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IMim) wUul Jul InJ LI la lAI Ls) U ' bwwm U . , a . . FORECAST: Clear tonliht and Tuesday. Little chance In temperature. Temp. Highest Yesterday n Lowest this Morning Fortieth Year F Well Known Officer Suc cumbs After Long lillness; Funeral to Be Wednesday. Sydney Isaac Brown, sheriff of Jackson county the last ten and one-half years, and one of southern Oregon's most widely known citizens, passed away at his home. 504 South Holly street Sunday evening about 7:30 o'clock. Recitation of the Rosary will be held at the Perl Funeral Home Tuesday at 8 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at the Sacred Heart church at 9:30 Wednesday morning with interment in Siski you Memorial Park. Medford Elks lodge will be in charge of services at the grave. Father Hamilton will officiate. Active pallbearers will be William Grenbemer, Vern Smith Jerry Pierson, Vern Hastings, Howard Gault and Paul Hanlin. Honorary pallbearers will be Eugene Thorndike, Bill von der Hellen, Charles Myers, Clatous McCredie, George Neilson and Cy Owens. Long 111 The end came at the close of a restful day. Sheriff Brown had been gravely ill for several weeks, following major opera tions in-awPortland hospital. The past week he had shown slight improvement. He had been under an oxygen tent for several days. To the last he showed the characteristic cheerfulness and courage which had endeared him to hundreds of Jackson county residents. Sheriff Brown was born Au gust 14, 1882, at Brackettsville, Kinney county, Texas, where he spent his early youth on a cattle ranch. He later followed rail roading for several years. He came to this city in 1905 and immediately became identified with the business and civic life here. He was one of the founders of the Jackson County Fair asso ciation. One of the organizers of the Jackfon County Sheriff's Posse, in more recent years, he was first president of that group. He was an ardent horseman all his days. He also engaged in business here. Including lumber ing and mining. He was a char ter member of the Medford lodge of Elks. - In June, 1911. he was united in marriage, to Miss Ann Cotter at San Francisco, who survives. In Third Term At the time of his passing, he was serving his third term as ' sheriff of this county. He was well known in law enforcement circles throughout the state and at one time was an officer of the State Sheriffs' association. He also helped organize the local chapter of the Footprinters. As a public official, he was known for his courtesy and coolness and helpful kindness, particular ly toward juveniles who came under his care. Besides his widow he is sur vived by three daughters, Mrs. Dixie Trahan and Sydney Brown of this city, and Marie, of San Francisco: a son, George I., In the Scabces; two sisters, Ethel wyn Soule. Los Angeles, and Mary Noland. Salem: three brothers, Cecil, Los Angeles. Chris H., Phoenix, Ariz., and William. P., Seattle: and his mother, Mrs. W. T. Brown, Seat tle; also two grandchildren. MISS BRILL AWARDED MUSIC STUDY HONOR Miss Alice Brill, violinist and freshman student at San Jose State college, California, was awarded the Mu Phi Epsilon prize at the college recently (or being the outstanding freshman music student, the college papei reports. Mu Phi Epsilon is a national honor society for music students. Miss Brill, daughter of Mr and Mrs. S. E. Brill of Trail, graduated from Medford senior high school with the class of 1944 and entered the California school last fall. She is expected home Friday. J MEDFORJW. JHil RIBUNE SSS United Press Sydney I. Brown Indications are that a large number of valley people will gather in Jacksonville this eve ning to hear Gov. Earl Snell speak. The governor is sched uled to talk from the steps of the old courthouse at 8 p. m., following a dinner sponsored by the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. The dinner and talk, com memorating Bunker Hill Day, were planned by the S.A.R., as first step in a campaign to have the old courthouse in historic Jacksonville set aside as a coun ty museum. Leaders of the or ganization believe that the town and the building make an ideal spot in which historic objects could be p r e s er v er and dis played. With the opening of. the road from Annie Springs to the head quarters of Crater Lake National park Sunday, preparations are now being made by Superintend ent E. P. Leavitt and staff mem bers to move to headquarters next Monday for the summer. Leavitt stated today that sev eral cars made the trip up to headquarters Sunday and a num ber of persons hiked one and one-half miles over the snow to the lake rim. The superintend ent warned that those planning the hike should wear suitable footwear. Workmen will continue with the task of clearing snow away from the headquarters' buildings and will then plow the' road to the rim, the superintendent stated, but it is not known when the work will be completed Snow is still eight to ten feet deep in some places, but on ex- nosed sections of the road may have melted to two or three feet, he said Leopold Abdication Favored By Vote of Belgian Committee Brussels, June 18. -(U.R) The national committee of the liber al party adopted by a vote of 88 to 3 today a resolution asking King Leopold of the Belgians to abdicate. The liberal party action was taken as Belgians waited for the return of Leopold after five years of German captivity. Left wing threats of a general strike if he returns to his throne were heard frequently. A. P. in Violation Is 5 to 3 Ruling Washington, June 18 (U.R) The Supreme court foday affirm ed in entirety a lower court de cree holding that the Associated Press' by-laws covering admis sion of new members are a viola tion of federal anti-trust laws. The decision against the AP was made by a five to three split Justice Hugo L. Black wrote the opinion for the majority, joined by Justices William O. Douglas, Wiley B. Rutledge, Stanley Reed and Felix Frankfurter. Chief Justice Harlan Stone and Justices Frank Murphy and Owen J. Roberts dissented. Five opinions were delivered Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OEEGON, MONDAY, JUNE FIFTEEN POLES PLEAD GUILTY IN Only One Member of Accus ed Group Denies Terroris tic Acts Against Red Army Moscow, June 18 (U.B Fif teen of IS Polish underground leaders charged with terroristic acts against the Red army plead ed guilty today to all or part of the charges when they went on trial before a Soviet military tri bunal. Gen. Bronislaw Okulickl, leader of the Polish home army, was among a group of 12 defend ants who pleaded guilty to all the charges. Three others plead ed guilty, in part, to the charges and the sixteenth, identified as Zbigniew Stypulkowski, declar ed himself innocent. Groups Charged One group of the Poles was charged with the organization of armed bands in white Russia and the western Ukraine on instruc tions from the London Polish government for the purpose of attacking Red army formations. A second group was charged with using clandestine radio sta tions. The indictment charged that Okulicki admitted under prelim inary examination that he ord ered the Polish home army to maintain itself intact in order to fight the Red army.-, v -- It said he admitted operating, during 1944, 25 secret radio sta tions in Poland and 10 in the western Ukraine. Okulicki also was accused of espionage and sabotage. Camp Kilmer, N. J June 18 -(U.R) The 86th Division, fresh from the European battlefields, fanned out across the country today en route home for fur loughs prior to joining the battle against the Japanese. Troop trains sped to Fort Dix and 21 other personnel centers where the 14.289 officers and men will be processed. The troops passed through this re deployment station within 24 hours of their arrival yesterday from Europe, followed by a col orful and noisy welcome in the port of New York. The 86th, or Black Hawk Di vision, commanded by Maj. Gen. Harris M. Melasky, of Los An geles Calif., suffered only 800 casualties during the fighting in four major battles in Ger many, hence the troops were light hearted as they arrived here and voiced willingness to get into the Pacific battle. Be cause of their few casualties they were selected as the first combat outfit to be re-deployed against Japan. SMOKE CAUSES ALARM AT SPARTA BUILDING Firemen answered a false alarm at 1 p.m. today at the Sparta building. East Main street and Riverside avenue, when smoke from a sawdust burner in the basement of the building caused alarm, Ray Elliot, fire chief reported. Anti - Trust Laws by High Court in the case: The controlling ma jority opinion by Black; separ ate concurring opinions by Doug las and Frankfurter; one dissent by Roberts in which Stone join ed; and another dissent by Mur phy. Justice Robert H. Jackson did not participate in the case. The lower court decree, now affirmed by the Supreme court, directed that the Associated Press' by-laws be changed so that when the organization passes on applications for new membership the factor of an ap- ; plicant't competition with exist Ing members shall not in the j future be considered, i - -s United Press Full Leased Wire Ul LI LUUIlL UMILI Tl Land, Sea and Air Blows Fall on 3,000 Remaining Luzon Drive Goes Ahead Pearl Harbor, June 18 (U.R) American forces battered the Japanese by land and air today. turning four more enemy cities and a few square miles of Okin awa into living hells. A fleet of 450 Superfortresses dropped nearly 3,000 tons of fire bombs and explosives on the Japanese cities of Kagoshima, Omuta, Yokkaichi and Hammat- su. Some of the fires could be seen 150 miles away as the bomb ers roared homeward. 3,000 Japs Left Okinawa, the 3,000 Japanese survivors, their throats parched for lack of. water, backed up a little more toward the ocean un der land, sea, and air blows. The Marines threw a fresh division at the enemy. American forces in northern Luzon in the Philippines spurted 13 miles along the Cagayan val ley against no opposition. The Japanese in north Borneo set fire to the rich Seria oil fields, lighting at least 20 oil wells, as signs increased of more allied landings' upcoming there. American naval units probed beach defenses and continued to clear mines. 'TT Sultan Dctturrts In the Brunei bay area, the Australians made slight progress toward Tutong, but they faced a dead end in the Mangrove swamps between there and the oil fields. The Sultan of Brunei came out of hiding in the hills to take over his throne again. Chinese forces surged back against the Japanese counter offenses in the Liuchow and Kwantung-Kiangsi border areas. The Chinese reached Tatang, 21 miles southwest of Liuchow. They also recaptured Tingnan, 130 miles northeast of Canton only two days after it was taken by the Japanese. In Burma sizeable blows were struck by heavy and light planes against Japanese forces along the Sittang river northeast of Pegu. Radio Tokyo again filled the air with invasion warnings, as It became clear that crack troops on Okinawa and in the Philip pines would be free for opera tions elsewhere in the not too distant future. Valmire M. Albert, Ross Riggs and Rex Coble, all of Medford, are cited to appear in justice court tomorrow for dumping debris in undesignated places. The complaint charges they dumped garbage in the Fern Valley. Jacksonville and Roxy Anne districts. A warrant has been Issued for a fourth man on the same charge an announcement from justice court said. FRESNO FIRES CAUSE MILLION IN DAMAGE Fresno, Calif., Juno 18 (U.R) Week-end fires in Fresno and Kern counties caused an esti mated $1,117,500 damages, in coding the destruction of ap proximately $650,000 worth ol navy war materials, fire depart ment officials reported today. The greatest loss occurred at the former Sun-Maid Raisin as sociation plant at Biola in Fres no county. Flames destroyed the $164,000 main building In which 65 carloads of navy sup plies. Including processed foods bedding and Insecticide, had been stored. Value of the cars was estimated at $10 000 each Cotton is used for 11,000 dif ferent Items by the armed forces Seventh War Loan Drive "E" Seles to Dste S4SS.8S0 Quota $1,067,000 18, 1945. Conquering Hero Eisenhower Welcomed; Tells Congress Peace Must Be Assured Washington, June 18 U.R)- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a conquering hero come home, told the world's leaders today- that the combat soldier of this war expects them "to preserve the peace he is winning." The 54-year-old Texas-born Kansan, given perhaps the most tumultuous and heart-felt home coming reception in this capital's history declared in an address before congress that "the prob lems of peace can and must be met." Great Ovation The grief of those who mourn for the dead, he said, "can be re lieved only by the faith that all this shall not happen again." The congress in joint session received the. general with ap plause,' shouts, and whistles n an ovation lasting a full minute. Jammed into the house chamber also were the Supreme Court Justices the Cabinet, and a host of foreign ambassadors, ministers and charge d'affaires. The gal leries were packed. As Eisenhower talked, his of ten solemn words were Interrupt ed time and again by applause as enthusiastic as he had received from the crowds along the par ade rnute. The modest man whose Anglo American armies whipped the Nazi Wehrmacht's best, went be fore congress after a parade past crowds of hundreds of thousands along the avenue which has re verberated in the past to the names of Grant, Sherman, Dew ey, and Pershing. riles- from Europe On a vast banner floating high over Pennsylvania avenue were the words, providing the shoutca refrain for the thousands who' saw him, "Welcome Ike." . He came from Europe in a four-engined Skymaster the luxurious craft in which Presi dent Roosevelt flew to Yalta and in which President Truman will fly to San Francisco this week. From the moment the plane hit the tarmac at the National Air San Francisco. June 18 (U.R) The United Nations confer ence broke its major committee bottleneck today but adjourn ment Saturday depends upon quick settlement with Moscow of difficulties over the powers of the assembly. Soviet Russia has formally re opened the question of the as esmbly's powers to discuss inter national matters, contending that the present language in the proposed charter is too broad and is a threat to national sov ereignty. A suggested compromise was reported to have been worked out and may be presented to the conference steering committee today. But the Russian delega tion here Is not empowered to approve it and was said to have cabled Moscow for an okay a process that may take several days and could delay the Satur day adjournment. THREE LOOKOUTS NOW WATCH OVER FORESTS But three lookouts in the Rogue River forest are now staffed according to forest heart- quartets here, an unusually small number for this time of the year. Due to the unusual amount of rainfall during May, It has not been found necessary to staff the lookout stations. Men are now on duty at Tal lowbox lookout In the Apple- gate. Burnt Peak in the Union Creek district and Robinson Butte lookout in the Butte Falls tcrritoiy. The forest has 25 look out stations in all. MONTGOMERY'S DEATH PLOTTED BY TERRORISTS Copenhagen, June 18 (UK- Authorities announced today that the alleged leader of a Nazi-controlled terrorist group confessed that he planned to assassinate Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery when he visited Copenhagen soon after the capit ulation I Gergyuyr, port with the three other mam moth planes bearing' his party, General Ike had been taking the cheers of the multitude. The capital had gone all out to honor him with a day-long program a parade, a tribute from congress and the govern ment's highest dignitaries, the presentation by President Tru man of his third Distinguished Service medal, a White House dinner. Eisenhower went before oon gress after riding, to the trium General "Ike" Hailed r sei t3 3 '.Gen. Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower, the Kansas firm boy who led the Western Allies to victory In Germany, stands on London balcony to acknowledge huge ovation given him after he was awarded honorary freedom of the city. Beside him It Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Elsenhower stopped In Britain on his way home. He was welcomed in Washington. D. C, today. Unkempt Haw Haw Is Brought Before Bow Street Court London, June 18 (U.R) Wil liam Joyce, the ranting Lord Haw Haw -of Nazi radioland, came disheveled and staring into Dingy Bow-Street police court to day and heard himself charged with high treason punishable by hanging. His first public appearance In his native land since he went over to Hitler lasted only eight minutes. The preliminary hearing in the case continued until next Mon day so that witnesses can be brought from Europe. Asked if he objected to the delay, Joyce replied unemotionally: "I have no objection, but I should like to apply for legal assistance. He will get It probably a public free defender. Soldiers Take Over Truck Driving Jobs In Chicago Walkout Chicago, June 1 8 (U.R) Sol diers began driving civilian trucks today when striking In dependent union members failed to heed a government warning to return to work. Members of the Independent truck drivers union of Chicago refused to mount their cabs at the start of work and two sol dicrs each a driver and a guard were assigned to the idle vehicles. Some 600 drivers of the Inter national Brotherhood of Team sters were back at the wheels They refused army offers of pro tection but were guarded by police squad cars which tailed the trucks. MURDER TRIAL OPENS Vale Ore., June 18 U.R) Selection of a Jury began here today in circuit court for the trial of Kenneth Bailey, Klam ath Falls. Ore. charged with the first degree murder of Sgt. Ted Chambers, 45 Oregon State Po liceman who was killed in a gun battle near Woiscr, Ida., last April 29. Uruguay is the smallest of the Soullj American republic, -- NO. 74. phant music of 20 bands, along avenues through which the dead president, to the beat of muffled drums, had been borne on his last return to the capital two months ago. Eisenhower said much of the U. S. ground, air, naval supply, and merchant marine forces. He thanked civilian America in be half of the millions he led for for the weapons and the "confi dence and sympathetic under standing" which he said made victory possible. London, June 18 OI.R) Col. Gen. Nikolai Bcrzarin, Rus sian occupation commandant of Berlin, was killed yesterday In a motorcycle accident, the Soviet controlled Berlin radio reported today. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, deputy commandei of the Red army, announced the death of Bcrzarin, an expert on military operations In the Far East who recently expressed a desire to return there. Germans Fleeing Czech Frontier Praiue, June 18 (U.R) The first of some 2.000 000 chastened Sudeten Germans were reported fleeing across the Czechoslovak border into Germany today in expectation of a mass ouster. There has been no forced ex odus from the borderland yet, and Czechoslovak officials there have been ordered to "go easy" until Bn agreement on the popu lation transfer has been reached with the United Slates, Britain and Russia, , . i- f t i 1 V 1 1 - vnt WISHING WELL IVllHIerrd U S, 64ST3BSS8424B P Y N S 8 D R T E O MAR 4 8 i 1 it 3 1 i i e S t 4 UWI 1YOWRLFNTW 3 i i S 8 7 i S 4 g T i P O O A K E K X R U P E 8 i i g t 1 3 ft i 5 3 & I 4 NFE STM DD M R T U W i S Jl 4 i ft 8 7 4T T i T R I O I PC ENL TEM I i g S 1 5 3 I i 7 i i i T L O C N L N NHWAOB B I 8 1 3 i S 7 S 3 i 1 S I O T A E Q8 SKY LHHN HERE Is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day. It la a numericml puszle duigned to spell out your fortune. Count the letters In your flrst name. If the number of letters Is or more, subtract 4. If the number Is lees than . add $. The result t your ky number. Start at the upper left hind corner of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right- Then read the message the letter under the checked figures give you. fc-ld t fWilil if immr.. puirti.uttd.to kim fMiMMar "1 Douglas, Reed, Rutledge, Black and Murphy Join in Majority Court Opinion. San Francisco, June 18 (U.R) Jubilant over cancellation of his deportation, Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, today said he would apply for American citizenship immedi ately. But he predicted that "the same forces which were back of his deportation proceedings would again try to delay his efforts to become a citizen. Washington, June 18. (U.R) The supreme court today can celled an order calling for the deportation of Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, to Aus tralia as a communist. The de cision was 5 to 3. The ruling brought to a close the long series of hearings over deportation proceedings started against Bridges in 1938. Bridges, who has remained an alien since coming to this coun try In 1920, turned to the fed eral courts after Attorney Gen eral Francis Biddle on May 28. 1942, ordered that he be sent back to his native land. Claimed Communist Biddle held that Bridges, head of the powerful longshoremen's and warehousemen's union (CIO) was an undesirable alien as a member of the communist party which taught overthrow of the U. S. government by "force and violence." The supreme court reviewed the entire proceedings upon Bridges' bid for freedom through a writ of habeas corpus. Bridges appealed after Federal Judge Martin I. Welsh in California refused to- iesue the habeas cor pus writ and his 'refusal Was up held by the ninth circuit court of appeals. Membership Denied Before the high court, counsel for Bridges denied he had ever been a member of the commun ist party or its affiliate, the Marine Workers Industrial union. The deportation order, they charged, was contrary to the bills of rights of the federal constitution which guarantees to aliens and citizens alike the rights of free speech, thought and assembly. The government claimed con gress had provided for the classification of aliens and that this function was not up to the courts. It contended the evidence was "overwhelming" in support of Biddle's findings against Bridges. Justice William O. Douglas de livered the majority opinion for himself and Justices Stanley Reed, Wiley B. Rutledge. Hugo L. Black and Frank Murphy. "The associations which Harry Bridges had with various com munist groups seem to indicate no more than cooperative mea sures to attain objectives which were wholly legitimate," Doug las said. "The link by which it if sought to tie him to subversive activities is an exceedingly tenu ous one, if it may be said to exist at all." SAMMONS WILL SPEAK BEFORE ROTARY CLUB E. C. Sammons, Portland, president of the United State National bank and state chair man In charge of war bond sales, will speak at the meeting of the Medford Rotary club tomorrow noon. Sammons will discuss gen eral war-time conditions and the progress of the present drive. Parent Office
