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Osaka Suffers Mortal Blow; Allies Speed War Climax r Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Friday with after noon ibowrrc in higher moun tains. Slightly warmer day time temperature!. Temp. Highest Yeiterday 70 Low tit this Morning , .43 Fortieth Year P TRANSFER HERE Reactivation of Upstate Camp Ordered to Accom .modate Up to 16,000. Official announcement that Camp Adair, near Corvallis, will become an overseas replacement depot has given rise to conjec ture upstate that the naval hos pital recently established at that camp may be transferred to Camp White. It is also surmised that the hospital may remain at Adair and be shared by the army and navy under the same sys tem as is planned for (.amp White. Reactivation of Camp Adair to accommodate from 12,000 to 18 O00 men for overseas training, presumably for the Pacific war, has necessitated a civil employee recruiting program in that area aimilar to the one announced for Camp White last Saturday. Six hundred workers are needed in Camp Adair, the United States employment service announced t Corvallis. Processing Point The soldier trainees wilt be ent to Camp Adair as individual replacements, not as a unit, it was revealed, the depot to be used as a processing point to back up ports of Portland and Seattle. Troops will start assem bling at Adair as soon as neces sary arrangements can be made, Type of troops to be accom modated at Camp White and time of probable arrival of the initial installments has not been learned here although it was in dicated in previous announce ments that the total might be much more than the 16,000 max imum expected at Camp Adair. At one time Camp Adair had a soldier population of more than 40,000. The 96th (Deadeye) division was activated there Aug ust 15, 1942 by Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley, who took the divi sion ashore in the first landing on Leyta and who now com mands it on Okinawa. The 96th completed it training at Camp White, coming here after depar ture of the 91st which was acti vated and gained its major train ing In tha local camp. The 91st trained for a time at Camp Adair after leaving here for maneuvers in Central Oregon. The 91st fought with the 5th army in Italy tinder command of Maj. Gen. William G. Livesay. JAP BALLOON TRAVELS FAR EAST AS MICHIGAN Lansing, June 7 (U.R) A Jap anese balloon of the type used lo carry bombs landed in the state of Michigan several months ago and was located before anv injury resulted, Capt. Donald S. Leonard, director of the Michi gan office of civilian defense, an nounced today. Leonard said the announce ment had been cleared by the Detroit office of the sixth service command, acting on instructions from Washington. Leonard said there could be no announcement of where the balloon landed. Washington, June 7 (U.R) The War Production Board to day increased by 50 per cent the amount of leather available for repairing women's shoes. Landon Urges Support For Truman; Realistic Attitude Toward World Manhattan, Kans., June 7 (U.R) Alf M. Landon, 1936 re publican presidential nominee, said today the United States must make clear to the nations of the world that it is willing to as sume its responsibilities as an "honest broker for peace." , This nation, Landon Mid, should adopt a realistic and ob jective attitude, quit day-dreaming and stand firmly on the prin ciple that life, liberty and the pusuit of happiness are for na tions as well as individuals. Speaking at a Manhattan Ro tary club luncheon, Landon as sayed the "hallelujah policy" he said many persons were pur k suing with regard to Dumbarton Oaks and the United Nations conference. If Americans had adopted a balanced set of judgments, based en keen examination of facts and h&li4 iWetfe Kt'-j &aU Medford United Prt)it 4 1' Three students from Medford are ia the 1945 graduating class at.. tha ..Oregon.. State ..college commencement, June 10. Pic tured are Joan Carlin Piatt, busi- ness and industry, and Ruth Slorah, business and industry, Third of the students is Capt, Ross F. Swall, now in Italy with the 91st Infantry Division, who is receiving a degree in science. 10 Oregon State College, Corval lis, June 7 Among the 325 sen iors and graduate students who will receive degrees at the 76th annual commencement here Sun day will be three from Medford. These are Joan Carlin Piatt, Ruth Slorah and Capt. Ross F. Swall. Both Miss Piatt and Miss Slor ah have majored in the school of home economics, the largest school in the college during war years Swall, in Italy with the 91st infantry division, has ma jored in the school of science and is one of 36 graduating. Six of these are pre-medical students who have completed one year in the Medical school in Portland before receiving degrees. Of the total graduating class this year 301 will receive bache lor's degrees, 22 master s and two the highest degree of doctor of philosophy. TO BE REVISED Portland, June 7 (U.R) Work begins Monday on revision of guide rates and ranges for work ers in the northwest logging and lumbering industry, West Coast Lumber commission officials said today. Working with them will be a small group of experienced men chosen by and from industry and labor. Until the schedule is completed, the commission will continue to use the present published rates in all cases. Additional wage analysts, who will work on issues in dispute cases, plus other staff members, have been authorized by Nation al War Labor board for the com mission. With this lift, the com mission expects to put work on a current basis by the end of the summer, officials said. said, there would be no need for "the very government agencies that ballyhooed their accom plishments a few months ago to attempt to warn the American people now of expecting too much from the conference at San Francisco." The one-time presidential as pirant urged unified support of President Truman's foreign pol icies. "To President Truman comes the great opportunity and the heavy responsibilities of effect ing policies that will offer a sound base for peace and at the sa.ne time continue a united front against Japan," Landon said. . "He will need our united sup port in his endeavor to develop the beginning at Dumbarton -Oaks and San Francisco into a world f rum where nations large and small may be heard; $i9u; leu or hinclia&ce;; - j 7 Full Lud Wlr MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE F L SEWER SYSTEM Citizens to Vote on $300,000 Plan to Curb Excess Water, Aid Sanitation. (The fourth and final article in a series dealing with the city improvement projects to be vot ed on Jun 12, Is published be low,) Construction of a modern sys tem of storm sewers and drains, one of the six civic improvement projects on which Medford resi dents will vote at a special elec tion June 12, has been planned primarily from the standpoint of flood control and as a sanitary measure, city officials state. Plans for this improvement were drawn with the idea that it would be a long-term project, it is said, and consideration of the bond issue was considered wise at this time in order that the pre liminary financial arrangements might be made and the work then carried on from time to time when materials and man power are available. The project would cost about $300,000 in its entirety, this sum not only cov ering materials and labor but rights - of - way, easements and lands necessary for the system. Frequent Floods "For many years our city has been flooded during storm peri ods," Mayor Clarence A. Meeker said in discussing the storm sew er project. "Basements of churches, stores, hotels and homes have been filled with an overflow of water causing ex pense, bad sanitary conditions and considerable trouble and in convenience. In addition, sev eral, long, open ditches running through the city have standing water in them during all of the summer period, this coming from irrigation sources. These open ditches are a menace to the health of the people. They are mosquito infested, often filled with garbage and generally dan gerous to the children who play in the vicinity. "An all-over storm sewer sys tem is badly needed to clear up this unsanitary condition and to prepare for flood conditions dur ing winter months." Stqll Kidnaper Term Changed To Lifetime In Cell Eddyville, Ky., June 7 (U.R) Thomas Robinson- was headed for a lifetime in a prison cell to day and glad of it. Only yesterday he faced death In the electric chair for the kid naping in 1934 of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. a wealthy member of one of the first families in Kentucky. President Truman stepped in to save him, with less than 38 hours to spare. Mr. Truman late yesterday commut ed Robinson's sentence to life imprisonment. Robinson, now 38, held Mrs. Stoll captive in an Indianapolis apartment for six days. He fled after her family paid $50,000 ransom. Federal Bureau of In vestigation agents hunted him for 19 months before finally catching him in Glendale, Calif. ON AXIS TRIALS Washington, June 7. (U.R) Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, American prosecutor of axis war criminals, reported at length to President Truman today on plans to bring Euro pean war criminals, including the German general staff, to trial. Jackson delivered to the presi dent a 5.000 word report on his preliminary trip to London, but left unanswered the questions of when the war crimes trials would start or how long they would take. The answer to this . he said, depends on the action of other governments and many agencies. Seventh War Lean Drive "E" Sales to Date .... f 383.372 Quota tl.087.000 1NETM PLAN Heavy Majority Vote Gives President Truman Major Foreign Policy Victory Washington, June 7 U.R) The House gave President Tru man another major foreign pol icy victory today, approving the Bretton Woods monetary agree ments by a heavy bipartisan ma jority. The vote was 345 to 18. A breakdown of the vote showed that all of the 18 dis senting votes were cast by re publicans. Voting for the bill were 205 democrats, 138 republi cans and two minor party mem bers. Has Strong Support Approval of the measure to ratify the agreements came less than two weeks after House pas sage of the administration's re ciprocal trade agreement bill at the end of a bitter partisan fight. Unlike that measure, the Bret- ton Woods bill had strong sup port from both republicans and democrats. It now goes to the senate facing a still uncertain future. The bill would authorize the United States to participate to the extent of $6,000,000.000 in the proposed $8,800,000,000 mon etary stabilization and develop ment. Representatives of 44 na tions drafted the agreements last year at Bretton Woods, N.H. Defeat Attempted loaays vote came after op ponents of the bill were defeated in their final attempt to force a basic change in the agreements. mat attempt was made on a proposal of Rep. Jessie Sumner, R., 111., which in effect would have scrapped the stabilization fund and permitted U. S. mem bership in the bank alone. The proposal was rejected on a roll call vote of 325 to 29. SPECIAL VENIRE A special venire of 10 women and one man was drawn yester day for circuit court jury serv ice starting next Monday before circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna. First case listed is that of James H. Nunes against Maurice J. Woodson and Alonzo R. Harden for $15,000 personal injury dam ages, and $2,756.40 special dam ages. The suit Is based upon an accident on the Dead Indian road last July 1, when logging trucks collided. Nunes, a pas senger in one of the trucks was hurt. The venire as drawn Is: Mil dred Bliss, Elizabeth S. Dress ier, Julia Elliot, Rt. 2; Lulu B. Fisk, Rt. lj Ruby V. Clements, Bernece E. Clark, Dorothy M. Boyd and Everett Brayton, all Medford; Margret Biegel, Ash land, and Wilma McGraw, Eagle Point. RESTRICTIONS LIFTED ON CANADIAN MINING Ottawa, June 7 (U.R) Re strictions prohibiting develop ment of new mining properties Canada have been lifted. Munitions Minister C. D. Howe announced today. The minister said all metals control restrictions on the mln- ng of gold and other metals or minerals have been removed. 0PA Offers Special Price Control Basis For Meat To Washington, Juae 7 (U.R) The administration, in an effort to appease senate foes, has of fered to put the meat industry on a special price control basis. it was learned today. OPA Chief Chester Bowles. In letter to Senate President Kenneth McKcltar, D . Tcnn., promised that OPA would see that the products of each of the three main groups of meat ani malscattle and calves, hogs and lambs "are each separately considered on a profitable basis." This would amount to aban doning the "over-all" profit basis on which OPA has regulated the I , nruiii vi n ill? ii'KUiniLii ii 'J meat industry, faUiUf fejys 7, 1945 O I'M -r? I 1 t S Only the strong arms cf his fellow veterans keep this soldier from falling overboard In attempt to get qurt of milk passed out by Red Cross as their ship headed for dock In San Francisco. They were among the first contingent of mora than 1000 Yanks to return to U. 8. from the Pacific under Army's oolnt discharge plan. United Nations Wait Sign From Moscow For Break In Big Five Deadlock On Voting United Press Correspondent San Francisco, June 7 (U.R) With the new world organization charter nearly completed, the United Nations conference wait ed today for a sign from Moscow for a "break" in the Big Five deadlock over voting procedure. Disagreement over a tiny part of the voting formula whether a big power should have the right to veto discussion of a dis- San Francisco. Jun 7 (U.R) For the first time (Sunday excepted) sine tha United Na . tlons Security conference be gan on April 25, tha United States delegation failed today to meet in the morning. Thara was no explanation for the lack of a meeting. Guesses were that there simp ly was no business to be dis cussed. pute in the security council Is the last major obstacle to com pletion of the charter. Ten Days Needed nrflrinlK predicted that the conference could be adjourned within 10 days after the veto is cno u tloH. That allows for the formalities of commission and plenary sessions. The veto question has been inrlt pver since 'the United States, Britain, France and China rejected Russia s proposal for a veto over council discussion last Saturday. Neither the United States nor the Russian delegations here are disposed to make a move on it. The whole question appears to Fountain At Court House Will Honor Pioneer Citizens Unveiling and presentation of a water fountain and bencn oi petrified wood to citizens of Jackson county in honor of pi oneers of the county will take place in front of the county cojrt house Saturday at 1:15 p. m. The fountain, made of petri fied formations chiefly from Eagle Point and Sams Valley dis tricts and located at the side of the side walk entering the court house, Is a gift to citizens by the Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Millard, 8th street and Oakdale avenue. The Rev. Millard will make the offi cial presentation and an accept ance will be made by Judge J. B. Coleman or Ralph Sweeney, county treasurer. Appease Critics complained that this contributed to the meat shortage. Bowles' offeY was learned by the United Press as the senate went into its second day of de bate on a bill which would ex tend price control until July 1, 1946. The present act expires June 30. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., and Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla led a bi-partisan move In the senate today to force revi sion of OPA price policies. They challenged an adminis tration argument that changing the price control program now nt'iipu i,c arwi lu iikiiiiuh kb U powdy fctor?." would be akin to lighting a Tribune United Press 1000 Pacific Vets Home for Discharge have been transferred to a far higher level. Harry L. Hopkins, personal representative of President Tru man, is still in Moscow where the United States appealed t o Premier Stalin to change his mind on the delicate issue. There has been no word from there on the question since it was an nounced that Hopkins was pro longing his stay because of "ni business." Progress Slow Meanwhile, the conference moved along at a snail's pace, cleaning up odds and ends of ap proximately 10 issues still out standing. The executive committee, com posed of 14 nations, scheduled another meeting today to consid- SIX HELD UNDER EACT Washington, June 7. (U.R) Six persons, including two state department officials and a navy lieutenant, were under arrest to day in connection with the theft of highly confidential govern ment papers classified as re stricted" and "top secret." The five men and one woman specifically were charged with stealing the documents in a con spiracy to violate the espionage act. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said that the data from confiden tial government files usually was turned over to Philip Jacob Jaffe,- Russian-born co-editqr wun Kate Louise Mitchell of the New York magazine "Amorasia" Jaffe and Miss Mitchell and Mark Julius Gayn, nationally known writer who also alleged ly used some of the material, were arraigned in New York. They are at liberty on $10,000 Dond. Those apprehended here were: Lt. Andrew Roth, formeily assigned to the office of naval intelligence. . Emmanuel Slguard Larsen, specialist In the state depart ments umna division. John Stewart Service, state department foreign service of fice employe who until recently was stationed in China. Bradley To Become Vet Administrator Washington, June 7. (U.R) President Truman today an nounced the appointment of Gen. Omar N. Bradley as veter ans' administrator. The famed commander of European operations will suc ceed Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hlnes. Resignation of Hlnes and ap pointment of Bradley was an nounced at the president's press conference. Bradley returned from Europe on Sunday. Mines had headed the veterans unit since 1923. RAPIST SENTENCED San Bernardino, Calif.. June 7 (U.R) Cpl. Charles Wells of At lanta, Ga., today was sentenced to death before a firing squad for the rape and murder last April 6 of Mrs. Irene C. Clark, San Ber flardiag bowewUe, Full Leased Wire NO. 65. (Acmm TeUphoto) er two mora "appeals" of the Big Five from committee decisions. They involve the questions of ex pulsion of a member from the new league and whether the as sembly shall have the power to approve or disapprove reports made to it by the security coun cil. The Big Five want special pro vision for expulsion of a mem ber for wilful violation of the charter. They also seek elimina tion of a section giving the as sembly power to approve or dis approve council reports and to make recommendations on them, . Plenary Sessions Soon There was every indication that all committee work except that stalemated by the unsettled veto procedure question will be completed by the week-end. It Is expected that open plenary sessions will begin next week. The Big Five met for 90 min utes last night in the apartment of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettlnius, Jr., Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko asked for the meeting to announce his gov ernment's, approval of a French amendment on bilateral treaties directed at the enemy. The new wording will allow those treaties to come under the supervision of the world organization "by re quest" Instead of "by consent" of the signatory powers. ON BUDGE! SET The public hearing on the Jackson county budget for the 1944-1945 tax year will be held In the courthouse auditorium tomorrow at 10 a. m. It will be formally signed and certified and turned over to the assessor for extension of the levy on the tax rolls. The budget calls for raising by tax levy of $366,841.05. This is slightly less than last year. A member of the county court esti matetl the county levy would be a mill less than last year. Arnold Bohncrt of Central Point will act as chairman of the meeting, with W. W. Robinson, Ashland, secretary. Ben Harder, the other citizen member, and the county court will be In attendance. WISHING WELL R-gt,t-red U. S. 863 8274562887 T Y M Y AS AOO NRU T 8 8 4 T6 3 2 5 8 7 i 5" T U O R HA UI F BAOU S i 6"T3 8 1 4 $ i 6 5 8 8 T C L N WN AT E AYH N 8 5 7 4 8"S 2 S 3 "78 4 8 OOP LTUP3LEQNT S i i 6TS 1 5 4 8 i 2 S 7 H H A T O O T E A E R 8 O t 8 3 1 8 4 8 2 5 7 i 4 if TRV BTAMTE fll R T 1 8 3 8 i 5 1 4 6 3" 6 " 8 I M U EAYRP8ESNN HERE Is a pleasant little gam that will give you a message every day. It Is a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters In your first name. If the number of letter Is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number Is less than 8.1 add 3. The result Is your key number. 8tart at the upper left hand comer of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right Tntn read the message the letter under the checked figures give you. fc J CsrrrtsU IJ4 , by WUIUm t. KiJJff. Dlatrlbutea bjr King JnvuJMft E INDUSTRIAL CITY 2,500 Tons of Fire and Ex plosive Bombs Rain Down) Mopping Okinawa Trap, Pearl Harbor, June 7? U.R) Allied armed forces struck a mighty air blow at tha Japanesa Industrial center of Osaka today, brought final victory on OkU nawa within their grasp, and broadened a grip on the China coast opposite Okinawa to mora than 100 miles. By land, sea and air tha allies were pressing through the pre liminaries to the decisive assault on Japan proper. 600 Planes In Raid Superforts and fighters nearly 600 strong hit Osaka for the sec ond time in a week. The big bombers poured 2,500 tons of fire ahd high explosive missiles into the city. Clouds obscured the results, but returning air men .said they blanketed the entire target area. On Okinawa the groggy sur. vivors of the Japanese garrison were clamped in a pocket of 25 square miles by the U. S. 10th army. The Tokyo radio said they were about finished off. Within a few days, it seemed, the Amer icans would be free to rush tha conversion of the big island into the keystone base for the show down attack on Japan. Chiefs Confer Manila furnished a prime sign that plans for the next major phase of the war in the Pacifia was shaping up. There it wa announced that Gen. Joseph W. Stllwell visited the southwest Pacific and conferred with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and hi staff. The conference of Stllwell, commander of ground forces in tha United States, and Mac Arthur, commander of ground forces In the Pacific, gave tha Japanese a new addition to their growing list of things to worry about. "Vinegar Joe" Stllwell knowa something about the Japanesa from his campaign in Burma and his former command of U. S. forces in the China-Burma-India theater. His contribution to Mac Arthur's knowledge and experi ence In the Pacific meant bad news for Tokyo. On the Asiatic mainland, Chi nese troops licked Japanese re serves rushed In to tha coastal strip opposite Okinawa and won control of better than 100 mile of coastline. Japs In Flight A Chinese communique said Japanese troops who landed northeast of Foochow earlier this week were In flight north ward, and pursued by Chinese forces. The Japanese radio said allied air attacks had disrupted trans portation services at Hong Kong and occupation forces there wera preparing for "any imaginable contingency." In Burma, Indian troops of the British 14th army reached point 18 miles east of Toungoo in their push toward Thailand. XONOYE INTERNED San Francisco, June 7 U.R) The Japanese Dome! Agency said today Hidemaro Konoye, brother of former Premier Prince Fuml maro Konoye, was among Jap anese nationals "interned by the U. S. 7th army in southern Germany. BASEBALL1 National Boston S 9 t Philadelphia 17 8 Tobin and Masi; Lee, Lucier and Peacock. American St. Louis 8 7 0 Chicago 0 7 3 Cramer and Hayworth; Lopat and Tresh. Patent Officg.
