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Weather Ufa The ' Mill Tribua Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Coit Medford TRIBUNE FORECAST: Sunday Con- tinued cloudy with fw light ihoweri. No change In tem perature. Temp. Higheit Yesterday i Loweit Ihli Morning a United Pre Full LitNd Wlr Ualted Press Full Leased Wis Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1945. NO. 61. i Adm. Halsey's Third Fleet Opens New Phase Jap War JITTERY EMPIRE OF MARTIAL LAW Kyushu Base Planes Raked; Osaka In Ruins Navy Commands Changed. By United Press , tAm William IT TTnlcnv throw the powerful carrier forces of his famed Third fleet against five Japanese airfields on Kyu shu Saturday, destroying or Aamattino 3R pnpmv nlnnps as the world's mightiest team of fighting ships returned to action. .Tanan said the destructive aerial offensive might make mar tial law necessary tnrougnoui L h pmnire and the return of " Halsey to the western Pacific appeared to mark the opening 01 a new phase of the war against Japan. Halsey, hard-bitten sea dog known as' "The-Bull," who has promised to ride Emperor Hiro . hito's white horse through Tokyo, was back in action against the Japanese even as the presence of the Third fleet was disclosed. Halsey took command of his "private lake" off Japan May 27 from Adm. Raymond A. Spru ance, commander of the Fifth fleet. Spruance has returned to Guam, where he received the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism." Carrier planes of the Third fleet shot down two enemy planes, destroyed 11 on the ground and damaged 26 others in raking Kyushu airfields at Miyazaki, Kokubu, Kushira, Kagoshima and Chiran. Navy t and marine patrol bombers hit shipping off Japan and in the East China Sea as invasion-jittery Japan predicted the coming of martial law. Photographs of Friday's Super fort raid on Osaka indicated that ' the heart of Japan's second city and largest industrial center had been destroyed. A Japanese newspaper said that "we certainly would not be surprised even if we see a neces aity of adopting martial law." Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported Halsey's return to ac tion and announced other chang es in the U. S. Pacific fleet and Pacific ocean areas. The U. S. Tenth Army on Okinawa, com manded by Lt. Gen. Simon Boli var Buckner, Jr., has been placed f under Nimitz' direct control; Adm. Richmond K. Turner has relinquished control of the Fifth Amphibious corps to Vice Adm. Harry W. Hill; the name of the forward area has been changed to the "'Marianas Area," with Vice Adm. John J. Hoover re taining command. HALFlllJAL Washington, June 2 (U.R) The $7,000,000,000 individual phase of the mighty Seventh War loan was nearly 50 per cent sub scribed as the drive ended its third week tonight. The Treasury's War Finance Division announced individual war bond purchases totaling $3, 393,999.999, or 48 per cent of the individual quota. Sales of Series E bonds also approached the half way mark reaching $1,870,000,000; or 47 per cent of the $4,000,000,000 E bond goal. , Royal Netherlands Bomber Crew Crash Grass Valley,. Cal., June 2 (U.R) A two-motore'i Royal Netherlands air force bomber crashed here today, killing the entire crew, police reported. At latest reports, officers had recovered four bodies from the burning wreckage of the plane which plowed through two houses and then crashed Into a Catholic retreat building and caught fire, setting the building ablaze. It was not immediately determined how many people were aboard the plane. Seventh War Lean Driv Sales to Date $337,J84 Quota $1,067,000 Closing In MO NGO L I A -Jp; Chinese step up offensive offer Nooning capture cuts Jap supply route (o south Cr1INAl-.L.ohokp ri...nL... Hani I U S I .':KV.n- lvlillfCHINAi.&o U. S. oif combo! P V- W V units, job done, I f . WJrV withdrawn from I fhilippine ls. 'ngaporey:.-v 'Jtr JA v3 j MOj LNDs INDIES MILES ... Pront-by-front developments In the of Allied advances in every theater 4.58 INCHES RAIN NEW RECORD HERE May, 1945, was the wettest) May ever recorded here, weather bureau officials said Friday. The monthly precipitation was 4.58 inches as compared, with a nor mal rainfall of 1.10 inches ex cess being 3.48 inches. Next wettest May recorded since 1911 was in 1942 when the valley had 3.69 inches. The seasonal precipitation since Sept. 1 is 18.76 which is 3.22 above normal. The greatest amount of rainfall in any 24 hours -occurred on the 24th with 1.21 inches. Thunderstorms, too, were above normal with storms occurring on May 2, 22, 24, 28 and 29. The average number of days with thunderstorms is two, making three more than average this year. The survey covers a period of 16 years. Light fog was recorded on the morning of the 26th. May temperature was about average, highest being 91 de grees on" the 1st and 2nd. Lowest was 41 degrees on May 11. Mean maximum was 71.5 and mean minimum was 47 degrees which gives a monthly average pf 60.8 degrees. Average daily depar ture was 1.0 degrees above nor mal. No frost occurred during the month. R. G. Fowler, county agent, stated that the large amount of rain caused considerable damage to grain, hay and vetch crops and that the second hay. crop is already growing through the first. The greatest damage was caused by the seasons being pushed together, along with the labor shortage, Fowler said. He also stated that some damage was caused by the delay to or chard spraying. STRIKE BLACKOUT FACED By MEXICO Mexico City, June 2 (U.R) i The National Confederation of Electricians said today it would order t strike In 22 states June 9 if salary increases were not approved by the Federal Labor Ministry. The strike would blackout the federal district. The Swedish-owned Ericsson Tele phone company also would' be affected. The Labor Ministry said the decision was delayed because of difficulty in Inspecting working conditions in remote sections of the republic. They said data ac cumulated tended to support the electrician's request for raises. FUEL HOPE SLIM Washington. June 2 (U.R) Civilians in the Pacific North west can expect no increase In fuel oil supplies until V-J Day. Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petro leum Administrator, said today. on Japan iMAN.CHURlAj Yokohamo put 10 ffamci bf iniliol 8 29 fire bombing '.YIodivoitoL JAPAN Yokohama Shanghai .' Snuri, Japs' main foil, entered as Amttkani spread oyer islond's Hp C J wviww r i OKINAWA! FORMOSA mi fleet, land-based flyers hit Formosa, China ports; scores of Jap "suicides" downed at Okinawa ivori". S. troops push north on luzon, tighten around kt I L.j. Aussies continue Tarakan advance. New Guinea map-up IQIIAIOirV-l NEW GUIIMFA ; - DarwinSAUSTRALIA' (Acmt Teltphoto) Paclfie war show stepped-up tempo against Japan's main defense lines. BILL PASSED TO Sacramento, June 2 (U.R) The assembly today passed a bill designed to allow wives of serv icemen who ' bear illegitimate children to permit adoption of the children without notifying their husbands.. The bill was introduced by Assemblyman Gardiner Johnson, R., Berkeley. He said it would prevent a mother's indiscretion from "forever damning and be clouding the future of a helpless infant." Assemblyman Kathryn Nei house, R., San Diego, quoted from a letter from a San Diego attorney declaring that army and navy officials were in favor 'of the bill. The letter said that noti fication of husbands overseas in such situations "is most demoral izing." The. bill was opposed by As semblyman Don Allen, D., Los Angeles, as condoning unfaith fulness which betrays a soldier while he is fighting and risking his life to save his country." BY DE GAULLE IN Paris, June 2 (U.R) Gen. Charles De Gaulle today blamed Britain for the outbreaks be tween Syrians and French in the middle east and said that France was willing, in a spirit of inter national cooperation, to negoti ate the situation with all inter ested nations, including the Soviet Union. De Gaulle told newsmen at a press conference that when Prime Minister Winston Church ill told France that1 British troops would Intervene to halt the fighting in Syria, Britain broke a Franco-British agree ment of June 1941 by which France was given command of forces in Syria and Lebanon, and expressed her willingness to ne gotiate Levantine independence. ' De Gaulle defended France's role In the middle east and ac cused Britain of forwarding her interests there at France's ex pense. De Gaulle's conference was held as Syrian officials stiffened their attitude toward the pres ence of French troops In Syria. Syrians demanded that the French Gen. Oliva-Roget, who ordered Damascus shelled, be listed as a war criminal for trial by an international court SEEKS VICE PRESIDENCY Pasadena. Cal., June 2 U.R Window Washer Samuel W. Lawry has written President Truman applying for the vacant post of vice-president. lii'l''j)Ji.'i'.tta' I mm--: &1 " tvXOREA 3 OKINAWA BATTLE IN FINAL STAGE; Marines Near Airb d Within Sight r ia Base Chine- " je. v Unltf U. S. 10th Ai..,, ,ps on Oki nawa struck towa. . Naha air field, rolled southward through crumbling enemy resistance in all sectors and captured two towns as the 63-day fight en tered its last stage. Marines were within 5,000 yards of the great airfield and its three strips. In the central zone, marines pushed 1.000 yards southward, cutting the Naha Yonabaru highway, and drove toward 96th infantry troops still farther south. The 7th infantry on the east was only 2V4 miles from the southern coast, over ran Ogusuku village and fanned out toward Shinzato town as the U. S. columns drove to split the remaining 20,000 Japanese into isolated pockets. Chinese troops collapsed the Japanese defense line before poking in central China. They captured three towns and drove within nine miles of the city as they swept forward on a 40 mile front and rolled back Jap anese defenses. The Okinawa battle moved re lentlessly toward a finish.- The Yanks were within sight of Oki nawa's southern beaches. Clear ing weather brought more artil lery and armored units into ac tion against the weakening Jap anese. Chan village south of the Naha-Yonabaru highway ' was captured and 96th infantrymen drove to Tera and Kamizato vil lages in a push threatening to wipe out-- ny-hope-th - enemy had of making a new stand in hill masses to . the south. ., USE HUGE PLANE Washington, June 2 (U.R) The army for the first time to da.y let reporters see and write about the president's huge, lux ury plane which is equipped with everything from an electric refrigerator to an elevator. It is a four-engined C-54 transport built by Douglas Air craft Co.. and converted to the president's use by the Army Air Transport Command. Its crew is commanded by Lt. Col. Henry T. Myers, former airline pilot. . The late President Roosevelt used the plane once on his flight from Malta to Yalta and back to Cairo. It has, however, been used on a number of other important missions. It recently brought the mother of President Truman from Kansas City to Washington, and Mr. Truman will use It in his forthcoming flight to San Francisco. Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, various cab inet members, Harry L. Hop kins, and Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek have flown in the big ship which has the flags of 44 nations on its fuselage, showing the num ber of countries it has visited. The Interior of the ship is sound-proofed in a new and ultra-scientific way which is so effective that the four powerful motors barely can be heard when the ship is breezing along at 250 miles an hour. Normal con versation is as easily audible as in a hotel room and the music from one radio can be heard throughout the plane. STASSENS LAUNCH SHIP Richmond, Calif., June 2 (U.R The 10.800-ton cargo ship "Adclphl Victory" slid down the ways at the Kaiser Richmond yards tonight with Comdr. Har old E. Stassen and Mrs. Stasscn as sponsors. DIVORCE SOUCHT Hollywood, June ' 2 (U.R) Mrs. Geraldinc Farrar Jcrglns, socially prominent wife of Allen A. Jcrglns, son of A. T. Jergins, millionaire oil man, today filed suit for divorce charging mental cruelty. SYRIANS INSIST Fl IS Levant States Serve De mand On British for Trial Arabs Restless. Bey rough, Lebanon, June 2 (U.R) President Shukri Al Ku watly of Syria has informed Brit ish authorities that the Levant states will no longer tolerate the presence of any Frenchmen, it was reported today. Meanwhile, Syrian quarters demanded that the French Gen. Oliva-Roget, who gave the order to fire on Damascus, be placed on a war criminals' list for trial by an in ternational court. Although feeling against the French continued high, the sit uation in the Levant gradually was returning to normal with the arrival of British troops. Armed Arabs under Emir El Shaalan attempted an attack on Circassian troops under French command in the Kuneitra region along the Syria-Palestine fron tier , today. British military forces Intervened immediately. It was revealed the Arabs did not know that the British had been ordered to halt the fighting in Syria. Kuwatly reportedly asked Gen. Sir Bernard C. Paget, Brit ish middle east commander, to include Oliva-Roget on the war criminals list. The demand was said to have been made during the recent Kuwatly-Paget con ference at Damascus. Premier Abdul Hamid Karameh of Le banon, who was at the talks, supported Kuwatly in his stand. Reports from Damascus said that .Syrians were In an ugly mood toward the French but were restrained by some 800 pO' 1 Icemen. Some looting, mainly for food, wu reported as the ef fects of a lOrday strike reduced many persons to a desperate plight without food and without money. IS PLANNED HERE Building of a $70,000 Pacific Greyhound terminal in Medford Is expected to start within 60 days, lt was revealed Saturday by W. H. Egger, superintendent of construction, in an interview published in Salem. Egger also said terminals are planned at Albany and Oregon City, each to cost $45,000, and one in Salem to cost $70,000. Work on a $45,000 terminal Is already under way in Roseburg. Although it has been known here for some time that' a new bus terminal was contemplated, Greyhound officials have refused to make a definite statement as serting the plans were not com plete. It has been known that a site on the northwest corner of Fifth and Bartlett streets has been negotiated for but whether this has been definitely decided upon could not be determined Saturday. BASEBALL Seattle, June 2 (U.R) Hal Patchett's tie-breaking run on a dropped fly with two out in the ninth gave the Seattle Rainlers a 8-4 victory over the first place Portland Beavers In a Pacific Coast league game here tonight. The Beavers Jumped Into the lead with a run In each of the first four innings, one of them on Catcher Eddie Adams' homer. Seattle, shutout the last two games with Portland, ended its long scoreless drought in the fifth The Rainlers foxed Portland's defense In the eighth inning to tie the score. Johnson singled, moved to third on two infield outs, and Katz drew a walk. The pair broke on a double steal and made It easily when Short Stop John O'Neil dropped the ball on a cutoff play. Two were out In the ninth with Patchett perched on first. Johnson's single sent .Patchett to third and he romped home when Aleno's fly to short center trickled out of the hands of Shone. Portland 4 0 Seattle 5 6 1 Mooty, Tislng (8) and Adams; Elliott and Sucme $70,000 TERMINAL CIVILIANS MUST EXPECT 25 PC. CUT Also Vegetables WFA Warns Stocks Now On Hand Below Last Year. ' Washington, June 2 (U.R) Civilians must expect a 25 per cent cut in their canned food and vegetable supply within the next 12 months, War Food ad ministration officials disclosed tonight. At the same time President Truman called on Americans "to help swell the nation's food sup ply" by raising Victory gardens, canning vegetables and fruits, and "conserving food in every possible way." He asserted that this country not only must meet its "tre mendous military requirements" but also must help nourish lib erated nations, , The prospective slash from the 1944-45 allocation is based on these facts; 1. Stocks on June 1 were smaller than a year ago. 2. Civilians Will get a smal ler' share of produce canned from the 1945 production. Stocks of commercially canned fruits, which must last until the new pack is available, will con tinue slightly below last year's very short supply. On June 1 the quantity of canned vege tables, except baby food and soups, was only half the civilian supply on the same date last year. Meanwhile, the Office of Price administration acted to Improve distribution of the coun try's short meat supply. It ord ered that every slaughterer must send into each county he serves the same proportionate quota of meat, that he shipped into that county in the first quarter- of 1944. RAISIN GROWERS FOOLED WFA QUIZ ' BY FBI REVEALS Washington, June 2 (U.R) The Federal Bureau of Investi gation has looked into use of raisin grapes for wine on the west coast but has found noth ing on which to base criminal prosecutions, lt was learned to night. The Investigation was made before today's order discontinu ing War Food administration re gulations restricting use of edible raisin grapes In wine making. The FBI Inquiry was under taken at the WFA's request. It has been completed and the find ings have been turned over to the food administration. Although no criminal viola tions were discovered, lt was understood that the FBI found Instances in which the old WFA regulations were circumvented. Neither the FBI nor the WFA would discuss the investigation. For three years until today the WFA had required growers of raisin grapes to dry their crops for raisins. Farmers for whom it was more profitable to sell their crop to wineries found ways, however, of getting around the order, it was said. Instances were found, It was reported. In which farmers per mitted grapes to deteriorate or spoil slightly to the point where they were no longer edible but were all right for wine-making purposes. Nothing was discov ered, however, on which a suc cessful prosecution could be based, lt was said. Allies to Observe V'Day Anniversary London, June 2 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, said tody 'that June S the first anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy would be ob served as a holiday for Allied forces. Paris, Sunday, June 3 (U.R) Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower goes to Berlin today for the first meeting of the four-power Allied Control Corrimission for Ger many, It was learned through official quarters. WAR BULLETINS General Mac Arthur's Head quarters, Sunday, June 3 (U.R) American troops with air and naval support have carried out new landings on Mindanao at Luayon 75 miles south of Davao City in a move to envelop isolated enemy gar risons. Gen. Douglas MacAr thur announced today. P IN NAVY HANDS . 1 1S PLAN Tentative plans 1 for transfer of Camp White hospital to the navy were drawn this week at a conference of army and navy officers held at the camp and presided over by Col. John R. Young, commander of Camp White. Announcement of the conference, made Saturday by the public relations office, re vealed that the hospital will be taken ,over August 1 and oper ated on a joint-user basis, mak ing the accommodations avail able also for army personnel. The facility is to bevdeslgn ated a general hospital, the pub lic relations office said, and this designation gives rise to the presumption that the entire capacity of 1,750 beds will be made available. Permanent Building The hospital was built as a permanent structure at the time of the installation of Camp White and is declared by army medical officers to be one of the finest in the entire country. First word of the successful culmination of efforts of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to promote greater use of the hospital, came May 10 in a telegram from Congress man Harris Ellsworth. The con gressman' stated that approval of transfer of the facility from the army to the navy had been given by the War department but that details were yet to be worked out. Plans Walt Okeh It was pointed out by the pub lic relations office today that all plans agreed upon at the of ficers' conference must be given final approval by the army and navy departments. Attending the meeting as rep resentatives of the various serv ice branohes involved were Col. L. R. Moore (MC), in charge of all hospitals in the 9th Service Command; Lt. Col. C. R. Flem ing, representing the command ing general of the 9th Service Command, and acting as coordin ator of the conference; Capt. R. L. Nattkcmper (MC), of the 13th Naval District headquarters in Seattle, and representing the navy; and Ma. R. B. Daugherty, CE., of San Francisco, represent ing the division engineers. Jackson Gets $1,630 County Fair Fund Salem. Ore., June 2 (U.R) A total of $52,436.50 has been apportioned to counties of Ore gon from the millage tax for county fairs, the Secretary of State's office reported today. Jackson County will get $1,630. HONOR F. R.'s IN-LAW Washington, June 2 (U.R) Lt. Col. John Boettigcr, the late President Roosevelt's son-in-law. has been awarded his second Legion of Merit for outstanding service in formulating basic poli cies of military government In Europe the War Department an nounced today. WISHING WELL R.iilr.d U. S. 4 J r E 4 O r- R i Y i" A 8 8 2 65T34S2534 TL SHBJOHE E O Y i 1 3 2 8 4 7 ft 6 4 2 " BI LSAE i 8 5 7 M K S R D 4" i 4 JO Y I E A N X 5 8 1 ANN 4 2 5 $ 3 1 4 2 8 4 7 AOS E E L A T P A I R "8 4 3 2 1 5 2 S 4 S V TOKAESYYENLS HERE is a pleasant little gam that will give you a messagef every day. It Is a numerical puzzle designed to. Spell out! your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If trie number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number Is leu than t.l add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left hand corner of the rectangle and check every one of your ky numbers, left to right. Then rtsd the message the letters under; the cheeked figures give you. b-Z. CrrHM 19-ij, tyjvuiism J..Mjlltf. plitrlbuna b King JTwtiirM. In. E T ANEW PLANS Rejection of Views on Yalta Formula Cause of Grave Crisis. San Francisco, June 2 (U.R) The United States has decided to take the Yalta voting for mula controversy io the full United Nations Security con ference for a vote if Russia refuses to give up her demand for a veto ever even "discus sion" of disputes, lt was learned tonight. Britain, China and France, it was said, will stand pat with the United States against the Russian demand which has plunged the conference into its gravest crisis and may pro long it indefinitely. San Francisco,-June 2 (U.R) Soviet Russia plunged the United Nations conference into its , gravest crisis tonight by demand-' ing that each big power have the right to suppress even "dis cussion" of a dispute in the" World Security council. The situation was so serious threatening Big Five unanimity on nearly a score of other Issuea that the third Big Five meet, ing within 24 hours was called for early tonight. In an effort to prevent public disclosure of the sharpness of the break between Russia and the other big powers, an absolute "gag" was imposed by the) heads of the five delegations. Russian rejection of the more liberal interpretation of the Yalta voting formula suggested by the other big powers came in a paper presented to the Big Five last night. On the crucial point whether big power can veto council discussion of a dis pule the Russian paper was re ported to say: "In no way can 'discussion' (in council) be considered a pro cedural matter." On procedural matters the pro. posed world charter provide that only a majority of any seven members of the 11-nation council would be needed for de cision. On all other questions, unanimity of the Big Five it needed. On another Issue, the Russian epressed a willingness to follow the other big powers which have suggested that all procedural acts in the charter be defined. The only Russian stipulation i that such acts be so labeled in the charter and that all others without exception be considered non-procedural. Some U. S. delegates express ed the opinion that the voting crisl may prolong the confer, ence "indefinitely." The Big Five met for two hours and 45 minutes this morn ing and called another meeting for early this evening. Press officials issued a virtually unin. tclligible "communique" after the meeting sayingA. "They have met. Some pro. grcss was made. There are still other points to be discussed. They will meet again this after, noon at 0:30 p. m." There was no further word from press officials or delegates. The latter, tired from six weeks of day and night work on the charter and now visibly de. pressed by the prospect of dif ficult deadlock over the veto issue, said they were unable to talk. P.t.nt OBict. OAEYST 8 2 4 3 6 5 4 TON L C T D 6 8 S 1 2 i t O A Q Y K P U i 4 3 8 8 7 4" TCT NYE T SOVIET ATTITUD
