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High Government Officials
Used Military Security as
Cloak, Is Declaration.
Washington, June 14 (U.R)
Republican members demanded
today that the senate investigate
reports 0 "graft and corruption"
by high officials of the govern
ment carried on "under the
Cloak of military security."
They mentioned reports of
fantastic waste and graft in
connection with such projects as
construction of the Alcan and
Latin-American ' highways and
charges of "corruption" in the
V. S. Maritime commission.
Sen. Edward V. Robertson, R.,
Wyo., started in with a speech
demanding that the senate in
vestigate the two highway pro
jects. He cited reports by Radio
Commentator Fuiton Lewis, Jr.,
which he said indicated "fan
tastic waste and graft", in their
construction.
Biddle Blamed
Sen. Homer Ferguson, R.,
Mich., interrupted to express
the hope that the Senate War
Investigating committee, of
which he is a member, could
begin hearings on this subject
shortly.
He went on to say, however.
that the justice department had
not looked into some of the
things charged "because they
happened in Latin-America."
Then he declared that retiring
Attorney-General Francis Biddle
had "failed" In his duty.
Sen. George Aiken, R., Vt
aid that "within the next few
days," he Intends to present to
the senate facts on the "corrup
tion which exists in the United
States Maritime commission."
Aiken charged that five re
ports on misuse of funds in the
commission sent to congress by
Complroller-General Lindsay C.
Warren had been ignored.
Aiken cited five ships, origin
ally valued at $358,000, which
he said were sold by the Mart;
time commission before the war
tor approximately $200,000
and then re-purchased after the
A'ar began for more than $3,
000,000. Robertson told of D-8 Caterpil
lar tractors valued at $8,000
each when new rented at $775
month apiece "throughout the
life of the contract, whether the
tractors are working or not."
The price of a new tractor "is
paid for every 11 months," Rob
ertson said.
"However," he added, "If the
tractor la actually working and
put! In more than 240 hours for
the month, It draws overtime In
addition.
"If it doesn't even have an en
gine in it, it still draws $775 a
month."
He added that "a five-ton
truck valued at $3,500, with a
monthly rent of $500 a month,
pays for Itself every seven
months.
Ferguson said the War Investi
gation committee had looked in
to a similar case early In its his
tory "and now find that the same
thing is going on and nothing
has been done."
Brewster said President Tru
man, then head of the committee,
had commented that "the only
action of the military services
leemed to be promotion of the
men Involved.
"I am curious to see if under a
Hew commander-in-chief the
lame policies will prevail," he
laid.
Since the great days of ancient
Greece, 400-500 B. C, the coun
try has been subject to the Ro
man Empire, the Byzantine Em
pire, and the Turkish Empire.
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your fortune. Count the letters In your first name. If the number
of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number Is less than 6,
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19, who surrendered to Kent police
on burglary charges. One deputy
sheriff almost got them, and hit
shotgun blast caught Mary Jane.
Her soldier Mend dug the pellets
out 01 ner legs witn a hunting tcniie
he said, but some still remain In
ner back
SEEK REELECT!
Both Otto Frohnmayer and
John Moffat, directors of the
Medford school district, have
signified their intention of run
ning for re-election, at the school
election set for June 18 accord
ing to E. H. Hedrick, school
superintendent.
Frohnmayer was appointed to
serve until election upon the
resignation of Marc Jarmin, Sr..
who recently left Medford to
reside elsewhere, and is now up
for election for the remainder
of Jarmin's term, which is one
year. Moffat is completing a
regular five-year term. Other
members of the board are Dr,
R. E. Green, Eugene Thorndike
and N. H. Franklin.
Voting is to be at the senior
high school between 2 and 7
p.m. June 18. The law states that
directors in a first-class school
district shall be elected for five-
year terms with one elected
each year, the superintendent
states.
Volunteers Needed
By Ration Office
Volunteer workers are needed
at the local office of the war
price and ration board according
to L. Li. Ternahan, executive
secretary, to help with seasonal
work. Ternahan said that the is
suance of new "T" gasoline ra
tion coupons and fuel oil coupons
for next fall has placed a burden
on the few volunteers who help
out regularly. It is necessary to
issue the fuel oil now in order
that residents may avail them
selves of the summer fill-up pro
gram, he said.
The secretary stated that vol
unteers should call the OPA of
fice, 7128.
Klamath Mistakes
Indians For Japs
San Francisco, June 14. (U.R)
A report that seven Japanese
had escaped from the Tule lake
relocation center was denied to
day by the war relocation au
thority, which said no internees
were missing from the center.
A WRA official said he had in
vestigated a Klamath Falls re
port that several internees had
been seen outside the camp He
said apparently some Klamath
Indians had been mistaken for
Japanese.
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FREESJND1ANS
Congress Party Leaders Re
leased From Internment;
Cripps Offers Renewed.
London, June 14. (U.R) Bri
tain, in a sweeping bid to end
political strife in India, announc
ed today that congress party
leaders were being released from
internment and proposed to turn
over the viceroy's executive
council to the Indians except for
a single post.
The conciliatory British moves
were disclosed by introduction
in commons of a white paper
on the Indian situation. Leopold
S. Amery, secretary of state for
India, submitted the paper to the
parliament about to be dissolved
preliminary to a general elec
tion.
Meets Indian Hope
Observers viewed the propo
sals as Britain's nearest ap
proach to Indian aspirations and
demands for a national govern
ment since Sir Stafford Cripps
failed in his mission to India
three years ago.
Amery told the house that
Field Marshal Lord Wavell,
viceroy of India, on a nine-week
visit to London recently received
the government's authority to
try to effect a complete Indianiz-
ation of his executive council
The only exception to Indian
membership of th ecouncil. ac
cording to the proposal, would
be retention of the war minis
ter's portfolio by Gen. Sir
Claude Auchinleck.
Experts studying the white
paper said the essence of the
proposals reperesented a renew
al of the Cripps offers to India.
The paper made it plain that
mose offers still stand.
T
SELLS PROPERTY
Sale nf th npnnortv nn 4Un
corner of Riverside avenue and
Fifth streets, on which the
American Automobile associa
tion tourist informal!
was located, to H. C. Witham
was announced today by E. H.
Hedrick for the Medford school
district. Plirrhn en nrtnA time
$13,500, the superintendent said.
ine irregularly shaped lot has
140 feet of frontage on Riverside
avenue and 178 feet on Fifth
street. This tract is the balance
of the old Junior high school
site, Hedrick states, part of the
land having previously been
sold to the Safcwav StnrM fnr a
building erected two years ago.
Mrs. Witham stated this morn
ing that whenever conditions
permitted, her husband nl nnnpH
to erect a large building on the
site but that no definite plans
woum be made until later.
Witham operates the Withnm
Magneto and Parts company, 215
tasi Jiignth street.
Father Whips Baby
With Heavy Wire
Reno, Nev.. June 14 (U.R)
Charles Payton was sentenced
to 90 days in the county jail yes-
teraay oy judge Harry Dunseath
of the Justice court for allegedly
wriipping nis two-year-old daugh
ter with a heavy wire.
Payton was said to have visit
ed his family while his wife,
from whom he is divorced, was
at work.
LIQUOR PRODUCTION
MAY START JULY 1
Washington, June 14 (U.R)
Americans were offered the
prospect today of uninterrupted
liquor production beginning
July 1.
Up to now distillers have been
required to use their entire fa
cilities to make industrial alco
hol, needed in munitions and
synthetic rubber manufacture.
DEANNA WEDS
Hollywood. June 14 (U.R)
Dcanna Durbin and her pro
ducer, Felix Jackson, started on
10-day honeymoon today dur
ing which thoy planned to mix
romance with the business of
discussing the bride's next pic
ture. C. P. NATIVE NOMINATED
Grants Pass, June 14. John
'. Denise, Jr., Northern Pacific
locomotive engineer of Auburn.
Wash., has been nominated by
President Truman as U. S. mar
shal for the western Washing
ton district. Denise was born
here 53 years ago.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
"Little 45" Gird For Final
Fight Aga
As Conf ei
San Francisco, Jun U.R)
The United Natioi rity
conference pushed to arly
adjournment today as u8 ittle
45" nations prepared a final
battle against the -big five's pro
posed power tq veto amendments
to the contemplated world char
ter. Commission 1 One of the
four major commissions into
which the conference is divided
met in open session to receive
a report from its committee on
the proposed preamble 'of the
charter and its first two chap
ters, covering the purposes and
principles of the world security
organization.
One Of Series
The meeting was one of a
series being held this week and
3,604 SOLOIERS
LOST EN ROUTE
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By Joseph L. Myler
United Press Correspondent
Washington June 14. (U.R).
Of 4,453,061 U. S. soldiers em
barked by ship to fight the axis
In Europe and Africa, only 3,604
were lost at sea..
This was a better record, pro
portionately, than world war I's
despite the greater deadllness
In this war of U-boats, bombing
planes, and mines.
But It was only part of the
grim accounting of World War
II. New data on the war at sea
disclosed today that:
Figures Given
1. This country lost 1,554
merchant ships of 6,277,07.7 tons,
to enemy action or as a result of
causes due to war conditions,
from Sept. 1, 1939, to May 8,
1945. The total includes a large
number of small ships.
i. U. S3, merchant seamen
have suffered 6,066 casualties,
including 5,579 dead and miss
ing and 487 prisoners of war.
3. A total of 4,770 merchant
ships, allied and neutral, have
been lost to the enemy action.
4. The U. S. navy lost 99 shins
of all kinds sunk in Atlantic or
adjacent waters. Its loss in dead
and mssing in these waters was
9,023 navy personnel, 508 coast
guardsmen, and 35 marines.
Overall navy ship losses in all
theaters total 314.
Army Sea Louts
The army personnel losses at
sea were caused by the sinking
or damaging of 41 ships, rang
ing from small auxiliary craft to
large transports, during the 41
months from Dec. 8, 1941, to
May 9, 1945.
In this gigantic movement of
soldiers, losses were 0.94 per
cent four men lost at sea for
every 10.000 embarked as com
pared with losses of 0.072 in the
last war. In that conflict, 1,463
of the 2,008,931 soldiers sent to
France were lost on the way.
3 CHINESE OFFICIALS
EXECUTED FOR GRAFT
Kunming, China, June 14.
(U.R) Three high Chinese offi
cials have been executed for
theft and extortion in the hand
ling of military supplies for use
In the continental counter-offensive
against Japan, it was an
nounced today.
Genera lisslmo Chiang-shck
personally ordered death sen
tences for Liang Lin, former
mayor of Changsha, one of
China's major cities now held fcy
the Japanese; Maj. Gen. Huang
Yao; and Col. Pao Yun Fcl.
Liang was accused of "stealing
military materials and of
squeeze and extortion."
BASEBALL
National
Chicago 2 8 0
Pittsburgh 5 4 1
Chipman, Prim and Gillespie;
Butcher and Lopez.
New York 4 11 1
Brooklyn 5 10 0
Volsclle and E. Lombardl:
Davis, King and Dantanio.
Amtrlcan
Cleveland 3 10 2
Chicago .. 4 8 2
Bagby and Hayes; Grove and
Tresh.
St. Louis 3 5 0
Detroit 2 9 0
JHkuckl and Mancuso; Troul '
and Swift. . . J
THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1945
Big Five Veto
:e Nears Windup
next In which various sections of
the charter are being considered
and approved one by one. Final
approval by a plenary session
of the full conference is expected
to be sheer formality.
The preamble recommended
by the committee sets forth that
"we the peoples of the .United
Nations" are "determined to
save succeeding gener a t i o n s
from the scourge of war, which
twice in our lifetime has brought
untold sorrows to mankind." It
then lists other determinations
including "faith in fundamental
human rights", respect for inter
national treaties and obligations
and promotion of "social pro
gress and better standards of life
in larger freedom."
To accomplish these objectives
the preamble proposes that mem
ber nations will practice toler
ance "and live together in peace
with one another as good neigh
bors"; "unite our strength to
maintain international peace and
security"; not use armed forces
except in the common interest,
and use "international machin
ery for the promotion of eco
nomlc and social advancement
of all peoples."
Purpose Cited
Chapter 1 presented the pur
poses of the organization as
maintaining international peace
and security, developing friendly
relations among nations, and
achieving international coopera
tion in the solution of interna
tional problems.
Chapter II sets forth a slate
of principles, such as sovereign
equality of members and pledges
to fulfill obligations under the
charter.
Close Votes
Farid Zeineddine. Syrian dele
gation adviser, reported to the
commission meeting on behalf of
the committee. Ha recounted
at some length the numerous
disputes in which the committee
had become involved before It
finally agreed on language of
me inree sections, and pointed
out that there had been close
votes on several issues.
On the Yalta voting formula,
the little nations conceded they
naa lost their fight to soften the
basic formula but were prepared
to stage a showdown fleht
against the big five veto over
amendments to the world char
ter.
Thinning of Pears
Started in Valley
Thinning of pears is now
underway in the orchards of the
valley. Assistant County Agent
i a. uoroy states the "drop"
was extensive among D'Arijous,
with other varieties having a
normal drop. There will be a
good crop of Bartletts, first of
me pears to be harvested.
It will be three weeks or a
month before local cherries are
on the market, except for a few
of the earlier varieties.- There Is
a light crop according to Cordy.
Local strawberries and local
grown early vegetables are now
reaching the market.
Sgt, Humphries
iven Discharge
Sgt. Joseph S. Humphries, son
of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Humphries,
322 East Twelfth street, has re
ceived an honorable discharge
from the army on the point sys
tem after three years and six
months in the service. Hum
phries spent 32 months overseas
with the Fifteenth air force in
England, North Africa and Italy.
He wears the European. North
African and Middle-East cam
paign ribbons with three battle
stars, the good conduct medal,
and a unit citation received by
his group for outstanding service.
MRS. IDA BLIT0N DIES
WHILE ON YREKA VISIT
Mrs. Ida Bliton passed away
In Yreka, Calif., this morning at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Mildred Dodge, where she went
several days ago for a visit. The
body Is being shipped to the
Conger-Morris Funeral parlors
here and funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
Mrs. Bliton, widow of the late
A. S. Bliton who at one time
published the Medford Mail Tri
bune and was later an employe
of the California Oregon Power
company, had been making her
home here with another daugh
ter. Mrs. E. H. Thomas, 708 West
Tenth street.
Seventh War Loan. Oriv
"E" Sales to Date .... $440,851
Quota $1,087 000
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AFTERTRIP WEST
President Plans Attendance
At Independence Home
coming Late This Month.
Washington, June 14. (U.R)
The White House today announc
ed plans of President Truman to
attend homecoming celebrations
at Independence, Mo., and Kan
sas City later this month.
The president will be in Inde
pendence,, his home . town, on
June 27 and in Kansas City on
June 28. .
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said it was pos
sible that the president's home
coming trip might become a part
of his Journey to the United
Nations conference at San Fran
cisco and a visit to Olympia,
Wash. -
West Next Week
The date for the San Francisco
trip depended on when the con
ference ends. The west coast trip
now seems probable for some
time next week.
The president planned to fly
to Kansas and Missouri. His trip
to the west coast also will be by
plane.
With the announcement of the
trip to Independence and Kansas
City, the president had before
him a busy travel schedule for
the next 60 days,
First will be the flight to the
west coast, then the trip to his
home at Jackson county. Mo.
Almost immediately after the
Missouri trip an appearance Is
scheduled at the governors' con
ference at Mackinac Island,
Mich., July 3 and 4, if no press
ing business In Washington de
velops. Then comes the big three
meeting scheduled for overseas
sometime in mid-July. , '
Battle-Weary Jeep .
Falters In Middle
of War Bond Parade
Portland, Ore., June 14. (U.R)
A battle-weary jeep gummed
up the war bond parade in honor
of two Iwo Jima flag-raising
heroes appearing in Portland.
Crowds cheered Pfc. Rene A.
Gagnon as he passed along at
the head of the parade in his
Jeep. Then the "old reliable"
stalled and no amount of tinker
ing would start it. The paraders
shuffled uneasily and onlookers
chuckled but not too audibly
for the perspiring soldier me
chanics to hear.
Finally another Jeep swung In
behind and pushed the Gagnon
vehicle along the remainder of
the route.
THIEVES TAKE CAMERA
AND F IDING EQUIPMENT
Two thefts were reported to
police yesterday. George W.
Nichols reported that a building
used to store furniture and rid
ing equipment and located on
Sunrise avenue, was broken into
sometime between 9 p. m. Tues
day and Wednesday noon, ac
cording to state police. Saddles,
laricts, and other riding equip
ment are reportedly missing.
City police reported that a
German-made camera and leath
er case were stolen Tuesday
night from a car belonging to
Floyd A, Kazmire, of Los An
geles, who is visiting at the
home of Mrs. Raymond Fish,
825 West Eleventh street. Tho
auto was parked In front of the
Fish residence, police said.
Czech Revolt Against Nazis
One Of Bloodiest War Phases
Prague, June 14 U.R) On
the morning of May 5, 194.1, the
outside world heard a Czech
voice break into a program of
German martial music on radio
Prague, shouting: "Send help.
We have risen against the Nazis."
Then for five days there wa..
silence, while the bloodlst up
rising of World War II boiled
through the streets of the en
slaved Czechoslovak capital.
First Complett Story
This is (he first complete
story obtained from eyewit
nesses of the revolution In which
the men, women and children of
Prague fouRht behind barrica I -a.
and in their homes against the
200, Q0O Germans garrisoning
their city.
Fanatical Nazi Elite guards
who formed the core of the
Prague garrison quartered Czech
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Robert S. Farrell
Oregon's secretary of state.
Robert S. Farrell, who arrived in
Medford this morning for a
series of three talks in southern
Oregon, will speak Friday noon
at a luncheon meeting of the
Jackson county Chamber of
Commerce. This will be the
regular board meeting but in
order that other members of the
chamber and valley business
men mav hear the state official
the meeting will be in the Hol
land hotel Blue Room. Reser
vations are to be made with
either the hotel or the Chamber
of Commerce office.
Farrell want on to Klamath
Falls for a noon meeting there
and is returning tonight to speak
at the Medford Elks' club in ob
servance of Flag day.
Timely state problems and the
proposed post-war building pro
gram of the state will be dis
cussed by Farrell at the Cham
ber of Commerce meeting.
"SUFFERS INJURY
Michael Beck, owner of Beck's
Bakery, is a patient In Sacred
Heart hospital here recovering
from injuries suffered yesterday
when his head became entangled
In the machinery of a bakery
oven. His attending physician
reported that Beck had his left
car badly torn, severe Injuries
to the left side of his neck and
head and had also suffered
burns. He was reported resting
today.
The accident occurred when
Beck and two employees were
endeavoring to repair the oven,
which had broken down. In some
manner one of the three switches
which operate the oven was con
nected and tho machinery began
to move, catching Beck's head.
Only the fact that the switch was
shut off at once saved the bak
ery owner from more serious
Injury, employees stated today.
WICKARD ATTACKED BY
, FORMER CHIEF OF REA
Washington, June 14 4U.R)
Claude R. Wlckard is "a Joke" as
an administrator and should not
be confirmed as head of the rural
electrification admin istration,
former REA Administrator Har
ry Slattcry said today.
Slattery, who resigned from
REA last November because of
differences with Wickard, told
the agriculture committee that
Wickard as secretary of agricul
ture created "a hopeless political
muddle" in REA.
boys In the city streets. Wit
nesses said they crucified cap-
'ured patriots, ran their tanks
over helpless women and chil
dren and used hostages as a
human screen for their own
armor.
' Nails Burned Alive
And some of the Nazi faontics
themselves, who defied thdr
own high command's uncondi
tional rurrendcr order, were
burned alive by the enraged
Cznclyl!
,An unofficial estimate made
by some of tho Czech partisan
leaders today said 2.000 Czechs
were killed in thj fighting and
another 2,000 died later of
wounds.
Tho Germans, fighting with
trained troops against a mob
armed mostly with clubs and
captured weapons, lost, but 530
dead.
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Allies Push Into Borneo Cap
ital; Radio Tokyo Warns
Nips New Offensive Near.
Pearl Harbor. June 14 (U.R)
Allied forces broke most of the
last Japanese defense line on
Okinawa and pushed into Brunei
City on Borneo today.
Radio Tokyo warned the Jap
anese people that American
forces in the Pacific appeared to
be preparing for a new offensive,
but confessed it did not know
whether they would strike at
Japan or at occupied China.
Continue Air Attacks
The American air offensive
against the enemy homeland
went into its ninth straight day.
Tokyo said American B-24 Lib
erators appeared over the Tokyo
Yokohama area today for tha
first time, harbingers of heavier
air blows yet to come.
On Okinawa, American 10th
army forces herded the last 10,-000-odd
Japanese survivors into
a 13-square-mile pocket atop bitterly-defended
Yacju-Dake es
carpment. One American col
umn was within three miles of
the southern tip of the island.
The American doughboys and
marines captured the northeast
ern, southeastern and western
edges of the plateau and poured
shells and bombs into the enemy
forces trapped against the sea.
The Japanese, though steadily
giving ground, fought back so
savagely that supplies had to be
brought up to American van
guards on tanks or dropped by
parachute.
Smash Other Pocket
The only other enemy pocket
on the island, on the south shore
of Naha harbor, finally was
smashed yesterday after a nine
day battle in which 3,500 Japa
nese were slain. ..' .,
Japanese dead on Okinawa
rose to 71,203 for the 74-day
campaign, an average of nearly
1,000 slain dally. American dead,
wounded and missing wore be
lieved to total more than 40,000.
Radio Tokyo said the Ameri
cans already had in use or un
der construction 10 airfields on
Okinawa and adjacent Ie. Tak
ing off from the fields, more
than 50 Corsairs dropped 12 torn
of bombs and rockets on Japa
nese suicide-plane bases on Kyu
shu Tuesday,
Two Liberators, teammates of
the Flying Fortresses in the
aerial destruction of Germany,
appeared over the Tokyo-Yokohama
area at 11:30 a. m., today,
Tokyo said.
Planes Reach Islands
Another Tokyo broadcast
heard in London said the first
flights of Flying Fortresses and
Liberators from Europe had
reached the Philippines.
Australian troops of the famed
"Fighting Ninth" division drove
Into the outskirts of Brunei, cap
ital of the Borneo sultanate of
the same name, after an amphi
bious landing on the shores of
Brunei river east of the city.
Another Australian column
captured Brunei airstrip and
rolled on unopposed within two
miles north of Brunei In an
eight-mile advance along the
urookcton-BrunoI road.
Field reports said the Japa
nese already had abandoned
Brunei. The city probably will
fall within the next 24 hours.
SEATTLE, BREMERTON
FACE MEAT FAMINE
Seattle, June 14 (U.R) Strike
threats by Seattle and Bremer
ton Independent retail meat deal
ers brought both cities to the
verge of complete meat famine
today, with 90 Bremerton inde
pendents prepared to walk out
within two weeks unless meat
supplies are increased.
The strike threat was issued
by B. T. Renard, president of
the Bremcrton-Kitsap Meat Deal
ers Association, at Bremerton.
"We are ready to cut off the
Bremerton meat supply and
not an ounce will get through
until we get some relief," Renard
said.
50,000 POUNDS BEEF
DESTROYED BY BLAZE
Red Bluff, Cal June 14 U.R)
Fire yesterday destroyed the
packing plant of the Minch
Wholesale Meat company and
with it 50,000 pounds of beet
just slaughtered.
Firemen believed the blaze
was started by an overheated
motor. The total loss was esti
mated - at $100,000, Including
$10,000 worth of hides as well
as the beef.