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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.