Osaka Suffers Mortal Blow; Allies Speed War Climax
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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
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Medford
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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.
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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;
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE
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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
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'J meat industry, faUiUf fejys
7, 1945
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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
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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,
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(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.
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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.
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