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Newspaper Page Texti in-rrr n n r n rnnrn o u n np o n m A M mi Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Saturday with cattrred thunder showeri over mountains. Slightly cool er Saturday. Temp. Highest Yesterday ...... 98 Lowest this Morning ....65 Fortieth Year iiiAtiapr-citi' wiw , , Agili t -.'U rit;wJ M . . , .... (Acme Telephatot This Japanese train pulled Into station at Rl Rl, Korea, for the last time on the Fourth ol July. Riddled by strafing attack, the locomotive's boiler blew up and did considerable damage to the tracks and other railroad equipment. It was one of the targets of. U. S. Pacific flaet Air Wing One, which riddled six other trains hit four bridges and three tunnels during raids. ' . Major Fined For Carrying Whisky Camp Beale, Calif., July 13 U.R) Mai. Harry E. Roy today faced a deduction of $200 month ly for 20 months following con viction of liquor trafficking charges by an army court mar tial. Roy was found guilty on 16 counts and fined $4000, but was cleared on eight counts. The fine f was Imposed as Roy was found guilty of "wrongful Introduction of liquor" on the post and mis use of government property. Roy will neither serve time nor lose privileges and presum ably will continue in his pres ent army duty. His salary as a major Is $437.50 monthly. TISH PAY HI London, July 13 flJ.RJ The British empire's price of survival in five years and eight months of war was revealed officially for the first time today as 1, 427,634 persons killed, wounded or missing. The toll included 932,233 dead or missing and presumed dead, and 559,372 wounded. They came from all parts of the empire, but mostly from the bomb-torn counties of the home islands, where 146,760 civilians were killed or wounded in the war-long bombardment by Nazi bombs, buzz bombs and rockets. The dead numbered 60.585. ' Among the United Kingdom's civilian casualties were 63,208 women and 15.359 children un der 16 years of age. Eisenhower Back To Disband SHAEF Frankfurt, Germany, July 13 (U.R Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, tanned and rested after a vacation in the United States, was back at headquarters today preparing to disoand the su preme command through which he directed the defeat of Ger many. Eisenhower's supreme head quarters will go out of existence at 12:01 a. m;, tomorrow, France's Bastille day. BASEBALL National Philadelphia ...... 11 12 1 Pittsburgh 0 13 1 Karl and Mancuso; Gcrheau ser and Salkeld. Boston . 0 4 2 Chicago 2 7 0 Logan, Hutching (8l and Masi; Prim and Williams. American Detroit 1 7 0 Boston 5 B 0 Overmire, Eaton and Swift; Ferriss and Garbark. Cleveland New York Gromck and ..If 17 .4 8 Haves. McDon- nell; Donald, DubicI, Rosar and Garbark. United Preii End of Line for Jap Engine IS EXPECTED AT Antwerp, July 13 (U.R) President Truman was expected to dock here Sunday morning,' ll was understood today, and prob ably will motor, to. Brussels where he will take a plane to Berlin and the big three discus sions. Details of the president's ar rival and his itinerary, were blacked out because of security regulations. However, It was believed cer tain that he will drive to Brus sels, since Antwerp does not have an airfield regarded as sole for the presidential plane. News reports that Mr. Truman would dock here created great excitement among security of ficers and the American em bassy in Brussels continued to maintain that it had no olticiai information on Mr. Truman s impending arrival. ALLA NAZIMQVA PASSES, AGED 66 Hollywood, Cal., July 13 (U.R) Mme. Alia Nazimova, one of the world's greatest actresses, and a favorite for two decades, died here today. The exotic Russian born actress was 66. She had returned to pictures only a few months ago after leaving the screen for 15 years. Her last picture was "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." She died of a heart ailment this morning at Good Samaritan hospital after an illness of a week. During the long course of her career she was the object of as much admiration throughout the world as any other actress who ever lived, She was born at Yalta in the Crimea, a place which was des tined to become famous many years later as the meeting place of the heads of the world's most powerful states, June 4, 1879. Nelson Keeps Lead With Sub-Par Golf Dayton, O., July 13 (U.R) Byron Nelson of Toledo, Ohio, shooting four-under-par golf, held a two-up lead over Denny Shutc of Akron, O., twice P.G.A. champion, at the end of 18 holes in their 36-hole qjarter-final match in the 27th national P.G.A. golf tournament. "G.l. JOE" PREMIER Albuquerque, N. M., July 13 (U.P.) Albuquerque was recover ing today from the onslaught of Hollywood celebrities and en- thusiastic crowds which attend-1 ed the premier of the picture 1 G.l. Joe" held last night. Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, Montana is Tops In"E" Bond Buying Washington, July 13 (U.R) Montana led the nation in sale of "E" bonds during the Seventh War Loan drive, with 119.2 per cent of its quota, the Treasury Finance division announced to day. Iowa was second with 119 per cent of quota, Alabama third 'with llfl.89 per cent and Wyom ing fourth with 118.85 per cent. E ING L Chairmen and assistants of committees for the annual open meeting of the Jackson county Red Cross chapter to be held Thursday noon, July 19, in the court house auditorium were an nounced today by Seth Bullis, chairman of the county chapter. Mrs. Marrs Gibbons was ap pointed general chairman hi charge of arrangements with Ed ward Carlton as assistant; Mrs. H. O. Colburn, luncheon chair man; Mrs. Gus Newbury, chair man of decorations; Mrs. John Young, program chairman, as sisted by Mrs. Harry Holmes and Mrs. John Day in charge of res ervations. Reservations for the luncheon will be closed Monday at 5 p. m. and may be made by calling the Red Cross office, 4405, before that time. It was stressed that the gen eral public is invited and the annual election of the board will be held. Churchill Leaving For Berlin Confab London, July 13 (U.R) Reli able sources said today that Prime Minister Churchill will leave his vacation retreat in southern France tomorrow for Berlin, where the first informal meeting of the Big Three is ex pected to be held Sunday night. The regular conferences of Churchill, President Truman and Premier Stalin will begin In Ber lin Monday, informants report ed. The British Press associa tion's diplomatic correspondent said that as a result of the Big Three meeting, a general peace conference is expected "fairly early in 1946." - SAILORS RIDE FREE FOR REHABILITATION Washington, July 13 (U.R) Enlisted naval personnel return ing from overseas for rehabilita tion leave prior to reassignment will travel home at government expense, the navy said today. Kciurmng personnel will be granted a delay en route, to visit home at U. S. expense, plus trav. el time, to which thev are en. titled, before reporting to one of the 36 navy receiving stations nearest their home. During that period they will draw full pay and rations. California's 1944 tomato crop i was valued It $42,636,000. Gale Whips Gasoline 'Jelly' Flames Over 450 Miles of Jap Homeland TARGET IN 38TH Gen. Kenney Warns Foe to Expect Round-The-Clock Blasting in Near Future; Pearl Harbor. July 13 (U.R)- Jellied gasoline 'flames,' whipped by a Pacific gale, flared over 450 miles of the Japanese home land today as Gen. George C Kenney grimly warned the Japs they can get set for round-the- clock blasting in the near future, Kenney, commander of the Far Eastern air forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, re vealed that the 7th air force, long an aerial spearhead in the central Pacific, had been shifted from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' command to join the 5th, 13th and 20th bomber commands in the final phase of the Pacific air war. Drop 3,200 Tons Kenney promised to attack Japan from "10,000 feet o 10 feet" with fires and explosives, with fighters and bombers 24 hours a day. During the night some 500 to 550 B-29's had paid the first In stallment by dropping over 3,200 tons of incendiaries into five packed war centers on Honshu and Shikoku. It was the 38th consecutive at tack on Japan and raised to 39 the plumber of enemy home cities gutted by American bombs since the pre-invasion attacks be gan last March. Objectives were secondary production centers of Utsono- miya, Ichinomiya and Tsuruga on Honshu, Uwajlma on the southwestern tip of Shikoku, and a cluster of refineries in the Kawaski area on Tokyo bay be tween Tokyo and Yokohama. Domei, Japanese news agency, said 24-hour attacks were al ready a reality and that the B-29's had shifted from Japan's major cities to the smaller war centers and warned the next and probably the final phase before invasion would be attacks on Japanese railway and highway communications. Gen. MacArthur's headquart ers, in Manila, announced that Australian and Dutch units had linked up in Borneo's Balik papan area isolating Japanese troops holding out on Mount Batochampar. The linkup was made at a point seven to eight miles north of Balikpapan It self. Also from Manila came con flicting viewpoints of Japanese prisoners of war about the post war future of Japan. One offi cer declared it would be fortun ate If the emperor was killed by an American bomb. Americans called the Japanese "first class soldiers in a second class army." Federal Employes Told to Cut Travel Washington, July 13 (U.R) The Office of Defense Transpor tation today called on govern ment agencies to make greater reductions in travel by federal employes and warned of possible additional curbs on civilian train travel. ANTELOPE, EAGLE POINT SCHOOLS CONSOLIDATED The petition of residents of the Antelope school district to be transferred "to the Eagle Point district, was granted by the county court at a boundary hear ing Thursday afternoon. Seventy-five per cent of the parents of children in the Antelope dis trict favored the change, County Judge J. B. (Dlin) Coleman said. Grounds for the petition were the Eagle Point district has bet ter facilities and is consoli dated hico school. 1945. FOREST CLOSURE DECREED IN AREAS More Places May Be Closed ' Soon Because of Threat; Tiflamook Fires Worst. Portland, Ore., July 13 (U.R) The forests of ' Washington, Yamhill and Tillamook counties were closed today by order of federal and state forest author ities because of fires in the areas. Other wooded sections in the state may be closed in the near future due to the current summer fire threat, forest offi cials said. While the Tillamook county fire remained under control, the acreage involved jumped from 2000 to 3000 acres because of the discovery of spot fires on the fringes of the original blaze. Second Fir A second fire in Tillamook county was reported Thursday about a mile up the south fork of Wilson river and not far from Camp Macnamar, which housed WPA crews in the days of the depression. The blaze covers at least 1200 acres, and is taging in the old Tillamook burn. Scattered fires, caused by lightning, have been reported in southern Oregon forests, but most of them have been prompt ly extinguished and have caused no trouble. Forests of Jackson county are not affected by the closure order in the northern part of the state, It was reported today by local forest service officials. Only small designated areas are closed at present and further closure to the public Is not expected un less fire danger becomes greater. Two small fires In the Rogue River national forest remained burning this morning, but all others reported as a result of the recent electrical storms have been extinguished. One at Butte Falls, started by lightning and reported last night, and one in the Applegatc district are under observation today. CRASH LANDING New York, July 13 (U.R) A civilian crewman suffered a broken leg and two others es caped injury today when a C-54 transport plane shed one of its four motors, burst Into flames In mid air and made a crash land ing at La Guardla field. Frau Himmler Still Proud Of World's Most Hated Man By Ann Stringer UP Staff Correspondent Internment Camp on Rome's Outskirts, July 13 U.R) Frau Margarete Himmler maintained today that she was still proud of her infamous husband and shrug ged away the world's hatred of the dead Gestapo chief with the calm observation that no one loves a policeman. When I told her that husband Hcinrich had.bcon cauturcd and had died from his own dose of poison, Frau Himmler showed absolutely no emotion.- She sat, hands folded in her lap, and merely shrugged her shoulders. Fat Untold Until then she had not known what had happened to Himmler since he last telephoned her from Berlin around Easter while she was at their home near Munich. When first captured by the Fifth army she had claimed a weak heart and Internment camp officials, fearful of a heart at tack, never told her of her hus band's death. But even when I told her that Himmler was buried in an un marked grave Frnu Himmler bowed no luxurue, no interest. Tribune United Press Full Homecoming G.l. Greets "Mother" In Wrong House Pekin, 111.. July 13 (U.R) TSgl. Charles Aby. return ing on furlough, burst into his home early today, shouting "Mom" and switching on all the lights. He dashed into the bedroom and embraced tha lady he had awakened from a sound sleep. Then he took a good look. It wasn't his mother. It was Mrs. Alfred Altmon. The red faced soldier discovered that his parents had just moved from their old home. OF :t Weather conditions this sum mer are keeping valley residents guessing as departures from average temperature and humid ity readings offer unusual dis comforts. Temperatures In July this sum mer have run generally about 10 degrees higher than average readings for the past nine years, and average humidity readings At R-3n r m. thus far this month have been io per cent, mark edly lower than the average 27 per cent noted In July for the nine years previous, according to weather bureau officials. Maximum temperatures rang ing from 90 to 100 degrees have been recorded for the first 12 consecutive days this month. The century mark was reached July 1 and 8. Last year, during the 13-day period from July 14 to 28, maxi mum temperatures ranged from 90 to the peak 102 degrees of July 17. In a record-breaking heat wave here in lwau, tne mer cury rose to 90 degrees and above for 20 consecutive days, seven of which showed 100 or more degrees, from July 12 to 31. On July 20 of that year the temperature was 108 degrees and July 13, 106. HOUSE REFUSES CUT 0WI APPROPRIATION Washington, July 13 (U.R) The House today rejected, 140 to 58. efforts of Rep. John Taber, R., N. Y., to slice in half the $35,000,000 Office of War In formation appropriation. Taber moved to send back to conference committee the war agencies appropriation bill for 1946 which carries for 17 agen cies including OWI and the Fair Employment Practices Commit tee. It was the coldest exhibition of complete control of human feel ing that I have ever witnessed. I talked to Frau Himmler in a luxurious villa home owned by a former movie magnate where she and her 15-year-old daugh ter, Gudrun, are being held with one other female intf rnee. Knew His Activities I asked her if she was aware of her husband's activities as Gestapo chief and she replied, "of course." Then I asked if she knew what the world had thoughi of him and she replied, "I know that be fore the war many people thought highly of him." Asked if she realized that Himmler was probably the most despised and hated man In the world after the European war got well under way, Frau Mar garete shrugged and said, "May be so. He was a policeman and policemen are not liked by any one." - Frau Margarete denied the possibility that her dead husband might have been considered the No. 1 war criminal. She said, "My husband? How rould he be when Uiller wm luclimJ" Ltaied Wire NO. 95. T URGED BY DULLES Republican Foreign Affairs Leader Says Unity Among - Nations Main Peace Hope Washington, July 13 (U.R) The Senate Foreign Re lations Committee today ap proved the United Nations' charter by a vote of 20 to noth ing. Washington, July 13 CU.R) John Foster Dulles today urged senate ratification of the United Nations charter without reser vation or dissent as an instru ment for maintaining in peace the allied unity of war. Dulles, republican leader in foreign affairs, was a closing day witness before the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearings on the charter on which 50 United Nations have agreed to pin their hopes for lasting peace.. , . Wlndup Today The committee planned to wind up its hearings today and start floor debate on the treaty July 23. In a statement prepared for delivery, Dulles said unity among the United Nations holds the principal hope for continu ing peace. "Germany -and Japan were the peril which drew us together," he said. "With the complete de feat oil Germany and Japan that peril will seem to, have disap peared; "Then our unity too, will dis appear unless we find new, com pelling tasks to pursue in com mon. It is such tasks that the San Francisco charter proposes to the United Nations." . . Dulles said lack of allied unity after the last war was a factor in the start of World War II. The reason why Germany re covered her military might was not because the treaty of Ver sailles was soft," he said.- "It was because the treaty oir Ver sailles was not enforced. It was not enforced because the victors fell apart." Laborltes Endors Other endorsements for prompt ratification without res ervations came from heads of the nation's two large labor or ganizations. . AFL President William Green described the charter agreed upon by representatives of 50 nations as "evidence of the will to peace dominating so many na tions. CIO President Philip Murray said arguments for reservations or limitations "must be under stood as simply an attempt to de feat its enactment." .... Socialist Leader Norman Thomas said the charter was "not an adequate basis for last ing peace,'' but urged ratifica tion nevertheless because it may be bettor than nothing, BLACK CATS HOME Camp Beale, Cal., July 13 (U.R) The 13th armored or "black cat" armored division "California's own" arrived at Camp Bcalo today. By The Side Of The Rogue By Dal Vincent We humans are supposed to be superior "critters" and maybe we arc. We can certainly think of enough gadgets that are deemed absolutely and positively indispensable. The maze of "essentials" we have to try to remember not to forget Is astound ing. No need to enumerate the hundred Utile personal nlcknacks we couldn't possibly do without. Then there are those thousands of rules and regulations, and yards of red tape which man has spun for the "protection of man" and got himself tangled up in. But take the birds. When they get ready to make a thousand mile journey to winter In the warm south they don't even have to pack a tooth brush. They don't need a compass, nor any other bird to tell them the direction, or what to do, or how or when. They Just hop off whatever Jimb they happen to be sitting on when the notion strikes 'em and away they go. Yes. a human being would find it mighty hard to be ON 1113 iOWN en tuo same bm'u witu auy 21 SUFFER IS Cruiser Pittsburgh Loses Entire Bow Section In Terrific Gale Off Okinawa Guam,- July 13 (U.R) More than 21 warships of Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey's third fleet, suf fered damage June 5 in a tropi cal typhoon as they steamed the Pacific between the Philippines and Okinawa, Pacific fleet head quarters disclosed today. Among the damaged ships were three battleships and five carriers, the navy announcement said. Carrier Damaged The battleships were the Mas sachusetts, the Indiana and tha DIVINE WIND Guam, July 13 (U.R) The typhoon which scattered and damaged the U. S. third fleet June 5 may be expected to boost Japanese moral far mora than the actual damage don would warrant. To Tokyo the storm was . named Kamikaze, or divine wind. It was in 1281 that a greater typhoon struck the in-' vasion fleet of the Mongol conqueror Kublai Khan, sink ing 4,000 of his 4,500 junks and drowning 130,000 of the 150.000 men he was bringing to Japan. Alabama. Also damaged were the large carriers Hornet and Bennington, the light carriers San Jacinto and Belleau Wood, the escort carrier Bougainville, the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, the destroyers John Rodgers and Blue and three other cruisers and seven destroyers. A number of other ships were damaged but the navy did not list the official toll. All except the heavily damaged Pittsburgh, which lost its entire bow-section about 100 feet back to the first turret, have now returned to ac tion. No vessels were lost. It was the second time within six months that the third fleet has been forced to ride out the most violent kind of weather. In this storm, the winds reached 90 to 120 knots, and mountain ous seas tossed the warships like matchsticks. Hit Last Fall Last December in the waters east of the Philippines, Halsey'i iorce, returning from a mission in support of the landings on Mindoro, lost three destroyers. A board of inquiry was called but the results were not an nounced. This time, as previously, tha storm passed directly over a large portion of the fleet. Most ships damaged had parts of their superstructures ripped off but the Pittsburgh. less than a year in action, lost her bow. Her crew brought her 900 miles to Guam under her own power. She now is being repaired at an other port. TO E London, July 13 (U.R) Berlin radio said the city council de creed today that the property of all Nazis and everyone who aid ed them will be confiscated In the German capital. "The importance of the decree Is likely to reach far beyond Berlin, although it applies only to Berlin at present," the broad cast said. The confiscation was described as reaching beyond the members of the Nazi party and Nazi created groups to "all other per sons who took an active part in the propagation of Naziism, who committed vile acts against others," or who worked for or made profits from the Nazi regime, wild animal or bird.