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MM LfU WWti ! run Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy with an occailonal ihower tonight and Frldir, Ltttle change In temperature. Temp. Htgneit Yesterdar Lowest this Morning 44 Prr. T 8 a. in., today .of Fortieth Year Tokyo . ENEMY DEFENSES IL EXCEPTAT SHUR Marines Mass To Exploit Naha Bridgehead Ad vance In South. Guam, Friday. May 25 (U.PJ Th. Japanese reported today a fleet of American transports and a "new" carrier task force have arrived off Okinawa to reinforce 10th army troops locked in biasing battle for th. fortress city of Shuri. Tokyo said without allied con firmation that a total of "mora than 400" vessels have been amassed off th. wsst-central coast of Okinawa under protec- tion of a "new" task fore, built around six aircraft carriers. The fleet, Tokyo said, has been augmented by 50 transports and U. S. forces "are frantically at tempting to land equipment and supplies." American warships are "continuously bombarding" Japanese positions, th. enemy report said. (Several days ago Tokyo re ported an American naval force steamed out of the Marianas to ward an unknown destination.) Guam, Friday, May 25 (U.R) Tenth army troops, In furious fighting, assaulted th. fortifica tions of besieged Shuri today and advanced southward along the east and west coastlines of Okinawa in powerful drives that turned both flanks of the Japa nese line. Th enemy's Naha-to-Yona- baru defense system which has held off American forces 55 days showed signs of crumbling ex cept at Shuri, core of desperate Japanese resistance. Shuri was threatened with im minent encirclement. Front re ports indicated 6th division ma rines have massed for a full-scale drive into shattered Naha to ex ploit a bridgehead deep inside the city. Dispatches said marines of the first division and infantrymen of the 77th and 96th divisions moved forward with raw cour age in a frontal attack against the interlacing Japanese block houses, pillboxes and caves out side Shuri. The assault troops, supported by artillery, were met with vio lent blasts of machine gun and rifle fire from entrenched Japa nese, who sporadically emerged from their defense positions to counter-attack the Yanks. Fighting swirled among an cient tombs dotting the Shuri ridges. While the battle raged on three sides of Shuri, the 6th ma rine division sent a column knif ing southeast toward the rear ap proaches to the city. This drive was aimed at completing the iso lation of Shuri and cutting off retreat for the main Japanese garrison. Resistance south of Yonabaru, where Ma). Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's 7th division was advan cing along the coast and inland behind Shuri, Was described here as "relatively weak" compared with the stout defense of Shuri. Late reports received at Guam indicated the 7th has "improved its position" south of Yonabaru. U. S. CASUALTIES 10 Washington. May 24 UP Officially reported V. S. mmnst rasualties edeged close to 1.000. 000 todav with losses in all the atres totaling 996.089. The new total was 9.875 more than a week ago the smallest seven-day gain in many months. The overall total Included 886.525 army and 109.564 navy, marine corps and coast guard casualties. The army figure re flects actual fighting through the greater part of April, before the German luriendcr. Medford United Press Reports U.S. Reinforcements Off Okinawa Hero Sights Girl (Acmm Telephoto) TSgt Jake W. Llndsey, Lucedale, Miss., Congressional Medal of Honor winner, meets bis girl, Beverly Hargreaves, Boston, Mass. at Washington National Airport After their embrace (left) large patch of lipstick (right) shows Just under the sergeant's lips result of a near miss. Lucedale. Miss.. Hay 24. (U.R) turned out 800 strong today to welcome home Jake Lindsey, who brought with him his girl from the north and a Congressional Medal of Honor. Sleepy and tired after their Washington and a night plane trip from the capital to Mobile, Ala., the soldier and his best girl, Beverly Hargreaves, begged off from further interviews. FOR BARBARITIES Idndnn Mnv 84 jfll.R) Re liable souces said today that Aus tralia has demanded the indict ment and execution of Emperor mromto of janan as ine neaa oi a state responsible for "system atic barbarities. An unofficial Chinese sookes- man Indicated China would sup port the demand before the United Nations War Crimes com mission. The attitude of the United States haa not been revealed. Reports have been received in London that some state depart ment advisers believed Hirohito should be snared and resnonsi- bility for the war placed solely upon Japanese military ana eco nomic leaders. The Australian demand was attached to an authenticated re port of Japanese atrocities in New Guinea which has Just been submitted to the War Crimes commission. When the report first reached Canberra last year, Australian Pnroion Minister Herbert Evatt said it was "too horrible" for publication. It contains a list of atrocities ranging from cannl-i-niicm in lesser forms of mal treatment of natives and of Aus tralian and American war pris oners. Correspondents covering the New Guinea campaign confirm ed Instances of Japanese aviat ors flying over Billed fields and dropping ,hy parachute -limbs which mocking notes Identified as those of captured airmen. KNOWN IN STATE Portland, May 24 UR) Tom Clark nf Tpa. President Truman's new appointee as at torney general, is no sirangtr the Pacific coast. After war was declared in the Pac cific. Clark was chosen cnici faff nt m civilian orsaniza- of tion to help the army evacuate enemy aliens from the west coast. He worked in close co operation with FBI, state and local officials of all three Pad- ; coast states in this activity. r!nrk a-nrk e a ffovernment prosecutor brought him to Port ion! in loin in mnrliirt a aeries of anti-trust investigations t:UJdh WA M.a vaMaa. Full Leased Wlr. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY Kisses Same This southern town of 800 i hectic days of hero worship In IF WAR I DEBTS TO U.S. EVER PAID Washington, May 24 (U.R) The United States will never re ceive the $11,000,000,000 in World War I. debts owed by European nations. Assistant Sec retary of State William L. Clay ton said today.' Clayton testified before the Senate Finance committee which is considering a bill to repeal the Johnson act. - The act pro hibits private loans to govern ments which have failed to pay their debts from World War I. He favored repeal of the John son act so that foreign countries could get loans for reconstruc tion. He said our welfare de pends on their getting back on their feet as soon as possible. "My Judgment is that the debts cannot and will not be paid," Clayton said. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., suggested that all First World War debts be cancelled, but Sen. Hiram W. Johnson, R., Cal., author of the Johnson act, objected to signing off "a fabul ous sum" with one stroke of the pen. MARSHALL FIELD Denver. Colo., May 24. U.R) Marshall Field, publisher of the New York PM and the Chi cago Sun, asserted today that congress has failed so far in planning for the transition from a wartime economy to peacetime conditions. Field warned that the transi tion period could be "very diffi cult" unless congress makes plans for it. He said that plan ning was needed if the nation Is to avoid a repetition of seeing its people "Set down and out. Bond Buyers Riot For Bob Hope Show Kansas City. Mo., May 24 (U.R) Screaming threats to "break in anyway." 6,000 to 7 000 angry citizens today milled through the lobby of the municipal audi torium after an early-morning distribution of tickets to a Bob Hope show here June 3 left them minus ducats but holding war bond purchase orders for them. Three calls for police protection wrre broadcast before the mob was brought under coultuL, ill H FLY FOR SPEECH, NORTHWEST TRIP Witness Charter Signing, and Broadcast Brief Talk; On Brief Jaunt. Olympia. Wash,. May 24 U.R Gov. Mon C. Wallgren an nounced today that President Harry S. Truman has agreed to spend a "day or two" in the Pacific northwest following his address before the final plenary session of the San Francisco con ference. Washington, May 24 (U.R) White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced to day that President Truman will fly to the west coast for his ap pearance for the final plenary session of the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Ross said Mr. Truman will ar rive in San Francisco only a few hours before the speech which he will deliver in the San Fran cisco Opera House witnessing the signing of the world security charter. , Ross said that en route back to Washington the President might make a side trip, but the plant for this had not been com pleted. . This side trip, he said, probab ly would be to the Pacific north west. Ross said he foresaw the possibility of some announce ment on this soon from Olym pia, Wash. Ross said Mr. Truman's ad dress would take about 15 min utes and would be broadcast over world-wide radio facilities, Tentative plans call for the Pres ident to attend a reception for the delegates immediately after the plenary session and then leave San Francisco within a few hours. Ross said that even if the side trip to the northwest is arranged definitely, the entire trip will keep the President, away from Washington much less than a week. No member of the Tru man family will make the trip. The President is considering the brief visit to the northwest for purposes of a rest "and noth ing else," Ross said. GEORGIANS HAIL E Atlatrla, Ga., May 24. (U.R) Hundreds of thousands of Geor gians in the wildest reception here in a decade, today greeted with 17-gun salutes their con quering hero, Gen, Courtney H. Hodges, commander of the U. S. 1st army. The big C-54 transport bearing the famed commander set down at the army air base adjoining the municipal airport at 1:06 p.m. CWT. Two other transports bearing 49 other decorated heroes In the victory in Europe, landed a few minutes later. Hodges stepped from the first plane to be greeted by the wel coming committee and set in motion the nation's first big tribute to the men who brought victory in Europe. EARLY REPLY TO ' TITO PROPOSAL Rome. May 24 'UP The al lies were expected today to an swer soon Marshal Tito's propos als for working out the Trieste problem. One of the difficulties was said to be Tito's desire to leave Yugo slav personnel in 'key posts in the disputed Italian province of Venezla Giulla. It was believed the allies would demand that the only Tito men left behind be na tives of lb. diilricW 24, 194 N PLANES ATTACK "SUICIDE" Tokyo Waterfront Ablaze After Raid Palace Grounds Blasted. Guam, May 24. (U.R) Some 180 American carrier planes at tacked suicide-plane bases in southern Japan today, enemy broadcast said, while miles of Tokyo's industrial waterfront still blazed from a record pre dawn superfortress raid. Radio Tokyo said the carrier planes began their attacks on bases on Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home islands, at 3 p. m. Japanese time. They caused "relatively light" dam age, Tokyo said. Carrier planes and superfort resses have struck repeatedly in the past month at the Kyushu airfields, from which suicide planes take off to attack Amer ican shipping off Okinawa. More than 550 superfortresses kindled fires in southern Tokyo visible 200 miles away early to day. Approximately 4 500 tons of fire bombs were dropped in the greatest incendiary attack ever made. ' A Japanese communique said some fires still were burning at a. m. Japanese time, mora than five and a half hours after the start of the raid. It said an arbor in the Im perial garden was attacked and an "establishment" within the grounds of the Akasaka detach ed palace, used to house visiting royalty, had been destroyed. Other Tokyo broadcasts said the Singaku Temple of the Ron ins, "symbol of Japanese chlv. airy," was destroyed. Some bombs fell In Yokohama and rvawasakl as well as in Tokyo, the broadcasts said. The Japanese -claimed 27 superfortresses had been shot aown ana so others damaged. PLEA OF NORWAY IN CHARTER LOST San Francisco, May 24 (U.R) Norway's ntlemnt to i,u. in the new world charter an "anti- appeasement" amendment has been defeated, it was revealed todav. The United States, Great Brit ain, Mexico and the Ukraine Were the lpaHinff mnlraim.n against It, contending that the sense or the Norwegian amend ment was Implicit In the pur pose and principles of the or ganization. Czechoslovakia, her self a victim of appeasement In ip.in. supported tne Norwegians. The amendment wntiM have wrilten Into the World Organiza tion charter being drafted here a specific statement that the organization should nnt Imnnse any solution of a dispute on a state that would Impair that state's "confidence In its future security or welfare." ine Norwegians argued that it was nereasarv in nnttin t-ulns cf future conduct because It Would he Imnnssthli. in tell whn would be the aggressors of the future, sir Alexander Cadogan. the British delegate, and Sen. Tnm Connally, D., Tex., nf the IT S. rirlrffatinn nMeftnH strenu ously nnt lo the principle but to u-rittntf in uvhat thav rnnlitnH- ed was implicit. Potential law- Dresners cannot be nanmed py such an amendment, Cadogan contended. BASEBALL AMERICAN Chicago ..... 3 12 4 New York 6 110 Grove. Johnson, Papish and Itab, Duaaid ild Cjomptou. Tribune United Pratt BULLETIN Dublin, May 24. (U.R) Charles A. Lindbergh was ex pected to arrive at Foynes after a transAtlantlc- flight today. He was reported to be touring Eur ope on an aviation assignment on behalf of the U. S. army and navy.y London, May 24 (U.R) Allied troops occupied parts of Austria today as "conquerors" by order of Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander. The texts of proclamations disclosed Alexander told his troops to enter as "victors Inas much as Austria waged war as an integral part of Germany." Chicago, May 24 (U.R) New trouble flared today as most of Chicago's 6,500 Independent union truck drivers returned to work after a week-long strike. Drivers for the Keeshin Moter Express refused to return to work when told they would have to sign new application cards. Some 85 drivers began to picket the company's garage Later they were joined by 110 dockmen who quit work in sym pathy. TRUMAN LEANS TD FOR GOVERNMENT Washington, May 24.U.R) President Truman moving vig orously to remake tha adminis tration Inherited on April 12,, asked congress today for perma nent authority to make the exec utive branch more businesslike and efficient." He asked for legislation so flexible that it would permit the chief executive to undertake "any form of organization ad justment, large or small, for which necessity may arise," ' The president's request, couch ed in a special message to con gress, followed by less than 12 hours announcement of new cab inet changes which some observ ers believed were the prelude to a general shakeup. Mr. Truman's message was general in nature, but it recalled reports heard here this week that he is well disposed toward th. idea of setting up a "general business manager" for the gov ernment. Th. legislation he is request ing would make it possible for him to do so. It also would give him broad powers to make virtu ally any other innovations in the Interests of efficiency. The proposed business man ager would not be primarily a policy-making officer; instead he would guard against duplication of effort and expense, making recommendations to the presi dent. DISTILLERS CAN OPERATE IN JULY Washington, May 24. (U.R) Production Chief J. A. Krug to day authorized American distil lers to make beverage alcohol during July. He said the month-long holi day for distillers the third since the war started was made possible in part by suspension of lend-lease shipments of Indus trial alcohol to Soviet Russia. At the same time, Krug re voked an order against the blending or processing In this country of imported can spirits processed after May 8. NAZI REVENGE London, May 24. (U.R) The Stars and Stripes reported under a Hannover dateline today aide light on the arm rule against fraternization. Every day, it said a frauleln with the right curves at the right places walks past a military policeman of the 35th division, gestures at the more prominent of the curves, and mockingly ex- damn. "Vcrbutca. - -, Full Leased Wtit NO. 64. PASSENGER AUTO PRODUCTION DUE SOON AFTER JULY 1 Krug Gives Go Ahead as Soon as Material Can Be Delivered. Washington. May 24. U.R) War Production Chief J. A. Krug today authorized the automobile industry to start turning out pas senger cars as soon after July 1 as individual manufacturers can get their assembly lines going. Krug said indications are that the industry should be able to produce about 2,000,000 new cars by July, 1946. He gave th. industry specific authorization to make about 200,000 civilian vehicles during the last six months of 1945 if it can obtain the necessary mater ials. This will enable auto manu facturers to order their produc tion materials Immediately, with deliveries of these materials to start after July 1. "The exact date on which Indi vidual auto manufacturers will begin production after July 1 will depend on their particular situations such as the extent of their tooling up, availability of facilities and materials, et cetera," the WPB chairman said. His announcement was accom panied by a warning to the pub lic that the office of price ad ministration Intends to ration these new cars until essential motorists needs can be met. WPB will assign Individual production quotas to each manu facturer, and provision has been mad. to allow newcomers to make cars In the event any manufacturers want to enter the automotive field. The decision to set th. auto mobile industry ready to resume production as quickly as possible was made in Detroit last April 8, Krug disclosed. He said manu facturers will have to find what ever materials thev need on th. free market, without priority as- aiauincc irom Wl-'H, CHURCHILL EYES London. May 24 (U.R) Prime Minister Churchill sat up most of last night selecting his new cabinet, but political observers believed he would not make any sensational changes. One appointment rumored In Whitehall circles was that Churchill would name his son. Major Randolph Churchill, to succeed Major Arthur Hender son as financial secretary to the War office. Major Churchill re turned from the Middle East last week. Churchill was expected to name a number of young mem bers of parliament, who have not held office previously, io Junior posts vacated by mem bers of the dissenting Labor party. The aim would be to give new blood to the cabinet and cabinet experience to the new blood. T Contracls for th. removal of the four residences on the new city park site on East Main street were approved by the city coun cil at their meeting Tuesday night, Frank Rogers, city super intendent said today. Approval was given contracts to W. W. Coleman to remove 501 and 511; C. P. Ortwick. to remove 517, and J. M. Baker to remove 523. Removal must take place within the next 60 days, U.a luycjmtuitlait Midi .a FEARED GESTAPO CYANIDNN CELL Captured By British, No. 1 War Criminal, Boasts His Identity. London, May 24. U.R) Heln rich Himmler, number on. Nazi war criminal, killed himself in a British military prison at Luneburg last night, boasting that he was the dreaded hang man hunted for more than two weeks by three allied armies. The hunted Gestapo chief had been captured by British second army troops who apparently were unaware of the Identity of their prisoner. The dispatch said he swallowed a dose of cyanide of potassium and died shortly after 11 o'clock last night. Captured last Monday by two British Tommies guarding bridge at Bremervoerde the for mer gestapo chief at first tried to conceal his identity. His fa miliar toothbrush mustache had been shaved off, a black patch covered one eye and his rimless spectacles had been replaced by thick horn-rimmed glasses. Brought before high-ranking allied intelligence officers a few hours later, however, Himmler threw off the mask. "I am Heinrich Himmler," ha announced dramatically. Himmler was placed in a tem porary detention cell at British headquarters in Luneburg to await further questioning. First accounts from Luneburg, subsequently confirmed by Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's Paris headquarters, said th. gestapo chief concealed a phial of syan lde of potassium in his mouth throughout the questioning and a routine search by his captors. Late last night h. was taken before British army doctors for a routine medical examination and it was then that he swal lowed . th. " poison, apparently fearful it would b. discovered and taken from him. Himmler's suicide left Joach im von Ribbentrop, former Ger man foreign minister th. last of the Nazi overlords still aliv. and uncaptured. Adolf Hitler, Propaganda Min Ister Joseph Goebbels, and Nazi Party Chieftain Martin Bormann all were reported seml-officlally to have died in Berlin in th. final hours of th. ' red army siege. Hermann Goerlng was cap tured last week by American troops and now is understood to be in Britain awaiting trial by a United Nations tribunal. 44,ooPetTrans New York, May 24. (U.R) Mora than 7.000 armv wounded. former war prisoners and rota tional troops from Europe ar rived at the New York nnrl nf embarkation todav aboard five ships. Washington, May 24. (U.R) Acting Secretary of War Rnhert P. Patterson said today that sick ana wounded American service men now are being brought home from all war thnatera at a rate of 44 000 a month. All sick and wounded will b. evacuated from the Eurnnean and Mediterranean theaters with In the next 00 days, he told press conference. San Francisco, May 24 (U.R) A. J. Gock, chairman of th. board of the Bank of America, today promised Henry J. Kaiser that his bank and others In th nation would raise $60,000,000 with RFC underwriting to com plete the purchase of th. west ern industrialist'! Fontena steel mill. Seventh Wir Loan Drive "E" Sales to Date 1189,501 Quota 11.067.000 Total Sales to Dat. $553,357 Quota $2,087,000 BANK OF AMERICA TO BACK KAISER
