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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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.
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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