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Newspaper Page TextYanks Speed Mainland Invasion Plans As Okinawa Japanese Surrender Weather FORECAST: Partly cloud? to night and Saturday with howtn in mountain!. Warmer Saturday, Temp. Highest Yesterday 82 Lowest this Morning 51 Free. To 5 a. m. Today T. Fortieth Year 'Ike' Welcomed Home jy , 'W JA;.V if" -i (Aetna TeUphoto)' Qeneral Dwlght D. Eisenhowar (left), a conquering nero come noma, waves to huge crowd gathered to meet him at Washington's National Air port. At his side is his wile. Mrs. Eisenhower, and General George Marshall. "Ike" Given Wfldest Welcome Old Home Town of Abilene Ever Saw Abilene, Kan., June 22 (U.PJ The general came home today to receive the wildest welcome this old cow town ever saw. It was "Ikes Day" in general of the army Dwight D. Eisen hower's home town, and the citi zens made it a folksy one. It was "Ike" this and "Ike" that. None of the stuffy general stuff as the man who led American GI's to victory in Europe watch ed a mile long parade. Tractors, trucks and wheat combines things, the general knew well when he was a farm CPL CROSBY HOME AFTER 27 MONTHS IN PRISON CAMP Cpl. Ray Crosby, who spent 27 months as a prisoner-of-war of the German army, has returned to his home in Medford after an absence of about four years. The soldier arrived here Wednesday and is at the home of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. David B. Crosby, 945 Murray avenue. The former Medford high school student and athlete was taken prisoner by General Erwin Rommel's men February 14, 1942, early in the North African campaign. He was taken to Italy and later to Germany where he remained a prisoner until his release from Stalag 17c near Krems, Autsria, by the advancing Russian army. In spite of the long ordeal and the resulting malnutrition, Cros by looks well and is practically unchanged by his bitter experi ences, his Joyful parents stated today. He is now 24 years of age. Cpl. Crosby graduated from Medford high school in 1940, where he was an outstanding member of the basketball and track teams, and joined the army in 1941. In October of 1943, aft er his capture, he was awarded the silver star medal by the Twelfth Air Command for gal lantry in action, the medal being presented to his mother in a cer emony here in Medford. En route- to Medford Cpl. Crosby spent an evening in Port land with his friend. Bill Hulen. former sports editor of the Mail Tribune. M ahchTield CHANGE Colorado Springs. Colo., June 22 U.R Headquarters of the second air force announced to day that the second air force will take over command of March Field, Cal., in the near future. March Field at present is under the fourth air force. . BASEBALL Amtrican R. If. E. Washington 5 7 2 Boston 10 14 0 Niggoling. Ullrich and Fcrrell, Guerra: O'Ncil and Walters. Philadelphia 0 4 0 New York 2 6 1 Grrkin, Berry and George; Bevans and Garbark. National St. Louis 5 12 0 Chicago 2 5. 0 Burkhardt and O'Dca; Derrin ger, Erirkson, Chipman, Stew art and Livingston. Medford United Prau boy mingled with smartly marching army units. One float carried members of the Abilene high school football team of 1910. There was a va cant tackle berth on that team the spot the general filled. As the float passed, Ike leaned over and shouted a greeting to his teammates of 35 years ago. ' The general's friends and neighbors were having their hour in the sun and they made the most of it. There were cows, trucks of alfalfa, floats showing the history of town when Wild Bill Hickok was town marshal, when the railroad came to Abi- lerrerwhcn turkey-wheat -was in troduced and others depicting events in the life of the gen eral. Ike and. Mrs. Ike took their places on the reviewing stand shortly, after 10 a. m. (CWT). The parade, moving rapidly, re quired an hour to pass. I CLOSES EATERIES The Dalles, Ore., June 22 (U.PJ Effective June 25, every restaurant, night club and lunch counter in The Dalles will be closed for an indefinite period because of an acute shortage of red points and processed food points, it was disclosed today. One restaurant proprietor said it was either a case of "shut up shop" or go "black." "We Just can't handle the de mand for service that several thousand cherry .pickers and other migrant workers including war plant employes expect of us," the owner explained. TRUMAN MAY ATTEND PORTLAND LAUNCHING Portland, Ore., June 22 (U.PJ Launching of the troop trans port SS Ernie Pyle today was postponed from Saturday to Monday, leading to speculation President Truman . may attend during his brief stop in Port land enroute to the San Fran cisco united nations conference. He is vacationing In Olympia, Wash., and will fly to Portland Monday shortly before noon. A stopover of about two hours had been planned, perhaps including a motor tour of the city. JAP BALLOON REPORTED OVER WESTERN CANADA Winnipeg, Man., June 22 (U.PJ The Royal Canadian Air Force No. 2 air command announced today that it had received and! investigated reports that a Jap balloon had been sighted over an un-named western Canadian city. RCAF Hurricane fighter planes were sent out on rccon naisance immediately, a spokes man said, but the search and questioning failed to confirm that the balloon existed. BENNY IN PARIS Paris, June 22 (U.PJ Comedi an Jack Benny arrived in Paris today to start a six-week enter tainment tour of France and Germany. Benny, who was ac companied by Larry Adler and Martha Tilton. said Ingrid Berg man would Join hit act next week. Full Leased Wlr. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JL' Jfe Poles Plan Appv J To Truman and TRY 12ACCUSED Premier of Government in Exile Says Charges in Conviction "Fantastic." London, June 22. (U.PJ Pre mier Tomasz Arciszewski said to day that his Polish government in exile will appeal to President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill in connection with the conviction of Polish under ground leaders in Moscow. Arciszewski did not reveal what form the appeal to Mr. Truman and Churchill would take. He said his government could not recognize the legality of the trial. Twelve Poles were convicted of subversive activity against the red army and given prison terms. He said the charges were "too fantastic to be refuted at the moment In detail, but this will be done in due time." He partic ularly denied charges that the underground connived with the Germans. Arciszewski denounced the Moscow trial as a dispatch from Russia hinted that an official announcement of an agreement among rival Polish factions on the formation of a new unity government was imminent. The dispatch said the "best possible news" was expeoted re garding an agreement between Stanislaw Mikllajczyk, head of a delegation. of moderate Polish; leaders from London, and repre sentatives of the Soviet-support- j ed Polish provisional govern ment in Warsaw. "An official announcement Is forthcoming," the dispatch said. No details were given In the dispatch, but Mikolajczyk, for mer premier of the Polish exile government in London, and the other conferees have been at tempting to set up a coalition government in line with the Yalta recommendations of the big three. Odd Lot Shoes To Sell Sans Points Washineton. June 22 ni pi The Office of Price administra tion announced today that 4, 500,000 pairs of men's and wom en's odd lot shoes will be put on the market ratimi.free nnH nt mark-down prices July 9 through Juiy zb. The rule will be one Dalr to a customer. Prices must be at least 25 ner cent below June 1 prices. Winning Of Senate Approval Next Hurdle For U.S. Policy Leaders At Conference San Francisco, June 22 (U.PJ Democratic and republican for eign policy leaders were ready today to begin their campaign for winning U. S. senate ratifi cation of the new United Nations charter. Sens. Tom Connally, D., Tex., and Arthur H. Vandenberg, R Mich., will fly back to Washing ton next week to begin their re ports to the senate less than two days after President Truman closes the United Nations confer ence. Hop To Avoid Strife Both senators are members of the U. S. delegation. Both hope this time to avoid the bitter par tisan strife of 1920 which divided the nation and kept the United States out of the old League of Nations. Some quarters believe World War II might have been avoided it this country had Joined the league. With only five days of this conference left, the spotlight al ready was veering from San Francisco to Washington. Here 50 nations have drafted a char ter for a world organization. But In Washington two-thirds of the 96 senators must approve that charter before the United States can participate in man's latest attempt to prevent war. If the United States or any other of the five permanent I members of th security council ' E" Bond Buying Lags In Drive Washington. June 22 (U.PJ Seventh War loan sales were pushing the $16 000,000,000 mark today $2,000,000,000 over the drive's $14,000,000, 000 goal as the Treasury sought to bring individual sales up to their $7,000,000,000 quota before Juno 30. With individual sales amounting to $6,200,000,000, including $2,779,000,000 in E bonds, sales for all investors totaled $15,982,000,000. ON STATE PLANTS Salem. Ore., June 22. (U.PJ A new OPA order effective June 15 related to slaughtering quotas, prices for. killing and disposal of by-products will have to be either revoked or 90 per cent of the custom or inde pendent slaughtering plants in Oregon will shut down, E. L. Peterson, state agricultural di rector, disclosed today. Peterson was told at a meet ing here of meat dealers and cus tom slaughters that the new order. In effect, makes it neces sary for the slaughterer 'to pay for the privilege of slaughtering rather than receiving a nominal profit for his operations. "There is not a custom slaugh tering plant in Oregon that can operate under this order," Peter son declared. "It is the most ridiculous order that I have ever read." Both the meat dealers and cus tom slaughterers said they had operated quite successfully un der the previous regulation and that persons having animals for slaughter had not complained. DELAY WAR WORK By United Press Nearly 100,000 members of the nation's wartime labor force were on strike today in a wave of stoppages that hampered pro duction in many industrial areas. The newest flareups affected the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., and Libbey-Owens-Ford plants in ten cities. Nearly 16,000 glass, ceramics and silica workers, CIO, employed In the plants left work late yesterday. - doesn't ratify the treaty, the organization will never get started. Present provisions call for ratification by the Big Five and a majority of the other mem bers of the organization before the charter comes into force. Two Have Burden Upon Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, and Vandenberg, a member of that committee and republican party spokesman on foreign affairs, will fall the bur den of steering the treaty through the senate. They will waste no time In starting their jobs. Two hours after Mr. Truman addresses the final session next Tuesday, they will be en route to Washington by plane. They will arrive there Wednesday, with Connally sched uled to speak in the senate on Thursday. On Friday, Vanden berg will deliver a comprehen sive report on the charter and of the conference .which gave it birth. While senate plans began to take shape, the tentative sched ule for the last days of the con ference was revealed as follows: Final Charter Due The coordinating committee is scheduled to have the charter In final form in the five official languages tonight. It will take another 24 hours to print It. The four conference commis sions over the week-end will ap 1945 HEAVY INDUSTRY Drastic Action Needed to Eliminate War Potential, Financier Tells Senators. Washington, June 22 (U.PJ Financier Bernard M. Baruch to day called for the removal or de struction of all German heavy industry to "break once and for all Germany's dominance of Eur ope. . Recently returned from Ger many. Baruch told the Senate Military committee that any thing less drastic would fail com pletely to provide the basis for lasting peace. Must Kill Potential ' He declared "Germany's war making potential must be elim inated, many of her plants and factories shifted east and west to friendly countries, all other heavy industries destroyed, the Junkers estates broken up, her exports and imports strictly con trolled, German assets and busi ness organizations all over the world rooted out. "Eventually, purged and re organized and the Europe around her made strong, Germany will be able to take her place with her neighbors," he said. . "The new equilibrum of Indus trial strength in Europe might take the form of a United States of Europe . .- . . in which Ger many, would be one of several peaceful equals, not the dominat ing war organizer." Baruch denied that his pro gram would mean destruction of the German people. Assets Sneaked Out Baruch said that when defeat In the recent war became certain nazi leaders and war industrial ists "sneaked abroad assets of every type as reserves for the day in the future when they could try it again." Baruch advocated that Ger man assets in each foreign coun try be used to repay nationals of that country for properties lost or damaged in the war. Larger Pig Crop Outlook For 1945 Washington, June 22 (U.PJ The Agriculture department to day predicted a 1945 pig crop of 86.987,000 head as compared with 86 753.000 In 1044 and 121, 706,000 in 1943. The department said the spring crop would be seven per cent under last spring's but add ed that a 17 per cent increase was foreseeable in the fall crop as compared to the fall of 1944. prove their reports to the con ference as a whole as well as the final wording of those sections for which each is responsible. A plenary session of the con ference will be held Monday, when the charter, the world court statute and the plans for the the Interim commission will get final approval. The steering committee will meet prior to that session for a "general review" of the charter. rhe final conference session will be held late Tuesday after noon. President Truman will be the last speaker, preceded by the four presidents of the conference representing the Big Four sponsoring powers and the head of the French delegation. There also will be brief speeches by representatives of Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. The conference completed all of its hard work yesterday when Commission' II approved the re port of its committee on the po litical and security powers of the assembly. It involved the sec tion of the charter which gives the assembly the right to discuss any matter "within the scope of the charter," the right to make recommendations on situations not being dealt with by the se curity council, and the right to recommend adjustments of any situations, "regardless of origin," which threaten th. peac Tribune UnlUd Pim MASS TRIAL FOR NAZI WAR LORDS AMERICAN PLAN Justice Jackson Says Other Nations Not Objecting to Proposal for Late Summer London. June 22. (U.PJ--Su- preme Court Justice Robert Jackson said today that he ex pects Hermann Goering, Joach im von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess and other major war criminals to be tried in a single group be fore a military tribunal late this summer. .- Jackson, chief American pros ecutor of war criminals, return ed to London after a trip home for the closing sessions of the supreme court. ' No Objections . At a press conference Jackson emphasized that he was not com mitting Britain, France, or Rus sia to the plan of trying the ac cused persons In one group. This is an American plan, he said, to which the other nations have raised no objections so far. ; He said the war criminals who are convicted will have no ap peal except to history, Jackson said the master trial would be conducted like a court martial, which it in effect would be. Britain, Russia, France, and the United States would provide one or two Judges each for the tribunal, No provisions have been made for smaller nations to.be represented on the tri bunal because of administrative complications. . Sit Unchosen The trial would slart "at the earliest possible moment we can make a reasonably complete case," Jackson said. He suggest ed late summer as a likely date. No site for the trial has been chosen. He emphasized that the defen dants will be permitted to choose their own countrymen as defense counsel and witnesses. He outlined the proposal for the master trial in which Nazi leaders would be accused of con spiracy to conduct illegal war by illegal means. He said such varied acts as unrestricted submarine warfare and atrocities all could be dealt with under the master plan. Asked what would be done with leaders who claimed exemption from the trial, he said the trial "is a privilege, not a right." The trial was expected to be speedy, and completed before winter. T SEEN IN COUNTY But few Jackson county voters had visited the polls during the morning and early afternoon to vote In the special tax referen dum election being held In Ore gon today, precincts reported. At Flchtncr s garage the board for precinct 32 stated that but 39 out of the 331 registered voters had cast ballots up to 2 p.m. Only two measures are on the ballot, one a measure authoriz ing a tax levy for the state building fund and the second authorizing cigarette tax to support public schools. Polls will remain open until 8 p.m.; HOOVER AMENDMENT ' APPROVED IN HOUSE Washington, June 22 (UP) The house today tentatively ap proved by a vote of 145 to 142 the so-called Hoover amendment to transfer control of all food activities, except rationing, from OPA to the department of agri culture. . , Republicans burst Into cheers when the vote was announced. As soon as the vote was taken, the' Democrats forced a suspen sion in debate on the OPA exten sion bill, apparently fearing that they could not defeat the amend ment in later roll call because of week and etuenleeism. Full Leased Wlr. NO. 78. Churchill General Killed r Acmm 1 elmphoto) Lt. Oen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. commander of Amerioa's Tenth Army on bloody Okinawa, was killed by an enemy artillery shell at a for . . ward observation pose LACK OF SUGAR ' Portland, Ore., June 22 (U.PJ The closing down of -23 Mult nomah county bakers for periods of one week to a month was dis closed here today, with the possi bility that at least an additional 35 may shut their doors also. If sugar , certificates , are. ,not re ceived by the. 15th of next month. ' Increased wartime shortages' In sugar and shortening forced the closings. It was said. Ranson D. Meinke, attorney for the 'Master Bakers -association, said that although the pend ing certificates,, flood for a two month period, had been prom ised, a 10 per rent allotment cut was due July 1. The -cut explained Meinke, means bakers here will be oper ating on 50 per cent of their 1941 sugar quota, plus an addi tional 30 per cent based on in creased Multnomah county popu lation; POLICE LOOK FOR State and city police are on the lookout for robbers who Wednesday night broke Into the Justice of the peace office in Weed, the Weed ration board and a service station at Mount Shasta. According to Sheriff Ben Richardson of Siskiyou county, where the robberies occurred, a Winchester 12-guage pump shot gun, model 97-20 barrel, one Colt 32 automatic pistol, one Iver Johnson 32 calibre revolver, a small, radlp, a magnifying glass and a brass tripod frame were stolen .from, the .Justice of the peace's office. An. adding machine was said to be the only loot from the ser vice .station but nothing, was .re ported stolen from the ration office,. according to state. police. WISHING WELL Rrgiituwd U. 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Guam, Saturday, June 23 (U.PJ Groups of Japanese troops emerged from their holes on southern Okinawa and surren dered to American mop-up forces today while vast preparations were accelerated for future op erations against Japan. Tokyo suffered a new attack of invasion jitters, speculating that U. S. forces eventually will land on Kyushu and possibly the Amaml group, 110 miles north of Okinawa. Okinawa Plans Seen The Japanese, refusing to ad mit the complete loss of Okina wa, reported that a "vast area" of the island was being leveled for "many, many more air fields and runways." There was par tial confirmation of that enemy report here, where it was re vealed that still more airstrips were being laid out on Okinawa in addition to six already in American hands. Front reports said "more and more" civilians and groups of enemy soldiers, deciding against a last-minute death for the em peror, were giving themselves up to U. S. marines and infantry men. At least 94,401 enemy troops have been killed or cap tured on Okinawa. American casualties through Tuesday were 36,588 including 6,990 dead and i missing. Pearl Harbor, June 22 (U.PJ Superfortresses smashed six more Japanese targets today in their third raid on the enemy homeland this week. Over 450 of the big bombers pounded the great Kure naval arsenal and five scattered air pla.ie plants on Honshu. It was the first time they had gone to six targets, ... The raids came while the Jap anese were trying to keep their eyes, on two naval task forces roaming near ' the Sakashima Islands, 200 miles southwest of Okinawa. Tokyo said the fleet. Including five or six aircraft car riers and four battleships, wer. "still active" In the Sakashlmas. Lluchow Fall Near Another air base was about to fall into allied hands in south China, where the Chinese storm ed the Lluchow airfield. A Chungking spokesman said thera was only a light holding force there, and capture of the field seemed imminent. The base was used by the U. S. 14th air fore until November, 1941, when it was abandoned in face of Jap anese offensive. The campaign to liquidate th. two Japanese divisions in north ern Luzon in the Philippines was helped by a sudden guerilla at tack in the heart of the Cagayan valley. The Filipino force cap tured Tugucgarao, capital of th. Cagayan province. They cut en emy forces in the north in two, and trapped part of thera be tween there and the 37th divi sion, 35 miles to the south. Australian troops made their third and most Important land ing this week in northwest Bor neo at Lutong, 80 miles south of Brunei Bay. They waded ashor. unopposed and struck out for th. Seria and Mirl oilfields. The re finery at Lutong was wrecked. Some 150 Indian prisoners were discovered there all down to skeleton size-from hunger and many suffering gangrene in wounds made by Japanese clubs. CRAPE CEILINGS SET Washington. June 22 (U.PJ The OPA today announced ceil ing prices for California juic. grapes and for Arizona and Cali fornia table grapes. The new prices, effective June 24, will re sult in an average retail ceiling price of about 13 cents a pound for table grapes. P.ltnt Office.