Victims of Plane Crash Will Be Buried At Forest Scene
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MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1945
Fortieth Year
Rev. Hansen Goes With Bur
ial Party for Last Rites
Remains Badly Mangled.
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Yank Shells Do 'Inside' JoB
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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
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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;
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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,
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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.
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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
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