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Newspaper Page TextMm Ml it wnn Am mm a 7 Weather FORECAST; Partly cloudy to night and Friday, Afternoon thunder ihoweri In moun tain!. Silently cooler Friday. Temp. Highest Yesterday ... 98 Lowest this Morning -.....CI Fortieth Year BY Sams Valley Chapter Urges All Farmers fo Bar Wal tonian Anglers, Hunters. All farmers of the Rogue River Basin are urged to close their lands to fishing and hunt ing by members of the Izaak Walton league in a resolution adopted at a regular meeting of the Sams Valley -Grange held June 16. The resolution carried by a large majority, a grange spokesman states. The resolution as presented for publication was signed by John L. Peffley, master of the Sams Valley Grange. It reads In full: "It is resolved by the Sams Valley Grange that all farmers of the Rogue River Basin be pub licly urged to close their farms to both fishing and hunting for i-iembers of the Izaak Walton league. It is also resolved that the following reasons be given for the action: "The Rogue River Basin dis trict comprised of Jackson and Josephine counties is an agricul tural district. Over three-fourths of 'its productive income and wealth is from agriculture and its future economic well being is tied to the growth and progres siveness of its agricultural indus try.. The one thing needed to make possible tremendous growth in the agricultural wealth of the district is suf ficient irrigation water. At the present time there is around 60, 000 acres under irrigation. Some of this never has enough water and all of it is subject o short water years. There are over 80,- 000 additional acres suitable for irrigation but no water avail able. "In order to determine the possibility of getting water for these irrigable acres the two counties, the state of Oregon and the IT. S. Reclamation bureau have spent a number of years making a survey of all water re sources of the Rogue River Basin. The Reclamation bureau report on its findings has not yet been made public. "The Izaak Walton league has an unsubstantiated fear that a dam on Rogue river would harm one or two. varieties of fish, in spite of wild life survey evi dence to the contrary. Know ing that the people of this dis trict will overwhelmingly sup port a program to improve their economic well being if the Re clamation bureau survey proves the project feasible, the Izaak Walton league is trying to build up enough opposition outside of this district to kill our chances of getting water for this land. "In this selfish endeavor to bring outside opposition to our local project the Izaak Walton league is using false and mislead ing statements. "Since the Izaak Walton league ignores the interests of the majority of the people in this district we take this action to protest the activities of the Izaak Walton league." Rain of Tinfoil Harmless Secret Seattle. June 21 U.R Mili tary authorities have the mys tery of the flying tinfoil well in hand, and that's official. Alarmed King county resi dents, fearful of some new Japa nese trick, phoned officials to day to report shiny bits of tin foil raining from the sky. "We know all about it." of ficials assured them, "and we know the purpose for which it is being used although we can't explain it for security reasons. But take it from us it's harm less." SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Frank Rogers wondering how one could "erect" a basement. Commissioner Powell trying to make a visitor at a welfare commission believe she was in need of an old-age pension. i MEDFORD United Pratt Heads Together (Acme 1 elenhoioi Foreign Minister Manuel C. Galla gher of Peru (seated) and Miguel Angel Carcano, Argentina's ambas sador to London, put their heads to gether during an UIICIO executive . committee session. TO. CLOSE FRIDAY IT Tomorrow Jackson county res idents will go to the polls to vote on two . referendum taxation measures. Voting will be from 8 a. m. until 8 p. m. at the regu larly designated precinct polling places oi me county. The two measures are a bill authorizing a tax levy for the state building fund and one au thorizing a cigarette tax to sup port public schools. A light vote is anticipated. As Is usual, a number of pub lic buildings and places of busi ness will be closed. Closing are the county courthouse, the city hall, both the First National and United States National banks and the store of the Oregon Liquor Control commission. City police also point out that under a law passed by the last legislature all licensees dispensing intoxicating liquor must not sell these for consumption on the premises during the election hours. QUEEN MARY ARRIVES AT NEW YORK HARBOR New Vork, June 21 (U.R The last of 14,526 American sol dier and sailor passengers march ed off the liner Queen Mary at 6:13 a. m. today after the great ship's first announced arrival since Great Britain went to war. The 81.235-ton liner met a noisy greeting of New York har bor whistles as she sailed up the bay yesterday afternoon to the pier she has left and docked at in secrecy throughout the war. TWO CONFIRMED Washington, June 21. (U.R) The senate has confirmed unan imously the nominations of Arte mus L. Gates of New York to be under-secretary of the navy and John L. Sullivan of New Hamp shire to be assistant secretary of the navy for air. 200,000 Voters Issues In Friday Salem. June 21 (U.R) An esti mated 200.000 or so voters will decide tomorrow whether Ore gon will vote $10,000,000 in sur plus Income tax funds to the State Institution building pro gram, and whether cigarettes will be taxed in the state to bene fit schools. Support for the building fund has been almost universal in the press of the state, with only one or two newspapers declaring against it. Other opposition has failed to appear, and probably the only way that it could be de feated would be for supporters to stay away from the polls. The measure, while called "tax levy" would add no burden on property tax payers, since the money will be taken from exist ing funds. Considerably less lupport, and i . " ' Full Leased Wire . MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE INJECTS TERM ISSUE E Nation Which Lost Sea Out let in War with Chile Asks Consideration at Meeting. San Francisco, June 21 (U.R) Bolivia, the land-locked 'South American plateau country, today broke the informal rule of no territorial discussions at the United Nations Security confer ence with a bid for an outlet to the sea. The proposal was made at in open commission session consid ering the sole remaining unap proved chapter of the world charter the chapter on the poli tical and security functions of the general assembly. It was voiced by Victor Andrade. Boli vian ambassador to the United States and chairman of the con ference committee reporting to the commission. One of Last Steps The session marked one of the last steps prior to formal sign ing of the final charter on behalf of the 50 nations represented here, slated for Monday. Pres ident Truman is to address the closing session of the parley on Tuesday, under Ihe revised schedule announced yesterday. 'My people," Andrade said at the commission session, "hemmed in by the Andes mountains, look towards the future with faith in the-World ..Organization,, .which some day will study the prob lems arising from Bolivia's mid- continental situation and will recognize the right of that land locked people to be linked to the rest of the world through having its own free access to the sea. . His statement was the first bid by a United Nation for the World Organization to review and recommend revision of a treatv one of the controversial issues of this conference. Boli via lost her land on the Pacific coast now part of Chile to Chile in a war at the end of the last century. The treaty form ally making Bolivia a land locked nation was signed oe tween Bolivia and Chile in 1904. DiipuU Settled The commission received the retwrt from Andarde's commit tee which had been delayed in completion of its work by a dis pute between Soviet Russia, sup ported by the big powers, and Australia, supported by the little powers, over the right of the assembly to talk. That issue was settled yesterday with a compromise which gives to the assembly the right to discuss any matter "within the scope ot the charter." Australian Foreign Minister Herbert V. Evatt contends that the new phrase will not In any sense prevent the assembly from being the "town meeting of the world" the forum for world opinion. Todays commission session marks the end of the major phase of this conference. AH technical committee work has been completed and only routine and formal steps remain to com plete the charter of the new or ganization, To Decide Election some opposition, has appeared on the cigarette tax proposal. The measure, designed as a per manent source of about $2,000, 000 for common schools, Is ob jected to as a "sales tax," as In equitable and as "stop-gap" leg islation. Nonetheless, a majority of newspapers favor the measure. A total of more than 560.700 persons are registered for Fri day's election. There are about 238.000 Democrats and about 264.400 Republicans with about 1.200 scattered minor party reg istrants. Election officials estimate that about half the number of per sons who voted In the last gen eral election will vote In the special ballotting, and perhaps two-thirds of those who voted in the last primary. TRUMAN EXPECTS IMPROVEMENT IN FOODSITUAIN New Food Administration to Straighten Out Problem Is Executive's Forecast. Olympia, Wash., June 21-(U.R) President Truman today forecast a material lmDrovement in the national food situation when the new food administration takes over. Mr. Truman made this forecast In a special news conference nere in the office of governor Mon Walleren. his hnst during a vacation in the northwest. The conference was held primarily for reporters from this section. The President said he thought the food situation would straieht en out automatically as soon as the new administrator Rep. Clinton Anderson. D.. N M whn becomes administrator and sec retary of agriculture takes over nis jod. Conaresi Praitad Mr. Truman also praised con gress tor its renewal of the Trade Agreements act, saying this ac tion "Dlaces the United State. squarely behind the principles oi international trade coopera tion which must prevail in the interests of world ncnep and economic "well being." At the same time the Pros). dent expressed gratification over the Droffress Of thfl Run Frnnr-io. co-United Nations conference, saying ne was very happy that it had been a success. To Visit Portland He announced nlnne in mntrA a brief stop Monday at Portland, Ore., en route to San Francisco where he will address th H. journing session of the confer ence on Tilcsday. Mr Truman enM 1 ...n..U . - emu lie WUU1U leave here at 10 a. m. Monday ana ny to Portland, arriving there about 11 o'clock, and leav ing there in time to reach San Francisco about 4 p. m. Mon day. Mr. Truman's remarks n hoi it the food situation were tmirhH off by a questioner who wanted to Know wnat he thought of the statement by former President Hoover that controls of meat prices and distribution appeared to nave broken down completely. The President said Mr. Hnnvr had been helnful In thrlr mmnt talk in Washington, but he had not read his statement and con sequently could not comment di rectly. Tomorrow Longest . Day of Year Says Weather Bureau Tomorrow will be the long est dHy of the year, according to statistics from the Medford weather bureau. The sun will rise at 5:36 a. m. and set at 8:50 p. m. Calculated to the nearest minute, from June 17 to 24. however, there are the same number of hours of sun shine. The sun will set at 8:50 p m for 13 consecutive days beginning June 22 and ending July 4. Relief from the recent heat wave was seen for the state today with a forecast of cloudi ness and slightly cooler to night and Friday. Strikebound Mill. Destroyed by Fire Reno, Nev., June 21 (U.R) Fire of undetermined origin com pletely destroyed the strike bound mill of the T. J. Secmes Lumber company at Chilcoot, Calif., north of Reno, yesterday causing an estimated $40,000 damages. The mill, with capacity of about 45.000 feet daily, had been working on a partial scale since June 11, when T. J. Secmes, president of the company, re fused to sign a new contract with the CIO and the 46 workers staged a walkout. The Republic of Chile is 2900 miles long. Seventh War Loan Drive 'C" Sales to Date $504,956.7$ Quota $1,067,000 21, 1945 CUT PRODUCTION Worst Work Stoppage At Packard Plant in Detroit in A.F.L. and C.1.0. Battle. By United Press Jurisdictional and pay dis putes hampered war production in many sections of the country today as the number of workers on strike mounted rapidly. The worst work stoppage was In Detroit where 20,000 em ployes of Packard's main aircraft motor plant quit their jobs at noon. The walkout was the1 result of a spreading jurisdictional battle between the American Federa tion of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Say AFL Men Hired The Packard company said CIO workers left their posts in protest against the hiring of AFL skilled workers. The plant makes Rolls-Royce motors for warplanes. The Detroit flareup brought to more than 70,000 the number of workers idle in widely-scattered sections of the country as result of labor troubles. Another 39,- 000 were threatening strikes. Detroit was the hardest hit with at least 30,000 workers idle. Chicago was in the midst of a truck drivers' strike that was threatening drug supplies and perishable commodities. " The War Labor Board was try ing to stall off a strike of 16,000 workers called by the Glass, Cer amic and Silicia Workers union (CIO) in 10 plants of the Pitts burgh Plate Glass Co., and the Libbey-Owen-Ford Glass Co. Shall Plant Idla A new labor dispute closed the Oakes products division of Hou- dallle-Hershey Corp., plant in Decatur, 111. The plant, which manufactures shells for the navy, was shut down when 500 em ployes walked out because of de lay in pay negotiations. Decatur also was suffering a bread shortage caused by the walkout of 117 bakers. EASLEY KILLED BY JAP SNIPER FRONT AREA Okinawa, June 21. (U.R) Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easlcy, Thorp Springs, Tex., assistant commander of the 86th infantry division here, killed June 19 by a Japanese machine gun sniper, was burled yesterday in an Okinawa cemetery. Easley was shot through the head while visiting a forward observation post. He was the second general officer killed in action in the Okinawa campaign. His death occurred one day after that of Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. Easley was directing machine- gun fire against enemy machine gun positions. The exchange of fire became a bitter duel and after several minutes of intense fire, he was struck by a burst irom an enemy gun. Scene of the gun duel was the Yaeju-Dake plateau In wildly broken, brushy country, where the Japanese, refusing to retreat, were defending their positions with their lives. A veteran of the Philippine campaign, Easley was the first general officer to be wounded there. He had a national reputation as a small arms expert, and his nickname was "Dcadcye." Mrs. Easley lives in Washing, ton, D. C. VACAT7o7rWITHHAY . Baltimore, June 21. (U.R) For the first time Baltimore's police horses will get two weeks vacation with hay. The horses, 16 of them, will be sent two at a time to the Baltimore County humane society's pastures near Pikcsville. Md., .to loaf and eat t much at they want. TRIBUNE United Press Truman Welcomed to West Coast f x 4 s . Li it. i, . i lY.'.'-, ( President Harry S. Truman (right) Is welcomed to Washington state bj Gov. Mon 8. Wallgren at McChord Field, near Olympia. ' Mr. Truman will enjoy a brief holiday In the Pacific Northwest before he fUes to Son Francisco for final UNCIO session. Japanese Used Every Trick In Effort To Keep Okinawa By William F. Tyre United Press Correspondent Guam, June 21. (U.R) The American Invasion of Okinawa was an outright menace to the Nipponese homeland and, in a desperate attempt td frustrate ir, the Japanese tried every trick In their book. When the Kamikazes had done their worst and the last Jap anese infantryman had been driven to the suicide cliffs at the southernmost tip of the 65-mile long island, approximately 90, 000 of the enemy were dead and the U. S. 10th army had suffered 30,000 casualties. 30,000 U. S. Casualties In exchange for 30,000 casual ties, America had won a price less Invasion springboard for the final attack upon the enemy's homeland. The late Lt. Gen. Simon Boli var Buckncr's 10th army was brand new to Pacific warfare as a unit. But its veteran divisions swarmed across Hagushi beaches on the west coast of Okinawa at 8:30 a. m., April 1, Easter Sun day. The weather was clear and the sea was warm, and fortunately calm. The expected trouble failed to materialize. Douehbovs ana marines, behind amphibious lanns, tired only a few shots as they walked inland, unricht. and seized two important airfields at Yontan and Kadcna in the first two hours. Only a handful of Jananese pianos challenged the landings. me picturesque Okinawa land- Bridges Denies We's Father Of Dancer's Infant San Francisco. Jun 51 nio Harry Bridges, West Coast labor leader, has flatly denied charges by his estranged wife thnt h was the father of a child assert cdly born In New York City two years ago to a night club dancer. Bridges, whose deportation to Australia was forestalled Mon day Dy me u. s. supreme court late yesterday filfd his reply to a cross-complaint by Mrs. Agnes Bridges, who accused him of fathering an Illegitimate child. Mrs. Bridges' complaint said she believed the child was born on or about May 26, 1943, to Nancy Feinstnin, "also known as Nancy Bercdice, also known as Nancy Fcnton." Bridges also denied allegations in the cross-complaint that he had "struck, hit and beat' his wife "many times." Also unlruc was a complaint that he had tried her to "accept his ideological views," Bridges declared. Fall on Bee Hive F atal For Farmer Bloomsburg, Pa., June 21 (U.R) Wilson Colman, 75-year-old farmer, was stung to death yesterday when he fell from a cherry tree. He landed on a bec hive. Full Leased Wire NO. 77. They were driven off or shot down. Resistance Meager While Americans marvelled at scape with its neat straw huts and cultivated fields, they also wondered xtt -the meager- resist ance. Estimates before the land ing had placed Japanese military strength there between 70,000 and 75,000, and civilians near 450,000. From a logistic viewpoint, the Okinawa operation should have lasted from 40 to 45 days. But the Japanese were masters at camouflage. Then the 96th and 7th dlvl slons collided with the Naha Shurl Yonabaru line. This proved to be one of the toughest defense systems American forces ever encountered In the Pacific. On April 6, the Japanese threw their first big aerial at tack into the fray. Nearly 200 planes swirled into action. More than half of them were shot down In an eight hour fight. I Gradually It was becoming evident to the douKhbovi and the leathernecks that Okinawa would not come cheap. STILiLLTAKES PLACE Manila, June 21. (U.R) Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell has been ap pointed commander of the Amer ican 10th army on Okinawa to succeed the late Lt. Gen, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., it was an nounced today. The appointment was made by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, com mander of all Pacific ground forces for the climactic battle of Japan. Stilwell still Is in the Pacific area, where he has been making a tour of the battlcfronts and training area in his former post as commander of army ground forces. WISHING WELL Rfgi.tgrrd U S. B3R263473286S B T O D H H L M A E I O T 8 i 3 4 4 7 2 3 6 4 S 3 5" R O O N DA A LO VDD T 4 5 S 1 J 5 7 2 5 s 5" R L F E OR HKO VSO E 5 4 8 S 5 A 8 J 1 4 8 3 4 8 A D T NR r I EMTLO 1 2 3 i I i 1 a 4 S 2 b T A K L BALURIOSYD 1 8 7 i S 4 4 3 i 8 5 4 V P A MEYT8ENLYO i S S 5 4 1 i S 3 7 i S E I O EAOTTUUENN HERE Is a pleasant little game that will give you a measag every day. It la a numerical purzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters In your Aral name. If the number of lettera It 4 or more, subtract 4. If the number la less than 6. add 3. The remit la your key na.uu iwmsr at inv rrcmiiB,ia im numbers, left to right. Then read tht checked figures give you. Cirrtihi'ivor t wuuaa HUHr., OVER 87,343 NIPS KILLED IN 82-DAY FIGHTEilSLAND Nimitz Announces Organized Resistance Concluded Tokyo Concedes Loss. Pearl Harbor, June 21 (U.R) The bloody battle of Okinawa, iu which over 87,343 Japanesa were killed in 82 days, came to an end today. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced in Guam that organ ized resistance on the island had enaea. Nimitz said that enemy rem nants in two small' pockets on the southern shore of the Island were being mopped up. Thus, 82 days after the Easter Sunday invasion, the loth army had won the most valuable base yet for assaults on the Japanese homeland. Lots Conceded Tokyo, conceding the loss of Okinawa, was more invasion conscious than ever. A Japanese broadcast said that American forces were preparing "for their next operations, .which in all probability will involve direct nvasion of the Japanese main land." The Japanese believed the In vasion signs included B-29 at tacks on transportation centers, the massing of transports in the Kerama islands, and the setting up of a supply command In the western Pacific. r-uT,18 t!rive t0 free lorces 1" th Philippines for other operations gathered momentum as four di visions went to work on enemy positions in northern Luzon. The 37th division continued to pace the push by capturing Uagan, crossing the Ilagan river, and reaching a point 100 miles from Aparrl, on the north coast. Land In Borneo The Australian 9th division In northwest Borneo made another In Its series of landings around Brunei Bay, this time on the north shore. The Aussles now controlled the mouth of the bay on both sides. Opposition stiil was virtually nil. ne Tokyo broadcast said that the minesweepers yesterday re ported clearing mines in Balik papan bay, on Borneo's east coast, today were nlantlnir A later Dome! report said they still were sweeping mines. un the Chinese mainland, Chi nese troops were closing in on Licuchow from the mnihw and south. Today's Chungking communique said another col umn had joined in the advance) from the southwest at a point six miles from the city. Previous dispatches had put the Chinese in Liuchow's suburbs. unungking said the new Jan. anese thrusts In southwest Kwantung, apparently desiened to cover the withdrawal from Hainan island, had been re pulsed. Formosa Battared Formosa got its dally battering from Liberators of the Far East ern air forces. The target was the harbor of Keclung", in the north. In mld-Paciflc, far bad: of the present front, 300 carrier planes yesterday raided Wake Island, according to a Tokyo broadcast. It vas the first attack in strength this year on Wake, scene of the epic marine stand in December. 1941. EGYPTIAN, 135, DIES AFTER HUNGER STRIKE London, June 21 (U.R) An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Khartoum said today that an Egyptian named Heir Alia, after outliving 13 of his 14 son.i, announced he was tired of living, went on a hunger strike, and died seven days later at the ago of 135. 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