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Newspaper Page Text'3 MEDFORD.mJTRIBUNE1 Ull The Mail TiibuM Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost ' United Press Full Leased Wir . - United Press Full nana wir. , Fortieth Year RD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST '20, 1945. NO. 127. H WMll H 1 IMS GEN. WI'ARTHUR TO . . ..' GOERING JOYOUS I95TH OBJECTS TO YANK PARATROOPS y w LEAD ARW1Y INTO - OVER ARREST OF ITS DEPLOYMENT gsSSs HIROHITO'S REALM feWrtrjiaS RIGHT HAND MAN TO PACIFIC AREA SEmS Jap Envoys Given Orders, Return To . Tokyo All Branches of Service to Act Manila, Aug. 20 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur sent tlft Jap anese armistice envoys back to their emperor with his surrender orders today and announced that he would lead an allied occupa tion army into Japan within the next ten days. "I shall soon proceed to Japan ywith accompanying forces com posed of ground, naval and air elements," the allied supreme commander declared. "Subject to weather that will permit the landings, it. is antici pated the instrument of surren der will be signed within 10 days." British and Australian armed forces, he added, will take over the occupation of all Japanese held areas in the southwest Pa cific south of the Philippines. Americana First A headquarters spokesman said the first American occupa tion forces would enter Japan "prepared for any condition and armed wtih all available wea pons." This presumably would in clude the atomic bomb. ' "A soldier is not a soldier un-i- less he is prepared for fighting," the spokesman said. "The occu ' patlon forces will be ready for any eventuality." Sixteen trim and silent Jap anese envoys boarded a trans port plane at Manila's Nichols field this afternoon to bring Mac Arthur's message back to Hiro hito. The naming of the Japanese airfields on which allied planes would land was believed to have been one of the main points of discussion at the meeting. The fields presumably would have to be lengthened and otherwise altered to accommodate Ameri can aircraft, which generally are heavier than Japanese types. MacArthur remained aloof from the preliminary surrender talks at his headquarters. But through his chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, he gave the Japanese specific orders couched in such blunt, clear lan i Ullage that there appeared no -likelihood of further stalling by Tokyo. When the glum Japanese dele gates left Manila's shell-scarred city hall under a strong Ameri can military police detail, they had completed all arrangements for the landing of American and allied troops in Japan. No More Talk It was believed that members of the allied staffs now In Manila probably will participate in the landing on Japan but only Amer ican occupation forces were ex pected at the start since there is not enough time to muster forces, from the other nations. A headquarters spok e s m a n said that the Japanese were told exactly what to do. in prepara tion for the landing and that no further conversations would be necessary. Asked whether the occupation troops were prepared to proceed with a full scale landing even in the event of an adverse reply from Tokyo, the spokesman said they were. DDT Sprayed Over Rockford Polio Area (By United Press) A B-25 bomber sprayed the DDT trom the air yesterday in an experiment attempting to halt the poliomyelitis outbreak which has killed 17 persons In Rockford. III. Officials said to day the effect of the spraying will not be known for several days as the polio virus has a long Incubation period. New infan tile paralysis cases admitted to the county hospital today brought the total number of cases in the Rockford area to 153 since July 1. New York. Aug. 20 (U.R) Railroad obligations paced a drop in Domestic corporation bond prices today in moderately active trading Y Vr ' ml 1 w j J KOLJiF 1 'J Dr- Gornnert To Testify At I LlH Ml htft I K 'flRfhllXl War Trial Reichmarshal I J&mMpZk V v " ,a"r X Opposed Fuehrer's Policy Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby. G-2 of Gen. MacArthur't staff, shown ai he received the 16 members of the Japanese surrender delegation on their arrival by American plane at Nichols Field, In Manila, after fliaht from le Shima. the Jap qroup was headed by Lt. Gen. Toraihiro Kawabe, vice chief of Japanese imperial wartime still picture pool. Signal CHINESE GROUPS JAPS SEEK CURB Manila, Aug. 20 (U.R Gen. nniif?la MacArthur todav re vealed receipt of an urgent ap peal from the Japanese govern ment asking MacArthur to inter vene in China where, Tokyo said, "undisciplined" Chinese govern ment and communist troops were scrambling to take over Jap anese-held areas. The Japanese asked MacAr thur to send an investigating par ty into China. They said Chung king and Yenan (Communist) forces were "rushing unwarrant edly and without any discipline" into Japanese-controlled China with separate surrender de mands. Tokyo said the Chinese actions were hampering Japan's efforts to effect an orderly surrender in China and that the Japanese gar rison commanders were reluc tant to lay down their arms un der existing conditions. "Although the Japanese forces, which already have completely ceased hostilities, intend to car ry out quickly the demand men tioned in the joint (Potsdam) pro clamation, it is deemed neces sary to take appropriate measure for the maintenance of order and the protection of the general public," the Japanese appeal said. There was no Immediate Indi cation whether the Japanese hop ed to use the China situation as a pretext for further stalling in the surrender negotiations, but MacArthur made it clear that he would brook no more delay In moving his army into Japan. By United Press Industry's reconversion from war to peace made more than a million persons Jobless today. A United Press survey of ma jor war production centers show ed that at least 1.279.000 work ers had lost their Jobs through war contract cancellations since Japan's surrender less than a week ago. The army of men and women released from war production continues to grow by thousands daily. The jobless received cheering news, however. The committee for economic development pre dicted that U. S. employment would total 53.500.000 In the first full year of civilian produc tion. The CED also predicted that nn non noo worth of goods ! would be produced during the first full year of production. This would be an increase of 42 per cent over civilian goods i output in 1839, staff. Photo by Acme Newspictures corps radiotele photo. Very Sorry, Yes! 1 Morotai, Netherlands East Indies, Aug. 20 (U.R) Lt. Ta kida. 33-year-old Tokyo film executive who now is an Al lied prisoner of war, wants his "honorable greetings" sent to "my good friend" Mervyn Le Roy, Hollywood Director. Takida told a Netherlands Aneta correspondent he was business manager of the Dai Nippon Ega. one of Japan's three leading motion picture companies. L Washington, Aug- 20 (U.R) Chairman George W. Taylor of the War Labor board said today that the board "now has the right to order" wage adjust ments necessary to remove in equities hampering reconver sion, "the Little Steel formula and wage brackets not with standing." He made his statement at the opening of public hearings on a dispute over wages and hours between 453 northwestern lum ber companies and the Con gress of Industrial Organiza tions and American Federation j of Labor. Taylor said the' case was a test of Interest to the whole nation "as to whether parties can really resolve their diffi culties without governmental interference." He reminded both sides that President Truman has asked con tinuation of the no-strike, ro lockout policy for the reconver sion period and until new ma chinery can be devised to replace the WLB. The approximately 8 8,0 0 0 workers will be polled beginning Aug. 29 by the National Labor Relations board on whether 'hey want to strike to enforce their demands for general wage in creases. Taylor suggested that the parties might want to resume collective bargaining to work out their problems in the new atmosphere of freedom from controls created by Mr. Tru man's week-end executive order Jerry Simpson, spokesman for the Woodworkers of America (CIO), said that "it is of the ut most importance to stabilize the labor force in this industry now." He said that the country faces "the greatest deficit in the sup ply of lumber that we've ever had" and that only inflationary prices can result. Lightning, Smoker, Cause Dozen Fires ! Twelve new fires were report ' ed to Rogue River National For i est service headquarters yester day and today, one apparently caused by a careless smoker on the Grlzzley Prairie road, and the others by lightning. All are ; small and are under patrol, of ficials say. Four other repoits are being investigated, 1 Seven nf the fires are in Rut'fl ' Falls district, four Union Creek ' and one Lake o Wood, photographer Andy Lopes for Four traffic-accidents were re ported by state police today fol lowing the first week-end that rationing has been taken off gasoline. - A car driven by Deputy Verne Hastings was sideswlped In Ash land at 2:50 a. m. Sunday, re sulting in considerable damage to Hastings' car. Driver of the other car drove away and has not been apprehended, according to the state police report. Vance Leeway Gribblc, San Bruno, Calif., drove his Chevro let sedan into the ditch near Ever Shady Auto Court, south of Mcd ford, to avoid hitting a car which stopped suddenly in front of him, according to his report to police. His brother, Raymond Gribble. suffered a cut on the head and was taken to Community hos pital in the Perl ambulance. Paul H. Buck, Jacksonville, lost control of his auto and struck a telephone pole near Jacksonville at 2:30 a. m. Sun- day. He and his wife were only I slightly injured, the police re port stated. Donald Lee Tucker, 925 West Clark street, and Albert Fletcher, 802 W North Riverside avenue, were taken to a hospital in the Conger-Morris ambulance after cars driven by Tucker and Carl Fred Christenscn, 801 North Riv erside avenue, collided at How ard avenue and Pacific highway about 5 p. m. yesterday. Accord ing to the state police, Tucker was run over by his own auto mobile after being Uirown to the pavement. Fletcher was a passen ger in the Christenscn auto. TIRE RATIONING Washington. Aug. 20 (U.R) Rationing of tires for farm Im plements and industrial uses will end at midnight, the Office of Price Administration announced today. Rationing of truck and passen ger car tires will continue. OPA Chief Chester Bowles said that ample supplies of all sizes and types of farm imple ment tires, including tractor tires, are now available to meet requirements. 'So we arc re moving them from rationing," he said. MONTANA TIMBER BURNS Missoula, Mont., Aug. 20 (U.Ri A stubborn forest fire which al readv had consumed 3.000 acres of vital timber land was raging out of control today in the Kaniksu National forest in north em Idaho, the Regional Forest Service reported. SALVAGE TO CONTINUE Washington, Aug. 20 U.R The war production board today : urged 21.000 volunteer salvage ' Committees throughout the cotin j try to "stay on the job" until the j reconversion program lias been ) completed. . Nuernberg, Aug. 20 (U.R) The continued high spirits of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering in the fade of the imminent war crimes trial became more under-1 ctnnHahlA tnHav U'hpn It was . lparned he will" lean heavilv on! the testimony of Dr. Fritz Gorn-i Press from Hattiesburg, Miss., nert, his right hand man, who where the units have roassim had been missing and was found ! bird after furlough, men ot the recently in the Berchtcsgaden i 379th Regiment charged that the arca. I War department was wrong in Tlie United Press learned that saying the division was among Gornnert will testify that Goer ing frequently objected to Adolf Hitler's extermination policy, particularly with regard to the Jews, and that his conflict with the Fuehrer became so intense that on April 23, 1945. Hitler ordered Goering's execution. According to Gornnert, Hit ler's execution telegram resulted in the arrest of most of Goer lug's staff and their subsequent execution in the SS barracks at Glascnach. Goering. Gornnert. Frau Goer ing and other members of the family were kept in bunkers be neath Goering's villa at Obor- salsburg under guard of six mem- j bers of the Security Service police. According to Gornncit, this probably saved their lives I because in the last days of the ! ? . iy, a"v"-e roup began to lose their Nazi ardency and declined to carry out the Fuehrer s commands- Gornnert said that If an SS! , , . , kuuiu uuwii naa laxen : them over, they would have oeen shot. Gornnert added It was his be lief that Hitler tried to destroy Germany so he could do down in history as its last ruler- T Ti Victor Ray Sutton. 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sutton, 203 North Peach street, was killed about 11:15 a. m, to day when he either stepped or fell beneath the wheels of a City Sanitary Service truck be ing driven by Phil Bradford Griggs, route 4, box 162A. According to Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris, Griggs, with his helper, William Norman Bailey, 520 North Front street, had fin ished loading some garbage In an alley between Palm street and Pennsylvania avenue and were in the act of backing their truck. Bailey, standing on the right side of the truck, stated he saw nothing but Griggs, driving, told Morris he saw the boy stand ing at the side of the narrow alley and as the truck started to back up, the child cither step ped or fell beneath the left rear wheel. Griggs said he had no chance to stop, according to Mor ris. , , Morris said he was undecided whether an Inquest will be held. Griggs was not taken Into cus tody, Morris stated. Funeral serv Ices will be announced later. Salem Plant Blaze Leaves 650 Jobless Salnmf Ore., Aug. 20 (U.Rl An estimated 850 men were Job less today after fire badly dam aged the Digester Plant and de stroyed the woodroom and fuel plant of the Oregon Pulp and Paper Mill here yesterday after noon. Firemen aided by Camp Adair soldiers, mill workmen and spec tators had the fire under control within four hours. They succeed ed In keeping the flames from the adjacent paper plant and lumber yards. Chicago! Aug! 20 (U.R) Grain futures opened narrowly mixed on tha board of trade today. Veteran European Combat Division Protests Shift Record Shown .New York, Aug. 20 (U.R) European combat veterans of 95th Infantry division protested today against their scheduled re- deployment for Pacific occuna- tloll dlltV. In a telegram' to the United the last to go into action In Europe. "Approximately 30 more divi sions came into combat after we did." the men protested- The unit, they said, went overseas in August 1944 and there were then approximately 30 units in action. It saw Its first fighting last October, I hey added, and spent 104 continuous days on the line- The War department has stat ed that the men will replace Pa cific veterans eligible for dis- i charge. "Who is going to re place us? the men demanded. "Must we wait another two to five years on some God forsaken island before we too can go home? Why can't those men who have not done as much as we have be sent in our places? We have done our share The protest was joined by a tcleR1.am from a 8pokeJman for ,hc ngth signal company: "These men have participated in three i- .i i-..i,t ,.,hh nmjui winina axil iuu,ii. ...... Dnn.. Simpson and Mont gomery. Please check our rec ord and do us justice." TAKES OWN LIFE STATES Ashland, Aug. 20 (U.R) John Henry Boyer, 68, was found dctd from carbon monoxide poisoning at 6 a. m. today at the home of his brother, B. H- Boyer, 638 Siskiyou boulevard, where he made his residence, according to Deputy Coroner G. M. Litwlller, who pronounced the act as sui cide. ! Litwlller said Boyer had placed a hose from the exhaust I of an automobile through the ; window of the car and started ; the motor. A burlap sack hud been used to seal the car win dow, Litwlller said. A note, which was unsigned, was found near the body but gave no Indi cation why the act had been committed. According to the brother, Boyer had walked down town last night and was not missed by the family until they went to call him this morn ing. The body was found in the automobile, which was parked in the family garage. Boyer was born in MarshaM, Mo-, and is survived by his mother, six brothers and two sisters. All except the brother In Ashland reside In the ceutial states- Date of the funeral was not announced. San Francisco, Aug. 20 (U.R) Two French labor leaders to day predicted an easy victory for left wing parties at the October election in France. I New York, Aug. 20 (U.R) Cotton futures opened one to five points lower today. New York. Aug. 20 'U.R) Curb stock prices declined Irre gularly on moderately heavy turnoxer today. BULLETIN C h lc a g o, Aug. 20 (U R) Louise Suggs, Lithia Springs. Ga , shot a four under par 73 over the Knollwood Country club course today for a new course record In the qualifying round of the 45th annual Wom en' Western Amateur golf tournament Chungking, Aug. 20 (U.RW Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek today made a second appeal to Mao Tie-Tung, leader of the Chin ese communists, to come to Chungking for a conference. Sydney. Aug. 20 (U.R) American submarines bated at Fremantle in weitern Aus tralia sank or damaged more than 5.500.000 tons of Japa nese merchant vessels and warships during the war, it was announced today. More than 2.000,000 tons were sunk, and 3.500,000 tons were dam aged. ' L OF HITLER GIVEN Oslo, Aug. 20 (U.R) The Nor wegian state charged today that Adolf Hitler personally ordered Vidkun Quisling to begin pre parations for the invasion of Norway on December 31, 1939. The charge was made at the opening of Quisling's trial on a charge of treason. He was the second of Hitler's European pup pets to go on trial for his life. Special Prosecutor" Annncus Schjoedt told the court that documents found in Germany disclosed that Quisling conferred with Hitler and Admiral Eric Raedcr in December, 1939. Hitler gave the traitor per sonal orders, Schjoedt said, to start Invasion plans and prom ised to give him $40,000 a month for three months to be spent in spying out Norway's defenses. Quisling told Raedcr he want ed to hand over to Germany the key points in Norway in order to keep the British out, Schjoedt said. Earlier Quisling had denied that he had any advance knowl edge of Germany's plans for Nor way. Schjoedt said that about the first of April, 1940, Quisling was told In Copenhagen by a high ranking German officer that the nazis would attack Norway April 9. Quisling met with Hitler In Berlin Dec. 14 or 15, 1939, Schjoedt said, and convinced him that it was necessary for the Ger mans to intervene In Norway to forestall the British. Schjoedt said Hitler actually preferred to have Scandinavia neutral but agreed to "take cer tain steps" on the basis of Quis ling's recommendations. KILLED; 39 OVER LAND BY AUTOS Portland, Ore., Aug. 20 (U.R) Oregon's first week-end with out customary gas restrictions was marred today by the death of Mrs. Pearl Wilson, 41, of Port land, and the Injuring of four others In a head-on crash of two cars on the Columbia River highway near Rocky Point. The accident occurred when the Wilson car and the car of Phillip M. Hessong, 17. of North Hollywood, Cal., collided. Hes song was taken to a Portland hospital In serious condition Ration-freed drivers crowded the highways Sunday in their first mass pleasure jaunts since motoring was restricted as a war time measure. In spite of a flood of traffic during the week-end, police re ported the death toll was sur prisingly low, A United Press survey showed that 39 persons were killed by automobile accidents throughout the nation Sunday Much of California's so-called Delta tuuntiy ii below tea level. FREE WAINWRIGHT FROM SW CAMP Tokyo Protests Air Rescues Bataan Hero In Good Health Chunking Awaits Chungking, Aug. 20 (U.R) Japan formally asked Gen. Douglas MacArthur to halt al lied air rescues of war prisoners from occupied areas today after volunteer American paratroops of the U. S. office of strategic service liberated Lt. Gen. Jona than M. Wainwright, hero of Ba taan and Corregldor. An American nlann will lanrl at Mukden to pick up Wain wright and bring him to Chung- King as soon as ne arrives there, from the prison camn at Sian. Sian is 100 miles northeast of Mukden. It was not known whether the) Japanese would attempt to pre vent his return to allied llnea pending signing of Japan's sur render. Headquarters radioed MacAr thur from Tokyo that such res cues were likely to hamper "tha realization of our earnest desira to effect smoothly and satisfac torily the cessation of hostilities and the surrender of arms." The Japanese note said allied air rescue missions have been "made to return to their bases." Paratroop teams have been drop ped at Kcijo, Korea; Mukden; Pciping and Welhsicn, in Shan tung province. ' Gen. Wainwright was report ed in good health. Chinese and U. S. officials here anxiously awaited his arrival, possibly within the next 36 or 48 hours. American military circles un derstood that Major Lamar, after parachuting into Mukden Aug. 16 traveled to Sian by Japancsa plane or motor vehicle. Lamar intended to bring Wainwright first to Mukden, then to Chung king. Informed circles said Gen. Wainwright, since the surrender of Corrcgidor, had been trans ferred successively from For mosa, to Tokyo, to Chemulpo on the southeast coast fo Korea, and finally to Sian. It was revealed that all mem bers of the rescue teams wera volunteers who understood tha hazardous Job of landing in en emy territory before the formal surrender was signed. U. S. mili tary quarters said no arrange ments had been made with tha Japanese beforehand. All person nel ran their own risk if tha Japanese opened fire or Inter fered with the operation In any way. The Kcljo team was led by Col. Willis S. Bird. Bird's mission reported all its parachutes for personnel and cargo opened safe ly, and that the Japanese wera "friendly and helpful." The Jap anese told them prisoners of war In Korea were "safe and well." The Welhsicn team made con tact with the council of prisoners of war camp, organized by one American and eight British. It found 26 patients in the camp hospital, Including 20 who were not able to travel. None was in serious condition, however. Indian Jailed On Charge of Assault Blue Hummingbird. 27, full blooded Cherokee Indian resid ing at Lincoln, was lodged in the county jail this morning by state police on a charge of as sault with a dangerous weapon. According to the state police re port, Hummingbird assaulted James Charles Cole, Star route, box 76, Ashland, with a revolver. BASEBALL National St. Louis 2 8 1 Boston 0 7 1 Buikhardt and Odea; Wright, Single-ton (9) and Masl. Pittsburgh 11 12 1 Brooklyn 18 7 Roe and Lopez; Scats, Herring (3) and Dantonlo. American Philadelphia 0 7 1 Detroit 4 5 0 Bowles and Rusar, Newhouser and Ricliaidi. .