Weather
FORECAST. Clear gnd warmer
Sunday; icattered cloudi rett
of state.
Temp.
Highest YeiterrUy 90
Lowest Ibis Morning 46
Fortieth Year
JAPS SURRENDER.
COMMIT SUICIDE
OKINAWA BATTLE
Flame Throwers and Tanks
Pace Drive For Hills
Enemy Dead, 73,000.
Guam, Sunday, June 17 IU.R)
U. S. 10th army troops captured
three vital heights on Yaeju-
Dake plateau Saturday and re
duced the last Japanese position
to an area of less than nine
square miles while counted en
emy dead mounted to more than
73,000 in the final battle of Oki
nawa, The beaten, frenzied enemy
committed suicide and surrend
ered in ever increasing numbers
as separate drives into the dom
inating hills split their "fortress
of death." Flame-throwers and
tanks paced the American push
as the 10th army pounded down
the stretch toward the southern
end of the island.
Enveloping enemy positions in
surprise moves which so bewil
dered the Japanese that they
fired on their own men, two in
fantry divisions struck across
the center of the plateau to take
Yuza hill and fanned out along
the southeastern shore against
demoralized enemy troops.
As the bloody 78-day old cam
paign neared its end, Tokyo re
ported possible preparations for
new invasions in the Ryukyus.
Tokyo said "fully laden cargo
ships and landing craft" were be
ing assembled off Okinawa and
said the U. S. naval patrol line
had been extended to Amami,
110 miles north of Okinawa. U.
S. land based and carrier aircraft
punctuated the Japanese report
with a heavy strike against Ama
mi's installations
Squeezing the last Japanese
now numbering only a few thou
sandthe 7th and 96th army di
visions swept up the three major
hills that dominate the slopes to
the southern tip of tire island.
Flame-throwing tanks, which
wiped out fleeing Japanese by
the dozens and rolled over their
bodies, led the 96th in a push up
Yuza hill (Hill 167), vita' central
plateau position. The 520-foot
peak, regarded as the most im
portant height in the southern
area, was taken despite vicious
machincgun and mortar fire.
The 96th by nightfall had
cleared the summit and was bat
tling down the southwestern
slopes toward the southern shore,
threatening to split the Japanese
pocket in two.
The 98th was only a mile and
a quarter east of the 1st marines
on Kunishi Ridge, at the western
edge of the plateau, and the same
distance from the 7th infantry
on the east.
MEDFORD GIVEN
IL
Permit to build and operate
an air strip for civilian fliers
here was received Thursday
from the Civil Aeronautics
Authority in Seattle by the City
Council, Frank Rogers,, city
superintendent, announced yes
terday. The permit, which is
valid for 30 days, should serve
until a final one is sent from
Washington, D. C, Rogers said.
Date of start of construction
is not known, but according to
the announcement, it will be be
gun soon as equipment and man
power are available. The strip
is to be located near the fair
grounds on city owned property
adjacent to the fairgrounds
which will be leased from the
county.
Main purpose of the air strip
will be to encourage and help
civilian fliers. Rogers said, and
to keep In line with future plans
and developments in civilian fly
ing and flying schools. Though
the present plans are for a dry
weather strip only, a permanent j
run-way will be constructed east
of the one now planned if and
when the necessity arises, the
superintendent pointed out.
Klamath Falls Gets
50 More Dwellings
Portland, Ore., June 16 (U.R)
Approval for SO houses to be
constructed soon at Klamath
Falls, Ore., was given today to
the Federal Public Housing
Authority. The houses will
bring to 140 the number of tem
porary dwelling units in Klam
ath Falls, George W. Coplcn. re
gional representative of the Na
JVoaaJ JUoujicg Ageucy, Mid.
MEDFORD
United Press
B-29
(Acme TeUphotuj
Fire bombs rain on Osaka, Japan's second largest city and largest industrial center during early stage of
June 1st devastating raid. Large fires can be seen at left as thousands of bombs descend to add to confla
gration. 21st Bomber Command photo.
COL. CHINN SEES
Portland, Ore., June 16 (U.R)
Representatives of the War Pro
duction board and the Central
Procurement Agency for the
military services declared today
that the current critical short
age of lumber and plywood may
prolong the war. Manpower
shortage is blamed.
According to Col. Raleigh
Chinn, in charge of the Portland
Procurement Agency, military
services now have on order ap
proximately 600,000.000 feet of
Douglas fir, with additional re
quirements known to total more
than 200,000,000 feet.
F. H. Brundage, western log
and lumber administrator, re
ported a downward trend in
lumber since last July has re
sulted in log inventories being
179,000,000 feet less than last
year on June 1. Decrease in
Douglas pine since Jan. 1 now
amounts to 13.4 per cent; in
western pine, 7 per cent and in
plywood, 5 per cent.
Two Med ford Men
Earn Air Medals
In Raiding Japan
A B-29 base, Saipan,' June 15
(U.R) Five Oregon men, mem
bers of combat. crews of the big
B-29 Superfortresses, have been
awarded the air medal for a
number of successful flights over
Japan.
The men helped pioneer the
Marianas-to-Japan Superfortress
"Run" the army air forces said,
and are among the experienced
crewmen participating in the al
most daily mass raids.
The Mcdford men receiving
the awards were:
TSgt. Robert M. Tuttle, 323
Valley View Dr., Medford; 2nd
Lt. Robert C. Cuffell, 909 N.
Central Ave., Mcdford.
NELSEN BROTHERS HOME
FROM OVERSEAS SERVICE
Capt. Ibsen Nelson and Pfc.
Clarence Nclscn, sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Nelson. 306
Hamilton street, are in Medford
visiting their parents after re
cently returning to the States
from overseas duty with the
army. The captain will be home
30 days and his brother 60
days.
Capt. Nclscn, who was wound
ed last year on Biak Island, has
served in the Pacific theater 38
months with the 41st Infantry
division and wears the purple
heart, the bronze star, with an
oak leaf cluster and three bronze
battle stars. Pfc. Nelscn was re
cently released from Stalag Luft
2B where he was imprisoned six
months by the Germans,
Hei
wears two bronze battle stars
and both young men have been
awarded the combat infantry
man's badge.
3 Valley Soldiers
Get Leave, Discharges
Fort Lewis reports S Sgt. El
roy V. Kifcr, 721 Narrcgan, has
been granted a furlough, and
T Sgt. Alfred C. Hocker, Eagle
Point Star Rt. and S Sgt. Ger
vase C. Sticfvater. 322 S. Cen
tral Av. , have beta dted.
Full Leased Wire
Fire Bombs Rain on Osaka
E
TO IMPEDE DAMS
Oppose Umatilla, Willamette
and Rogue Projects John
W. Kelley Says.
Salem, Ore., June 16 (U.R)
Fishing interests are trying to
obstruct the building of approxi
mately $160,000,000 worth of
federal projects, John W. Kelly,
executive director of the Post-i
war Development and Readjust
ment commission in Oregon said
today.
He said they are opposing con
struction of the Umatilla dam
in the Columbia plus five dams
proposed for the Willamette.
Kelley said opponents declare
the $49,608,000 dam at Umatilla
would destroy salmon runs so
fish could not reach Snake river
spawning grounds. They have
proposed to Secretary of Interior
Harold Ickcs a substitute plan
that of constructing a dam on
FOste creek, 55 miles below
Grand Coulee, to provide added
power.
Fishing Interests suggest rip
rapping the banks of the Wil
lamette, rather than construc
tion of the five proposed dams.
This, Kelly said, beside being
costly, would forever interfere
with irrigation.
Dams on the Rogue river and
Its tributaries, where the U. S.
Reclamation Bureau plans pro
jects totaling $30,000,000 are
also opposed.
BOY-LOSES LEG IN
Marvin Frymire, 10-yoar-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer E
Frymire, who reside near King's
highway, suffered loss of his left
foot Friday evening when he
stepped in front of the sickle bar
of a tractor-drawn mowing ma
chine being operated by a neigh
bor in a nearby field. The limb
was completely severed at the
ankle.
The little boy, according to
his father, was playing with an
other child at the time of the
mishap.
He was rushed to the Com
munity hospital where, his fath
er said, he was resting as well
as could be expected.
SCUFFLE FATAL
Seattle, June 16 (U.R)
Death of 18-ycar-old Charles M.
Williams, was listed as accldcn-
'a' tonight after the youth was
fatally injured Friday night In
a scuffle with his younger
brother John, aged 16.
TRUMAN GETS PLEA
Sacramento June 18 (U.R)
Mayor Tom B Monk of Sacra
mento tonight telegraphed to
President Truman urging him to
intervene in a jurisdictional can
nery strike which has closed
down three plants processing
food for the armed forces.
Speed of sound waves varies
V'iUi Ui temperature, ol Ui all.
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 17,
HEAT WAVE IS
RELIEF SIGHTED
San Francisco, June 16 (U.R)
The weather man today predict
ed the end of the heat wave that
has left San Francisco swelter
ing under a broiling sun with
hot winds for the last three
days.
The prediction Is for "fair and
cooler" tomorrow and just in
time as the thermometer soared
to 87 today, highest of the year.
Swimming pools and beaches
were crowded today as throngs
sought relief. Two persons were
drowned. Leonard Lungren, 45,
San Francisco, died attempting
to rescue his son at Ocean
Beach. The son was saved.
Dolores Chapman, 15, Albany,
drowned in a pool at Antioch.
Calif., while attempting to res
cue a schoolmate, Lucille Jor-
gensen, 16. Miss Jorgensen was
rescued by a bystander.
The Fire department reported
170 calls in the 36 hours
mostly to extinguish grass tires.
COURT TO DECIDE
LE
Fort Lewis, Wash., June 16
(U.R) A young Florida soldier
who returned from the list of
"killed in action" to find his wife
married to his best friend, plans
to snea nis fcnoch Arden role in
court, army officials said tonight.
Officers, still protecting the
Identity of the dark-haired young
GI, his pretty wife, her second
soldier husband, and tne baby
born to the woman while her
first husband was still listed as
dead, declined to say whether
the court action would be a di
vorce or an annulment.
Decision to end the triangle In
court was reached by the former
Japanese prisoner of war after
a conference with his wife, boy
hood pal, now stationed at Pen
dleton, Ore., and the baby. It
was not the reunion the ex-prls-oner
dreamed about during his
time in prison but a conference
to salvage respect and sanity, of
ficers said.
Indiana sheep shearers clip
about 400,000 sheep annually.'
BULLETIN
Coast
Seattle 4 8 1
Portland 2 9 0
Johnson and Sucme; Helscr,
Mooty (9) and Adams,
Los Angeles .............. 4 9 3
Hollywood 9 9 0
Cuellar, Lammers and Greene;
Marshall and Hill.
National
Night game.
Philadelphia 2 7 1
New York 7 18 1
Barrett, Sproull and Mancuso
Scminick; Brewer and Lombard!.
American
(12 Innings).
Cleveland .... 3 9 0
St. Louis 4 13 0
Klicman, Henry, Bagby and
Hayes; Kramer and Mancuso,
TOG!
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HERO'SWELCOME
Washington To Greet Mon-
day, New York Tuesday,
Home Town Thursday.
Washington, June 16 U.R)
A 55-year-old Texas-born Kan
san who lately has been living in
Europe was on his .way back
home tonight to accept the tri
bute of a grateful nation.
Having tasted the acclaim of
London and Paris, Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower will receive the
plaudits of the capital on Mon
day, New York on Tuesday, and
Abilene, Kan., his home town,
on Thursday.
The capital planned to give
the balding five-star general the
biggest reception ever accorded
a hero returning here.
The city has declared time
out for "Eisenhower Day."
Stores and schools will be closed
for the parade, and all federal
employes who can be spared
from their jobs will be permit
ted to glimpse the general.
With Eisenhower will be 53
other homecoming heroes 27
officers and 26 enlisted men
scheduled to arrive at the na
tional airport at 11 a. m. Mon
day in three four-engined Sky
masters. Eisenhower will be
flying In a luxuriously equipped
private plane inherited by Pres
ident Truman from the late Pres
ident Roosevelt.
The party will be met at the
coast by 100 bombers and fight
ers which will provide a roaring
escort to the capital.
. Top priority for greeting the
general and his companions has
been assigned to Mrs. Eisen
hower and other relatives. With
Gen. George C. Marshall, army
chief of staff, they will be at
ine airporw .
Then it will 8 the turn of
secretary of War Henry L. Stlm-
sun ana me thousands who work
at the Pentagon. The Pentagon
ceremonies over, Elsenhower
and his party will drive to the
capnoi where he will address
the congress.
After a mammoth civic lun
cheon, Elsenhower will pay a
brief call on President Truman
at 2:45 p. m. Then, after an
afternoon press conference and
an hour or two of "free time"
with Mrs. Eisenhower, he will
h. IK. i . . ,
me pii'sjaenis guest at a
buffet dinner in the White
.nouse.
The next day the general will
go to New York for an even big
ger reception and his first base
ball game in years.
The climax of his homecom
ing will be on Thursday at
no.iene. it will be the smallest
of the lot, in terms of crowd size,
urn it win pe the warmest. For
at Abilene the general will be
reunited at long last with his
mother, Mrs. Ida Eisenhower.
one is oj.
TO
E'JOLY 1
Washington, June 1 6 (U.R)
The War Production Board an
nounced today lt would permit
resumption of gold mining, effec
tive July 1.
Gold mining was banned on
Oct. 8, 1942, in order to conserve
machinery manpower and sup
plies for production of more urg
ently needed lead, zinc and cop
per. Aluminum Trust To
Stay in Northwest
Portland, Ore., June 16 (U.R)
Arthur W. Davis, chairman of
the board of the Aluminum
company of America, said here
today that his company is "in
the northwest to stajV'
He pointed to the Vancouver
plant and to the comiliny's cur
rent quest for alumirte-henrlno
or in Oregon as Indicative of
this policy. Originally designed
to produce 30,000,000 pounds of
aluminum a year, the Voncouvcr
plant has expanded nearly lix-
ioiq since lis opening ir. 1940.
OSC ALUMNI HEAD
CorvalUs, Ore., June 16 (U.R)
Ursel G. Narver, Portland farm
paper publisher, today heads the
Oregon State College Alumni
association.
CHRISTENS 8HIP
Wilmington, Cal., June 18-
(U.R Mrs. Walt Disney, wife of
the cartoonist, today christened
the 10,500 ton victory ship S. S.
tUt .Victory,
TV
United Press
FORCE BOMBARDS
BY-PASSED TRUK
Once Mighty Bases Hard Hit
Enemy Leaves 100,
000 On Atoll.
GUAM, Sunday, June 17 (U.R)
A British Pacific fleet carrier
task force blasted military tar
gets on by-passed Truk Atoll
with aerial bombing and naval
gunfire Thursday and Friday, it
--was announced today. ,
Land-based marine and army
fighters of the tactical air
forces . teamed for a sweep
against air fields, barracks,
radio stations, harbor facilities
and other installations in the
Amami group, 250 miles south
of Kyshu.
Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz reported a series of
American aerial strikes against
a variety of objectives, ranging
from the Carolines to the sea
lands off the Japanese home
islands. ,
The British assault against the
once-mighty bastion of Truk was
a heavy offensive blow. Car
rier aircraft and warships pound
ed the atoll day and night, hit
ting air fields, dock facilities,
harbor craft, towns, radio sta
tions and gun emplacements.
The ' communique said only
negligible shore battery fire
answered the Royal navy's ship
bombardment, and attacking air
craft reported moderate anti
aircraft fire. Two enemy planes
were destroyed on the ground.
None were air-borne. One Brit
ish Seafire fighter was missing.
It Is believed as many as 100,-
000 Japanese still are holed up
on Truk, isolated from their
homeland. Truk is 2,100 miles
from Tokyo, 640 miles south
east ot Guam,' and 2,100 miles
east bf Manila.
L
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San Francisco, June 16 (U.R)
The United States and Soviet
Russia urged a United Nations
conference committee tonight to
make a last minute change in the
recommendatory powers of the
general assembly.
Russia proposed, and Sen. Ar
thur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich.,
of the United States delegation
agreed, that the power of the
assembly to make recommenda
tions should be limited to any
matter "which affects Interna
tional peace and security."
Russia had been expected to
make some last-minute proposal
on this issue, but Vandenberg
surprised the committee by de
scribing the Russian proposal as
"very fair" and urging its ac
ceptance. The move came as the com
mittee on the assembly's politi
cal powers and functions was
preparing to approve Its report
to the parent commission and to
present it at a public session
tomorrow night. The last-minute
proposal may cause postpone
ment of that session and will add
another snag to those which may
prevent the conference from ad
journing next Saturday.
The committee was about to
vote approval of Its rapporteur's
report when the Russian dele
gate reopened the question of
the assembly's powers to dis
cuss international matters and
to make recommendations.
2,075 Super forts
Made in One Year
Seattle, June 16 (U.R) One
year from the time the first giant
Superfortresses raided the Jap
homeland In their strike at Ya
wata June 15, 1944, the Boeing
Aircraft company disclosed to
day .that It has produced 2,075
B-29s in its Seattle, Renton and
Wichita plants.
Additionally, officials said, the
two Washington and one Kansas
plants have turned out the equiv
alent of another 149 Superforts
In spare parts.
NUNES AWARDED 18,459
James H. Nunes was given
$6,450 by a circuit court Jury
late Friday in his personal In
Jury damage suit against Maurice
Woodson and Alonzo Hardin.
The stilt was based on a truck
JllMt July U
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WAR BULLETINS
Manila, Sunday. June 17
(U.R) American Infantry, in a
sustained drive down the Japanese-held
Cagayan valley of
northeastern Luzon, have ad
vanced five miles northeast of
Echague and captured the Ipil
airfield west of Echague, Gen.
Douglas MacArihur announced
today,
London, June 16 (U.R)
Two Polish leaders from Lon
don arrived in Moscow today
for discussions on a new Pol
ish government. All interest
ed parties are now in the
Soviet capital and formal talks
are expected to begin momen
tarily. ALLIED WARSHIPS
NEAR BORNEO OIL
T,
Enemy Warns New Yank
Landings Due Japanese
Women to Fight.
A large allied fleet approached
the great east Borneo oil port of
Balikpapan Saturday, Tokyo ra
dio reported.
Invasion - jittery Japan, an
nouncing a concentration of
American transports and landing
craft east of Okinawa, warned
the empire that new landings
may be expected. Tokyo men
tioned Amami island, 110 miles
north of Okinawa, where naval
patrols have been active. Heavy
forces of land-based and carrier
planes swept Amami in a de
structive assault Saturday to ac
centuate the Japanese report.
Australian ground forces
pushed another four miles below
captured Brunei in northwest
Borneo. They drove toward Tu-
tong, 12 miles distant, as Tokyo
told of the warships nearing
Balikpapan oh the eastern coast,
There was no confirmation of the
enemy - claim. Balikpapan Is
some 435 miles across Borneo
from Brunei. . . ,
Tokyo said one carrier, three
battleships,- 16 destroyers and
other warships were heading for
Balikpapan. Heavy bombers
struck the port area. Gen, Doug
las MacArthur announced.
Other enemy broadcasts told
Japan's women that they must
fight in the front lines in case of
an invasion of the homeland and
said Japanese forces were carry
ing on "a battle which would
make even the gods weep." An
other 80,000 persons will be
evacuated from Tokyo to Hok
kaido, in northern Japan, to
work "voluntarily" on farms,
the enemy radio said.
Chinese troops maintained the
pace of their offensive. They
gained six miles east of recap
tured Ishan toward the former
airbase city of Liuchow. Along
the Japanese central China cor
ridor, Chinese troops 350 miles
to the east fought to stem an en
emy drive for highways in that
area.
Spray, Labor Main
Coast Farm Worry
Los Angeles, June 16 (UR)
The west coast agricultural situ
ation is in pretty good condition,
Rep. Clinton P. Anderson, D.,
N, M., head of a congressional
committee investigating food
shortages and newly-appointed
secretary of agriculture, said
today.
"There are two problems,"
Anderson admitted. "One Is the
manpower gamble, but that's a
gamble all over and it doesn't
seem to be any worse here than
elsewhere. The second problem
is a shortage of certain vital
sprays, but I'm going to sec to lt
that the farmers get them."
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NO. 73
Z REFUTES
LAWRENCE CLAIM
Okinawa Operations Upheld
Admiral Sharply Criti
zises Writer.
Guam, Sunday. June 17 U.R)
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
sharply refuted criticism of the
Okinawa campaign in a special
press conference today and de
fended the operation conducted
by Lt. Gen. Simon Boliver Buck-
ner, Jr., commander of the U. S.
10th army.
In the first press conference of:
Its kind ever held in the Pacific,
Nimitz told 76 press correspond
ents that officers in charge of
the Okinawa campaign had been
responsible for moving forces to
the inner approaches of Japan,
despite limited resources.
His sharp attack was directed
against the criticism of David
Lawrence, of the Washington
Post. Lawrence had charged in
an article that the army com
manders bungled in failing to
take air bases fast enough so that
the navy could go about landing;
men and supplios.
Nimitz said the military and
tactical decisions of the Okinawa
campaign were made by General
Buckner, but that they had his
(Nimitz') concurrence.
Lawrence had also charged
that the army commanders mis
used the marines on Okinawa,
hurling them against the tough
Shuri line instead of making
"end run" plays with a landing
behind the lines.
Lawrence said that this had
resulted in men afloat suffering
casualties unprecedented in ratio
to those suffered by ground
forces.
"Casualties ashore were nor
mal for this type of operation,"
Nimitz declared, "but I must ad
mit that those afloat were higher
than I had expected to receive."
Lawrence's article, N 1 m i t a
said, tould not "in justice to tha
officers and men who have been
fighting on Okinawa, be permit
ted to pass without correction."
He said the article "shows that
the author has been badly misin
formed, so badly as to give tha
Impression that he has been
made use of for purposes which
are not In the best Interests of
the United States."
"I don't know yet whera
Lawrence got his information,
but it must have been from some
body with an axe to grind."
"This conference is the best
way I know to refute this un
warranted attack on responsibla
leaders of the Okinawa oper
tion."
POINT VALUE OF
LARD, OIL UPPED
Washington. Juno 16 (U.R)
The Office of Price Administra
tion tonight raised the point val
ue of lard, shortening and oils
from 10 to 12 points a pound,
effective at midnight.
Point values of butter and
margarine remained' unchanged
at 24 points a pound for butter
and 12 points a pound for mar
garine. The Increases became neces
sary. OPA explained, because
the War Food Administration
sharply reduced civilians allo
cation of lard, shortening and
oils foi the third quarter in the
face of a short world supply
and large demand.
OPA said also that many areas
reported an uneven distribution
of these products for civilian use.
S. Pl(-n Office,
1