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Fortieth Year
Premier Josef Stalin greets President
left Is seen Secretary of State
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World Peace and Prosperity Only Aim
Truman
Berlin, July 20 (U.R) Presi
dent Truman, speaking briefly at
a symbolic hoisting of the Stars
and Stripes over Berlin, said to
day that America's only aim was
worldwide peace and prosperity,
Involving no territorial ambi
tions. Truman was flanked by the
American chieftains who took
leading roles in the defeat of
Germany Gen. Dwight D. Ei
senhower, Secretary of War
Henrv L. Stimson, Gen. Omar
N. Bradley and Gen. George S.
Patton, whose presence in Ber-
WEAKENING JAPS
Chungking, July 20 (U.R)
Chinese forces pounded a weak
ening Japanese defense through
out southeast China today.
Troops driving on the former
great American airbase at Kwci
lin, have recaptured Laipo, 55
miles to the south, and are now
moving against Yangso, a Chi
nese communique said.
While Chinese units pushed
for Yangso. in Kwangsl province
approximately 30 miles south of
Kwcilin, other troops in the Kan
river valley of south central
Kiangsi province battled fiercely
with a large Japanese force. Most
of the fighting took place at
points west of Taiho. 150 mites
southeast of Changsha, as the
Japanese attempted to keep from
being driven north.
VALLEY APPLE CROP
60 CARS THIS YEAR
The apple crop of the valley
this fall will be approximately
60 cars, according to Charles A.
Wing, orchardist, and one of the
main apple growers here. The
total is 15 or 20 cars more than
shipped last year.
Waste Paper Depots Listed
Collection of wast paper will be mad Monday, July 23, in
Jackson county, starting at 9 a. m., according to the Shrine com
mittee in charge of the salvage drive.
In Medford. paper to be picked up should be placed on the
curb in residential districts and in the business diitrict should
be placed in regular loading sones. Those who wish to deliver
their own bundles may take the paper to the central salvage
depot at the Armory. ....
Those living in rural districts are requested to leave their
bundles at the following salvage sub-depots:
Berrydale In front of Big "Y" Market at Junction of High
way 99 and Midway road.
Howard School District Howard Grocery Store, opposite
Howard School. ....
Central Point Associated Service Station, Highway 99.
Foots Creek Foots Creek Store.
Rogue River Teede Cardin,
Sams Valley Grange Hall.
Table Rock Table Rock Store.
Applegate Pernoll Store.
Jacksonville West side of U. S. Hotel.
Ruch Sunnyside Service Station.
Eagle Point Mrs. Frank Brown. Library.
Shady Cove Roguedal Store. Paul Davis.
Trail Trail Store, H. Howe.
McLeod Neil's Resort. Wm. NeU.
Prospect Grieve's Store. Ludow Grieve.
Gold Hill Scout Hall. Mr. Gilchrist.
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United Press
President calls on Stalin
(Acme Radio-Telephoto)
Harry S. Truman as the latter calls at Stalin's Berlin residence. At
James Byrnes and (right) Soviet ForeUn Minister Molotov.
Declares In Flag Raising Talk
lin for the bigthree conference
was revealed for the first time.
Historic Flag
The flag was raised at 2 p. m.
over U. S. group control council
headquarters in a former air
defense barracks in the Dahlem
suburb was the one lifted over
Algiers and Rome. It fluttered
over the . capital when a state of
war with Germany, Italy and
Japan was declared.
Truman spoke for five min
utes at the ceremony wedged
into the round of big three con
ferences, over which the obscur
ing veil of secrecy still hung.
Admiral Emory Land, Ameri
can war shipping administrator,
and his staff were revealed to
have arrived to join the big three
consultations. They reached the
closely guarded Potsdam com
pound yesterday.
"This is fl historic occasion,"
Truman said at the flag raising
ceremony. "We have conclusive
ly proven that a free people can
successfully look after the af
fairs of the world."
In Name of People
He said that in raising the
flag it should be remembered
that this was done in the name
of the people of the United Stntes
who were looking forward to a
better world with the benefits
shared by all, not Just a few at
the top.
He disclaimed any American
interest in the territories of the
world, and reaffirmed that his
country had no other goal than
the securing of peace and pros
perity for all the peoples.
The president's voice tensed
with emotion and determination
as he said:
"We are not interested in con
quest, and do not want a single
piece of territory from this war.
We Just want peace and pros
perity that Is what we are
fighting for. and that Is what
we propose to win. .
"Let us not forget we arc
fighting for the peace and wel
fare of mankind."
Truman Host
Eisenhower and Bradley
lunched with Mr. Truman before
EDFORD
Full Lasted Wirt
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY
the flag raising. Last night the
president gave a state dinner in
the little white house, at which
he played the piano for Prime
Minister Churchill. Premier
Stalin and his other guests.
Authorities revealed that
Churchill was Sti.lin'j guest at a
private dinner Wednesday night.
The belated British announce:
ment of the Stalin-Churchill din
ner appeared to be aimed at spik
ing reports of a growing cool
ness between the two conferees.
MONARCHY STEP
SEEN IN SPAIN
Madrid, July 20 (U.R) . A
sweeping reorganization of the
Spanish government was report
ed imminent today in an ap
parent move by Gen. Francisco
Franco to break the falange and
smooth Spain's way back into
the good graces of the united
nations.
Authoritative sources said
Franco might announce the
shake-up today and that it defi
nitely would be made public
within the next three or four
days.
The reorganization, as report
ed in informed Madrid quarters,
would give Spain a center-rightist
government and would ob
viously be a step toward the
restoration of the monarchy,
which Franco announced Tues
day as one of his ultimate aims.
Washington, July 20 (U.R)
Acting Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson says the War de
partment has flatly turned down
oil rpmiests to discharge men
from the army solely on occu
pational grounds to fill civilian
needs.
i "If we authorized the dls
: charge of all those for whom re
quests have been received, we
would have to release In re
sponse to this demand at least
1,000.000 men," he said. "We
would then be forced to aban
don the present system of dis
charging soldiers on the merit
system."
GI's Yoo Hoo As
General Debarks
Boston, July 20 (U.R) Lt.
1 Gen. Ben Lear strode down the
gangplank of the Transport
Mariposa today while behind
him echoed a chorus of "Yoo
Hoo's" from hundreds of home
coming GI's aboard the ship.
Staring sternly ahead, the de
puty commander of the Euro
Dean theater of operations and
former commanding general of
i army ground forces was the first
ou the troopship.
PARTICIPAlluii
READYFOR PEN
House Completes Legisla
tive Action; U. S. Would
Put $6 Billion Into Funds.
Washington, July 20 (U.R)
The house today completed leg
islative action on a bill authoriz
ing United States participation
in the International bank and
stabilization fund contemplated
under the Bretton Woods fiscal
agreements.
Only Mr. Truman's signature
on the bill remains to make this
country the first nation ready to
join the proposed $8,800,000,000
monetary stabilization fund and
the $9,100,000,000 International
bank of Reconstruction.
The U. S. would put a maxi
mum of nearly $6,000,000,000 in
to the two funds.
Minor Changes
The senate passed the bill late
yesterday by a vote of 61 to 16.
As soon as the bill was re
ceived by the house today, Chair
man Brent Spence, D., Ky., of
the banking committee, asked
the house to accept three minor
senate amendments. The house
agreed without a dissenting vote.
The senate meanwhile began
debate on another phase of the
administration's internat 1 o n a 1
economic program a bill to
give the Export-Import bank an
additional $2,800,000,000 for Its
lending operations. The bill al
ready has been approved by the
house and the senate is expected
to pass it without change.,
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DR. FARLEY IS
GORED BY BULL
Dr. Kenneth C. Farley, gov
ernment veterinarian at Jack
sonville, was painfully but not
critically injured early in the
week when he was attacked by
a bull at the Mlnear farm near
Jacksonville, according to Infor
mation received today. Dr. Far-.
ley was testing the bull when
the animal suddenly attacked
him, the report stated. He was
said to be suffering from four
broken ribs and head and chest
injuries.
Community hospital attend
ants said today that he is Im-
proving. Visitors are not al
lowed to see him yet. friends
said today.
Five Ward Units
' Again in Hands .
Of Army Officers
Chicago, July 20 (U.R) Five
units of Montgomery Ward and
Co. were again under army con
trol today because the mail order
firm reportedly refused to put
Into effect directives of the na
tional War Labor Board.
The units, included In 17
Wards properties seized last Dec.
28, had been returned to the
company earlier this year.
Approximately 600 workers
are employed in the warehouse,
printing plant, photographic
unit, display factory and admin
istration maintenance depart
ment taken over yesterday.
CORPORATE TAX BILL
COMPLETED IN HOUSE
Washington, July 20 (U.R)
The House completed action to
day on a corporate tax bill rais
ing the excess profits tax exemp
tion and authorizing a speed-up
In payment of more than $5,000,
000.000 in tax refunds.
The bill is designed to assist
Industrial reconversion. It does
not change any taxes on individ
uals. DEATH SENTENCE
Manchester Vt., July 20 (U.R)
Harold Frottcn, 26, former
carnival worker, was sentenced
today to death In the electric
chair for the shotgun slaying of
his sweethearts father, Robert
Stratton, 55. of Woodford.
FOOSEVELTS BUY HOME
Beverly Hills, Calif., July 20
(U.R) Col. and Mrs. James
Roosevelt have bought a two
story English brick home here
In which they plan to move In
about six weeks, it was disclosed
today.
Old Traffic Fine
Paid In Japanese
Invasion Currency
Portland, Ore., July 20
(U.R) The city of Portland was
in receipt today of a 1942 traf
fic fine paid by Seaman Steve
Hauser of Scappoose, Ore.
In fact the city was paid in
Japanese "phoney money," in
vasion pesos issued in the
Philippines.
Police officials decided after
s huddle to accept the "pay
ment" and cancel an old war
rant for Hauser's arrest. The
Jap money will be auctioned
off at the Aug. 14 meeting of
tlie Portland Police Fun so
ciety for benefit of the Shrine
hospital for Crippled Children.
ES FLEE
AS FIRE RACES
OUT OF CONTROL
Portland, Ore., July 20 (U.R)
About 20 families in the Glen-
wood area of Washington county
have been moved from their
homes by the Army as the Wil
son river forest fire flared out
of .control today, reversing itself
in an easterly direction after
racing westward all day Thurs
day. Refugees set up camp at Balm
Grove, south of Gales Creek,
while 40 other families prepared
to pile into Army trucks, should
the flames approach nearer to
their homes.
Near Hamlet
The fire had spurted to within
500 feet of the Glenwood ham
let, threatening stands of old-
growth timber, and the Consoll-
dated Company Logging a mile
and a half from this community
However, fighters said they had
checked this sector, at-least tern
porarlly.
State Forestry Officials said
the blaze was raging on the east
ern front in Washington county,
between the Tillamook-Wash-
ington county line at the coast
range summit and the foothills
leading down toward Glenwood
and Gales Creek near Forest
Grove.
While a new fire camp was be
ing established on the lower
Wilson river for 200 more sol'
dlers. Forestry Officials pre.
pared to call out still more
troops from Camp Adair, Fort
Lewis and Fort Stevens. It was
estimated that already some 2,.
000 men are combating the Wil
son river blaze, covering nearly
36,000 acres.
Sailors Fight Ftrt ' -
Sailors from the Tillamook
Air Base were sent to another
critical area late Thursday to
backfire in an attempt to halt
the westward progress of a bad
flareup lust south of Jordon
Creek in the Fouthwest corner
of the fire area.
To the south. In Polk county
fire was burning In green tim
ber today after sweeping
through the old Willamette Val
lev Lumber Company camp
Thursday night.
ENTIRE 44TH DIVISION
ON QUEEN ELIZABETH
New York, July 20 (U.R)
The Oucen Elizabeth, carrying
tha 44th Infantry division's 14,.
766 officers and men, arrived in
New York harbor today to re
ceive a noisy greeting fn
cores of other craft.
The GI's aboard the huge liner
were part of the 31,455 troops
arriving in the narpor xoaay
the largest number of Amerlcjn
soldiers to arrive in a single day
since V-E day.
As the Queen Elizabeth
world's largest liner, sailed ma
jestically up the Hudson river
the weather cleared to give the
returning soldiers a bright greet
ing. BASEBALL
American
St. Louis 4 S 1
New York 3 8
Jakucki and Mancuso; Gcttcl,
Holcombe (7) and Drescher.
Chlcaao . 6 11 1
Boston 3 11 3
Lopat and Tresh; Hausman,
Barrett (3), Terry (6) and Gar
bark. National
Brooklyn 10 13 2
Chicago - 4 5 1
Seats, Buker (5), Chipman (8),
Starr (8) and Sandlock; Passeau,
Erkkson (5J and Livingston.
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United Press Full
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COAL TO EUROPE
TO AVOID ANARCHY
Fuel Administrator Would
Skimp Home Use to Pre
vent Upheavals Abroad.
Washington, July 20 (U.R)
Solid Fuels Administrator Har
old L. Ickes said today that coal
shipments must be started to
Europe immediately to prevent
anarchy.
He said that after studying tne
desperate European coal situa
tion he had come to the conclu
sion that 6,000.000 tons of Amer
ican coal must be shipped for
civilian use between now and
Jan. 1, 1946.vThis is about one
per cent of U. S. annual produc
tion.
U. S. Output Short
Only last night Ickes warned
that the United States itself fac
es the "worst fuel shortage of
the war" during the coming win
ter. The War Production Board
meanwhile put the production of
coal mining machinery on the
production urgency list.
'The race in Europe today Is
one between coal and anarchy,"
Ickes said. "Europe must have
coal without loss of time If ser
ious political and social upheav
als are to be prevented.
"I do not think that lt is go
ing too far to say that a coal
famine of such severity as to de
stroy all semblance of law and
order is certain to occur in cer
tain devastated countries in
northwest Europe next winter
unless Immediate and drastic ac
tion is taken now."
Risk Is Seen
' Ickes in no way minimized the
risk this country "may have to
suffer" In the way of a coal
shortage next winter.
"We may have to curtail In
dustrial supplies to the point
that will mean a partial or com
plete shutdown of some plants,"
he said "We may even have to
reduce the 80 per cent quota
which we have fixed for domes
tic consumption." ,
But. he added, no Europeans
whother thev be French, Italian,
German or Dutch, will accept
extreme fuel shortage "without
disorder." Cold and hunger are
expected to kill thousands of
adults and children during the
rnmlne winter he pointea oui,
The least this country can do, he
said, is to provide enougn coai
to keeo pubic utilities operating,
to cook, and to keep water from
freezing in millions of European
homes
Australians Press
Toward Borneo Oil
Manila. July 20 U.R Aus
tralian troops pressed toward the
rich oil belt around Samarlnda
and the mouth of the Mahakam
river, in eastern Borneo, today
after capturing Sambodja, 28
mllp northeast of Ballkpapan.
Rnth Australian and Dutch
East Indies troops smashed two
stubborn Japanese counterat
tacks in the area north of Ballk
papan, and Japan's grip on Bor
neo rich on supply appcarcu
vastly weakened.
TEACHER SHORTAGE IN
COUNTY RURAL AREAS
A hnrtaee of teachers for
rural schools In Jackson county
now exists, County School Super
intendent C. R. Bowman reports.
The lack ranging from 10 to 15,
Is mainly in the one and two-
room schools.
Routine details In preparation
tor opening of the schools in the
fall are underway In the super
intendent's office. Opening dates
In September will depend on the
harvest labor situation in many
districts.
GAS STOVE RATIONING
WILL CEASE JULY 31
Washington. July 20 (U.R)
The War Production board and
the Office of Price administra
tion announced Jointly today
that rationing of gas cooking and
gas heating stoves for civilian
consumers will end July 31.
Rationing will continue for
oil cooking and oil heating
stoves and oil conversion burn
ers for stoves.
Portland, Ore., July 20 (U.R)
Kaiser company's Swan Island
shipyard here will honor the
U. S. Marine corps Saturday In
the launching of the S. S. Halls
of Montezuma,
Leased Wlri
NO. 101.
Tokyo Bay Blasted
(Acme Tele photo)
Naval units shell Cape Nojima at en
trance to Tokyo Bay after bombing
planes hammered Japanese Navj
hideout in Yokosuka base, In bid to
flush out remnants ol Nlo fleet.
SOONG SEES END
Chungking, July 20 (U.R)
Premier T. V. Soong, who re
cently conferred in Moscow with
Generalissimo Josef Stalin, pre
dicted today the war against
Japan will be finished late In
1045 or early in 1046.
He made the prediction to
cheering delegates of the Peo
ples Political council, meeting In
their closing session.
Soong told the delegates his
conferences with Stalin were not
yet completed. They were
broken off temporarily prior to
Stalin's meeting at Potsdam with
Prime Minister Winston Churc
hill and President Harry S. Tru
man. Soong withheld formal com
ment on results of the confer
ence. . . . :
Sams Valley Man
Hurt in Austria
Wife is Notified
T5 Guy E. Payne, 23, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Emerson
Payne of Sams Valley, was ser
iously injured in a jeep wreck
June 24 in Austria, according to
Information received by his
wife who makes her home at Rt.
2, Box 343, Ashland.
Injuries sustained by Cpl.
Payne are described as five se
vere breaks of the pelvis, and
numerous scratches. He was re
moved to a hospital In Paris, and
is awaiting shipment home now.
Payne has been in the army
since 1942, and went overseas
with a tank battalion last Sep
tember. He and Mrs. Payne have
a 10-months old son.
Bill Would Provide
Veteran With Duds
Washington, July 1 20 (U.R)
Discharged servicemen, under a
ne.w bill pending In the senate,
would receive $150 worth of
clothes, along with their dis
charge pay,
The bill would provide each
dischargeo with $150 In nego
tiable treasury coupons to be
used to buy a new civilian out
fit when he discards his uniform.
HARBOR PERILED
San Diego, July 20 (U.R)
Unless some program is adopted
soon to prevent soil erosion,
many sections of New York har
bor w(ll be blocked and continu
ous dredging will be necessary
to keep the harbor open. Rep.
James P. Gcelan, D., Conn., said
today.
MIUKlVJ (f
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By The Side Of The Rogue
By Dale Vincent
With the thermometer seemingly stuck In the above-ninety
bracket one's thoughts turn wishfully to cool waters. It good
time to go fishing Sunday, Saturday, or In the evening after the
day's work Is done. Even if no fish are caught and you haven t
a pole. It's a good alibi: "Goln' fishln'."
Where the Rogue flows there are riffles and the water seems
to leap In a sort of Joyful playfulness. The water is cool and
pleasant. You wade In and it gurgles round your legs. Its cool
ncss goes through you. You wade deeper; the water laps your
waist. A slick rock, your balance lost, and under you go. It J
really cool now, and you wonder how you could ever have been
so hot Just a moment ago. ,
You cast your line into the glinting riffle. There Is quick
tug, and your pulse quickens. A shiny silver trout flashes from
the'water and Is lodged In your creel.
But suppose you catch no trout. Who cares? The outing,
though short, has given a taste of outdoors, and has made you lit
again. It really very pleasant dayl
U. S. FLEET
IS TOKYO WORD
Fires Still Flame Above Hon
shu War Centers; Halsey's
Fleet Steams Off Coast.
Pearl Harbor, July 20 (U.R)
Nerve-shattered Japan waited
for the next blow today after be
ing told by its own propagandists
that Admiral Wm. F. Halsey's
mighty combined fleet is steam
ing somewhere off the Japanese
coast preparing for a new strike.
Fires still flamed above five
Honshu war centers which were
gutted during the night by a rec
ord force of American Super
fortresses. Tokyo,' still vibrating from 11
days and nights of intermittent
naval and air attack which saw
7,500 tons of bombs and shells
crashing into a 600-mile strip of
Japan's Pacific coast, warned its
people that the attack might
come again at any minute.
Fleet OU Coast
The Japanese said Admiral
Halsey's 150 battleships, carriers,
cruisers, and supporting war
craft were still maneuvering off
western Honshu after thrusting
into the mouth of Tokyo bay ear
ly Thursday in an attempt to
lure the Japanese fleet out to
fight.
Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz gave no additional details
on the bombardment of Nojima
Cape.
In the Superfortress raid over
600 Marianas-based B-29's, the
biggest fleet of these planes yet
used, left a 310-mile trail of fire
and ruin across central Honshu
before dawn today. This carried
the pre-invaslon attack Into its
45th consecutive day.
The sky giants rumbled across
their targets around midnight
dropping almost 4,000 tons of
Jellied gasoline fire bombs on
the industrial cities of Hitachi,
Okazaki, Choshi, Fukul, and the
oil refinery at Smagasaki in the
suburbs of Osaka.
Fires Yet Rag
Tokyo claimed that Itaga,
west of Nagoya, and Takahagl,
13 miles southeast of Hitachi, al
so were hit with big fires yet
raging.
At Fukui, the raiders cams
over while the city's lights stUl
beamed brightly.
The Smagasaki refinery -was
the 10th big Japanese oil center
hit by the Supcrforts in their 95
major raids on the Japanese
homeland.
The 4,000 tons of fire bombs
dropped during the raid raised
the total to 13,300 tons of explo
sive and incendiary . missiles
showered on Japan In the past
11 days. Compiled with the fleet
attacks this figure grows to the
staggering total of 21,000 tons
of bombs and shells.
Admiral Nimitz also revealed
that navy and marine fliers sank
or damaged 16 more Japanese
ships off Korea Wednesday, and
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's army
fliers bagged another 29 in
sweeps along the Asiatic coast.
MacArthur's planes, operating
from Okinawa and Iwo Jima, hit
air and communications targets
on Kyushu, destroying 11 en
emy aircraft.
A second powerful MacArthur
force, numbering some 200
heavies, mediums and light
bombers with escorting fighters
gave Shanghai its heaviest
pounding of the war on Tuesday.
The Chinese port received 300
tons, mostly around the big
Kiangan airfield.
Soldiers to Help
Operate Railroads
Portland, Ore., July 20 (U.R)
Several soldiers from Portland
port of embarkation and Van
couver barracks were on their
way today to report to western
railroads for duty in the man
power crisis that has arisen in
connection with redeployment of
troops and the movement of sup
plies for the stepped-up war
against Japan.
These are the first men from
this unit dispatched for emer
gency duty, und others may fol
low, it was Indicated.