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Tew Targets" Medford United Prats Full Leased Wlra OKHA Tribune Weather KHAN6VIA SAKHALIN FORECAST: Partly eloudy and continued warm tonight and Saturday. Temp. Htjhut ritrdav - 97 Lowest this morning i El 4I0M0UK . 1KAY 4AVAW, United Press Full Leased Wirt KARAFUTO Fortieth' Year MEDFORD, 0' r- DN, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1945 NO. 89. 1 r 1 t TO TO H AH HOKKAIDO SAFO0 KUSHIKO HAKODATE (Acme Telephotot J Tokyo reports American, battle fleet threatening northern coast of Japan. MaD shows new target area. WAR-WEARY VETS DAY COACH RIDE Salt Lake City, July 6(U.PJ Some 264 battle-weary men of the 95th infantry division, most of them wearing medals along side their service ribbons, ar rived here this morning "boiling mad" after traveling from Camp Miles Standish, Mass., in crowd ed, poorly ventilated day coaches carrying signs "Buy Bond Buy Pullmans." The men, all of them grimy an thoroughly disgusted,, left the Massachusetts camp near Boston last Monday and had rid den in day coaches all the way, By the time they arrived here, most of them needed shaves badly and all of them held back little In relating "the tnorougn- ly miserable trip." . Ironic Signs Chalked When the red Union Pacific train of five cars rolled into the station here, every coach was nainted with sienB written in chalk. On one coach, a disgrun tled GI had written "Buy Bonds Buy Pullmans." Another had written "Pullmans for PW Coaches for Us." Union Pacific officials here said the cars are "a mess." They said plumbing was practically non-existant and the cars were "stifling hot." Mni. H. P. Thoreson of San Bernardino, Cal., who traveled with his men the full extent of the arduous Journey, said troops of an Italian service unit were transferred from day coaches to tourist coaches at Kansas City, Mo. He aid all the weary soldiers saw the transfer and "it made them plenty mad." JAPS EVACUATE Guam. July 6 (U.R The U. S destroyer Murray, exercising its international right of visit and search, intercepted and stopped the Japanese hospital ship Taka sago Maru 40 miles north of Wake island yesterday, it was announced today. A boarding party found the ship was en route to Japan car rying 974 military patients from Wake suffering from malnutri tion and tuberculosis. When the search was com pleted the Takasago was allowed to proceed toward Japan. Observers here F'n,cd oul that the number of patients aboard the hospital shop prob ably represent the greater part of the garrison from bypassed Wake island. They believed the condition of the Japanese might be considered indicative of the condition of thousands of other Japanese, on bypassed Pacific islands. HEAVY ON JULY 4 Travel to Crater Lake Nation al Park on July 4 was the heavi est since beginning of the war, according to a report from Superintendent E. P. Leavitt re ceived today. Leavitt said 375 cars with 1787 visitors were counted, and added that many of the visitors were newcomers to Oregon. The weather on the 4th was ideal and continuing sun shine is melting the snow rap idly. The road through the park to Diamond lake may be opened by the middle of next week, a fur ther teport from the lake said and the road around the rim or i sergeant in the U. S. ninth air the lake will be ready in about ' force, was sentenced today to ten days, some drifts Ire as j life imprisonment by an Amcri much as thirty feet high. can court martial for theft and Prospective visitors were re-1 an attempt to kill a policeman minded that there are no lodg-ion London Bridge June 26. Ings. meals or gasoline service j Sutherland is from Houston, available in the park. I Texas. Yank Fighter Planes Shoe1 Up Jap Aussies Near Largest Borneo Oil TO INSPECT B-29 AT LOCAL AIRFIELD Arrangements have been com pleted for public inspection of e B-29 bomber at Medford airbase between 4 and 7 p. m. Saturday, according to an announcement by George Frey. Jackson county chairman of the Seventh War Bond drive. Persons who can show a bond of any denomina tion purchased between July 6 and 7 will be admitted to view the plane. Inspection of the huge craft was arranged as a last-minute ef fort on the part of the war bond committeemen . to aid Jackson county in reaching its Seventh War Loan quota. Purchasers are now slightly more than 64 per cent of the $1,067,000 quota. . Plans also are under way to have between 20 and 40 planes from the Klamath Falls Naval Air Station here for an, exhibi tion durine that time, Frey said. However, final promise from the Klamath field has not yet been received. HENDAYE EXPECTS VIS IT BY TRUMAN Hendave. France, July 6 (U.R) This flag-bedecked basque town was doubly excited by the ex pected arrival of Prime Minis ter Churchill today and rumors that he soon would be Joined here bv President Truman. Churchill was expected to reach here this afternoon and go to Bordaberry castle where he will spend a brief vacation be fore the Big Three Berlin meet- ins. There was no confirmation of the reports that President Tru man would stop here on his way to Berlin, but they were rife both here and in Madrid accord- Inn to telephone reports from there. It also was rumored that Gen Charles DeGaulle would Join Churchill and Mr. Truman for talks here. LITTLE F Washington, July 8. U.R) The house today approved a re conversion tax bill which would increase the excess profits tax xemption on 1946 earnings and authorize speed-ups in payment of more than $5,000,000,000 in tax refunds. The bill was passed and sent to the senate after Democrats beat an amendment by Rep. Roger C. Slaughter, D., Mo., to make the Increased exemption effective on 1945 earnings. The provision would lift the exemp tion from excess profits taxes from $10,000 to $25,000 to give ttle business relief from war time taxes In converting to peacetime production. Other provisions would per mit earlier payment of refunds authorized by existing law to Improve cash position of indus try during the reconversion period. BRITISH ATTACHES IN LOST AIR TRANSPORT London, July 6 (U.R) The Air Ministry announced today that a transport command Lib erator carrying attaches of the British government homebound from the San Francisco confer ence was missing on the Atlantic route The plane left Montreal for London on the evening of July 3. Air and sea craft were search ing for the plane along the in tended route. C. I. SENTENCED London, July 6 (UP.) Pvt. Ben Herbert Sutherland, former . , .. tAcmm TelephotoJ An LCS (foreground) moves to to rescue crewmen of destroyer OSS WILLIAM D. PORTER after it was hit June 10 off Okinawa by Jap suicide plane. Three hours later the destroyer sank without loss of single Ameri can life. U. 8,. Navy photo. Plucky Little Destroyer Sunk By Kamikaze Few Hours Before Starting Journey Home By Edward L. Thomas UP War Correspondent A Naval Hospital, Guam, July 6 U.R) A . Japanese Kamikaze plane sent a torpedo into the bow of the destroyer U.S.S Twigg, then turned and made suicide dive into the ship's stern survivors revealed toilay. The plucky little "tin-can, veteran of 13 months of some of the Pacific's toughest naval cam paigns, sank 35 minutes after the attack off Okinawa's chief city of Naha. Ironically, the Twigg sank only a few hours before she was scheduled to begin a trip to the United States for over haul, three officers, who are be ing treated at this hospital, dis closed. Lt. James H. Black, Hugo Okla., 23-year-old regular navy executive officer of the ship, said he was on the bridge of the destroyer talking to Cmdr. George Phipp, Jr., her skipper They were chatting, Black said about the "wonderful news" re ceived that afternoon that their ship was going home when he heard the roar of an airplane engine and dashed for the pilot house. All Goes Black "It was the last I saw of the skipper," Black said. "He never had a chance to tell the crew the good news. Everything went black. When I came to, the ship was Just a twisted mass of wreck age forward of the bridge and a Woman, Children Are Sought Here California highway patrol has asked the aid of Oregon state police to locate a woman and her three children, missing from their home at Montague since Tuesday, when they left on foot supposedly for Oregon. The woman, Mrs. Marie Wer- der, and her children, Hans, 12 Monroe, 11, and Gaynell, 10 are being sought by Medford state police officers. The mother is described as about 31 years of age, five feet, four Inches tall. 180 pounds, light complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. State police ask that anyone knowing their whereabouts notify police headquarters, telephone 3131. PWS GIVEN TEN YEARS FOR HITTING OFFICERS Ft. Douglas, Utah. July 6 (U.R) Two Gorman prisoners of war to- ay faced 10 years hard labor for striking two American officers at Rupert. Ida. The sentence was passed late yesterday after a court martial board heard testimony that the prisoners, Heinz Hcilmans and Adam Maurer refused to take their places in a work formation on Hitler's birthday. BASEBALL National Pittsburgh 5,0 3 Boston 13 12 0 Gerhauscr, Beck, Rescigno and Salke'.d; Andrews, Cooper and Hoffcrth. Cincinnati 3 8 01 The 63-year-old general stop New York 2 9 1 1 ped here en route from the Pa Fox and Riddle, Unscr, Mungo cific lo San Diego whore he will aud Lonibardi, . auunia command ol the marine Suicide Plane Victim's Crew Is fire was raging aft. "I found I was sitting on top of the director house, many feet above the bridge. I was either blown up there or carried up. I don't know. "A chief pharmacist's mate and a chief steward's mate were below me taking care of the wounded, putting life jackets on them and lowering them over the side. "Then the forward magazine blew up. I dragged myself to the deck." On the deck, Black, whose right leg was broken, said he "just sat there." He was groggy but' had not yet begun to feel pain in the leg. "A boy said the aft engine room was flooding, so I told the chief to get everybody off. Some body got a raft, and I and two other wounded men lay on it while 15 others clung to the side until picked up by a landing craft infantry. Struck in Dark Black said the kamikaze struck in the dark just as the Twigg was getting into position off Naha to begin a night harassing bom bardment. The destroyer was hit once before by a Jap suicide plane off Okinawa, he said, but had been repaired. The previous attack occurred last April. Black added that the Twigg had been in the Leyte, Lingayen, Mindoro, Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns- and had shot down 18 Japanese planes. She fired more T Washington, July (U.R President Truman today ordered all federal agencies to review ex penditures ' in any instances where there is "the slightest ground to suspect eilher misuse or careless handling of govern ment funds." He sent government agency and department chiefs a special memorandum underscoring his determination to prevent mis handling of federal money. Jap Industrialists Will Halt War Is Belief Of "Howling Mad" Smith San Francisco, July 6. U.R) Japanese industrialists probably will try to halt the Pacific war when Japan's cities are bombed out of existence, and the enemy military may comply, in the opinion of Lt. Gen. Holland M. (Howling Mad) Smitk Smith, relieved at his own re quest as commander of the U. -J. fleet marine forces after leading them from the Gilberts to Oki nawa, said yesterday he believed the military Is bound to be con trolled by the industrialists." The Industrialists, he declared, "will try to stop the war when their titles are razed by Ameri can planes." Rescued than 5,000 rounds of ammunl tion in support of the Iwo land ings and had passed that mark off Okinawa when she met her last Jap. Several ships near the stricken destroyer moved In quickly to pick up survivors, but most of the men never had a chance in the explosion-wracked ship, he said. Ten minutes after ho left the vicinity of the bu.'ning destroyer. Black said, Tie heard a tremen dous explosion and then "you Just couldn't see her any more. "She went down like a rock," the executive officer declared. RACKETEERS AID DRAFT DODGERS Hempstead, N. Y., July 6. (U.R) First air force Investiga tors at Mitchell Field disclosed today that they had discovered a soldier-civilian racket reaping huge sums from sale of false medical discharges and transfers from outfits alerted for combat duty overseas. Names and details will be re vealed later, first air force headquarters said, but the pre. liminary report said two non medical officers attached to the hospital staff of the Mitchell (CQ) field base were involved, along with others. With investigation still in pro gress, the first air force said the freedom for money, safcty-for- cash racket was a cooperative scheme linking civilian middle men and military personnel. Evidence indicates," head quarters said, "that payments of money were made to certain un scrupulous civilians in the metropolitan area and that the soldiers (names) were passed on by them to military members of the conspiracy at Mitchell Field who then effected completion of the fraudulent processing.' training and replacement center. The marine commander point ed out the tremendous superi ority of American forces over the Japanese fn land, sea and In the air, adding that: "We also have better men than the Japanese. They believe themselves the war is lost." Smith said he had actually earned his reputation as the worst "Jap hater" In the marine corps and added he would like to "let the Japanese starve after the war." "When you see the little stink ing rats with buck teeth and bow legs dead alongside an Ameri can, you wonder why we have to fight them and who started this war. , "Tho Japamrs smell (hey (lou t even bleed wkcu they die," Dromes; Refinery E AIR FORCES Enemy's Resources, Com munication Lines Target For Swarming Planes. Guam, Saturday, July 7. U.R) A very large force of B-29 superfortresses, number ing probably 450 to 500 planes attacked five Japanese indus trial cities today, spreading incendiary and explosive bombs across 275 miles of Honshu Island. Pearl Harbor, July 6. (U.R) The pre-invasion bombardment of Japan roared into its 31st straight day today with elements of perhaps four American air forces pounding the enemy home land. A fleet of 250 fighter planes attacked targets near Tokyo and also on the southern island of Kyushu shortly after noon today. While the air war was stepped up, Australian forces on Borneo continued their advances and were near to capturing the Balikpapan suburb of Pandan sari, where the biggest oil refin ery in the Dutch East Indies is located. They already hold all of Balikpapan City and the Mang gar airfield, 12 miles to the east. More Planes Used But it was the ceaseless and Increasing air blows that wor ried the Japanese most. From Manila it was announced that the far eastern air forces the 5th.. and ..13th were., being thrown Into the powerful offen sive against Japan. . . The 7th and 20th airforces al ready were hard at work demol ishing the enemy's war resources and communications lines. The 8th was on the way from Eur ope. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz was named to head the offensive, which already had outgrown the proportions of the powerful blows directed against Germany. A late Dome! dispatch said that 160 Mustang and Thunder bolt fighters flew from Okinawa to rail southern Kyushu early this afternoon, but that they "were unable to accomplish anything" because of bad weath er. Dome! claimed the fighter fleet withdrew jitter reconnoitcr ing the Osumi peninsula. Third Straight Day The attack on the Tokyo area was directed at "airfields and other military ' installations" near the capital. It was the third straight day the Tokyo vicinity had been hit. Another Japanese dispatch re ported that nine superfortresses made a reconnaissance mission over east central Honshu early this morning. The first raid by fighters from the far eastern air forces was made Tuesday by fifth air force Mustangs, which took off for the mission only 30 hours after reaching the new bases on Okinawa. They destroyed three enemy planes in sweeps along the west coast of Kyushu. Lien, ucorgc c Kcnney, com mander of the far eastern air forces said the raid was just the start. "They will continue to ham mer Japan until she accepts un conditional surrender," he said. DE GAULLE GLAD TO ACCEPT BID Paris, July 6 U.R President Truman has Invited Gen. Charles De Gaulle to visit the United States in August and the Invitation has been accepted "with great pleasure," it was an nounced late today. The announcement of Dc Gaulle's forthcoming visit to the United States was welcomed warmly here. It was taken to presage closer relations between the two countries and to furnish an opportunity for ironing out a scries of misunderstandings bo. tween them. Authorities agree that Uru guay 's climate is urtfivalgA EXILE POLES OUT AS NEW REGIME WINS RECOGNITION Government Which Fled to London Before German Invaders to Cede Records Washington, July 6 U.R The United States, Britain and Russia, agreed at last on the com position of a Polish government, were expected today to settle the question of Poland's new boundaries at the forthcoming big three meeting near Berlin The books on the bitter Amcri- can-British-Russian dispute over the Polish government were closed last night when the United States and Britain formally end ed all ties with the London Pol ish governmcnt-in-exile and es tablished diplomatic relations with the new Warsaw provision al government of national unity. London. July 6. (U.R) The turbulent Dolitical life of the Polish government that fled Into exile before the German invad ers almost six years ago ended abruptly today as its wartime allies transferred diplomatic recognition to the new provision al regime In Warsaw. A series of terse announce ments in London, Washington, Paris and Chungking relegated the exiled Bovernment to the diplomatic scrap head, settling a political crisis that for a time had threatened a serious split between Russia and the western allies. To Surrender Records Officials of the detunct gov ernment were expected to sur render their state records to the British foreign office today, pending the arrival of Warsaw's ambassador, and its sizeable pro perty holdings already were be ing disposed of by a joint Polish British committee. Two major problems still con fronted the. United Nations, however, particularly Britain. The first was the question of credits extended by Britain to the London government and of debts carrying over from the now non - recognized regime. Authoritative quarters refused to say what would be done about them, or the $80,000,000 worth of gold brought out of Poland when the Germans overran that country in 1030. Gold Held The gold was taken to Paris, thence to Dakar and finally to London, where lt is held by tne Polskie Bank and may ultimate ly revert to the Warsaw govern ment. The second problem was that of the 250,000 Polish troops whose loyalty to the exiled gov ernment has been proclaimed repeatedly and whose status was understood to have caused at least one dispute between Prime Minister Churchill and their field commander, Lt. Gen. Wla dyslaw Anders. VINSOfMED FOR TREASURER Washington, July 8. (U.R) The White House announced to day that President Truman will nominate Fred M. Vinson, war mobilization and reconversion chief, to be secretary of the trea sury after the chief executive re turns from the big three confer ence. 2.500.000 JAP CASUALTIES Chungking, July 6 (U.R) A Chinese army spokesman said today that Japanese casualties In the eight years of war on the China mainland total 2,500,000. He placed Chinese casualties at 300,000. The California assembly Is composed of 80 members for two years. By The Side Of The Rogue By Dale Vincent A small fishing stream Is friendly. It gives you feeling of Intimacy. You can fish both sides and the middle and feel In control at all times. It sparkles on its merry way, always leading you into enticing riffles and Interesting pools where at any moment a trout may dart at your fly. Happy are the days spent In following tho mysterious windings of a new mountain stream. The deer and coon tracks in the sand tell their stories; and the ever-present Tippy-ups (Water Ouzel) are always a source of interesting amusement as they sit on rock and dip, dip, dip. We know how these curious mousocolored little birds get their food by walking, and yes. flying under water; how they make their nests under a waterfall out of live moss and keep it alive, by sprinkling it themselves if need be. But the reason for their bending their knees and dip, dip, dipping while Kf Uhvd so twit, ii a cuulo we'd UH to toko. . HOUSING SURVEY PLANNED TO HELP ES Medford Residents Asked to List Accomodations Heavy Influx Is Expected In preparation for families of an expected 27,000 servicemen believed scheduled to arrive at Camp White in the next few months, a Chamber of Com merce housing committee met at the Hotel Holland this morn ing and outlined plans for a sur vey to be conducted throughout Medford in the next two weeks to determine extent of housing facilities available. Mrs. Minnie Bryant, assisted by Mrs. Blanche Powell and a group of workers, will start Monday on a house-to-house can vass of all iesidential districts, soliciting listing of apartments or rooms which could be made available for regular or emer gency occupation by wives and families of army or naval ' per sonnel. To expedite the survey, resi dents of the city are asked to co operate by telephoning the Riv erside USO, number 7131, and report available quarters. When workers call at the homes, rooms should be prepared for in spection so that proper listing of cooking facilities, bathroom ac commodations and other furnish ings may be made. Listings At USO Headquarters for the informa tion desk, where attendants will keep files of listings for which prospective renters may 'inquire, will be at the Riverside USO where waiting accommodations for servicemen's wives and chil dren will be provided, accord ing to plans formulated at Jia meeting today. Letters from naval personnel, seeking houses and apartments available for occupation next month indicate that the families will arrive about the same time the navy department assumes control of the Camp White Sta tion Hospital, which will be op erated as a joint army-navy in stitution. It Is reported that the navy patients will occupy 700 beds, and the remainder will be reserved by army personnel. Needed During War While the future status of Camp White is as yet unan nounced, it is now scheduled to become a redeployment center where men will be given short training periods prior to being shipped to the Pacific theater of war. The need for housing facilities Is expected to extend as long as the war with Japan continues. The large number of families coming into the city is expected to far exceed present vacancies in privately-owned property or in the federal housing unit, con structed for defense workers at the time of Camp White's be ginning and recently removed from rental restrictions. Churches have cooperated with other organizations in finding suitable lodgings for service men's families in recent months, it was pointed out. Present at the meeting today were J. E. Earley, Eugene Thorn- dike, Melvin N. Hogan, Arthur A. Adler, Mrs. Minnie Bryant, Mrs. Blanche Powell, and Miss Bcrnice O'Dcnny. Hopkins Now Czar Of Suit Industry New York. July 6. (U.R) Harry L. Hopkins, former spe cial assistant to the president, was the new labor umpire of the New York women's coat and suit Inductry today. His salary In his new post will be $25,000 year. Hopkins acceptance of the post of the Impartial chair man of the industry formerly held by former New York Mayor James J. Walker, was announced yesterday by David Dublnsky, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
