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Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy. Scattered ihowen for Sunday, little cb&nf In tern- IIm The Mall Tribuae Want Ad Way Quick Remits At Small Coit Tribune pwaiuxs. j Highest Yesterday Lowest this Morning . Unltid Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 194 NO. 56. f' Temp. 11 a mm n i ft . m- m m . XtY. v rr ai trii r; 7 j scwu r 1 1 ?v " IV II HMII' 1 III I IXiSraM SKflCi To . a. a., tod.y J I Inch... 1 W II 11 M B JL JL V-Oaf ffiffiMJUr' A-SSSyffiffl I i United Prese full Leased Wire . ' . . "VX lira mmm m wis MIKADO'S PALACE AND ENTIRE CITY GUTTEDBY FIRE Stolen Empire Near Collapse War Closes In Upon Home Island. (By United Pieu) Japan's tapital of Tokyo and Emperor Hirohito's imperial pal ace were in ruins Saturday, burned and gutted by flames spread by a great B-29 fire raid, as her stolen empire neared col lapse and full allied power against the homeland. Flames -started by bombs dropped from 500 Superforts roared through the city and en gulfed the palace area, Premier Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki said. The raid, which Suzuki said left Japan with "no pre sent hope for mere restoration" of the city, cost a record num ber of 19 B2-29's and about 209 American airmen. Tokyo announced the devasta tion of the world's third largest metropolis while her troops in south China fell back on de fenses nearer home and Amer icans on Okinawa pressed relent lessly toward a climax to the battle an that doorstep island to Japan. Allied air power battered the enemy from the Indies to the homeland. Army Thunderbolts hit airdromes on southern Kyushu,,., Aircraft to the south sank or damaged 33 ships in strikes from Shanghai to the Indies. U. S. planes blasted the hastily retreating Japanese throughout central China. . Japan, hard-hit and facing much harder blows, "is still able to wage a long war," Foreign Economic Administrator Cleo T. Crowley warned. Doolittle Returns But as the war closed in on the Japanese home islands, it was announced that Lt. Gen.' James H. Doolittle, who led the first Tokyo raid more than three years ago, will return to the Pacific to lead the U. S. Eighth Air force in the final of fensive against Japan. The Eighth Air force will be moved from Europe to join the Pacific war. Some units are al ready on the move. Japan could realize the fate In store for her. Tokyo was a symbol of the things to come in the aerial offensive that will climb to a tempo greater than that ever reached against for tress Europe. The cost to the U. S. in the two devastating fire raids this week was 31 Superforts. Pour ing 9,000 tons of bombs into Tokyo cost $18,600,000 in value and about 350 men. To Japan, by its own claim, the cost was the loss of its greatest city. No official confirmation has been given by the 21st Bomber command that the destruction in Tokyo was as great as the enemy reported. Tokyo said the city was "lit erally scorched to the ground." The greater part of the city was "laid in waste" and roaring fires "wrought havoc on the spraw ling, congested business districts and residential sections," enemy broadcasts said. Still Potent Crowley, in a summary of Japan's capacity to fight on, told the United States that her eco nomic and industrial power is far from knocked out. Much of her great war plant is still in tact. She still has an operat ing and well-stocked industrial core which can support hei war effort indefinitely even though she is now cut off from most of her stolen empire, he said. Army officials, however, pro mised that in the coming year more than 2i times as many tons of bombs will hit Japan as were dropped in Europe last year. NO PAPER WEDNESDAY Following a long-established custom the Mail Tribune will not publish on Wednesday. Memorial day in order to per mit employes to have a well- First 4-Star General 1 m 4- x ' , it A Gen. Courtney H. Rodges, commander first four-star general to return from answers auestlon far reoorters st SPURS HOUSE TO PASS TARIFF ACT Washington, May 26 (U.R) The House needed a last-minute personal appeal from President Truman tonight and passed the administration's reciprocal trade bill after a bitter, partisan fight. After debating the measure four days and rejecting a series of restrictive amendments, the House approved by a vote of 239 to 153 and sent it to the Senate where it faces an even tougher battle. The vote was a victory for Mr. Truman on his first big legisla tive test. It also represented the first broad congressional en dorsement of a major adminis tration foreign policy plank. The bill would extend the 11-year-old reciprocal trade law for three years and authorize the negotiation of agreements cut ting tariff , rates a maximum of 50 per cent in exchange for con cessions by foreign countries on American exports. The law now allows cuts 50 per cent below rates set in 1930. With administration forces showing signs of worry and Re publicans almost unanimously opposed to the provision broad ening the power to cut tariff rates, Mr. Truman personally stepped into the fight today by advising the House that he con sidered the bill of "first import ance" to the success of his ad ministration. He said power to make furth er tariff reductions was essential but pledged that lt would not be used to sacrifice any segment of American agriculture, indus try or labor. 5 NEW RED, BLUE Washington, May 26 (U.R) Office of Price administration will make good on June 1 five new blue stamps and five new red stamps worth 10 points eacn. They will be valid through Sunday, Sept. 30. The five new blue stamps will be Dl, El, Fl, Gl and HI. The red stamps will be V2, W2, X2, Y2 and Z2. Five blue stamps and six red stamps will cease to be valid after Saturday, June 2. The Diue stamps are H2. J2. K2. L2 and M2. The red stamps are xd, AZ, BZ, C2 and D2. Sugar stamp 36, however, will remain valid for five pounds inrougn rnaay, Aug. 31. BLAST KILLS FIVE Grand Island. Nph Mav in (U.R) A terrific explosion which tossea a cement building block approximately 100 yards killed five persons, lnlured four nthn and destroyed a new bomb and shell loading building at the Cornhusker Ordnance plant to- Home From Europe ? Mcme Itlcpliolol of famous U. 8. First Army and Europe since defeat of Germany, New York Dress conference. WAR BULLETINS Manila, May 26 (U.R) A Ion American patrol plan de stroyed 20 Japanese freight ers in a daring solo raid on the south Boreno port of Band jermsiin, a communique re vealed today. London. May 26 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower opened new headquarters to day at Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany, where he will act as supreme allied commander as well as chief American rep resentative of the allied group controlling ' the Reich,' the Ministry of Information an. nounced. CLUE TO MISSING London, May 26 (U.R) Amer ican troops have captured a Ger man official who may provide a lead to the whereabouts of Joachim von Ribbentrop, last member of the Nazi hierarchy still at large, dispatches from Italy disclosed today. He is Karl Frederick Griesen berg, alias Dr. Gibbs, the chief administrator for all confiscated estate In Poland. Gricsenberg was taken by U. S. 85th Infantry division troops on Friday near Brunico in northern Italy. Griescnberg was dressed In civilian clothes and was carry ing a calling card reading "Joa chim von Ribbentrop, reichmin Istcr for foreign affairs." Dlt patches said that conceivably that might eventually prove a lead to Ribbentrop's present whereabouts. A Dispatch from Zcll Am See, Austria, said that Philipp Bouh- ler, director of Hitler's chan cellery and since 1033 reichs lcader of the Nazy party, had been arrested by military gov ernment agents attached to the 101st airborne division. Bon ti ler and his wife fled Berlin for Bcrchtesgadcn on April 21 and stayed with Hermann Goering. Steiwer Hill Road Bids Open Tuesday Salem. Ore., May 26 (U.R) The State Highway Commission will open bids Tuesday in Port land on one of the largest road improvement jobs to be let by tnis state in recent years. The Job involves grading and paving of 10 milps of the Steiwer Hill-Albany section of the east side Pacific Highway in Marion and Linn counties. SEEK SOLDIER Information wanted regarding Harry L. Porter, G. M. 2c, on leave in this city. Important message for him at USO, Phone 7131. HOLLYWOOD RIFT Hollywood, May 26 (U.R) Mrs. Eleanor Hempstead today sued Movie Producer David Hempstead, who made Actress Ginger Rogers' latest films, for divorce, charging extreme cruel ty TANK LED YANKS AS ENEMY FLEES Torrential Rain Slows Drive; Jap Plane Loss 155; New Line Seen. Okinawa, Sunday, May 27 (U.R) Heavy rains sent the Swol len Asato river in Naha over its banks yesterday and washed out three of four U. S. bridges into the city proper and turned the entire battlefront into a quag mire which slowed advances in every sector except the east coast. More than three inches of rain were recorded from midnight until 4 p. m. Saturday. Guam, Sunday, May 27 (U.R) U. S. Marines and Doughboys, spearheaded by large numbers of tanks streaming across the Asato river, drove to within 800 yards of Naha harbor today as Japan ese remnants fled from the wrecked Okinawa capital city. Marine fighters battling to ward the harbor said that the Japanese are moving in consid erable strength to the east and northeast, indicating that they might be deserting the capital for other defense positions off Shuri, already threantened by other American troops. The enemy movements are stemming from a point southeast of Naha, . dispatches said, cov ered by heavy artillery fire from the south bank of Naha uove just north of Omlne airstrip. Marines of the 6th Division inside Naha advanced 500 yards through the capital's rubble, en larging their grip on Naha to one sixth of the city. The tanks helping the drive were brought across the Asato on two heavy bridees recently completed, in addition to two lighter foot bridges. The tanks added new impetus to the drive to clear the city. Dispatches said the troops have been bogged down Dy muaay terrain saturated by two days of pouring rain. The rain was said to have hampered operations more than the moderate machine nun. mortar and sniper fire of fered by the enemy in defense of their capital. Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Ar nold's 7th Division also was stalled In the mud south of Yona- baru after cracking the enemy s eastern line yesterday. The 7th's 184th regiment killed 140 Jap anese in mopping up operations. Weather also bogged the tnree way drive on Shuri, although mnrlnns of the 5th regiment sealed a'.t 20 gun emplacements against enemy fire that has slackened to moderate intensity. El BADE Wochinclnn. Mav 26 (U.R) ThA Annmv'a wnrst WBS flOt good enough to sink the Liberty ships John M. Clinton ana jubh uc Pnr-o hn War Shinning admin istration disclosed tonight. Both vessels, damaged ana sei nfirn hv .Tnnflnntp bombs off Min- doro in the Philippines, have returned to port ana win in completely overhauled. State Police Nab 729 Auto Violators Salem. Ore.. May 28 (U.R) A total of 729 arrests were made by the Oregon state police for violations of the Motor Vehicle laws during April, monthly re ports showed today. A total of $13,280 In fines was collected, and $3,477 warnings issued. General law enforce ment cases totaled 315 arrests and game code violations 181 FAMILY REUNION Albuquerque, N. M., May 26 (U.R) A pretty, young mother Mrs. Otis Embrry burst into tears and ran from the court room today when District Judge Henry G. Coors acquitted her and her husband on charges of abandoning their two-year-old daughter. The Embreys, profes sional singers of western songs were reunited immediately with then Unld QUISLING'S TRIAL AS BETRAYER OF Nazi Puppet No Longer Tough, Admits Talks With Hitler. Oslo, May 26 (U.R) Vidkin Quisling, a weak-voiced, blink ing man whose name became a symbol for treachery, appeared in the prisoner's dock of an Oslo court today and was charged formally with deliver ing Norway into the hands of the enemy. Norwegian machine gunners stood guard in the courtroom as the man who once was Nor way's Nazi premier was led in. Catcalls and whistles greeted him. He chewed his lips and fumbled with his coat, and then his face settled into a dull, heavy mask. Only his blinking eyes betrayed emotion. Judge Gunnar Gulbrandsen's first act indicated that Norway will give its No. 1 traitor a fair trial. He asked Quisling wheth er he wanted an attorney and when he mumbled, "I don't know," the judge appointed Hen rik Bergh. Bergh rose from the crowd, walked forward and shook Quisling s hand without a smile. Gulbrandsen began . reading the charges immediately after the appointment of Bergh. Quis ling stood expressionless during the reading. - - "I never did anything against Norway," he said bleakly when the Judge finished. ' Under questioning by the dis trict attorney, Quisling denied he collaborated with the Ger mans before the invasion in 1940, but admitted being in Berlin when the Germans invaded Poland and having talked with Hitler. He said he told Hitler Norway wanted only to be neu tral. Quisling was extremely polite in his answers and showed no trace of his bull-throated vio lence when he was top man in Norway. He tried constantly, however, to inject a political discussion into the hearing. Each time, the judge interrupted him. reminding Quisling that the is sue was not political. VETS TO PACIFIC Paris, May 26 (U.R) Su preme Allied Headquarters an nounced today that doughboys who fought in the European theater of operations and had been "in actual combat" in Sic ily, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy would not be sent to the Pacific unless they volunteered for duty. The previous announcement from Shaef had stated that sol diers who fought in both north Africa and Europe would be in eligible for reassignment to the Pacific and today's proclamation made it clear that the phrase north Africa" Included the step ping stone islands of Sicily, Cor sica and Sardinia, or the entire north African theater of opera tions. MRS. CANTENBEIN PASSES Portland, Ore., May 26 U.R) Mrs. Helen Louise P. Ganten bcln, 69, longtime civic and so cial worker, died in a Portland hospital. Mrs. Gantcnbcin was the daughter of the late Henry L. Pittox, pioneer Portland news paper publisher, and the wife of J. Edward Gantenbeln. CHARGE DENIED McMinnville, Ore., May 26 (U.R) Phillip John Warren, 345 pound Grande Rnndc Indian, pleaded Innocent today when ar raigned In Yamhill circuit court on a second degree murder charge. PRISON FOR VETERAN Abuq'ierque, N. M., May 26 (UP.) Billy Manion, 21, World War II veteran who escaped from Bernalillo county jail May 10. was sentenced today from 18 months to three years in the IjUU BOUtenUaiy. Jewish Major Captures Streicher lAcmt J ;iiulo. Julius Streicher (left), most fanatical of Nasi killers and author of In famous Nurnberg racial laws against Jews, was captured in fine piece ol poetic Justio by Maj. Henry Q. Plltt (right), New York City, Jewish of ficer of 101st Airborne Division. L BY JAPS, CLAUD Chungking, May 26 (U.R) Japanese forces are withdrawing hastily from Canton and Hong Kong to avoid entrapment in south China by a powerful Chi nese drive that has collapsed the west wall of the enemy's trans continental corridor in Hunan province, reliable reports said today. Chinese troops, assaulting the 160-mile wide Japanese corridor along the Canton-Hankow rail road, captured the bitterly-contested city of Taohwaplng, 22 miles west of Paoking, after it had changed hands five times in two days of fighting. The Japanese collapse opened the way for a powerful Chinese drive oh Paoking, major enemy base guarding the Canton-Hankow railroad only 60 miles to the east in the area of Hengyang. Front dispatches said the en emy has rushed one brigade to Paoking to hold the Chinese drive and that another division, reportedly from Hankow, has been hurried to Changsha and Hengyang to hold open the rail route for the evacuation of troops from the south. ,16, KILLING CHINESE San Francisco, May 26 (U.R) Touslc-haired George Jabcr, a 16-year-old lad who admits he has been "living in the wrong en vironment" was being held In jail today after confessing to po lice the year-old flatiron murder of a San : Francisco Chinese laundry man. The boy, son of a socially prominent Arab family, said that he had killed Lee Yl wing dur ing an argument about women a year ago, but had almost for gotten" the crime. Jaber said that he killed Wing when the latter came at him with a claw hammer after the boy's refusal to Introduce him to a white woman. Snow Still Blocks M'Kenzie Pass Road Salem, Ore., May 26 U.R) The McKcnzio Pass may remain closed to traffic for quite a while yet, state nignway engineer n II Hnlrinrk said tndav. Iniruwlnrt rnnnrt the mnw packed to a depth of three feet cast of the summit, ana is acep a,, atlll npiir (ho summit. No re. port, has been received on the west slope, but it is known that heavy snow has fallen In the area during the past several weeks. NO HOLIDAY Seattle, May 26 (U.R) Dis trict war plants, federal office and classes at the University of Washington and Seattle college will remain busy Memorial day survey disclosed today. Bulletin COAST LEAGUE (Night Game) , 4 Portland, Ore., May 26 (U.R) The Portland Beavers snapped a three game losing streak tonight with a 5 to 3 victory over San Francisco in a game called in the seventh inning by rain. San Francisco . 3 6 2 Portland 5 8 0 Barthclson and Sprinz; Mosscr and Souza. Los Angeles ..... . 6 ' 9 1 Seattle 3 9 1 Osborn and Grene; Palica, El liott (6), Johnson (6) and Sueme, Sacramento .................... 6 12 0 Hollywood 1 3 McCarthy and Schlueter; Sharp and Krause. NATIONAL (Night Gamei Brooklyn 11 16 0 St. Louis 2 8 2 PfunH and Andrews: wllks. Donnelly, Brechen, and O'Dea, Rice. Pullman, Wash., May 26 (U.R) Phil Sorboe, Tacoma, tonight is named new Washington State college head football coach, replacing Orin "Babe" Holling bcrry, who held the post for 17 years, Earl Foster, graduate Cougar manager announced. INVASION READY Honolulu, May 26 (U,R) Pre paring for the day when Japan a "Inner fortress" will bo invaded stocks of cold-climate clothing already are arriving in the Pa cific, according to Brig. Gen Georgo E. Hartmen, quarter master of army forces in the Pacific ocean areas. A group of experts also has arrived to instruct army per sonnel In tho use of the new, specially constructed clothing and to observe its effectiveness in use against the Japs. A far cry from the bulky, par ade-ground-type uniforms Amer ican soldiers have worn In other wars are the combat-designed garments issued today, guamWgets Guam, May 26 (U.R) Tony Ducnas is the proudest native on Guam because he helped the Americans retake the Inland. Ducnas was rewarded for '(III log 59 Japanese today when Ma rine Maj. Gen. Henry L. Larson. island commander, pinned a sil ver star on his freshly-laundered Jrcket Ih ceremonies before other Chimorro natives, Includ ing Ducnass' wife and four chil dren. Military leaders and scores of Duenas' friends witnessed the presentation in the Green Pa ace of Agana, Guam'l capital city. FOR RELIEF TALK Advice On Feeding Europe Asked By Truman; Nation Acclaims. Washington, May 25 (U.R) Former President Herbert Hoo ver will make a dramatic return to the White House on Monday in the role of elder statesman to -advise the Democrat Incumbent, Harry S. Truman. He will give Mr. Truman, in, his first return to the White House since he turned it over to the late President Roosevelt on March 4, 1933, the benefit of his vast World War I experience in the feeding of hungry and des perate Europeans. The 70-year-old Mr. Hoover, the country's only living former president. Is expected to reiter ate to Mr. Truman the conven tion he has expressed often be. fore during this war the con viction that the United Nationa cannot win the peace unless they feed the starving victims ol Nazi aggression, Mr. Hoover won International acclaim for his expert handling; of food problems, at home and abroad, during and after the last war. Frequently in recent months voices have been raised, urging the government to avail itself of the former president'! great store of practical knowl edge on what Is one of tho Un! ted Nation's biggest problems. That, the White House dls closed today. Is exactly what Mr, Truman will do at 10:30 a. m., Monday. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said that Mr. Hoover had accepted the presi dent's Invitation. He added that Mr. Truman believed the former Republican President "had in. formation which would be valu able to him." The dramatic news waa In stantly applauded here. It waa Intprnreted in many quarters a an effective bid for domestic uni ty at a time when, fajed wntt food shortages at home, the na tion Is committed to assuming large share of the burden of feeding liberated Europe. The news was the more dra matic because the late Presiden. Roosevelt had never invited Mr. Hoover to the White House and had turned a deaf ear to all urg ing that he do so. Sen. Alexander Wiley, R-. Wis., echoed the feeling of many when he congratulated the prest. dent "for this splendid non-parti-san gesture." , Mr. Hoover's knowledge or wartime food probl emi waa gained as chairman of the com mission for relief of Belgium from 1915 to 1919. as U S . Food Administrator from 1170 "i.! and as head of the American Re lief Administration and Euro pean Relief Council Immediately after the last war. Hopkins and Josef Hold First Parley Moscow. May 26-U.R-Hr3r Hopkins, special envoy from President Truman, conferred for 90 minutes tonight with Premier Marshal Josef Stalin. The sub ject of their discussions was not announced. Soviet Foreign Commissar Vlacheslav Molotov was with Stalin, and Hopkins was accom panied by U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Harrlman and by Charlc Bohlcn, U. S. State department'a top Russian expert who particl. pated in the Moscow Teheran and Yalta conferences. SYRIANS HAVE FAITH Los Angeles, May 26 U.R) Three Syrian princes here from the San Francisco world confer ence tonight expressed faith in the Atlantic charter but said they think France is trespassing on their freedom by military oc cupation of their homeland. Seventh War Lean Drive "E Sales to Date $220,34 Quota $1,067,000 Total Sales to Date $606,801 Quota $2,087,000
