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Use The Mall Tilbun Want Ad Way Quick Reiulti At Small Cost Weather Medford iRIBUNE FORECAST: Continued partly rloudy, Slightly warmer Sun day. Temp. mgneit veiieraay ... 74 Low en this Mornicj i United Pte Full Leased Wire United Preii Full Leased Win Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 194? NO. 67. B-29s Today Spread Ruin Anew Through Jap Home Isle Sillftlljl '"t CK.'7 ""'yy 5" SECOND RAID IN 24 HOURS BLASTS WAR INDUSTRIES Massed Air Offensives Open Halsey's Force Hits Vital - Bases. Guam, Sunday, Juna 10 (U.R) An armada of from 150 to 200 fighter-escorted B-29'i lashed at fiva targets on Japanese home island of Honshu today to blast aircraft factories which had es caped earlier obliteration as saults. For the second time in 24 hours, the giant Marianas-based bombers roared in over the em pire bent on spreading destruc tion through Japan's crippled war industries. An escort of some 100 P-B51 Mustang fighters escorted the B-29's as they struck at medium altitude. Both visual and instru ment bombing were used when the bombers attacked the wide spread targets. The fleet of American aircraft, carrying the aerial offensive against Japan into the second straight day, sped over Honshu to strike three targets in the dev astated Tokyo area alone. It brought the air war into a new phase mass attacks by . smaller units of bombers to spread as' much destruction through the empire as rapidly as possible. The high explosives scattered over Japan's aircraft factories, while not as concen trated as previous 500-plane raids on a single target, were methodi cally wiping out specific plants one by one. The B-29's struck within 24 hours after a triple-blow had hit aircraft plants in Osaka, Nagoya and Kobe with excellent results. Their great five-day attack to day came in the wake of destruc tive "small plane" assaults egainst Honshu and Kyushu aimed at neutralizing enemy air bases. Guam, Sunday, June 10 (U.R) Adm. William F. Halsey's ram paging Third fleet threw swarms of carrier-based aircraft against the important Kanoya airdrome on Japan's home island of Kyu' shu Friday, spreading fires and explosions through the area and destroying at least 30 enemy planes. Halsey sent his powerful Third fleet into action against the enemy for the second time with in a week. Hundreds of carrier aircraft roared over Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home islands, to deliver a power ful blow against one of the major enemy suicide plane bases. The American planes destroy , ei. a minimum of 28 Japanese aircraft on the ground and shot down two in the air. The dis proportionate figures indicated that Halsey the "Wild Bull it the Pacific" who has harassed the Japanese throughout the Pacific had again caught the enemy by surprise. Bombii g and strafing attack peppered the Kanoya airfield area Hangars, installations or the field and parked planes were blasted with heavy caliber bu' lets, bombs and possibly rockets in the destructive raid. Numerous fires and explosives swept through the field area as the American planes roared back to their carriers, daringly stand ing in olose to the Japanese shore. Four U. S. planes wer lost in the raid, but ail the pilots were rescued. 'Argentina to Have More Oil Than U. S. Washington. June 9 (U.P) A high official disclosed tonight that America has agreed to sup ply Argentina 500.000 tons of oil which, he said, will raise that country's consumption close to prewar levels. The official, who did not ap prove of the deal, expressed the opinion that it may mean that Argentine will be better sup plied with oil than United States citizens. Seventh WAR LOAN DRIVE "Z" Sales to Date 1399.254 Quota 11.067.000 Total Salts to Date $1,211,416 Quota S2.087.000 'Blood HHMMHia ....-Mmam I , 'Ear . ... ,t jet )ni-i ' isWat- , ,. . General George B. "Blood and Guts" Palton was back In the V. 8., colorful as ever and fully accoutercd, in cluding three rows of medals and his famous pistols. This photo was taken at Bedford Airport, outside Bos ton. on his arrival from Paris. With him are bis wife and ton, George, a West Point cadet. Los Angeles, June 9 (U.R) Georgie Patlon and Jimmy Doo little, a pair of local boys, re turned from the European war today and received a thundering heroes' welcome from a million southern Californians. The ovation, starting at 1 p. m. when a giant Douglas Sky master set down at Municipal airport after a flight from Den ver, lasted into the night. FOREST WORKERS IN COAST STATES Portland, June 9 (U.R) A strike vote in west coast fir and pine forests could be called in 30 days if union officials decide to use that procedure, spokesmen said foday. The action referred to a de cision of the negotiating com mittee of the International Woodworkers of America, CIO, to ask local unions and district councils to instruct internatfbnal officers to take a strike vote to gain wage increases for timber workers in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. The 18-member committee, after a two-day discussion, pre dicted most of the local units would ask for the strike vote. The union asks a blanket 25 cents ' an hour boost in all brackets. About 75.000 workers in Cali fornia, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho are involved. The drastic CIO recommenda tion came only two days after the northwest council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers union, AFL. warned that 60.000 members may strike unless they get a 20 cent increase. Chairman John B Galcy of the West Coast Lumber commis sion said a thorough study of wage scale bases would be un dertaken Monday, requiring about three weeks for the area of western Oregon and Washing ton, Both unions complain that many mills now operate only 40 hours per week, making it im possible to obtain overtime for workers. California Curfew On Drinks Signed Sacramento, June 9 (U.R) Curfew rang again at midnight tonight at drinking spots throughout California. The mid night bar closing which ended for servicemen and civilians with the lifting of military restrictions one June 1 went back into effect as Gov. Earl Warren signed into law an urgency bill passed by the legislature. The law limits liquor sales by the drink to within the hours of 8 a. m. and midnight and sales in bottles from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m., or midnight on Saturdays. The hours will remain In effect until six months after the war with Japan is completed. and Guts' Patfeon Returns to U.S. Crowds began cheering as Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., born in nearby San Marino, and Lt. Gen James A. Doolittle, who at tended Manual Arts high school here, stepped from the plane. They were accompanied by 47 officers from the European bat tlefronts. Police estimated the crowds along the parade route and the city hall at close-to a million persons. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gcrhardt Bulletin National - -. Night Games Philadelphia 7 12 3 Brooklyn : 8 12 0 Karl, Judd (7) and Peacock, Mancuso (7); Chapman, Lom bard! (9) and Dantonio. Pittsburgh 5 10 0 St. Louis 16 1 Strincevich and Salkeld; Bar rett, Dockins (2), Jurisich (9) and O'Dea. Coast Oakland, 4 8 0 Sacramento 2 5 0 Babich and Fenech; Fletcher and Schluctcr. 101, TREE HIS HONEY OE 02 Racine. Wis., June 9 (U.R) James Augastus Cooper, 101, climbed out of a tree he was trimming today, slicked back his white hair and married his "honey." Rrv. Clarence Seidenspinner read the ceremony in the little three-room flat of the bride 62-year-old Mrs. Julia Westpatet. who said she fell for Cooper be cause 'Pop is so lively and full of the dickens." Cooper said "I do" In a firm voice, placed a plain gold ring on his bride's finrjer and planted a hearty kiss on her lips. Outside a gang of kids serenaded the bri dal couple by beating on pots and pans. The new Mrs. Cooper giggled a little when her bridegroom's bristling mustache ticked her nose She wore a grey printed dress and corsage of pink carna tions and rosebuds which she had picked out herself "because I want everything nice for once." The only wedding guests were the best man Kav Johnson, a broth of a lad of 42 and his wife who was matron of honor. Cooper decided against having a weddmg reception in a nearby tavern as he had originally plan ned because "if vou treat one you've got to treat them all and I've got to save a little money for my old age " KAISER BUYS FIRM Portland, June 9 (U.R) Pur chase of all physically properly owned by Poole, McGonigle and Jennings, and assumption of leases on additional equipment held by the ship repair firm, has been effected by Kaiser com pany, Inc. - (Acme Telepholo) is one of the army officers ac companying Gen. George S. Pat ton on his present tour, friends here have been informed by Mrs. Gerhardt. The general was at Camp White for several months as commander of the 91st Infan try Division The officer is In Los Angeles today with the group and later will Join Mrs. Gerhardt in Macon, Ga., where she is mak ing her home for the duration of the war. THIRD OF FLEET SEEN EARMARKED FOR PEACE PLAN San Francisco, June 9 (U.R) Adm. Arthur J. Hepburn pre dicted tonight that "as much as a third" of the regular postwar, peacetime United States navy might be earmarked for use by the proposed World Security council, if necessary. He guessed that an even larger percentage of the post war U. S. army might be allocat ed by the United States for use by the New World organization. Hepburn is chairman of the navy department's general boaid which determines naval policy. He also is top naval advisor to the U. S delegation at the United Nations conference. His predic tion on how organization use was made on the weekly State de partment radio broadcast (NBC), "Report from San Francisco." London, June 9 (U.R) A For eign Office commentator said to day that when the Snn Francisco conference ends its executive committee will be In "more or less permanent session" in Lon don. He said the preparatory commission of any United Na tions organization would meet hero from time to time. Canned Milk Curb Is Effective Today Washington, Juno 9 U.R The Office of Price Administra tion moved tonight to safeguard supplies of canned milk for in fants and invalids by imposing restrictions on its use by com mercial and institutional buyers. Restaurants, plant and govern ment cafeterias, prisons, and manufacturers using canned milk were told they could not use red points for the product after to morrow. The agency promised that log gers, ships, isolated establish ments, hospitals, and child homes would not be restricted. More Meat in Fall AAA Head Predicts Washington, June 9 (U.R) N E. Dodd head of the Agricultur al Adjustment agency, predicted tonight that civilians will get more meat next fall. Just re turned from a two-week survey of the middle and far west, Dodd reported that flocks, herds and crops are rapidly recovering from the effects of a lata spring. ESTABLISH BOYS' County High Grads Eligible; $5,000 Opening Gift Is Made Operative In Fall. A general scholarship fund, open to boys who arc graduates of any four year high school in Jackson County, has been estab lished by Harry L. Holmes and David H. Holmes of Bear Creek Orchards. The fund to dale consists of an outright gift of $5000 made to the Oregon State Board of High er Education, under whose direc tion the fund will be operated. The announced plan of the don ors is to add to this fund a simi lar amount for several years to come. The selection of students to benefit under this fund will be made by a local board composed of superintendent of county schools, Medford High school principal, mayor of Medford, president of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, David H. Holmes and Harry L. Holmes. Requirements Students arc selected upon their ability to carry successfully a college course, the probable worth of such a course to the student and the state of Oregon, and the need of the student for financial assistance. The fund is available only to students attending state institu tions of higher learning in Ore gon, and will be operative be ginning with the collegiate year in. September. Selection of stu dents w)ll be made prior to July 1,1945. while the fund Is not open to girls at the present time, the don ors of it have reserved the right to open it to them later. County School Superintendent C. R. Bowman, County Court House, Medford, will be in charge of scholarship applica tions. According to E. H. Hedrlck, superintendent of city schools, this scholarship fund is the first general scholarship fund for Jackson County students and the proportions on which it is set up make it one of the largest of its kind in the state of Oregon. "I think it goes without saying that we of the schools are im mensely pleased with this gift by the Holmes brothers for the cause of education. Through fu ture years it will, no doubt, make it possible for many worthy and able young people of this community to go to college who might otherwise be unable to do so." L OKINAWA SECTOR Okinawa, June 4 (Delayed) (U.R) Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of U. S. army ground forces, paid a surprise visit to Okinawa today and went im mediately to the front by boat and truck to sec his old 7th Di vision in action. Before coming to Okinawa. Stilwell conferred with Fleet Ad Chester W. Nimitz at head quarters on Guam. The pres ence of the ground commander Indicated the increased atten tion toward building up the of fensive against Japan with the end of the war In Europe. Bridges Named Dad Other Woman's Baby , San Francisco, June 9 (U.R) Labor Leader Harry Bridges to day was charged by his wife with being the father of a child as- scrtedly born to a New York City night club dancer two years ago. Mrs. Bridges made the allegation in a divorce suit cross-complaint giled in superior court. The "other woman" in the case, according to A. L. Craw forl, Mrs'. Bridges' attorney, was identified as Nancy Felnstein, al so known as Nancy Bcredice and Nancy Fenton. Bridges Is Pacific Coast direc tor of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and currently is awaiting a U. S. supreme court decision on his appeal of an or der issued by Attorney General Franc's Biddle as an "undesir able alien," FOE FROM SOUTH CLIFFS Tokyo Reports L a n di n g Crafts Massed Behind Jap Lines Fierce Battle. Guam, Sundr.y, June 10 (U.R) Veteran American infantry men broke through the outer de fense ring of cliff-studded Yacju Dake peninsula on southern Okinawa Saturday, routing the enemy with hand grenades and bayonets in vicious fighting against fanatically-resisting Jap anese. Total Japanese dead were esti mated at 67,703 as the battle blazed through its 71st day. There was little progress re ported as army columns attacked the escapement from the north and scuth. U S. Pacific war ships, iield artillery and Amer ican planes continued their thundering bombardment of the strongly-defended hill mass for the second straight day. Tokyo said that scores of war ships and landing craft were massed around the southern end of the island. The report possi bly indicated the Americans were preparing for a major am phibious landing behind the last enemy line to bring the 10-week old campaign to a smashing con clusion. Troops of the 7th Division's 17th regiment unleashed a sav age frontal attack on the north eastern end of the cave-pocked mass of hills. Their attack drove a wedge into the perimeter of the best natural defense position the Japanese have left on Oki nawa's tip. Other 7th Division troops were engaged In a bitter struggle for Hill 95, 300 yards southeast of Hanagusuku village a't the south ern anchor of the hill mass.' Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz testified to the hard fight being waged with the announcement that "no substantial changes were made in the lines." EARL DAY QUITS TAX BOARD POST Salem, Ore., June 9 (U.R) The Oregon State Board of Con trol today received the resigna tion of Earl B. Day, member of the state tax commission since 1941. Day said he was returning to private business. He owns a ranch In the Medford area and was a Jackson county Judge be fore coming to Salem to succeed Wallace Wharton, now In naval service. Day said his resignation would be effective August 1 and that he left slate service "with sincere regret." The control board will act on his resignation next week. No mention of a possible successor has been made. When Day Informed Gov. Snell he intended to resign, the governor agreed to take over the Day house. The Snclls have been house hunting for many weeks after their rented house was taken back by the owner. COASTJRIP PLAN Olympla, Wash., June 9 (U.R) President Truman's visit to the west coast will Include a three day rest stop In Washington stale. Gov. Mon C. Wallgren re vealed tonight. Depending on the wlndup of the United Nations conference, the president may arrive in Olympia late next week, Wall gren indicated. Mr. Truman plans to speak to the final ses sion of the international confer ence but the changed plans ap parently call for him to rest in Olympia. then continue his plane trip to San Francisco. OPPOSE" PEACE DRILLS Ncwberg, Ore , June 9 (U.R) The 43rd annual northwest meet ing of the Friends Church today was on record opposed to peace time military conscription. Sacramento, June 9 (U.R) The senate today defeated a bill which would have permitted schools to teach parent-education courses WAR BULLETINS United Press Correspondent Manila, Sunday, June 10 (U.R) Gen. MacArthur today reported widespread air and naval attacks against the east ern and northwestern coasts of Borneo, and Japanese broad casts said allied troops had landed on Labuaa Island off the northwest Borneo coast. MacArthur's Sunday com munique gave no confirmation of the Tokyo reports, which said the landings occurred Friday. FORBIGPROJECT Property on South Riverside and Central Involved Other Projects Possibility. Three major projects, each carrying considerable promise for business and population growth, are on the Medford area horizon. They include the optioning of several properties on the southern edge of the business district for a buyer as yet unrevealcd; the surveying by California interests of prospects for obtaining sufficient fruit and vegetables to warrant installa tion here of a dehydrating and freezing plant, and the Inquiry by a small California college as to possibilities for land and other essentials involved in a possible move to this vicinity Representatives of the dehy drating company were in con ference Saturday with A. S Cummins, chairman of the indus trial committee of the Jackson county Chamber of Commerce and with local fruit men and it is understood that they were Im pressed with the opportunity of securing a large tonnage of pears ordinarily discarded because they are misshapen or carry minor blemishes. Vegetable and berry growing possibilities here also were regarded as attractive. Broker Comes Developments in the business district land deal started last fall when Guy E. Stevens, a Seattle real estate broker came to Medford and spent consider able time obtaining options on six or seven pieces of property fronting on Riversido avenue and Central avenue just south of Ninth street. Later Stevens asked the city council to ordir the vacation of a 244-foot portion of the alley south of Ninth street. Closure of the alley and exercising of the options would give the buyer a solid block of land, approximate ly 300 feet of which would front on Riverside and around 250 feet on Central. Mr. Stevens has steadfastly re fused to reveal for whom he acted In securing the options. Speculation among the property owners Involved as to who wants their places has included such large merchandising concerns as Sears Roebuck, Marshall Field Butler Bros , and other types of business such as the Santa Fe bus line, an lnter-state freight trucking line, a manufacturing plant and chain operating iarge, modern motels. 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Start at the upper left hand comer of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right Then read the message the letters under the checked figures give you. .cj i3Cr,iyiU!ilj!I.wl'JiaV-C-C'l'Ultult4 by King failuu. li' Tl HITLER IS ALIVE; Fled Berlin With Bride as City Fell, Zhukov Hints No Death Proof. Berlin, June 6 (U.R) The 'alo of Adolf Hitler still is an un solved mystery and instead 'f dying in Berlin's ruins he may have fled just before the eitj fell, Marshal Gregory Zhukov said today. The Nazi Fuehrer also may have taken Eva Braun, his mistress-sweetheart, along with him, because there is fair evidence that they were married. "Wo have not discovered any corpse which may be definitely identified as Hitler's and conse quently we cannot make any statement about his death, and he could have fled from Ger many up to the last minute," Zhukov said In his first meeting with Allied newsmen since the occupation of Berlin six weeks ago (A high Russian military source previously told th United Press that body found beneath the Berlin Reichschan cellery, one of four smoke blackened and burned corpses found in the underground shelt er, had been Identified "witlt fair certainty" as that of Hit ler.) Diaries of Hitler's aides re vealed that the Fuehrer married Miss Braun, the girl believed to have been his only sweetheart, two ddys' before Berlin fell, Zhukov said. The ceremony of marriage, decided upon after the girl had livpd as his mistress for months, apparently was perform ed In the underground hideout as Russian shells burst overhead. Col. Gen. Nikolai Bezarin, Russian commandant of Berlin, said it was his personal view that Hitler was hiding some where In Europe probably In Spain. He said that several bodies had been found which might have been the corpse of the fuehrer but hone had been identified positively. There is no doubt about tha suicide of Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister Bnd intimate of Hitler, he said. The bodies of Goebbels, his wife and two children were found in an underground apartment beneath the Relchschancellcry. Bezarin said Goebbels admin Istered potassium cyanide to his children, then took his own life. His body and those of his family were carefully examined to dc tcrmine the cause of death and Bezarin himself conducted the Investigation which left no doubt about their identity Zhukov, deputy commander-in-chief of the Red army and Soviet representative of the Al lied control council In Germany, also disclosed that the Russians do not know what happened to Hitler's aide. Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi party. He said Bormann was in Berlin "up to the end." It was the first press confer ence of the hitherto inaccessible Zhukov, but the Soviet com mander indicated that the for eign press may be permitted a permanent coverage of Berlin In the not too distant future. Also present at the conference was Andrei Vishinsky, foreign press commissar and one of the lead ing members of the Communist party. ' S. Putmt Officf. 7 2 C O 6 3 C P 8 A T H 8 S 8 2
