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BIG THREE DRAFT
AS
Entry of Russia in War on
Japan Hinted By Corre
spondent in London
Potsdam, July 30 (U.R)
The Big Three met again today
and it was believed their confer
ences are within 24 to 36 hours
of conclusion.
President Truman, Premier
Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee
were reported working on a final
communique but this was not ex
pected to announce some of the
military decisions reached.
The only word issuing from
the conference compound today
was: "The conference is still go
ing on."
(The dispatch did not specu
late on the nature of the military
decisions, but a CBS correspond
ent broadcast fjrom London that
he believed one of the principal
negotiations obviously Rus
sian had stated that his coun
try would go to war against Jap
an soon.) '
Rosenman Seen
In addition to meeting Stalin
and Attlee, Mr. Truman was con
ferring with Judge Samuel Ros
enman, his special adviser, on
the report to the nation which
the president probably will de
liver by radio within 24 hours
of his return to Washington.
The president's report was ex
pected to include a summary of
the accomplishments at Potsdam
and their effect on the future of
the Japanese war, resettlement
of war-torn Europe, and the for
mation of a workable peace or
ganization. FOR CIVIL BUYER;
Washington, July 30 (U.R)
The first civilian Jeeps are ready
for the market at a cost of $1,
090 f.o.b., Toledo, plus taxes.
The OPA today set this ceiling
price for the new peacetime
counterpart of the general pur
pose car created for the armed
forces. OPA also disclosed that
the new jeeps have been rolling
off assembly lines at the Willys
Overland plant at Toledo, 0 for
aeveral weeks.
OPA explained the ceiling
price for jeeps would be "some
what higher" than the pre-war
selling price of light passenger
cars. The Jeep, it was explained,
"basically Is not a light car but
rather a four-wheel-drive, half
ton truck designed for utility
trucking and farm and country
use."
The Dealer, OPA said, may
make "the usual additions" to
the basic retail price-rincluding
the federal excise tax of $46.53,
transoortation from factory to
dealer charges of up to $20 for
preparing the vehicle for deliv
ery and any state or local taxes
that may be assessed on the
tales.
WEATHER AIDS IN
BATTLING EIRES
Portland, Ore., July 30 (U.R)
Clouded skies and rising hu
midity aided 1200 firefighters
in hoiding their own against ad
vancing flames of the raying
three-week western Oregon fire.
State Forester Ted Rainwater
said fire crews were building
extensive fire trails and blocking
breakthroughs to safeguard fire
fighters should wind velocity in
crease. Rainwater said that the fire,
now in its fourth week, was ex
tended over 200.000 acres.
Light rains fell over some sec
tions of the fire area Sunday.
Major efforts were directed
toward preventing any ma jo
breakthrough to the tea or in-j
land communities. J
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(Acm Ratlio-Telephoto)
Direct radio telephoto coverage of war In far Pacific moved to within sight of Japan shores In latest naval,
plane bombardment of Jap homeland. Radlo-telephoto transmitter, built by ACME-NEA and employed by
Navy on battleship of U. S. Third Fleet off Jap coast, was used to transmit this picture by relay through
Guam to San Francisco. - USN pilots return to carrier after scoring direct hits with 1000-pound bombs on
Jap battleship Nagato at Yokusuka naval base, Tokyo Bay., Left to right:. Lt. George Foote, Boston; Lt.
F. F. Norrls, Rose, N. Y.; Ens. Wayne Hersh, Kansas City, Mo.; Lt. Augustus Dannemlller, Canton, O.; Lt.
(Jg) Herbert Hoyt, Manchester, Mass. Photo by Tom 8hafer, ACME-NEA photographer for War Picture
Pool.
Carrier Intrepid
After Five Damaging Battles In
(Editor's not: Major Bruce
Hammond, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. B. Hammond of Medford, was
placed in charge of the marines
manning the anti-aircraft gum
on the Intrepid when she was
commissioned at Norfolk. He
served in that capacity through
out the ship's hectic battles, be
ing detached only when pro
moted to major in February,
1345. Major Hammond is now
with a marine regiment at Camp
Joseph Pendleton, Oceanside,
Calif.)
By Courteney Moore
Washington, July 30 (U.R)
The navy's 27,000-ton aircraft
carrier Intrepid was well named.
Hit five times by suicide
planes and torpedoes, she is back
looking for more Japs to add
to this great score compiled by
her gunners and pilots:
289 enemy ships damaged or
sunk.
650 enemy planes destroyed.
The navy, disclosing the In-
trepid's story today, did not say
how many of the ships she got
were sunk and how many were
damaged.
178 Casualties
Hits scored on the Intrepid
cost her 176 casualties, many
Waterville, Kan., July 30
(U.R) Alf M. Landon, 1936 presi
dential nominee, has voiced op
position to peactime military
conscription on the grounds it
would "shift" responsibility on
rearing the nation's youth "from
parents to war camps."
In addition, he said he ques
tioned "whether you can main
tain our republic under compul
sory military training."
Landon, speaking at the 75th
anniversary of the Waterville
Methodist church, said he did
not take issue with those who
realize the necessity for keeping
the nation strong and alert to the
dangers of aggression.
He suggested that the army
and navy be maintained on a
larger scale than after the last
war, but declared that the ques
tion of universal compulsory
training should be decided by
the nation s fighting men "when
they come home."
FIVE DIVORCE ACTIONS
FILED DURING WEEK-END
Five divorce actions were
filed last Saturday morning in
the county clerk's office, bring
ing the total for July, with two
days to go to a total of 40. On
a previous Saturday this month,
six divorce suits were filed.
Most of the month's divorce
actions were filed at the rate of
one per day, the recordj show- i
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Bad Medicine-Men for Jap Battleship
Back Hunting
planes and considerable damage
to her flight deck and her in
terior. Twice the damage was re
paired by the crcvC but three
times the crippled carrier had to
limp back to the U. S. west
coast for navy yard repair.
She is back in action now for
the fifth time.
The. Intrepid first tasted bat
tle damage in the strikes on
Truk on Feb. 16, 1944, six
months to the day after she was
commissioned.
Japanese land-based airpower
there had been virtually wiped
out, but a lone enemy plane
wormed through the screen and
put a torpedo into the Intrepid.
The explosion damaged the
ship's steering mechanism and
hopelessly jammed her rudder.
She was unmaneuverable and
her decks were bathed in flames,
her commander used his engines
to steer the stricken ship.
Return For Repairs
A sail was raised on the fore
castle and the ship's planes were
spotted forward to trap the wind
and force the stern low in the
water. Thus rigged, the Intrepid
returned to Pearl Harbor for
temporary repairs and then
went to the navy yard at Mare
Island, Calif.
She suffered her next casual
ty off Luzon on Oct. 29, 1944.
A suicide plane plummeted into
her flight deck, slithered into a
gun gallery and started a fire.
Ten gunners were killed instant
ly. The Intrepid fixed her own
battle damage and continued to
fight on until she was hit again,
less than a month later, off Lu
zon on Nov. 25, 1944. Another
suicide plane rocketed into the
flight deck and 32 men jn an
adjoining compartment were
killed instantly. Another suicide
PLANE MISSING IN
Portland. Ore., July 30 U.R)J
A chartered plane bearing
three Portland persons today was
reported missing between Red
Bluff, Calif., and Eugene, Ore,
The three Sylvan L. Gosliner
and his wife. Ruby, and her ris
ter, Mrs. Alma V. Pratt, have
not been heard from since 1:10
p. m. Saturday, when they left
Red Bluff.
Gosliner is proprietor of1 the
Industrial Equipment company
in Portland and has been trav
eling on business.
The plane is a four-place Stin
son cabin type bearing- the li
cense number NC-463-V.
No organized search for tbe
missing plane is being carried on
in this area, so far as informa
tion from officials at the Med
ford airfield and state police
headquarters indicates, i
Japanese
Pacific
plane crashed Into the flight
deck and started fresh fires. Six
ty-five men were killed and one
woundefl In this nptinn. -
Other carriers took the Intre
pld's planes and the ship headed
for Hunter's Point, Calif., where
repairs were made in near rec
ord time.
On March 19, 1945, task force
58 fought off enemy air attack
ers that were attempting to sink
the burning carrier Franklin off
Kyushu. A kamikaze plane
splashed into the sea close by
the Intrepid and its burning
fragments showered her flight
decks, starting a fire. One man
was killed and 13 were wounded
in this action, but the fire was
extinguished quickly and flight
operations continued without in
terruption. The Intrepid was hit once
more on April 16, 1945, while
her airmen were carrying out a
strike 'on Japan's home islands.
One of five enemy suicide planes
broke through the American
screen to crash Into the flight
deck. In all, eight men were
killed, 72 wounded and one re
ported missing from this attack
and the intrepid was forced to
return again to Hnutcr's Point
for repairs.
Whooping Cough
At Head of List
Eighteen new cases of whoop
ing cough. 11 in Medford and 7
in Lone Pine, are listed on the
report of Dr. A. Erin Morkcl,
Jackson county health officer,
for the week ended July 28.
Other communicable diseases
listed in the county are five cases
of measles in Medford, five
chickenpox, four in Medford and
one in Ashland, two cases of
typhoid fever and one of trench
mouth In Medford, one new case
of tuberculosis in Central Point,
and one of mumps In Phoenix, i
Loan Scandal Claimed Reason For
Elliott Roosevelt Retirement Plea
Washington, July 30 U.R)
Elliott Roosevelt, who rose from
captain to brigadier general In a
little under five years, has asked
the army to release him from
active duty.
The 34-year-old officer, second
son of the late president and
center of more than one nation
.vide controversy, accumulated
278 discharge points in a career
that included action in North
Africa, Sicily, Italy, Britain and
France. A minimum of 85 is
needed for discharge.
The department declined com
ment on published reports that
Roosevelt had been advised to
retire from active service be
cause of recent publicity over
loans he negotiated while his
father was chief executive.
(A Chicago Tribune copyright
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PLEDGED BY F.R.
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Former Premier Is Witness
In Trial of Petain U. S.
Entry in War Seen Early
Paris, July 30 0J.R) For
mer Premier Edouard Herriot
testified today at the treason
trial of Marshal Henri Phillippe
Petain that President Roosevelt
promised France material aid
from America before the armis
tice with Germany was signed in
1940.
"I know Mr Roosevelt was
convinced that he one day
would ask the United States to
enter the war," Herriot said In
mustering arguments of tHe
French Republicans against the
armistice which Petain negoti
ated. Petain 111
Petain himself was suffering
from an acute attack of laryn
gitis. Judge Pierre Mongibeaux
revealed in announcing that to
day's session of the trial would
be shortened. The strain on the
89-year-old Marshal was becom
ing more evident daily.
Herriot, president of the
Chamber of Deputies when
France collapsed, was an impos
ing figure on the stand. As he
worked up to an oratorical fer
vor, he gesticulated passionately,
waved his arms and shouted:
He said there was no com
parison between France's plight
in lbVO and ishu.
"In 1870." fie said, ' "Franci
stood alone, and had no allies.
In 1870 a group wanted to con
tinue fighting and did so. In 1940
France had allies. Churcnin
pledged aid to France, and
Roosevelt also promised to give
us material from the United
States."
TALENT
TAKES 01 LIFE
Ashland. July 30 Myrtle
Agnes Finkcr, 53, a resident of
Talent for the past year and a
half, committed suicide early Sat
urday evening, according to Dep
uty Coroner C. M. Lltwillcr of
Ashland, who was called to in
vestieatc.
1 According to Lllwiller, her
husband, Harry, left the house
about 4:15 p. m. to Irrigate his
croD and did not return until
about 10 p. m., when he discov
ered the body lying on a bed.
There was no known reason for
the act, the husband reportedly
told Lltwiller, although Mrs.
Flnker is said to have voiced
suicide threats to neighbors on
several occasions.
Litwillcr attributed death to
a 22 calibre automatic pistol
which had been fired through
the mouth. Three shots had been
fired into the ceiling before the
death shot, the deputy coroner
said.
, Funeral services were held In
Ashland this afternoon, after
which the body was to be ship
ped to Glendalc, Calif., for in
terment. Besides her husband,
the deceased is survived by a sis
ter in Los Angeles,
dispatch said that Roosevelt had
been told by his war department
superiors "that the disclosure of
his negotiations of huge loans,
while his father was in the White
House, and the subsequent set
tlement of the loans for a frac
tion of the sums advanced had
brought discredit on the service.
("He was urged to take Ihti
graceful way out and submit his
application for discharge on the
ground that he had served ffve
years had accumulated some 278
points on that service," the Trib
une said.)
Two congressional commltlces
are investigating the controver
sial loans. One reportedly was
for $200,000 from John A. Hart
ford, president of the great At
lantic & Pacific Tea Co., and
later settled by Secretary n-'
Commerce Jcsc JgnviJor IJOO.
Looters Visit Offices Where
Bomber Crashed Skyscraper
New Vork, July 30 (U.R)
Looters have stolen thousands of
dollars from the devastated Cath
olic welfare office in the Empire
State building, which was struck
by a B-25 bomber Saturday, the
building management announced
today.
The 102-story building, largest,
on earth, escaped structural dam
age from the crash and is safe
for occupancy, Chapin L. Brown,
vice president in charge of oper
ations at the building, an
nounced. Safe Looted
"I have reports, however, that
several thousand dollars in trav
elers' checks were looted from
the safe in the office of the war
relief service of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference fol
lowing the crash," he said.
The NCWC offices, occupying
the 79th floor, were hardest hit
by the disaster. Ten office work
ers were killed and a score In
jured there. Not a person in the
office escaped death or injury
and the entire floor was reduced
to rubble. Brown did not say
when the looters moved in. He
said salvage workers could not
find a trace of the money and
that he had reports that looters
had taken some cash from the
6th floor.
The building itself, although
shaken by impact of the bomb
er, has been declared safe by
the builders, the architects, the
elevator company, electricians
and insurance company officials
Brown said. He said sight-seers
probably would be admitted to
the observation tower again to
morrow.
Elevators Resume
' Elevator service to Jhe 66lh
floor was normal today and lim
ited service was available to the
top. '
Brown predicted that It would
take three months to repair the
damaee completely.
Mayor Fiorcllo II. La Guardia.
a pilot in the first worm war
bluntly blamed the dead pilot of
the Mitchell bomber, Lt. Col.
William F. Smith, Jr., 27, Water-
town, Mass.
"If the pilot had been up
where he belonged." LaGuardia
said, "there would have been no
trouble."
Regulations provide that
planes must fly 5,000 feet above
the city.
T
By
Burbank, Cal., July 30 (U.R)
Two messengers of the Holly
wood State bank were held up
today and robbed of $100,000
cash they were delivering to a
check-cashing agency near Lock
heed Aircraft Corp., police re
ported.
Thurston M. Patterson and
Victor H. Lohn, the messengers,
driving a sedan, were rounding
a corner within a block of their
destination the Currency ex
change when an armed civilian
and a man In a soldier's uniform
stopped them, they told police.
The gunmen forced them into
the back seat, got into the car
and drove Into the foothills,
where they bound Patterson and
Lohn and drove off again in the
bank car.
Burbank and Van Nnys police
and Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion agents started an investiga
tion as soon as the holdup was
reponca.
Hunt For Hitler
Still Going On
Berlin, July 30 (U.R) Col.
Gen. Alexander V. Gorbatov
said today there still is no de
finite proof that Adolf Hitler
is dead, and an investigation
i continuing to det ermine
whether he still is alive.
Gorbatov is the Russian rep
resentative on the interallied
command of Berlin, also call
ed the kommannantur.
"We do not exclude the pos
sibility that Hitler is still alive
and in hiding," Gorbatov said
at a press conference.
Mexico City, July 30 (U.R)
The Mexican Petroleum admin
istration said today it had begun
exploration of new fields in the
northern part of the states of I
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Army R-2S Bomber struck Em
pire Stale building in low hang
ing fog more than 80 floors
above the ground, exploding
nd plumetted to roof of the
Waldorf building (cron), por
tions, then plunging to street.
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Chungking. July 30 (U.R)
China shook up her cabinet
again today, removing T. V.
Soong from his position as for
eign minister, but he retained
his post of premier.
Soong was replaced by Dr.
Wang Shih Chleh, former min
ister of Information. . ,
There was no Indication
whether the move had any diplo
matic Implications. Soong is in
the midst of complex negotia
tions with Marshal Slalin Bnd
was expected to return to Mos
cow after the Big Three meet
ing at Potsdam. The Soong-Sta-lln
conferences were Interrunted
when Stalin had to go to Pots
dam. In addition to Soong the min
ister of agriculture and forestry.
Shen Shih Tsai was removed and
his duties undertaken by Ku
Ching Kang, minister of social
affairs.
The changes were ordered by
the executive Yuan.
By The Sitfe Of The Rogue
By Dale Vincent
As we entered the Crater Lake Rim Village, saw a large, well
fed, glossy blark bear personally greeting visitors and inspecting
their automobile. Later we learned why
Choosing a site in the Rim Camp ground, we built a firo in
the outdoor fireplace and made camp. Immediately the black
bear came up and wanted to get acquainted. Having had previ
ous experience with park bears, we knew better than to feed or
pamper him, so gathering a few rocks and a good club we made
our policies clear right from the start.
A shiny new car parked a hundred yards from in, and after
locking the doors, the owners walked to the rim. The black bear
ambled over to the new car, liked what he saw Inside, put his paw
through a partly opened window, and gave a Jerk. The shatter
proof glass rattled to the ground. With unbelievable ease he
squeezed through the window Into the car and out again with a
bulging oaner bag. before we could leave our scats.
lut the luubcr on a bigb lope Willi
300-Mile Stretch From
Tokyo To Osaka Raked in
21st Day of Offensive
- Guam, July 30 (U.R) Up
wards of 1,500 carrier planes
blasted and burned a 300-mile
stretch of central Japan from
Tokyo to the great Osaka-Kobe
industrial area today the 21st
day of an offensive softening the
enemy homeland for invasion.
Radio Tokyo said the raids be
gan at 5:30 a- m. and still were
going on after 3 p. m., eight and
a half hours later.
Pre-Dawn Raid
Before dawn, American and
British battleships and other
Third fleet units set fire to tha
Japanese industrial center of
Hamamatsu, roughly midway be
tween Tokyo and Kobe, with a
bold pre - dawn bombardment
from only six miles offshore.
Tokyo broadcast said surface
.units also shelled the southeast
part of Kii peninsula, below Ha
mamatsu, after the main bom
bardment. American and British carrier
planes of the Third fleet opened
their new assault on central
Japan at dawn with attacks on
transport, airfields and military
targets In the Tokyo area, a Pa
cific fleet communique an
nounced. Attacks Extended
A dispatch from Vice Admiral
John S. McCain's carrier task
force disclosed that the aircraft
subsequently extended their at
tacks from the far side of tha
Tokyo plains southwest to a
point beyond the big port and
industrial center of Kobe.
Within the area lay burning;
Hamamatsu, the aircraft manu
facturing city of Nagoya, and
Osaka, Japan's second largest
city and biggest war production
center- .
Pearf KarboF, July"30 U.FD
Rear Admiral DeWItt C. Ramsey,
chief of staff of the Fifth fleet,
in the first official fleet com
ment on Japan's rejection of
the PoUm declaration, today
warned that the most ove
rwhelming feces ever concen
trated were preparing to Invade
the enemy homeland.
"It's a harsh fate our enemy
tit. cnosen," he said. "In. all
world history, there is no mora
g'a.-ing example of a nation im
posing disaster upon itself-
' For these people, the langu
age of bombs and guns appar
ently Is the only convincing
language."
Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimltz announced that Anglo
American airmen of the Third
fleet had destroyed or damaged
283 planes and 189 ships, in
cluding 18 warships, in Satur
day's raid on the Inland sea and
adjacent areas.
This raised the fteet'i total
since July 10 to 015 Japanese
ships and 1.211 planes, damaged
or destroyed.
A United Press dispatch from
Admiral John S. McCain's flag
ship said that Japan has no sea
worthy warships left to defend
the homeland against invasion.
Nimitz said the battleships Har
una, Ise and Hyuga had been
sunk or damaged.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander
of the American strategic nir
forces in the Pacific, said the
United States ultimately will
send more than 1.000 Superfor
tresses against Japan-
The Japanese Domcl agency
said Japanese planes started
fires on three American airfields
on Okinawa and sank at least
two unidentified ships.
In Boreno, Australian Seventh
division troops attacked disor
ganized Japanese rcarguaids
north of Balikpapan. A Mac
Arthur spokesman said the main
enemy colmn apparently is un
decided whether to run north for
Samarinda, or to retreat 215
miles southwest to Banjcrmasin.
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