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ARMY, NAVY PLANES SMOTHER NIPS;
BOLD CHALLENGE IGNORED BY FOE
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Carrier Strike Catches Jap
anese by Surprise; Bombs,
Rockets Center on Capital.
Washington. July 10 (U.R)
One Superfortress was
abondoned during yesterday's
big B-29 raid on five Japanese
home island cities but the
plane's entire crew was saved,
the War Department revealed
today.
Guam, July 10 (U.R) More
than 1,100 American army and
navy planes backed by the great
est naval armada afloat, were
still smashing at Tokyo and a
broad stretch of the Japanese
coast late today after eight hours
of sustained bombardment that
literally smothered the enemy
defenses.
Standing perhaps 200 miles off
Tokyo Bay throughout the as
sault were scores of American
carriers, battleships, cruisers
and the lesser craft of Vice
Admiral John S. McCain's task
force 38 the fighting spearhead
of Admiral William F. (Bull)
Halsey's U. S. Third fleet.
Challenge Ignored ,
They broke radio silence con
tinually in a bold challenge to
the remnants of Japan's air and
sea forces to come out 'and
fight. But fleet dispatches said
that thus far NOT a single en
emy plane or ship had been
sighted. .
Racing westward under forced
draft all last night, the carriers
pulled within striking distance
of Tokvo before daybreak and
sent the first of their 1,000
bombers and fighters over the
capital a few minutes after S
a. m (Tokyo time).
Caught completely by surprise
the startled Japanese offered
practically no opposition from
the ground or aloft and first re
ports said the raiders were
bombing and strafing at will.
Alarmed Japanese broadcasts
said the navy fliers were rang
ing up and down the east coast
of Honshu on all sides of Tokyo.
Mustangs Join
And around mid-day. the en
emy reported that another 100
army Mustang fighters, accom
panied by "several" B-29 Super
fortresses, joined In the navy
strike bv attacking shipping and
shore installations in the Osaka
Kobe area southwest of Tokyo.
The carrier-based raiders cen
tered their bombs and rocket fire
on Tokyo itself and the 70 to 80
airfields surrounding the gutted
capital.
The pre-dawn Superfortress
strike this morning ushered in
the 35th straight day of the pre
invasion bombardment that al
ready has laid waste huge areas
of 35 Japanese cities. More than
130 square miles of Japanese
industrial area were reported
officially to have been burned
out In 31 cities, with photograph
ic data on four of today's targets
(till lacking.
By United Press
In Borneo, Netherlands East
Indies troops made two amphi
bious landings on the northern
shore of Balikpapan Bay while
Australian troops, wad ng
through swamos, were wiping
out trapped Japanese defenders
of the great Pandansari oil re
fineries. The Chinese high command re
ported that Chinese troops have
recaptured Tayu, located inside
Kiangsi province on the Kiangsi
Kwangtung border, cutting Jap
anese communications between
southern Kiangsi and northern
Kwangtung.
TO CLAIM MILLIONS
Los Angeles, July 10 (U.R
Sixteen-year-old Viscount Wil
liam Anthony (Tony) Furncss to
day was en route to England to
lay claim to the $10,000,000 ship
ping fortune of his late father.
Lord Furness. The titled young
ster, a cadet at Harvard Military
Academy here, left yesterday by
train with his mother. Lady Fur
ness, English social figure whose
husband helped found the Bril-ish-Furncss
steamship Unci.
United Press
High Court Hope
(Acme Telcphotot
With announcement that Supreme
Court Associate Justice Owen J.
Roberts will retire July 31, Los An
geles "insiders" started work on
their speculating and came up with
"inside info" that Federal Judge
Peirson M. Kail (above) might suc
ceed Roberta to the high court post
OVERSEAS DUTY
A1E0 FOR ALL
Washington, July 10 (URI
AH qualified army personnel in
this country who have not
served at least six months over
seas will be replaced by next
May 1 so they maly be given for
eign assignments.
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson said the replacements
would be made by returning
veterans and others in special
categories. The changes will
affect about 400,000 men under
35 who are now in this country.
The army for several montns
has adhered to a policy of giv
ing overseas assignments to per
sonnel in this country and re
placing them with veterans. The
new order, however, sets May 1
as the deadline for the changes.
The order applies with special
emphasis, it was said, to men
under 35.
THIRD TERM BAH
Washington, July 10 (U.R)
Congressional Democrats, whose
party was dominated for 13 years
by the late Franklin D. Roose
velt, generally shied away today
from the proposals that the no-third-term
rule be imposed by
law upon presidential tenure.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse, R., Ore..
introduced in the senate yester
day a resolution to prevent a
third term. Various similar
propositions are pending or have
been suggested.
"The Voice" Gets
Editorial Needle
In Soldier Paper
London. July 10 (U.R) Frank
Sinatra took an editorial pound
ing from the doughboy newspa
per Stars and Stripes yesterday
for raising his voice against the
camp shows put on by the USO
and the army special services.
The Voice, quoth the army
newspaper, "is hardly an au
thority on cither military or
workaday show business.
"It is possible that Frankie
was distraught and tired when
he made his statement." it added
sacastically. "He had Just fin
ished seven gruelling weeks
overseas during which he sang
several times every day, and in
addition he had granted an audi
ence to the Pope and wised up
His Holiness on the crooning
racket, and that taxes one."
Chicago has 6.088 policemen
and 2,802 firemen.
Full Leased Wire
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 10,
GREW SAYS FOE
TRYING TO SPLIT
ALLIES ON PEACE
Acting Secretary Denies
Surrender Offer Received;
Many Feelers Reported.
Washington, July 10 4UR
Acting Secretary of State Joseph
C. Grew, denying that Japan has
offered, to surrender, said today
that the enemy is attempting to
split the allies by provoking
public discussion of Pacific sur
render terms.
He denied for the third time
in recent weeks that Japan has
made conditional surrender of
fers "either through official or
unofficial channels."
Many "Feelers"
But in a surprise statement
warning against a relaxation of
the allies' unconditional surren
der demand, Grew acknowl
edged that many "alleged peace
feelers" on the part of the Jap
anese have been reported to this
government through indirect
channels.
Itemizing some of these "feel
ers," Grew said they were "fam
iliar weapons of psychological
warfare" being tossed into the
battle now that the enemy's mil
itary position is deteriorating
and the plight of Japanese civil
ians is becoming more critical.
He said "conversations relat
ing to peace" have been reported
to the state department from
various parts of the world.
"But," he emphasized, "in no
case has an approach been made
to this government, directly or
indirectly, by a person who
could establish his authority to
speak for the Japanese govern
ment, and in no case has an of
fer of surrender been made.
Newspaper Drivers
Receive Ultimatum
New York, July 10 (U.R)
Striking newspaper truck drivers
had until 8 a. m. tomorrow to re
turn to work or see their Jobs
thrown open to strike-breakers
with the sanction of the U. S.
government.
The War Labor Board told the
1700 members of the Newspaper
and Mail Deliverers Union, in-
dependent, that their closed shop
privilege would be suspended,
along with other contract bene
fits, unless the strike was ended
by that time.
Retirement Board
Director is Named
Salem, Ore., July 10 (U.R)
Jerry Saylcr, Portland insurance
man, was sworn in as executive
director of the public employes
retirement board, which was cre
ated by the last legislature.
Temporary headquarters of
the board will be in Portland at
the branch office of th slate in
surance commission'. Most state
employes will come under the
new law.
Sayler is a former campaign
manager for Gov. Earl Sncll
U.S. Reservations On Charter
Seen Violation Of Its Spirit
Washington. July 10 (U.R)
Democrats and Republicans on
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee agreed today that any
U. S reservation giving Con
gress the final decision in each
case as to use of U. S. forces to
help preserve peace would vio
late the spirit of the United Na
tions charter.
Sen. Eugene D. Mlllikin, R.,
Colo., asked Leo Pasvolsky. state
department expert on the Se
curity organization, whether a
reservation by which the United
States would "reserve to Itself
the right to Judge in each case
whether it should use armed
force and how much would be a
violation of the charter."
The question arose as the com
mittee opened its second day of
hearings on ratification of the
charter.
BIG THREE CHIEFS
T
IE
Mixed Governing Authority
to Be Established at Once
Speed Food Supplies.
Berlin, July 10 (U.R) An un
usually large number of trans
port planes swarmed through
the skies over Berlin today, giv
ing rise to the assumption that
the vanguard of specialist and
important personalities were ar
riving for the Big Three meet
ing.' .
Berlin, July 10 U.R Chiefs
of the American, Russian and
British occupation forces met to
day and agreed upon the imme
diate establishment of an inter
allied governing authority to di
rect the joint administration of
Berlin.
An official announcement of
the agreement was Issued after a
conference of the Big Three
leaders.
Zhukov Presides
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov
of Russia, Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay
of the United States and Lt. Gen.
Sir Ronald Weeks of Britain
were the conferees. Zhukov
presided. '-. ".- '
-: Th'etfceilnecrta'wtaBlisfr st
once the mixed governing au
thority "to direct Jointly the ad
ministration of greater Berlin
under the interallied agreement
on control machinery in Ger
many." "A satisfactory arrangement
was made to meet the immediate
problems of food supply for the
civil population of Berlin on the
basis of contribution from all the
zones of occupation," the official
announcement said.
"Progress was made toward a
solution of the problem of fuel
supply on a similar basis."
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On the Atlantic with Presi
dent Truman, July 10. (U.R)
President Truman today was
aboard an American warship in
mid-Atlantic bound for Europe
and his meeting at Potsdam. Ger
many, next week with Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and
Generalissimo Josef Stalin.
As his powerful fighting ship
drove through unusually placid
Atlantic waters, the president
held continuous confciences with
two of his top international ad
viscrs Secretary of State Jam?s
F. Byrnes and Fleet Adm. Wil
liam D. Leahy, chief of staff to
the president.
They were preparing for what
will be Mr. Truman's biggest test
to date in the international field
his debut in big three deliber
ations. Pasvolsky replied that "as a
permanent member of the Se
curity Council" of the United
Nations, the United States would
have the right to decide "at the
outset" whether force should be
used.
"But who would make the de
cision?" Milllkin asked, "That's
an important question. If we'd
decide through a reservation to
this charter, that Congress had
that right, would that be a vio
lation of the charter?"
"Well that decision would be a
different kind of 'agreement'
than is contemplated in the char
ter." Pasvolsky answered. He
referred to the provision In the
charter which says that mem
bers of the United Nations shall
provide armed forces to preserve
peace "in accordance with a spe
cial agreement or agreements."
1945.
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Private Clarence V. Bertuccl, New Orleans, La., tower guard at Prisoner of War Camp, Sallna, Utah (right),
snot ana Killed eight German POws, wounaea a0 omcrs. Snown tlem are group of wounded Germans as
they left Kearns In ambulance under guard for Bushnell Hospital.
Grants Pass Man
Brushes Death In
Okinawa Adventure
Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands
(Delayed) (U.R) Marine Corpor
al William H. Lyons, 28, of
Grants Pass, Ore., a veteran of
three major campaigns In the
Pacific, had his strangest and
narrowest escape during the
battle for this island.
Lyons, preparing to demolish
a cave, sat on what he thought
was a log Just inside the en
trance. It turned out to be a
Jap soldier's leg. ' The Jap sat
up, pulled the fuse on a gren
ade and held It against Lyons'
stomachs r - ..--
The marine pushed the Jnp
aside and ran from the cave.
Outside, he found, to his horror,
that the grenade was caught in
his shirt. He flicked it aside
and hit the dirt Just as the gren
ade went off. He was shaken
up, but uninjured.
A few second later Lyons
heard another sharp report in
the cave. The Jap had blown
himself up.
Lyons, who also fought at
Cape Gloucester and Pclcliu, is
the son of Mrs. Mary Lyons,
(324 West K street), Grants Pass.
Rejected Suitor
Chops Off Fingers
New York July 10 (U.R)
Joseph Montalto, 62, who slashed
his throat after chopping off
three fingers off the left hand of
Mrs. Thclma Neahr, 38, died to
day in St. John's Hospital, Long
Island City.
Police said that he attacked
Mrs. Neahr, widowed mother of
two children after she had told
him she was through with him.
Montalto was found in the rear
seat of his automobile early to
day, a few hours after Mrs.
Neahr had reported the attack.
Man Aged 77 Is
Walking Champion
Galcsburg, III., July 10 Ufi
Seventy-seven year old William
Farlow, Galcsburg, 111., boasted
today that he could outwalk any
man or boy In the state of Il
linois. Farlow could back up his chal
lenge, too. Yesterday he made
a seven-mile hike In an hour and
37 minutes, bettering the "rec
ord" for that distance claimed
by John W. Simpson, 75, Spring
field. Douglas to Halt .
B-17 Manufacture
Long Beach, Cal., Julv 10
0J.R Production of B-17 "Flying
Fortress" is to stop Immediately
at ne
Douglas Aircraft Co.'s
plant here, resulting In release
of 3,000 employes by the end of
July, the company today was no
tified by the army air forces.
The new government order
docs not affect production of A
26 attack-bombers and the giant
C-74 transports, both under con
struction here.
LEGAL LOOPHOLE SAVES
Los Angeles, July 10 J.R
William J. Dunn, former vice
president of the W. J. Dunn Co.
brokerage firm, today was free
of grand theft charges because
of a legal technicality barring
conviction on uncorroborated tes
timony of an accomplice. Dunn,
47. and James R. Prouse, 37,
were accused of Juggling records
to spend $33 000 of clients funds
on wine, women and horscj,
Tribune
United Presi Full
Fires Machine Gun Into POW Tents
SIX INJURED AS
An accident at intersection of
the Crater Lake highway and
Delta Water road about 5:30 p.m.
yesterday caused injurjes to
three Mexican Nationals and put
three others In the Camp White
hospital.
A pickup truck belonging to
Crater" Lake orchards and op
crated by Ruben Raymond Mi
scnhlmcr and containing the
Mexicans, collided with a sedan
driver, by James Larscn of Mcd
ford, according to a report by
state police.
Larsen and his passenger,
Riley Morningstar, were injured
and taken to Camp White hospi
tal in the Perl Ambulance.
Morningstar's injuries were not
serious and he was released
from the hospital last night but
Larsen is said to be still in the
hospital.
The three Mexicans, A. S. Ra
minez, M. H. Galvan, and J. Q.
Rodriquez, all residents of the
airfield barracks, and Miscnhi
mer were also taken to the hos
pital. Howard A. Hobson. basket -
ball and baseball coach at the
University of Oregon, and Anse
Cornell, graduate manager at
the university, were in Medford
today calling on friends and at
tending to college business.
Hobson, who has been on sab
batical leave from Oregon, has
served with the army on a sports
assignment in Italy. With seven
other coaches, he loured the
Fifth Army area and put on a
sports program school In Rome
V army sports officers. He left
Italy June 20 and returned to the
west coast Sunday night.
Cornell and Hobson planned
to visit friends In Ashland to
day and will go on to Klamath
Falls Bend, B'irns and other cit
ies before returning to Eugene
Saturday night Hobson will re
turn to his coaching duties at
the University in the fall. He
formerly coacned basketball at
Southern Oregon College of Ed
ucation, Ashland, leaving there
in 1034 for Eugene.
13 Airmen Killed
In Exploding B-29
Pueblo, Colo.i July 10 U.R
Pueblo army air base officials
said today that 13 airmen were
killed when their B-29 Super
fortress, apparently hit by light
nlng, exploded in the air 20
miles south of here.
Col. Willis G. Carter, base
commandant, said the huge Su
perfort was on a routine training
flight. Farmers reported seeing
the plane explode Sunday, scat
tering bodies and wreckage over
a wide area
Chicago, July 10 (U.R) Meat
production In federally Inspect
ed plants dropped 16 per cent
last week,
the War Meat Board
of the United States Department
' ol Agriculture said today,
Lasted Wire
NO. 92.
Guard Who Shot
War Prisoners
Disliked Nazis
Salina, Utah, July 10 U.R
Pvt. Clarence V. Bertucci was
under mental observation today
after admitting that he sprayed
machincgun bullets on a group
of war prisoners while they slept,
killing eight and wounding 20,
because he "just didn't like Ger
mans." Col. Arthur J. Erlccson,
spokesman for the branch pris
oner camp near here,- reported
that Bertucci had been unable to
account for his, shooting orgy
Sunday nlghl, during which he
fired a mounted gun from the
guard tower where he was on
duty.
' Ericsson quoted Bertucci as
saying that on several occasions
he had been tempted to turn the
tower gun on the prisoners and
was "not at all sorry" for what
he had done.
"He Just didn't like Germans,"
the colonel said.
No other reason was given.
JAIL TERM START
OF VET'S TROUBLE
When Henry Edmond Rey
nolds 23. completes his 15-day
term in the county Jail for va
grancy his troubles will Just be
starting. He is wanted on a war
rant by the Federal Bureau of
fnuoatitrnttnn bt Jackson. Miss..
l ag paroe violator .according to
Information received by the state
police.
According to Information re
ceived here, Reynolds, a dis
charged serviceman from Oma
ha Nobr., has been "bumming'
over the country since receiving
his release two years ago. His
means of obtaining money, the
report states, is to go to the ra
tion board of a strange city, pre
sent his discharge naners to ob
tain a ration book and then sell
the book. The report adds the
FBI wants Reynolds for violat
ing a parole on the book-selling
charge In Mississippi.
NAZI SLAPPER GETS
6 MONTHS ON AWOL
Fort Devens, Mass., July 10
(U P.) Pvt. Joseph V. McGee, 3,
of Worcester, who served a Jail
snnlrnce for slapping nine Nazi
prisoners, was sentenced today
to six months in Jail at trnrd
labor for being AWOL for the
third time in six weeks.
By The Side Of The Rogue
By Dale Vincent ,
Beside a clear mountain spring and under the shade of th.
big alder tree that hangs over the river, Is an old canvas chair.
Sitting in this chair I have enjoyed seeing within the past half
hUIA methodical, patient Bittern hunting frogs for Its nest of
young up river, a pair of beautiful Orioles anxiously supervising
their awkward family In their first field trip from the nest, four
trout that have leaped clear of the water In their quest for flics, ,
one old yellow-headed salmon cruising slowly down river close
to the surface with his suitcase packed and obviously seaward
bound, one gorgeous humming bird that darted In her gossamer
drapes of brilliant hues to put on a one-act dance skit for my
special benefit.
To me this old canvas chair In the cool shade Is a special seat
In a colorful theatre whose stage IS set wun primmve aciun..
i The music is a melodious bird
ground is tho everchanging murmur of cool running water.
' would uot exchange my old eanvas ebalr lot a gold-studded throne.
OF AFRIKA KORPS
STOLID TO LAST
Fanatics Look Anything But
Supermen in Last March;
Execution in Warehouse.
By Roy Calvin
(United Press Correspondent)
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., July
10 (U.R) Five German prison
ers of war whose Nazi zeal led
them to murder a fellow soldier
in an Oklahoma Internment
camp were hanged at the discip
linary barracks early today In
an historic application of U. S.
military justice.
It was the first time that an
enemy war prisoner had been
executed in the United States.
No "Heili" Heard
Not a single "Heil Hitler!"
came from any of the doomed
men as they walked about a
hundred yards across this army
post from the main detention
building known familiarly as
"the castle" to an old ware
house building where a unique
gallows had been set'up in an
elevator shaft. Seven reporters
witnessed the executions with
War department permission.
The Germans Walter Beyer,
Berthold Seidel, Hans Demmc,
Hans Schomer and Willi Seholz
were found guilty by a U. S.
army court martial at Camp
Gruber, Okla., last year of
murdering Johannes Kunze, a
German prisoner whose Nazi
spirit showed signs of lagging.
From Afrika Korps
The five were members of
Rommel's Afrika Korps, and
from the 32-year-old Beyer to the
22 -year -old childish - looking
Seholz, they displayed the iron .
discipline which made that Ger
man unit famous. They looked
like everything but "supermen,"
however, despite their military
bearing as they marched into the
execution hall, stood before Col.
William S. Elcy to hear War de
partment orders which doomed
them, and then, with black hood
adlusted, to be led by military
policemen to the noose.
No Supermen
They were stolid without ex
ceptlon, and soldiers to the last.
But there Wasn't a big brawny
man among them to measure up
to the superman conception.
Beyer was the first to drop
through the trap door, sawed
out of a wooden platform which .
plugged the elevator shaft on
the first floor of the warehouse
building. He dropped, about
seven feet Into the basement, at
12:06 a. m., CWT.
The . others followed at ap
proximately 30 minute Intervals,
Seholz, last of the five going at
2:11 a. m.
Ecyer, pale-faced and thin,
was described by the army as
ringleader of the group which
killed Kunze at a Tonkawa,
Okla., branch POW camp on
Nov. 4. 1943.
Col. Elcy and Lt. Col. Robert
W. Reed, public relations offU
cer of the Seventh Service Com
mand, emphasized that the Ger
mans had been given every ad
vantage, review and appeal per
mitted under the Geneva con
vention covering treatment of
prisoners of war.
Brutal Murder
Beyer ordered all prisoners In
the company for which he was
leader to assemble in the mess
hall of the compound at 10 p. m.
on Nov. 4, 1943.
At that meeting, Kunze was
found "guilty" of treason to the
third Reich and was beaten to
death. Court martial testimony
given at Camp Gruber, Okla.,
showed that besides the fists of
many of the 200 Germans In
the company, Kunze was beaten
with a milk bottle and heavy
china drinking cups.
BIO TRANSPORT READY
Alameda, Cal., July 10 (U.R)
The 22,380 tons troop transport
Advlral Rodman, one of the larg
est non-combatant vessels ever
built on the Pacific Coast, was
commissioned for service today
at the Bcthlchcm-Alamcda ship
yards.
chorus and the orcncsirai Dacn-