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Newspaper Page Textraring Ml II I U II I Ml I mm M U Medford United Pres Full Ltaied Wire Fortieth Year TRIO LOSE LIVES Two Soldiers and Logger Casualties in Huge Tilla mook Neighborhood Blaze Portland, Ore., July 27 U.R Forest fires in western Oregon, which have burned-over nearly 100,000 acres and claimed three lives, today spread dangerously near several small communities, Low humidity and strong east winds aided the new spot fires in rugged mountain areas. One was burning completely around the Zig Zag guard sta tion in Washington county, and added 3,000 acres destroyed. The fire was moving into the Forest Grove watershed, about 10 miles from the city of Forest Grove, Out of Control The Main Wilson river fire came within three miles of Gales Creek community and Soda Springs and was spreading out of control. - Timber blazes have harassed the northwest more than two weeks. Two soldiers, Pvt. Jesse L. T h o m p s on, Philadelphia, and Pvt. Lester A. Ware, Columbus, O., were killed when their truck overturned north of Portland, while enroute in convoy to the Tillamook forest fire area. Eight other soldiers were injured, two rf (hem oorini isKt State forestry officials dis- jack, Joe Dillich, 50, killed while working with a pumper to hold back the steadily-advancing Til lamook blaze. Officials said he was crushed under a falling sec tion of a tree. Wind Fans Flames Meanwhile, a rising east wind and increasing dryness still cori frooted an army of 2,000 fire fighters. Flames were jumping fire lines in three places. At one point, lumberjacks and volunteer sailors, were forced to run for their lives when the fire took to the tree-tops, threaten ing to trap the men between two fiery walls. The mayor of Forest Grove, Ore., ordered all available man power in his community to stand by near the city's 26,000 acre watershed, endangered by the conflagration. 3 10 BE RESUMED WITH ATM IN Potsdam, July 27--U.R Big Three sessions will resume to morrow, it was announced to night, with Maj. Clement Attlee replacing Winston Churchill as Britain's delegate. Churchill, it was revealed, will not return to Potsdam. It was not known who would accom pany Attlee. It was understood that Attlee would be accompanied by Sir Ed ward Bridges, secretary of the British cabinet since 1938, and by Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, chief of staff to the minister of de fense. Anthony Eden will not return to Potsdam, it was understood. It was -believed that the Big Three discussions will be wound up very rapidly possibly con siderably faster than was plan ned when Churchill went back to London to hear the election returns. DIES AT US Phoenix. Ariz.. July 27 U.R Last rites will be held here Monday for Jesus Maria Andra da. who.. if his own calculations were correct, was 116 years old PATTON IN PRAGUE London, July 27 (U.PJ The Prague radio said today that Gen. George S. Patton, com mander of the U. S. Third army, arrived today and conferred with President Eduard Bcncs, who decorated him with the or der of the Czechoslovak lion, first class. Overwhelming Choice (Acm Radio-Telephotot Their smiles reflecting Labor Party-s sweeping victory over Conserva tives, Clement R. Attlee, Labor Party leader, and wife (foreground) are cheered by supporters at Mile End, London, after Attlee's election as member of Parliament from Llmehouse. Attlee will succeed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, be asked by King George VI to form new Government. Election Result Political Debacle Assert Conservative London Papers London, July 27 U.R) Con- servative London newspapers to day called the election results "a political debacle" and some pre dicted that labor s ranks would split. Lord Beaverbrook s Dally ex press, which has the largeset cir culation in Britain and which spearheaded the drive for a con servative victory, said that it had "never concealed its mis trust of the avowed intentions of the socialists toward the consti tution and toward the British ways of life as we havo known it." London. July 27 U.R The Exchange Telegraph in a Mos cow dispatch said today news of the laborite victory in Britain spread rapidly throughout Rus sia and was receid wun gen eral satisfaction. norlln .Tutv 27 (U.R) Ger man reaction to the British elec tion tnHnv was nnp nf little in terest. The German masses were still poorly informed and little interested in foreign affairs. Paris. July 27 (U.R) French political circles were astonished CITY POPULATION CENTER FOUND BY L According to a school popula tion survey just completed in the city school offices, the cen ter of the elementary school pop ulation for Medford lies in the block west of Holly street, be tween Third and Fourth streets. The center of the senior high school population is about one block south of this point; the junior high school population center is between these two. Population maps in the city school offices show that up to 10 years ago the trend of growth in Medford was north and east. Since that time the growth movement has reversed itself and the cily has recently been moving slightly to the south and west. The population center is now about one and one-half blocks southwest of where It was 10 years ago. According to a school spokesman, the present housing centers are serving to hold the elementary center of population about a block further north than it would otherwise be. The "center of population" Is defined as the point from which thn population is equally distrib uted in all directions. ""x MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1945. ft : BULLETIN London, July 27 (U.R) Mai. Clement Attlee announced to night that he had picked Ernest Bavin, labor minister in the Churchill government, as foreign secretary, Hugh Dalton, as chan cellor of the exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps, as president of the board of trade, Herbert Mor rison, as president of the coun cil and leader of the house, and Sir William Jowett as lord chancellor. Arthur Greenwood was named Lord Privy Seal. todav bv the lahnrifp vlnfnrv nnH received the news with mixed emotions. The French have great respect for retiring Prime Min ister Churchill, but welcomed the laborite victory as a chance ior a ciose Angio-rrench reap proachment. Madrid Jnlv 27 ni PI Infl,.. ential Spaniards were dazed at ine nrsi news of the election re sults. They gloomily predicted the labor party landslide would have serious effect on conti nental Europe. Rome, July 27 (U.R) Foreign Minister Degaspcri said today that the government of the labor party presided over by Attlee will support the reconstruction of democratic Italy." British Headquarters, Ger many, July 27 (U.R) Troops cheered in their barracks as ra dios announced the news of the British labor landslide. Many to day believed the soldier vote coupled with servicemen's influ ence on home voters was the major cause of the labor victory. London, July 27 (U.R) Tne Daily Express today in a dis patch from India quoted Sir Khwaja Muddin of the Moslem league as saying "The british electorate has thrown overboard the person (Churchill) who saved them, and this even before the war is over. San Francisco, July 27 (U.R) A Tokyo radio broadcast said today it was clear that "as- far as Britain's determination to prosecute the war against Japan to the bitter end is concerned. the labor government will effect no change whatsoever in the pol icy of which Churchill was the architect." Fritz Mandl Taken On Uruguay Arrival Montevideo. Uruguay, July 27 (UP.) Fritz Mandl, former Aus trian munitions magnate, was arrested by Uruguayan police at the frontier town of Colonia when he alighted from a plane arriving from Buonos Aires to day, it was officially announced. PETAIN CONNECTED TESTIFIES Third Premier Appears Against Marshal inTreason Trial; Defendant Cracking Paris, July 27 (U.R) Leon Blum, France's popular front leader in the troubled pre-war years, testified in the high court today that Marshal Henri Phil ippe Petain was alleged to have been connected with the Fascist Cagoulards who were active in those days. Blum was the third former French premier to testify against Petain in the marshal's treason trial which was resumed at 1:20 p. m. in the gloomy palace of justice. Petain Sleepless Petain entered the stuffy courtroom at 1:15 p. m. He was reported to have had a sleepless night. The 89-year-old Petaln's appe tite was reported failing. He paid little attention to the food especially prepared for him in Montrose prison. Judge Pierre Mongibeaux an nounced that today's session would end at 5:15 p. m. to enable the parliamentary jurors to at tend debate on Gen. Charles De Gaulle's new constitutional pro posals. Blum Aging Blum, 73, was erect and alert, but appeared to have , aged un duly during his capitivity during the nazl occupation. , The linking of Petain's name with the Cagoulards, the "hood ed ones," was done by indirec tion. Blum said only that the marshal was alleged to have a connection with them, but that he himself could add little to the reports. Blum quoted another former premier, Edouard Daladier, as having said: "If there is a man in whom the country can believe, and trust to keep us on the path of duty in war, it is Petain." T By United Press Fifty thousand strikers agreed today to resume production of B-29 engines at five Wright Aeronautical Corp. plants and at the Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge Chicago plant. A six-day strike by 30,000 workers at four Wright plants In Patterson, N. J., and one in Wood-Ridge, N J., was called to a halt after 3,000 of the strikers had voted to return to work. Twenty-thousand workers at the Dodge Chicago plant heeded a War Labor Board order to end a strike that began Wednesday to protest the company's refusal to grant a 15-minute daily wash up period for employes In one department. The Wright walkouts resulted from the firing of a Wood-Ridge shop steward, charged with us ing abusive language, When the company refused to reinstate him, Wood-Ridge workers called a strike. Employes of the other plants went out in sympathy. Hundreds Downed in Reich Killed by Civilians, Claim Darmstadt, Germany, July 27 j (U.R) Reliable sources here, i where 11 Germans arc on trial, said today that "hundreds" of American airmen downed In the Reich wcro killed by German civilians during the war. The 11 Germans on trial arc accused of murdering six airmen of the U. S. Eighth air force at Russelsheim last August when their bomber was forced down. Among documents in Amer lean hands Is an order to local German police authorities direct Ing them to take no fiction against civilians fur killing al lied airmen. Tribune Unittd Prss Full PI- -FRUIT- Fruit Juice Points Cut by OP A; Some Canned Food Upped Washington, July 27 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion today cut the blue ration point values of grapefruit juice, orange and grapefruit juice blends, tomato catsup and chile sauce. It raised the values of six other canned foods. All the changes are effective Sunday. The new values will last until Saturday, Sept. 1. - The foods on which the blue values were raised are canned spinach, asparagus, applesauce, apples, apricots and grape juice. Values of other canned foods were not changed. Washington, July 27 (U.R) Five more red and five more blue stamps in ration book four will become valid Aug. 1, the OPA announced today. The stamps, worth 10 .points each, are red Fl through Kl; blue PI through Tl. Red stamps K2 through P2 and blue stamps T2 through X2 will not be good after July 31. T TO MEDFORD WATER County Engineer Paul B. Ryn ning is drawing plans and pre paring a cost estimate for the city of Central Point, as one of the preliminary iteps for ,the securing of Medford waler. At torney Harry Skyrman is pro paring papers for a special elec tion to vote bonds for a now water distribution system. It Is said the cost will be near $100, 000 at current prices. The spec ial election date is to be set later. County Commissioner Arthur E. Powell, editor of the Central Point American, a weekly, re ports a new water distribution system is a vital civic need, as the present reconditioned steel pipeline is leaking underground "like a sieve." The pipeline was laid some 30-odd years ago. Commissioner Powell says the Medford water commission has assured Central Point water will be furnished as soon as the new reservoir, now under construc tion here, Is completed. The sup-1 ply will then be ample, It Is said. No water will be furnished until then. During the depression Central Point attempted to get federal funds for a new water distribu tion system. The plan was re jected by the federal bureau, though the votrs approved it. BURGLAR TAKES RINGSAND $165 Two rings and $165 In cash were stolen sometime between S p. m. and midnight Wednesday from the home of Sgt. and Mrs. Steve Marko, 840 East Ninth street, city police were told yes terday. According to the report to po lice, entry Into the house was made by cutting the front door screen and the money and Jew elry were removed from a dress ing table drawer in the front bedroom of the house. Both rings contained Jewels and were of considerable value. One Investigator of war crimes said new atrocities were being uncovered almost daily. He said It probably would take years to complete the trials of Germans accused in tho death of aviators forced down or shot down dur ing the battle of Germany. The defense opened its case for the 11 Germans now on trial here. They are charged with taking part in the civilian as sault on the airmen being march ed through Russelsheim, Wit nesses testified that they were forced to run a gantlet of death, In which they were beaten to bloody pulps, and then were buried in a mass grave. Lasd Wlri NO. 107. CHARTER BALLOT 7 Oregonian Says Republicans Will Fight Democratic Effort to Throttle Debate. Washington, July 27 U.R Sen. Wayne L. Morse, R., Ore., threatened today to block the ad ministration drive for a vote this week on the United Nations charter unless unlimited debate is guaranteed. Morse told reporters that sen ate republicans are solidly deter mined that we are not going to let the democrats throttle de bate." He said a group of senate republicans agreed on the mat ter at lunch. - Morse recalled that Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., of the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee imposed a time limit on his efforts to speak on the Ore gon lamb situation late yester day. This, Morse said, was a vio lation of the principle of unlim ited debate. . "Until the democrats demon strate an appreciation and re spect for that principle, I shall not consent to any unanimous consent proposal to limit debate or set a time to vote on the char ter," Morse said. Morse took the matter up with republican colleagues after sen ate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley opened the, fifth day of charter debate with a request that the senate speed up its speeches and vote ratification by 5 p. m. tomorrow. HELD IN ROBBERY Robert Ben Merrill, 71S Welch street, Is held under $1500 bail In the county tail today follow ing his arrest yesterday by city police, In cooperation with the sheriff's office and state police officers, on a charge of assault with Intent to rob, tho sheriff's office reported today. Merrill reportedly robbed Dave Hicken, Route 1, Central Point, of $400 early Wednesday morning after striking him across the face with a beer bot tle in front of a local cafe. Mer rill and Hicken, with a woman companion, were waiting for a taxi in front of the cafe and, ac cording to Hicken, the two men stepped around the side of the building where Merrill allegedly attacked him and took a billfold from him containing $400. According to the sheriff's of fice, the money has not been re covered. Merrill waived a pre liminary hearing In Justice court with a request for more time be fore entering a plea. SHASTA POWER SALE . Washington, July 27 (U.R) Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Jckes said today that a con tract had been approved for sale of power from Shasta dam in northern California to the city of Rosevllle, 20 miles north of Sacramento. The power from the government project will save the city about 40 per cent of Its previous'expenditure for electric current, Ickes said. BASEBALL American Phlldclphla ................. 0 5 3 New York 2 4 0 . Christopher and Rosar; Bov- ens and Robinson. Chicago ..... 0 8 2 Detroit 1' ' 3 2 Humphries and Trcsh; Ncw houser and Swift. Washington 3 D 0 Boston 19 1 Wolff, Hacfncr (8) and Guor ra; Fcrrlss and Holm. National Cincinnati 1 5 2 Chicago 2 12 0 Waiters and Lakcman; Pas seau and Livingston, Williams (9). Roston 2 8 1 Brooklyn 3 5 1 Lee. Cooprr (8) and Hofferth; Branca, King (9) and Sadlock. Fight To Bitter End Decided By Cabinet Says Domei Agency Pearl Harbor, July 27 (U.R) Tokyo chose the shortest route to national oblivion today. Japan will Ignore the allies' surrender ultimatum and will fight on "to the bitter end," the Dome! News Agency has an nounced. Domei said the Japanese cabinet held a special meeting this afternoon (Tokyo time) to hear a report from Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo concerning the ultimatum issued yesterday by tht United States, Great Britain and China. Chungking, July 27 (U.R) A Chines military spokesman declared today that a Japanese brigadier general, in a broadcast to his own people said it is "An open secret that Japanese troops in China are discussing peace overtures." The spokesman also quoted Field Marshal Relgi Okamura, commander of the Japanese expeditionary force in south China, as saying "If tha Japanese withdraw from China with arms it will take two years, and one year without arms." The decision to ignore the edict apparently was taken at that meeting. WAR CENTERS BLAZE UNDER ATTACKS Meanwhile the flimsy war centers of Omuta, Matsuyama and Tokuyama, in southern Japan, blazed fiercely after being attacked by three task forces of B-29's over 300 strong shortly after mid night. Flying through light Japanese fighter opposition and spotty flak, the giant bombers dropped 2,200 tons of gasoline incendiaries on the three cities. The fires took hold and within a few minutes after "Bombs Away" had achieved a roaring conflagration. B-29'S COMING TO LAY THEM WASTE Guam, Saturday, July 28 (U.R) America's 20th Air Force, putting teeth into the Potsdam ultimatum, today told the Jap anese the names of the next 11 Nipponese cities which will be burned . out by Superfortress raids, in a move unprecedented In any war. ..'. . As three more of Japan's flim sy war centers were' still flam ing from the last B-29 incendiary raid, six Superforts cruised over the ll targets-to-be at midnight, dropping 60,000 leaflets warn ing civilians to evacuate or be burned out. Direct Challenge Thus, the 20th Air Force, for the first time In any war naming Its targets In advance, laid down the most direct challenge possi ble to the Japanese to fight, quit, or else. Ma) Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, commander of the 20th, de clared: "The Japs have nothing to look forward to except total de struction. We've reached the point where they refuse to fight while we burn down their cities. Now we're telling them where we're going to do it." The leaflets, psychological prods to the thinking element of Japan, named the following tar get cities to be added to the 49 already hit by devastating fire raids: On Honshu: Ichinomiya, Tsu, Ujiyamada, Nagaoka, Nishlnomiya, Aomori, Ogaki, and Koriyama. On Shlkokui Umajima. On Kyuthui Kurum. On Hokkaidoi Hokadaie. All are secondary Industrial centers with populations of be tween 50.000 and 200,000. Cities Helpless . At least four of the cities warned will be subjected to the next all-out incendiary bombing within the next few days, Le may said with 450 to 600 Super forts carrying about 3500 tons of fire bombs to the targets. "They can't do anything about It," the 20th Air Force chief who is retiring to become chief of staff to Gen. Carl SpaaU In the strategic air command said. The Superfortresses carrying the 60.000 leaflets from Saipan were still in the air as Lemay spoke The Office of War Infor mation began Immediately to By The Side Of The Rogue By Dal Vincent ' Arising with the sun, enjoyed a breakfast of hot cakes and e'igs seasoned with fir noodles and ashes from the camp fire. After the third cup of coffee, wont down to examine the Rogue rlvor at Its narrowest point. Selecting a solid rock, braced my feet and let fly thereby jumping the Rogue with one staggering leap. The river at this point Is from eight to 15 feet wldo and ex tremely deep, boiling Its turbulent way through a narrow gorge of lava formation, Another camper Just showed us a mangled leather coat of his which h.e had left hanging on a tree outside his tent last night. Examining the ground around the tree we found countless deer track, so decided thoy had liked the salt taste of his new coat and proceeded to masticate It. This Is a boutlful setting for fooling seldom experienced any the mBny laws and restrictions being In a wild natural country and in dose understanding with Dooliitl Points Fata Lt. Gen. James H. Doollttle established his Eighth air force headquarters on Okinawa and promised that the aerial bom bardment would be pressed Te tenllessly . until the Japanese have been reduced "to a race of rice growers and goatherders." Gen. Douglas MacArthur'a headquarters announced a new 400-ton raid on Shanghai that left great fires on three of the . China ports' airfields Tuesday and probably sank six freight transports and a Japanese gun boat. About 20 B-24's of the U. S. Seventh air force flew unescort ed over the Kikai island In the northern Rypkus and Tsuiki air field on northern Kyushu Wed nesday. They fought .30 Jana nose fighters over Kyushu and sliot down seven, with an eighth probable, and lost one bomber. There was still no word of the whereabouts of Admiral William F. Halsey's Third fleet, traveling undor a radio blackout for the past 38 hours. In Borneo Australian troopi pursued fleeting Japanese units along the main highway north cast of Balikpapan, after RAAF Spitfires Intercepted one column and strafed 18 vehicles. 1 STUDY COMMITTE Salem, Ore., July 27 U.R) O. H. Bcngtson, state representa tive from Medford, was named chairman of the legislative In terim committee to study child delinquency at the first meeting of the group here Thursday. J. O. Johnson, Washington county, Is. secretary. Created by the 1945 legisla ture, the group is charged with studying delinquency problems and how they rray be solved. The resolution calling for the creation of the committee was originated by tho Eagles' lodge and suggested establishment of institutions here such as Boys' Town. Other members are Sens. Thomas Parkinson, Roscburg, and Joel C. Booth, Lebanon; and Reps. Paul Hendricks. Salem, and Bcngtson and Johnson. . broadcast the same information to Japan, The leaflets were prepared by the pavy's psychological warfare office at Lemay's suggestion, and carry pictures of B-29's dropping clusters of fire bombs with tho names of the 11 cities and a warning that Japan's military clique must be destroyed. a loresi camp, ana u gave us a more a feeling of freedom from of modern man, tho freedom of whore you ar ON YOUR OWN, nature.