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FIRE DESTROYS
OF
ILL
Fire completely destroyed the
repair shop of the Goetz Lumber
company sawmill at Prospect
Tuesday night, according to the
state forest patrol. The blaze was
believed to have started in the
engine of the power plant and
caused damage estimated at
$8,000, the patrol office stated.
Damage was mostly to equip
ment, tools, supplies, etc.
The conflagration was discov
ered about 9:30 p.m. and raged
uncontrolled until 12:30 .a.m. A
night watchman was the only
person about the mill when the
fire started, according to the
forest patrol.
Crews from the mill, United
States Forest Service and State
Forest Patrol combattcd the
blaze. Forest patrol headquar
ters said it was not believed
necessary to close the mill while
repairs are made.
Chamber Meeting
At Holland Friday
With complete redecoration of
the Jackson county Chamber of
Commerce reception room, meet
ing room and offices underway,
the semi-monthly meeting of the
board of directors will be held
at the Hotel Holland Friday
noon. Routine business will be
discussed Bnd committee reports
will include a summary of min
eral resources of this area by T.
M. Gcrety, chairman of the
chamber's mining committee.
All members of the chamber
are invited to attend regular
open meetings of the board and
reservations may be made by
phoning either the chamber of
fice or the Hotel Holland. The
meeting will be held in the rear
lounge of the hotel.
Americans Better
Than Any Others
Washington, July 5 (U.R)
America managed to keep its cit
izens better fed, housed and
clothed than any other nation
last year despite the fact that it
turned out nearly half the
world's munitions.
War Production Chairman J.
A. Krug reported to President
Truman today on what he term
ed "a year of brilliant achieve
ment on the production front."
In 1944, he said, America's
production machine made almost
45 per cent of the combined com
bat munitions of both the United
Nations and the axis.
Total world arms output in
1944 was valued at $101,500,
000,000. Krug reported, with the
U. S. share put at $43,500,000,
000. The United Nations, he
added, outproduced the axis
three to one.
Overall U. S. production for
1944 reached $199,000,000,000.
Total war production. Includ
ing construction and oth'er items
not directly ol a combat nature,
United Press
Victim of Jap Suicide
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Vets On Filthy Trains While
lazis Ride Pullmans. Charge
Camp Beale, Cal., July 5.
(U.R) Eight hundred veterans of
the European and North African
campaigns today prepared for
pre-Pacific furloughs after trips
across the continent in two
Toonervillc-type trains they said
were filthy and infested with
vermin.
Meanwhile," "army- officials
here and in Washington began
an investigation of the trips and
of reports that eastbound Ger
man war prisoners had passed
GOODYEAR TIRE
PLANT SEIZURE
Washington, July 5. U.R)
President Truman today ordered
the navy to seize the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber plants at Akron;
O., scene of a persistent, 19-day
strike. '
Mr. Truman acted after the
union, the United Rubber Work
ers of America (CIO), refused to
abide by repeated war labor
board orders for the 16,700
strikers to return to work. Davis
said the Goodyear production
was "urgently needed by our
military forces."
The plants were producing
heavy-duty tires, aircraft tires,
refueling hose and other rubber
products for war use.
The president's seizure order
authorized the navy to take any
action necessary-i including use
of armed forces to provide pro
tection for the plants and all
persons employed in them or
seeking employment, and their
families and homes.
Fed and Housed
During Past Year
amounted to $61,300,000,000.
Krug said that while far-reaching
shifts in requirements, new
manpower problems and "tre
mendous production engineering
problems."
For one thing, he said, there
was a smaller working force. In
1944, the armed services aver
aged 11.380,000 persons or 2,
500,000 more than in 1943, while
the civilian labor force dropped
almost 1.000,000.
"The important and astound
ing fact," Krug said, "is that in
1944. the year in which the cres
cendo of war was mounting to
a thunderous climax, the Ameri
can consumer and his family re
mained by far the best-fed, best
housed and best-clothed civil
ians in the world.
"While all battlefronls were
ablaze . . , the 'American con
sumer was furnished with more
goods and services than in any
year since 1841."
The consumer spent more and
got less for his money, however,
Full Ltased Wirt
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY
Planes'
r 7
one of the trains in Pullmans.
Conditions on an eight-car
commuter train which brought
500 soldiers here from Ft. Miles
Standish, Mass., were described
yesterday by Lt. Col. Peter
DePaolo, former auto racing
driver.
A second train reached Camp
Beale from Charleston, S. C.
few hours later with 300 officers
and men of the 15th air force
aboard. DePaolo's description of
the assertedly grimy, cootie-rld
den trip "sounds exactly like our
train," members of the 15th air
force contingent declared.
"Soot a half inch thick" cov
ered the men after semi-sleepless
nights in the overcrowded day
coaches, Lt. Ray K. Dclahunt, a
P-38 pilot from Los Angeles
said.
A war department spokesman
in Washington announced that
an investigation had been start
ed and pointed out regulations
forbade use of Pullmans for war
prisoners who were not hospital
cases.
Objects dropped from two air
planes in the Table Rock and
Crater Lake districts yesterday
were identified today by army
authorities as 500-pound practice
bombs containing sand, released
from two B-29 army bombers
which developed engine trouble
and were forced to make land
ings at the Medford airfield.
First of the planes dropped Its
load over Table Rock about noon
and the second in the Crater
Lake district about 9 p.m.
Both planes were making rou
tine training flights, and on de
veloping engine trouble were
forced to release the practice
bombs to decrease weight before
landing. No damage was caused
in the remote area.
TRUCK HIT BY TRAIN
DELAYED AT R0SEBURG
A Consolidated Frcightways
truck loaded with bacon and
stockings was delayed when
struck by Southern Pacific pas
senger train number 329 at Rose
burg about 3 a.m. today, accord
ing to a report from state police
and Consolidated offices here.
The train struck the trailer of
the truck and did not injure Vic
tor Wrigglesworth, Eugene, who
was driving, according to the
report.
STRIKE HALTS TRAMS
' Toronto, July 5. (U.PJ A
strike of electrical workers para
lyzed street railway traffic here
today. ,
DONATES DOLLAR
Kansas City, Mo July 5 (U.R)
Barber Frank Spina donated
dollar to the treasury today
indirectly. Spina says he'll never
spend the crisp autographed one
dollar bill. President Truman
paid him for a haircut.
Two Big Ab f leets
In Pre-Invaoion Softening Up
THIRTIETH DAY
OF HEAVY RAIDS
Strong Fighter Screen With
Bombers; Main Japanese
Home Cities Objectives.
Guam, July 5 (U.R) The Jap
anese radio said two powerful
American air fleets totaling
some 300 Superforts, Liberators
and Fighters attacked the Tokyo
area, the port of Nagasaki and
other targets on Honshu and
Kyushu today.
The pre-invasion softening up
of the Japanese homeland roared
through its 30th straight day
with morning and afternoon as
saults paced by Superforts and
Liberators with a strong Fighter
screen, Tokyo broadcasts re
ported.. ,
The raiding forces were re
ported ranging widely over the
main Japanese islands in what
had become virtually a non-stop,
offensive by daylight.
Fleet Off Coast
Meanwhile, Tokyo reported
that an American battle fleet
was menacing the northern coast
of Japan after a surprise bom
bardment Tuesday against Japanese-held
Sakhalin island in
the sea of Okhotsk, -
The strike on Sakhalin car
ried American naval power al
most within sight of Russian Si
beria for the fleet's deepest pen
etration of Japanese waters since
the war began.
First word of the fleet attack
on Sakhalin and the presence of
American battle units o" north
ern Japan came from tl Tokyo
radio and there was no immedi
ate confirmation from Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz headquarters.
Tokyo said American surface
units had broken through the
Kurile island barrier and steam
ed more than 500 miles west
ward across the sea of Okhotsk
to attack Sakhalin Tuesday.
Bombard Short
Five warships of unidentified
types steamed into Tarakal bay
and opened a heavy bombard
ment of shore installations at
Shikuka. American submarines,
which shelled and machine
gunned Kaihyo Island south of
the bay Monday, surfaced off
Shikuka to join the attack, Tok
yo said.
Tokyo spokesmen added the
usual claim that no damage re
sulted, but their alarm over the
United States spreading naval
activity in their northern waters
was evident. They said other
American warships, in addition
to the Shikuka attackers, were
loose in the sea of Okhotsk north
of Hokkaido, In the same area
where a five-ship Japanese con
voy was smashed on June 25.
The northern half of 500-mllc
long Sakhalin is owned by Rus
sia. Shikuka lies 53 miles south
of the Russo-Japanese boundary
line, 700 miles northeast of
Vladivostok, and 950 miles
north of Tokyo.
PROWLER TAKES MONEY
FROM AL PICHE HOME
Local police were called to
the home of Al Plche, 47 North
! Peach street, at 12:35 last night
to investigate a burglary. The
prowler was believed to have
entered the house through a win
dow and a small amount of
money was missing, police said.
The Piche family were away at
the time.
DESTROYER HOME
Los Angeles July 5 (U.R)
The USS Fletcher, only destroy
er credited with sinking a heavy
Japanese cruiser unaided, was in
Los Angeles harbor for routine
repairs today after 200.000 miles
of Pacific service In the last two
and one-half years. '
KNIPS LEAVING
Donald Knips, Si c, will leave
Medford tomorrow to return to
the naval base at San Diego
where he will await transfer to
Chicago for navy radar school.
Kulps has been visiting for 'he
past week. with his parents. Mr.
and MrsE. F. White, 26 South
Orange street. i
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Jackson County
in Bond Cellar
Jackson county now holds
the cellar position in the race
of 10 Oregon counties in sales
of "E" bonds for the Seventh
War Loan drive, according to
latest information released by
bond headquarters. With a
quota of $1,067,000, only 64.7
per cent or $689,828 has been
sold through July 2.
Washington county con
tinues to lead the group with
sales totaling $1,C41,177, 92.8
per cent of their $1,122,000
quota, and Multnomah county
is second with $26,260,695,
85.7 per cent of a $30,660,000.
FOES' STRONGHOLD
FOR FINAL SPEECH
London, July 5 U.R) An esti
mated 27,000 voters went to the
polls for Britain's first general
election in 10 years today. Poli
tical observers saw a possibility
of a swing to the left that could
unseat Prime Minister Churc
hill's Conservative government.
Churchill himself laid down a
blunt ideological challenge to
the opposition when he invaded
the Laborilcs' southwest London
strnncholds last night for his
final sneeeh of the campaign.
Ho declared that the course of
all Europe hinges on the British
election.
"They are looking from the
continent to see which way Brit
ain is going to go," he said. "If
there should be a landslide to
the left, many countries on the
continent would slide not into
decent Socialism but Into the
violence of Communism. If we
go down, all the ninepins of
Europe will fall."
See Bar Majority
Even the most optimistic Con
servatives in their pre-election
forecasts were expecting to win
a bare majority of the 640 seats
in commons.
Other analysts saw the likeli
hood that the Laborite, Liberal,
Commonwealth and Communist
candidates, plus a sprinkling of
anti - Churchill independents,
would come up with a majority
in the house, making it very
nearly impossible for the Churc
hill government to continue.
The ballots will be counted on
July 26, and final results are ex
pected to be known by 4 p. m. of
that date.
Atlantic Routes
To Three Airlines
Washington July 5 (U.R)
The Civil Aeronautics' Board to
day authorized Pan-American
Airways. American Export Air
ways, and Transcontinental St
Western Air. to fly trans-Atlantic
routes to Europe.
The board also Issued a deci
sion approving the acquisition of
American Export Airlines by
American Airlines.
TYNWALD OPENED
Douglas, Isle of Man, July S
-4U.P) For the first time In
1100 years this island's open air
Tynwald (Parliament) was open
ed by s British king. King
George and Queen Elizabeth sat
on a throne or red velvet at the
top of Tynwald Hill and formal
ly opened the parliament. The
king formally gave assent to new
laws by signing documents with
a quill.
BASEBALL
National
Chicago 3 9 1
Boston 2 7 0
Wyse and Livingston; Tobin
and Hoffcrth.
St. Louis 7 10 0
New York .'. 5 12 2
Dockins, Creed, Brechccn and
Odea: Brewer, Adams and
Kluttz.
Washington .. S 10 0
Chicago 2 9 2
Leonard and Ferrell; Lopat
and Tresh.
American
Cincinnati 6 11 0
Brooklyn 4 9 0
Bowman and Riddle; Davis,
Pfund (5), Rudolph (8), King (9)
and Pautouio, Saudlock (6),
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United Press Full
Pound Tokyo Area
FARM INCREASE
Preliminary Count Lists 2,
991 Compared with 2,702
In '40; 138 Acres Average
The number of farms in Jack
son county as shown by the pre
liminary count of returns of the
1945 census of agriculture was
2,991, as compared with 2,702 in
1940, and 2,901 in 1935. This
was announced today by Paul N.
Plank, supervisor for the 1945
farm census in the second Ore
gon census district with head
quarters at Eugene, Ore.
The total land in farms in
Jackson county, according to the
preliminary 1945 census count,
was 412,166 acres, as compared
with 316,394 acres' In 1940, and
303,493 acres In 1935. Average
size of farms shown in the pre
liminary 1945 census count for
Jackson county was 138 acres, as
compared with 117 acres in 1940
and 105 acres in 1935.
May Be Changes
In announcing the 1945 census
totals of farms and land in farms
in Jackson county, Supervisor
Plank pointed out that the
figures are preliminary and sub
ject to correction. Final tabula
tions of .Jackson county farm
census returns will be made by
the Bureau of the Census and
announced from Washington
when completed, Mr. Plank said
- County legal and agricultural
officers attributed the increase
in the number of farms in Jack
son county in the past five years
to division of acreages and pur
chase of land by newcomers in
the valley for development as
farms.
Despite the fact that several
farms were taken over by the
government In the installation of
Camp White, other land has been
put into production as farm acre
age, lt was pointed out.
SPAATZ TO HEAD
Washington, July 9 (U.R)
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, who com
manded the U. S. air forces in
the strategical warfare which de
stroyed German resources from
the air, will direct the strategic
air attack on Japan, Undersecre
tary of War Robert Patterson an
nounced today.
Spaatz will command the 20lh
air force, whose B-29's have been
battering Japan's resources for
more than a year, and the Eighth
air force, which is now being re
deployed from Europe to the
Pacific.
MaJ. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay,
who has commanded the 21st
Bomber command, will become
commander of the 20th air force
under Spaatz' overall command.
Lt. Gen. James Doolittle al
ready has been designed to com
mand the Eighth air force In the
Pacific. Like Lemay, he will
function under Spaatz' overall
command.
Third Grass Fire
Started By Boys
Firemen were called to a grass
fire at the corner of Benson and
Prune streets yesterday which,
according to police, was started
by two boys, aged 9 and 7. This
was the third grass fire started
by the boys, according to a po
lice report.
ICE STAR KILLED
Harrisburg, Pa., July 5 (U.R)
Marine Pvt Charles (Buddy)
White, champion figure Ice skat
er, was killed In action on Oki
nawa June 28 his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer White, revealed
here today.
BRADLEY TO KEEP RANK
Washington. July 5. U.P.)
President Truman today signed
legislation providing that Gen.
Omar Bradley will retain his
military rank and pay when he
takes over as administrator of
veterans' attain. - - - j
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NO. 88.
Of Islands
JUSTICE ROBERTS
TO LEAVE OFFICE
Truman Says Treasury Sec
retary Will Stay Until
After Meeting of Big Three
Washington, July 5 (U.R)
President Truman today an
nounced the resignation of Sec
retary of Treasury Henry Mor
genthau, Jr., and the retirement
of Associate Supreme Court Jus
tice Owen J. Roberts.
The president told a news con
ference that Morgenthau will re
main in the cabinet post until
the chief executive returns from
the Big Three meeting. He said
the meeting will take place
sometime within the next three
weeks.
Asked whether Morgenthau
would be made the American di
rector of the international finan
cial set-up under the Bretton
Woods agreement, the president
said he could not answer that
question now.
An excellent source in the
treasury had said earlier that
such an assignment was in pros
pect for Morgenthau. . .
WARAGENCYB1LL
WHITTLED THIN BY
FEPC
Washington, July 8 (U.R)
The House today passed an en
asculuted war agencies set up by
presidential order and not au
thorized by congress.
Southern democrats refused
to allow addition of funds for
FEPC on that basis. FEPC sup
porters raised the same obec
tion to ten other agencies.
The bill went to the senate
with only $134,000,000 of its
original funds.
House action was taken as
near-full gallery of FEPC lobby-'
ists watched. Anticipating a
crowd and fearing a possible
demonstration, capltol police
were stationed inside the cham
ber at each gallery door.
Submarine Trigger
Missing With Crew
Washington, July 5 (U.R)
The navy today reported that
the submarine U. S. S. Trigger
Is overdue from patrol opera
tions and must be presumed
lost with all Its officers and crew.
The loss brings to 45 the num
ber of American submarines
sunk or missing during the war.
LOT SALES APPROVED
AT COUNCIL MEETING
Besides the postponement until
July 17 of the vncation of the
alley on Proback Reserve, the
following sales of qlty lots were
approved at the regular meeting
of the city council Tuesday
night: Lot 8, Sullivan Terrace to
Marie M. Brown, $200; lot 16,
block 8, Imperial addition, Frank
Childcrs. $225; lots 4, 8 and 6,
Tuttle Third addition, to L. D.
Champion, $525.
By The Side Of The Rogue
By Dale Vincent
This spring we hung two new bird houses on the alder limb
that hangs over the river. A pair of tree swallows began inspecting
both. First one, then the other. They Just couldn't make up their
minds. They even started a nest In the blue house and then moved
over and completed a nest in the red house, where they raised five
strapping children.
All the time they were doing this they still claimed the blue
house, pouncing upon any other little bird who even so much as
looked at it. "They're a bit selfish," we thought. "They can't use
two houses."
Now we see there was a plan all the time, whether conscious
or instinctive. Those swallows were saving that house for a definite
purpose. They have now moved from the red house which the first
youngsters still seem to consider "home" and are completing the
nest in the blue house, which is clean and new for a second family.
Man could plan no belter than this even with bis rather
complicated process of "reasoning."
BOY DROWNS IN
EMIGRANT LAKE;
FALLKILLS GIRL
Leo Walter Hoffman 9, and
Patricia Maplesden, 19,
Victims in Catastrophes,
(By United Press)
The nation's July Fourth
death toll climbed to 101 at
mid-day today. Ohio led all
other states with a reported 18
holiday deaths, followed by
Pennsylvania with a total of
10 deaths.
Ashland, July 5 Two fatali
ties marred the Fourth of July
celebration here. Patricia Ma
plesden, 19, died in Ashland
Community hospital at 4:13 a.
m. yesterday as result of a skull
fracture suffered when 'she was
thrown from a horse Tuesday
afternoon near the underpass
north of the city and Leo Walter
Hoffman, 9, drowned when he
slipped from a rock and fell into
Emigrant Lake.
Mrs. Maplesden, whose hus
band, Sgt. Lewis Maplesden, is
now in Belgium, was reported
to be swinging onto her horse
when the animal side-stepped,
unseating the girl and throwing
her to the pavement.
Family In Talent
Besides her husband, she is
survived by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. P. Franklin, Talent;
two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Callick,
Vreka, and Mrs. Beverly Ma
plesden, Dunsmuir, and a broth
er, Duane, at home. The family
came to Talent about three
years ago from Siskiyou County,
Calif., and the deceased gradu
ated from Talent high school
with the class of 1943.
Funeral services will be held
at 1 p. m. Saturday at Litwiller
Funeral Home and interment
will be in Hornbrook-Henley
cemetery.
- Deputy Coroner C. M. Litwil
ler dragged Emigrant Lake for
40 minutes yesterday before re
covering the body of the Hoff
man boy who had fallen into the
water at 1:30 p. m. Artifl.'al
respiration was applied for an
hour and 10 minutes before giv-.
ing the child up for dead. The
father, Fred Hoffman, was un
able to swim and could not res
cue his son, the report stated.
On Holiday Visit
The family had gone to Klam
ath Junction, about six miles
south of here, to visit a daugh
ter who is employed there, ac
cording to Litwiller. Not finding
her home, they stopped at the
lake where the tragedy occurred.
They reside on route 2, Ashland.
Besides his parents, he is sur
vived by d brother, Pfc. Glynn,
Mcnlo Park, Calif., and four sis
ters, Jean, Lily, Marjorie and
Erma, all at home.
Funeral arrangements are In
charge of Litwiller Funeral
Home and will be announced
later.
STRAFED BY P-51'S
Chungking, July 8 (U.R)
Japanese troops withdrawing
from Indo-China in junks and
Sampans skirting the Asiatic
coastline are under attack by a
concentration of U. S. 14th air
force planes, Lt. Gen. A. C.
Wedcmcyer announced today.
More than 200 enemy troops
fleeing toward Hongkong
through the Gulf of Tonkin and
Hainan strait were attacked and
strafed by P-51s, the communi
que said.
Fighter missions have been
concentrated on the Japanese
withdrawal through Hainan
stnlt, Wcdemeycr declared.
VETERANS HOME
Boston. July 5. (U.R) The S3
William Travis docked here to
day bearing 208 veterans of the
2207th and 2040th aviation quar
termaster truck companies. Last
night the SS Bienville arrived
with 2,258 veterans of the Euro
pean war, Including the 364th
engineer general service regiment.