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MEDFORD, OREGON, SU p Y, JULY 1, 1945
No. 85.
TRUMAN SELECTS
JAMES F. BYRNES
FOR STATE POST
Confirmation By Senate Is
Assured; president and
Landon Talk.
Kansas City, Mo., June 30
(U.R) James F. Byrnes was
named tonight by President
Truman as the new secretary of
state.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Eoss told reporters
. late today that ' the President on
Monday will send to the senate
the nomination of James F
Byrnes as secretary of state."
In that capacity Byrnes will
be Mr. Truman's right hand man
as he seeks to develop a biparti
san foreign policy on a long-term
basis, capable of withstanding
administration changes.
Byrnes, an old senate col
league of Mr. Truman and a
close personal friend, appeared
certain of senate confirmation
because of his many close friends
.on Capitol Hill.
ine tresiaeni woritea in a
visit this afternoon with . his
mother, 92-year-old Mrs. Martha
Truman, and his sister, Miss
Mary Jane Truman, at their cot
tage home in suburban Grand
view, then retired to the sum
mer White House.
During tle morning the Chief
Executive signed the bill rais
ing the salaries of federal em
ployes. He awaited a last min
ute dispatch from Washington,
containing such legislation as
the OPA extension bill and the
war department appropriation
measure.
His visit home gave him the
opportunity to invite Alf M.
Landon, the Kansan who led the
GOP in the 1936 presidential
campaign, in for a meeting. Lan
don responded readily and the
two talked for 45 minutes.
BIG 3 MAY TALK
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London, June 30 (U.R) A
plan for joint control of the
strategic Panama canal by Rus
sia, Britain and the United
States may be discussed at the
forthcoming Big Three meeting,
.Eric Grey, Londofi Daily Ex
press correspondent in Cairo,
said today.
A foreign office commentator
said 'There definitely is nothing
to indicate any internationaliza
tion of the Panama canal."
Grey said Russia also may be
offered several scats on the con
trol board of the Suez canal.
Discussions concerning the
future control of the Dardan
elles will be linked with control
of the Suez, possibly even the
control of Panama, he said.
RUMORNAZrWAR
LORDS ON YACHT
Madrid. June 30 (UP.) Dis
patches from Tangier said to
night that a mysterious yacht
with war criminals believed to
be aboard had been detected
steaming southward along the
African coast.
The yacht was said to be oper
ating under a Canadian flag, but
its name had been painted out.
The Tangier report quoted a
correspondent at Las Palmas, Ca
nary islands, as saying war crim
inals were believed aboard.
CONGRESS VOTES
COSfFDR RITES
Washington, June 30 (U.R)
The omnibus appropriation bill
approved In the closing hours of
the fiscal year tonight included
$14,500 to pay for the funeral
of the late President Roosevelt.
The amount was inserted by
the Senate Appropriations com
mittee as part of the funds avail
able for the office of the pres
ident. NO PAPER JULY 4TH
In order to permit em
ployes of the Mail Tribune to
enjoy the holiday, and in ac
cordance with long custom,
the newspaper will not be
published Wednesday. .Tulv 4
Heads U. S. State Department
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CHINESE FORCES
CAPTURE FRENCH
NDO-CHINA CITY
nhnnfflrinff .Tuna 30. fLI.Pl
Chinese forces, driving down
from Kwangsi province have in
vaded French Indo-China and
captured a former French mili
tary post seven miles inside the
border, while other Chinese
trnnrw ctamnpH out the last re
sistance in the former American
airbase city of Liuchow, it was
disclosed today.
The drive into Indo-China
swept up the important four-way
road center or unungcningiu
fTrnne Khnnh Phu). 70 miles
smith nf the ercat allied base of
Poseh in Kwangsi province, and
set the Chinese directly asiriae
two invasion routes to the Indo
Chinese capital of Hanoi.
The fall of Liucnow, more
than 200 miles to the northeast
in antral Kwangsi Drovince.
onrfori turn weeks of siece by
several Chinese columns and set
the stage for a renewed drive on
Kwcilin, another major airbase
city lost to the Japanese last
fall. .
The sudden Chinese offensive
to the south marked the first
lima pitied trnoos have invaded
Indo-China since the Japanese
army marched in unopposed in
1941 under an agreement with
it., viphw crnvernment and
placed it under armed "protec
tion.
HOUSE VOTES TO
EXTEND OPA YEAR
Washington, June 30 (UP.)
Legislation renewing the life of
the wartime price control law
was sent speeding westward by
airplane tonight so it could be
signed by President Truman be
fore the midnight deadline.
The bill, keeping the Office of
Price Administration alive for
another 12 months, was rushed
to a waiting plane after the
house had beaten down Republi
can efforts to send it back to
conference with the senate. The
compromise recommended by
senate and house conferees was
approved by a vote of 255 to 94.
The senate had acted two days
ago.
BY JAPAN FALSE
Washington, June 30 UR
Authoritative army and navy
sources said toniRht that Japan's
promise to protect its Industry
from American bombs by trans
porting it to Manchuria was a
propaganda lie for home con
sumption. They declared flatly
that such a program is lmpos-i
liblc
PVT. M'GEE FACES
HIS TENTH TRIAL
Fort Devens, Mass., June 30
(U.R) Pvt. Joseph McGce, 22, of
Worcester, - whose two-year sen
tence to hard labor for striking
nine German prisoners evoked
national protest last month,
faced the 10th court martial of
his army career tonight after be
ing seized by military police for
being AWOL for six days.
McGee, who has been away
without leave three times since
his sentence was rescinded by
the War department, was picked
up near his Worcester home and
brought to the guard house here.
Fort Devens authorities said pro
ceedings probably would be be
gun next week.
The first time he was AWOL
after being feted in Worcester
following revocation of the pun
ishment for striking the prison
ers McGee was fined $30 and
sentenced to 14 days at hard
labor. He holds the Silver Star
for bravery and the Purple
Heart for wounds Incurred dur
ing overseas service.
The War department disclosed
recently that the infantryman
had been court-martialed nine
times between Feb. 20, 1941 and
the occasion when he struck the
German prisoners when they in
sulted him while he directed
their work. Most of the
charges were AWOL,
mightTsInth
Washington, June 30 (U.PJ
The record-breaking mighty
seventh war loan ended formally
tonight with sales to all Invest
ors totaling $22,698,000,000, the
treasury's war finance division
announced tonight.
Additional hundreds of mil
lions will be chalked up to the
drive next week when final ac
counting will be made. The
grand total probably will not be
known before July 9. Sales
still to be recorded are mostly
E bonds.
CZECHS TO SEEK
Prague, June 30 (U.R) Dr.
Valdov dementis, Czechoslovak
deputy foreign minister, said to
day that Czechoslovakia will
seek rectification of its frontiers
toward Austria and Hungary and
that requests would be filed
"within a matter of days" with
the big four governments, as
well as the Polish government
in Warsaw.
OPA BOOSTS JULY
IN STATEJO PC.
Make More Meat Available;
Removal of Lamb Points
Urged.
Portland, Ore., June 30 U.R)
The Portland district of the
OPA announced July quotas for
class 2 slaughterers today, pro
viding for a 10 per cent increase
in the killing of cattle, calves,
sheep and lambs. Hog quotas re
mained unchanged.
Class 2 slaughterers, the non-
federally inspected group will
be allowed to kill 85 per cent of
their base quota of cattle and
calves, compared to 75 per cent
in June, and 110 per cent of
their base quotas of sheep and
lambs, compared to 100 per cent
in June. Hog slaughtering al
lowances were left at 50 per cent
of base quota.
John O. Ferris, OPA -meat ra
tioning representative, said the
rise in slaughtering allowances
would mean a substantial in
crease in amounts of meat avail
able in retail markets through
out the district, which includes
all of Oregon and five counties
in southwestern Washington.
Portland, Ore., June 30 (U.R)
Removal of points from lamb
for at least July and August, and
lowering of points on butter,
were offered today as solutions
for the imminent waste of 50,
000 Oregon lambs per month,
and a current loss of butter.
Roy A. Ward, manager of the
Pacific Wool Growers Coopera
tive association, told Oregon
Senators Guy Cordon and Wayne
Morse that the freeing nf lamh
from points would stop loss of
inousanas ot lambs.
The Portland Oregonian de
clared in. a survey made after
buyers' complaints had multi
plied, " verified assertions that
butter was beine sold in Port.
land "rancid and tainted," be
cause its 24-point price slowed
down its move into the home,
stores and warehouses.
FILIPIilFPET
IN JAPAN, CLAIM
San Francisco, June 30 (U.R)
Jose P. Laurel, former Japanese
puppet president in the Philip
pines, is now In Tokyo and has
conferred with Emperor Hiro
hito, Tokyo radio disclosed to
night. Laurel was accompanied by
Benignos Aquino, chairman of
the Philippines national assem
bly at present In recess," the
Japanese said according to a
broadcast recorded by United
Press.
It was the first word of
Laurel's whereabouts since the
American landings in the Philip
pines. The announcement was
an official communique issued
by the Japanese Imperial Board
of Information.
TAXABLEVAIUES
OVER 28MI1JJ0N
The total taxable value of
Jackson county for the 1945-1948
tax year, starting July 1, has
been fixed at $28,543,530 by the
county assessor's office. This Is
$495,860 more than last year
when it was $27,747,670.
The real property, Including
all land classification is listed
at $23,269,200, approximately
the same as last year.
Hogs show a drop both In num
ber and value. Last year hogs
totalled 7,277 valued at $38,020.
This year, 2,885 with a value of
$17,020 are listed. The decline
is attributed to farmers not rais
ing hogs under the OPA regula
tions. The hog situation is ex
pected to improve In the fall.
NICE-OF FRANCO
Madrid, June 30 U.R Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco to
night authorized American sol
diers leaving the European the
ater to spend vacation leave In
Spain. '
I MANHUNT UNDERWAY
Pocatello, Ida., June 30 (U.R)
! Southeastern Idaho and northern
! Utah peace officers today start
ed a manhunt for a carnival and
circus worker, suspected of the
; murder of David O. Martin of
Wichita, Kuns.
WE ACTS TO
E
President to Present Peace
Plan Plea Tomorrow,
Without Fanfare.
Washington, June 30 U.R)
Senate leaders adopted a speed
up schedule today to insure
early ratification of the United
Nations charter, putting the
world on notice that the United
States will throw all its weight
behind an organization to pre
vent future war.
President Truman personally,
according to Senate Democratic
Leader Alben W. Barkley, will
submit the charter to the senate
Monday with a 600-word plea
for quick ratification. All signs
indicated that his plea would be
heeded by far more than the
necessary two-thirds majority.
Senate leaders made prepara
tions today for speedy considera
tion which they hoped wouid
contrast with the prolonged de
lay that marked the debates
and final rejection of the Ver
sailles treaty and the League of
Nations after the last war.
The Foreign Relations com
mittee decided to begin hearings
on the charter Monday. July 9,
and indicated that the treaty
would be sent to the floor of the
senate about two weeks later.
Barkley announced there
would be no summer recess un
til the charter had been ratified.
Barkley told the senate that
Monday's ceremony would carry
a serious tone unmarked by fan
fare. "Mr. Truman wants to present
the San Francisco charter to his
former colleagues in the senate
both as president and as a
former member of this body," he
said. "There will be no fanfare
and no particular publicity. This
is a very moderate and, it seems
to - me, a very commendable
spirit in which the president
wants to hand the charter to the
senate of the United States."
VIA LEND-LEASE
IN REVERSE TOLD
Washington, June 30 (U.R)
Under a strict rationing pro
gram. New Zealand has supplied
800,000,000 pounds of food under
reverse lend-lease to American
troops in the Pacific, Lend-lease
Administrator Leo T. Crowlty
reported tonight.
Without this aid, fresh foods
for our troops would have had
to be held to a bare minimum,
Crowley said.
Reverse lend-lease from New
Zealand in food and equipment
has almost equalled U. S. lend
lease shipments to that country,
Crowley said. New Zealand's aid
was estimated at $198,000,000
worth, compared with $204,693,
000 sent to her by. the United
States.
New Zealand shipments In
cluded 317,480,000 pounds of
meat and 38,780,000 pounds of
butter, Crowley said. Her butter
shipments were about half as
large as ours to Russia, the only
recipient of butter from the U.S.
under lend-lease, he said.
U.S. HEALTH RULES
TO
Washington, June 30 (U.R)
The U. S. public health service
tonight gave parents these "com
mon sense" rules to follow in
helping to prevent the spread of
infantile paralysis:
1. Keep down flics. They are
known to carry the polio virus.
2. Keep children out of
crowds.
3. Prevent over-exhaustion of
children. See that they rest
every afternoon.
4. Do not have children's ton
sils r. noved during hot wea
ther. 5. Keep children out of
crowded swimming pools. Ocean
bathing on uncrowded beaches
is all right.
BRIDES ARRIVE
. San Francisco, June 30 (U.R)
Melbourne radio said tonight
that 41 Canadian wives of Royal
Australian air force men had ar
rived iu Australia.
FEDERAL POLICY
AFTERV-J DAY
Plans Ready For Early Or
Late Jap Defeat Lists
Nine Points.
Washington, June 30 U.P.)
War Mobilization Director rrea
M. Vinson disclosed tonight that
the government is rushing recon
version plans "for an early de-1
feat of Japan, as well as a late
one."
He did not predict when the
end of the Japanese war would
come. But In a quarterly report
to President Truman and con
gress a report colled "The Road
to Tokyo and Beyond" he set
the hypothetical limits at "a year
from now" or "two or three
months from now."
Whenever the Japanese sur
render, he said, all war agen
cies "are getting ready to meet
the problems which an early VJ
day will bring."
Outlining the government's
role, he offered this economic
charter on which to build "a
steadily rising American living
standard":
1. Complete modernization of
tax laws, maintaining the income
tax on a broad base, to keep pro
duction, employment and pur
chasing power at "stable high
levels.
2. A program to foster small
business and enocurage new busi
ness. 3. A vigorous anti-monopoly
campaign to preserve the compe
tition which "is a keystone to
our free society."
4. The reduction of industrial
strife, broadening of minimum
wage laws and increasing the
minimum wage from 40 to at
least SO cents an hour, and "a
nign wage policy by business."
5. Elimination of artificial
trade barriers such as repeal
of bans on loans to debt-defaulted
nations and clearing up of for
eign neDis -on a realistic basis'
and positive measures, like the
iraae agreements act and the
Bretton Woods agreement, to en
courage world trade.
6. Broadening and expansion
of the social security program.
7- Measures to assure farmers
as llgh living, health and edu
cational standards as the rest of
the population.
8. Long-term public works and
federal encouragement of pri
vate housing construction. He
said we should build 1,250.000
non-farm dwellings a year for
10 years after the war with con
struction hitting an annual level
of at least $15,000,000,000.
9. A government fiscal policy
aimed at keeping the economy
at or near full employment, co
ordinating all programs to guard
against deflation and Inflation.
Noted Dead
San Francisco, June 30 (U.R)
Dr. Martin I. Green, 46, co
founder and chief of staff of na
tionally known Green's Eye hos
pital here, died today. He Is
survived by his widow, his
father and two sisters , all of
San Francisco. Funeral services
will be held Monday.
BULLETIN
Sacramento, Cel., June 30
(U.R) Joe Wood, Jr., set the Port
land Beavers down with seven
scattered hits here tonight as
the Sacramento Solons trimmed
the league leaders, 5-4.
The loss left the Beavers with
a 3-2 lead In the scries and a
double-header slated tomorrow
afternoon.
Portland trailed all the way,
but staged a big uprising In the
ninth, pushing two runs across
the piate and filling the bases.
But Wood bore down and
whiffed Luccsi with the tieing
and winning runs on third and
second.
The Sacs clinched the game
In the third Inning when four
singles by Wood, Handlcy, White
and Landrum sent three run
ners across the plate.
English led the visitors at bat
with a home run with the bases
empty in the seventh, plus two
other blows. Dcmareo also had
three safeties in four trips up.
Coast
(Night Games)
Portland 4 7 0
Sacramento 5 10 1
Llska, Fedcrmcyer and Souza;
Wood and Marcucci.
Oakland 4 10 1
Hollywood 9 14 3
Chetkovlch, Lot and Keuric;
Smith and Hill.
WAR BULLETINS
Paris, June 30 U.R) Al
lied supreme headquarters an
nounced tonight that British
and American troops will be
gin moving into Berlin be
tween July 1 and 4, and dis
closed officially for the first
time that French troops alio
will enter the Reich capital.
Warsaw, June 30 (U.R) A
representative of the British
embassy at Moscow arrived in
Warsaw today to seek accom
modation for an embassy here.
Manila, Sunday, July 1
(U.R) American forces moving
east in a mop-up campaign
through the Cagayan valley of
northeastern Luxon have driv
en the Japanese from the town
of Baggao. 30 miles south
southeast of Aparri, Gen.
Douglas MacAxthur an
nounced today.
Washington, June 30 (U.R)
The navy today announced
the 1525-ton submarine Kate
Is overdue from patrol and
presumed lost.
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HOLLYWOOD PLOT
TO
Un-American Committee
Chairman , Says Investi
gators Now Busy.
Washington, June 30 (U.R)
The house un-American activi
ties committee voted today to In
vestigate "subversive activities"
in Hollywood and to determine
whether film stars and producers
were inolved in a plot to over
throw the government.
Acting Chairman John E. Ran
kin, D., Miss., revealed the com
mittee's decision in a statement
that said Information received
by the committee indicated Hol
lywood was "the greatest hotbed
of subversive activities in the
United States."
"According to reports, one of
the most dangerous plots ever
instigated for the overthrow of
this government had its head
quarters in Hollywood, Calif ,"
Rankin said.
A committee spokesman told
reporters that there had been
"so many complaints mai me
Ar.v.ittA lust had to do some
thing." He said the alleged plot
involved "everybody actors,
producers, big stars, other movie
people and even airplane fac
tory workers."
The spokesman said Investi
gators would give particular at
tention to a summer school that
taught "communist front propa
ganda." Rankin's statement said com
mittoo investleators are being
sent to Hollywood Immediately.
He later told reporters that thH
Mmm ra umi " nn the Iran OI
a tarantula" and that the al
leged plot started before the war
and had become "intensified" re
cently.
"It is deep rooted and Is de
IsnpH tn lav the groundwork
for the overthrow of our form
of government and for a change
In our way of living," he said.
Rankin said the plot involved
the entire Pacific coast, but cen
tered in Hollywood.
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STOLEN PLANE CRASHES
Mexico City, June 30 (U.R)
The office of secretary of com
munications reported today it
had recovered a plane stolen in
Temple, Tex., by Francisco Rod
riguez, Seattle, Wash. Rodriguez
made a crash landing at Villa da
Nadadorcs, Coahulla, Mcx., when
the plane's fuel supply ran out..
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EARLY INVASION
BORNEOJIL PORT
Yankee Fleet Off Amaml
Group; Japan Jittery
Waits New Attack.
By United Press
Japan reported U. S. fleet
movements in the Amaml group
north of Okinawa Saturday and
said an invasion of the great East
Borneo oil port of Balikpapan
was imminent. American war
planes sank or damaged 18
more enemy vessels off the
homeland.
Chinese forces Invaded French
Indo-China and captured a for
mer French mllitarv nnt ,,..
miles inside the border. Other
troops wiped out the last resist
ance in the former American air
base city of Liuchow. Pushing
into Indo-China to Chungching
fu, 78 miles south of the aUied
base at Poseh in Kwanoti it,.
Chinese were astride two inva
sion routes to the Indo-Chinese
capital of Hanoi.
Emergency Moves
JaDan nrrforori an maprn..
increase in munitions produc
tion, named a new home com
mander for the Tnhnlrif Hlcrln
in northern Honshu and consid
ered drastic measures to im
prove the railway system in
preparation for invasion.
Enemy broadcasts said Amerl
can fleet units had reconnoitered
l-i-mue long Okinocrabu island
in the Amamis as m nncihiA
lude to invasion. The horn-
shaped Island is 40 miles north
of Okinawa and 250 miles south
west of Japan.
Japan reported a powerful In
vasion fleet massed off Balik
papan. Gen Douglas MacAr
thur announced the fifth straight
day of air attacks on the vital
port. Fires and smoke covered
the entire area after 230 tons of
explosives poured into the east
Borneo stronghold.
"Suicide" Bases Hit
U. S. army Thunderbolts
roared over Kyushu, southern
most of the home islands. They
struck Kanoya and Kushira air
fields, Important Japanese "sui
cide" plane bases. Along the
Kyushu coast they blasted docks,
set five luggers and two tugs '
afire and damaged a steamer off
the coast. Navy bombers added
eight more ships sunk or dam
aged off western Kyushu and in
the Yellow Sea.
While Japan worried over ap
parent new American Invasion
plans in the Ryukus, she also
made excuses for the lnc nf Die.
inawa, asserting the Japanese
had been under "serious handi
caps" that would not exist In the
Dame tor ine nome Islands.
The pnnmv'a hlcr Nlnnnn nil
refinery at Kadamatsu, near
Tokuvama. on HnnKhu llnnH
was largely In ruins after a SO-
piane n-) assault which ob
tained "excellent results" in
Friday's raid, .lnnnn'l nrmars.
tions for invasion continued to
prove Ineffective against the
raiding B-29's. No enemy planes
met the Sunprfnrts nnH anti-alrta
craft fire was meager and inac
curate.
Ameriran nlrrrnft nntrnllAl
China siinnlv rnnti nnH hit mil.
itary targets in Shanghai and
Lamon.
Tokyo Viewpoint
San Francisco, Juno 30 (U.R)
Tokyo radio's contribution to
war whimsy tonight:
The war situation In the Pa
cific during the past week saw
no major developments except
the virtual close of the ground
battle on Okinawa."
The broadcast was recorded
by United Press.
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