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Fortieth Year
' Reds Advance 110 Miles Into ManchiL.a;
Capture Vital Northwestern Rail Center
FOUND IN EARLY
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Korea and Half of Sakhalin
Island Invaded In Wide
Swinging Offensive.
London, Aug 10 (U.P.) The
Red Banner armies of the Far
East tonight were reported deep
within Manchuria, rolling up an
advance of nearly 110 miles and
capturing the vital northwest
Manchuria rail center of Hailar
in less than 48 hours combat.
The rapidity of the Soviet ad
vance across northwest Man
churia suggested that the Jap
anese were putting up meager
opposition to the wide swinging
Red army columns.
Korea Invaded
The Japanese radio reported
that the Soviet troops had invad
ed Korea and the southern half
of Sakhalin Island in a broaden
ing offensive.
Tonight's Soviet communique
reported that the Red army had
driven straight down the Chinese
eastern railroad from the border
town of Manchouli to Hailar,
nearly 110 miles.
Other troops crossed the
- Amur river boundary at another
point and captured two towns in
an advance of nearly 10 miles.
In the Lake Dalai Nor region
advances up to 13 miles were re
gistered and south of Khabor
ovsk two towns on the south
bank of the Amur and one on
the west bank of the Ussuri were
seized in advances up to nearly
IS miles.
Towns Captured
Fighting northwest from Val
divostok the Red army captured
the towns of Pogranichnay,
Tungning and Tangchagou, just
across the maritime provinces
frontier.
South and southwest of Kha-j
barovsk the towns of Lopci,
Tungkiang and Lahasutu were
. captured. I
Sakhalin, a slender, 600-mile
long island off the coast of Rus
Xsia's maritime provinces, origin
ally was owned entirely by Rus-
sia. However, she ceded the
aojithern half of the island to
Japan after the first Russo-Jap
anese war.
AIOMJP USE
San Francisco, Aug. 10 (U.R)
The Japanese government has
lodged a formal protest with the
United States through Switzer
land requesting that the Ameri
cans "immediately discontinue
the use of such inhuman wea
pons as the atomic bomb, Radio
Tokyo said today.
Tokyo in a broadcast recorded
by United Press quote the pro
test as saying:
"Indiscriminate use by the
United States of such atomic
weapons as the atomic bomb
constituted a new crime against
the whole of humanity and civil
ization. Therefore the Japanese gov
ernment in the name of the Jap
anese people and also in the
name of humanity and civiliza
tion condemns the United States
government, simultaneously re
questing it to immediately dis
continue the use of such In
human weapons."
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
FAVORS MERGER PLAN
Portland, Ore., Aug. 10 (U.R)
The Oregon-Washington con
ference of the Evangelical
church today voted unanimously
for a proposal to merge the
Evangelical and United Brethren
denominations.
The northwest group was the
first Evangelical conference to
vote.
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T
IN POST OFFICE
E. L. Knight, stationed in
Medford as contract representa
tive of the Veterans Administra
tion regional office in Portland,
has opened his office in room
201 in the post office building
and will be on duty from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. six days weekly.
Knight states that his duties
will be to assist returning veter
ans and their dependents in fil
ing claims for insurance, hospi
talization, and general assistance
in any matter pertaining to the
Veterans Administration. He
emphasizes that his work is not
to supplant or act in the capacity
of service officer for any veter
ans' organization, but to work
with the organization officers in
aiding veterans to secure evi
dence and file claims.
A veteran of naval service in
both World Wars, Knight work
ed with' the Veterans State Aid
Commission before Joining the
Veterans Administration staff.
His assignment to the Medford
area came after his special re
quest, Knight adds. He had visit
ed the city several times and was
attracted to the area. As soon
as suitable housing can be secur
ed, his wife and two daughters
will move to Medford from Port
land to make their home.-
The office will be handled by
Knight and one stenographer,-
EXPECTED 10 HIT
ENTIRE SECTION
Klamath Falls, Ore., Aug. 10
(U.R) CIO unionists today walk
ed out on strike in the Weyer
haeuser Timber Company mill
in Klamath Falls, one of the
world's largest pine plants.
The dispute started with pre
vious strikes in two woods oper
ations, then spread to the main
mill. CIO pickets said they be
lieved the strike would spread
generally through the Klamath
area.
Fire protection crew mem
bers, office employes and com
pany officials were the only
ones to enter the gate today, it
was reported.
Union spokesmen said de
mands will be presented at all
CIO operations in the area ask
ing for a union shop and 25 cents
per hour increase "across the
board." Refusal of demands
probably will mean strikes of af
fected operations, they said.
Guam, Aug. 10 (U.R) More
than 1.200 Allied carrier planes
struck Japanese military targets
on northern Honshu today for
the second straight day in sup
port of the Red armV's Manchur
ian offensive after destroying or
damaging 257 enemy aircraft in
1 the first round of attacks,
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1945.
PLANS ARRANGED
FOR STORES HERE
Meeting at the Jackson county
chamber of commerce this morn
ing, the Medford Retail Mer
chants association, including rep
resentatives of all types of stores
in the city, adopted a plan to
control closing of stores on of
ficial announcement of victory in
the Japanese war.
The group decided that if V-J
day is announced any time dur
ing working hours, all stores will
close for the remainder of that
day and also the following day.
Should the announcement come
before 8 a. m. in the morning,
stores will be closed that day
and will open the next day. If
V-J day is Sunday, retail stores
will be closed Monday.
Due to the large quantity of
extremely perishible foods offer
ed this time of year, food stores
in the city will remain open on
V-J day, spokesmen state, and
employees will be paid at the
holiday wage rate.
City restaurant operators met
immediately after the retail
merchants, and decided that for
the convenience of persons who
must eat meals downtown daily,
part of the eating houses will
close the day victory over Japan
is announced, and the others will
close the next day.
The Rev. Milo Ross, head of
the Medford Ministerial Associa
tion, said today that public union
worship services are being plan
ned for V-J day, but definite
announcement of time and place
will be made later.
WEATHER
Northern California Clear
today and Saturday, except over
coastal sections; cooler in Sacra
mento today and over interior
Saturday; moderate northwest
wind off coast. '
Truman Gives Japanese
Washington, Aug. 10 (U.R)
President Truman left bruised
and battered Japan with the grim
promise today of more atomic
bombs and more military sur
prises unless she surrenders im
mediately. The Japanese have felt only
part of the crushing fate that is
in store for them if they choose
to fight on, the chief executive
declared last night in an historic
radio "Report to Fellow Ameri
cans" on the Potsdam confer
ence. The Japs will soon learn some
of the other military secrets
agreed upon at Berlin," he said.
. . . and they will not like
them."
Jap Civiliani Warned
Mr. Truman vowed that the
atomic bomb would continue to
be turned on the enemy until the
minute of surrender, and he
warned Japanese civilians to va
cate war industrial centers and
"save themselves from destruc
tion." He said Japan's past deeds, in
cluding her execution of Ameri
can prisoners, fully Justified the
decision to use the atomic bomb
"against those who have aban
doned all pretense of obeying in
ternational laws of warfare."
The president, at the same
time said he was fully aware
that the horrible potentialities of
the new weapon posed a threat
to all mankind if it gets in the
wrong hands.
Therefore, he said, the United
States. Canada and Britain, who
hold the secret, will keep it from
the world apparently even
from the Russians "until means
have been found to control the
bomb so as to protect ourselves
and the rest of the world from
the dinger of total destruction."
No Secret Pacts
Turning to the Potsdam, con
Judge Walker To
Hear Heuvel Trial,
Salem, Ore., August 10 (U.R)
Chief Justice Harry H. Belt of
the State Supreme Court has as
signed Circuit Judge Arlie G.
Walker of Yamhill county to
preside at the trial of former
Chief of Police Heuvel of Klam
ath county on morals charges.
Judge D. R. Vandenbcrg of
Klamath Falls disqualified him
self in this case and an affidavit
of prejudice has been filed
against Judge Charles H. Combs
of Lake county.
Honolulu, T. H Aug. 10 (U.R)
News that Japan has offered to
surrender touched off hilarious
celebrations today at this mid
Pacific city where war broke
with terrible suddenness three
years, eight months and three
days ago.
The first report that Tokyo
had broadcast a peace request
was received here in the middle
of the night when most of the
city was asleep. But it didn't
take the city long to awaken.
. At Hickam Field, the great
army base adjacent Pear Har
bor, a celebration started. CI's
shouted and whooped their" joy,
and they were soon joined by
the WACs. Celebrants moved
into the streets and the band as
sembled and got a parade start
ed in front of the hanger line.
Okinawa, 9:30 p. m., Aug. 10
(U.R) American troops . went
wild on this island they conquer
ed less than two months ago to
day when they heard radio re
ports that Tokyo had said Japan
would accept the Potsdam sur
render ultimatum.
They fired off guns and flares.
Tracers criss-crossed the sky.
Men yelled and beat on buckets.
They hammered one another's
backs shouting:
"The war's over."
Surrender Or Suffer More Atomic Bombs
ference, Mr. Truman revealed
that Soviet Russia agreed to
fight the Japanese before being
informed of the atomic bomb,
He emphasized that the confer
ence resulted In no secret agree
ments 'apart from current mili
tary operations" a reference to
Russia s decision to Join the Pa
cific conflict.
The president said that Ameri
can proposals and objectives
dominated the Potsdam parley.
And chief among those objec
tives, he added, was victory over
Japan
Coupling a fervent hope of
United Nations brotherhood with
the plain, hard facts of Interna
tional politics. Mr. Truman un
veiled for the first time a revolu
tionary American proposal made
at Potsdam a plan for Interna
tional control over the inland
waterways of Europe, including
the hlghlv strategic Dardanelles
and the Rhine and Danube riv
ers. "One of the persistent causes
of wars in Eurooe in the last two
centuries has been the selfish
control of the waterways in Eu
rope " he said in affirming his
intention of seeking acceptance
of the American plan.
To Preti For Council
Mr. Truman said the United
States will "press for its adop
tion" in the big five council of
foreign ministers set up by the
big three conference. He charac
terized the five-power agency,
which will meet in London, as
(Tne that will map the peace set
tlements Just as Dumbarton Oaks
laid groundwork for the United
Nations security charter.
"This does not mean that the
five governments are going to
try to dictate to. or dominate,
other nations," he assured his
listeners.
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TO FIGHT BLAZE;
Sixteen boys employed by the
Rogue River National Forest
Service as a blister rust control
crew, with their foreman, were
dispatched today to help fight a
forest fire on "Old Woman
creek" in Umpqua National For
est in Douglas county.
. No new fires have been re
ported in the Rogue River forest
since the first of the week, but
men are still working on six
fires, now under control, which
were started by lightning then.
About a mile of trail surround
ing tht fire near Rogue View Inn
was expected to be completed
this afternoon by state forest pa
trol crews. The blaze is under
control, and no new fires have
been reported.
Twenty-five, men on the night
crew at Medford Corporation
were taken off shift Wednesday
night and dispatched to the
Rogue River fire where they re
mained Thursday and today. Op
erations on the night shift were
necessarily closed but will re
sume Umighti -
Word came to Mcdco from the
fire scene today that mora men
were needed at once. The mill
sent 30 men from the planing
and shipping departments and
at latest reports the fire is ex
pected to be under control to
night. ROTH CHATTERTON SUED
Los Angeles. Aug. 10 (U.R)
Actress Ruth Chatterton's Bev
erly Hills, Calif., home and fur
nishings today were under a
writ of attachment obtained by
a New York jewelry firm suing
for $2,423 allegedly due on a
diamond-ruby ring and clip. The
superior court writ was obtain
ed by Shrove and Co.
Grim Alternative-
dress the president asserted
bluntly that the United States
intends to acquire all the mili
tary bases it needs for future
American and world security.
"Though the United States
wants no territory or profit or
selfish advantage out of this
war," he declared, "we are go
ing to maintain the military
bases necessary for the complete
protection of our interests and
of world peace."
He emphasized that the bases
would fly the American flag in
a manner "consistent with the
United Nations charter."
Reaffirming this country's de
termination to fight distress and
starvation in Europe, Mr. Tru
man remarked solemnly that
"the victory won at terrible cost
last spring" could be lost next
winter if lack of outside help
provokes anarchy in Europe,
Must Aid Europe
"We must help to the limits
of our strength," he said. ' And
we will."
The president said the Pols-
dam declaration on Romania.
Bulgaria and Hungary meant
that these powderkeg nations
"are not going to be spheres of
influence of any one power."
"Until these states are reestab
lished as members of the inter
national family," the president
went on, "they are the joint con
cern of all of us."
He promised also genuine
freedom of press In the Balkans.
Finland and Poland. Soviet Rus
sia's blockade against Anglo
American newsmen In these
co u n t r I e s had "disturbed' the
United States before Potsdam,
Mr Truman admitted.
When he turned to the big
three decisions on Poland the
president (I) philosophized that
"nearly every international
agreement baa In H the element
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SMOKE, FIRE OF
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Fliers Say Explosions Too
Tremendous To Believe
Urban Area Smashed
Guam, Aug- 10 (U.R) The
second atomic bomb dropped on
Japan obliterated Nagasaki in an
Inferno of smoke and flame that
swirled more than 10 miles into
the stratosphere and could be
seen for 250 miles, an Okinawa
dispatch said today.
Okinawa-based pilots attack
ing other objectives on Kyushu
yesterday said the clouds of
smoke from Nagasaki spread
rapidly until they obscured
bombing targets 60 miles from
the port.
Fliers told United Press War
Correspondent Russell Annabel
at Okinawa that the atomic
bomb explosion was "too tre
mendous to believe." One said
that the blinding glare of the
blast was so great that when it
faded he thought for a moment
the sun was setting.
The airmen's stories bolstered
a growing belief that the entire
urban or built-up area of Naga
saki, major naval base, Industrial
center and Japan's 11th city, was
destroyed by the atomic bomb.
The built-up area totaled only
four square miles- Four and one-
tenth square miles of Hiroshima
were levelled Monday when the
first atomic bomb was dropped
on Japan.
Accurate assessment of the de
struction at Nagasaki awaited
reconnaissance photographs. Re
connaissance -"anes which flow
over the cily three hours after
the attacks said smoke rising to
20,000 feet still covered the
center of the city.
Radio Tokyo still remained
silent on the results of the at
tack, which almost certainly
killed tens of thousands of Japa
nese. It did denounce the Hiro
shima raid again as a "barbar
ous atrocity in which the city's
population was "snuffed out
without being given a chance to
lift a finger either in defense or
defiance."
of compromise" and (2) disclos
ed another secret agreement
reached by the late President
Roosevelt at the Yalta confer
ence.
The "give and take" of com
promise, he asserted, resulted in
the Potsdam decision to give the
new Polish government provi
sional title to a slice of eastern
Germany east of the Oder and
western Niesse rivers, except for
an area of East Prussia earmark
ed for permanent soviet posses
sion. Approved At Yalta
The agreement to give Russia
the E.'.st Prussian territory, Mr.
Truman said, was approved by
Mr. Roosevelt and former Prime
Minister Winston Churchill at
Yalta. In nodding his approval
of this arrangement. Mr. Roose
velt tastily put Ihe United States
on record for the first time as
recognizing the Bnltic states of
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as
part of Soviet Russia.
Mr. Truman reported that all
but about 1.500,000 of the Ger
man population in the land go
ing to Poland left the area ahead
of the Invading red army. He
said the German land would give
Poland "room to settle" some of
the 3.000.000 Poles pushed out
of the Polish territory ceded to
Russia at Yalta.
"The. action taken at Berlin
wilt help carry out the basic
policy of the United Nations to
ward Poland to create a strong,
independent and prosperous na
tion with a government to be
selected by the people them
selves." he declared.
The president described In de
tail the allied preparations plan
for Germany, revealing that the
Potsdam conferees scrapped a
Yalta plan to exact $20,()()0.000,
000 in Indemnity from the Ger
mans, with half going to Russia. j
Hirohito Will Retain
Ruler's Prerogatives
If Proffer Accepted
Manila, Aug. 10 (UP) News of the Japanese
surrender offer rocked this
tonight was swarming with
supplies in preparation for
A victory celebration swept the town.
"When are we going home?" shouted boisterous
GI's who had been ticketed to go to Japan.
Japan today offered officially to
White House announced that this
unur wan missia, ureal Britain ana unina.
White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross confirmed the
Japanese bid, which had been broadcast earlier over Tokyo radio,
in a statement at 3:28 p. m- EWT. " ,
His statement followed shortly on receipt of dispatches from
Berne and Stockholm roportiv that Japan had submitted mes
sages for delivery to the Allied governments by Switzerland and
Sweden.
ALLIES COMMUNICATE ON SURRENDER TERMS
Ross told rennrters that "Our
, ---- - - r. - - b" .io icKuim
1 diplomatic channels, is in communication with Great Britain, Rus
sia anu iiiuu lugHiuuiK me Japanese surrenaer oner.
He added that "This is all that can be announced at this
time." He said no further White House statements would be
forthcoming today or tonight.
Meanwhile, the war was not over. It was pointed out that
even if the Allies find the Japanese surrender offer acceptable,
the mechanics of implementing it may take some time.
To get the necessary signatures of Japanese governmental and
military leaders in the far flung areas of Asia and the enemy home
land might prove complicated. It might involve the arranging of
meetings between them and such U. S. leaders as Adm. Chester W. '
Nimitz and Gen- Douglas MacArthur and their Russian, British
and Chinese counterparts.
REGARD FOR HIROHITO ONLY CONDITION
The Japanese broadcast said the surrender offer posed just
one condition: That Emperor Hirohito should retain his preroga
tives as a sovereign ruler. Congressional sentiment was about
evenly divided as to whether to accept the condition. Other of
ficial comment was not forthcoming.
President Truman discussed the broadcast with his "war cab
inct" early today and in the afternoon with the full cabinet. Sec
retary of State James F. Byrnes and Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson remained with the president for while after the other
cabinet members left.
White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross promised to keep
reporters Informed of developments "as quickly as they happen."
Between meetings with cabinet members, Mr. Truman went
on with a long schedule of previously scheduled conferences.
CONGRESSMEN DIFFER ON RECESS END
Among congressional callers a difference of opinion developed
as to whether senators and representatives their houses in recess
until Oct. 8 should be called back into session.
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D Wyo-, said he believed congress
should reconvene "certainly right after Labor day," Sept. 3.
"The problems of neace." he sniri "A mm h,t in...n
as the problems of war."
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D., Wash-, another White House
caller, disagreed with O'Mahoney.
"There is no need to call congress back," he said, "Because
the demobilization job is so big and so slow."
War dennrlmpnt nFrir-lnlv lnn .u i . n i,-n
, . , ; -".. ,.,s ,,avc nam inn. iimuauons or
shipping will make demobilization a long and tedious operation-
. , ""-" 'r- iruman
he did not know; "Your auess is
CLIMAX OF MIGHTY EVENTS IN WAR HISTORY
The Janannse offer rlimnvn a mcMnrt ...... . .
events unparalleled In history.
i. the atomic bomh pvnlncinn nv.. T-rirr.ci,imn a..-
2.
3.
Soviet Russia's declaration of war against Japan on Aug 8.
The dropping of the second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki, on
Aug. 8.
4. The oncnlne of a elrninflx dnvUt nrrn.i... ...i .
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chuna and Korea on Aug. 9.
The broadcast surrender offer came three years, eight month
and three days after the Dec. 7, 1941. Japanese attack on Pearl .
Harbor, that "Day of Infamy."
For her act nf IrnnrhMv ol D.o.l tii T ,
, , , , , . ' u Jl pn nas paia an
incalculable price. Already she has lost much of the stolen em
plrc which burgeoned under sudden blows which caught the Paci
lie powers unprepared.
... Sho ha ,Paid in -he blood of hundreds of thousands of her
citizens, civilians as well as soldiers.
She has lost her navy, most of her merchant fleet and many
of her cities. And under terms of the Cairo declaration she will
lose the lands and islands stolen before this war in generationi
when the rest of the world was tolerant of aggression
hniS1,16cTu I,0',1 Wancnlira. Korea, North China, Formosa, the
half of Sakhalin Island which she has held since the Russio-japa-nose
war, and all the Pacific islands which she converted into
bases for conquest after World War 1.
ILSBORO HER
SUPPLY IS SAVED
Por'.land, Ore., Aug. 10 (U.R)
Progress nf flames threaten
ing the Hillsboro and Forest
Grove water supplies has been
checked, it was reported today
by forest officials.
At the same time a new ma
jor fire front was developing to
day in the Warm Springs Indian
reservation where two fires arc
threatening to merge Into one
4.500-acre burn. Started by light
ning, the fire has Jumped from
1.000 acres to its present size
and Is about 10 miles east of
Olallio lake In the Mount Hood
forest.
The Powell creek fire In Jose
phine county, Oregon, was re
jorted under control today, but
the Murphy creek sector still has
not been conquered.
Lake Tahoc, Nev., Aug. 10
(U.Rl Mrs. Elaine Brown Keiffer
Cobb of New York, was married
here today to Lt. Col. Ralph Mc
Allister Ingersoll, former editor
of the New York daily newspa
per, PM. Mrs. Ingersoll formerly
was the wife of Lt. Mortimer
Howe 1 1 Cobb, engineer corps, U.
S. army, from whom she wai di
vorced in Reno yesterday. I
Philippines capital which
troops and jammed with
the invasion of Japan.
surrender to the Allies, and the
government is consulting on the
win call congress back, Ross said
as irnnH n mln "
These events included:
Mlenigan, N. D., Aug. 1 0 (U.R)
Thirty-two mangled bodies
were removed today from the
crumpled observation car of the
Great Northern railway's Empire
Builder.
A spokesman for the railroad
said that 18 of the dead were
servicemen. The dead also In
cluded 10 women, one boy, one
young girl and two men.
An officer of the state guard
unit at Devils Lake said the
death toll would rise to at least
40. He said at least that many
soldiers were killed in the rear
car of the train when the sec
ond section of the Empire Build
er crashed into the first section.
CAMP WHITE LOSES IN
SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT
Camp White Agates lost the
game of the Ninth Service Com
mand double elimination soft
ball tournament being played at
Fort Lewis when they were de
feated by Camp Jordan, 3 to 0.
Agates collected three hits and
made one error while the win
ners got four blows and commit
ted one bobble. -
if.