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11 Weather Uie The Mail Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cott MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune f ORECASTr Sunday, continued fair and warm, little change tn temperature. Temp. Highest Yesterday ........ 9 S Lowest this Morning .W..MW.U.S9 United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY; JULY 8, $ NO. 90. - , AT SEA. FROM AIR. Five Industrial Cities Bomb ed; Planes Massed For Attack; 298 Ships Sunk. By United Presi American bombers and fight ers raked Kyushu Island again and scourged Japan's strangled sea life lines in attacks which sank or damaged 14 more enemy vessels, it was announced Satur day, as Tokyo reported a great, steadily-growing U. S. Air Fleet of more than 2200 planes massed on the empire's doorstep. Five Japanese industrial cities still smouldered after a near record 600-plane B-29 raid as the new attacks came. The enemy's obvious inability to oppose effec tively the mounting fury of the obliteration aerial assault in the' face of the tremendous air power pouring into the Marianas and Okinawa accentuated Tokyo re i ports of frantic measures to strengthen the homeland against invasion. Australians in East Borneo drove six miles inland above captured Balikpapan as the bat tle for the great Pandansari oil refineries entered its sixth day. Allied air power "battered the enemy on land and on the sea in all fighting zones Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Okinawa-based 5th Air Force Mustangs hit Kyushu for the third time. Philippine-based bombers prowled over the Asiat ic coast, sinking five ships off Hong Kong and in Tonkin Gulf. Navy bombers blasted five ships in the Yellow Sea. Four others fell prey to rocket-firing marine bombers off Honshu. The latest bag raised the 14 day toll for Pacific air groups to 298 ships, a crippling blow em phasized by Tokyo's appeals to the nation to boost food produc tion. Resistance Feeble Lack of aerial opposition to TT s Forces in the past 4B nours indicated a critical depletion of Japan's weakened air power, noi i inslp B-29 was lost in the strike on Honshu and the few enemy fighters sighted over Janan failed to challenge thi Runerforts. Navy bombers which took a toll of 27,450 tons of shipping destroyed or damaged off Japan during June were able to record only eight enemy planes ncsuur nrf atiH 13 damaged for the 30' day period. MacArthur's planes met six enemy fighters and de stroyed or probably destroyed all of them. Tokyo admitted that smaller warplancs were mamus strikes against .the homeland. B-29 reconnaissance craft were roaming at will over the empire and their photographs were so complete that American war leaders virtually were able to chart the enemy's day-by-day war production. IDPlOfUPLE Bed Bluff, Cel., July 7-OJR) One woman was dead and five other persons were in a Red Bluff hospital tonight following a head-on automobile collision near Corning. Mrs. Arthur Graham, 60, ot Los Angeles, died en route to the hospital. The injured passengers In cluded Mr. and Mrs. C. Edwin Cox and their seven-year-old daughter, Susanne, of Medford. C. Edwin Cox is listed in the city directory as pastor of the Pilgrim Holiness church, resid ing at 330 Sunrise avenue. Pdrtland Surgeon Dies Auto Plunge Portland, Ore., July 7 U.R Dr. Allen Edward Kidd, 69, Portland physician and surgeon, was drowned looay wnen car plunged from the Columbia river highway into the Sandy river and sank in 18 feet of water. Mrs. Kidd, 69. managed to open a door under water and escape. She was in fair condi tion from shock and swallowing water. Officers believe he may have suffered a heart attack and was trying to stop his car. It failed to negotiate a sharp turn and ran through a roadside stand and down to the river. i HURT AUTO CRASH Boy With Matches Causes Tot's Death Portland, Ore., July 7 (U.R) Funeral arrangements are be ing completed for six months old Janet Halstead, who died Friday as result of burns suffered in the family automobile while her mother shopped for meat. Her year and a half old brother found matches and set fire to her clothing. ' E L Portland, Ore., July 7 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, vet eran of air commands in the Pacific, tonight said it is his firm conviction that air power alone will bring the Japanese to their knees. Promoted to the rank of lieut enant-general by the senate June 28 for outstanding achievements as commander of the 15th AAF in the Mediterranean, Twining said he expects to apply the same technique of aerial bomb ing in the Pacific as was used against the Germans, if he is re assigned as expected to the Paci fic. "First, the oil fields, then the air fields, factories and always the communication lines," Twin ing said. Twining, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross December, 1943, for his direc tion of the bombing of Bougain ville, is visiting in Portland with his brother, Deputy U. S. Attor ney J. L. Twining. RATIFICATION BY Washington, July 7 (U.R) The formal battle for prompt ratification of the United Na tions charter ' begins Monday with the start of hearings before the senate foreign relations com mittee and there were predic tions tonight that it might be over by Aug. 1. Committee Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., said the group hoped to complete hear ings in one week and thus bring the charter to the senate floor by July 16. If that could be done, he said, "We might com plete the whole thing" ratifi cation by the end of this month. Plans completed tonight called for former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who was chairman of the American delegation to the San Francisco conference, to open the testi mony in favor of the charter. Akron Strike Junks Half Ready Tires Akron, O., July 7 (U.R) Production of war-vital rubber at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., was stalled for the seventh consecutive day today as 16,600 striking rubber workers re mained away from their Jobs. Partly completed tires and other rubber goods, unprocessed since the work stoppage was pre cipitated a week ago by a labor- management dispute over union grievances, were ready for the scrap heap. BULLETIN At the end of the fourth In ning the Klamath Falls Marines were leading the Craters 9 to 0 at the fairgrounds. The visitors hammered four pitchers hard. COAST San Francisco 3 6 1 Sacramento 5 7 0 Buzollch, Oliver (8) and Ogro dowski; Penrose and Schluctcr. American (Night Game) Blustering Sig Jakuckl of the St. Louis Browns won his sixth victory in a row when he de feated the Washington Senators in a night game, 7 to 3. In al lowing the Nats six hits, Jakuckl registered his ninth triumph and nipped a Washington winning streak which had grown to six games. Washington 3 6 1 St. Louis 7 12 0 Wolff. Holborow (7) and Fcr rcll; Jakuckl and Mancuso. U PSTATE STRIKE VOTE Springfield, Ore., July 7 4U.R) A strike vote to determine whether the AFL or the CIO should have bargaining rights, will be taken Monday at Spring- field Plywood Corporation's 300-1 employe plant, , 42 E BY ENDjF YEAR Re - Deployment Timetable Told Eight Divisions For Occupation. Washington, July 7 (U.R) Of the 68 American Divisions which fought in Europe and the Mediterranean, the War Depart ment announced tonight, 42 are scheduled to return to this coun try by the end of the year. For the first time revealing details of its tentative re-deployment timetable the department also identified eight divisions which currently are slated to re main in Europe as occupying forces. They are the 1st and 4th Armored, 82nd Airborne, and 1st, 3rd, 9th, 29th and 36th In fantry Divisions. Three infantry divisions the 86th 97th and 95th already have been returned to this coun try. Parts of eight others have returned and their units which still remain overseas are sched uled to arrive this month. They are the 104th, 2nd 4th, 5th, 8th, 44th, and 87th Infantry and 13th Armored Division. The tentative schedule for the return of other U. S. fighting teams was as follows: August 20th Armored and 85th, 28th and 30th Infantry Di visions. September 5th, 6th, 7th, and 14th Armored, 17th Airborne, and 88th, 91st, 35th, 45th, and 103rd Infantry Divisions. October 9th Armored and 92nd, 26th, 79th and 99th Infan try Divisions. November 10th Armored 10th Mountain, 13th Airborne, and 83rd 63rd, and 106th Infan try Divisions. December 2nd and 11th Ar mored and 34th, 90th, 80th, and 76th Infantry Divisions. Those units which are sched uled to remain in the European theater throughout the remain der of 1045 are the 3rd, 8th, 12th, and 16th Armored, 101st Airborne, and 42nd, 65th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 71st. 75th, 78th, 84th, 89th, 94th, 100th, and 102nd In fantry Divisions. The War Department warned that the sechedule is subject to "radical changes at any time re sulting from revised operational requirements." SOCIAirSTATE Simla, India, July 7 U.R) Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian na tionalist leader, said today he favored "progressive socialism" for India under a genuinely na tional government but at the same time discounted reports of growing Soviet influence. Nehru said some measure of state control and direction seemed inevitable if the great sub-continent is to make rapid progress towards solving its many economic ills. "India is an outstanding ex ample of long-arrested develop ment due to many causes, chief ly British economic and political control, and the result has been a continuing crisis in land and industry," he said. Indianapolis, July 7 (U.R) Mrs. Audrey Hancock, sister of the late John Dillinger, filed a $5,00.000 suit today against Monogram Pictures, Inc., charg ing that a moving picture based on the slain gangster's life had "humiliated and embarrassed" her and threatened to cause a wave of juvenile delinquency, Mrs. Hancock demanded half a million dollars damages to compensate for her own person al "pain 8nd mental anguish" and sought to enjoin the film company from continuing to show the picture. PLETHORA OF LAWS Sacramento, July 7 (U.R1. Gov. Earl Warren tonight was studying 514 legislative bills which he must sign by July 21 if they are to become law, with chances Improved for several carrying special appropriations. Sacramento, July 7 'U.R) A month-old strike involving three Sacramento canneries was called eff tonight by union official. 13 Oregonians Die Every Million Miles Salem, Ore., July 7 (U.R) Thirteen persons died for every 100,000,000 miles of auto travel in Oregon during May. There were 27 deaths In .all. For the first five months of 1945, 12 persons died for the same dis tance traveled. In 1944, the ratio was eight, the state depart ment safety division in Salem reported today. FRUIT, VEGETABLE PROCESSING PLANT Negotiations W i t h Baker Foods Products Co., of San Mateo Told C. of C. Establishment of a plant for freezing and dehydrating fruits, vegetables and berries here in 1946 now seems certain, A. b. Cummins, chairman of the Jack son county Chamber of Com merce industrial committee, told members of the chamber board and guests Friday at the semi monthly meeting of that group. Details of negotiations of cham ber of commerce officials and local fruit men with Baker Foods Products company of San Mateo, Calif., were disclosed at a board luncheon at the Hotel Holland. The California company has already contracted for a sub stantial portion of the 1945 cull pear crop, Cummins said. The chamber's industrial com mittee has also been in contact with the H. J. Heinz company in an effort for greater utilization of the fruit and produce crops of this area, according to Mr. Cummins. Following contacts through W. D. B. Dodspn in the east and through Carter Bran don, manager of the, foreign trade and shipping department of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, assurance of an early visit to the northwest by repre sentatives of the Heinz company has been given. Mineral Resources T. M, Gerely, chairman of the chamber's mining committee and official of B-H Oregon, Ltd., a local mining organization, pre sented an illuminating report of coal and clay resources of the Rogue River Valley, supplement ing his report with finding of Dr. Lloyd Staples, associated with the School of Geology of the University of Oregon. Dr. Staples made preliminary sur veys here recently and requests for additional research have been sent to the state geology department and the U. S. Bureau of Mines. ss TO REIMS, July 7 (U.R) The American army today turned over to the city of Reims and "the people of all France" the historic map-lined war room at allied supreme headquarters where the German high com mand signed its unconditional surrender Just two months ago today. The 30 by 30 foot war room, on the second floor of the block- long schoolhouse where Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower directed the final crushing battles of Ger many, will be turned into a na tional museum by the French government. Plan Reception For New U of O President Portland, Ore., July 7 (U.R) A banquet-reception will be giv en former Iowan Harry K. New burn, new president of the Uni versity of Oregon, by graduates of Iowa State University Aug. 17 in Portland. Expected guests include Gov. Earl Snell, President Lee Paul Sicg and Dean Edward H. Laucr, both of the University of Wash ington; Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter; President A. L. Strand of Oregon State. College, Willard Marks, chairman of the board of Higher Education, and Dr. Wil lard Spalding, superintendent of Portland schools. FILM EISENHOWER'S LIFE Washington, July 7 (U.R) Movie Producer Samuel Gold wyn has been given permission to make a motioon picture of the life of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, Gold wyn announced today. SEVEN SPL PLOTTED TO KILL Santa Inez Spy School of Japs Revealed Many Involved, All Foiled. Manila, July 7 (U.R) The Japanese conducted a spy school at Santa Inez in northeastern Rizal province after American liberation forces landed on Luzon, and there plotted to as sassinate Gen. Douglas MacAr thur, it was revealed today. Seven spies, six Japanese and a Filipino, were hanged June 6 and 7 after plotting infiltrating American lines for the purpose of killing MacArthur. The spies were unable to get past MacArthur's guards and no attempt involving grenades or revolvers the arms carried by the spies was made. Full de tails cannot be given as the measures taken for the protec tion of MacArthur are secret. The spies tried to get within range of the commander-in-chief. They questioned Manila resi dents, trying to schedule Mac Arthur's daily routine. They also tried to locate and schedule the movements of other high commanders. About a dozen of the spies managed to get through Amer ican lines. They were captured by the army Counter-intelligence corps while they were entering Manila. At Santa Inez, many Japanese civilians who had been living in the Philippines were inducted into the Japanese army as in telligence operators. All were given 1,000 pesos and weapons at the end of intensive training, it was disclosed. Once the trainees were armed, they were told by their com manding officer: "You are now dead." This, it was said, pleased them Ihey found it Dlcasant to he dead and alive again at the same lime. iney were told to penetrate American lines and gather mili tary information. Always they were instructed to chart the movements and personal habits oi nigh-ranking American offi- cers, and to find their living quarters. An undetermined number of these spies met death while try- ''B io carry out Instructions. VALLEYIeCTED BY SLEEPER-BAN San Francisco, July 7 (U.R) Eight sleeping car runs oper ated by the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., will be discontin ued July 15 in accordance with the Office of Defense Transpor tation's order banning Pullman service on all runs of 450 miles or less The operations affected, the company declared today, include between Oakland. Calif., and Reno. Nev.; Oakland and Duns muir, Calif.; Portland and Ash land and Portland and Coos Bay. Future Northwest War Works Argued Seattle, July 7 (U.R) Ar rangements for disposition of more than 40 Washington and Oregon war plants will keynote discussion Thursday at a confer ence of government officials and northwest Industrialists, spon sored by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The question of whether to dismantle such wartime plants, leave them In government con trol, or transfer them to private industry will be among the is sues considered, it was said. WAR BULLETINS Washington, July 7 U.R Japan Is attempting to make every high school student In the main Islands a suicide lighter against a threatened American invasion by glorify ing the deaths of students on Okinawa, enemy broadcasts indicated today. Chungking, July 7 (U.R) Chinese troops have started en assault against the Indo-Chinese border town of Chennan kwan while Americen planes to the southeast hammered an attempted Japanese escape from Indo-China by sea through the Gulf of Tonkin, It was rtporWd today. Gas Consumption In State Gains in May Salem, Ore., July 7 (U.R) For the first time since 1941, gasoline consumption showed an upward trend in May. Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., says six per cent more gas 20,782,529 gallons was used in May, 1945, than a year ago in May. WAN POSED AS ' TO TWO 3 YEARS Seattle, July 7 (U.R) Her face sifludged trom her job In a Seattle Foundry, husky, six-foot Marcella Majcrus. Stillwater, Minn , admitted to authorities to night she had successfully posed as "husband" to two women for a total of more than three years. Posing as "Danny D. Carroll." Miss Majcrus was arrested here after the 22-year-old girl she married in Tacoma, Wash., last February "became suspicious" and tipped police, after more than four mouths as man and wife authorities said. "The wife was completely fooled by the deception until about six weeks ago." Chief Deputy Prosecutor John J. Kcn nett said. "It was'only recently she began to suspect her hus band was really a woman." Miss Majerns, Kennett said, admitted having married another woman. In 1940. and having lived with her for three years in Ore gon Her ruse was discovered in Minnesota, Kennett said, and the first marriage was annulled. E BUTTER IN T Washington, July 7 (U P.) More butter at a lower ration point value in August was prom ised to civilians tonight. Lowering of the point value will be possible because of a Cut In government purchases next month. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson revealed that onlv 30 per cent of produc tion will be set aside for tho government In August, instead of 50 Dcr cent s at present. That will increase supplies available to civilians by about 10 per cent. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said there will be "a slight reduction in point values on butter effective July iv. Guesses were that th ecut prob ably will be four points, reduc lna tho value from 24 points a pound to 20 points. CIO heWfers T Pittsburgh, July 7 (U.R) CIO President Philip Murray tonight offered a four-point program to assure maintenance of full pro duction and employment. In a radio address, Murray urged immediate wage Increases, elimination of all sub-standard wages, passage of President Tru man's request to congress for un employment compensation bene fits up to $25 weekly, and appli cation of a guaranteed annual wage. "Despite reports of high wages, most workers are having a difficult time making ends meet, even with overtime," he said. "Overtime work is rapidly de creasing and layoffs are occur ring rapidly. Contrary to a general impression, these work ers do not have sizeable savings to tide them over." Lane Mill, Timber Sold For Million Eugene, Ore., July 7 (U.R) The Long Bell Lumber com chase of the Snollstrom Lumber company holdings at Vaughn, eight miles west of Eugene, for an estimated $1,000,000. There was no official figure given from the Kansas City, Mo., headquarters of Long Bell, but estimates of the large sawmill, planing mill and 40.000 acres of timber and tree farms wSre valued In excess of the million dollars. FRANCE YIELDS Paris, July 7 U.R) France is giving the governments of Syria and Lebanon the command of some 25,000 Syro Lebanese troops. It was announced offici ally tonight. Tl IRK DANES WITH REVENGEBOASTS Weil-Fed Refugees Crowd Schools French Take Over Rhine Province. Copenhagen, July 7 (U.R) German mothers who fled here with their children from East Prussia to escape the Red army, are boldly boasting that their sons will grow up and avenge Germany. A Danish newspaperwoman who investigated German re fugees in Denmark said most German women were "arrogant and intolerable. There are about 300,000 well fed German refugees in Den mark. Danes are becoming more and more enraged because children of the refugees occupy 90 per cent of Copenhagen's schools. They'll probably pre vent schools from reopening Aug. 1, as scheduled. "It's not enough that they crowd our schools," the news paperwoman, Mrs. Erna Milde, said. "But we have to feed them food that we should be sending to Norway and Holland. We have already fed them for five years. That should be enough." But it Is the German attitude which makes Danes angry, she said. Saarbrueckcn, Germany, July 7 (U.R) French occupation forces began moving Into Ger many's Rhine province today to take over from U. S. troops who have been governing the area. America, French and German authorities took measures to pre vent disturbances from the Ger mans' resentment over prospect of French rule. French liaison officers recent ly began- entering the region. The Germans saw them, knew a change was Imminent, and flocked to American military government offices to plea that Americans slay. The Germans said they were fearful that the French would inaugurate a harsh rule over the Rhine province, and authorities took measures to prevent pos sible street clashes between French troops and German civi lians. Some "incidents" have been reported since the French began arriving. suit Mm VELEZ WILL NEAR Hollywood, July 7 (U.R) The story of Lupe Vclez was headed for another tempestuous chapter tonight with a sister contesting her will. Mrs. Josephine And erson, the sister of the Mexican actress who took her life rather than bear an Illegitimate child, charged In a court action today that Miss Vclez' secretary, Mrs. Beulah B. Kinder, had exerted undue Influence on the Mexican spitfire when the will was drawn. .. ,M!'' Kinder, who received a third of the $5,000,000 estate fraudulently represented herself as the only person who held any affection for the vivacious act ress, Mrs. Anderson claimed Her petition cited the exist ence of a previous will under which Mrs. Kinder would have h,Z ? ,?",y $5'000' 8nd bulk of the estate would have gone to Mrs. Anderson and the screen star's mother. Texas Beauty Held Extortion Charee i vnmna, ore., July 7 (UR) Rose Marie Moore. llm m., old Texas beauty, will be ar raigned in Portland on a charge of extorting money . from the families of servicemen overseas, J. Mason Dlllard, first assistn,, a. auorney, fliscloscd tonight Federal officials said th young woman, who u t, ,if of an armv irrnnt - r,-... u.caeua, met various servlcemm at m,. clubs and service centers after iney nad been sent overseas. She later wrote to their Dnrentjt In obtain money under the pre tense she was expecting a baby. FOREST FIRE MENACE Victoria, B. C. Julv 7 (UP) An order closing British Colum bia forests to the public was ex pected within 36 hours because of the forest fire menace, gov ernment quarters indicated to night. , TRY President Leaves Shortly For Berlin Parley King May Entertain. Washington, July 7 (U.R) President Truman is expected to bring back from tho Big Three conference a definite decision when or whether Soviet Russia will join the war against Japan. His departure is expected shortly and the meetings will be gin in approximately two weeks at Potsdam, near Berlin. During the next two or three months the President will be more directly concerned with foreign policy than with affairs at home. His Big Three journey will keep him away from Wash ington until mid-August( per haps later. Fixed for sometime thereafter is a conference here with Gen. Charles De Gaulle. But in the three months since the death of Franklin D. Roose velt, Mr. Truman has done a lot of work on the home front. He has given the executive depart ment a remarkable shake-up. There are six new cabinet mem bers in office or to take office soon, four of them former con gressional colleagues of the new President. Mr. Truman gradually is re leasing officials who came to prominence largely as personal favorites of Mr. Roosevelt. Among these are Harry L. Hop kins, Miss Frances Perkins and Henry Morgenthau, Jr. With these cabinet changes, Secretary of State; James F. Byrnes becomes next in lino of succession to the presidency. Byrnes will accompany Mr. Tru man to Potsdam. If both were killed or incapacitated, Secre tary of Treasury Henry Morgen thau, Jr., would succeed. But the White House announced today that if it becomes necessary for the presidential party to travel by airplane on this journey, Mr. Truman and Byrnes will use sep arate planes to minimize the danger of both being injured or killed in a single accident. Morgenthau will continue as second in line of succession un til sometime next month when Mr. Truman will formally nomi nate War Mobilization Director Fred M. Vinson, of Kentucky, to succeed him. Palace Ready London, July 7 (U.R) Presi dent Truman is expected to reach London sometime between July 23 and August 1, and may be a guest of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Bucking ham Palace for four days, dip lomatic circles said tonight. Truman is expected to come here from the Big Three confer ence. On his way he will visit American army units In Europe ' ior iour or live days, then will come to England, it was report ed. Arrangements for Tnimnn'i reception at the palace are be- lng made. POSTAL SERVICE T Washington. Julv 7 (U.R) A far-reaching plan to reorgan ize the post office department was recommended to President Truman by former Portmastcr General Frank C. Walker before no turned the job over to Robert E. Hanncgan, It was disclosed to night. Walker's recommendations In- eluded swinging the bulk of rou tine administration awav from Washington, providing definite tenure of office to ranking offi cials and creation of a new office of director of postal service. The reorganization proposals were set forth In a belated an nual report of the postmaster general for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1944 held up until now. Walker explained, because of the need to give attention to extraordinary wartime prob lems. Solon Takes Dig At , Elliott Roosevelt Washington, July 7 (U.R) Rep. Robert F. Rich, R., Pa., suggested today that Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt be named sec retary of the treasury because "He knows how to get the money and how to settle the debts." Rich made his remarks during debate on the reconversion tax l)ill.
