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Victims of Plane Crash Will Be Buried At Forest Scene m Weather IBUNE DECIDE AGAINST MEDFORD K0RECA8T Clear nd con tiniifd warm tonight and Thursday. Temp. nluhest Yesterday 92 Lowest thla Morning ......h mi id Press Full Leased Wlr. United Press Full Leased Wirt NO. 111. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1945 Fortieth Year Rev. Hansen Goes With Bur ial Party for Last Rites Remains Badly Mangled. 15) Yank Shells Do 'Inside' JoB 4? f ',-,., , r 133 1 rnie i piimw Heart of Jap Iron works at Kamaishi destroyed by fused shells, designed to explode after penetrating .true i. . j k tt c -r-hirrt wif ni.n in hnmbardme nt of JaD home Islands. Interior of open hearth build ing icenter) and foundry shed (lower left) are exposed by huge Carriers and Battlewagons Steam Close To Give Tokyo and Kobe Areas Going Over By Earnest Hoberecht United Press Correspondent Aboard Adm. McCain's Flag ship Off Japan, July 30 (De layed) U.R) The mighty car riers and battleships of Task Force 38 maneuvered so close to Japan to launch their attacks on the Kobe and Tokyo areas today that screening destroyers were forced to maneuver around a small island just off the coast nd pilots directly above the flagship were in sight of Mt. Fujiyama. Today also saw our attack on the enemy naval base of Mai zuru, on the other side of the Japanese coastline facing China. The strike on the Japan seaport, DUE TONIGHT IS POTSDAM VIEW ' Potsdam. Aug-' 1-W.B -The Big Three met in plenary ses sion today and it was believed the conference would end to right after a final session to ap prove the official communique. A U. S. army spokesman said n ! Thru OTP flatly thn - was expected to be their last session, Shortly before this announce- mini It was understood that . innH, were circulated that the conference was over. I Questioned regarding a report 1 published in the United SUi'cs that the conference had ended. , the army spokesman said: "The conference has not end- i cd." The conference drew to a j close with word that the United States has won a number of im- j portant concessions from Britain and Russia. I Officials tacitly asreed that. the sessions would be over by tomorrow when President Tru man is expected at Plymouth to meet bricflv with King George VI.- GRANTS PASS BOY HELD 1 ON BURGLARY CHARGE CONFERENCE James Elver Longacre, 19. of j French officials. Grants Pass, was in the county ; Waiting at the airport to ar Jail today following his arrest i rest Laval was Commissioner late Mondav night by city police i Paul Leoni of the Surete Na officcrs when caught in the net i tionnle who was assigned to take of burglarizing the Cullen Motor I the Vichy collaborationist to the rnmmmv .t 123 South Iliverside avenue, lily polite reported to-1 day. Longacre was to appcir in cir-, cuit court this afternoon. 55 M E X I C AN C A S U A LT I E S j Mexico City, Aug. 1 'UP' j The Mexican foreign ministry to- day said total Mexican war cas-j tialties in recent months were ; 65. These included nine dead, i ix wounded and fne missing in Furope and 13 dead and 22 ordered after planes already1 were en route to other targets over Tokyo, was dramatic proof that no harbor in Japan is safe from our super-accurate pilots. Good Results In the morning, carrier air craft from "Adm. William F. Hal scy's task force entering its 21st day of assaults on the enemy homeland, pushed home attacks on airfields, aircraft factories and other important military in stallations. Despite weather con ditions pilots said were a "big ger enemy than the Japs" good results were obtained. Ens. Joseph H. Scherting, St. Louis, said his group got two di rect hits on an aircraft assem bly plant at Fujisawa causing big explosions. "On our way back we flew over destroyers which were well within sight of Japan," Schert ing said. "We could still sec Fujiyama when we were over the flagship." nthpr fiL'hfprs. bombers ana tornedo planes made devastating sweeps over a wide area from west of Kobe to the far side of the Tokyo plains. Few Japanese planes took to the air, but many were spotted helpless on the ground and destroyed. Weather Diverts Planet The weather turned so bad over Tokyo in the afternoon that planes were diverted to other targets, including Maizuru, ter minus of the emoiro's last onen sea lane. The change of targets after planes were already air borne clearly demonstrates the flexibility of our forces, Shipping on the Japan sea side of the home island is much great- cr and more important than the comparatively negligible amount on the Pacific side. The latest shinning attacked was heavily loaded with war materials fori China. The record number of cargo vessels sunk by this force LAVAL IN PARIS, TO 1 Paris, Aug. 1 (U.R) Pierre Laval arrived by plane at Le Bourgct field tonight at 7:30 p m (1:30 p. m. EWT) from Strasbourg in the custody of rrejncs jail near Pans La-.il will be held there wilh othiT Frenchmen charged with collaborating with the Germans Laval flew from Barcelona to Linz. Austria, yesterday where he surrendered to American au thorities. They took him to Inss bruck where he was delivered to the French who look him to Strasbourg. Laval, accompanied by his i wife and a Fiench army cap- tain, arrived in an American j ... rr . I...L I holes torn in roof. in (hie nnpralion obviOUslV DUtS a kink into the already snarled Japanese transportation setup. Vice Adm. John S. McCain's flagship steamed so close to the entrance of Tokyo bay that tide currents mingling with the Pa cific swells rocked our ship. Nobody knows why the Japs have refused even to try to take a crack at us. By this time all their radar and other locating devices must have located us at, points closer to the sacred home land than it has ever before been approached by a major hostile surface force. B R E A KFASTLESS Auburn, Cal-, Aug. 1 (U.B Fifteen restaurants, the only public eating places in this Sierra foothill community, clos h inHnv and citv officials won- dercd how they would feed an estimated seven to nine tnou sand hungry harvest pickers and other transients. The restaurants closed offic ially at midnight despite last minute efforts of office of price administration officials to re lieve a shortage of ration points. This, the restaurant operators say, forced them to shut down for 30 days. The OPA offers were too little and too late," R. W. Edwaras, spokesman for the restaurant men, said. "We're sticking to our guns." Meanwhile, regular restaurant natrons went breakfastlcss. as city officials made emergency plans to feed up to 2.500 per sons a day at a municipal soup kitchen. A fifty cent lunch was to be served today in the local war memorial building, grudg ingly loaned to the city for a two-week period. LIFT PHOTO BAN Mexico City, Aug. 1 (U.P.I The ban on air passengers taking photos from planes over Mexi can territory was lifted today, American Airlines announced- Eureka is the westernmost city on the mainland of the United States. BASEBALL American Chicago 2 5 1 Cleveland 17 0 Lnpat and Trcsh; Gromck and Hayes. New York 5 4 1 Boston 7 12 1 Bevens. Turner (7) Holcombe (8) and Robinson: Wilson, John son (4, and Holm. Garbark (6). National Pittsburgh 1 5 0 Chicago 0 4 0 Butcher and Salkeld: Pa.veau. Prime (9) and Gillespie, W'il La uia l9; 1 I UP JORDAN SECTION Tools.Equipment Abandoned As Flames Roar Back Through Spot Fire Burn. Portland. Ore.. Aug. 1 (U.R) Loeeers fled for their lives before flames of the Wilson river in western Oregon as wind whipped up new peril in the Jordan LreeK section on me southwest edge of the 200,000 acre ourn. Thi.v worn forced to abandon tools and valuable equipment as flnmnc rnnrnH hark through hills previously spotted by spot fires more than a weeK ago. Fire Lines Lost Mnr. fim line has been lost In western Washington county I where flames ate into new growth timber, and another fin ger of the fire is pushing along mountains to the south between the Trask and Tualitan water sheds. Thirty miles to the north, in Clatsop county south of Elsie, last week's outbreak has grown into a hugh spot fire, but this has not joined the main burn. Flames also are eating south ward toward the town of Coch ran, but the progress is slow. Trestle Burns The mvsterious burning of the high trestle over Devil's Fork Canvon forced rerouting of fire fighters from the chief dispatch ing headquarters at Owl camp. The bridge had been guarded closelv but embers in the tim bers broke out suddenly. The northwestern sector of the huge fire was scouted to determ ine the extent of spot fires. The terrain is so rugged that fire crews have been barely able to get to the fire fronts. Bulldozers widened fire breaks on most of the other fronts. rnur were being TC- in.ed on Polk county fires, now under control. The Forest Grove rrscivm. and watershed continued to be iwatcned. witr, flames barely a quarter of a mile away. In western -, than 100 fire fighters br"!h fires on nearly a squnre mile of logged-off land near Enumclaw under control early today, 43 divorcTactTons STARTED DURING JULY Forty-three divorce actions were filed with the county clerk's office In July, and 52 marriage licenses during the same period, the rec ords show. It was the largest number of marriage licenses issued in sev eral months and the divorces were nine more than in June. In both instances, civilians and soldiers were evenly divided- VJ-Day Means Problem In Settling Vast Accumulation War Contracts Washington, Aug. 1 flJ.R) If final victory over Japan is achieved within the next few months, the government will be confronted with the job of set tling $44,000,000,000 in cancelled war contracts, congress was In formed today. On the other hand, if VJday should not come for a year, ac cording to Director of Contract Settlement Robert II- IlincKiey. the contract terminations to-1 .i,i. k,.v,!,. nf mi. acincr wan ure settled contracts would total roughly only $28,000,000,000. Hinckley a fourth quniicny: report to eongrc.s revealed fiat 'aUuwl Jie.OUO.UUv.OUD W U-' tfnorlUJlni Free Trip Abroad For Servicemen Sen. Downey's Idea Washington, Aug. 1 (".Ri sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calif., thinks American servicemen haven't seen enough of the world. He introduced a bill today to give every veteran a free post war trip abroad, with the gov ernment footing the bill- Furthermore, if members of the veteran's family want to go along, Downey would have the government pay 50 per cent of their fares, as well. Downey said his measure would repay veterans to some extent for their sacrifices, en courage understanding between peoples, and stimulate interna tional trade. STATE TAX Salem, Ore.. Aug- 1 (U.R) cinin Sfimlnr Cne' A. McKcuna. Portland real estate broker, late Tuesday was named state tax commissioner, the state board of control announced. McKenna will succeed Earl B. nv nf Medforri. commissioner for a number of years, who re signed to return to active man agement of his ranch in south ern Oregon. McKenna has been a state leg islator since 1930, serving two terms in the senate. He is a grad uate of Portland and Notre Dame universities- He is a past presi dent of the Portland Realty board and past vice president of the National Association of Realty Boards, as well as having served for 13 years on the Port land planning board. Other tax commissioners who will continue in office include Charles Galloway and Earl Fisher. McKenna's term expires De cember 31, 1946. 3 PW'S KILLED BY GUARD Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 1 (U.R) Three German pri soners of war were shot and killed by an American guard to day when the nrisoners anDar- enlly threatened to rush him af ter relusing to work. The shooting occurred In a field 14 miles from Ovid, Colo. The Guard, Pvt. Harold W. Garland, told Camp Carson Pri soner of War Camp officers that the prisoners nad made threat ening remarks before the shoot ing. He said that he fired his carbine at them when it ap peared they were going to rush him. iir1 inmmitmenls were set tied in the year ended June 30. He emphasized the amount paid by the government under the settlement made up only a smull fraction of the amounts of the contracts involved. For instance, he said, settlement of almost $12 000.000.000 of fixed price nxcu in iiv Ihc payment rfintrnrtx renuired of only $560,000,000 or less than five npr rent of the total value. Hinckley said surveys indicate ! that "fair compensation Is be i - . ing given war contractors under , the settlement agreements. ira ui i.m.,,i, .... rrnment agencies Is to cxjiand Uie ac-Ulvjucu. tile, IE MM PLANES AND SUB BOMB AND SHELL JAP FACILITIES Allied Submersible Boldly At tacks Town on Hokkaido; Fleet Continues Silence. PonH Ttarhnr AllIT. 1 (U.R) American land-based planes and a submarine pomrjea ana sneueu Japan today, as the mighty Third Fleet went under a secur ity blackout for the second straight day. Tin.iin TnUvn rennrted that 20 American P-51 Mustangs bombed rocketed, and macnine gunneu airbascs and transportation fa cilities in the Osaka-Kobe area southwest of Tokyo for 50 min utes beginnhig at 9 a. m. (Jap anese time). Sub Sholli Town Another Japanese broadcast said an Allied submarine sur faced off the south coast of Hok kaido and boldly shelled Toma komal for 30 minutes about 6 p. m. yesterday. The broadcast said that dam age was slight. Thn ThirH Fleet has been si lent since sending its destroyers into Suruga Bay to sneu xnc city of Shimizu just after mid night Monday. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz In today's only communique an nounced that the Third Fleet s Carrier Planes had destroyed or damaged 89 more Jap planes and eight more ships in the sec ond half of their attack on cen tral Honshu Monday. Mora Ships Sunk c,inirin .nulli after attack ing the Tokyo area on Monday, American Carrier Planes sank ci,in. Hmnnued six. de stroyed 56 planes on the ground and damaged 33 sweepuiR an... a 90-mile stretch from Nagoya to the Maizurc Naval Base on the Sea of Japan. Since July 10 the Third Fleet has destroyed or damaged 1.477 Japanese planes and 957 ships, including 109 warships. Okinawa-basad p 1 a n e a have added to the destruction. Army bomber and fighter - bombers on Monday kank six enemy ships i j 9n nthers 14 In hmu um.-" . . Japan's home waters and In the Straits between Japan and Ko- rters In Llliricnv , Chungking announced that t nin ese troops have captured the Pinglo road junction, 55 miles southeast of Kweilin. Shift to China Also from Chungking Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer's head quarters announced that the 10th U. S. Alrforec Is being shifted to China from the India Burma theater under the com mnd of Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer. ,,iin In "astern Borneo, Australian artillery continued softening up the road toward the rich oil sources at Samarinda by knock ing out several emplaced enemy positions. By The Side Of The Rogue By Dale Vincent While I .sat on (he stone wall, and looked out over Crater -Wee. a little humming biirl came and sat down beside me In a sociable manner Evidently he mistook me for a rock or when 1 moved, he almost dropped dead wilh fright, and left like a bullet- Camping for the night In this secluded spot on the rim In a .., . o 1 m k of about twenty Red (iuck niincn i ciiiint i Crossbills who paid the tops of birds In America wun incir mu -- - - girl's legs on the witness stand. They have been called one of na lure's "blunders," but this Is not true. By inserting these crossed ! kntwn ihn Invers of the seed covering of coniferous cones, and giving a powerful twist, the cover is opened and the nut easily extracted. . ,. . We spent an interesting half hour watching this operation at dose range through binoculars, as Ihc birds rustled their evening (ileal, ami ouit liut euld, Bears Plentiful In Union Creek, Prospect Region Bears ar,e now quite plentiful in the Union Creek and Prospect area and reports to the forest service say they have broken in to summer cabins and raided autos in search of food. Bruin also has visited logging camp garbage cans in the night, cre ating considerable noise with the tin containers. The reports say there Is nothing particularly vicious about the intruders, though they have caused some damage. Before the war when tourists and picnickers were plentiful, the bears were quite a curiosity particularly to children who fed them candy. In those times the bears also raided parked cars and frequently tore up the up holstery in their search for food. DRIVER DIES AS VEHICLE LEAVES State police are today Investi gating cause of an accident last night when an International Truck driven by Frank Bruce O'Dcll of Albany, Ore., or Ros near, Calif., left the highway south of Ashland and turned over two or three times, killing the driver. , Reports at state police head quarters State that O'Dcll failed to make a left hand curve about seven miles north of the Califor nia border, and the truck trav eled 131 feet on the road shoul der before going off the grade and turning over. Wreckage of the truck was first found by Jack Richard Keller, Oklahoma, a passing mo torist who notified police at 9:30 p. m. Two addresses were found In the victim's identification indi cating that he lived cither at Tower Grove, an Albany auto nnrk or nt 1511 Gulss street. Rosncar, Calif., and that he was married. The body was taken to Deputy Coroner C. W. Litwillers Fu neral Home In Ashland and rel atives are being notified, bcl by's Garage In Ashland has the truck. Chamber Directors To Discuss Housing General business with empha sis unnn nrmv and navv housing and post war promotion will be discussed at the regular semi monthly meeting oi me jncuson; ine meeting win ue num m chamber', board rooms and all members are invited to attend. n i j . u- ,nriA K calling the chamber office. 2294. The monthly news letter of the Jackson County chamber, outlining some of the highlights of the organization's July activi ties, is now In the mall to the membership. - .- .--- - , our trees a visit. These arc the o- ly A party of relatives and friends of three Portland persons and a civilian pilot whose plane wrecked in Rogue River Na tional Forest Saturday left Med ford about noon today for the site of the wreck where re mains of the victims will be buried. Striking with such Im pact that the motor of the plane was jammed back into the front compartment where all four were seated, the bodies were badly mangled and identifica tion was made with some dif ficulty, according to forest serv ice employees returning last night from the scene. Deteriora tion of the scattered bodies had begun in the three day interval. Aboard the plane were Sylvan L. Gosliner, president of the In dustrial Equipment company, Portland, his wife and her sis ter, Mrs. Alma Finley Pratt of Portland, and the pilot-owner, Robert L. Armstrong, of Lind say, Calif. Le Port Heads Party Included In the burial party are R. F. Holllster, Portland at torney and close friend of the Gosliners, Harold Ullieus of San Francisco, brother-in-law of the two women, and Herbert E. Wal ters, San Francisco, William Hie ber and Gayle Wiggley of Port land, friends and business asso ciates. Leading the group is Lee Port, ranger at the Star Ranger ctniinn In Annlcaate district, and other forest service employees accompanied them to dig graves. The Rev. Hariv W. Hansen, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, was securea to complete the group and administer funeral cfrvirp nt the forest craves. - The three Portland people will be buried near the accident scene, and the pilot's body will either be buried there or return ed to Medford for shipment to his home. Telephoned word from hl wife this morning indicated - that he should be burled here, but later messages from relative! that nlan- The burial party will be in telephone con tact with the local forest service headquarters at various points along the route. Located about 40 miles from Medford, just south of the Oregon-California line In the tim bered area near the head of Butte creek, the wreckage was standing on end when sighted from the air yesterday morning by Frank P. Fezlcr, pilot of the Siskiyou National Forest plane from Redwood Ranger station, lt had not burned, and apparent ly the plane was set down about 100 yards from a butte, in a des perate attempt by the pilot to make an emergency landing. Forestry officials state that the plane was apparently traveling low in the canyon before the crash, but had hit no trees before nosing into the ground. Long Hike Required Rescue parties, Including for et irrvire employees and one group of 25 army men from the Medford air base, led by Capt. Stephen A. Starr, and who car ried stretchers to the scene to return with any possible sur vivors, were forced to hike the last eight miles to the wreck over rough trail. Army and forest service planes hart been searching the area since Saturday when the plane i was reported missing on a flight I from Red Bluff, Calif., to Eu i gene, Ore- Reports received Hon- day from a forest ranger in tho Vrbn nrnn UiitHnri the Search. -fc , , t -. - . j searching for a pot A coroner from Yreka Cal.f, 1 wa Pvrwrtod to arrived in MKI' ! ford this afternoon to complete affadavits of death for the four victims. Holllster barely escaped death ...hi. iUa rincliner narty. as ha had lunched with them In San Francisco last Wednesday ana ...... inuitpd to return north in the private plane they had char tered. Instead, ne iook b Airlines reservation and on reaching Portland checked back and found his friends had been delaved by engine trouble He notified authorities when they failed to arrive in tho northern city Sunday, and the search was Instigated. Gas Stoves Freed From Ration Lists Washington, Aug. 1 (U.R) Gas stoves were removed from the ration list today, but it still doesn't mean clear sailing for householders who use liquified VcU'oleiuu gases. f s
