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DN, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1945
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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
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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
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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.