlans, to he headed by J. E. Earley, to attend the meeting. The north west territory is comprised of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia clubs. Mr. Carr is touring the clubs of this sn-tion and went from Medford to Klamath Falls to meet with the group there. Leased Wire NO. 119. U. S. SPEARHEADS 40 MILESOF CITY Creation of New Striking Force Holds Threat For Columns of Nazi Defense. S u p r m Headquarters, AEF, Aug, 10 (U.R) The tat- tered remnants of Germany's garrisons la Brest and Lorient were reporting attempting io evacuate by sea from those besieged Breton ports today. Supreme Headquarters, AEF. Aug. 10 U.R) Allied armies slashed through the riddled Ger man defense arc covering the western and southwestern ap proaches to Paris today as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower poised a new threat to the Wthrmi.hi- with the formation of the first entirely air-borne army In mili tary history. Creation nf fh force, dfawn from all Allied mmorne units in the European theater, came as American armored columns fnnnnri nut ho. yond captured Le Mans, 100 mnes or less from Paris, In a drive that threatened tof out flank the French capital from the south. Reported Near City Unconfirmed reports said ad vanced American spearhead might already be only 40 to 60 miles west and southwest of Paris. Headquarters spokesmen In dicated that German rear guards were putting up increasingly stiff resistance against the Paris bound Americans, although there) was no sign that the doughboys had yet run into nnv mnfnr nn. position. The Nazis also were bracing: desneratelv mrnlnct thro nrit. Ish and Canadian columns bat tering against their defenses be low Caen In a full-scale attempt to turn the enemy's right flonlc and lay open the shortest road to raris, in miles away. On the Icnlntprf Rrntnn nnln. sula, small German garrison were holding out bitterly in Brest. T.nrlpnt anH Knntam ttnAn heavy attack from American uuks ana infantrymen, and an other enemy force was holding; out in encircled Angers, 50 miles east-northeast of Nantes. Face Freih Disaster Field Marshal Gunther Von Klugc's army of the west ap peared to have beer, riddled along the whole French front, however, and the dramatic dis closure of the new Allied sky army held promise of fresh dis aster for the Nazi commander. The new force, pluced under the command of U. S. Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brercton, ctuld sweep down behind the German army anywhere it tried to make a stand and could turn a general Nazi retreat Into a military debacle of major proportions. Allied headquarters gave no information on the size of ths new striking force, but the an nouncement indicated that Bre rcton's sky raiders were ready to Join the battle for Paris. Headquarters spokesmen also gave few details on the progress of the fighting today, beyond disclosure that American units are advancing in the Mortaln sector, where the Germans threw four panzer divisions In to a major counterattack toward Avranches early this week. Mor taln Itself was believed still held by the Nazis after changing hands several times. ' News From Nails ' The chief news came from the) , German radio, which said Brit-. Ish forces advancing eastward . from their Orne river bridge head above Thury-Harcourt had made contact with the Canadians driving southward on Falaise. The Germans admitted that a small number of troops wer trapped behind the Allied lines by the British-Canadian Juno tupre, but both enemy and Al lied sources Indicated the bulk of their forces had escaped ths trap. In World War I an infantry division required 183 motor ve hicles and 4400 horses. In this war, however, a division requires 3300 vehicles of 160 different types, but no horses at alU
