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Us The Mail Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Reiulti At Small Cost Weather Tribune MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire FORECAST: Continued clear and warm Sunday, little change in temperature. Highest Yesterday ..... Lowest this Mornlnf . United Press Full Leased Wiri Fortieth Year s' -FORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1945. NO. 114. Tokyo Predicts Yar ee Invasion Within 30 to 60 Days TO BE MacArthur Takes Command Japan Boasts But Ad mits Success Washington, Aug. 4 U.P.) Invasion-frightened Japan ad mitted indirectly today that an American invasion of the home islands would be successful if sufficiently powerful and pre dicted that the first wave would number 800,000 troops. Tokyo broadcasts heard by the United Press at San Francisco said that "Against this force Ja pan is able immediately to gath er a force several times larger, regardless of where the enemy might choose to land on the mainland." Tokyo admitted, however, that Japan is basing almost her full hope for repelling the invasion on suicide pilots and newly-developed wooden planes. Tokyo said the wooden planes will play "a vital part in the forth coming showdown battle." Twelve more Japanese cities received their B-29 "death" no tices Saturday and Gen. Douglas MacArthur assumed command of all the Okinawa invasion-springboard islands to prepare a mighty force for the final con quest of Japan. Carrier pilots already have surveyed the Japanese coast, it was disclosed. Many beaches ex cellently suited for invasion have been found. The confused Japanese, given all but a blue print of allied plans, boasted of their ability to meet the impend- ; assault but nervously admitted that an invasion of Japan will be successful if powerful enough. Slowly strangled by allied air and sea blockade, Japan faced the prospect of losing the war making potential of 12 cities spread the entire length of the homeland. Superforts spread 720,000 leaflets over Nippon to grimly warn 1,400,000 Japanese to evacuate their doomed cities or die. Thirty-one war centers have been placed on the death list. Ten already have been bombed on schedule and Satur day's third pre-raid warning in nine days bluntly said "some or all" of the new 12 could expect ' to be hit shortly. Weather Halts Raids Bad weather blocked raids against Japan. But navy planes swept the southern coast of Shantung province of China and sank one ship. Other craft were hit in Hangchow bay south of Shanghai. Bombers also ranged over the Tsushima strait between Japan and Korea and hit ship ping south of Honshu. Tokyo radio predicted the American invasion of Japan would come within 30 to 60 days. Three U. S. armies and enough marine divisions to form a fourth are ready in the Pacific and the powerful 1st army of European fame is preparing to join the drive. MacArthur assumed command of Okinawa and 17 other U. S. held Islands in the Ryukyus. He controls all army forces with the exception of the 8th air force, the 10th army and 5th and 7th air forces are irr the area. The 13th air force is moving to the Ryukyus from the southwest ern area. Two other powerful armies, the 6th and 8th, are in the Philippines. At least six veteran marine divisions are in the Ryukyus and Marianas. The 1st army is being deployed from Europe to join the Pacific as sault. Other forces from Europe may also be thrown into the Pacific theater. The broadening of MacAr thur's command was the first step toward speeding an early conclusion of the Japanese war. But if the Japanese cling to their announced determination to fight to the bitter end, mili tary observers believed final vie. tory will not come before next spring at the earliest. HOLLYWOOD ROMANCE Hollywood. Aug. H U.P' Actor Dick Powell, and brund starlet June Allyson confirrrcd today what everyone in Holly wood had known all alone that they will be married lato' this summer. The coupl.- havei been constantly together at Hollywood niRht spots since actress Joan Blondcli got an in-; terlocutory divorce rircrce from' Towcll a little over a year ajg.. v r -...t . JMT & r M J 2 it i , 4 "!u-'-5" "tr--fK ' 'f ' 1 whl ' FvJt Xi i1 feet tAcnw Telepholol Pierre Luval iKuucs at, Paris Couri in treason trial lor juarsnai Henri Pniupe petain. as former marshal listens (right). Laval tells court of secret military agreement he had signed with Mussolini In 1938 against German aggression. Photo by Ha.-old Siegman, NEA-Acme photographer. Radio photo from Acme Telephoto. JAIL FOR UNTRUE WIFE OF SOLDIER Newark, N. J., Aug- 4 U.P.) Uitfaithful wives of Newark's servicemen faced today a pos sible choice between jail or no allotment after a family court judge ruled that a wife who has time to philander has time to support herself. Judge P. James Pellechia made his decision yesterday when a serviceman's wife came into court in an adultery case. He sentenced the girl to prison but suspended sentence for 30 days on condition that she apply to the war department's office of dependency benefits to stop her allotment. The girl's hus band, a wounded Pacific veter an, was said to be in a west coast hospital. "I don't think that an un faithful wife should get money from or through her husband." he said, "and I will make further decisions upon that conviction. Any wife proven unfaithful can make her choic;." He said he roped the plan would be followed throughout the nation. T- Washnigton, Aug. 4 (U.R) The maritime commission Is plannig to build some "kitchen ette" liners small, compact and economical passenger carriers to enter postwar trade competi tion. The ships, it was learned to night, will be somewhat like the Washington class which proved so successful in the Transatlantic business before the war. They will be somewhere between 20, 000 and 25.000 gross tons. This is considerably smaller than the liner America, the largest passen ger vessel ever built in this county, which is now a troop transport. Under plans now in the Infor mal discussion stage, the mari time commission could build the ships for private accounts with a government construction subsidy. Jap Hospital Ship With Guns, Seized Manila, Aug. 4 (U.R) A Jap anese hospital ship plying the Banda Sea was, boarded and searched yesterday and found to be carrying contraband guns a:id ammunition as well as serving as a wartime transport in defiance of International law. Gen. Don Bias MacArthur disclosed today. An announcement from Mac Arthur's headquarters said the ship, with its crew of 13 officrs aVd 63 men, is being brouuht into an allied port for further examination. Hollywood. Aug 4 (U.R) I Screen Actress June Vincent to-1 day gava birth to a 7 and pound soir, Wiliiain Phiiycr Stcr-j ling. 1 Describes Pact Withv,iussolini W BULLETIN At the end of ihe fourth inn ing the Klamath Falls Navy team was leading the Medford Craters 8 to 2, in a night game at the fairgrounds. The visitors garnered nine hits off Freer and Lange, while Norman Worthley, former junior high coach here, held the Craters to three bingoes. Coast (Night Games) Portland 6 10 0 Hollywood 3 10 2 . Tising, Pulford (9) and Souza, Adams (9); Williams, Mishasck (9) and Hill. Los Angeles ! 1111 Sacramento 3 10 1 Cornelias and Kreitner; Flet cher, Attanazio (3) and Schmar cucci (3). WHOLESALE THEFT TO COAST CREWS To Seattle, Aug. 4 (U.R) James L. Adams, San Francisco. Pacific Coast Regional Counsel for the War Shipping Adminis tration, said today many Pacific coast dock workmen were "walking off with food and equipment from merchant ships." "They're taking all they can get their hands on," the WSA official said. "Theft of such gov ernment property has reached the proportion where it must be stamped out." Conferring with federal offi cials here. Adams said many ves sels bound with provisions for forward areas, reached their des tinations without enough food for operation of the ship. Valunblc instruments, butter and bicon disappeared often, he said. In San Francisco, thieves took sheets off ships by wrap ping them around their bodies under their clothing. "There is scarcely a day when three or four thefts from ships are not reported to the FBI," he said. Grew Explains Why Fares To U. S. Paid Washington. Aug. 4 (U.R) The United States Government has footed the bill for repatriat ing Americans from the Phili ppines because the State Depart ment in 1941 was unable "for political reasons" to warn them to leave before the Japanese struck Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew said tonight. Grew issued a statement giv ing di'tails of the repatriation program under which several thousand Americans have been brought out of war rones in all parts of the world. Collaborator Executed Paris, Ai g. 4 iURi Paul Fcr, donnet, the "Lord Haw Haw" of France, was executed at Ft. Montrougc today after a French court of justice found him guilty of collaboration with the enemy. San Francisco, Aug. 4 'U.R) Japan's third combat service force of the people's "volunteer corps" has been organized in five major port cities. Tokyo radio announced tonight. TO GET F Battle Creek. Mich., Aug. 4 (U.R) M Sgt. Frederic Hensel, described by an army buddy as "the bravest man of this war", tonight was assured of more than $16,000 to buy his chicken farm. Checks began to pour into Percy Jones General Hospital after Hensel, first U. S- battle casualty to lose parts bf all four limbs, said he might buy "a little chicken farm" near his home town of Corbin, Ky., when he learns to use artificial limbs. The money is to be presented to the sergeant and his wife, Jewell, on Aug. 12, their third wedding anniversary. Hensel still, protested that ho could not understand why the fund was being raised for him. "All these people are wonder ful," he said, "but I don't know why they're doing it for me." But in San Francisco, Pfc. Juel A. Kolbo of Aberdeen, S.D., had a reason. Kolbo and Hensel were evacuated to the same hos pital on Guam after both were wounded on Okinawa- "You couldn't keep a guy like that down," Kolbo said. "He was in terrific pain, particular ly when they dressed the stumps, but he continued to joke with the nurses. "Knowing Hensel on Guam was as good as a brass band for the rest of us. He is the bravest man of this war." SILL BUSINESS AID BILL OKAYED Washington, Aug. 4 (U.R) President Truman has approved a reconversion tax bill intended to Improve industry's cash posi tion for quick resumption of peacetime production, the White House disclosed today. One of the measure's provis ions, drafted primarily to aid small business, will increase cor porate earnings exempt from the 05 per cent excess profits tax from $10,000 to $25,000 effec tive next Jan. 1. Other provis ions authorized earlier payments of about $5,540,000,000 in tax refunds authorized by existing law. The bill did not change busi ness tax rates and did not af fect either personal tax rates or exemptions. However, one of the refund provisions In effect cut the excess profits tax rate from 95 to 85.5 per cent. Subsidy Rates On Vegetables Given San Francisco, Aug. 4 (U.R) Subsidy payment rates to can ners of peas, sweet corn, toma toes, and tomato juice were an nounced jointly today by the Department of Agriculture and the OPA. Prices per dozen number two cans arc green peas, 20 cents; sweet corn, eight rents; tomatoes! 18 cents; tomato juice six cents, LAVAL TESTIFIES PETAIN ORDERED Secret Treaty With Britain Kept French Navy In Port Both 'Patriots' Paris, Aug. 4 (U.R) Pierre Laval asserted today that Mar shal Henri Philippe Petain while Vichy Chief of State repeatedly instructed French troops in North Africa to aid the Allied landings, which occurred in No vember, 1942. Testifying for the second day at Petain's treason trial. Laval said there had been secret agree ments between Vichy and Brit ain, negotiated in North Africa, by which Britain agreed to the French fleet remaining in port on condition that it was to be scuttled if the Germans tried to seize it. The swarthy Premier of Vichy France's "evil genius" de picted himself and Petain as pa triots who worked only for the best interests of France but were helpless before German power. Laval said the French army in North Africa had had direct orders from Adm. Jean Francois Darlan, Chief of Vichy armed forces, to resist any aggression, "American, British, or German," in November, 1942. Laval constantly parried the questions of Presiding Judge Pierre Mongibcaux and the jur ors. Insisting he and Petain had collaborated with Germany only "because the German dagger was at our throats." He said that because of the great influx of inhabitants of northern France Into the unoccupied zone under Vichy rule, it faced economic strangulation. "Without German aid it was Impossible to assure even mini mum living conditions," he said. "There was no other way out but what we did." He claimed he had saved the lives of former Premiers Leon Blum. F.douard Daladier and Paul Neynaud, and Gen. Maurice Gamelin Germans wanted to ex ecute them in 1943 as a reprisal for the execution of Vichylte Pierre P u c h e u by the Free French in Algiers, he said. JAPS bOrnToot KIANGSI SECTOR Chungking, Aug. 4 .(U.R) Two looting and pillaging Jap anese columns have blazed a iin.mlti. nnth of destruction thruogh the Klangsi province rice bowl region to wunin less ihnn sn miles of a lunctlon west of Nanchang, a communique said today. Some 300 miles to the west, counter-attacking Japanese troops blunted a Chinese spear head about 12 miles west of rhimnhalnn 40 miles from the old Flying Tiger air base at Ling- ling. A Chinese column movea east of recaptured Sinning to rA Tnntfan. That citV is On the vital Kwellin-Hcngyang rail line and only 23 miles irom Lingllng. ATLEETFlNDS London, Aug. 4 U.R Prime Minietnr flpmpnt Attlec formed a 20-man cabinet today, compos ed mostly ol stauncn moonies whn ramnnivned on a promise to convert Britain Into a social ist commonwealth. prhnn the most striking fea ture of his cabinet was its small- ness. The wartime average was 39 and the pre-war average 26. Furthermore, his 19 colleagues apparently were chosen on pcr nnui 0rnnnH. rather than on the comparitivc importance of their respective departments. HALSEY CAN'T ATTEND Pendleton, Ore., Aug. 4 !U.R Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsi-y won't be able to attend the 1945 Pendleton round up but if he could, he'd still prefer to ride Himhiln'c white horse Instead of the "good outlaw bronc" offered bim. POTSDAM PARLEY STANDJN SPAIN Dictator Defies Big Three, May Force Change Pres ent Regime London, Aug 4 (U.R) Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco to night rejected as "arbitrary and unjust" the Potsdam declaration that Spain, under his govern ment, was not worthy of a place in the world organzation for in ternational peace and security. Franco said Spain did not "beg for a seat in any international conference" and would not ac cept one that was not "consonant with her history, her population, and her services to" peace and culture." The dictatorial Spanish re gime thus defied Russia, Great Britain, America and France to force a change in the present government through economic or political pressures. The Big Three communique had excluded Spain from mem bership in a world organization on grounds the Franco govern ment was founded with the sup port of Axis powers and does not, "in view of its origins, its nature, its record and its close association with the aggressor states possess the qualifications necessary to justify such mem bership." The Potsdam declaration had come as a shock to the Sflanish government and people. Some criticism had been expected but not such severe action. Spanish newspapers and In formed government quarters blamed the defeat of the Church- Ill government in Britain by tne Labor Party for the Potsdam de nunciation. The Franco statement, broad cast by Radiu Madrid, was issued from his vacation retreat at La Coruna, where he conferred to day with Foreign Minister Mar tin Artajo and president of the Spanish Cortes, Estcban Bilbao. ARABiAPlCE Detroit, Aug. 4 (U.R) Mary Mohammed, 23-year-old Detroit stenographer, may be trying to "forget it all' 'at a nearby lake as her parents say, but her boss said tonight she had flown to New York to bo with Prince Aziz of Arabia her royal com panion on a recent eight-day tour of New York night clubs. H. M. Krausc, personnel dir ector of General Motors' Fleet wood body division, said Mary made the decision last night and flew to New York at noon today. "The last I heard from her family, both she and the Prince were missing," he said. "Maybe they'll show up married for all I know but I don't look for anything like that " The Prince was quoted In a New York newspaper today as saying he did not remember meeting Miss Mohammed, whose father is a native of Syria and a Moslem. But Mary already had told her story to reporters. She hod met the second son of King Ihn Saud f Saudi at a Detroit b'in quet July 5. On July 14. she arrived in New York and sncnt eight days there as his guest, ac companying him to night clubs, dances and Coney Island- Sho said she had no romantic interest in the 20-year-old Ara bian Prince, but she thought he was "very handsome and a won derful man." In New York, the Prince was quoted: "1 am a one-woman man. I already have a wife and ix children. MATSON LINE OBJECTS San Francisco Ann i iiid. 'The Matson Navigation Com- iy oi an Francisco today challenged the findings of fact and conclusions drawn by civil aeronautics board ,mi..,. i- the Hawaiian overseas air case' in WHICH Ull ted Air1i.,n. 1 I recommended for the Huwaiiuni I route. j WAR BULLETINS Portland, Ore.. Aug. 4 (U.R) Flames threatened the Forest Grove watershed In western Oregon tonight with some 500 acres of timber biasing out of control and defying all efforts to hold the fire line. A sudden shift In the wind from- northwest to east sent flames sweeping over the ridge, jumping the fire trail and heading into the main or south fork of Clear creek. Forest Grove officials also reported that the fire is eating its way into Scroggins Valley after moving swiftly through slashings around Glenwood. Calcutta, Aug. 4 (U.R) British troops in Burma have wiped out Japanese positions along the vital Pegu-Marlaban rail line near Abya and in flicted heavy casualties on a trapped unit near Nyaung Lebin, a southeast Asia com mand communique said today. Manila, Sunday. Aug. S (U.R Philippines-based Light ning Fighters of ihe 13th Air Force flew a 2000-mile round trip Thursday to batter Jap anese communications in the Sorabaja area of eastern Java, destroying 37 enemy locomo tives. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. T Sen. Johnson Wants No 'Humble-Jumble' Answer From Secretary Stimson Washington, Aug. 4 4U.R) Sen. Edwin C Johnson, D., Colo., warning that no "humble Jumble answer" would do, ask ed Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson tonight to review the army's manpower requirements and to be "brutally frank" with Congress and the country- In a letter to the secretary, Johnson termed "most disheart ening" Stimson's news confer ence insistence this week that an army of 7,000,000 was need ed. "Your decision means millions of bitter, discontented men mill ing around the United Slates in uniform during the next 18 months," Johnson wrote. "It means a transportation crisis. It means a serious man power shortage in vital indus tries. It means that reconver sion is stymied. It means . . .. mass demobilization at the very moment when unemployment in the United States is at its peak" Johnson, who denounced the army's discharge system in a senate speech this week, told stimons that "under your revolv ing plan, fully 50 per cent of the men now in the South Pacific are overdue for replacement." Ho insisted that even if the army shipped 4,000 men a day until Jan. 1, 1947, it could put only 2,000,000 new men on the Japanese front. Attrition from all sources, he added, would tnkc away about 700,000 in that time, so that by the first of 1947 the army could have only 3,000.00 soldiers on that front, including troops there now- DAV ACTS Washington, Aug. 4 (U.R) The Veterans of Foreign Wars called on the navy tonight to liberalize its discharge plan and permit the release of navy, mar ine and coast guard personnel on the same basis as army officers and enlisted men. Wat kins No Longer Seeks Federal Job Portland, Ore., Aug. 4 (U.R) Democratic National Committee man Lee Wallce of Oregon tnd'iy announced Elton Watkins, Port land attorney and former con gressman, had withdrawn as a candidate for United States at torney for Oregon. Democratic leaders had recom mended Watkins to succeed Carl C. Donaugh, whose third term has expired. He said the press of private legal business would not permit him to take the post. Henry Hess of La Grande, Democratic nominee for gover nor In 1938, and Bruce Spalding, of Salem, Democratic contender for attorney general two times, were possible nominees for the Job after Watkins slopped aside. BE SITE OF NEXT THREE MEET President Makes Proposal At Potsdam and All De pends On Stalin Aboard USS Augusta with President Truman, Aug. 4 (U.R) President Truman hopes the next Big Three conference can be held at Washington. It was disclosed today that Mr. Truman had proposed the Amer ican capital for the next meeting during the Potsdam conference, although the time for another meeting has not even been dis cussed yet. Agreement on Wash 1 n g t o n presumably would depend on Russian Premier Josef Stalin, who had been unwilling to tra vel far from Moscow to pre vious conferences. When Mr. Truman made the proposal, Sta lin was said to have indicated tentative assent by commenting, "God willing." Of the three previous confer ences, the one at Yalta was held on Russian soil and those at Teh ran and Potsdam were relatively close to the Soviet union. Despite previous lack of ex perience in foreign affairs, Mr. Truman has shown no reluctance to assume leadership in Big Three plans. At the Potsdam conference, ha submitted a written set of pro posals for discussion. His list, most of which was included in the final communique, included proposals for a council of foreign ministers, political and economic terms for Germany, Italian ad mission to the United Nations and revised allied control pro cedure for Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. Other proposals were mads verbally by Stalin and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Mr. Truman was chos en to preside at the sessions. While Mr. Truman has assert ed there were no secret agree ments made at Potsdam, it was assumed that there was at least an exchange of views about Ger many's future western borders and the disposition of the Rhine land. Mr. Truman Is expected to dis embark at a northeastern port early next week. Independence, Mo., Aug 4 (U.R) Mrs. Bess Truman plans to leave Independence for Wash ton about the middle of next week to Join the president as ho returns to the White House from the Big Three meeting at Pots dam, it was learned tonight. Her daughter, Miss Margaret Truman, will remain in tho "summer white house" until late in September with her grandmother, Mrs. David Wal lace, relatives said. GIFTS THIS YEAR Washington, Aug. 4 (U.R) Civilians will be able to buy ra dios for Christmas presents this year, a high War Production Board official said tonight. Moreover, WPB Staff Chief John D. Small told the United Press the return of radios to store shelves and showrooms will be a harbinger of many other types of goods desired by a public with needs to be filled and cash to spend. WPB has authorized manufac turers In the last three months of this year to produce 2,500,000 radios about half the pre-war civilian output. WAR BUDGET CUT WaslHngton. Aug. 4 (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft, R O.. to night propow-d a comprehensive program for congress including drastic reductions of wartime controls and a coordinated bud get of social security and anti depression legislation. Taft, chairman of the senate's Republican steering committee, offered tho program as the T.e publican version of the job con gress will face when it recon venes Oct. 8,
