Fire Bombs Rain On Honshu Cities In Record B-29 Raid
600 SUPERFORTS
FOLLOW FLEET IN
IT EFFORT
Newest Raid Comes While
Tokyo Bay Still Echoing
from Naval Bombardment
v . Guam, Friday, July 20 (U.R)
f A record-breaking force of more
than 600 B-29 Superfortresses,
following up the greatest fleet
surface and air bombardment in
history, ' showered almost 4,000
tons of fire bombs on four Jap
anese industrial cities of Honshu
island early today.
The newest and greatest Su
perfort attack came while Tokyo
bay echoed from the crash of
American gunfire from a naval
squadron which shelled the
mouth of the enemy stronghold
in a bid to flush out the rem-
. nants of Japan's Imperial fleet.
47 Cities Blasted
The Honshu cities of Hitachi,
Choshi, Fukui and Okazaki were
today's B-29 targets, raising to
47 the number of Japanese in-
. dustrial centers blasted in the
20th air force's knockout cam
paign. In addition, the Superforts
pin-pointed the important Nip
pon Oil Co. refinery north of
j Osaka with a cargo of high ex
; plosives, making it the tenth oil
center sought out by the silvery
giants.
The navy revealed that Amer
ican carrier pilots sighted and
attacked Japanese "combat ship
ping" at the Yokosuka naval
base just inside Tokyo bay dur
ing yesterday's fleet attack. That
suggested that major enemy fleet
units might have been caught
there, almost in range of the battle-hungry
allied warships.
. Pearl Harbor, July 19 (U.R)
Japanese propagandists said to
day the American-British battle
fleet is scouting the Honshu coast
for potential invasion spots.
The Japanese explained that
Nippon's war lords were delib
erately holding back their air
and sea might for the coming
invasion and couldn't be "pro
voked" into battle.
Latest naval estimates are that
f 7 the once third-rankine Jananese
fleet consists of two battleships,
one old battleship-carrier, two
decommissioned battleships, a
small number of regular aircraft
carriers, about 30 destroyers,
and "a .few" cruisers.
Chungking, July 19 U.R)
The Chinese communique today
announced Chinese troops have
captured Pukiang, 60 miles
southwest of Hangchow in cen
tral Chekiang province, and are
now closing in on heavily forti
fied Hangchow bay where the
Japanese are prepared for a pos
sible allied landing.
Pukiang is located approxi
mately 15 miles west of the rail
way leading southwest from
Shanghai to Changsa and the
Chinese Rice Bowl.
The communique also report
ed Chinese forces have recap
tured a point 15 miles northwest
.of Kweilin, in northeastern
( Kwangsl province, In a concert
ed anve xor xne iormcr great
American airbase city.
Sen. Morse Gives
Daily Diatribe
On OPA Errors
Washington, July 19 (U.R)
Sen. Wayne Morse, R., Ore.,
made his promised daily OPA
speech in the senate today.
After he had spoken for about
IS minutes on the Bretton Woods
fiscal agreements, he told his
colleagues:
"And now I'm going to talk
on a domestic problem."
There was a ripple of laugh
ter. Sen. J. William Fulbright, D.,
Ark., who was sitting nearby,
asked:
"Do I understand the senator
is going to talk about Oregon
lambs?"
"I shall not disappoint the sen-
ator," Morse replied. 'That's ex
actly what I'm going to talk
about."
So Morse again told his col
leagues, as he has for several
days, how OPA has "bungled"
the lamb problem.
The Oregon senator has prom
ised to speak daily on OPA in
adequacy until he gets action.
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM
GETS WASHINGTON OKAY
Washington, July 19 (U.R)
The Senate Agriculture Commit
tee today approved B bill by Sen.
Richard B. Russell. D., Ga.. to
provide for an annual $100,000.
000 Frdrral School Lunch pro
gram. The federal ffovernment would
contribute funds to the states on
the basis of the number of school
children In the state and the need
. for assistance as indicated by per
, capita income in the state in re
lation to per capita income
throughout the United Stales.
MEDFORD
United Preit
Fortieth Year
Soldiers Clubbed
In Guardhouse Is
Veteran's Plaint
London, July 19 (U.R)
An American combat infantry
man charged in a letter to. the
army newspaper Stars and
Stripes today that he and other
soldiers, many of them wounded
veterans, were beaten and club
bed repeatedly by American
guards at the 10th replacement
depot in England.
The soldier, whose name was
withheld by Stars and Stripes,
said he was clubbed on four sep
arate occasions by American
officers and non-coms for minor
infractions.
"I have been reading so much
about a private in the U. S.
Army being court-martialed for
hitting German prisoners of
war," the soldier wrote. "So
what? They don't go to that
much trouble about an Amer
ican." An army spokesman told the
United Press that the beating
charges were already being offi
cially investigated by the Inspec
tor General's Office.
SHE VOIE AIM
DnrtlsnH Ore.. Julv 19 (U.R)
An application for a strike vote
nfrMini more than 500 mills
and 85,000 workers in five west
ern states will be asked snoruy
of the National Labor Relations
RnnrH hv the North west Council
of Lumber and Sawmill Workers,
AFL, it was learned today. A
series of meetings with the War
Inhnr Rnnrd and conferences
with representatives of labor lo
cals determined the unpenning
strike vote request.
Konnoth M. Davis, executive
secretary.- said the AFL-nations
were asking for such increases
as would establish a minimum
of $1.10 an hour for all workers
in the industry, meaning raises
of from 20 to 37V4 cents an hour.
Similar demands were being
made by'the CIO workers. "
Tho strike vote, if granted,
would take place In 30 days un
der the Smith-Connally act,
Davis said.
School Budget In
Hearing Tomorrow
Public hearing for the pur
pose of discussing the Medford
city school budget for the com
ing fiscal year wnl be neid at
n. m. tomorrow in the office of
the city superintendent in the
city hall.
The budget, adopted June 27
at a meeting of the budget com
mittee and the school board, calls
for 5338,152 for expenditures
fon the coming year.
Bourbon Making
To End July 31
Wnshinetnn. Julv 19 (U.R)
Take it easy on that bourbon,
brother. The government says
no more can be manufactured
after July 31.
Secretary of Agriculture i-iin-inn
P Anderson said that all
corn the raw material of bour
bon is needed for food and live
stock feed. Distillers will not
be permitted to use any for
either beverage or industrial al
cohol after this month.
BMSWaBffSW
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President Truman presides over the first full-dress session of the Big Three conference as It got
under way with "preliminary exchange of views on matters requiring decision by the hesds of the
three governments." President Truman, with his aides on either side, is seated with back to cim
era. Premier Stalin and his aides are seated iurthir on right, while Churchill and staff can be seen
to IciU
Full Leased Wira
BILL10NSISEN. TAFT CUSES
BARGAINING ASSET
President Against Pouring
Out Wealth Without Some
thing Concrete In Return.
Potsdam, July 19 (U.R)
President Truman, wearing a
brown business suit, was host at
a state dinner at the Little Whie
House tonight for the key men
of the Big Three conference.
Mr. Truman's dinner was the
first such social affair of the
conference. British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden was ab
sent because of an indisposition.
An American army band played
on the Little White House lawn.
Potsdam, July 19 President
Truman carried into the third
Big Three session today the
most potent bargaining stock of
the conference billions of dol
lars of American aid to be bal
anced off against military help
in the Pacific.
Premier Stalin and Prime
Minister Churchill are learning
that Mr. Truman's position in
this conference is strictly give
and take. v
The Big Three had established
a schedule of regular meetings.
The foreign ministers were meet
ing daily at 11 a. m. to prepare
the material for the following
meeting of Mr. Truman, Stalin
and Churchill. This procedure
began Monday with Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes presid
ing and the chairmanship rotat
ing thereafter. ,
. Bradley Summoned ' ,
Charles Ross, White House
press secretary, disclosed that
Gen. Omar N. Bradley was sum
money to the conference com
pound Friday to discuss his new
job as chief of Veterans admin
istration with Mr. Truman.
The president's policy, it can
be revealed, is essentially this:
The United States will not pour
out its tremendous material
wealth without something con
crete in return. It will not un
dertake fresh economic burdens
without some concessions from
the other side.
And Mr. Truman is completely
uninterested in concessions in
volving goods or cash because
there simply isn't any of cither
in Europe.
Big Development Due
Meanwhile, all accounts fil
tering out through the close con
ference censorship indicated that
startling developments are im
pending in the Japanese war. It
was believed here that a defin
ite connection exists between
Stalin's recent conversations
with Chinese- Premier T. V.
Soong in Moscow and Soong's
earlier talks with Mr. Truman
in Washington.
FREIGHT INCREASED
Washington, July 19 (U.R)
Loadings of revenue freight in
the, week ended July 14 rebound
ed 156.64 cars from the six
month low of the previous week,
which included the July Fourth
holiday, the .Association of
American Railroads announced
today.
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MEDFOF
THER ROUND IN
BRETTON BATTLE
Senate Rejects Amendment
Barring U. S. Membership
Until Restrictions Lifted.
Washington, July 19 (U.R)
The senate today passed legis
lation authorising the United
States to participate in the
$9,100,000,000 world bank and
the $8,800,000,000 internation
al monetary fund proposed
under the Bretton Woods
agreements.
Washington, July 19 (U.R)
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., lost
.nnlh.,1 rnnnii in hie hnttlo to
defeat the Bretton Woods mone
tary proposals today when the
Slonnti. roiprtpd nn amendment
which opponents said would
"sound a deatn Kneii tor me
global money plan.
The vote was 53 to 23.
Taft's amendment would have
barred American membership in
the proposed $9,100,000,000
world bank and $8,800,000,000
international monetary stabiliza
tion fund until provision had
been made for immediate re
moval of exchange restrictions
by member nations. The pro
posed U. S. contribution to the
bank and fund would be about
$6,000,000,000.
Administration senators expect
ratification of the proposals be
fore nightfall.
Taft said his amendment was
aimed at forcing Great Britain to
settle her economic problems and
remove her exchange restrictions
before she could draw American
dollars from the fund.
'Secret Documents
Taken to Asylum
New York, July 19 (U.R)
The Office of Strategic Services
today obtained a State Supreme
court order seizing secret docu
ments from Bcllevue hospital
which had been holding them
for a mental patient, a former
woman secret secretary for OSS.
U. S. Attorney Stuart Z. Kins
ly, appearing for OSS, said the
documents were brought to the
hospital by Miss Anna Hutchin
son, who was carrying them in
a "big black briefcase, which she
clutched to her breast," when
she was confined May 15.
Miss Hutchinson was said to
have left the OSS in 1944.
Mountbatten Calls .
On Gen. MacArthur
Manila, July 1 9 (U.R) Admir
al Lord Louis Mountbatten vis
ited Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters last week to co
ordinate the final pushes against
the Japanese from the southwest
Pacific and the India-Burma
theater, it was announced today.
Mountbatten, allied supreme
commander in southeast Asia,
was accompanied by key mem
bers of his staff on the visit to
MacArthur's headquarters.
Boston, July 1 9 (U.R) Under
a front page heading of "official"
news of the Big Three confer
ence, the Boston Globe today
had a two-inch square of blank
space.
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JGON, THURSDAY, JULY 19,
ARSENAL EXPLOSIONS AND FIRE
DRIVE THOUSANDS FROM HOMES
Loggers Battle Blaze in Oregon
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Loggers work in a pall of smoke, trying to save bridge across Wilson Rtver, Tillamook, Ore., In week-long forest
fire, worst in state since 1929. More than 1600 servicemen and civilians fought blaze covering at least 22,000
acres in rugged mountain country.
HIGHWAY CLOSED
Portland, Ore., July 19 (U.R)
State Forestry Officials closed
the Wilson river highway today
between Glenwood and Tilla
mook Junction as some 3000 fire
fighters fought desperately to
stem two western Oregon forest
fires raging out of control in a
westward direction toward Jor
dan Creek, 18 miles from Tilla
mook. The Wilson rlvnr route, open
ed Tuesday after a closure since
Sunday evening, was closed 6
p. m., Wednesday evening be
cause of snags and hot rocks
along the right of way and be
cause of dense smoke from the
fire, particularly west of McNa
mcr's camp.
Camp In Path
A. J. Ford, district mainten
ance superintendent of the State
Highway Department, said Mc
Namer's camp, a former WPA
construction camp, was In the
path of the fire and believed
burning.
More than 400 fire fighters
from Fort Stevens camped at the
Smith logging operations were
forced to move back to the Tilla
mook air base 20 miles distant,
as the huxe blaze on Its western
front In Tillamook swept coast-
ward on both sides of the Wilson
river.
In Polk county, the Willam
ette Valley Lumber Company
fire broke out of control again,
30 miles west of Dallas, covering
some 2800 acres, according to
Earl Fulgham, company man
ager. He said the fire had de
stroyed an estimated 4,000.000
feet of logs and some $8000
worth of Willamette Valley's
equipment.
Invades Green Timber
The Wilson river conflagration
has also Invaded an island of
green Stlmson timber, a stand
of old-growth Douglas Fir and
the last remaining belt spared
by the famed Tillamook fire of
1939, according to Gordon T.
Hanson, Stlmson official.
State Forester N. S. Rogers de
clared himself as frankly wor
ried over the east wind threat,
particularly along the western
fire boundary.
FLOOD CONTROL 8IGNED
Sacramento, July 19 U.R) Gov.
Earl Warren today signed the
Crittenden Flood Control bill
endorsing 21 U. S. army engi
neers flood control projects and
committing the stale to turnisn
$31,000,000 towards the $500,-
000,000 program.
The American Indians are
making the largest per capita
contribution to the war cllurt.
RIBUNE
United Press Full
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337 Casualties On Carrier
Crashed By Suicide Planes
Washington, July 19 (U.R)
Three hundred and thirty-seven
American fighting men were lost
or injured when two Japanese
suicide planes crashed into the
Aircraft Carrier Ticonderoga
near Formosa early this year and
left the ship in flames, the navy
revealed today.
Of the casualties, 144 are dead
or missing, the navy said in an
nouncing that the 27,000 ton Es
sex class carrier already has
San Francisco, July 19 (U.R)
The leadership of western busi
ness could stimulate post-war
employment for 30,000,000 peo
ple throughout the nation In
such diversified fields as hous
ing, steel, metals, automobiles,
ships, roads and public health,
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser
said today.
In an address before the San
Francisco Chamber of Com
merce, Kaiser surveyed post-war
prospects for the 16 western
states. He said four principles
formed the foundation for future
planning. They were:
1, Full employment; 2, com
petition and fair play; 3, "a
minimum of shelter and protec
tion" for business and "maxi
mum freedom from regulation
and restraint;" 4, new levels of
productivity.
STATE GUARD COMPANIES
PLAN SUNDAY PRACTICE
Officers and men of Head
quarters company and Company
A, Oregon State Guard will as
semble at the armory at 8 a. m.
Sunday to proceed to Camp
White rifle range for rifle prac
tice. Headquarters company
will Install and operate field tel
ephones. Light refreshments
will be prepared by Harry Wales
and dismissal will be around
noon.
BASEBALL
American
Chicago 5 12 0
Boston 3 9 1
, Lee and Trcsh; O'Neill and
Garbark.
National
Brooklyn 15 0
Chicago 3 9 0
Lombnrdl, King (8) and An
drews, Sandlock (8); Wysc and
Williams, -
Leased Wix
Forest Fire
,sl v ft "
been repaired and Is back In the
Pacific.
Skipper Wounded
The story of the Ticonderoga
was a saga of heroic crew and
their skipper, Commodore Dixie
Klefer of Kansas City, who kept
fighting for 12 hours despite 65
body wounds.
On the morning of January 21
the Ticonderoga was launching
planes when a Jap plane came
out of the sun through a cloud
bank and crashed thrdugh the
flight deck. The bomb exploded
between the gallery deck and the
hanger deck, which was packed
with aircraft being refueled and
rearmed.
While the crew fought fire and
pushed burning planes over
board other Japanese sulciders
were attacking the stricken ship.
The Ticonderoga's planes shot
down five of the enemy and snip
anti-aircraft gunners accounted
for three more.
Ship Hit Again
But Just before 1:00 p. m., the
Ticonderoga was hit again, a
Japanese plane and its two
bombs crashed into tne super
structure, setting off more fires
Several top officers were lost
to the Ticonderoga In the sccona
ntlnrk Burch was wounded ser
iously and Klefer. wounded In 65
separate places, lay bleeding on
the bridge.
Butadiene Plant
Seizure Ordered
. Washington. July 19 (U.R)
President Truman tooay oranrcu
Petroleum Administrator Har
old L. Ickcs to seize and oper
t (ho hntndienp Dlant at Hous
ton, Tex., operated by Sinclair
Rubber, inc.
The seizure was ordered be
cause of a strike threat which
Mr Tmmnn said constituted a
ihstnntial and immediate
emergency" in the form of a
threatened Interruption in pro
duction of butadierlie used in
making synthetic rubber.
By The Side Of The Rogue
By Dale Vincent
Under pressure of a growing shopping list demanding Im
mediate attention, we melted and poured Into town on the crest of
countless heat waves. Found a few familiar faces gleaming with
perspiration. Can't help feeling a little sorry for our friends
caught In the web of city demands, with their feet stuck to the
hot pavement. ...., n.n.
It's only tomporary, we know, and In fact w like a littla
heat once in a while to even things up. Kind of makes you ap
preciate those cooler days.
After a sticky two hours of shopping found our parked car
three Inches deep in the melted asphalt. Upon opening the door
a blast of hot air swooped over us with force, and we wended our
blistered way back home.
Staggering across the yard, found the old canvas chair under
the big alder tree that hangs over the cool river and felt mighty
glad that we liko tho simple things of Wo. .
Weather
FORECAST: Filf and warmer
tonight and friday with
ihowrri In blither mountain
tonight and Friday.
Tamp.
Highest Yeiterday 90
Lowest this Morning 56
Prec.
To S a. m today .
...Tract
NO. 100.
SHAKEN AS BIG
SHELLSEXPLODE
Rail Traffic Halted; Boats
Flee Harbor; Shell Blasts
Keep Observers Distant.
Halifax, July 19 (U.R) Fire
spreading uncontrolled through
the nearby Royal Canadian nav
al arsenal set off a continuous
drumfire of heavy ammunition
today, driving thousands from
their homes in Halifax and Dart
mouth and pinning them against
the sea. -'
No trains were leaving or ar
riving and all boats had fled the
harbor.
Casualties Light
Casualties were small. Only
14 persons were reported in
jured as military and city offi
cials acted swiftly to evacuate
the north ends of both towns
along plans drawn up during
the war. No deaths had been re
ported, The arsenal , area was entirely
cleared. Oficials, admitting that
casualties were unexpectedly
light, said the number might in
crease when communications
were established with the small
towns of Tuft's cove and Bed
ford, nearer the arsenal. Evac
uees from there said damage
was heavy in both sections.
Halifax Rocked
Six heavy explosions had
echoed from the arsenal at 3
a. m., shattering windows in
towns along the bay. The sixth
rocked Halifax from end to end
and plunged the city Into dark
ness. Residents fled as far as they
could from the arsenal area,
crowding against the sea at the
south end of the two principal
cities.
The sky was bright all night
long as tongues of fire shot hun
dreds (of feet into the air above
the 600 acre armament depot.
Exploding shells kept all persons
from approaching by land or sea
to learn the damage or how
much uncxploded ammunition
remained.
Police said damage in the
Noya Scotia capital would
amount close to $1,000,000 from
broken windows alone. Streets
were littered with glass from
windows that had only recently
been repaired after being smash
in V-day celebrations.
Quick Grab Saves
Scaffold Worker
New York, July 19 (U.R) A
quick grab at a rope saved the
life of Max Bayer, 40, when a
scaffold shot from under him,
19 stories above the street today.
His son, Irving, 17, who was on
the other end of the scaffold
plunged to a parking lot below
and was instantly killed.
Father and son were water
proofing a window at 114 W.
41st street, when the rope hold
ing the scaffold broke at the end
on which the son was standing.
The father seized the parted
rope with one hand, holding on.
PACKING HOUSE STRIKE
KNOTS MEAT SITUATION
St. Louis, Mo., July 19 (U.R)
Fifteen hundred workers in three
St. Louis packing houses went
on strike today, further aggra
vating an already serious meat
situation.