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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
. " '
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. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE
INJECTS
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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 .
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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.
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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
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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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