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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 194?
NO. 67.
B-29s Today Spread Ruin Anew Through Jap Home Isle
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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
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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.
The property owners say the
options given by them will ex
pire the latter part of this month
and it Is presumed that if the
properties are purchased, iden
tity of the buyer will be di
vulged at tht.t time.
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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. '
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