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Newspaper Page TextYanks Seize 'Back Door In Drive For Final Okinawa Kill E Weather FORECAST; Partly cloud? to cloudy with ihowert tonight and Saturday. Ltltlt chans in temperature. Temp. Highest Yesterday 7 Lowest this Morning MMM ..... 41 Tribune EDFORD OUTFLANKS FOE IN United Pr Full Laaiad Wlxa United Press Full Liuid Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1945 NO. 66. Marines, Doughboys Drive Relentlessly Forward Japs Herded Toward Sea. Three Men Executed by Japs an Guam 25,000 GI Brides Anxious to Leave - L3l, Britain For U. S. M (Acme Telephoto) ,Three men are about to be executed by Japanese occupation forces on Guam kneel before their open gravel tin this captured Jap photo, made shortly after seizure of Guam by enemy In 1941. The trio, of which noth lng Is known, were beheaded for some offense against Jap military. The picture was circulated among Nip troops for "morale purposes." Stalin's Approval Of Discussion Freedom Ends Conference Deadlock. Speeds Windup San Francisco, June 8 (U.R) A reunited big five today defended their right to veto action by the proposed world security council but guaran teed freedom for the council to discuss any dispute before taking action. The big five interpretation o! the Yalta voting formula . was presented to the United Nations conference and made public a few hours after Soviet Russia on direction of Premier Josef Stalin with drew its demand for a big power veto even over discus lion of disputes in the council. San Francisco, June 8. (U.PJ Premier Josef Stalin's approv al of freedom of discussion in the proposed world security council broke a dangerous big five deadlock today and started a new 'drive for early adjourn ment of the United Nations con ference. Officials Immediately stepped tip the daily program and aimed at completion of the world char ter within two weeks. Ends Long Split The big five were united again after nearly a week of a 4 to 1 split over whether a big power should have a veto over council discussion of a dispute. Russia's capitulation on that issue came after President Truman's special Jackson county stands In sixth place among the "big ten" coun ties of the state in "E" bond sates during the war loan drive now underway, a report from Port land shows. The county has sold 37.1 per cent of its quota of $1,067,000, the count having been made June 5. Winner of the contest will have the honor of sending repre sentatives from the county to launch a ship from one of the Portland yards. Washi n g t o n county now leads with 56.2 per cent of its "E" quota, while j Clackamas is second and Multno mah third. Sales up to Thursday night were $391,247 for the "E" series, the daily report of the drive committee shows. COUNTY BUDGET GETS APPROVAL AT HEARING The Jackson county budget for the 1945-1946 tax year start ing July 1, calling for raising of $366,841 05, by tax levy, was approved without a protest or comment this morning at a pub lic hearing in the courthouse auditorium. Only half a dozen citizens were present. County Clerk George R. Carter said the order on levy, would be signed today by the county court and budget committee and turned over to the county assessor. WAR BOND SALES REACH 67 PER CENT OF QUOTA Washington, June 8. (U.R) Individuals today were making encouraging progress toward their $7,000,000,000 seventh war loan goal with sales totaling $4,682,000,000 or 67 per cent of quota. The total included E bond ales of $2,150,000,000 or 54 per rent of the $4,000,000,000 E bond fioaL sit . representative In Moscow, Harry L. Hopkins, appealed personally to Stalin. Big five experts worked late into the night to draft a paper for presentation to the confer ence today setting forth their unanimous interpretation of the Yalta voting formula. The paper about three pages long and consisting of about a dozen para graphs is designed to answer the 22 questions about the Yalta formula submitted by the little nations nearly three weeks ago. Questions Lilted The big five paper sets forth for the first time a list of "pro cedural questions" questions on which only a majority of any seven members of the 11-nation security council is needed for a decision. . ' The interpretation of the big five of the Yalta formula is di vided Into four main points as follows: 1. It states unequivocally that any question which might arise about discussion in the council if a procedural question and thus not subject to the rule of unan irhity veto of the big five powers. 2. It argues that while the Yalta formula calls for unanim ity of the big five on most de cisions and action, its form Is limited as compared with the old League of Nations where all members had to agree to a de cision. It contends that the Yalta formula offers less obstruction to positive action by the new organization than the league's rule of unanimity, 3. It argues that In a strong organization the great powers must always concur in matters that are so serious as to affect the peace of the world. 4. It sets forth for the first time the following as procedural questions: Fixing the council's rules of procedure; method of selecting president of council; organization of the council so It can function continuously; the choice of times and places for K. F. POLICE CHIEF HELD IN ARKANSAS Portland, Ore., June 8 (U.R) The FBI today announced the ar rest at Kensett, Ark., of Thomas Lester Van Den Hcuvel, former Klamath Falls police chief sought since February. The former officer was indict ed on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor on January 26 at Klamath Falls. He was indicted again on February 19 by state authorities on a rape charge. He left Klamath Falls on February-20. He was sought by federal au thorities on a charge of unlawful flight id avoid prosecution, said Joseph E. Thornton, special BBont In charge of the Portland FBI office. BASEBALL National Cincinnati .. 3 7 0 Chicago 7 14 2 Lisenbee, Bosser, Fox and Unser; Derringer and Livingston. American Boston t 8 8 1 New York 4 8 1 Hautmann, Barrett, Johnson and Walters, bunham and Car-bark. 1. meeting; the creation of subordi nate agencies of the council; invitation to states not on the council to join discussions. To Gain Unanimity Russia's decision to abandon her demand was said to have been done in the spirit of bow ing to majority opinion and in the interest of maintaining big five unanimity, "If a point on which we dis agree with you is proved to us," a Russian delegate said, "and we seek and feel that it is based on good will and justified desires. we will agree to it. That has happened on this issue. You have convinced us and we have agreed. Our policy has never been inflexible.': ........ Behind the Russian change, however, was the story of Hop kins:Stalin negotiatipns.and the decision of Secretary of State Edward R, Stettinius, Jr., to have Hopkins lay the U. S. cards on' the 'table' with the Russian leader. ENJOY. IRE GAS Washington, June 8. (U.R) uniy a.uuu.uuu out of B,553.zoo B-card holders will be eligibU for more gasoline Monday when ceilings rise to 650 miles month ly. A rations go up a gallon a week for everybody June 22. The office of price administra tion said today that only B hold ers whose essential occupational driving needs exceed current B ceilings for their regions would be granted increases. Other B holders, such as home-to-work drivers," OPA said, "should not apply for any increases since their applications will have to be rejected only will add to the work of the local boards." . OPA asked, that-applications be mailed rather than taken to boards Japs To Abandon . . Liuchow, Kweilin Chungking, June 8 (U.R) Chinese military sources predict ed today Japanese troops will abandon both Liuchow and Kweilin, former American air base towns In Kwangsl province, to escape threatened encircle ment by Chinese ground troops. It was disclosed the pnpmv at. ready has withdrawn from areas north of embattled Liuchow to Kweilin. 100 miles distant Chungking sources said the mil itary value of both cities has been lost to the Japanese because of neavy daily bombings by the in air force and severance of the trans-China corridor. OES DEATH DECREED Washinetnn. June ft. ill P) The house today voted 87 to 69 to kill the office of economic stabilization by striking funds for its operation out of the war tgencics appropriation bill, JAP ADMIRALS KILLED San Francisco, June 8 (U.R) The Japanese Dome! News Agen cy reported today that two more Japanese admirals have been killed in action at the Sasebo naval base on western Kyushu. The dispatch, recorded by the FCC. identified them as Rear Ad mirals Rujima Sugi and Minuru Karl) a. PEAR CROP TO BE LARGE1S YEAR Early Summer Check Esti mates Yield to Be Two to Ten Per Cent Higher. Earley summer surveys of fruitgrowers and shippers of the valley indicate that the 1945 pear crop will probably be some what larger than last year, with the possible exception of the Bosc variety. D'Anjous and Cornice, it is believed, will show a small increase and Bartlctt growers estimate the increase in that crop anywhere from two to ten per cent. . Soft fruit crops may be below normal, according to C. B. Cordy, assistant county agent, who states that the peach crop is "pretty good" but that the apri. cot yield is generally light. Cherry trees for the most part set well, but some growers are now reporting a drop, Cordy de clared, and added that he had not as yet had sufficient reports to know whether the drop was gen eral or not. No commercial pear damage from frost was suffered, fruit- men state. Smudging was neces sary on but five nights and even unheated orchards suffered no damage, the surveys indicate. Scab infection is said to be light since the season has been favor able for control and adequate spraying programs were carried on throughout the valley. More Dangerous Estimates by leading growers and shippers place O'Anjou pros pects at about 500,000 boxes, de pending upon the growing sea son and size of the pears at pack ing time. A few orchardists re port a poor D'Anjou crop be cause of an early drop, but many others report a normal yield. Last year 434,000 boxes of this variety were packed in Medford. Last year 760,000 boxes of Bartlctt pears were packed here and about 919 tons were sold to canneries and both growers and packers generally agree that the crop will run considerably larger than last year. Bosc Ideas Vary There is a divergence of opin ion on the Bosc, but estimates place the 1945 crop at about 500,000 boxes. Last year 582,000 boxes of this variety were pack ed. Due to the fact that Cornice pears are generally packed in small boxes and packages of varying size for the gift trade, the fruit industry finds it more difficult to make comparative estimates for this variety but generally appear to agree that the coming crop will be larger than last year. SIXTY BOYS LEAVE FOR BLISTER CONTROL CAMP Sixty boys, 18 to 18 years of age, from various parts of the United States, left Medford to day for the blister rust control camp at Union Creek, according to a report from the U. S. forest service. Approximately 40 more boys will arrive next week at the camp, which is under the super vision of Charles King. Prayers Seek Jap Victory As Okinawa Collapse Nears San Francisco,' June 8. (U.R) Premier Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki prayed "ov'cr and over for a Japanese victory at tne Meili and Yasakunl shrines to day, while the people of Japan were being prepared for defeat at Okinawa. Tokyo radio recorded by Unit ed Press admitted Japanese posl tions were being flanked in bit ter fighting. Japanese reports said that the climactic stages of the ground fighting. American air and sea power both were being Increased considerably. One enemy broad cast said more than 400 U. S. aircraft, Including P-47, P-51 and P-38 fighters, were sighted on Okinawa air fields by Jap anese reconnaissance pilots. "Enemy naval forces, laid one Japanese report, "arc paving the way for the ground figming by further intensifying the In tense bombardment Irurn vessel .London, June 8 (U.R) F thousand British brides of Ar ican GI's have applied for ti portation to the United Stat the month since V-E Day United Press learned todaj But love has no priori transatlantic shipping. I May the army was able f passage room for only 80 thousands of clamorii brides. There are now 25,000 wivesiawaiting transportation tu their new homeland, and many of them have been waiting for 18 months. There arc no reliable statistics on the number of children of these war marriages, but one em bassy official summed ,it up wearily: "It seems as if almost all of them either have pecting 'em." em or are ex- BLOCKED PLAN TO FREE COLONIES Moscow, June 8 (U.R) Prav- da, the organ of the communist party, asserted today that the British in 1943 blocked discus sion at the Moscow conference of an American plan for early liberation of "the entire colonial world" along the lines of the At lantic charter. The assertion was made by A. Leontiev, in the first of a series of articles on colonial problems. Leontiev said the American plan was supported by the Soviet Union but was not discussed at Moscow because of British objec tions. - " Ho cited the situation In Syria and Lebanon as the latest ex ample of how rivalries over colonial resources disturb world peace. The events In Syria and Le banon," he said, ."according to the foreign press, definitely smells of oil'," "A prominent role in the solu tion of these international af fairs," said the article, "is being played not only by the colonial powers but by theSovlot Union, which has always defended the right of peoples for self-determination and complete national in dependence and by the United States which has no considerable colonial possessions and there fore is not interested In preserv ing the existing colonial system." More Transports Bring Returnees New York. June 8 (UPJ Three more troop transports docked at Stapleton, Staten Island, today, bringing 4,425 sol diers home from Europe. The soldiers arrived on the troop ships Cristobal, Bienville and Excellcr and included 2,410 for reassignment, 1,613 wound ed and 13 liberated from German prison camps. STORE BLAZE Twin Falls, Ida, June 8 (U.R) Fire gutted the C. C. Anderson company downtown department store here today, causing dam age estimated at $300,000. The loss was believed to be the high est in one fire in Twin Falls history. around the southern waters of the island." Meantime the Japanese trans portation ministry announced it had found it necessary to revise passenger train time tables presumably because of super fortress raids. The ministry said virtually all passenger trains w,ill bo moved at night. London, June 8. (U.R) Radio Tokyo today reported growing demands for complete decree rule in Japan a hint that an even more severe dictatorship was about to be clamped on the country. "Drastic revamping of the whole internal administration under extraordinary authority Is now considered urgently neces sary by political and other well informed quarters," a political expert of the Japanese Di.mci Agency said in .a broadcast dispatch. 12 TO TI AT sixty of Total Were Ameri can Seven Additional Yankee Divisions in Italy. Washington, June 8. (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had 92 allied division under his com mand to defeat Germany and 60 o them were American, Secre tary of War Henry L. Stimson announced today. Of the American divisions, three were airborne, 15 armored and 42 infantry. There were 14 British divisions, five Canadian 11 French and one Polish. Serin In Italy These were in addition to the armies in Italy, which included seven American divisions. Stimson also disclosed that 40,- 000 American soldiers liberated from German prison camps arc already back in the United States and more than 40,000 will arrive this month, . The remainder, abcut 10,000, will be back in July, he said. "Inside Germany our military authorities are facilitating the return of Germans to foo.d pro duction, Stimson continued. Gen, Omar .N. Bradley, com mander of the 12th army group under Elsenhower and soon to become veterans' administrator, was present at Stimson's news conference. Bulge Shortimd War Bradley said the net result of the German offensive into the Ardennes last December was to shorten the war materially." He said the fortunate capture of the Remegcn bridgehead also speeded Germany s final defeat perhaps as much aa several weeks. ' The general said he had hoped the Germans would counter at tack in the Ardennes. They did, but In greater strength than he had expected. "When the Germans attacked on Dec. 16, we didn't know how large it was." He said "Gen. Smith (Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff) said: " 'Bradley, you wanted to be counter-attacked. There it Is'. "'Yes,' I said, 'but I didn't want It to be that big'." "We knew the Germans had two panzer armies In there and we wanted them to counter-at tack piecemeal. "We had been planning to attack across the Roer river on Jan, 10, In an offensive to the Rhine. We knew we would suf fer heavy losses if we had to meet those two panzer armies. Emmy Weakened . "The German offensive upset our plans, and we launched the offensive Feb. 10 after one month's delay, but the enemy was much weaker as a result. "Along the Rocrrlver we had to wait from Feb. 10 to 23 for the river to go down. It was almost a mile wide and very swift as a result of heavy rains and early thaws and dams blown by the Germans. It was the worst 13 day I ever spent." Bradley said that In tht bat tle for Germany, "time was al ways a keynote." There were many times, he said, when "If we had given the Germans 24 hours' rest, they would have been able to reform and stop us." "We had the best trained and the best equipped army ever put In the field by any nation," Brad Icy said. "There were squads that took half a dozen pillboxes and never got hurt. It was all teamwork. The people in the oc cupied countries were amazed at our equipment, which far ex ceeded that of the Germans in the blitz." In telling how the Americans bottled up German troops in the Ruhr and elsewhere while other U. S. forces rushed forward, Bradley said: "Doughboys don't like to walk. They ride anything, gun car riages and tanks. As a result the Infantry could make 30 miles a day and clean up pockets on the way." ROOSEVELTS EXPECT Beverly Hills, Cal , June 8 (U.R) Mrs. James Roosevelt to day confirmed reports she and her husband, eldest son of the late president, expect their first child In November. Col. Roose velt, 37, and the former Romcllc Schneider, 29, who nursed him when he underwent an operation In 1939 at the Mayo brothers hospital, Rochester, Minn., were married bert in April, 1811. Judy Garland Gets Final Decree From Orchestra Director ' Hollywood, June 8 '(U.R) Songstress Judy Garland was free to marry her film director, Vincente Minnelli, after obtain ing her final divorce decree to day from Sgt. David Rose, or chestra director and composer. In winning her interlocutory decree a year ago, Miss Garland charged that Rose objected to her friends, stayed away from home and failed to telephone her when he was nbsent. They were married In Las Vegas, Ney., July 28, 1941, and separated Feb. 24, 1943. Rose is to receive a medical discharge from the army and plans to re turn to film work. SENATE FINANCE CUTTING TARIFF Washington, June 8. (U.R) The senate finance committee to day voted 10 to 9 against the administration's request for au thority to cut tariff rates 50 per cent below present levels. The committee struck the tar iff cutting authority out of a bill to extend the reciprocal trade agreements program for three years. Committee Chairman Walter F. George, D Ga said he would fight to restore the provision to the bill when it comes up for debate in the senate next week. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky said he hoped to start senate debate on the bill next Tuesday. The motion to strike out the tariff . reduction feature; which President Truman has declared Is of primary Importance to suc cess of his administration, was made by Sen; Robert A.. Taft, R., O. .Three Democrats voted with seven Republicans ' in striking out the section. Sen. Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, the sen ate's lone progressive, - voted with . eight Democrats against the delegation. The committee action had been expected.' The administra tion's world money policy was finding smooth sailing In con gress, but its foreign trade pro gram was getting rougher treat ment. The overwhelming bi-partisan house vote for the Bretton Woods monetary agreement en couraged administration leaders to hope for easy passage In the senate, too.. French Airplane Waits For Laval Paris, June 8 U.R) The gov ernment announced today that a French plane now l at Barce lona to return Pierre Laval to France to face charges as a traitor In his collaboration with the nazis. Laval, chief of government In the Vichy regime during the Ger man occupation of France, Is ex pected to be flown back to his homeland at .any time, an of ficial, announcement said. WINNINGS WHITTLED Washington, June 8. (U.R) A negro corporal's skill with the dice was attested to by the treas ury today when lt announced that the winnings, originally $38,000, had been whittled down to $20,000 after taxes. The unnamed soldier, stationed in Australia, sent the winnings to a Harlem bank In New York. WISHING WELL Ri,lrd U. S. B7286ST428547 A Y A B. OF OMC E. B A U 1 4 S 5 3 8 2 1 I J R I A IUC. HFR. LI RU 1 1 3 8 B 4 7 6 8 8 2 1 4 A T N ETB UNT.HNR O 7 5 1 if 5 5 8 1 S 3 f I E D X I DO NBA 8 R E. E 6 8 i 1 5 r"3 4 2 7 & I 6 T N W W I Y L. Q J I O N 1 F O, 2 J 3 8 8 2 "t 3 8 2 5 f L O R E V, L UHO E. HA. N 7 2 5 s T 5 7 i t 45 1 i T ER D EW N L S YS 8 P HERE Is a plinant little (am that will give you a meisag every day. It is a numerical puitli designed to spell out your fortune. Count thi letters In your flnt name. If the number Or llltirl 11 6 or more, lUDiract , ii ui nummr icb uinn 9.1 add 3. The result U your key number. 8tart at tha upper left-' hand comer of tha rectangli and check every ona of your key numben, left to right Then read tha meisig the littera undec the checked figure! give you. to ft ?nSU?jy.W .mja HiUtr. PIHMliutrt by K'ni f eature!. Ir-V Guam, Saturday, June 9. (U.R) American troops, closing in for the final kill on southern Okinawa, captured the town of Gushican in a swift drive down the east coast that outflanked the Japanese garrison's moun- . tain death-trap, front dispatches reported today. Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Am old's seventh division - seized Gushican, one of the four anch ors of the Yaeju-Dake escarp, mcnt where an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 doomed Japanese were dug in for a final battle of anni hilation. Herded Toward Sa Gushican may prove to be a valuable "back door" to the plateau fortress, which now was besieged by four American divi sions. Marines and doughboys moved relentlessly forward, herding the enemy slowly toward the sea under a furious assault with tanks, flame-throw-ers, rockets and artillery. The Okinawa campaign was nearing its end, but American commanders ackn o w 1 e d g e d there would be tough fighting ahead before the island can bs called secure, Japanese, falling back slowly In two shrinking pockets, con verted everv hillock and ram n the plateau into a defense posi tion. Yanks advancing uphill were SWent bv enemv TnnphlnA mm fire from hill-top emplacements. 86th Hill Tomul U. S. patrols probed last-ditch enemy defenses. Advance unit. of Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley'i soin a i vision slashed into the outskirts of Tomul. anchor town at the base of the plateau. Tomul U 2 nnn v.rH. slightly more than a mile northwest of Gushican. , Marines and soldiers already had slain- 66,234 of the original Japanese garrison of perhaps 80,000 men. . CARRIER PLANES E fillnm .Tun Q film n, , Hu,.u v vw.n, xwo hundred or mnr Am.rin.n ... rier planes raided Kanoya and other suicide-plane bases on Ky- ushu In southern Japan shortly after noon today, radio Tokyo reported. TokvO ttiri Iho nl.r,.. ,!.,!.. J , ' a.M.r. in waves of 30 to 40. They pre- lumaDiy came rrom fast carrier task force: stUiched to Admiral William F. Halsey's famed third fleet, but there was no immedi ate confirmntinn fleet headquarters. "The enemy apparently In. tended to forestall the activities of the special attack (suicide) corps based on these airfields," Tokyo said. "However, almost no damage was sustained by our ground Installations." Kanoya lies on the eastern shore of Kagoshima bay on southern Kyushu. Radio Tokyo also said Ameri can Superfortresses were "min utely reconnoitering" even me dium and small cities in Japan preparatory to stepping up their aerial bombardment of the horn islands. NAVY RELEASES CANDY BARS FOR CIVILIANS Washington, June 8. (U.R) For your information: The navy is turning over for civilian consumption 11,250,000 surplus candy bars. Pitmt Officf.