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Newspaper Page TextWeather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow with scattered howr and little change In temperature. Temp. Highest Yesterday .'..........,.. 7 4 Lowest this Morning 47 Prrc. To 5 a. m., today -- At Use The Mill Tslbuae Want Ad Way MEDFORD Quick Results At Small Coil United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1945 NO. 58. A ERF B fo) Lrl Ul tajVV. .Vn. United fnit-fuU Limd Wire L ' AW iM W FIRE FOE'Sin cnY Navy Yard, War Plants, Docks and Business Area Blasted Early Today. Guam, May 29 (U.R) More than 450 Superfortresses spread flaming ruin through Yokohama, Japan's second port and fifth largest city, in a 3,200-ton day light fire raid today. Shipyards, war plants, naval installations and block after block of business buildings and dwellings were reduced to charred wreckage in the 21st Bomber Command's third all-out incendiary attack in six days. Yokohama, a city of 1,000,000, was one of Japan's principal naval bases and the main port for Tokyo and northern Japan. Devastated Tokyo itself, just north of Yokohama, still was smoking from the disastrous B 29 fire raids of last Thursday and Saturday. The big bombers struck from medium altitude at the 9 a. m. morning rush hour and, Tokyo accounts said, unloaded their cargoes of death and destruction in a steady rain for two and a half hours. Mustang fighters from Iwo estimated by Tokyo at 150 strong ran Interference for the Superfortresses and tangled with enemy fighters high over the port city. Tokyo said Japanese anti-aircraft batteries also were in action. "A considerable number" of Superfortresses were shot down, a Tokyo broadcast said. Thirty one B-29s were lost in the two previous raids on Tokyo. The raid was the first In strength on Yokohama, a mod ern city of 72 square miles aoVaH with ahlnvards. motor vehicle plants, steel plants and assorted aircraft, rubber, radio and petroleum works. Three Acres Hit Bombs were aimed at three main areas, Yokohama harbor wilh 'its docks and breakwaters; the modern commercial and re sidential sections to the south east, and the northeast district, where numerous war plants He on reclaimed land jutting out Into Tokyo bay. Among the plants in the north east section were the Mitsubishi heavy Industries and the Tokyo Electric company. The popula tion in the southeastern district averaged 30,000 persons to the square mile. The raid was tht largest in daylight since 500 B-29s dropped more than 3,500 tons of bombs on Nagoya May 14. It boosted the number of B-29s over the Tokyo-Yokohama area in the past six days to 1,500 and the tonnage of bombs dropped to 12,000. Mustang fighters from Iwo also visited the Tokyo area in daylight yesterday. They bomb ed and strafed the Kasumigaura naval airtstation 32 miles north east of Central Tokyo and de stroyed or damaged 42 enemy aircraft. One enemy plane was shot down and another damaged in the air and five more were de stroyed and 35 damaged on the ground. One American plane was shot down over the target. Navy search planes were re vealed to have sunk or dam aged 10 enemy ships in sweeps over waters around Korea Sun day. A destroyer or destroyer escort, a large freighter and five small ships were sent to the bottom and a large freighter, a small cargo ship and a small coastal vessel were damaged. American carrier planes bombed airfield installations In the Sakishitna group, between Formosa and Okinawa. Sunday. New York, May 29 (U.R) Cotton futures opened 3 to 10 points lower. 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 nrnd helidur Plan Tokyo Strikes -Ma: '(Acmm Telephato) As gale tans B-29-set flames destroying Tokyo, MaJ. Gen. Curtis K, Lemay (left), Lakewood, O., commanding general of 21st Bomber Com mand, plans further strikes with his chief of staff, Brig. Gen. A. W. Kissner. Washington. D. C at SUDerfort base In Marianas, SECURITY PARLEY TIED UP BY ROW San Francisco, May 29 (U.R) The Big Five of the United Na tions security conference, in a two-hour meeting, today moved ahead from June 6 to June 11 their tentative deadline for ad journment of the parley, ; San Fra.'.cisco, May 29 (U.R) The United Nations Security con ference moved nearer its final stages today but the parley was still tied up by a dispute be tween big and little nations over the veto power which the Big Five powers would possess in the proposed World Security council. Calling of a meeting of the conference's Big Five was at first believed to presage early agreement among the big powers on their interpretation of the veto power contemplated under the Yalta formula, but an Amer ican delegation spokesman ex plained that the session had been requested by the French delega tion to discuss a matter not in volving the veto question. It was learned from other sources that the French sought to change a clause in the pro posed World Organization chart er covering bi-lateral treaties for defensive action against enemy countries, ,such as the Franco-Russian treaty. As it now stands, the charter would provide that such treaties could be subordinated to the World Organization "by consent" of the signatory powers. But the parley moved nearer Its final stage on another front when it was announced that the commission on the general as sembly will hold an open hear ing tomorrow. Battle lines' already were drawn for a bitter public debate between the big and little nations over the Yalta formula. L ALL SET Plans are now complete for parade and program and Harry Young, commander of the Amer ican Legion post, today urged all veterans and other oartici pating in the parade to be at the park before 10 a. m. The parade forms at 10 a. m., will proceed on Main street to the Bear Creek bridge where the navy ceremonies will be held, will turn on Tripp and Almond streets and return on Main street to the park for the program. Citizens are asked not to drive on Main street until the parade has made the entire route and returned to the park. Young stated. Participating in the par ade in addition to veteran groups will be a unit of men from Camp White and represen tatives of various civic and fra ternal bodies of the city. Shreveport, La., May 29 (U.R) William Kennon Henderson, radio crusader of the 20 s, died lajt night of a heart attack. Gen. Patton to Fly Paris-Los Angeles Los Angeles, " May 29 (U.R) Two "hometown boys" Gens. George Patton and Jimmy Doo little will be given a heroes' homecoming when they arrive here for a visit June f and 10, Mayor Fletcher Bowron said to day. . "Blood and Guts" Patton, who was born in San Gabriel, Calif., will fly directly from Paris to Los Angeles, stopping only to have his plane refueled en route. Gen. Doolittle, who tossed the first bombs at Tokyo, may stop briefly at Washington. Doolittle attended. 'Manual Arts high school here,- .- " -, . LEADER ASKS CUT INARMED FORCE Washington, May " 29-4J.R) Chairman Andrew May, D., Ky of the House Military Affairs committee today recommended a "drastic reduction" in the size of the army. Stating that approximately 12,100,000 persons were enrolled in the U. S. armed forces on April. 1, May urged immediate discharge of all soldiers over 35 except those in key positions. "Now that our principal en emy has surrendered uncondi tionally there should be a more drastic reduction in the armed forces than the army has yet made," May said in an interview. "All men over 35 years of age except those in key positions es sential to the completion of the war against Japan and those needed for the occupation of con quered Germany should be speedily discharged." In this group, he said, are most of those who have families and business connections and will have the greatest difficulty in readjusting themselves. He pointed out that between 14,000,000 and 14,500,000 men either are, or have been, in the service "and they are still com ing in at the rate of 70,000 per month from the 18-year-old bracket." Nab Man and Girl For Ashland Theft Jack Henry Allen, 24, and Alice Messer, Wichita, Kans., were lodged in the county jail yesterday and charged with bur glary not In a dwelling as an aft ermath of a burglary In the Clyde Caton garage at Ashland Thursday night. They were ar rested yesterday by state police on the Tiller-Trail road near the Divide Gdard Station while driv ing the 1940 Chevrolet coupe be longing to G. Wannberg, Ash land, which was stolen the night of the robbery. m Nearly $2,500 worth of tools and other mechanic's equipment was found in the lar belonging to the Caton garage and a Mount Shasta, Calif., garage. Allen Is reported to be a soldier, AWOL from Camp Maxcy, Texas. John Anderson, who was said to be a companion of the couple, wu arrested Friday near Rogue River and is now in the county jail. . BY HOOVER TALK "Daily. Worker" Agitated Also by Conference Trend and G. 0. P. Bids. Washington, May 29 (U.R) The ties holding American Com munists to the political coalition which elected the Roosevelt-Tru man ticket last November are wearing thin today less than two months after the late pres ident's death. President Truman's invitation to former President Herbert C. Hoover to visit him for a food conference brought instant pro test from the Daily Worker, Com munist organ published in New York. Less specific invitations which now have been sent to Alf. M. Landon, 1936 Republican pres idential nominee, . and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, last year's GOP selection, probably will further agitate the extreme left wing of the New Deal-Democratic coalition. The Communists already were uneasy about the Truman administration because of the trend of events at the San Francisco conference. Daily Worker editorials have not directly challenged the new president. But policies of the American delegation at ban Francisco have been denounced editorially on charges that they were in violation of agreements mads at the last Big Three meet ing. ; , , The sharpest language direct ed so far at Mr. Truman appear ed in yesterday's Daily Worker in a charge that the invitation to Mr. Hoover endangered Demo cratic movements In Europe. The substance of the complaint was that Mr. Hoover's advice to Mr. Truman would be to use American food to combat Com munism In Europe at least in western Europe.' KiDSilTS Washington, May 29 (U.R) Lt. Gen. William S. Knudsen has resigned as army director of pro duction effective June 1, the war department announced today. It also was disclosed that Knudsen has been awarded an oak leaf cluster to the disting uished service medal for his five years of service in war produc tion. Knudsen, former president of General Motors, did not an nounce his future plans, al though lt is expected that he will return to Detroit for a few weeks' rest. ANOTHER YEAR OF O.P.A. IS FAVORED Washington, May 29 (U.R) The Senate Banking Committee today approved a bill to extend price controls for another year. The present OPA law will ex pire June 30. The Committee ap proved the extension bill with out amendments. DISEASES DECLINE Communicable diseases show ed a considerable decline last week, with but five cases report ed during the week to the office of the county health officer, Dr. A. Erin Merkcl. Reported were two cases of chickenpox in the Lake Creek district, one case of trench mouth, one of whooping cough and one of diphtheria, all In Modford. BASEBALL American St. Louis 1 .'. 0 5 1 New York 11 15 3 Kramer, West, Znldak and Nayworlh, Mdncujo; bonald and Crompton, IS GIVEN RIGHT TO REOCCUPYPLACE Quick Verdict By ' Oregon City Jury Lessee Anti Jap Leader. Oregon City, Ore., May 20 -r (U.R) Masayuki Fujlmoto, 28 year old Japanese American berry farmer, won in court last night permission to reoccupy the farm he leased when interned after Pearl Harbor. The jury sit ting on the case was out only 15 minutes. Fujimoto had leased his 80 acre berry farm in Clackamas county to Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bergh, who agreed in the terms of the lease to surrender the premises to Fujimoto after 30 days notice upon termination of the national emergency and his return to the county. After being released from the Hunt, Idaho, Relocation Center, Fujimoto served notice to regain his land on March 24. The Berghs took the case to court and won a decision when Judge Earl C. Latourette withdrew his first verdict which favored Fujimoto. The Judge's reversal was based on the fact that the jBpanese American had not given the OPA a copy of the eviction papers. The second suit which ended in Fujimoto's favor was tried be fore Circuit Judge E. M. Page. Bergh had been a leader ,in the German anti-Japanese group. : Fujimoto was born in Portland and attended grammar, high school and Reed College there. He Is married and the father of two children. ; - F ON TRUMAN PLEA FOR JOBLESS PAY Washington, May 29 (U.R) President Truman may get the first major congressional rebuff of his administration over the question of setting a federal standard on unemployment com pensation. President Roosevelt was simi larly rebuffed last year. Mr. Truman yesterday asked Congress to set federal standards of unemployment pay as an emergency measure during the reconversion period pending action on a general broadening of social security measures. Specifically he urged estab lishment of a nationwide maxi mum of at least $25 weekly ex tending over a period up to six months for workers thrown out of jobs during the changeover from war to peace production, Reaction among congressional leaders indicated that the re quest would be rejected as was a similar one last year during consideration of the War Mobili zation and Reconversion bill. All that congressional leaders would promise for the time be ing was prompt attention to the problem and fulfillment of some parts of the president'i request. E 6 DATE SET Salem, Ore., May 29 (U,R) The Oregon supreme court today set Wednesday, June 8, for hear ing arguments in the Injunction suit attacking house bill 403 of the 1945 legislature. The Oregon Business and Tax Research Inc., of Portland, ap pealed the suit against the sec retary of state after an adverse decision in Marion county circuit court last week. The tax group claims the bill, as signed by the governor, was not the bill as in tended by the legislature. Washington, May 29 (U.R) The army plans to induct a few men under 28 with minor physi cal fiefcrts for limited service as WAR BULLETINS San Francisco, May 29 (U.R) Tha Dutch are preparing a fore of 200,000 men to help smash Japan and recapture the rich Netherlands East Indies. Washington, May 29 U.R Tha United States again has sternly warned tha Japanese government against mishan dling American prisoners, tha Stat department revealed to day. Tha Japanese had hinted at a policy of reprisal against American prisoners and civi lian internees because a U. S. submarine mistakenly sank a Japanese supply ship that was travelling under an allied grant of safe conduct. SOLDIER DOLLAR USED TO PROP UP F Rep. Anderson Asks Probe Of S t a b 1 1 Ization Try Troops Are Losers. Washington, May 29 (U.R) Rep. Jack Anderson, R., Cal said today he will ask the House Military Affairs committee to investigate what he said were American attempts to stabilize French currency by paying serv icemen in France in francs rather than dollars, Tha rate of exchange, set by the French before D-day, devalu ates the American dollar by more than half, he said. "I don't see why the army should prop up French money and as a direct result of that have our soldiers find their dol lar worth only 20 cents," Ander son said. "Somebody's getting stung and I don't think it's the French." , " He said the War department had informed him use of dollar currency In foreign areas would jeopardize faith in the native currencies and mieht nnssihlv cause inflation and "affect gen eral political stability." Anderson read to the House a letter from an American service man in France who called the exchange rate "wholesale rob bery." CROSS ATLANTIC London, May 29 (U.R) The end of the Atlantic convoy sys tem was expected today to speed tY-t homeward journevs of thou sands of American troops still in the European theater. An Anglo-American announce ment that ships plying the Atlan tic no longer must travel In con voy meant that the homeward bound troopships no longer would be restricted to the speed of the slowest vessel in a convoy. Nor would they be forced to take a roundabout, zig-zagging routes to avoid U-boats. The joint announcement, from he admiralty here and the navy department In Washington, gave merchant vessels permission to tail with all their lights on for the first time since September 1939. T Some damage to hay and grain crops of the valley is thought to have resulted from tha wind and rain storm which swept the val ley last evening about 6 o'clock. R. G. Fowler, county agent, slat ed this morning that hay and grain damage had been reported to his office, but no damage to the pear crop had been reported. At the weather bureau it was said that the wind velocity reached 52 miles an hour during the storm. Rainfall during the last 24 hours was .42 inches. OF DDT TO STATE FOR POTATO BUGS Deadly Insect Killer Still Goes to Army; Auto Quota For June, 1500. Washington, May 29 (U.R) DDT, the war developed Insect killer, will be tried out commer cially against the potato tuber flea beetle, the War Production Board said today, On the request of War Food Administration a limited amount of DDT will be made available in Oregon to protect the potato crop. The limited supply of DDT makes it Impossible, however, to permit general commercial use because of the great military de mand for it, WPB said. Research in its civilian applications is con tinuing, it was said, so that it can be made available when mili tary cutbacks permit its use commercially. Other home front commodity and production news included: A total of 1500 new automo biles will be released to essential users during the next month, the Office of Price Administra tion said. The June quota is the same as May's. The War Production Board an nounced that it had removed re strictions on production of mo torcycles. It will continue to con trol distribution, however, since it expects a demand for motor cycles to continue to be heavy WPB removed controls on pro duction of aluminum cooking utensils and kitchenware. In creased production of aluminum ware is expected as war con tracts are completed. FRANCE KIN SAFE A letter from a sister received by Mrs. Isabelle Gault 125 Cot tage street, was the first word from relatives in Franca which Mrs. Gault had received since Mow r,1 1Q41 . Tt rnntnlnpft the good news that her father, three brothers Bnd sisters were an well and had survived the Ger man occupation of her native land and the war. The sister said food in Marseilles, where she re sides, is very scarce but sup piles are more plentiful In the village in the Alps where her father, Augusta Renl'.on, lives. All three brothers were In the military service. ' Mrs. Gault, an employe of the Central avenue Groceteria, has lived in Medford 21 years. APRICOT GROWER Washington, May 29 (U.R) State average grower price ceil ings for apricots for canning, freezing and drying purposes will be the same as those for Inst year, the government an nounced today. Only Washing ton, Oregon, California and Utah are affected. HEDY LAMARR A MOTHER Hollywood, May 29 (U.R) Screen Actress Hcdy LaMarr became mother of a girl today, upsetting her choice of a name for a son. The daughter was born at 7:40 a, m. today In the Cedar of Lebanon hospital, al most two years after the sultry star married British Actor John Loder on May 27, 1943, The baby weighed 7li pounds. Seventh War Loan Drive "E" Sales to Data 1303,628 Quota 11.087.000 Total Sales to Data $693,253 Quota 12.087.000 TO PAVE WAY FOR INVASIONS GAIN Two -Thirds Naha Falls, Shuri Encircled Japs . Defeats In China, Luzon; By United Press A Bern broadcast recordtd by tha Blue Network nnnri.J .:,k. out confirmation today that tha nmtnean iuui army had cap. turad Naha, capital of Okinawa. Tha broadcast, giving no source for tha report, said "all of the city of Naha now is occupied" by the Americans. Pearl Harbor, May 29 4U.R American offensives to clear southern Okinawa and northern Luzon in preparation for an in vasion of Japan gained momen tum today. Japanese defenses on the two Islands appeared to be crumbling rapidly and the end of both cam paigns was in sight. Develnnmenta In .V, n war included: Okinawa The 10th army cap tured two-thirri nt ha u..! city of Naha in the west and al most encircled the Inland citadel of Shurl In a drive half-way across the southern tip of the island from the east coast. Luzon American troops head ed for open, tank ground after capturing the Cagayan valley gateway town of Santa Fa. , Tha stage was set for final drive aga(nst 30,000 Japanese In north east Luzon. - , . Chlna-Chlnesa troops ' threat ened the Japanese-held former American air base town of Liu chow from the south and west and drove to within 85 miles of the Canton-Hankow railway In Hunan province. Burma Tha British '14th army repulsed a series of Japa nese counter-attacks in strength in the Mokshitwa area 80 miles north of Rangoon and continued to advance beyond Toungoo to ward the Thai border. Japan Admiral Soemu Toyo da was removed as commander In chief of Japan'i combined fleet, commander-in-chief of tha newly-established over-all navy command and commander of tha naval escorts command In a gen eral navy shakeup. Guam, May 29 (U.R) Jp. anese defenses in southern Oki nawa appeared to be crumbling fast today. On the west coast, Marines of the Sixth Division captured two thirds of the capital city of Naha, cleared the north shore of Naha harbor and sent patrols to Ono yama Island in mid-harbor. Slxtcen-lnch guns of battle ships offshore breached ' tha walls of the Inland citadel of Shurl, already outflanked and nearly encircled. A number of Japanese were fleeing through the escape gap still open. Seventh Division troops on tha east coast drove another 1500 yards south on a 3,000-yard front and reached the southwest corner of Baten Bay. Reconnais sance groups in landing craft re connoltered the south and west coasts of the bay. Gains Best Yet The gains all across the Island were the best since Lt. Gen. Si mon Bolivar Buckner's 10th army forces rammed Into the Naha Shurl Yonabaru defense line more than a month ago. A Pacific fleet communique revealed the Japanese renewed their suicide air attacks on American warships off Okinawa Sunday, sinking one light unit and causing minor to moderate damage to 12 others. The enemy paid for the suc cess with 77 planes shot down, preliminary reports showed. Sixth Division Marines met only scattered machirte-gun and rifle fire from enemy rear guards as they swept through the mined, rubble-heaped streets of Nsha to the shores of the har bor. They cleared all of Naha west of the canal running from the main harbor to the Asato river. NO NEWS CENSORSHIP Trieste, May 29. (U.R) Cor respondents here were assured today by a high-ranking allied censorship officer from Rome that their dispatches would not be subject to political censorship.