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Use The Mail Tribune fORECAST: Sunday, partly cloudy with irattered thow. erf, little chance In tempera ture. Id it he t Yesterday no j.oweit this Morning ,. Q MEDFORD RIBUNF rVant Ad Way Quick Retulti At Small Coit United Pratt Full Lasted Wire United Pratt Full Leated Wlr Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1945. NO. 126. j WAV 1 lhMl - Weather r mm rmfMi iyjy LA l UVU PLANES LAND AT E Gen. MacArthur To Give Hirohito's Aides Surren der Terms Soon Manila, Sunday, Aug. 19 (U.R) Thirteen military, naval and civilian Japanese plenipo tentiaries arrived at Ie Shima at mid-day today enroute to Manila where they will receive "certain requirements" from Gen. Douglas MacArthur ior the unconditional surrender of Nippon. Ribbon bedecked Japanese army and navy officers accom panied by men who appeared to be personal representatives of Emperor Hirohito reached the giant Ie Superfortress air strip at 12:45 p. m. Sunday, Ie time (8:45 p. m. PWT). They landed in two specially. marked, black crossed attack planes, escorted by two B-25 Billy Mitchell medium bombers and a formation of speedy P-;8 Lightning fighters. Witnesses were thousands of American sol diers mostly air ground crew men who had waited hours for this first definite proof that the Japanese were carrying out their .uuuuin.-t.-u unconditional surrender- MOVE TO TRANSPORT Lt. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead, commanding general of the sih r air force, escorted the Japanese regales io iwo American trans ports waiting on the airstrip. The stay at Ie was brief. Five Japanese envoys stepped from one plane. Two were in brown uniforms, and two were in lighter green uniforms. One was in civilian dress. The re mainder of the group of 13 came from the second plane which set down on the air strip two min utes later. The crowd of soldiers was well . behaved throughout the brief time that the Japanese dele gates were "guests" of the army at this tiny isle famous mostly as the place where the great war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, was shot and killed by Jar anese sniper. ' The Nipponese delegates car ried leather bags and brief cases. Their next stop was to be Nichols field, near Manila .where war first struck the Philippines on Dec. 8, 1941. The stopover at Ie Shima last ed only 30 minutes. At 1:15 p. m. Ie time (9:15 p. m. PWT), the Japanese envoys transferred to two American C-54 transport planes and took off for Manila. MARTHUR FIRM The Japanese had ignored MacArthurs directive that their mission was to use "Bataan" as a password, but he brought them sharply back to the point by a terse command designating the ca.l signs of the two planes in which they will fly to Ie as "Bataan One" and "Bataan Two." (Under military usage, the planes could be fired upon by patrolling American warplanes f they fail to give the password when challenged.) MacArthurs insistence upon the password Bataan highlighted what undoubtedly will be the y first major American demand of the deefated enemy immediate freedom for Lt. Hun .Tnnnthnn WainWriBl.t th nrinr. t, -. r i soviet armies orivmK luwum mc ntw . CorrKdor' nd 811 i Manchurian city of Mukden, the other captives of the Japanese."! Rfd cross reported today. uispatchcs from Okinawa said Wainwright. 200 officers and ne huge armies that had been ! j 2oo enlisted men were last re standing by there for an invasion : portcd ncld in onc or two camps " .he ;nemy islands will eo in M occupation troops on "full j I ar looting. Lillye Named Head Rum Control Board Portland, Ore., Aug. 18 (U.R) George P. Lillye has been named chairman of the Oregon liquor control commission to re place Paul Crooks. The selection Was made by Gov. Earl Snell fol lowing Crooks' resignation. Lil lye will hold the post for the rest of the fiscal year when a new chairman will take charge under the rotating system of se lection. Yanks Make Fireworks at Pearl ; ; - , "tfy" kwi- -8 ''"V"' - K -'vf hiH:3ti i mo if fl 4 Mm fc'SM-ih "-Til Pcmi Hmbur, first io ienrn oi japs ireacnery, goes who at Domel news surrender terms. Night sky is lit by continuous streams of light from celebration starting early evening. STOP LEND LEASE OUT OF PORTLAND Portland. Ore . Aiiir. 18 (U.R) Portland lend-lease Operations through the War Shipping Ad ministration for the Soviet Union and Great Britain were halted at 5 p. m., today. John Young director of main tenance and repair for WSA here, said instructions for the stoppage had been received through the office of the Pacific coast director at San Francisco. The Soviet purchasing commis sion has also been notified. The army, which has been sup plying lend-lease materials to Russia, had received no instruc tions at its transportation office here, Maj. George W. Berry, head of the office, said, and until such orders are received no change will be made in the flow of mili tary supplies. It was explained that the or der means the Soviet govern ment will pay the bills and any financial obligation will be di rect instead of through WSA. A greater part of this port, which has been the chief wartime port on the west coast for lend-lease shipments, has been on Russian vessels and huge stocks of sup plies and materials have been tLi DhrH Rn ..pls .unuikl ..v. here. L Manila, Aug. 18 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright. Gen. Douglas MacArthur s successor on Corrcgidnr in 1942. may be liberated with 200 other high 'c" ' , ' "l" at MiiWHrn Tnc ani(y general who signed the surrender on Corregidor is the most famous of the 135.000 allied prisoners of war and ci vilian internees known to be in Japanese hands last spring. Col. James T. Devercaux and ap proximately 1,000 of his Rallant marines who defended Wake is land were last reported in a camp near Shanghai. FARMERS' UNION AIDE Salem, Ore.. Aug. 18 'URi State Representative Lyle D. Thomas. Dnllas, has been ap pointed field representative ol i Uie Orcsvu I' aimer' t'uioa. State Resumes 55 M. Speed Limit Today Salem, Ore., Aug. 18 (U.R) The pre-war speed limit of 55 miles an hour will be resumed tomorrow, Gov. Eafl Snell an nounced today. An order from the office of defense transporta tion lifted the 35-mile limit, Im posed nationally as a tire-saving cooperative measure. However, Gov. Snell pointed out that tires are worn and old, and new ones arc not immediately available, and he urged continued caution and careful driving. ' 'DILLYDALLYING' San Francisco, Aug. 18 (U.R) Henry J. Kaiser, west coast in dustrialist, today urged the fed eral eovernment to louse its war plants to private businessmen immediately for manufacturing peacetime products. Testifying before a senate sub committee on reconversion prob lems, Kaiser accused govern ment jigencies of "dilly-dallying" on his proposals to lease gov ernment war plants. "If we close the nation's war plants we will do away with one- half of the natipn s employment, Wnien ealrl "Vkn ,1'A .iron. In ate panic instead of prosperity?" "If it takes six months to move toward reconversion we might as well forget our hopes for prosperity," Kaiser told the subcommittee. "The world is ours and we can have the great est amount of business we've ever had but not if we dilly dally." M Ml DDUV A DiC A i 1 V ill 11 I MnlM in mum ii i i imi Granls Pass. Ore., Aug. 18 j tU.P.i Several Japanese ball'ions landed in Josephine county, ' authorities revealed today after lifting of censorship- Balloon covering segments were found near Murphy and in the city limits of Grants and an entire balloon without its bomb load was found near Wolf Crcrk False alarms were reported also. One was on the day the planet Venus was visible and an other reportedly unexploacd bomb was a giant mushroom. i SURPLUS BOARD CUT Washingtrn, Aug. 18 lU.R) A senate military affairs sub- committee headed by Sen. Jo-' seph C. O'.Mahoney, D., Wyo , ! today recommended substitution of a single surplus property ad- ministraior for the present three jmaa bvard. i HarborThis Time I Ar. T.,.,..l.,l flash that Japan accepted Potsdam flares as every ship in harbor Joins E' I, DEFEAT San Francisco, Aug. 18 (U.R) Tokyo Rose, who left the air waves the day of Japan's sur render, was back atv the old stand today with an audacious blend of music, propaganda, news and the patter which has made her familiar to American G.I.'s in the Pacific. The Federal Communications commission said the program has a new name, "The Pacific Hour," and that it has been cut from one hour nightly to half an hour. The program started off as usual with a news broadcast in which the announcer Ignored Japan's defeat, but almost Jubil antly reported that "the Japa nese nation is pushing forward to postwar reconstruction, while the last touch of the recent war are swiftly being eliminated." Another announcer read sam ple Tokyo newspaper editorial comment on the Japanese sur render such as that by Asahl which urged the people to "go ahead with courage " After an interlude of miiMC, the appealing voice of Tokyo Rose came in: "Remember the Pacific Hour will be on the air again tomor row night at the same time and frequencies." she said, "and we invite you to tunc into this pro I gram of news and music for the i latest information . . . until thun it's so-long for now. . ." SET AT 8.6 MILLS The Jaekson county tax mill- for ,hc be 8 6 mills for all district: ,lcle of Asnland and 7 mll will els out-( Is for1 the city of Ashland, the county! Utah, of the senate military af assessor's office reports. Ayh- fairs committee said tonight that land levies its Own road and library millages' The mlllagc by funds, with amounts to be raised, are: General county schools and school library, 3 mills for $112, 8.19 06. Library .1 mill, for $3,491 18 General roads, 1. 5 mills for $52.367. 72. j Market roads, $146 690.78. Emergency, 1 761.30. 3 9 mills for mill for $3,- SLAYING CONFESSED 1 Seattle, Aug. 18 1UR Shcr- Iff's Capt. George Lohrer said tonight that Edward E. Mitchell, 1 27-year-old bartender, arrested in Tacoma. Wash , had confessed to the slaying of Walter B. Foley, Jr., 22 year-old former Liquor Board undercover agent in Scat-1 Ue Aug 8, UPON BEEF, VEAL, Meat Rationing Can End Soon Secy. Anderson Orders Suspension Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Clin ton P. Anderson today bolstered his prediction that meat ration ing might end this fall by an nouncing indefinite suspension of federal set-aside purchase of beef, veal and ham. The suspension, effective to morrow, is expected to mean in creases soon in the supply of these meats for civilians. Anderson said lard and pork loins and shoulders will continue to be set aside for government buyers for the time being. His announcement on beef, veal and ham was the best news for civilians since the removal earlier in the week of all canned fruits and vegetables from ra tioning. Anderson said fats and oils, however, would continue short "probably into next year," and that sugar would be scarce "through 1946." Cheese, Butter, Alts In addition to the ending of set-asides of beef, veal and ham, the army is reported to have told Anderson it no longer will need set-asides on lamb, butter and cheese. He did not, however, confirm this report. The terminated beef and vcnl set-asides had been: 20 per cent of choice, good and commercial grades of beef; 55 per cent of utility, cutter and canner grades of beef, and 30 per cent of choice, good and commercial grades of veal. No percentages were given on pork set-asides. Henceforth, the only pork items to be set aside are pork loins, equivalent to 4H per cent of the live weight of the hogs slaughtered; 5V4 per cent of the shoulders and manufactured pork, and 4 per cent of the lard. Anderson earlier had said the meat supply-and-demand situa tion would justify removal of meat rationing. He said that if marketing of beef is as heavy as expected, meat rationing should end this fall. He forecast an Average meat consumption per person of about 145 pounds in the last three months of this year as compared with 120 pounds thus far. Anderson could end meat ra tioning at once wtihout consul tation with any other agency if he wished to exercise his statu tory authority to ro so. He said, however, that he would not declare any foods ra tion free without full discussion first with the office of price ad ministration. Thousands Laid Off Portland Shipyards Portland, Ore., Aug. 1 8 (U.R) About 16,000 men will be laid off in the three Portland-Vancouver Kaiser shipyards within the next few days, It was an nounced today. Cancellation of shipbuilding contracts eliminat ed 7.227 workers Friday and un tabulated thousands more today. Bill Would Freeze Rank of 'Big Brass' Washington, Aug. 18 U.R Chairman Elbert D. Thomas D., he will Introduce a bill when congress reconvenes to freeze the nation's seven five-star gen erals and admirals permanently in their rank. BULLETIN Coait (Night games). Oakland 2 9 1 Portland 11 16 2 Gllmore, I.otz (5) and Kcarsc Mooty and Younkcr. Los Angeles 5 Seattle 7 Woodcnd , Lammers, and Kreitncrj Turpin, and Sueme. 13 1 10 1 Merkle Frazicr 1 7 3 Sacramento 2 Hollywood 1 Wood and Schluctcr: Smith iiid inu. r E Nip Surrender Due Tuesday Dispute With Commu nists Still Rages Chungking. Sunday. Aug. 19 (U.R) Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek sent radio instructions for a Japanese surrender delegation of not more than five men to appear at the Chihkiang airfield Tuesday, it was disclosed today as Central government troops made ready to move into Canton and Peiping. Chiang's instructions were sent Saturday night in his third radio message to Gen. YasuJi Okamura, Japanese commander in China. Well informed sources predicted the China surrender would be signed soon after the general signing. Reports here said that Hie Chinese First army, veterans of the Burma fighting, were to move into Canton, and Central government troops under Gen, Fu Tso Yi were reported at the outskirts of Peiping and ready to enter. Amidst preparations here to accept the surrender of Gen. Yasuji O.'amura, Japanese com mander in China, the dispute be tween the Chungking govern ment and the Communists went on. Mao Tzc-Tung, leader of tnc Communists informed Generalis simo Chiang Kai-Shek that he would consider his four-day old Invitation to a meeting at Chung king only after Chiang permits Communist participation in ac cepting the surrender of Japa nese. Mao wanted Chiang to express i an opinion on the tiegram lien Chu Teh, Communist military leader, sent him demanding that "civil war" be halted. Chu's telegram, received Aug. 16. sug gested that Communist troops in liberated areas receive the sur render of Japanese troops they have surrounded, while Chiang s troops receive the surrenders of Japanese troops confronting them. JAP ARMY QUITS AS REDS ADVANCE London, Aug. 18 (U.R) Japan's famous Kwantung army is beginning to lay down its arms the Soviet communique re ported tonight after Marshal Alexander M. Vasllevsky, com mander of Soviet Russia's far eastern armies sent an airplane to Hnrbln, Manchuria, to take its chief of staff to his head quarters The communique reported that although Soviet forces continued to meet resistance in several sec tors, the Japanese were surren dering in large numbers. An encircled Japanese garri son of 5.000 men headed by a major general surrendered cn mas.xr the communique said, and specified that troops of the Jap anese third armv especially were surrendering In largo numbers. Increasing Japanese surren ders Indicated the nine days old Russo-Japanese war was drawing to a close. Local commanders, aware their emperor had surren dered four days ago. apparently were ceasing resistance when ever the military situation per mitted them In do so. SLATE DE GAULLE Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R)- Gen. Charles DcUaullc. president j of the French Provisional gov ernment, will be received at the White House Wednesday wilhj lull milUaiy Uuuurs. 1 WAR BULLETINS With the 6th U. S. Division. Luzon, Aug. 18 (U.R) The Japanese have killed or wounded 33 men of this divi sion in the Kiangan area since the first Japanese peace move. Enemy troops in this area to far have refuted io surrender. Rangoon, Aug. 18 (U.R) British troops in Burma have halted offensive operations and have had no contact with the Japanese or any casualties since Emperor Hirohito an nounced Japan's surrender, of ficial quarters said today. E! OF ALL BASES IN Navy Committee Recom mend Full Title Claim Even If Allied Owned Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) A House Naval Affairs subcom mittee tonight recommended lhat the United States claim "full title" to Pacific Islands where American bases are lo cated. lt recommended that this be done despite the fact that many of the islands are presently owned or theoretically con trolled by the Allied nations. It also proposed outright U. S. ownership of outlying Japanese islands. The subcommittee, Headed by Rep. Ed.. V. Izac, D., Calif., made its recommendations in a 300-page report after a 21,000 milc inspection trip- Committee Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga., who released parts of the sub committee's recommendatio n s , said the full report could not bo made public because much of It was of a confidential nature. Many islands Which the com mittee said "must" be taken over by the United States now are held outright or controlled by Great Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Chile or The Netherlands. To those who may "challenge the Jusliiication" of U. S. reten tion of these bases, the commit tee cited: 1. "The loss of American lives in taking those bases. ' 2. "The expenditure of vast sums of American money In establishing and equipping these bases" 3. 'The great dependence of tnc world upon the United States for maintaining peace in the Pa cific and the world." 4- "The apparent preference of the natives of these Islands lor the United States government." LEASE END NEAR Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) Notes informing Great) Britain, Russia and other allied countries of the halting of lend-lease ship ments already have been speed ed on their way by the United States, a government source dis closed tonight. The government official said the nctes were sent out In ac cordance with a decision reached this week at a White House con fer. -rice to end the lend-lease pro gram. ' The president has been hold ing up his official announce ment on lend-lease until the notes have been delivered to the foreign governments Involved," the officials said. He added that th.: official announcement prob ably will be made on Tuesday or w'ednesday. He said that lend-lease ship ments will not be entirely cut off but will be confined only to compensate the countries which arc aiding this country to re deploy its soldiers. Lend-lease sent under this drastically cur tailed program, he said, will be small in comparison with the bil lions of dollars of materials do nated to the allied cause during Uie war. TRUMAN EXTENDS WARTIME CONTROL ON LABOR, PRICES Orderly Change To Peace, Economy Aim 'Little Steel' Formula Weakened Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) President Truman tonight or dercd extension of wartime la bor, price, and inflation controls into the reconversion periodt but gave the War Labor Board au thority to wipe out the little steel formula's ceiling on wages. His order, he told the govern ment's economic agencies, was designed "to promote a swift and orderly transition to a peacetime economy of free independent pri vate enterprise with full em ployment and maximum produc tion." In what he called "this final stage of the war economy," the president said it was necessary to "assure the general stability of prices and costs and the main tenance of purchasing power which are indispensable to the shift of business enterprises from wartime to peacetime production and of individuals from wartime to peacetime employment." Parties to labor disputes which Interfere with reconversion shall be subject, he said, to the same penalties that were applied to disputes In war plants. By executive order, the presi dent instructed the Office of Price Administration and Secre tary of Agriculture to iw.provs and tighten price controls; con tinued the authority of the War Labor Board over industrial dis putes: gave the WLB authority to permit non-inflationary wage increases, and told the War Pro duction board to limit manufac ture of products for which ma terials or facilities are insuffi cient, and to control Inventories that would lead to speculative hoarding. Mr. Truman's order was an Implementation of the master reconversion plan announced by Reconversion Director John W. Snyder on Monday and of the president's own labor and sta bilization policy. Heretofore the fundamental guide forsthe WLB In ruling on wage increases was the little steel formula limiting Increases to 15 per cent of wage rates re ceived on Jan. 1, 1941. Now the limiting factor Is whether or not the boosts will necessitate price Increases. Non Inflationary voluntary wage Increases those which do not require price Increases may now he put into effect without board approval. In addition, the board Is au thorized to approve, "without re gard to the limitations contained in any other orders or direc tives." non-inflationary Increases deemed necessary to correct mal adjustments or inequities which would interfere with reconver sion. In the case of proposed wage increases which would necessi tate price boosts, the Office of Price Administration and the Of fice of Economic Stabilization must approve them as before. PRESIDENTTEADS T Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) President Truman will lead the nation tomorrow in thanksgiving for victory and prayer for wis dom in peace. The widows of two former presidents who led the country In war and fought for peace were Invited to the White House services, but one of them, Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, sent her regrets. The other is Mrs. Wood row Wilson. The services will bo held In the East room of the White House tomorrow morning. AIR FAREs"rEDUCED San Francisco, Aug. 18 (UR) United Air Lines today announc ed a four per cent reduction in air travel fares- This brings the total cut In passenqrr fares to 24 per cent sines 1941,
