Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1945)
Japs Prepare Special Suicide Weapons Against Invasion Weather FORECASTS: Continued fair and illghtly warmer tonlfht and Friday. Temp. Highest Yesterday 7 8 Lowest this Morninf .....Ai Fortieth Year HOME ADULATION SWELLS TRUMA 'LIKE PIZENED PUP' President Talks to Former Classmates at Old School; Picnic Lunch Is Enjoyed Kansas City, Mo., June 28 U.PJ President Truman, using good old rural Missouri terms, told former classmates at the old Kansas City School ol Law today that the warmth of his homecoming greeting "swells me up like a pizened pup. Before sitting down to a pic- nf ltinnh nn thp (Minimis Of the University of Kansas City of which the old law school is now a part Mr. Truman said he couldn't "for the life of me un derstand what makes people say 'There he goes wnen i go aoww the street now." No White Shirts On his way to .the tree-shaded campus in the south part ot me city, Mr. Truman stopped for a fu minutes to hunt for some clean white shirts and, at the same time, to visit with Ji-aaie Jacobson, his one-time haber dashery partner. He gof the visit In,- all- right, but he didn't get any shirts. Before dining on the picnic lunch of ham sandwiches and baked beans at the 50th anniver sary celebration for the law school, the chief executive said he regretted sincerely that he had not finished his work at the school back in 1925. Then he referred to the hon orary doctor of laws degree he will receive tonight in a cere mony at the Municipal audi torium and said, smiling, "It is a great pleasure to get the honor without having to do all the work." , , Secretary Naming Sat During two hours of work in his Federal building office here before going to the university, Mr. .Truman announced through his. press secretary, Charles G. Ross, that he would send his nomination for the secretary of state's post to the senate on Mon day, revealed that Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., retiring secretary of state, would have a White House office, and received the resignation of Lewis Schwellen bach, district judge for Wash ington state, who will be the next secretary of labor. Washington, June 28. (U.R) It was established through Whita House intimates today that bantam-like James F. Byrnes of South Carolina will be named the nation's new secretary ol state next week. He also worked in greetings with hundreds of old triends and Missouri political supporters, got a haircut while on the Job from the shears of Frank Spina, his barber for 28 years, and ordered roses for the first lady on this, their 26th wedding anniversary. It was another blistering hot day but the president seemed to mind it not at all. He was up bright and early, emerged from the summer White House at 7:35 a. m. to get the morning paper and an hour later was en route to his office. The honorary degree of doctor of laws will be presented tonight at a homecoming and convocation ceremony in the city's big audi torium, sponsored Jointly by the school and the city's Merchants association. During the morn ing the president tried on the traditional cap and gown for size. WISHING WELL Ruiitered U. S. 5 8 3 (527456,825 G F L A O H A A D SI E W 6 5 2 8 4 7 5 6 2 3 5 4 8" M" I A N C Y LOL OLA A 5 S 5 S 5 8 5 7 5 i 5 V N HOTCSEETHL I 4 i 3 S 1 3 6 i 5 S 7 . 5 H W A PAEHIYLRBO 8 5 6 1 1 5 8 6 4 1 5 2 B U Y R T O T L Y E F H H 5 6 i 7 8 5 4 7 2 85 8 7 I E C J E3AOA.8Y3 L i s 4 7 S 8 8 7 i 5 8 IRES ATANRSHRQ HERE Is a pleasant HtUe fame that will give you a message every day. It is numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters In your first name. If the number of letters la 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number is leas than (. add 3. The result Is your key number. SUrt at the upper left hand comer of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to rlrht Then read the message the letters undei the checked figures give yoa. t-2d CterrltM 194). br WUliaa J. Milkr. Diitrikuted by King Future, In MEDFORD U -if tad Press Handsome 'Dancehall Daddy' Declares Women Chased Him . . . (Acme TeUphoiol David Maynard Hardy, 46-year-old Los Angeles boilermaker, faces threi of his seven "probably" wives. Helen, Delia and Dorothy (left to right), In a police station as they flash their marriage certificates under nil nose. Hardy Is booked on polygamy charge. Hollywood, June 28 (U.R) Bigamy charges were to be filed today against David Hardy, handsome "dancehall daddy" ac cused by three middle-aged mat rons of marrying and deserting them without benefit of divorce. The dancing Casanova, who married at least seven times be fore he "lost faith in women," told Detective A. R. Long he would plead guilty if he could be sure the judge would sentence him to go into the army. Both dancing and marrying were at a temporary halt for the debonair, 46-year-old boilermak er, who police said freely ad UNIFIED CABINET BY POLELEADERS T nnrlnri .TliriO 2R. (U.R) War- saw announced today the forma tion of ,a new Polish unity gov ernment headed by Edoard n...Ul.n .Mnrnutck I 11.' h n Va USUUIMriHUU'll.".! " - ' mier in the Soviet-sponsored provisional government, ana in irilns Ktanislnw Mikolakzyk, former premier of the exiled cabinet in London. The resignation of the old pro ..icinnnt pnufrnmont and forma tion of its successor, as provided by the Yalta agreement ana the recent unity conference in MncMiw wpre announced in quick succession by the Warsaw radio. Mikolajszyk, peasant party leader who preceded Tomasz Arciszewski as premier of the London government, was named vice premier and minister of agriculture. Osubka-Morawskl, tne new premier, presented his cabinet iit in PrixiHpnt Boleslaw Bie- rut, who instructed him to form the government. Along with Mikolajszyk, Wla dislaw Gomolka was appointed vice premier. The Polish leaders returned to Warsaw this week after attend ing the Moscow conference. GOLF MATCH PAYS Chicago, June 28 (U.R) The Bing Crosby-Bob Hope exhibition golf match at Tarn o'Shanter country club, May 26, netted the rehabilitation found of the Pro fessional Golfs' asso elation $18,257, George S. May, Tarn o'Shanter president, said today. Piltnt Office, Full Leued Wlra MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, mitted he had "married lots of women." "I don't know what attracts them to me," he said. "They chased me. I met them all in dance ballrooms, and they fell all over me." Hardy said he "lost faith in all women" after wife No, 3, Mrs. Dorothy Belts Hardy, his "real love," tracked him down in a dance hall when he made off with $600 of her late hus band's insurance money. Mrs. Betts-Hardy was "swell," he said, but he left her three days after their marriage because he couldn't take her dancing for fear of meeting his other wives. President Plans : ' Trip To Alaska In Coming Year Olympla, Wash., June 28 President Truman hopes to re turn to the Pacific northwest either in the fall or next sum mer and make a trip to south eastern Alaska to study the Alaska highway and fisheries problems. Gov. Mon C. Wallgren said today. The governor held a noon press conference following his return from San Francisco. He accompanied Mr. Truman to the closing session df the San Fran cisco conference following the President's stay of nearly a week at the executive mansion in Olympia. Wallgren said Mr. Truman told him that he regretted leav ing the Pacific northwest after having "such a delightful vaca tion here." T Three Prospect juveniles charged with destruction of property, were sentenced yester day to the state industrial school and then were granted six months probation, with the un derstanding, they would pay $100 damages for the Woodruff Meadows cabin they wrecked. All three boys are employed as brush pilcrs by a logging con cern. A lecture was adminis tered by Judge J. B. Coleman of the juvenile court. At the hearing, it developed that the wrecking of the sum mer cabin was due to the three juveniles being in a playful mood. Nothing had been stolen. One of the boys who had broken the door of the cabin, returned a couple of days later with the others. They started throwing clods at each other, and one of the boys ran in the cabin. As the clod bombardment continued the boy in the cabin started throwing glassware and kitchen utensils, and the first thing thcyi knew the place was in a sham bles. The boys who have been held In the juvenile ward of the coun ty jail, were remanded to their parents for the probation period. BASEBALL National Cincinnati 8 10 0 Boston 7 10 2 Dasso. Llsenbee (8) and Unscr; Tobin and Masi. American Washington 2 6 2 Detroit 5 9 0 Wolff, Ullrich '8) and Fcrrell; Newhouscr and Richards. , , ara B -y. i , . n SKY PLATFORMS FOR DEATH RAYS Scientists Worked on Master Secret Weapon to Oper ate 5000 Miles Over Earth Paris, Jitae 28 (U.R) Lt. Col. John A. Keck said today that when the war ended German scientists were working on a "secret weapon" stratosphere platforms to float 5,000 miles above the earth, from which de vastating death rays could be focused on any part of the world. Keck is chief of enemy equip ment intelligence of the Euro pean theater.. He said the Ger mans did not hope to complete the weapon in less than 50 years. Beyond Gravity The platforms were envisaged as hanging just beyond the range of the earth's gravity. At least one scientist told him that "It would be a terrible thing for the world." Mammoth reflectors were to focus the sun's rays on earthly targets. The platforms were to be reached by rockets, and the rays directed by radio. Keck said the Germans were working on plans which "Made Buck Rogers look like he lived in the gay nineties." But he said American army experts questioning the men who drew up the plans were "Impressed with their practical engineering minds and distaste for the fan tastic." Keck told a press conference that the ray, when focused on any living thing, theoretically would kill it. - Any . body of water would be turned to steam, forests kindled;"and cities wiped out." He quoted German scientists as saying that the first country which perfected this weapon would "forever control the world.". HITLER HAD HIS BLACK MOMENTS. STENOS REVEAL By Jack Fleischer (United Press Correspondent) Bcrchtcsgadcn, June 28 (U.R) Adolf Hitler may or may not have chewed carpets, but he did have some black moments last summer when he said he almost wished for an assassin's bullet. Evidence that the fuehrer more than once was wracked by despair was unearthed by allied intelligence officers In the steno graphic record of a conference Hitler held at his east Prussian headquarters last Aug. 1. Defeats Depressed Hitler was so depressed by the endless succession of Ger man military defeats and the de featist attitude of his generals that he confessed a mild regret over failure of the July 20 at tempt on his life. "If that explosion had ended my life," he told his Nazi con ferees, "It would have been lib eration from all cares, worries, sleepless nights and nervous strain. "It Is only that fraction of a second then one Is free and finds rest and eternal peace." The guchrer's glum mood was In keeping with the general tone of the conference. He had sum moned Lt. Gen. Westphal and Gen. Krcbs to his headquarters after discovering that Field Mar shal Guenther Von Kluge had at tempted to surrender to the Americans in France. Von Kluge killed himself when the plot fell through In mid-August, but even that failed to buoy Hitler's spirits. Aug. IS Blackest Day "August 15 was the blackest day of my life." he said. "It is only accident that the plan didn't come .off and the actions of Von Kluge's army group can now be understood only in the light of his intentions." He ordered Krebs to "clean out" the Seventh army ataff which formerly had been com manded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and assigned Westphal to the post of chief of staff under Field Mar.:l Oerd Von Rund siedt. then Western front commander. 28, 1945 Earl of Halifax Signs UNCIO Charter I .!!..,..,.,. , .n,, LL nrrrnTmini n nUM rn iiaTnili, , " The Earl of Halifax pens Britain's signature to United Nations Charter during signing cere money at final session of UNCIO at San Francisco. Behind the Earl are (left to right) Col. D. Canel Dunn. C.K. Webster. H. M. B. Zebb. N. M. Butler. Sir William Malkin and the Viscount Cranborne. Men at extreme left and right are U. S. State Department aides. Connally Makes Strong Plea To Senate For Speedy Ratification UNCIO Charter Washington, June 28. U.R) The senate received an impas sioned plea today to speed ratifi cation of the United Nations security charter as a spur to its acceptance, by the rest of the world. Chairman Tom Connally, D Tex., of the senate foreign rela tions committee, a delegate to the San Francisco conference which drafted the charter, op ened one of the most momentous debates in U. S. history with a report on the success of his mis sion. Peace Depends He pleaded for approval of the charter with the- argument that "the dale of world peace may depend upon our decision." He said the charter could not suc ceed without this nation's par ticipation. President Truman is sched uled to transmit the charter to the senate next Monday. Con nelly's speech opened an admin istration campaign to get it rati fied by mid-August, possibly making this nation the first in E F Washington, June 28.; (U.R) Civilians will get five per cent more meat in July than in June, the office of price administration disclosed today. But during the new July 1-28 rationing period they must pay more points for margarine and canned fish. OPA raised points on mar garine from 12 to 14 points per pound and on canned fish, cur rently worth from four to nine points, by two and three points. Most Meat Same Most meats, butter and can ned foods remained unchanged. So did lard, shortening, and oils which were Increased from 10 to 12 points a pound June 17. OPA added one and two points on seven fat pork cuts but in spite of the estimated five per cent Increase in meat supply held points on other meats at June levels to "assist In distrib uting meat to shortage areas." The agency lowered hard cheeses such as chcrtdar and blue by four points. All changes are effective Sunday. F GET San Francisco, June 28 (U.R) San Franciscans got their city back today. For nine long weeks it has been virtually In the hands of thousands of delegates, . news and radio reporters, and the sec retariat of the United Nations conference. It was like the day after the last day of school. The War Memorial Opera House, the War Veterans build ing, and the 30-odd hotels used by oi.ference personnel were a maze of confusion. Tribune United Pies the world to formally approve the charter. "Early ratification here will stimulate and encourage ratifica tion by other nations," Connally said. "The eyes of the entire world are centered pn what we do here. Foreign nations know that the United Nations organization for peace and security will face failure and futility unless tne United States is a member. We face a high and solemn responsi bility." Support of People Connolly left no doubt that he fully expected the senate to heed his plea. He said the agreement had the overwhelming support of the American people. "The world charter for peace is knocking at the doors of the senate," he declared. "We shall not turn It away." He said war could be prevent ed by international cooperation. "In this charter we have en deavored to construct the mech anism to create that cooperation for peace." Describing broadly the char ter's general provisions for inter national cooperation to prevent future aggression, by force if necessary, Connally conceded that it wasn t perfect. But he asserted it marked a beginning from which it could grow and develop to meet tne needs of the world under Inter national law, Justice and free dom. Features Emphasised "Judged by that standard," he sand, "it is a monumental per- lormance. Connally pointed out these principal features of the charter: 1. A general assembly of all member nations to serve as a town meeting of the world. He said It would serve to form a mighty public opinion and exert tremendous influence on ques tions relating to International peace and security. 2, The U-natlon executive council empowered to act speed ily and decisively "whenever ag gression raises its ugly head. 1 3. The peaceful means by which the council first shall seek Miser Has Luxurious Funeral Afterlife Of Penny-Pinching Chiraen. June 28 (IIP) flip. lestino Chiesa was burled today in an ornate casket which cost more than he would have allow ed himself to spend in years. Chiesa lived and died in a room that cost him 20 cents a night, but investigators found he had a fortune of $250,000 tucked away in a safety deposit box, He lived In a flophouse, but he was part owner ot luxurious apartment buildings overlooking Lake Michigan. He allowed himself 10 cents a day for food, and ho owned stock in the Armour Meat Pack ing company valued at $75,000. He gambled for pennies with the derelicts In his ramshackle hotel, but on the stock market he ran an Inheritance of a few thousand dollars into an estate of a quarter million. Chiesa dressed in rags, but he went to his grave in tuxedo. Full Leased Wire NO. 83. to settle any international dis pute which threatens world peace. 4. The military might which the council can throw against an aggressor in the event that peaceful measures fail. Connally defended vigorously the "veto provision and trustee ship arrangements over which United Nations delegates at San Francisco differed. FT. IN FEDERAL TOILS Klamath Falls. Ore., -June 28 (U.PJ Charles James Brlcco, 64-ycar-old proprietor of the Crater Lake Cafe at Fort Klamath, must have had some pretty happy cus tomers, according to charges filed by the U, S. marshal, Bricco is accused of purchas ing stolen government property ' including 20 cases of ham. 10 cases of bacon' and four cases of butter from the mess at the Klamath Falls marine base. He has been Indicted by the federal grand jury on the charge. Ac cording to the Indictment, Bric co bought the food for approxi mately $850 from two marines working In the mess hall. WAR LOAN SALES TOTAL MORE THAN 21 BILLION ' Washington, June 28 (U.R) Seventh war loan sales today totaled $21,176,000,000. It ap peared likely they would break the sixth war loan record of $21,621,000,000 by tomorrow night. Individuals were a scant $216, 000,000 from their $7,000,000, 000 goal and "E" bond buyers were on the way toward their last billion. "E" bond sales totaled $3,107,000,000 or slightly over 75 per cent of the $4,000 000.000 quota. Corporation sales were $14 392,000,000. The first all-steel Ice skates were Invented In 1850. It was the best suit he ever had Attendant to his death there was all the luxury he shunned for three quarters of a century The bronze casket cost $1,000. There were sleek black limous ines to carry the funeral party to the cemetery. The under taker said lt was the best funeral money could buy, There was a solemn high re qulcm mass In a church not far from the flophouse where Chiesa died. Only 80 people were there, and most of them appar ently came out of curiosity. In the pews at the baek there was a scattering of bleary-eyed unshaven men, clutching ragged hats, who had shuffled in from the street to see their former neighbor leave this world in style. There was only one relative. John Murphy, a nephew. He was one of the pallbearers. The undertaker had to hire the others. MEN IN TRAINING IS TOKYO BOAST Yanks Land Unopposed On Six Islands Seeking Emer gency Landing Spots. Washington, June 28 (U.R) Superfortresies in "very great strength" today attacked three vital Japanese seaports and an enemy army training center, the War department an nounced. The port cities were Sasebo, which has been attacked pre viously, and Moji and Nobe oka, struck for the first time today, Okayama, on Honshu, where the army training cen ter is located, also was as saulted for the first time. Guam, June 28 (U.R) Japan set up a separate defense com mand for Tokyo today and re vealed that tens of thousands of special suicide weapons were be ing prepared to ward off an American invasion of the home islands. Tokyo said suicide attack bases had been established throughout Japan and were training a man for each of the secret suicide weapons. Another Tokyo broadcast said "the sooner the enemy comes, the better for us, for our battle array is complete." South of Japan, American troops landed unopposed on six small islands in the northern Marianas in search of emergen cy "ditching" spots for bombers damaged in the air war over Japan. One Shot Fired The troops returned to their base after thoroughly reconnoit cring the islands, which form a 340-mile-long series ot stepping stones extending from Saipan to within 1,100 miles of Japan. Only one shot was fired in the six landings. That was a pistol shot that killed a Japanese who refused to surrender. Twenty four other Japanese civilians and 38 natives, for the most part em ployes of the Japanese Copra company or shipwreck surviv-' ors, were removed from the Islands. " J Supplies and food were left behind for the approximately 260 native Japanese civilians who remained pa the various islands. A Tokyo broadcast said Jap an's special suicide weapons be ing prepared to counter an ex pected American invasion almost equalled the "total number of tanks and guns which appeared In the European war." , Gen. Iimura Commands (Tokyo radio recorded by United Press, San Francisco, said Lt. Gen. Uzuku Iimura was ap pointed commander of the new Tokyo defense headquarters. Iimura formerly was director of the military staff college and chief of staff -of the Kwangtung army in Manchuria.) Other developments in the Pa cific war included: 1. Tokyo announced that 450, 000 bombed-out inhabitants of Japanese cities would be moved to farms to help cope with Jap an's growing food problems. 2. Radio Tokyo said 32 Super fortresses mined Japan's Inland Sea, including Osaka Bay, and the Japan sea approaches to Nilgata on the northwest coast of Honshu last night and early today. 3. Reconnals sance photo graphs revealed in additional 3.45 square miles of Japan had been destroyed in recent Super fortress raids on the industrial cities of Kagashlma, Fukuoka and Omuta. This boosted the in dustrial and urban area of Japan destroyed or damaged by B-29s to 115 square miles. Jap Convoy Sunk 4. American light naval unlta sailed boldly through the Kurlle Island chain north of Japan and sank or damaged an entire Jap anese convoy of five ships In tha ' sea of Okhotsk last Monday. 5. American planes sank six other Japanese vessels and dam aged five off the coast of Japan and In the Sakashima islands in the southern Ryukyus. 6. Admiral Chester W. Niin Itz fixed navy casualties In the battle of Okinawa and associat ed fleet operations sinch March 18 at 4,907 dead and 4,824 wounded, bringing total Ameri can casualties In the Okinawa campaign to 46,319. 7. Gen. Joseph W. Stlllwell, former chief of U. S. ground forces, took over his new post as commander of the American 10th army on Okinawa, succeed ing the Inte Lt. Gen. Simon Bol ivar Buckncr, Jr. ' SET DRIED FRUIT PRICE San Francisco, June 28. (U.R) The office of price administra tion today announced that aver age grower prices for the 1945 pack of dried peaches and peara will be the samt as the 1944 prices.
