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Newspaper Page TextO : ; I . .. Weather Ms-Mv r. UNABLE TO ARRIVE FRIDAY mm1 vi uTT?fuT . mmJms tdttittmt? in Manila Fortieth Year JAPS FACING REDS CONTINUE BATTLE SOVIET JECLARES Fanatical Defense Efforts In Korea and Manchuria Un able to Halt Russians London, Aug. 16 (U.PJ Soviet Russia said today that Japanese troops in Manchuria and Korea still were fighting fanatically despite their govern ment's surrender. Radio Khabarovsk, voice of the Soviet Far eastern command, reported three Red Banner armies were continuing their advance into the heart of enemy teritory in the face of "unslack ening fanatical Japanese efforts to check it with powerful de fenses of long-standing. Treachery Warning "Rut no Dower on earth can halt our men," the broadcast mid. "Until the enemy lays down his arms, we shall march on and nothing can stop us However difficult the terrain on uihinh the enemv stands, Rus sian soldiers will pass." The broadcast warned Soviet troops against Japanese treach- erv- . .1 No details were given of the fighting in Korea and on Sak halin Island. LEADER San Francisco. Aug. 16 (U R) Gen. Chu Teh, commander of the Chinese communist armies, today demanded Chinese com munist representation at Japan s surrender. A Ycnan dispatch reported by the FCC said Chu had sent a memorandum to the American, Russian and British ambassadors in Chungking challenging Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek s right to be China's sole represen tative In the surrender negotia tions. Chu also called on the United k States to halt lend-lease to Chungking immediately "for the sake of reducing the danger of civil war in China." The state ment said that "the danger of such a civil war has now become extremely grave" Chiang recently ordered tnc Communist armies not to accept the surrender of Japanese and puppet troops in China hide pendently, but Chu announced he would not comply. Chiang vestcrdav announced that he had invited Mao Tze-Tung. to Chung king in an effort to settle the dispute. Tax Adjustment y"" JV Program L.OmiiS Washington. Aug. "-,,Un!!: President Truman , that experts are working on wx adjustments and that a legisla-j tivc program should be shaping up soon. He told his news conference that for the time being he cou.d j , say nothing about the tax sltua-; tion. ' Earlier this week there were unofficial reports that reduction d individual income taxes couia x-i miv.i. . . be expected in the next several months. regulations governing commer- ACTRESS-CORRESPONDENT cial motor vehicle operations. Los Angeles. Aug. 18-flUS- They included the mileage l.m June Duprcz. movie actress, was' itation on taxicabs and the pro named today as co-respondent inhibition against automobile rac a uit for separate maintenance! mg. flirt by ' M?i. Iwbcl Dudley ! The ODT also removed its ban Smith. 39. against Boone sin 3fi. publicity man at PKO studio Mrs. Smith aserts her husband abandoned her a year ago be cause of his interest in the actress. CLOSE DOUGLAS PLANTS Santa Monica, Cal., Aug. 16 'U.R! Douglas Aircraft Com pany today received war en tract cancellations that 'vill close two of its six plants and necessitate immediate dismissal j of 38,000 of its 90,000 employes . ' United Press Full Leased Wire ifegy" United Press Full Leaied Wir Cruiser Loss " 4." Here's the U. S. navy heavy cruiser Indianapolis, which, the navy has just revealed, was one of the last great losses of the war against Japan. She went down from 'enemy action' with nearly 2,000 men aooard 1,197 men euher killed, wounded or missing. luli-phutu). Medford Had Jap Bomb Too; Missile Landed January 12 On Farm At South End Peach St. With the lifting of censorship "now it can be told" that Med ford had a taste of war though far from the scene of actual fighting. Medford's bit of per sonal war came in the nature of a bomb-carrying balloon which blew itself to bits at 5:30, Just at dusk, last Jan. 12. The balloon had descended to within a few feet of the ground on the Oliver Tice farm at the end of South Peach street when the blast came. The bag, shattered by the ex plosion, dropped a two-foot long bomb which partially . imbedded itself in the soft earth and did not explode. The flash of the explosion was seen by Floyd Al bert, who lives in the vicinity. He called Sgt. Lyman Thomas of the Oregon State Guard, who also lives nearby, and they, with Mr. Tice who had seen the flash, called officials. State police. Ore gon State Guard, FBI and army officers immediately took charge and all in the vicinity who knew of the occurrence ware sworn to secrecy. Newspaper men observ ed the voluntary censorship which prevailed throughout the war. Japt Kept In Dark It was explained by the of ficers that the Japanese were freeing the balloons without knowledge where they would light and the only way they could be kept in ignorance as to where the bomb carriers were going or what damage they were doing, if any, was to keep close censorship on the matter in this country. The Tice farm device was picked up by an army bomb re moval squad sent here especially for the purpose and was hurried by automobile to San Francisco where experts took it apart and studied the mechanism: It was believed to have been one of the first recovered intact. Other Portions Found Portions of other balloons I were found in this region but j there was not enough left after their explosion to shed much UgM on the nature of their car- The general belief held by BANS ARE LIFTED Washington. Aug. 18 (U.R) lilt' UlliLt; VI UIILII.-'t IIOII.UIW tjon (Q ljflcd scvpn wartjmc "" ... ional fairs and relaxed rcstric-; tions on conventions. ODT Director J. Monroe John son emphasized that ODT regu lations governing the frequency of wholesale and retail deliveries are still in effect. The regula tions revoked today Included the nation wide program which re quired all commercial motor ve hicle operators to obtain a ccr tif irate of war necessity from the ODT in order to operate trucks, buses or taxicabs. MEDFORD,. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1945. Closes War On authorities here was that the bal loons carried a load of incen diary material which would be scattered over a wide area by an explosion when the gas bags came down within a few thou sand feet of the earth. It was also thought the incendiary ma terial would not act until dry weather came. Whether or not any forest fires were actually set by such means is not known but it is doubted. Use of the free-floating, bomb carrying balloons by the Jap anese as a bizarre attempt to gain aerial equality with the United States proved to be a dud, a United Press survey in dicated today. 225 Reported With the lifting of censorship, it was revealed that some 225 of the paper-constructed balloons were reported to have reached the American continent. Six deaths and minor material dam age were believed to be the only results of the Japanese attempt to answer the devastating B-29 raids on the Japanese homeland. Army intelligence officers still were silent concerning the me chanism of the bombs. The best description came from Michigan State Police Capt. Donald S. Leonard, who headed the state civilian defense program. Leonard said the balloons travelled from the Japanese mainland at a controlled height of 30,000 to 40,000 feet in five to six days. Destroyed Selves Leonard said the balloons were equipped to destroy themselves. They contained separate time de vices to release incendiary bombs, ignite fuses attached to flash bombs on the balloons and set off explosives in the baskets. Officials have not been able to estimate the total number launched, but serial numbers on parts of the balloons reached as high as 15.980. The Japanese loosed several hundred bomb-carrying balloons in an effort to rain aerial death on San Francisco during the; United Nations conference. One balloon was seen floating in the San Francisco area for several hours. Finally it drifted cast. The greatest distance cast the balloons were known to have reached was Detroit, Mich. A bomb fell on the outskirts of the arsenal city. The balloon itself OREGON'S DRAFT CALL TO BE CUTi j ' Salem. Ore , Aug. 18 'U.R) j Oregon's draft call, which1 amounts to between 300 and 400 monthly as an average, will take a drop in conformity with 1 thc national cut. Col. Elmer V i plain of being stranded, not lie Woolon, state director of sclec- cau.se of a gas famine, but be tive service, said today. ! cause like themselves, gasoline All processing of men 20 attendants had declured a two- years old and older has been ' stopped, Col. Wooton said, while processing of those 18 to 25 years continues as usual. It -is probable that the new cut will make it possible to fill all calls with 18 year-olds, he laid. i Tragic Note never was found. Another bal loon was found near Grand Rapids, Mich. Others were re ported flying over Michigan. Most Land On Coast Most of the bomb-balloons to reach the continent fell in the Pacific coast area from British Columbia to Mexico. The great est number landed in Washing ton, Oregon, California and Mon tana. One came down near the atomic bomb plant near Han ford, Wash., but did not explode. The only deaths recorded as a result of the balloons were in Oregon. A balloon was found by a group of seven church picnick ers at Lakeview, Ore. One of the bombs exploded, killing six of the group. The first balloon known to have reached the United States came down Dec. 4, 1944, near San Pedro, Calif. It was of a meteorological type and carried a radio transmitter believed used by the enemy to trace its course. The first ballon which carried bombs was found near Kaiispcll, Mont., in December, 1944. It had already dropped its explosives. Many Clear Rockies Many of the balloons were known to have cleared the Rockies and landed in the mid, die west. One of the first report ed was from Laurens, la. Sev eral other Iowa towns reported balloons. In Nebraska a balloon explod ed in Omaha shortly after mid night April 18. At least four Japanese bal loons fell in Utah. On last Feb. 23 Sheriff Warren W. Hyde of Trcmonton had a free half-mile ride when he clung to the ropes of a balloon. The balloon was dismantled and shipped to the' west coast for study. Seven were reported to have I landed in Idaho. Many forest and grass fires were reported to have been I touched off by incendiaries from j the balloons. Twenty were found in the Yakima valley of Washington. I s AT Portland, Ore., Aug. 16 U.R) Business boomed today for Ore gon's service station owners as gasoline hungry motorists be sieKcd service stations in every part of the state with one cry, Fill 'cr up. rous gas station owners ed. for the first time in that thry couldn't handle the rush, and before nightfall yesterday, many stations had "No Gas" signs out. At the beach resort of Seaside numerous mutirists made frantic long distance telephone calls to relatives in Portland to com- day holiday of their own. Portland petroleum heads said there was plrnty of gasoline in terminal storage plants, and plenty more enroute by ocean tankers, but it would take a day or two to gi t all service itatiun tanks filled up. J CHURCHILL SAYS Demands Britain and U. S. Keep Atomic Bomb Secret From Russia, Others London, Aug. 16 (U.R) Win ston Churchill declared in Com mons today that a wave of com munistic terror is sweeping eastern Europe and threatening the unity of the Allied nations. He demanded bluntly that Brit ain and America hide the secret of the atomic bomb from Russia and all other powers. Freed of the governmental re sponsibility that restricted his criticism of Russia throughout the war, the former prime mini ster rose to deliver a bitter at tack on the eastern European regimes sponsored by the Soviet Union. Warns of Explosion He warned that trouble be tween Russia and her western allies might explode if any power tried to dictate the poli tical structure of Europe Churchill declared that the United States has emerged from the war as the most powerful na tion on earth and he asserted that Britain and America to gether have in the atomic bomb an "irresistible" weapon for world peace. He revealed that the two atomic bombs that forced Japan's surrendef had averted the need for a massive offensive mapped out at the Big Three conference In Potsdam that he said would have cost 1,000,000 American and 250,000 British lives. But he centered the main weight of his first speech as leader of the opposition on the situation in eastern Europe. Seek European Rule There, he said, dictatorial communist forces arc seeking to! rule by terror, covering their actions behind an iron censor ship. "It Is not Impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale is imposing Itself behind the iron curtain which at present divides Europe In twain," he said. "I should welcome any state ment which the prime minister can make which will relieve us or inform us on this very anxi ous and grievous matter." Ho referred specifically to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia all countries under strong Russian influence and asserted that the fate of "mil lions" of displaced persons in eastern Europe is still uncertain. Not All Settled Churchill indicated that many of thcs questions were taken up with Russia at the Potsdam con ference with indifferent success, "We should not delude our selves into supposing that the re sults of this first conference of the victors was free from dis appointment or anxiety or that the most serious questions brought before us were all brought to a good solution," lie said. "Those that proved incapable of agreement at the conference have been relegated to the For eign Secretaries Council, which, though most capable of resolving difficulties, is essentially one gifted with less far-reaching power" INDUCTEES BOUNCED Fort MacArthnr ralif a,, 18 !U.Ri Ninety over-age in.' ductees were back In civilian lifcj today, freed by Induction Offi-! ccr L.i. KiiKsell E. Dicker. Yes terday Decker told 150 men "all over 26 fall out and go home. The Army doesn't want you." BASEBALL National Cincinnati J a j Boston 3 n t Bowman and Unser; Hutch ings, Hcndrickson and Hofferth. St. LriuU 4 7 2 Philadelphia 0 2 1 Burkhardt and O'Dca; Sproull and Semlnlck. Chicago Brooklyn 1 7 1 2 0 2 fu: fo, Vanden- Ijcrg (Bi and Rice; Scats and I'ca tuck, Datonio (8;. President Truman ' To Address Legion National Conclave Indianapolis, Aug. 16 (U.R) President Truman will address the American Legion when it convenes in Chicago Nov. 18-20 for the first full-dress national convention since Pearl Harbor, it was announced today. More than 1,800 accredited delegates and Uiousands of other Legionnaires will attend the con vention, James P. Ringlcy, Chi cago, member of the convention committee, said. Previously only executive committee mem bers had been slated to meet in Chicago next month as a war time substitute for the regular convention. Edward N. Schcibcrling. na tional commander, said Office of Defense Transportation officials had assured the Legion it could hold the meeting. Washington, Aug. 1 6 (U.R) President Truman called on management and labor today to keep strikes and lockouts at a minimum during the transition from war to peace economy. Mr. Truman also authorized the war labor board to relax wartime wage stabilization pol icy to permit voluntary wage boosts where they will not mean an increase in price ceilings. Earlier, the president had dis closed he planned to call a labor management peace conference after congress reconvenes. In his order, he authorized the WLB to retain considerable of its authority over labor disputes, but proposed that the agency be terminated as soon after the forthcoming management-labor conference as possible. Mr. Truman said he would issue a new executive order au thorizing relaxation of the wage stabilization program to permit increases which WLB finds "ne cessary to aid in the effective transition to a peacetime econ omy" and to correct other "mal adjustments and Inequities" in salaries which are likely to de velop during reconversion. Marine Discharge System Like Army Washington, Aug. 16 (U.R) The Mnrine Corps today an nounced a point system demo bilization system that is the Iden tical system used by the Army the past three months. The Marine Corps at the outset will require 85 points for male personnel and 25 for female personnel, to be computed in itially as of May 12, 1945. President Proclaims Sunday Day of Prayer Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) President Truman's proclamation for a day of prayer: The war lords of Japan and the Japanese armed forces have surrendered. They have surren dered unconditionally. Three months after victory In Europe, victory has come in the cast. The cruel war of aggression which Japan started eight years ago to spread the forces of evil over the Pacific has resulted in her total defeat. This is the end of the gran diose schemes of the dictators to enslave the peoples of the world, destroy their civilization, and institute a new era of darkness and degradation. This day is a new beginning in the history of freedom on this earth. Our global victory has come from the courage and stamina and spirit of free men and worn- en muted in determination to fight. It has conic from the massive strength of arms and materials created by peace-loving peoples who knew that unless they won decency in the world would end. It has come from millions of peaceful citizens all over the world turned soldiers overnight who showed a ruthless enemy that tliey were not afraid to fight and to die, and that they knew how to win. 11 lias cumc with the help of NO. 124. TO BE OFFERED AT EARLY DATE Treasury Planning Drive To Raise Ten to Fourteen Billion To Meet Expenses Washington, Aug. 16 (U.R) The treasury was making plans today for a gigantic "victory" bond drive to help meet huge costs of demobilization, contract cancellation and other expenses incident to the war. Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson called all state war finance leaders to a meeting here Saturday to plan a drive for raising from $10,000,000,000 to $14,000,000,000 The end of the war has not ended the governments large war-born expenditures, Vinson said. There are millions of men overseas and billions of dollars will be needed to bring them home. Money is also needed to meet mustering-out pay, costs of caring for the disabled and for other expenses of the war, lie said. Early Date Urged "I believe the victory loan should be scheduled for the earliest possible date," Vinson said. "It should provide a fit ting climax for the series of suc cessful drives by which we at home have financed the war." He said the victory drive should be the last organized ef fort to sell bonds but that sales of savings bonds, especially un der the payroll deduction plan, should continue. Between Jan. 1, 1941 and the end of World War II the treasury sold about $206,000,000,000 in bonds. October Earliest Earliest possible date for starting the new drive would be Oct. 8, it was learned. H may be as late as early November. A longer waiting period is prefer red by gome state directors on grounds that economic condi tions may be somewhat more settled by then. As a result of the end of hos tilities, "war" spending will probably topple from a previous estimate of $70,000,000,000 to around $40,000,000,000 in fiscal 1946 which ends next June 30. Non-war spending, according to estimates of the budget bureau, will be about $15,000,000,000. Thus the unofficial budget esti mate for the year stands at some $55,000,000,000. An all-clcctrlc airplane, the first to achieve acceptance, is In production in England, accoid Ing to Flying. God, who was with us In the early days of adversity and dis aster, and who has now brought us to this glorious day of tri umph. Let us give thanks to him, and remember that we have now dedicated ourselves to follow In his ways to a lasting and Just peace and to a better world. Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, president of the United Slates of America, do hereby ap point Sunday. Aug. 19, 1945, to be a day of prayer. I call upon the people of the United States, of all faiths, to unite in offering their thanks to God for the victory we have won, and in praying that he will sup port and guide us into the paths of peace. I also call upon my country men to dedicate this day of nrnver to the memory of those I who have given their lives to make possible our victory. Id witness thereof, I navel hereunto set my hand and cans-1 cd the seal of the United States j of America to be affixed. Done at the city of Washing ton this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Independence of the United Stntes of America the ono hun dred and seventieth. Harry S. Truman Rv the President: James F. i Byrnes, Secretary of State. M'ARTHUR TOLD Claim Insufficient Time Given To Prepare Delega tion For Flight To Islands Manila, Aug. 17 Friday (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacATthur early today accepted Japan'! delay in dispatch of her sur render envoys but it was un derstood he is determined that the negotiations be concluded with dispatch. Manila. Aug. 16 (U.R) Ja pan stalled off the dispatch of her surrender mission to Ma nila again today, radioing word to Gen. Douglas MacAr thur that the Japanese emis saries will not be able to ar rive as he ordered. MacArthur's headquarters said Radio Tokyo finally had replied to hit broadcast in structions on the surrender negotiations. The Japanese reply com plained, however, that they had not been given sufficient time to prepare their delega tion and that the envoys could not reach Manila tomorrow. - However, it said the emis saries will take off "as soon as possible." A Japanese broadcast directed to MacArthur's. headquarters said that Emperor Hirohito is sued his official cease-fire order to Japanese forces at 4 p. m. (3 a, m- EWT), and is sending mem bers of the imperial family to the fighting fronts to see that the order is enforced. Transfer at le It said the order should be re ceived by forces in Japan with in 48 hours, by forces in China, Manchuria, Korea and southern regions, except Bougainville, New Guinea and the Philippines, within six days; Bougainville in eight days; New Guinea and Philippines 12 days. The messngo said, however, that it was "difficult to foresee" when an order would reach all the front line fighting units. EMPBMCLE San Francisco, Aug. 16 (U.PJ Emperoi Hirohito today order ed Gen. Prince Naruhiko Higa-shi-Kuni, uncle of the Empress Nagako, to form a new Japanese cabinet a selection the emperor apparently hoped would satisfy the allies. The official Japanese agency Domei said the premier-designate was expected to complete by tonight a full cabinet, replac ing Premier Kantaro Suzuki's government which resigned yes terday. In an earlier broadcast, Tokyo said that Japanese fighting men regarded the emperor's surren der decision as a "supreme or der which must be obeyed at any cost." (However, a United Press dis patch from Manila said Japanese troops of northern Luzon still were fighting despite American efforts to convince them that their government had surrender ed). "Everybody men In barracks, workers in war plants, and farm ers in remote corners of the land was moved to tears at his majesty's words expressing the gracious wish to save the nation and country from further de struction and privations," Tokyo said. Gas Ration Books Ready For Ash Can Wahington. Aug. 16 (U.R) The OPA said today it doesn't care what in o t o r i s t s do with their gasoline ration books. You can tear them up or use them to light cigars the OPA won't mind. The agency said there won't be any more checkups, and that gasoline rationing is an entirely closed incident. STOCKYARD BURNS Caldwell, Ida., Aug- 16 (UR) The entire two-block square Caldwell stockyards, said to be the largest between Salt Lake and Portland, and including at least 80 head of livestock, was destroyed by fire early today. japs moneyTrozen Lisbon, Aug. 16 (U.R) The Portuguese government Issued a decree today freezing the money and property of the Japanese government, or Japanese na tionals, In Portugal and of Por tuguese residents in Japan.