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Newspaper Page TextBeaten Japanese Surrender On Okinawa's Suicide Cliffs Weather FORECAST: Inrrrasfnir rloudt nrsi tonight. Cooler Thursday. Srattrred showeri In moun tains Thursday Temp. Highest Yesterday . 101 Lowest this Morning 63 Fortieth Year HOWARD C. GMT OF JACKSON CO. Chief Deputy To Serve Un- expired Term of Late Syd Brown; Will Retain Staff. Howard C. Gault, chief deputy ii.. uoriff' office, was ap- pointed today to serve out the unexpirea lerm 01 " t, ,hn nassed away last cnri.v. Last rites for Brown - v..y this morning. Gault was sworn in early this afternoon and announced he would retain the present office personnel. Members of the coun ty court said early naming of the sheriffs successor was neces sary in order to handle legal matters pertaining to the office. The new sheriff was appointed as chief deputy in lJS. ana n then except for sev eral months at Camp White. His appointment is for tne term ena i ,ith thp vear 1946. Candi Hate for the office will enter the May primary in 1946 and the party selections will then compete in the general election in the fall of that year. The suc cessful candidate will assume office with the start of 1947. The newly appointed sheriff is a native of Medford having been horn here in 1905. the son of pioneer parents. He and Mrs. Gault and their three children make their home at 105 Tripp street. TRIESTE INCIDENT Rome, June 20 (U.R) The "Trieste incident" was settled amicably today with the an nouncement of an agreement providing for joint occupation of the disputed Italio-Yugoslav border area by American, British and Yugoslav troops pending fi nal disposition of the territory at the peace conference. Allied headquarters an nounced that the three-power ac cord was concluded in Belgrade and that all military details in connection with the pact have been completed. Medical Corps To Enjoy Combat Pay Washington, .June 20. (U.R) The house today unanimously passed a bill to qualify officers and men of the army medical corps for combat pay. Last year, congress passed leg islation to give infantrymen and other "combat troops" an extra $10 a month during battle duty. But medical corpsmen. Rep. Forest A. Harness, R Ind., told the house, were not eligible to receive this extra pay because the war department does not consider them as "combat troops." Salem City Aides Get Salary Boost Salem. June 20 (U.R) Sal ary increases aggregating $19, 000 a year were voted to employ es of the city of Salem by the city council Monday night after one of the councilmen had dis covered an allegedly unbudgctcd mrpl'ti of $125 000 in city funds. The pay increases range from $13 s month for some police and firemen to $50 a month for the city recorder and purchasing agent. CARPENTER ACQUITTED IN DOUBLE SLAUGHTER Grangevillc, Ida., June 20 (U.R) George Cammack, 60-year-old Grangevillc carpenter, was acquitted of a double murder charge by a district court jury here last night after two hours and 20 minutes of deliberation. Cammack had been charged with shooting to death Clyde Morrow, 54-year-old northern Idaho stockman, and Mrs. Mabel Meade. 50, a Grangevillc wait ress. Their bodies were found June 6, in the bedroom of an apartment owned by Cammack. Seventh War Loan Drive "E" Sales to Date $486,019 Quqta $1,067,000 MEDFORD United Pint Hitler and Eva Braun Killed Selves On Eve Of Berlin Fall, Claim United Press Sta Berchtesgaden, June 20. (U.R) shot and killed themselves in an the Berlin reichschancellery on their gasoline-soaked, burning b 'Hitler and Eva, who long had been his mistress, were married two days before they committed suicide as nazidom was crashing about them in the midst of the Russian siege of Berlin, the wit ness said. . Chauffeur Talki Hitler's personal chauffeur, Eric Kempke, gave the first eye witness account bearing out Nazi reports that Hitler died in Berlin shortly before it fell to the red army. Kempke said he carried Eva Braun's body from the bunker a little before 3 p.m. April 30 after she and Hitler shot themselves with rjistols. Propaganda Minister Joseph iioeDDeis ana nis wile killed themselves in an unknown man ner in a bunker on the night of May 1 the day before Berlin fell Kempke said. The bunker was enfurntnri with gasoline and set on fire aiier the suicide of Goebbels and his wife, the chauffeur reported. Nazis Wounded Kempke said that between 3 and 4 a.m. on May 2 he saw mree omer lopiiight nazis wounded, probably fatally, while trying to flee Berlin. They were Martin Bormann, nazi party leader; Werner Nau mann, state secretary in the pro paganda ministry who married Hitler and Eva; and Dr. Stumpf ecker, Hitler's personal physi cian in the last days of nazi re sistance. Kempke, 34; had been Hitler's No. 1 chauffeur since 1936. He left Berlin on the morning of May 3, and after a series of dra matic escanes from thp Rticsione who already had captured the capital reached British territory west of the Elbe late in May. tie arrived last Monday at Hintcrsee near Berchtesgaden, where his wife had been pvnpu. ated earlier. Taken By Yanks Troops of the 101st airborne division captured Kempke. He said that a little before Hitler and Eva killed themselves Hitler announced their intention to Otto Guensche, one of his per sonal adjutants. He ordered Guensche to have both bodies burned so no remains would fall into Russian hands, the chauf feur reported. He said that besides himself, witnesses at the burning of the bodies were Bormann, Goebbels, Australian Evatt's Firm Stand Conference Adjournment Into San Francisco, June 20. 1U.R) Australian Foreign Minister Herbert V. Evatt stood firmly today against Russian demands to narrow the discussion powers of the proposed general assem bly the last issue obstructing adjournment of the United Na tions conference on Saturday. The big five may persuade Evatt to change his mind before nightfall and accept the Russian counterproposal, which arrived only last night. If they fail, an other proposal may have to be referred back to Moscow. That would certainly push conference adjournment into next week. Official. Hopeful The Australian and Russian positions were said to be very close together and officials were hopeful that the final session would not have to be postponed beyond Saturday. Today marks the start of the ninth week of the conference - and President Truman is waiting in Olympia. Wash., to come here for trfe final session. If necessary, he will wait there until Monday or Tuesday of next week. The big five arranged an early meeting today their fourth within 24 hours to continue to search for reconciliation of the Russian and Australian views on matters which the general as semly can discuss. The United States and Great Britain are playing mediator roles, seeing little if any substantive differ ence between the two positions. Language seems to be the major Larricr to agreement tha same Full Leased Wit MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE ff Correspondent -Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun underground bunker behind April 30, a man who said he saw odies reported today. (Acma Telephoio) Eva Braun Guensche, Heinz Linger, another of Hitler's personal adjutants, and "a couple of other unim portant men whose names I don't remember." AWOL Trades At Ft. Ord Exchange Monterey, Cal June 20. (U.R) Pvt. George Lashley, who con tinued to shop at the Fort Ord post exchange during the more than a year that he was absent without leave, faced eight years at hard labor today. Army au thorities disclosed that Lashley was given a general court mar tial after military police arrest ed him in an East Monterey house where he had been living since his disappearance in March 1944. He had posed as a "4-F." Aussie War Brides Come To America San Francisco, June 20 (U.R) The largest group of Austral ian war brides and their babies to arrive in America today were en route to new homes in this country. A total of 543 women and chil dren arrived here on a transport late yesterday, bewildered but eager to see their husbands again. FRANCE DENOUNCED San Francisco, June 20 (U.R) Egyptian Delegate Abdel Hamid Badawal Pasha, speak ing in behalf of the Arab league at a public session of the United Nations conference today denounced France for recent "acts of aggression" against Syria. The French delegate, Mau rice De Jean, tried in vain to have the Egyptian delegate called to order but Commis sion Chairman Wilhelm Mor genttierne of Norway declined to do to on ground ii would unduly delay proceedings. bugaboo that has bogged down this conference many times be fore. Simplified, the problem is that the Russians want the assembly'i discussion powers limited to sub jects related to the maintenance of international peace and secur ity. The Australians, acting as spokesmen for the little nations, want unlimited discussion in the assembly. Strange Conflict "It is a curious thing." Evatt told the United Press, "that the charier INr-lf unprifirnllv men- ... i j tions fundamental freedoms which include freedom of dis cussion, yet the power of the' assembly itself to exercise so; fundamental a freedom is being' called into question." Otherwise the conference was, making giant strides toward ad-' Journment. Four of the proposed 14 chapters of the charter were ' ' ' rtwf f CHICAGO STRIKE HALTS DELIVERY OF NEEDED DRUGS Prescription Supplies Criti cally Low; Army Bringing in 10,000 G. I. Drivers. Chicago, June 20 (U.R) Prescription supplies in Chicago drug stores dropped dangerously low today as big . trucks stood idle in warehouses of wholesale drug firms. The army announced It was bringing 10,000 steel-helmeted combat troops into the city to alleviate the paralyzing truck drivers strike that disrupted transport of essential civilian goods and war materials. Drug houses said the "situa tion was critical." In several cas es drug store operators said their prescription supplies were "close to the vanishing point. Groceries Short ' ' Grocery stores reported a shortage in perishable vegetables and fruits but said dry grocery suDDlies still were ample. "How long we can continue to supply customers is problemati cal, however," one grocer said. Ten thousand truck drivers went on strike Saturday. By United Press The army began operation of the strike-bound Diamond Alka li Company plan at Painesville, r di a nnlion.wide wave of strikes curtailed war product! U. President Truman oruci cu seizure of the Alkali plant after Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson described the strike of 2000 workers as "one of the most critical from a war stand point." " . . - ? 1 ., a. urn At tne same wme mc Labor Board ordered 5500 strlk- ... .1 lh. MrPnrmick Works of the International Harvester Com pany, Chicago, back to worn v day. The strike had halted pro duction of farm equipment and war goods. WLB ignored a wt r knflr.tn.work order to 18.000 Goodyear Tire and Rub ber Company Akron, strikers was Ignored. Leaders of the Uni Dkw Wnriinn CIO. dis claimed any responsibility in the strike, and sinners gave uu m... cause for the walkout. JENNIFER DIVORCED Hollywood, June 20 (U.R) Jennifer Jones who rose from obscurity to win an Academy award for her performance in "The Song of Bernadctte" today vd an Interlocutory decree of divorce from her actor hus band, Robert Walker. May Delay Next Week approved by commissions In public session yesterday. That brought the total of approved chapters to 10. Three more pro bably will get commission ap proval today, leaving only the one on the assembly which Is tied up by the Soviet-Australian controversy. In addition, the conference got its first taste of drama since the early days of the conference. After weeks of dull technical work a conference commission plunged into heated discussion last night of Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco of Spain and con cluded by unanimously adopting a Mexican declaration which will keep Spain blacklisted from United Nations mcmb e r s h i p while Franco rules. Franco Denounced - Speaker after speaker de nounced Franco vehemently to the accompaniment of applause. But the climax of the hour long discussion was left for a man who has been severely criticized for U. S. policy toward Spain Assistant Secretary of State James C. Dunn. From the ros trum of the opera house, he de livered a one-sentence "speech": "The United States is in com plete accord with the statement of the delegation from Mexico and desires to associate itself with that declaration." The Mexican declaration, adopted unanimously, interpret the charter at prohibiting mem bership to any government which came Into power wl'.h axit aid a charge leveled at Franco, 20, 1945 E DELAY TRW TO F Efforts to Have San F-fa.icis co Sessions End Saturday Having Little Success. Olympia, Wash., June 30 (U.R) President Truman, resting in the Northwest today sought to have the United Nations' con ference at San Francisco end Saturday on schedule, but he appeared to be having little suc cess. In fact, the president was pre pared to extend his visit here until sometime early next week while he awaits the completion of a vast, last-minute pile-up of paper work at the conference. Mr. Truman was convinced there was nothing fundamental in the delay at San Francisco that the work remaining was largely a matter of recording formalizing and translating doc uments. May Miss Dewey If the president remains on the West Coast until next1 Monday or Tuesday whicn now seems to be the most likely date, for the conference to end it will mean' the postponement of his date in Washington next Monday with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New jfork, the 1944 Republican presidential candidate. It also will mean that the president will go direct from San Francisco to homecoming cele brations at Independence, Mo., and Kansas City on June 27 and June 28. The president was In frequent contact with San Francisco and was constantly urging that th conference be brought to ah end because he is anxious to present the final charter to the senate for consent to ratification as soon as possible. The president's schedule today contained only two brief engage ments the presentation of the congressional medal of honor to a hero of the Northwest, and a reception for state officals. Otherwise, he was taking it easy. The president was up this morning about 5:30 o'clock and walked through the beautiful executive mansion grounds with his host, Gov. Mon Wallgrcn. Tomorrow the president will hold a news conference at 10 a. m. (PWT) and later in the day go for a fishing trip on southern Puget Sound. Southern Pacific Officials Confer James Ormandy, general pas senger agent, northern territory. Southern Pacific company, and L. P. Hopkins, superintendent of Portland divition, arc In Medford today conferring with company officials. Ormandy said Southern Pa cific Is prepared to handle heavy movement of soldiers scheduled for this area with reactivation of Camp White. OP A Drove Him Mad Says Suicide Note Denver, June 20 (U.R) R. W. i MAY ' . mn i k Ross of Chicago, 52-ycar-old ; uwigni u. tiscnhower, in battle salesman for an oil company, : Jacket and overseas cap, return plunged to his death from the I ed today to the U. S. military eighth story of a hotel today , academy where he was just after writing a note saying that ! another unknown graduate 30 "OPA has driven me mad." vcar ago. TWO NAMES ADDED TO WAR CASUALTY LISTS Latest casualty list of the Of fice of War Information contains the names of two additional val ley men reported wounded in ac tion. Cpl. Louis J. Clave, hut band of Mrs. Frances Clave, Eagle Point, has been wounded while tervlng In the Pacific re gion. Also listed was Pfc. Ken neth L. Smith of the marine corps, ton of Mrs. Clara A. Smith, 522 North Riverside ave nue, SUGAR INCREASE SOUGHT BY CORDON, WIRE SAYS The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce It in receipt of a telegram from Senator Guy Cor don concerning a wire recently dispatched to Sen. Cordon re garding canning tugar allotment in Oregon. The message stated Sen. Cor don had made a ttrong appeal to Administrator Chester Bowles of. OPA for an increase in canning ' sugar allotment for Oregon and 1 would keep the Chamber of Commerce advised of results, I TRIBUNE United Press New York Welcomes 'Gen. Ike' l I - tmi fr Mcma Telepltoto) Ticker tape and waste paper shower down from skyscrapers In New York's financial district as the city's millions paid Gen. Eisenhower a hero's tribute. Eisenhower stands waving In the first auto. GENERAL EASLEY KILLED IN ACTION Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley, 53, of the 96th Infantry Division, was killed June 18 In action on Okinawa according to a wire from Mrs,. Easley. received yes terday by friends here. Gen: Easley, regular army officer and second in command to Maj. Gen. James J. Bradley pf the division, was at Camp White from Nov. 1943 until April, 1944, and be came well known In the valley. The general was wounded on the 15th day of the Leyte cam paign in the Philippines but re covered and returned to duty in about a month. While the officer was station ed at Camp White Gen. and Mrs. Easley made their home at the Holland Hotel. He was a mem ber of the Medford Rotary club He is survived by the widow, a son, Maj. Claudius M. Easley, Jr., now serving the the sixth army In the Philippines: his father, A. H. Easley, Waco, Tex.; a brother, K. H. Easley, Waco, and two sisters, Maybcllc Easley of Waco, and Miss A. M. Easley, San Francisco. Mrs. Easley is at present mak ing her home at 3601 Connecti cut avenue N.W.. Washineton. D.C. 8. - West Point, N. Y., June 20. (U.R) General of the Army He arrived by car from New York at Washington Gale at 10:35 a.m. A 17-gun salute boom ed out a welcome. With the gen eral was his son, Lt. John Eisen hower, a recent graduate at V est Point, his parents-in-law Mr. and Mrs. John Doud, of Abi lene, Kant., and some members of hit ttaff. Three-Cent Mail Extension Backed Washington, June 20 (U.R) The house today passed and sent to the senate a bill to continue the three-cent rate on non-local first class mail until July 1. 1947. ' Under the present law, If not extended, the rate is scheduled to drop to two cents July I, Cut ting postal revenue by an estim ated $125,000,000. . . SHIRLEY AT BARNES Vancouver, Wash., June 20 (U.R) Shirley Temple, one-time tiny tot of movie fame, arrived here from Hollywood today for a scheduled two-day visit at the army'i Barnes general hospital to entertain convalescing C l'i, Full Leased Wire NO. 76. rr 4' Lye Water Douse Removes Hair Of. Belligerent One Berkeley, Calif., June 20 U.R) Ben O. Knightcn, 18, lost all his hair today when he was doused with a bucket of lye and water by Mrs. Annie Mae Grif fin, 21. Mrs. Griffin, who was booked at the city jail on a charge of "assault with a caustic,." claimed that Knlghten stood beneath the window of her home and chal lenged her husband, A. T. Grif fin, to come out and finish a fight started earlier in a tavern. Knlghten, , she said, brought along two sailors as reinforce ments. Mrs. Griffin then opened the window and scored a direct hit on Knightcn, who was taken to Berkeley Hospital for burns on his head, face and shoulders. Ward's Chairman Receives $100,850 Philadelphia. June 20 (U.R) Sewell L. Avery received $100,850 as ehairman of the board of Montgomery Ward Si Co., Inc., Chicago, during 1944, the company's report to the Se curities and Exchange Commis sion showed today. Montgomery Ward which was operated part of 1944 by the U. S. government also paid Its president, C. D. Ryan. $95,800 and its vice president, R. S. Stevens, $55,280. Strange Highballs Kill Five Negroes Gadsden, Ala., June 20 (U.R) Highballs of paint thinner and lilnc toilet water today had re-, suited in the deaths of five negroes following a party last Friday night at which they drank the alcoholic mixture. ASHLAND VOTERS NAME TWO TO SCHOOL BOARD Ashland, June 20 (U.R) Sev enteen voters went to the polls hero Monday and elected Mrs. Mern Provost to a one year term and Paul Flnncll was approved for a five year term as dlrectoqn of the school board. They were the only candidates. Xftmmwi WISHING WELL Rfgiimrfd U. 5 3 2 746385T886 Y R J JH 8 EHOOEP B 2 8 S, i 1 6i 31 i 8 1 1 3 PC L AYU V A B RAP C 6 5 4 7 i 3 i I 4 S 3 i f WE P UCO BEP-OLT R 3 i 1 8 4 8 i 6 S 1 8 3 8 DHCP. Y N W L. H H B I t. N T Y PEA A H 8 T 8 N N 8 8 S 4 1 8 S i B 8 S 5 PEERS V W O P W 8 L M 3 S 8 2 i 31 4 8 1 i 3 8 S PUE ETV8CEPE HU HERE It a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day. It la a numerical puxzle designed to spell' out your fortune. Count the letter In your first name. If the number of letters la 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number la leu than . add 3. The result ts your key number Start at the upper left, hand comer of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the letters undet the checked figures give you. bZO CeprHtM ipobr WUium J-UiHer, Oletrlbuttd by KlnTtuifcJti4) MANY FANATICS LEAP TO DEATH Tokyo Reports Large Yank Convoy Assembled West of Okinawa For Landing. Guam, Thursday, June 21 (U.R) The 82-day battle for Oki nawa .was ending in complete American victory today with throngs of beaten Japanese troops and bewildered civilians surrendering to onrushing U. S. forces along the southern "sui cide cliffs." Many enemy soldiers, In a familiar pattern of last ditch des pair, committed suicide by hurl ing themselves from the 100-foot cliffs onto the jagged rocks lin ing the shore. . Many Surrender Sixty-five hundred Okinawa civilians and 455 Japanese army and navy personnel streamed in to the 7th division lines on the southeastern front in a 24-hour period starting at noon Tuesday. United Press War Correspond ent Russell Annabel reported many half-naked civilians at tempted to descend the cliffs on ropes to escape American gun fire, but that vengeful Japanese cut the ropes and let the Oki nawans drop onto the rocks be low. Even while final enemy resist ance emrlrnH Tnlrvn aaain "ported apprehensively that a large American transport convoy was assembled in the Keramas west of Okinawa, presumably preparing for new amphibious operations against Japanese islands. - Root Out Fanatics The 10th army hacked the last Japanese into tiny, isolated pock ets, and killed hundreds of fan atical holdouts in their caves and foxholes. Although victory was at hand, the savage business of flushing Japanese machine gunners with flamethrowers and grenades con tinued. "We're starting the mop-up, and that sounds easy," said an American soldier. "But hell It's the toughest part of any cam paign." , . . Pearl Harbor, June 20 (U.R) Strong winds swept across the Japanese homeland today and fanned the fires set by Superfort resses in their attacks on three cities over a dozen hours earlier. It looked as if the Superforts would not have to bother any more with the cities Shlzuoka and Toyohashi on Honshu and Fukuoka on Kyushu. Tokyo Jittery Tokyo saw attacks, real and fanciful, coming in any and all directions. Japanese broadcasts reported that minesweepers had started to work clearing Balikpapan bay, perhaps preliminary to an inva sion of the rich oil area on Bor neo's east coast. On the Chinese mainland, the Japanese were on the verge of losing another highly-desired base as Chinese forces drove into the suburbs of Liuchow in south China. One Chinese column was three miles from the airfield for merly used as an American bomber base. Japs Claim Success The Japanese claimed their own "lightning" offensive in southern Kiangsl province, north of Canton. The Doinci agency said that Japanese forces opened an offensive on June 16 which resulted in a "crushing blow'' to six Chinese divisions. Enemy forces still hadn't turned to make a stand in north ern Luzon, where the 37th divi sion reeled off another 13-mllo advance-along the Cagayan val ley. The 37th crossed the Caga yan river, a formidable barrier, and advanced within three miles of Ilagan, a provincial capital of 30,000. , Morse made his first telegraph Instrument from an old picture frame. ' S. Pulrnl Office.