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Fortieth Year RD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST '20, 1945. NO. 127.
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GEN. WI'ARTHUR TO . . ..' GOERING JOYOUS I95TH OBJECTS TO YANK PARATROOPS
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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.
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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!
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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-
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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
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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.
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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. '
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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. .