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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..
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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
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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,