Beaten Japanese Surrender On Okinawa's Suicide Cliffs
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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
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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'
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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
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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.
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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.