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Newspaper Page TextWeather Us. Tht Mali Trlbuna Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost MEDFORD Tribune FORECAST: Clear and warmer, Sunday, upstn cloudy. Little change in temperature. Temp. HIgheit Yesterday ,....89 Lowest this Morning UnlUd PrwaFull Lsattd Wir UnlUd Press Full Leased Wlz Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1945. NO. 79. EARLY FALL WILL SEE LITTLE LEFT OFNIPEMPIRE Gen. Arnold Says Bombings Will Make Germany's Fate "Amateurish." Okinawa, June 23 (U.R) Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of army air forces, predicted today that there would be little left of Jap an by early fall and that 1,000 plane B-29 raids are in the of fing for the army. "What Germany got was a very amateurish performance compared wyth what Japan is going to get," the general de clared on the eve of his first in spection of this important air base island. "It is awfully hard to tell what the Japanese reaction will be to all-out bombing, Arnold said, noting that the enemy are fan atics in ground fighting. He said nobody could tell whether or not the Japanese will breaK wnen their cities are destroyed one by one. "I expect to put 1,000 B-29's, alone over Japan exclusive of other types of aircraft. My ef fort is to get the maximum weight of bombs, on Japan in the minimum time and see what hap pens. "I expect that targets in Japan will be scarce before fall." The air chief said he couldn't use all the airplanes that now are available but could use only those for which we have bases. "Okinawa will give us a good start a very good start," he said. Asked about the northern islands of lTokkaido and Atorofu, Arnold said: "We will put planes over every profitable target in the Japanese Islands." . The emphasis in the Japanese war from now on is bombers and not fighters, Arnold pointed out. "What I need," "is bombers and more bombers over Japan." Japan now faced the prospect of 10 weeks of typhoon weather combined with the heaviest bombing any nation ever suf fered. B-29's will not be ham pered by the powerful storms. TOKYO IN RUINS Guam, Sunday, June 24 U.R) Tokyo is a city of burned ashes, shattered walls and fallen roofs. This was the report of 2nd Lt. Earle W. Johnson, marine corps, Little Rock, Ark., who "volun teered" to ride over the Japa nese capital yesterday as censor for the historic first broadcast from a B-29 above the city. The Supcrfort swung around Fujiyama, circled Tokyo from the north "and then we started broadcasting," Johnson said. "Right below us was Tokyo 17,000 feet below. Through a nice hole in the clouds we could see the wrecked city, a pattern of grey ashes and falling build ings. It didn't look like much was left of it." E Guam, Sunday, June 24 (U.R) The light cruiser U. S. S. Phoe nix, her guns blazing at the Japanese from Pearl Harbor to the triumphant return to the Philippines, has completed more than 30 operations against the enemy with a loss of only one killed and one missing, it was disclosed today. Against Japanese submarines, surface units and aircraft, the Phoenix swung into action. She has had 27 of her crew wounded but they Join the rest of the crewmen in praising the luck which took the Phoenix virtually unscathed through the scaring Pearl Harbor attack, into action in the Atlantic and back into the Pacific. Silverton Justice 1 Scolds, Fines Self Silverton, Ore., June 23 U.R) Police Judge Bert Terry of Silverton gave out the usual fine and lecture for careless driving today but in a rather unusual manner. Recipient of the scold ing was none othci than Judge Terry himself. "Such carelessness has got to stop and to show you I mean business I fine you $2.50 and costs, and let that oe a lesson to you." he declaicd. Judge Terry fined himself for parking too close to a fire hy drant after being "caught" by Officer Jess Barkhurst. (Acme Telephoto) in a holiday mood and clad in a "Slwash" sweater knit by British Columbia Indians President Truman fishes for salmon with Washington's Governor Mon O. Walleren (second from right) in Puget Sound... MORAL TURPITUDE MAY BAR BRIDGES FOR CITIZENSHIP San Francisco, June 23 (U.R) The U. S. Immigration and naturalization Service today pre pared to start a "thorough in vestigation" . of Labor Leader Harry Bridges after the Aus tralian applied for his citinez ship papers this morning. Recent winner of a court fignt against his deportation as a Communist, Bridges told repost ers today that he expected to run into trouble" in getting his final papers because of his wife's charge that he is the father of an illegitimate child. Mrs. Bridges recently charged her husband with fathering an illegitimate child in a cross-com plaint filed after Bridges initi ated a divorce suit against her. The International Longshore men s and Warehousemen s union leader said he was pre pared to face . a stiff battle against moral turpitude charges which, if proved, might prevent his attainment of citizenship papers. " Two Superior court hearings will be held on Bridges' petition for final papers, which can be filed in 30 days. San Francisco, June 23 (U.R) The steering committee of the United Nations security confer ence approved the world secur ity organization charter and made room on the dotted line for Poland, not now a member, to sign it eventually. The committee, composed of the delegation chiefs of the 50 united nations, accepted the char ter draft unanimously with the single proviso that the coordina tion committee could make changes in grammar between now and Monday's plenary ses sion of the full conference. How ever, the coordination committee was not authorized to make sub stantive changes. s Abilene, Kan., June 23 U.R) General Dwight D. Eisenhower bid his 83-year-old mother good bye tonight and headed back for Washington and Europe to com plete his soldier's Job, but before he left the old home place he won another victory. Early this morning, around a table in the gabled old home where he was reared, Eisenhow er won one of the his most diffi cult battles of the worlds. He swung all four of his brothers into line behind the idea of post war military conscription. NEW RATION HOURS A new schedule of hours dur ing which the Medford war price and ration board will be open to the public was announced Sat urday by L. L. Tcrnahan. secre tary, to go into effect Monday, June 25. The hours will be 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Monday through Friday and 10 a. m. until 12:30 p. m. Saturday. Truman Fishes in Puget Sound NO CIGARET TAX Scant Vote Cast Portland Votes Down Civic Center Proposal. Portland, Ore., June 23 (U.R) The sum of $10,000,000 was def initely in the works for new state institution buildings in Oregon tonight, as late returns from Fri day's election removed all doubt that the measure would pass. At the same time, the proposed cigarette tax, while carrying up state Oregon, was defeated by the votes of populous Multnomah county, which turned it down by a three-to-two margin. With 1,654 of Oregon's 1,830 precincts reporting, the count to night showed. Building fund: Yes 73,378, no 47,107. Cigarette tax: Yes 57,250, no 64.216. With a scant 25 per cent of Oregon's 603,013 voters going to the polls in Oregon's first special election since 1936, the vote was one of the lightest in years. In some counties, the vote was re ported as little as 10 per cent or less. The cigarette tax, which would have provided about $2,000,000 yearly for state commpn schools, was intended to be a permanent two - cent - pcr-package levy. It was similar to other measures de feated in Oregon in the past. The $10,000,000 levy, which will be offset by slate income tax properties, will provide $4,000, 000 for buildings at the State University and other institutions of higher education. The remain ing $6,000,000 will go for new construction at the slate hospi tals and other institutions. A proposed civic center, to have been constructed in down town Portland, was turned down by a two-to-one majority of vot ers in Portland's 435 precincts. FLORIDAlFTPATH GULF HURRICANE Miami, Fla.. June 23 (U.R) A gulf hurricane attended by winds of 80 to 100 miles an hour has swerved sharply to the northeast and is expected to move inland somewhere between Tampa and Cross City before daylight Sun day, the weather bureau here said tonight. BULLETIN COAST San Francisco 4 11 0 Hollywood 1 8 1 Orclla and Sprinz; Kimball and Hill. Sacramento ................ 16 2 Seattle 2 6 0 Fletcher and Schluetcr; Palica, Johnson (9) and Finlcy. San Diego ..... 3 7 1 Portland 4 10 1 Brillheart and Ballingcr; Tls Ing, Hclser (9) and Souza, Adams (9). American Detroit 5 12 0 St. Louis 15 1 Mueller and Swift; Kramer, West (9) Munchief (9) and Man-cuso. HITLER HOPHEAO SINCE 1944 IS OF By MALCOLM MUIR, Jr. Paris, June 23 (U.R) A high authority said at a Supreme headquarters press conference to day that the allies have "very good evidence'' that Adolf Hitler is dead. The officer 3aii he personally had seen at Flensburg a telegram sent from Berlin by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels saying that the Fuehrer had died.- It was addressed to Admiral Karl Donetz. Dispatches from Bcrchtos gaden and 21st army group head quarters yesterday quoted separ ate German witnesses as saying Hitler and Eva Braun died dur ing the last hours of the battle for Berlin and their bodies were burned outside the Rcichschan cellery. The officer here said today that these reports lallicd "very well with other intelligence on Hitler's fate." Many Injections He said there was some evi dence that Hitler became addict ed to injections of narcotics in his last days. He said he had questioned Dr. Karl uranoi. reichsminister of health and sanitation, who accompanied Hit ler on most of his trips. Brandt told him, he said, that he "never met a man who was sub jected to injections more than Hitler " The officer said Brandt told him that Hitler began using nar cotics early in 1944 "when tht Fuehrer's health deteriorated sharply, and Dr. Moroll began injecting him with strychnine to give him more energy and pep." Costing Alio Addict "In the end." Brandt was quot ed, "HUlcr's health became hope lessly bad. His hands trembled, h. ufniirnri with a stooD. and had all the symptoms of a man with incurable insomnia. Rrnnrit also said Relchsmar- shal Hermann Goering was lean ing heavily on narcotics wnen he was captured. He said that If (Vint? uere discontinued. Goer ing "would be a raving lunatic within 24 hours " He said army physicians were seeking to reduce the quantity Goering used, and he believed they had "cut him down to about 18 pills day." RECORD NEAR FOR Washington. June 23 (U.R) The Mighty Seventh War Loan bid fair tonight to become the mightiest of them all as sales to all investors reached $19,467, 000.000. With another week to go, sales were only about $2,000,000,000 below the record-breaking sixth war loan total of $21,621,000,000. Cars Can Go Within Half Mile Lake Rim Visitors to Crater Lake Na tional Park today will be able to drive within one-half mile of the lake rim according to E. P. Leuvitt, park superintendent. There will be limited parking at the turn-around, he added. The park staff will move to head quarters Monday. E FLIES OVER CITY 1NDAYAB0UT 1 President Works On Plans For Berlin Meeting May Visit London. President Truman's iraniport plane and entourage will fly over Medford about 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, army airbaie officials said Saturday. The take-off from Portland is scheduled ioi 11:45 a. m. Olvinnin. Wash.. .Tune 23 (U.R) President Truman worked today on plans for . the July meeting nf the BiB Three where he will meet his first test in face- to-face dealings with two of the most astute leaders in history. Mindful of the ereat task ahead of him. the nresident spent a great part of today think ing about the forthcoming inter national conference and drafting his own plans in the light of latest information from the war fronts and reports from the Uni ted Nations' conference at San Francisco. .. - The president completely step ped out of his role as a vaca tioner in the Northwest to work in his improvised office in the nffirinl hnmn nf his host. GOV. Mon Wallgrcn. There was a lot of paper work flown to him from Washington and he worked on it. He meets Churchill and Stalin In (he Berlin area sometime in mid-July. Efforts are being made to see that the Big Three meet ing lasts no more than 10 days. Then the president is expected to make at least a umiiea lour nf the F.nrnnean battle sites. probably with a ceremonious stop in London. Tomorrow the president has his last full, day of the vacation In the Northwest. In the morn ing he will visit nearby iort then drive to Tacoma oh hnnrd the U.S.S. Brant, a vessel of the U. S. Fish and Wild life service, for an afternoon cruise He will leave Monday Ina hv nlnne. stopping first for a brief motor tour of Port land, before continuing to ban Francisco. The president con ferred today on plans for his Portland stop In a talk with Lew Wallace. Oregon democratic na tional committeeman. , POLAlDlVOTE E FACTIONS AGREE London, June 23 (U.R) Amer ican and British recognition of the new Polish government of national unity will be withheld until "free and unfettered" elec tions to choose a regime truly representative of the will of the people, It was disclosed tonight by spokesmen of the two allied nations. Formation of the new coali tion government, announced In Moscow yesterday by represen tatives of three Polish factions, was hailed by both Britain and the United States as a "very sat isfactory" step toward solution of the difficult Polish question. But it was emphasized that a general election was essential to fulfill the agreement reached by the Big Three at Yalta. Bitter denunciation of the new government came from the Emi gre Polish government here A spokesman asserted its formation represented "unconditional sur render" to Russian demands and said any election staged under Soviet pressure "would be sham." Noted Dead San Diego, June 23 (U.R) United States Senator James Graves Scrugham of Nevada died in the Naval hospital here to day. CERTIFY WAGE BOOST Portland, On., June 23 (U.R) Wage demands of 13,999 work ers In 32 Pacific coast pulp and paper mills have been certified to the War Labor Board, officials of th A. F. of L. announced in Portland today, FURLOUGHS GRANTED Camp Bcalc. Calif., June 23 'U.R)About 350 California veterans of the 86th (Blackhawk) Division, were scattering to their homes on 30 day furloughs tonight. VOTED ANDERSON BY LOWER HOUSE Price Control Extended Year All Orders, Including 0PA, Up To Secretary. Washington, June 23 (U.R) The house tonight approved leg islation to etend the price con trol act one year after amending it to give food czar powers to the secretary of agriculture. The food czar amendment rep resented the fruition of a long standing Republican demand. It also was a vote of confidence by his colleagues in Rep. Clinton P. Anderson, D., N. M., who will become secretary of agriculture July 1. Sponsored by Rep. August H. Andresen, R., Minn., the pro posal would make all govern ment food regulations va'lid only if approved by the secretary within 90 days. Andresen told the United Press that his amendment was intended to give the secretary of agriculture veto powers over all orders including those of OPA affecting processed food and agricultural products "in their natural state." Hence lt would not affect clothing, he said. Asked how the amendment would affect the agriculture sec retary's authority over OPA, he said: "As far as food is con cerned, he'll have the final say." Andresen also said that under his amendment the secretary would have to approve all food regulations now in force within 90 days after enactment of the bill. Otherwise they would be come inoperative. ' . Administration forces failed In their attempt to block the Andresen amendment although they succeeded In reversing an earlier vote on an amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Jenkins, R., O., to shift all food controls, eccpt rationing, from the Office of Price Administration to the Department of Agriculture. Jenkins' proposal was based on a recommendation of former President Hoover, who had urged such action for animal products alone. nipoiTmtzes WON BYAUSSIES Manila. Sunrinv .Tune 24IIP) Australian troops have seized two rich oil prizes from the Japanese in Borneo, cantiirlnff the petroleum island of Tarakan and driving 26 miles down the northwestern Borneo coast to reach the oilfield rltv nf Serin Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced today. Potentially the richest oilfield in the entire Britlxh emnlre Seria was reached hv oth Hil. sion troops hammering through ine coastal swamps from Tutong toward a Junction with other fOrCCS Which mnH an nmnhlhl. ous hop down the coast and scizca me rain airfield some 25 miles farther on. HONORARY DEGREE FOR REV. BELKNAP Salem, Ore., June 23 (U.R) Lewis Franklin Belknap, 92-year-old retired Methodist mini ster of Medford, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of divinity at the Willamette uni versity commencement exercises today. Honorary degrees were also conferred upon George Pulnam, editor and publisher of the Salem Capital Journal; Bishop Paul Bcntlcy Kern of Nashville, Tcnn., and, posthumously, the lale Amedce M. Smith of Port land, for many years a member of the university board of trus tecs. EQUITABLE HELPS SWELL BOND TOTAL FOR COUNTY Clinton Spencer, representa tive here for the Equitable Sav ings and Loan Assn., of Port land, received word from the company Saturday that $25,000 worth of Treasury Bonds have been purchased and allocated to Jackson county. The allocation will help swell the county's total in the Seventh War Bond drive. WAR BULLETINS Manila, Sunday, June 24 (U.R) American mechanised Infantry, advancing 11 miles in 24 hours northward through the Cagayan valley of north eastern Luion, have driven to within 20 miles of a Junction with Filipino guerrillas who are battling desperate Japa nese troops around Tuguegar, U was disclosed today, London, June 23 (U.R) Eng lish civilians and American negro soldiers clashed In a street fight last night in the town of Hull and one Briton was injured severely enough to require hospitalisation. VOTERS APPROVE Jackson county voters, what few went to the polls, followed the state trend in giving the pro posed tax levy for state building fund a substantial majority in Friday's special election. Tabu lation of ballots from 65 of the county's 68 precincts showed 2050 in favor of the bill and 557 against. On the proposed addi tional cigarette tax to provide public school funds, Jackson county voters could not see eye-to-eye with the majority of Ore gon voters and returned a favor able answer, the total from 65 precincts being: Yes 1467, and no 1028. Figures were unobtainable Saturady from three precincts. No. 10, Ashland West, No. 19, Reese Creek, and No. 67, Wat- kins. It was not believed that figures from these precincts will materially affect the county to tals. Approval of the state building fund was given in all precincts tabulated except Colestin, where the count was 2 yes. and 8 no. and Derby where the count was 3 yes and 17' nq, Two precincts were unanimous In favor, Med ford East voting 53-0 and Barron voting 12-0. The count In the ten negative precincts was: Sams Valley, yes 3, no-8; Phoenix West, 24-31; Medford South Main, 16-19; Jacksonville South, 22-30; Flounce Creek, 18-25; Colestin, 1-9; Derby, 5-15; Butte Falls. 17- 23; Ashland Southeast, 25-26, and Ashland East, 13-19. "WIFETYEAR" for Tacoma, Wash.. June 23 (U.R) An admitted average of "a wife a year" for three years landed Frank Huval, 43-year-old ship yard worker, in the county Jail on bigamy charges today. The honorably discharged na vy veteran admitted marrying Mary F. Huval in Washington, D. C, in 1942, ("I can't remember the date," he apolgized); Alice I. Huval in San Francisco, on April 17, 1943; and Pauline M. Huval In Tacoma on Dec. 22, 1944. Deputy Prosecutor Earl Mann said he was investigating the pos sibility that Huval took another Jaunt to the altar after the 1944 marriage. M'ALLISTER, DURNO CLOSE William McAllister, local at torney, captain in the military government division of the army. is now at Rhcims, France, and Is In charge of five camps being operated by the army for "dis placed peoples of the liberated countries. He and Major Edwin R. Durno, former physician here, are stationed within 15 miles of each other and often meet. WISHING WELL Re gitlgfed U. 8 8 2 3 7 42B87 3 V B Y N B 8 A O B I B W V i i 6 S T 2 5 I S i 4" 1 R L R RELWTOIOU B 8 i 1 4 $ 8 i f J i TT 8 OV H CLO ET L 8 K W O i 3 S B 4 J t 3 1 8 i I I I U D Y 8 E A 1 T C A H i 3 J 8 1 i i TT I T T O R N O N R C T T ft A C i S 8 4 g i 8 3 15 5 i T L T E E I J U U O r 8 R I i i 5 8 f 5 8 i 8 T S 8 I O CNM E Y M E B K D HERE la a pleasant little game that will give you a message) every day. It Is numerical pusxle designed to spell out; your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If the number, of letters U 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number Is leu than . add 8. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-: hand eomer of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right Then read the message the letters under, the checked figures give you. -tt 5 CntrtiM nl, bt WUIHW I H"'" Plitrlbulta Klngjrsaturts. In, OKINAWA BATTLE COST FOE 105,000 KILLEDJAPTURED Dictator Rule For Japan as Invasion Nears Air War Opens. Guam, Sunday, June 24 (U.R) Japanese casualties on Okinawa mounted to 105,496 killed and captured Friday as American forces mopped up the conquered Island and the Suzuki govern ment of Japan assumed dicta torial power over all phases of national life to combat the final' allied offensive to crush Nippon. In Japan's hour of supreme peril, the government moved to combat the impending swift and powerful land; sea and air offen sive which will be designed to beat Japan to her knees at the earliest possible moment. Marines Mop Up On Okinawa, U. S. soldiers and marines carried on the arduous task of wiping out scat tered Japanese remnants while engineers and construction crews busily prepared more and more airfields for the coming offensive. In no other Pacific campaign have Japanese losses reached such an appalling figure. The enemy garrison that was onco thought to number 85,000 men when the U. S. 10th army storm ed ashore on Okinawa April 1 possibly consisted of more than 115,000 troops. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz disclosed that 98,564 Japanese had been killed through Friday. The greatest prisoner list In any Pacific bat tle reached 6,932, Including 2, 433 labor troops, he announced. Marines and soldiers, moving through southern Okinawa with oemoiiiion squads and tank teams, methodically sealed caves where countless Japanese held, out to the end. The area of Medeera town was cleared dur ing the day's operations. . 128 Planes Lost two Jima, Sunday, June 24 (U.R) American fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners de stroyed or damaged a total of 128 Japanese planes Friday and Saturday, it was announced to day. P-51 Mustangs of the 7th Fighter Command, based on Iwo, destroyed, probably destroyed or damaged 69 enemy, aircraft yesterday in offensive sweeps against Japanese air fields at Hyakurlga Hara and Shimodate, northeast of Tokyo. At Okinawa, army and marine fighter groups and ship and shore ack-ack guns shot down 59 Japanese aircraft during a three-hour series of attacks Fri day. Tokyo reported 75 Mustangs, led by P-51s, attacked air fields in Ibaraki prefecture Saturday while 20 Corsairs and eight Lockheed Lightnings raided air strips near Fukuoka on Kyushu island. More Beef East In Month Bowles Says Washington, June 23 4U.R . Price Administrator Chester Bowies today predicted increased beef shipments to eastern cities In ihe next 30 days but said there would not be enough meat to "match our appetites or our pocketbooks." He said the pre dicted increase would result from a reduction of purchases for the armed forces announced by War Food Administrator Mar vin Jones a few hours earlier. S. Patent Officw.