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mm i I w w Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy with occasional showers tonight and Tuesday. Little chance In temperature. Temp. Highest Yesterday 73 Lowest this Morning HHm 49 Free. To 8 ft m., today T Fortieth Year Jap Balloon L 1 ... WKffi ' . . i 1 1 ivX A .. . ..... Mcme Teltphoto) Killed by bomb In fallen Japanese balloon near Lakeview, Ore, were Mr. Archie Mitchell (left). 8herman Shoemaker (center), and four other children. Only survivor was Rev. Archie Mitchell (right), who laid he escaped because he CDS a abort distance behind the others. Conference Tension Eased by To Await Moscow's Reaction 8an Francisco, June 4 (U.R) The United States. Britain. France and China today aban doned any idea of resorting to an Immediate showdown vote on Russia's proposal to let a big power veto discussion of disputes by the Security Council of the t new peace organization. - They waited instead for Mos cow's reaction to their vigorous ly stated opposition to the Rus sian interpretation of the Yalta voting formula and hoped it would reveal Soviet willingness to solve the issue by negotiation. Attitude Changed That change of attitude plus The Board of Equalization held its final session this morn ing and Assessor C. A. Myers re- ported only one protest had been filed. Besides the Assessor the Board is composed of the county Jurie and the county clerk. They held two previous sessions. Public hearing on the Jackson county budget for the 1945-1946 tax year will be held at the courthouse auditorium next Fri dav at 10 a. m. The bud cot com- mittee composed of the appoint ed members, Ben Harder, Med ford, Otto Bohnert, Central Point and W. W. Robinson, Ashland, and the county court, will be present. The budget will be read. Though the final levy will not be determined until all the vari ous city and school districts are in, it is anticipated, the tax levy will be about the same as last year. Change to One-Front War Carries Hope of Decline in Spending Spree Washington, June 4 (U.R) Believe it or not, the United Slates Government today was within sipht of beginning to tap er off thpiggest spending spree in history. War spending in May still was the second highest on record exceeding $8,000 000.000. But the outlook is better with the change to a one-front war. This is the last month of the 1945 fiscal year. By July 1 the government will have spent nearly $100,000,000,000 In 12 months. It will have gone more than $50,000,000,000 further into the red in the same period. When the new fiscal year be gins at midnicht next June 30 the national debt will be so big a to be almost ineomprehensi . ble The figure will be approxi- mately $240,000,000,000. If you subtract a matter of $18.000 000.000 or to from the national debt figure you will have the sum of money which the government has had to bor row in the past 14 years. That .would u&jasii vmai w M United Pm Fatalities in Oregon Revealed I Big Five agreement on 14 out of 17 major controversial issues eased the week-end apprehen sion which was caused by the un expected Russian interpretation of the voting formula. Until late yesterday, some U. S. dele gates feared the issue would have to be tossed into the laps of all of the 49 nations to decide with a two-thirds majority certain against Russia. The decision to await new word from Moscow in no way changed American determination not to compromise on this issue, It will continue to oppose the use of the veto by a permanent member of the Security Council to prevent discussion of a dis pute. Gag Not Sought Russia is not asking for the right to "gag" discussion of her own disputes with other coun tries. She agreed at Yalta and still agrees that a big power should give up its security coun cil vote during all phases of peaceful settlement, including discussion, when it was a party to a dispute. They are now ask ing, however, the right for all big powers to have a veto over discussions when they them selves are not disputants. The fifth Big Five meeting since Friday night was sched uled for today to continue the search for agreement on "open" issues. But there was little like lihood that the Moscow reply on the veto will have arrived, thus precluding discussion of that most important question. At their meeting last night, the Big Five agreed upon a com mon position on 14 of the 17 issues which have delayed the conference for a week. Those remaining unsettled, aside from the veto question, were two deli cate points on trusteeships and a French amendment to the ex- which the government has lived beyond its means since the first depression deficit in' the latter part of Herbert Hoover's admin istration. The $16,000,000,000 was a holdover debt from World War I. When the late Franklin D. Roosevelt took over in 1933 he announced an economy program which lasted less than four months. During his first few years in office Mr. Roosevelt talked confidently of balancing the budget but always sched uled that painful operation for some future time. His adminis tration operated on a deficit from March 4. 1933, when he took office until April 12, 1945. when he died in his fourth term. President Harry S. Truman has the job of trying to get the Treasury out of the red. He be gan in his first month as presi dent with a request for a cut of approximately $4,000,000,000 in projected merchant shipbuilding expenditures. Congress was en thusiastic and has actually en acted legislation making the re duction Uestivtj EDFORD Full Lttttd Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 4, Agreement to Protest ) emption of bilateral treaties di rected against the enemy states. A week-end of careful study of the Russian veto proposal brought a considerable change in the attitude of most U. S. dele gates. They . felt considerably more hopeful about the possi bility of agreement. There was no announcement of the 14 specific Issues on which the Big Five have reached a com mon position. But they appar ently include on the "right of passage of troops through a country, provision for expulsion of a member of the new league, whether to seek a Big Five veto over amendment of the charter and over nomination of a secre tary general, whether agree ments for provision of military contingents should be negotiated between states or between a state and the Security Council, wheth er the assembly should be con sidered competent to recommend revision of treaties, and how broad the field of discussion by the assembly should be. About 60 fire guards and look outs who will be on the fire pro tective staff of the Rogue River National Forest service during this year's fire season are being trained this week at Camp Two, near Butte Falls. Members of the supervisor's staff and rang ers are acting as instructors. It is stated that the staff Is still somewhat short in numbers of full requirements. Three women will be employed as look outs, this being the maximum number .which the forest can use. It Is necessary to staff the other stations with men who can also handle fires, the supervisor's office states. The forest service has three visitors this week. They are E, E. Carter, chief of the division of timber management, Washing ton, D. C; James W. Girard, di vision of forest economics, Wash ington; O. F. Ericson, assistant regional forester in charge of timber management, Portland. The group went to Union Creek this afternoon and will visit other parti of the forest later this week. LIEUT. DONALD PEART RETURNING HOME SOON A wire this morning from Sec ond Lt. Donald L. Peart stated that he had arrived in New York and would be home in the near future. The officer, bomber pilot in the army air corps, was re cently liberated from a German prisoner-of-war camp after hav ing been interned since last Oct. 17, near Moosberg. Germany. Lt. Peart, son of Mrs. Gertrude Peart, 1005 West Main street, arrived overseas In September and was shot down after making but a few missions. He wat in jured in parachuting to oath and will report to an army hospital in this country before arriving in Medford. JAPANESE FAIL: hi i TTrmnT rr IHAJItlVIN rA E American Patrol Craft Round Up Enemy Soldiers Who Put to Sea in Small Boats. Guam, Tuesday, June 5 (U.R) Japanese troops attempted unsuc cessfully to escape a death-or- surrender trap on southern Okin awa by putting out to sea in small boats, it was disclosed to day, while five American divi sions converged relentlessly on remaining enemy positions. Small groups of enemy sol diers, some of them naked and carrying only hand grenades, were captured by American pat rol craft off the southern tip of the island. The Japanese troops obviously were trying to escape the beat ing being administered their dis organized forces by U. S. ma rines and soldiers, who fanned out along the south coast of the island. The Yanks" objective was the envelopment and anni hilation of the last 15,000 to 20,- uuu Japanese on Okinawa. Japt Force Split The Seventh division split the Japanese toe-hold in two In a drive to the southeast coast, on the Pacific slope of the Chinen peninsula. This push effectively sealed off whatever enemy troops remain ed on the peninsula, which forms the southern arm of Nakagusuku bay. - From its new positions south of the peninsula, the Seventh wheeled both left and right in quick movements designed to eliminate further resistance. Around the Naha peninsula, massed marines were believed preparing to open their own of fensive In the air field area, where the enemy showed signs of holding his positions. There the final battles may be fought on Okinawa. Manila, June 4 (U.R) The 37th division drove along the Cagayan valley In northern Luzon today against light resist ance amid indications the retreat ing Japanese had taken to horse back. In an advance to four miles north of Santa Fe on Saturday, units from the 37th captured large quantities of abandoned enemy equipment, including cav alry gear. This was the first in dication the Japanese were using cavalry in the Pacific island fighting, although they have used horses and mules for pack work In the past. The 3ith ran into some anti tank fire as it advanced along the 120-mile long valley, but there was no stout resistance from the Japanese. Seventy five enemy bodies were counted. Today s communique reported that Japanese casualties in the Philippines have reached 385.- 480. During the past week, 6,550 dead were counted and 503 pris oners taken. American and Filipino casualties were 225 killed and 657 wounded. A 500-mile network of pipe was installed In the cement of TVA's Fontana Dam In North Carolina. New Jap Fighter Planes Out-Perform Yank Ships Aboard Admiral McCain's Flagship off Ryukyus, June 3. (U.R) (via Navy Radio) Ameri can carrier pilots returning from strikes against Kyushu reported today they encountered expert Japanese pilots flying new fight er planes that out-performed even the U. S. Corsair. "Our Corsairs couldn't stay up with the new Japanese planes. which are damn good, said L,t. Cmdr. Stockton Birney Strong, New York, N. Y., who led to day's raid. Strong, a veteran of the Pa cific air war, said "the Japt thumbed their nose at us." For the second straight day outstanding enemy pilots flying superior aircraft pounced on our fleets of planes from Admiral William r. (Bull) Halcj a third 1945 t ND I DATES FOR Northern California and Southern Oregon Cities Vie For Federal Selection. Washington, June 4 (U.R) The Veterans' Administration still wants to build a hospital in northern California or southern Oregon but a choice between the two states must await approval of the project by the Federal Board of Hospitalization. Louis H. Tripp, veterans' con struction director, said today the recommendation to the Hospital Board was made more than, a month ago. It was understood that Medford, Ore., was among the cities interested in having the hospital in its territory. "Medford certainly is in south ern Oregon," Tripp said, "and it is the site of an army hospital but we cannot consider any spe cific locations until our recom mendation is approved." Redding Hopeful Rep. Harris Ellsworth, R Ore., said he had no preference among southern Oregon cities as hospital sites, but he was sure the proposed veterans' project should be in Oregon rather than California. The main applicant from the latter ttate has been the city of Redding, near Shasta Lake. A Civic Committee has submitted an illustrated brochure to the Veterans' Administration outlin ing the advantages of the Red ding location, Whlln MeHfnrd hat been con centrating on securing greater ii cn nf the his hnsnltal at Camp White, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce has also been working toward securing the new 150-bed veterans facility for this area. With announce ment last week that the navy would take over the camp hospi tal nn Anenst 1 on a loint user basis with the army, a chamber spokesman said today an enons would now be centered on the veterans' hospital project. It is known that Bend has hnn.i nf beinff desisnated as site for the facility and Presi dent L. Orth Sisemore of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce said Sunday that Klamath Falls expects to make a bid stressing the city's highway and rail connectioni with north ern California. Efforts nf Bend to interest the navy in nearby Camp Abbot for a rehabilitation center have been unsuccessful, the navy notifying Senator Guy Cordon it wat not interested in such a hospital in Qnuthnrn Orecnn. It was also as serted by an aide to Cordon that Camp Abbot would probably be declared surplus immediately. BOND BUYERS APPROACH HALF OF NATION QUOTA Wo.hinslnn June 4 (U.R) The nation's individual purchas es In the Seventh War Loan drive were expected to pass the halfway mark today. Snip, tn Individuals were $3,- 393.000.000 or 48 per cent of the $7,000,000,000 goal at tne lasi tabulation. fleet. They collided with our air men during strikes against air fields on Kyushu, Japan's south ernmost home Island. U. S. pilots who tangled with the Japanese, agreed that the en enemy has been able to effect a change In air tactics despite a loss of more than 3.000 planes since the beginning of the Okin awa campaign. They said the Japanese were meeting Americans now with planet and pilots better than anything our carrier air forces have encountered. Preliminary report! on the day's results thowed six Japa nese aircraft were downed over Kyushu. Three probably were thot down and three v cre de stroyed on the ground. Five wart damaged. - t Tribune United Prut President Patterson of UAL Tells Plans on Visit Here Because of the enormous air traffic volume on the trans-continental run, there will be little expansion of service on the Med ford route until after the end of the Japanese war, according to W. A. Patterson, president of United Airlines, who was in Med. ford today as part of a tour of United s entire western division. The enormous trans-continentnl traffic takes nearly all additional equipment being made available. the official said. ' Patterson was accompanied by a group of com pany officials and the party was to leave this afternoon about 4 o'clock for California. San Francisco will eventually be but an hour's flying tima from Medford; Chicago will be about 7V4 hours away and New York but nine when the air line has for use new Douglas DC-6's now on order, Patterson stated. These planes, carrying 54 passengers, will cruise at 300 miles per hour, the executive declared. No Feeder Linet While the west offers a big opportunity for feeder lines, United plans do not include this type of business, according to the president. Additional stops will be made on lines now in opera tion and service through here will be about five times the pre sent capacity, he said. However, the line plans to operate trips which will swing through Bend, Klamath Falls and Chico, Calif., and through the Coos Bay dis-J trict to Eureka and Santa Rosa, Calif. Another contemplated devel opment is coming through pur chase of a Mexican air line. Pat terson added. This will connect at San Diego thus giving service from Canada through Pacific coast cities to Mexico. Fatter son sees much development of coast business with Mexico through this, since in the past Mexico has tended to use air travel into the mid-west and eastern cities. Plan Alaska Run United now has an application in for an Alaskan run to Fair banks. This would be by way of Ketchikan, Yakutat and Anchor age. Another application Is for a Honolulu run, which would Manila, June 4. flJ.R) Twenty thousand army veterans of the southwest Pacific war and an other 7,000 drawn from the cen tral Pacific areas will be on their way home for discharge under the point system by the end of June, it was announced today. The southwest Pacific quota includes 1,334 officers and 18,666 enlisted men, but there will be no Wacs among the home ward bound veterans this month. The army's system of rotation leaves also will be terminated with the return of the June quota and Pacific personnel thereafter will get home by the point discharge route. It also was announced that the U. S. army forces In the far eastern theater will release all men over 42 yean of age who request discharges. L London, June 4 (U.R) The Russians were reported today to have made good their threats and put to death 50 Nazi hostages after a minor uprising In Berlin. The Finnish radio reported that the Red army executed 50 Nazis after fighting flared in tevcral districts of Berlin three days ago. The report said the Ruhslant also caught and shot several Germans responsible for the outbreak. Dr. Arthur Werner, Russian ap;xintcd mayor of Berlin, had warned Berliners that 50 Ger mans would be put to death for every act of violence against the Russians. His warning appar ently was broadcast the tame day that fighting broke out in Berlin, Full Leaied Wirt NO. 62. i ! W. A. Patterson make It possible to travel from Medford to the Hawaiian city in about nine and one-half hours, the officer said. Another development contem plated it that of express and freight traffic, Patterson declar ing that when rates are made low enough, large quantities of freight will be carried by air. Experiments are now being con ducted on produce with the idea of air shipment, he said. A number of city officials had lunch with the visitors this noon. With Patterson were O. C. Rich erson, manager of United west ern operations; C. F. McErlean, assistant to the president in charge of management-employe relations; R. F. Ahrens, director of personnel; B. B. Gragg, direc tor of sales; D. F. Magarrcll, di rector of passenger tervlce; H. F. Barnes, western director of pas senger tervice; S. R. Newman, western sales manager; J. W. Eberly, western regional person nel director; R. M. Rummel, In charge of publicity, and Mist Jean Homolka, secretary. E PEACETIME PLAN Washington, June 4 flJ.R) The State Department today en dorsed universal peacetime mili tary training as "an essential part of our share In the United Nations proposals for world se curity." The department's unqualified endorsement was given by Act ing Scretary of State Joseph C. Grew in testimony before the House post-war Military Policy Committee, Grew, speaking against a per sonal background of 20 years of service in Germany and Japan before the outbreak of two wars. was the first witness as the long delayed hearings got under way. The Issue of peacetime military training is expected to explode Into one of the hottest fights of this session of Congress. Grew said he believed strong ly that American youth should have military training in time of peace. He said his view was based on 40 years of experience in foreign service, Including 10 years In Germany before the last war and 10 in Japan before this one. "I believe It (military training) Is an essential part of our share In the United Nations proposals for world security," Grew said. I 'W ' I' 1 -'ir'" Uluinii imiif WISHING WELL Rfgiil-ri-H U. S. 5 3 6 2 7 4 SET J Y R 6 4 5 8 3 7 R M A O C U i 7 3 6 4 i Y E I L K O 6 4 5 t 8 3 N E E E C E 8 6 7 4 8 7 N E C H P H 3 4 7 6 5 E N T N R A 8 6 1 5 3 4' E N E I T E HERE It a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day. It It a numerical putzl designed to tpell out your fortune. Count the lettert In your first name. If the number of lettert It 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number It leu than e. add 3. The result la your key number, 8trt at the upper left hand corner of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbert, left to right Then read the message the letter! under the checked figure give you. i CnrtM Wglltm Millet tMtrfctt4 7 Kmc rNrfc la 7J Present Attacks With Pilot- less Balloons Experiment For Coming Attack, Said. Guam, June 4 U.R) Radio Tokyo said today that Japan in tends to attack the United States with piloted, bomb-carrying bal loons and has converted her en tire naval air force Into a suicide corps. Tokyo said Lt. Col. Shozo Nakajima, chief spokesman of Japanese armed forces in the southern regions, predicted that piloted stratosphere balloons would attack the American main land in the "near future." Experimenting Now The present attacks on the United States with pilotlest bal loons were only on an experi mental scale, he said. The first of these was released from Japan March 10 and "hundreds" have been released daily tine then, he said. "When actual results of the ex periment have been obtained," Tokyo said, "Large-scale attack! with death-defying Japanese air men manning the balloons will be launched." Nakajima complained that the United States had not divulged the extent of damage caused by the pilotlest balloons, but sur mised they were "creating havoc." He said they had a celling of more than 45,000 feet and took just over 100 hours to reach the United Statet. Navy Suicide Flan Tokyo said the Japanese naval air force had been converted in to a suicide corps to shield the home Islands from the rampag ing American fleet. Every navy plane will be ord ered to crash Itself against an Al lied warship, a correspondent of the Tokyo newspaper Mainichl revealed in a radio Interview with pilots of the tpeclal (sui cide) attack corpi. "If this tactic is tuccetsfu!,'" he said, "Victory lt assured for Japan. If otherwise, the navy will have many heroes for our thrlnes." The broadcast bore out last week's broadcast reporting that the recent shakeup In the Japa nese naval high command fore shadowed the training of all branches of the navy in suicide stt&cks Admiral William F. (Bull) Halsey, commander of the Amer ican Third fleet, welcomed the enemy announcement and chal lenged the Japanese to tend the remnanta of their fleet In a door-die "banzai" attack against him. "I wish the B e would," he told newsmen aboard hit flag ship off Okinawa. "They might get their thumbs halfway to their nose but that's all." Halsey dismissed the Japa nese kamikaze suicide planes at a "damned nuisance rather than a menace" despite the damage they have Inflicted on American naval units off Okinawa. Fast carriers from hit Third fleet launched bombers and fighter-bombers against Japan's suicide-plane bases on Kyushu, southernmost of the enemy't home islands, Saturday and Sun day. The attack Saturday thwarted enemy plans for a new terlet of suicide attacks on American forces in the Okinawa area, a dispatch from the carrier task force reported. At least 33 enemy planes were destroyed or damaged Saturday despite adverse wegther which forced the carrier aircraft to at tack from only 100 to 200 feet altitude. P.lcnl OHio. 8 3 6 6 4 7 6 A X Q HOP U "6 4 8 J 7 6 6 I A R O R B L 5 1 3 g 4 If B V T I U C L. 8 5 4 1 6 3 1 H I T N O M T 6 3 i 5 4 r X E A F R P A "8 7 6 8 & S O V I S M E 6 8 8 1 6 IT C L S S 8 E Y
