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Highest Yesterday ......90
Lowest this Morning
Fortieth Year
fRain Gives Firefighters New Hope
MILLS SHUT DOWN KAISER
1 TO HELP BATTLE
1 TILLAMOOK BLAZE
Scout Planes Fly Over Area
To Gather Data; Smoke
Handicaps Lookouts.
Portland, Or e, July 25 (U.R)
Light rain today 'heartened
fighters pitted against the 90,-000-acre
forest fire in western
Oregon, which State Forester
Nels S Rogers called "a powder
keg of catastrophic dimensions"
and which he said could be
checked only by heavy rain.
The drizzle came after the
fire, on the Wilson river, jumped
fire trails Tuesday night six
miles south of Glenwood and
swept down the Scoggins valley
north of Stimson's logging camp
in western Washington county.
With the aid of the light rain,
crews established a new trail
around the fringe of the advance.
Planes Survey Area
Scout planes were flying over
the fire area lo gather data for
use in attacking new fires sweep
ing through rugged mountain
terrain But dense smoke clouds
had all but obliterated the fire
from view of mountain lookouts
or scouting aviators.
Forestry officials said they
were expecting a northwest
wind which would drive numer
ous spot fires on the west side
of the Tillamook fire area Dae
into the main conflagration, giv
ing fire patrols natural aid in
controlling the blaze. Showers
were forecast for later this
week.
MilU Cloie
Lumber mills In the vicinity
were reported shutting down
and. sending their crews to as
sist begrimed volunteer civilian
and servicemen who had been
battling the fire for the past two
Forest Rangers said the 'fire
was the greatest since the 250,
000 acre Tillamook county out
break of 1933. More than 2000
firemen, soldiers and sailors us
ing tank trucks, bulldozers and
mobile equipment, and pack
horses have been fighting the
blaze in some of the northwest's
most inacessible mountain coun
try.
A crew of 170 men held aarc awarded solely on the basis
Wan. in the Whitman forest at
Big Canyon in eastern Oregon to
about VOl) acres in rum vuum.j,
Ore , a fire now covering 12,
000 acres was reported to be get
ting out of hand.
blazTbattled
One hundred men, including
50 soldiers from Camp White
and 50 regular state forest patrol
crewmen are today fighting a
forest fire Just north of the Sav
age creek dam, about 25 miles
from Medford. The blaze start
ed from unknown causes about
3 p. m. yesterday, and the men
fought it throughout the night.
Another group of 50 soldiers was
dispatched to the blaze this
morning to relieve the first men.
. Some timber is burning in the
fire, but most of the flames arc
confined to an old bumed-off
area, according to the forest pa
trol headquarters.
Starting in Josephine county,
the fire spread across the Jack
son county line, and is now burn
ing just across the river from
the mouth of Savage creek on
Fielder mountain.
Slate forest patrolmen were al
so riisnalchrd yesterday after
noon to a small grass fire near
Gold Hill.
STRANGE CATdH
Gloucester, Mass.. July 25
(U.R) The fishing vessel Angie
and Florence arrived in port to
day with its usual load of fish
and two deer which were pick
ed up while swimming in the
occau about live miles oil shore. '3
MEDFORD
United Pris .Full Liaied Wirt
TO
BIG, CHEAP AUTO
IFIC COAST
Ship Building King and Gra
ham-Paige Auto Co. Form
Corporation For Venture
San Francisco, July 25 (U.R)
The Henry J. Kaiser Co. and
the Giaham-Paige Motors Corp.
today announced formation of a
new .corporation to manufacture
a large, light-weight, low-priced
automobile on the Pacific coast.
At a press conference Kaiser
officials announced that pres
ent plans call for manufacture
and delivery of the automobile
to the public early next year.
The new corporation will be
owned jointly by Kaiser and
Graham-Paige. Its capitalization
will be five million shares at a
par value of one dollar a share,
Howard Lindbergh, assistant
to Kaiber, said surveys are now
under way to determine the lo
cation of the plant. He said con
sideration has been given to con
struction of a plant convenient
to shipping.
Also under consideration is
the use of shipyard facilities and
airplane plants for construction
of parts.
OLOERNAVY MEN
TO BE RELEASED
Washington, July 25 (U.R)
Some 30,000 older navy and
coast guard reserve officers and
men were assured today of dis
charge by December under the
navy's new point discharge plan.
The plan was formally put in
to effect. last night. It is design
ed to return to civilian life "old
er officers and men who have
contributed their full share of
wartime service."
Here's how it works:
A total of 63 to 57 points Is
needed for discharge, depending
on the arm of service. Joints
of age and length of service.
One point is allowed for each
year of age to the nearest birth
day, and one point for each four
months of active duty complet
ed since Sept. 1, 1939.
The navy estimated that 30,-
600 reservists 11,600 officers
and 19,000 enlisted men would
be eligible for release under the
svstem of December. However,
since the plan is continuous, dis
charges will go on after that as
men accumulate necessary
points.
Discharges will begin imme
diately but there may be delays
of up to six montljs to prevent
impairment of efficiency.
A similar system is reportedly
under consideration by the ma
rines. Reserve officers of the med
ical, dental and chaplain corps
are excluded until personnel
shortages are overcome. '
BOY CYCLIST INJURED
IN TANGLE WITH CAR
Robert Shultz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Burton Shultz, 1715 Spring
street, is recovering in Commun
ity hospital from ' Injuries suf
fered yesterday afternoon when
his bicycle collided on Almond
street with a car driven by Mrs.
Richard B. Smith. 214 Vancouv
er street. The boy's injuries are
described as not serious.
CENTRAL POINT MAN
ASSAULTED, ROBBED'
Dave Hickcn, Route 1, Central
Point, reported to state police at
3:30 this morning that he had
been robbed of $400 by a man
whu hit him over the head with
a, bottle while in a local tavein,
state police reported today. The
attack reportedly. occurred about
a.m.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY
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Ion. Columns of smoke rise from Suwanee (No. 4) following suicide strike. The vessel, recovered from near
mortal blow. Is now back In service.
Harassed Petain Refuses To Answer Queries
About Message Sent Nazis After Dieppe Raid
Paris, July 25 (U.R) Haggard
and harrassed, Marshal Henri
Philippe Petain today defied a
French high court trying him for
treason, refusing to answer ques
tions about a message he sent
to the nazis after the Dieppe raid
in 1942.
Through his counsel Petain
stubbornly refused to comply
with an order by Judge Pierre
Mongibeaux that he answer
questions about his reaction to
the Dieppe commando assault.
Marshal Weakening
The old marshal showed clear
signs of weakening under the
three days of testimony denoun
cing him as a traitor to France.
He fingered his gloves nervously
during the wrangle with the
judge, and was heard to com
plain querlously to bystanders:
"I don't know what is going
DEATH SUMMONS
Washington, July 25 (U.R)
Gen. Malin Craig, former army
chief of staff, died today at Wal
ter Reed hospital
Craig, who would have been
70 years old Aug. 5, had been ill
for more than a year.
. He served as army chief of
staff from Oct. 3, 1935 to Aug.
1. 1939. . .
Announcement of Craig s
death was made by Acting Sec
retary of War Robert P. Patter
son. Funeral services and burial
will be private. Interment will
be at Arlington National ceme
tery. Date of the burial will be
announced later.
Willys Will Build
Buzz Bomb Flood
Toledo, O., July 25 (U.R).
The Willys -Overland Motors.
Inc., here has been awarded a
new prime contract calling for
a "tremendous increase in the
production of buzz bombs," the
Toledo Joint Program Informa
tion bureau announced today.
Work on the JB-2 bomb is
scheduled to begin in August
and continue through August,
1946. Approximately 650 work
ers have been added to Willis
aircraft department.
80 - degree dive, Yank pilot unaware of
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Paris, July 25 (U.R) Al
bert Lebrun, last president of
France's third republic, sobbed
today as he said that Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain de
manded his resignation, in
sisted on an armistice, and
fought a move to continue re
sistance from North Africa.
on. I am very hard of hearing
The dispute over the Dieppe
telegram broke out after
Edouard Daladier, the third for
mer French premier to accuse
Petain in the three days of the
trial, completed his formal testi
mony.
Daladier ripped into Petain
with an oratorical vigor that
worked up to a frenzy of shout
ing, his face flushed crimson
and streaked with tears, his voice
choking with emotion
Resuming his testimony where
he left off at the adjournment of
court last night, Daladier charg
ed that Petain and the Vichy re
gime of which he was chief of
state was bent solely on the "de
struction of the French republic
and of democracy."
Beyond Mandate
Accusing Petain of going be
yond the mandate given him by
tne national assembly mcctine
at Vichy "under the pressure of
Uerman bayonets," Daladier
cried:
"We saw the birth of a regime
which, under the name of the
French state, was to replace the
republic, supported by a band of
adventurers and traitors,
"We, however, refused to be
lieve in France's irremediable
defeat, and left on June 20, 1940,
on the steamer Mausilia. While
on the high soas we learned of
the armistice conditions, and de
cided to organize in North Afri
ca a resistance movement among
French patriots."
But Daladier was brought
back to France to become a
prisoner and to face a nazi-dom-inated
French court in the In
completed riom'trials.
Daladier then told of his hope
inai i-ciain wouia raise the flag I
oi resistance at the time of the
allied invasion of north Africa.
"At thot time of the American
landings in north Africa," he
said, "I expected great things
from Vichy, but was terribly dis
appointed when I saw that noth
ing happened.
No Hearing Given
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25, 1945;
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enemy's presence. Approaching O,
IW.nU B llf l-fl IfCm f t. flrt InrrftMIIM.
prisonment at Bourrasol, charg
ing that Petain took judicial
powers upon himself and in Oc
tober, 1941, "I was condemned
without even having been
heard."
While in prison, he said, he re
ceived a message from officers
of Pctain's personal army say
ing that they were ready with
supplies and arms to join in a
resistance movement. But noth
ing came of it.
Dr. Philips Remains
Ori Examining Board
Dr. S. E. Philips, Medford veter
inarian, has been reappointed to
the state veterinary medical ex
amining board by Governor Earl
Snell, according to a United
Press dispatch today. Dr. Philips
has served on the board for one
year, completing an unexpired
appointment of Dr. Emmctt Kan
trall, former Grants Pass veteri
narian. The present appointment is
for a four-year term, Dr. Philips
states, and his duties will include
assisting in administering exam
inations for the state board
which controls licensing of prac
ticing veterinarians.
"Brass" Playboys In Paris
Caught In Roundup of Jeeps
Paris, July 25 (U.R) Paris'
Joy-riding Jeep round-up con
tinued on an intensified scale to
day with military police halting
hundreds of army vehicles along
the Champs Elysccs and and the
Place De La Concorde.
Last night large crowds of
G. I.'s, surrounded by slightly
bewildered civilians, gathered
at the MP's favorite "Jeep traps"
and alternately cheered or whis
tled as car after car was waved
to the curb.
Military policemen have
nnbhed 321 vehicle in two Huvi
of track ns downs nillilnrv
transport being used for such
non-military purposes as carry
ing about beautiful blondes.
The highpoint last night came
with the halting of a brigadier
general's staff car. The general
was accompanied by a titian
lialred French' girl.
After much heated discussion
lie stalked oil iu ouc direction
1 RIBUNE
United Prees Full Leased WirA
TO FRANKFURT TO
SEE EISENHOWER
Foreign Secretaries to Con
tinue Conference While
Churchill Goes Home.
Potsdam, July 25 (U.R) Pres
ident Truman will fly to Frank
furt tomorrow to confer with
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
review American troops during
the brief recess in the Big Three
conference, it was announced to
day. It was also learned that during
Churchill's absence the three
nations' foreign secretaries will
continue to confer with Sir Alex
ander Cadogan, permanent un
der secretary of foreign affairs,
sitting in for Anthony Eden. -Delegations
Intact
Aside from the British delega
tion members departing for Lon
don it was understood that both
the American and Soviet delega
tions would remain intact until
the conference ends sometime
next week.
Conference business will con
tinue at all levels except at the
top.
No Americans of any Import
ance have left the Potsdam meet
ing, nor do any plan to leave it.
On this ninth day of the meet
ing the strictest secrecy still cov
ered all details of Big Three dis
cussions and most secret of all
was the question of the continued
presence of the three nations'
military and naval chiefs.
E
EOR VOTE NEWS
London, July 25 (U.R)
Prime Minister Churchill ar
rived by plane from Potsdam
this afternoon to await an
nouncement tomorrow of the re
sults of Britain's election.
Churchill arrived in London
shortly after 3:20 p. m., and left
by automobile for 10 Downing
Street Immediately,
Tonight he will be received in
audience by King George VI.
He arrived to find British po
litical forecasters predicting that
his Conservative party probably
would not poll more than 40 per
cent of the popular vote but it
was generally expected he
would retain a plurality if not a
majority in the House of Com
mons. Surplus Warplanes
Sought For Airlines
Washington, July 25 (U.R)
The army was urged today to
rush 1,000 passenger type planes
back from Europe to help relieve
the nation's transportation jam.
The proposal came from Chair
man James M. Mead, D., N. Y.,
of the Senate War Investigating
committee with a promise that
he would seek quick action by
the air forces.
while the girl left In the other,
calling, "I'll sec you later,
daddy."
The provost marshal's office
explained that the Impounded
cars could only be released by
the "next highest authority."
This means if a major lost a car,
his colonel would have to get it
back.
Twice within 41 minutes two
colonels, accompanied by come
ly civilians, were halted and es
corted to the marshal's office.
Sgt. Guy Richard of Thibo
daux, La., said, "one of those
colonels was madder than hell."
The provost marshal's office
said the hunt was prompted by
a letter to the army daily, Stars
and Stripes, in which the writer
said he had counted 104 army
vehicles occupied by "officers
and mademoiselles."
The writer asked, "Don't they
need any gasoline in" the I'dcif-icj."
NO. 105.
CHARTER PLEDGES
WHEELER IS TOLD
Illinois Senator Lucas Warns
Isolationist Against At
tempts to Limit Delegate.
Washington, July 25 (U.R)
Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D., 111., told
the senate today that ratification
of the United Nations charter
would automatically pledge this
country to furnish troops to
maintain future peace.
Lucas spoke in reply to Sen.
Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont.,
who announced yesterday that
he will vote for charter ratifica
tion. But Wheeler, a long-time
isolationist leader, coupled that
statement with a warning that
he plans to lead a fight later
against placing American forces
at the automatic disposal of the
World Security Council to be
established under the charter.
Obligation Taken
"When we pass this charter we
obligate ourselves to the other
signatory nations to supply mili
tary forces to engage in interna
tional police work in order to
avoid war," Lucas said.
"When we ratify this charter
we must realize that we are
creating a system of interna
tional collective security such as
never before existed in the his
tory of the world, and that in
going into such a system we are
assuming obligations such as
this country has never before as
sumed." Warning against attempts to
limit the power of the American
delegation to the Security Coun
cil, Lucas also contended that
ratification carries with it the
obligation that "our delegate
must be free at all times to vote
In accordance with the purposes
and principles which are set
forth In the charter."
TIN COLLECTION
FRIDAY MORNING
BY SHRINE CLUB
Collection of tin for the cur
rent waste paper and tin can
drive being carried out by the
local Shrine club will be made
Friday in the city. Residents are
asked to place flattened tin cans
on the curbs in front of their
homes by 9 a. m. so that trucks
and men can pick them up. Cans
can be placed in containers, and
the cans will be taken.
Paper collections to date have
been successful, the committee
in charge reports, one 50 ton car
being loaded and shipped Mon
day. It is hoped that another car
will be filled this week, and any
one who failed to get waste pa
per in the first shipment is asked
to deliver it at the front entrance
of the Medford armory on Bart
lelt street, the main collection
depot.
Will Call For Paper
Persons who have more paper
than they can handle may tele
phone the committee chairman,
John Rolston, number 3365, to
arrange for transportation.
Speaking for the committee,
Rolston today thanked the pub
lic for their response to the drive.
Collections, he said, not only aid
in the national war effort, but
proceeds of the drive will go to
the Shrincrs' hospital for crip
pled children.
By The Side Of The Rogue
By Dal Vincent
On the wings of a warm wind we drifted out of the valley
and up the highway which follows the Rogue toward Crater Lake.
Arriving at Mill Creek Falls we hesitated long enough In
enjoy this beautiful picture, and couldn't help noticing how much '
cooler the air was.
The Mammoth Sugar Pine Is worth a five minutes stop. Ton '
feet at Its base, you get a crick in your neck trying to figure out
how far is "up."
It's only a mile off the main highway to the Natural Bridge,
and that also is worth turning out to sec. The "bridge" that fun- .
nels the headwaters of the Rogue river into a subterranean chan- ;
nel for a considerable distance is unique and exemplifies tho tor- t
tunus manner in which most of our Oregon streams have their
beginning. Often a large size stream will spring from (be earth '
iu sudden bUtti, nigtlicrcd by the volcanic cavcrus far uudersruuud.
DDrpiQinw DAine;
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AIMED AT THREE
Carrier Planes Swarm Back"
To Finish Off Crippled
Remnants of Jap Fleet.
Guam, Thursday, July 26
U.R) American Superfortresses;
blasted three more of Japan's vi
tal oil refineries early today
while more than 1,200 U. S. and
British carrier planes blew the
Japanese air force from the skies
over western Honshu as they
swarmed back into the burning"
Kure naval base to finish off the
crippled remnants of Japan's Im
perial fleet.
Between 75 and 100 B-29's
struck in a precision demolition
raid near Tokyo shortly before
midnight as the U. S. Third fleet
maneuvered offshore after its
devastating two-day strike at
Japan's great inland sea anchor
age which blasted at least seven
enemy warships.
Twelfth Strike
Bombing at medium altitude
in theii 12th strike at Japanese
oil refineries and installations.
the Superforts smashed at the
Mitsubishi Oil Refinery, the en-
emy's largest producer of avia
tion gasoline; the Hayama Pe
troleum Refinery and the Asalshl
Oil Co., adjoining each other in
the Kawasaki area on Tokyo
bay.
The raid followed by less than
36 hours a record strike by 625
Superforts on seven industrial
targets in the Osaka and Nagoya
areas.
Thundering back for their
second straight blow at the great
Inland sea anchorage of Kure
yesterday the carrier pilots shot
their way through a blazing
screen of flak and enemy fight
ers to get at the seven or mora
major Japanese warships they
had riddled with bombs and
rockets.
The Japanese countered first
with a. terrific anti-aircraft bar
rage that turned the sky into a .
rainbow-colored hell. They sent
their hoarded fighter planes aloft
in a last desperate bid to save
the fleet.
United Press War Correspond
ent Ernest Hoberecht reported
from one of the attacking car
riers that the enemy aerial op
position appeared to have been
smothered after a furious bat
tle. By late afternoon, American
Corsair fighters had won mas
tery of the skies, clearing the
way for the knockout by the
fleet s Hclldlvers and torpedo
bombers, and were strafing the
enemy airfields almost at will.
Pearl Harbor, July 25 (U.R)
Preliminary results of yester
day's carrier strike raised Hal
scy's fleet total, since the foray
began on July 10, to 620 planes
destroyed or damaged and over
430 ships sunk or knocked out.
Chinese troops, pressing hard
upon the heels of retreating Jap
anese units withdrawing from
northeast Kwangst province,
have entered Yangso, 55 miles
south of Kwcilln, amid heavy
street fighting.
The communist controlled
Yonan radio declared that Chi
any Kai-Shek's troops command
ed by Gen. Hu Tsungnan, had
"suddenly attacked" a Chinese
communist garrison at Ycstai
shan, 65 miles north of Sain.
In southeastern Borneo Aus
tralian troops and planes ham.
mered Japanese defenses on the
road north of Balikpapan follow
ing a successful RAF Spitfire at
tack In which 18 enemy-laden
trucks were destroyed.
On Sunday 350 far eastern air
force fighters and bombers at
tacked Shanghai airfields and
shipping in the war's largest
raid against the greatest Japanese-held
city on the China main
land. Hollywood, July 25 (U.R)
Ruby Koeler, former tap-dancing
star and ex-wife of Al Jolson,
now married to Navy Lt. John
Lowe, expects a baby next Feb
ruary, her mother, Mrs. Ralph
Kceler, revealed today.