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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)
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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.