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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.