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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.
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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.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1945.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.