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Fortieth Year
Truman Proclaims Victory
In European' War Theatre;
Advises Japs to Surrender
Washington, May 8 (U.R) President Truman today pro
claimed victory in Europe but told the nation its fighting job
would be finished only "when the last Japanese division has
surrendered unconditionally."
He said our victory is only
half-won." He gave this counsel
for the months to come:
"Work, work, work."
He gave this advice to the Jap
anese: Surrender.
Surrounded by his govern
ment leaders, Mr. Truman is
sued his proclamation of victory
and his statement of the work
yet to do at a historic news con-
ference in the white house. Then
he broadcast them to the nation.
Solemn Hour
Outside, while the President
spoke, a chill rain fell.
"This," the President said, "Is
solemn but glorious hour."
He voiced the thought of mil
lions by adding:
'How I wish Franklin Roose
velt had lived to see this day."
The President reminded the
nation in its flush victory that
it had not been fighting alone.
And he proclaimed Sunday, May
" 13, a day of prayer.
"I wall upon all the people of
the United States, whatever
their faith, to unite In offering
Joyful thanks to God for the vic
tory we have won -and to pray
that he will support us to the
end of our present struggle and
guide us into the way of peace.
"I call upon my countrymen
to dedicate this day of prayer to
tho memory of those who have
given their lives to make possi
ble our victory." ""
Allies Congratulated
The President sent his con:
gratulations and thanks to Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, Pre
mier Josef Stalin, Gen. Charles
DcGaulle.
To Gen. Dwight D.' Eisenhow
er, he said:
"All of us owe 10 you ana io
your men of many nations a debt
beyond appraisal for their high
contribution to the conquest of
naziism."
' Mr. Truman counted the cost
cf victory. He did not forget
"the terrible price we have paid
io rid the world of Hitler and his
evil band."
But he also sounded a note of
triumph and hope.
"United, the peace-loving na
tions," he said, "have demon
strated in the west that their
arms are stronger by far than
the might of dictators or the tyr
anny of military cliques that
once called us soft and weak.
"The power of our peoples to
defend themselves against all en
emies will be proved in the Pa
cific war as It has been proved
in Europe."
Must Build Peace
And with victory, the Presi
dent said, "we must work to
bind up the wounds of a suffer
ing world to build an abiding
peace, a peace rooted in Justice
nd in law."
For the Japanese, he said, the
choice is between unconditional
surrender and "utter destruc
tion to Japan's industrial war
production, to its shipping, and
to everything that supports its
military activity." I
He gave Japan this promise,
this invitation to survival:
"Unconditional surrender does
not mean the extermination or
enslavement of the Japanese
people."
He spelled out patiently the
choice which is Japan s.
"The longer the war lasts," he
said, "the greater will be the
suffering and hardships which
the people of Japan will under
so all in vain.
"Our blows will not cease un
til the Japanese military and
naval forces lay down their arms
in unconditional surrender.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Frank Rogers finding himself
wrong in his prediction that V-E
Day would be June 1.
Audrey Davis and Eleanor
Wolf worrying over whether
Hitler was really dead or not and
thinking up ways in which they
would handle the matter in the
event that he isn't.
Hattie Gore reminding a
scribe that sugar catches more
Cites than vinegar, . -
Medford
United Prat
Proclamation
The allied armies, through
sacrifice and devotion and
with God's help, have wrung
irom bermany a final and un
conditional surrender. The
western world has been freed
of the evil forces which for
five years and longer have
imprisoned the bodies and
broken the lives of millions
upon millions of free-born
men. They have violated their
churches, destroyed their
homes, corrupted their chil
dren, and murdered their
loved ones. Our armies of lib
eration have restored freedom
to these suffering peoples
whose spirit and will the op
pressors could never enslave.
Much remains to be done,
The victory won in the west
must now be won in the east,
The whole world must be
cleansed of the evil from
which half the world has been
freed. United, the peace-lov-
ing nations have demonstrat
ed in the west that their arms
are stronger by far than the
might of dictators or the tyr
anny of military cliques that
once called us soft and weak.
The power of our peoples
to defend themselves against
all enemies will be proved In
the Pacific war as it has been
proved in Europe. '
For the triumph of spirit
and of arms which we have
won and for its promise to
people everywhere who join
us in the love of freedom, it is
fitting that we as a nation
give thanks to Almighty God,
who has strengthened us and
given us the victory.
Now, therefore, 1, Harry S.
Truman, president of the
United States of America, do
hereby appoint Sunday, May
13, 1945, to be a day of
prayer.
I call upon the people of
the United States, whatever
their faith, to unite in offer
ing joyful thanks to God for
the victory we have won and
to pray that He will support
us to the end of our present
struggle and guide us into the
way of peace.
I also call upon my country
men to dedicate this day of
prayer to the memory of
those who have given their
lives to make possible our
victory.
In witness whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United
States of America to be af
fixed. Done at the City of Wash
ington this eighth day of May,
In the year of our Lord
Nineteen hundred
and forty-five,
And of the independence
of the United States
of America
the one hundred and
sixty-ninth.
Harry S. Truman
By the president:
Joseph C. Grew
Acting Secretary of State
San Francisco's Eye on Japs
Show No Jubilation on V-E
By R. W. Ruhl
Editor Mail Tribune
San Francisco, May 8. (Spe
cial.) A man from Mars in San
Francisco would never dream
the terrible war has ended with
a complete smashing American
victory. Except for newspaper
extras which presumably a Mar
tian could not read, there are no
evidences of joy or jubilation,
no evidences of anything un
usual, no whistles blown, no
sirens sounded, no stores closed,
with exception of the bars. Busi
ness is going on today as usual
and the early morning fog dense
and cold is as usual also.
This could he explained to the
visitor from Mars very simply,
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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESD AY, M AY 8,
I
FOR CELEBRATION
Military Leaders Predict An
other Year Needed to Beat
Japanse On Mainland,
By United Press
Allied fighting forces in the
Pacific pressed unremitting war
fare against the Japanese today
wun no time out for celebrating
the end of the war in Europe.
Military authorities predicted
that, even with reinforcements
from the European theater, it
would require another year to
beat the Japanese on the main
land. They conceded, however,
that Japan might surrender
sooner.
The "war as usual" brought
new allied blows in the land
campaigns on Okinawa, the
Philippines and Tarakan and an
other B-2B assault on Kyushu s
suicide plane bases.
Nearer Naha
. Marines led a general advance
on southern Okinawa to drive
within a mile of Naha, the capi
tal. Troops of the 77th division
drove near Shuri the island's
second largest city, northeast of
Naha. The 7th infantry division
made small gains down the east
coast above Yonabaru.
Australian and Dutch troops
were poised for a drive into the
rich Paomesian oil fields east of
Tarakan town on Tarakan island
off the east coast of Borneo.
Australian officials announced
that Tarakan town had been cap
tured, but Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's communique said fighting
continued in the northern sec
tion of the city. The communi
que, however, normally reports
action of more than 24 hours pre
vious to issuance.
Kyuthu Bombed
A fleet of about 50 Superfort
resses attacked four airfields on
Kyushu following up yesterday's
assault on which crewmen said
eight hangars at Usa field were
'blasted right off the map.
Radio Tokyo said the big
bombers also attacked the Kochi
district on nearby Shikoku
island. The Domci agency report
ed about 50 Mustang fighters
from Iwo attacked airfields on
Boso peninsula, south of Tokyo
for an hour this morning.
- Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz
disclosed that navy patrol planes
sank or damaged 12 more enemy
ships in that area to bring to a
three-day toll of enemy ships in
that area to at least 52.
FOR ALL BURNING
A. D. McReynolds of the state
forest patrol said today that a
proclamation issued by Govern
or Earl Snell prohibits all burn
ing outside incorporated cities
without a permit and all going
fires must be extinguished. The
order became effective at 1 a. m.,
today, McReynolds said.
The order does not effect camp
fires in national forests, permits
for which are not required un
til July 1, according to McRey
nolds.
The war isn't over for San
Francisco, It Is only half over.
Not only has the first half been
costly In lives and suffering,
with few homes here that do not
mourn those who never will re
turn, but there is a feeling that
as great or even greater sacri
fices may be needed before real
peace can return to the world
and especially the Pacific por
tion of it.
Mayor Lapham expressed the
V-E day spirit here perfectly
when he declared in his official
Victory Proclamation against
any widespread celebration at a
time when there is still a Job to
do against Japan.
When that Job Is done then
i& I MucUcp, will go wild. .
I
BYMJISPEAKER
Marian Martin Says Ameri
cans Should Not Confine
Activity to Election Flurry.
Urging year-round political
activity by American citizens
rather than a flurry of interest
just prior to election-time. Miss
Marian Martin, assistant chair
man of the national Republican
committee, spoke Monday noon
at a meeting of Jackson county
Republican party workers at the
Jpckson Hotel. Sixty-two attend
ed. "We elect people to office and
then we go home, Miss Martin
said. "Instead, we should be in
terested in government 365 days
of the year. We had enough Re
publicans stay home in the last
election to have won it had they
voted. This is a great indictment
of American citizens. I would
rather have had them vote
against us than to stay at home
and not vote at all.
Undo Non-Political
Miss Martin, who had just
come from San Francisco world
security conference, said she be
lieved that the conference would
be successful and added that
there was no party activity, but
that the United States delegates
were presenting a united front
and striving in every way for
harmonious decisions. "The Re
publican party can be' proud "of
the cooperative manner in
which its leadershave aided the
administration in prosecution of
the war effort and supported the
San Francisco conference," she
said.
The speaker urged her listen
ers to "stick up for their ideals"
and said that too many Ameri
cans "don't know the real mean
ing of Americanism." The Rus
sians are being played up as the
villains of the conference
Miss Martin said, but in reality
they merely have in Molotov an
exponent of the newest type of
diplomatic dealing. "He fights
for his points up to the point of
decision, and then if defeated,
he continues to cooperate. We're
afraid of Russian ideas, but' we
need not be. We can give 'aces
and spades' to any communist
and still come out on top."
Plans Outlined
Miss Martin devoted the re
mainder of her talk to the out
lines of the newest national
plans of the Republican party
and said that because the admin
istration has perfected one of
the most powerful propaganda
set-ups in the history of the na
tion, the Republican party had
perfected plans for a publicity
campaign on its policies and be
liefs which would be disseminat
ed throughout the land by means
of a new publication "Republi
can News" and other sources.
Also here for the luncheon
were Mrs. George T. Gerlinger.
Portland, Republican national
commltteewoman; Mrs. John Y.
Richardson, Portland, vice-chairman
of the state central commit
tee; Nlo Allen, Grants Pass,
state committee chairman; Dr.
J. H. Scheetz, Grants Pass, Jose
phine county central committee
chairman; and Ralph Koozer,
Ashland, Jackson county com
mittee chairman. Bertha Coy
Ross, Gold Hill, vice-chairman
of the Jackson county commit
tee, presided.
Miss Martin, Mrs. Gerlinger
and Mrs. Richardson left Mon
day night for Corvallis and
Salem where Miss Martin will
speak today.
Reds Capture Big
Czech Defense Base
London, May 8 (U.R) Mar
shal Stalin announced tonight in
an order of the day that the red
army has captured Olmuetz, big
Czechoslovak defense base.
TODAY'S MAIL TRIBUNE
GOES TO PRESS EARLY
Because all stores were closed
today and in order to give em
ployees a partial holiday in ob
servance of V-E day. the Mail
Tribune went to press at one
olr-k Instead of the uiual lime
ul 3 p. rau .,
1945
New Yorkers
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Tunes Square In New York City Is Jammed solid with cheering thousands In huge demonstration touched off
by premature announcement by Associated Press that Germany had surrendered unconditionally. Tons
uoon tons of ticker paper cucad ed from the mammoth skyscraDen.
MEDFORD QUIET AS
OF V-E DAY COMES
V-E Day. long-awaited by anx
ious valley residents, proved to
be somewhat anti-climactic when
the formal announcement came
this morning. Although deeply
grateful that one phase of the
war has resulted in victory,
calm, matter-of-fact reaction pre
vailed and Medford people in
dulged in none of the frenzied
excitement which marked the
close of the first World War.
Sirens and whistles at 8:15
a.m. sounded the official news
that today was V-E Day. Most
places of business did not open,
banks, the courthouse and other
public offices being exceptions.
Schools were closed, but will re
open tomorrow as usual, Super
intendent E. H. Hcdrick stated.
a special service of prayer
and thanksgiving was scheduled
for 3 p.m. at the Presbyterian
church, having been planned in
advance by the Medford Minis
terial association. The Rev.
Harry W. Hansen, host pastor,
was to convene the service and
speakers were to be Dr. Louis
C. Kirby of the Methodist church
and Milo C. Ross of the Friends
church, the former sneaking on
the place of the church in the
world of tomorrow and the lat
ter on the significance of today's
peace. Special music had been
planned.
Mr. Ross, president of the as
sociation, said ministers would
meet after the service and plan
how local churches would coop-
crate in observance of the day
of prayer set for Sunday by
president Truman.
City police at noon said the
city was quiet, with almost no
one on the streets and that no
excitement was anticipated.
JURY SELECTED
IN WOLF TRIAL
A circuit court Jury, in the
second degree murder trial of
James A. Wolf. 63. charged with
the slaying of Percy H. Ijames at
Gold Hill was completed yestcr-
aay afternoon, and then visited
the scene of the crime at Gold
Hill. Seven women and five men
comprise the Jury,
Circuit Judge Herbert K.
Henna excused the Jury on ac
count of V-E Day, and hearing of
testimony will start tomorrow
morning. The trial Is expected
to last most of this week.
The Jurv aa selected is:
vWct Whittle. Ashland; Ches
ter Wendt, Jacksonville; Glen
Darby, Medford; Edith L. Ja
cobs, Central Point; Glenna
Irish, Medford; Emilia G. Tuttle,
Medford; Rose Singler; Otto
Nicdermeyer, Jacksonville; Rob
ert E. Dodge, Ashland: Helen
Lnsinger, Eagle Point, and Ada
K. Wilson, Medford.
Lyle Thurman, Medford. was
sworn in aa an alternate juror.
Tril jne
United Pf
Hai! Premature Surrender Report
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Conference Marks V-E With
Brief Period of Meditation
San Francisco, May 8 (U.R)
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., today requested
that all activities and functions
of the United Nations conference
on international organization
cease for one minute at 11 a. m
(PWT) , . while all persons , asso
ciated ,ith the conference join
in silent meditation.
'The president of the United
States has announced the end of
hostilities m Europe," Stettinius
said. "Nazi Germany has been
defeated.
"This hour of victory is not a
moment for exultation. It is a
time for renewed dedication to
the cause of peace.
Delegates Thankful
Delegates to the conference
unanimously Joined in express
ing thankfulness for the Eu
ropean victory. But they were
FORM FIRST GOP
UNIT- IN-STATE
Founding of a new organiza
tion for Republican women to be
known as the "Council of Ore
gon Republican Women, Inc.,
with tha first unit In Ashland,
was announced by Mrs. George
T. Gerlinger, Portland, national
commltteewoman for the Repub
lican party from Oregon, In
Medford yesterday to attend a
meeting of Jackson county Re
publican workers.
Mrs. Gerlinger organized the
new. group in Ashland May S.
She stated that it would be a
state-wide organization which
will work In harmony with all
other voluntary Republican
groups and with all elected party
committees. It will supplement
the work of other organizations
she said, and not compete with
them.
Mrs. William Dodge was
named president of the Ashland
unit. Mrs. J. L. Grubb Is vice
president: Mrs. H. C. Gnlcy, sec
retary; Mrs. Bert A. Freeman,
treasurer and Mrs. Arthur M.
Peters, trustee. Mrs. Gerlinger
plans to spend all of next week
In Klamath and Lake counties
organizing units of the council
in those districts.
COUNTY BUDGET GROUP
HOLDS FIRST MEETING
The Jackson county budget
committee, composed of Ben
Harder. Medford. W. W. Robl-
son, Ashland, and Arnoia uon-
nert, Central Point, acting with
the county court, held their
first session today.
All the civilian members have
had previous experience as bud
gcteers, and are expected to fin
ish the Job in at least a week
Public hearings on the buil!ol
will likely be hold about the
nuddi of June,
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equally unanimous In assertions
that tht Japanese still must be
licked and in expressing hope
and faitfi that this conference
will result In an enduring peace.
Clement Attlee, British dep
uty prime minister and leader of
the British labor party, said that
we of the labor movement ,
shall dedicate ourselves to the
great task of helping to build
world where poverty and war
are replaced by peace and
plenty, based on the great con
ceptions of international brother
hood for which our movement
has sacrificed so much." .
Typical comment:
French Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault: "The fight goes
on against the other enemy, Ja
pan ... it is our duty to estab
lish on our devastated earth the
peace promised to men of good
win."
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg,
R., Mich.: . "We paid a terrific
price for an indisputable vic
tory, but it will be worth Its
cost if we now have sense
enough to create a permanent
peace with justice.
Brig. Gen. Carlos Romulo,
Philippine delegate to congress:
"Now we can concentrate on
Tokyo."
National Commander Edward
N. Schelberllng of the American
Legion: "Now that the cannons
roar no longer in Europe, there
will emerge from present ob
scurity many organizations and
individuals who seek a soft
oeace: who would have America
retire again Into the false hell of
isolationism. It is our duty, lor
the sake of future generations,
to warn against this false and
dangerous doctrine."
TO BE DISCUSSED
Representatives of the war
food administration, and the
Oregon State College extension
service will be here this week to
discuss the harvest labor situa
tlon In Jackson county the com
ing summer. County Agent Rob
ert G. Fowler states the county
has requested 1.000 Mexican
nationals for assignment here. A
request for S00 German prison
ers of war has also been filed
to fill the 1000 quota in case the
requested number of Mexican
workers are not sent.
German prisoners of war are
still held at Camp White. Sen.
Cordon of Oregon reported re
cently 20.000 war prisoners
were scheduled to be sent to the
Ninth Corps area. The uncondi
tional surrender of Germany
will alter this picture, in a few
weeks, when the exchange of
prisoners starts.
Radio Highlights
Rome, May 8 (U.R) The Pope
plans to broadcast a message to
the world on the end of the war
in Europe at 3 a.m. PWT tomor
row, 'i
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ALLIED LEADERS,
TOSIGNPAPERS
Cease. Firing Order Already
S o u n d e d But Fighting
Goes on In Some Sectors.
By Virgil PlnklfY
United Press
Staff Correspondent
. Paris, May 8 (U.R) The
bloodiest war In European his
tory will come to its official end
at 12:01 a. m. tomorrow, Euro
pean time, (6:01 p. m., EWT) to
day, with the formal end of hos
tilities on a continent desolated
by more than five years of con
flict.
The agreement formalizing
the unconditional surrender will
be ratified in Berlin today, with
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
chief of the German high com
mand. officially acknowledging
that Germany Is beaten.
Tedder for Allies
Sitting around the table with
Keitel in Berlin will be:
For the western Allies: Air
Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W.
Tedder, deputy supreme com
mander.
For Russia: Marshal Gregory
K. Zhukov,' commander of the
First White Russian army.
For France: Gen. Jean de Lat-
tre de Tasslgny, commander of
the French First army.
To save lives, the cease fire
order already has sounded. But
the fighting went on today in
some small and scattered sectors.
Fanatical Nazis, defying the
High Command's unconditional
surrender, held out in some parts
of Czechoslovakia, In French At
lantic ports, the Channel Islands,
and some pin-points in the
Aegean.
Still Fight Reds
And on the Russian front re
sistance continued In some con
siderable strength" But Prime
Minister Churchill warned In
London that if the Nazis held out
after .the 12:01 a. m. deadline,
they would become outlaws un
der the rules of war, and would
be attacked from all sides by the
Allies.
The German "peace" govern
ment of Grand Admiral Karl
Doenitz, successor of Adolf Hit
ler, was carrying on a semblance
of official functions at Flensburg
on the Danish frontier.
Doenitz offered today In
Flensburg broadcast to continue
the leadership of the German
government ourlng tne Allied
occupation of the Reich.
Relchmarshal Hermann Goer
Ing, ousted In the last days of
organized resistance from the
command of the German Air
Force, was believed to be with
the Doenitz government. So was
Heinrlch Hlmmler, Gestapo
Chief and Interior minister.
Signed Yesterday
Churchill said the uncondition
al surrender of Germany was
signed at 2:41 a. m., yesterday at
Reims.
Doenitz and General Jodl, rep
resenting the German High Com
mand, signed for Germany. Lt.
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Eisen
hower's Chief of. Starr, ana ura.
Francois Sever signed for the
western Allies, and uen. ivan
Susloparov for Russia.
Even in the hour, or aiucu
(rliimnh In Europe, Churchill
turned sober attention to the war
against Japan. He warned that
Japan, "with all her treachery
and greed, remains unsubdued.
. We must now conceniraie an
forces for the task ahead."
The Allied Proclamation oi
viMnrv in Eurooe was mane
simultaneously In London, Wash
Ington and Paris. No word came
Immediately from Moscow. It
appeared that the Russians might
be waiting umu tnuKov n
signed the surrender document
In Berlin later today.
Soldiers Stay On
Job At Camp White
All military personnel at
ram. White are restricted to
limits of the camp today, accord
ing to a report. Men are staying
on the Job at the camp and there
is no formal celebration planned.
GniHinra uiu ha nermittcd to ob
serve V-E day on the post but
will not be allowed to leave xne
grounds, the report said. '
Stocks Continue
Recent Advance
New York, May 8 (U.R)
Stocks resumed their recently
Interrupted advance in the late
morning dealings today after a
brief unscttlement in the early
trading.
Business on the exchange was
orderly and except for a two
minute pause for silent prayer
at the opening there was no indi
cation of any celebration for the
end oi the war in Europe.