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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORDtJtfik, Um The Mill Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Rtiulti At Small Coit Weather FORECAST: Clear tonight and Wednesday. Continued wtiti. Hlgheit VeiterdBT L.oweit thli Morning WHM.WH..lft Tribune United Presi Full Leased Wire United Press Full Lnd Wlr Fortieth Year MEDFO' .EGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1945. NO. 128. Mif, nrn IMl Nl Mil dm MISS MM TO OCCUPIED Z 0 H E Airborne Force First Navy Due Tuesday No "Fraternizing." Manila, Aug. 21 (U.R) Japan announced today that the Ameri can occupation of her homeland would begin Sunday when air borne forces will iand in the Tokyo area. Japanese officials ordered military personnel out of the occupation area in an ap parent effort to minimize the danger of friction, a The Japanese High Command revealed that the airborne occu pation forces would be followed two days later by American na val forces, landing at Yokosuka at the entrance to Tokyo bay. Withdrawal of Japanese army and navy forces from the occu pation areas was ordered after Tokyo propaganda broadcasts had expressed fear that some "hot-headed" Japanese army men might attempt to battle the occupation troops despite Em peror Hirohito s surrender or ders. The Japanese High Command sought to reassure the Japanese public which apparently feared that the occupation areas might be turned into battle zones. It also ordered "non - fraterniza tion" and said that there would be no direct contact between the allied troops and the general ; public, I "We emphasize this point," a joint statement of the High Com mand and government said. The first American troops will land at Atsuki, just south west of Tokyo, the Japanese an nouncement revealed. "The Imperial army and navy forces (including their respec tive air forces) in Kanagawa pre fecture and'in the southwestern area of Boso peninsula will be transferred Immediately," the announcement said. Police and gendarmes are to be sent to maintain order in the area from which the military has been withdrawn. The public was barrad from use of railroads in the affected area because all rail facilities will be required for the troop movement. Anyone who ordi narily uses trains to ride to work was instructed to stay at home while the movement is being carried gut. E TAX BILL Salem, Ore., Aug. 21 (U.R) A writ of mandamus asking the simplified income tax return law be declared invalid has been filed in the state supreme court. The State Tax commission filed the proceedings yesterday. Sec retary of State Robert S. Farrcll was named defendant. The commission contends that the law as enrolled is not the one passed by the legislature. The commission said that the en rolled measure does not include certain amendment", but does in clude provisions that were not passed by the legislature. BASEBALL American New York 3 0 Chicago 0 5 1 Ruffing and Garbark; Lee,; Johnson and Trrsh. j Philadelphia 7 17 1 Detroit 8 14 1 Newjom. Berry and Rosar; Fenton. Caster, Hnitteman, Tobin and Swift, Richards. Washington 11 IS 1 Cleveland 8 13 2 Haefner. Ullrich, Pieretti and Ferrell; K 1 i e m a n , Salveson, Hoag, Reynolds and Hayes. j National St. Louis 8 13 0 Boston 4 12 Barrett and O'Dea; Hutchlns, Hendrickson, Singleton and Mas!. Pittsburgh 12 IS 0 Brooklyn 18 2 Cabes and Lopez; Gregg, King, Lombard! and Sandlock, ' Second Puppet Leader to Be Tried ( F Jf - if' OF tiKA Telepholo) Vldkun Quisling, whose name became svmbol of traitors and puppets stands under guard In Norway Trandum Forest where Norse patriots were found buried in mass grave. Their murder Is one of crimes for which Quisling has gone to trial at Oslo, Norway, and for which he denied an; guilt. ONCE MIGHTY JAP Worst Defeat In Sea History Merchant Marine Hard Hit U."S. Loses 122. Washington, Aug. 21 (U.R) The once-proud Japanese battle fleet suffered the worst naval defeat in modern history during the three years and nine months of Pacific war. The report by Admiral Ches ter Nimitz headquarters that only 55 combat vessels remain of the Imperial Japanese fleet of 382 fighting ships was made aft er the Japanese surrender en voys confirmed what the navy already had reported In its sum mary of the war at sea. This report, released here last week, said that the U. S. fleet had reduced Japan from a first class sea power "to a naval non entity." It said the Japs lost more than 300 warships including 18 bat tleships, 15 aircraft carriers, 58 cruisers, 138 destroyers, about 130 submarines and a host of smaller craft. In addition to the utter rout of her fighting ships, Japan saw her 5.629.845-ton merchant ma rine reduced to less than 1.500. 000 tons. This was the first time in history that a major power lost the bulk of both its navy and its merchant marine during a war. In contrast, the V. S. navy during the war was built up to become the most powerful in the history of the world. At the close of the war, it roamed the Pacific at will and moved within three miles of Japan's home shores. While the Japanese fleet was left without a major warship in tact, U. S. navy losses for the Pacific war totaled 122 major combatant vessels. This tntal does not include losses of ships I smaller than dostrocrs and sub marines. I New Private Plane Makes Maiden Trip Los Angeles. Aug. 21 URi ! A streamlined new private plane, the "Rocket." arrived here today on its maiden flight from Fort Worth, Tex., it was announced by Johnson Aircraft, Inc., the manufacturers. The new plane, designed for amateur flyers, takes off on a 900-foot runway, cruises at Ii:9 miles per hour, travels 25 miles on a gallon of gas and is equipped with two-way radio and built-in parachutes, the com pany (aid. 1 WAR BULLETINS London, Aug. 21 (U.R) The Soviet communique to night reported that 32,000 more' Japanese prisoner have surrendered to advancing Soviet Far Eastern forces In Manchuria. London, Aug. 21 (U.R) The Red army advance in Manchuria continues and Soviet troops are still accept ing the surrendor of tens of thousands of Japanese, a Mos cow communique disclosed to night. San Francisco, Aug. 21 (U.R) The Melbourne radio re ported today that the Japanese alill were resisting in the Bal ikpapan area of Borneo. The broadcast, heard by United Press, said nine grenades were thrown at Australian positions Monday night. E WAVE HITS CITY 'COPS' TOLD OF 6 ROBBERIES Six robberies have been re ported to city police since Sun day. Charles E. Taylor was be ing held in county jail today un der $1,000 bail following appear ance in justice court charged with larceny of property over $33 from Robert H. Gray. Tay lor pleaded guilty and will ap pear before a grand jury. City police were called to (he home of Vera Dandly, 504 North Grape, yesterday evening to in vestigate the theft of a cash box containing $12. two rings, a blHck purse, inner tube and a considerable number of papers and letters from the garage at her home. John Suzo, Jackson hotel, re ported to police that he had been beaten and robbed of $150 and a silver clip by an ex-military policeman. Cline E. Taylor, Route 1, box 249, Ashland, told! officers yesterday a Winchester I lever action rifle and a single I RBI. 12 gauge shot gun were 1 stolen from his cabin at Emi grant lake when it was entered i over the wrek-end. O. II. Thompson was taken to ' the hospital last night after he reported to city police that he had been attacked, beaten and robbed by three sailors and a civilian near a cafe on Front street last night. Thompson told police his wrist watch and bill fold had been taken. Also reportedly robbed last night was Sgt. Paul M. Zalusky, of Camp While, who told officers he was robbed of $60 while drinking with civilian friends in a local tavern. TOP NAZIS Z Traitor Hated British, and Offered Norway Bases and Own Services. , Oslo, Aug. 21 (U.R) The prosecutor in the treason trial of Vidkun Quisling today intro duced captured German docu ments branding the Norwegian puppet as an arch-traitor who persuaded the Nazis to invade his country in 1940. Chief Prosecutor A n n a e u s Schjoedt began the second day of the trial by reading from a mass of documents and sworn statements obtained from such top nazi war criminals as Her mann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbcntrop and Alfred Rosen berg. The highlight of the new evi dence came with the reading of extracts from a diary taken from Rosenberg, in which the notori ous nazi Jew-baiter wrote that Quisling offered German bases in Norway and talked Hitler into invading the country, against the fuehrer's judgment. Schjoedt followed with a doc ument found by British police in the German admiralty in Berlin. The paper recorded a conversa tion between Quisling and Ger man Grand Admiral Erich Raed cr on Dec. 11, 1939, in which Quisling offered his services to Germany, . Quisling was -quoted as saying that Norway had made a secret treaty with Britain guaranteeing the latter a safe landing on Nor wegian soil in the event of war, and that he was ready to pave the way for a German invasion. Asked by the court if he of fered the Germans bases in Nor way at that time. Quisling re plied: "I don't remember." The prosecutor also read a let ter written by Rosenberg to the German admiralty, referring to a plan for a coup by Quisling's Norwegian nazi party men, who were supposed to occupy key points in Oslo when the Ger mans landed. When Schjoedt finished read ing the documents. Presiding Justice Erik Solem began ques tioning Quisling, who evaded di rect answers. Throughout the hearing, Quis ling was kept under constant scrutiny by Dr. Johan Scharfcn berg, a prominent Oslo psychia trist assigned to observe Quis ling's reactions and determine his mental status. Quisling professed complete ignorance of the charges con tained in the nazi documents and said he was at a loss to explain the German leaders' references to him In their state records. "Well then," the judge asked, "How do you account for it? Quisling is not a common name like Hansen or Jensen." . Quisling made no reply. NEED 16,000 TOR Helena. Mont., Aug. 21 'U.R) Montana not only lacks pros pects of immediate unemploy ment but has 16,000 Job openings in industrial and commercial pursuits, Barclay Craighead, chairman of the unemployment Compensation commission, said today. Craighead said that the Wash it. gton estimate of more than 6.- 000.000 unemployed in the na tion by Christmas, which, K ap plied proportionately, would mean 18.000 unemployed in Montana is inaccurate as far as Montana is concerned. "We need 16.000 of our absent vet erans to fill vacant Jobs now," he said, adding that employes on industrial and commercial pay toll in the state decreased 11 per cent during the war. Berlin, Aug. 21 U.R) Ninety nine veterans of the 82nd air borne division parachuted inlo Berlin in a demonstration Jump today. New York, Aug 21 'UP' The Queen Mary and three other transports, carrying 16,633 troops, dock here today. OBS IN MONTANA PLANS FOR ERNIE MEMORIAL CEASE Promotion Scheme Deplored By Mrs. Pyle Violates Good Taste. Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 21 (U.R) Mrs. Ernie Pyle request ed today that plans to build an elaborate memorial to her late husband at Dana and Terre Haute, Ind be abandoned "en tirely and Immediately." She said in a statement that the original plan for a $35,000 memorial library in Dana, the famous Seripps-Howard war cor respondent's birthplace, had "grown beyond all reasonable bounds." Pyle. she said, "would be hor rified and indignant" at the pro moters' latest plan to build a landscaped, lake-studded park and cemetery, to which Pylc's body could be moved from le Shima where he was killed by the Japanese last April. A money-raising campaign di rected by the New York public relations firm of Richard Con don, Inc., was to have started to morrow. Mrs. Pyle said she un derstood the campaign was in tended to raise "a million dollars, or two million dollars." "The proposal violates every thing that Ernie was." she said. "It also violates the feeling that existed between Ernie and the neonle who loved him ... "Ernie Is lying where he would wish to lie. with the men he loved. I will never consent to having his body moved.' At the same time. Mrs. Pyle approved the "sensible and mod est undertaking of Indiana uni versity" to provide journalism scholarships in Pylc's name, witli preference given to war vet erans. NOTSEE San Francisco. Aug. 21 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain wright was disappointed when he was sent to the Philippines in September, 1940. because he an ticipated an early outbreak of war with Germany and expected to miss all the fighting, his son, Cmdr. Jonathan M. Wainwright V, said here today. The 81 -year-old hero of Cor regldor declared that "I'm going the wrong way," as he boarded a travsport, and was unhappy over the prospect of spending the opening phases of the war In a peaceful spot in the Pacific. Commander Wainwright re called. He said he has not heard di rectly from his father since the general's liberation from a Japa nese prison ramp. The last word he received was a pol card last Feb 12. with the print ed message: "I am well and am being well cared for." CORNEJO RETURNS Mexico City Aug. 21 'U.R) Antonio CorneJo, chief of the of fice of public roads, today re turned from a Irip to Dallas and Chicago where he studied auto mobile storage buildings. BULLETIN Chicago, Aug. 21 'U.R Louise Sugg, pint sized Atlanta. Ga , .-tar. staged a rousing sec ond nine rally In a drenching rain .dorm today to defeat Rena Nelson of Chicago. 4 to 2. and advance Into the second round of the Women's Western Ama teur Golf Tournament at the Knoll wood club Miss Nelson, Chicago advertis ing executive was one-up on the 21-yearlold Georgian at the end of nine holes played in a rain storm that frequently interrupt ed" play. They halved the 10th hole and then Miss Suggs, dura tion sjuthern amateur ciiampion, turned on a brilliant finish to win fne of the next six holei for victory oo the 16th grtca. PARTROOPS FREE HELDATPEIPING Others Also Rescued, Quar tered at "Grand Hotel" Internees Given Orders. Chungking, Aug. 2t (U.R) Four members of Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle's Tokyo raiders have been liberated by American par atroopers dropped at Pciping, it was revealed today, but several other paratroop rescue opera tions encountered Japanese or Russian objections. The Doolitlle airmen were among a group of 12 Americans liberated in the Peiping area by a group of paratroop volunteers of the office of strategic serv ices. A similar OSS team landed at Mukden but advised their head quarters that until the Japanese received permission from the Russians for the Americans to land they probably would be in terned. Teams dropped at Shanghai and Canton reported they prob ably would be unable to take any steps to liberate Americans un til the formal signing of Jhe Jap anese surrender. The Peiping group reported that they were staying at the Grand Hotel under "the courte ous protection of Imperial Japa nese army headquarters" of North China. They said they were setting every WmA of co operation from the Japanese. They found 12 American pris oners of war in the area, four at nearby Fcngtai, seven in the Peiping prison charged with an attempt to escape, and one at Tsian, also charged with an es cape attempt. All were being transferred to the Grand Hotel. The team also located 317 in ternees in 10 different places In Pciping, all of whom were re ported comfortably quartered. The Japanese were said to be maintaining law and order but Internees were advised to stay put because of the feeling of the Japanese troops. ,L AIDED BY ORDER Washington. Aug. 2 1 (U.R) The War Production Board to day relaxfcd construction con trols to permit the building wiUiout specific WPB authoriza tion of factories, plants, and other industrial facilities. The agency estimated that In dustry was ready to go ahead with about $4,500,000,000 worth of such construction. The WPB order was Issued, it said, to speed up reconversion and pro mote employment. The agency listed these proj ects which now may be con structed without its aulliorl7.a tion. 1. Mining, smelling and refill-j ing, foundries and other opera- j lions dealing with extraction and ! conversion of minerals to fin- j Ished form. 2. Logging and lumbering op- eratlnns, sawmills, planing mills and millwork manufacturers, ex cluding retail lumber yards. E Los Angeles, Aug. 21 U.P' Gov. Warren announced today that M:i). William V. Knowlaud has cabled acceptance of his ap pointment to succeed the late Hiram W. Johnson in the United States senate. Knowland's cable sulci he would leave Paris today. His credentials already have been forwarded to Washington, where he will take the oath of office. Knowland, 37, son of the pub lisher of the Oakland, Cal., Trib une, was named last week by Warren to till the late Sen. John son's unexpired term, ending in January, 1847, RescuesWainwright v ' A Mm- (Aemt Trlephoto) MaJ. Robert Lamar. Knnsaa City, Mo., who was entrusted with mission of rescuing Lt. Oen. Jonathnn Wnin wrtBht, hero of Batnan and Corregl dnr, from Jap prison camp at Sinn, 100 miles northeast of Mukden, MrJ. Lnmnr led medicnl team that para chuted Into Mukden, Is understood to hnve traveled to Elan by Jap plane or motor vehicle to effect rescue. TILLAMOOK FIRE, FLARES UP ANEW Resort Homes In Nehalem Area Menaced Heavy Smoke and Low Humidity Portland, Ore., Aug. 21 (U.R) Oregon's 150,000 aero month-old forest fire raced toward the Til lamook county coast today after fighters had the blaze somewhat controlled for nearly a week. Dense smoke clouds and flying embers covered the new burn at the edge of tho Nehalem buy pasture lands where the flames Jumped the natural fire line at tho Nehalem river and ale their way toward the little town of Baltcrson. Green areas only one and a half miles from the small Mohlcr community arc burning. Sol diers from Neahkanhic camp and pumpers have been sent to the area in an attempt to set a new fire line and save resort homes and buildings in the dis trict. Accurate scouting of the F.ast Foley Peak area is prevented by heavy smoke. Foley Peak is by the edge of the old burn lit the southern corner of the new out break. The fire there is near green lilnbcr which extends to the coast, and in the path of dry ca.itrrly winds. Nehalem, also In the path of the flames. Is but two or three miles from Mohlcr, separated by pasture lands. The fire trail around the three-county fire is holding on other points altlvugh a shift of winds could carry the renewed flames over the lines if low liiiinidily prevails. Air moisture was registered at nine per cent yesterday, one of the lowest points on record. The Snnqualinir, Washington National forest fire has spread over BOO acres hut has not yet reached green timber. Deiplte low humidity, fighters have hopes of controlling it. CONCEALEDASSETS Chicane. Auk 21 ii Pi A federal grand Jury returned an indictment today against Murk Apprlnmn. 55 manager of a Los Angeles clothing store, rhaiging he concealed $68,000 in assets In a bankruptcy case. ALIEN LAW UPHELD San Francisco, Aug. 21 (U.R) The district court of appeal to day upheld the constitutionality of a state law prohibiting out-of-state aliens from Inheriting Cal ifornia property. Mexico City Aug. 21 (U Rl Ceil ilia prices for automobile tires were increased five per rent today by presidential decree. PRESIDENT ASKS ALL LEND-LEASE United Nations Notified Sale of Supplies on Hand Ordered. Washington, Aug. 21 U.R) President Truman has ordered an immediate halt in the United States' multi-billinn rie.ll,.. inj. lease program, the White House announced today. All of the United ceiving lend-lease aid were noti fied by mail of the program's halt yesterday and today, presi dential press secretary Charles G. Ross disclosed. The Dresident nrH rn..u Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley to cancel "all outstand ing contracts for lend-lease" ex cept where allied governments are willing to make payments or where it is "In the interests of the United States to comnleta them." The White House statement said Mr. Truman also mithorireH Crowley to negotiate with lcnd- lease customers for the sale to them of lend-lease supplies now stockpiled in foreign countries or en route abroad. The stockpiles abroad total be tween $1,000,000,000 and $1. 500.000,000, the White House said. Another $2,000,000,000 worth of lend-lease contracts for non-munitions and finished goods are uncompleted, the Whie House added. -. - v Letters notifying foreign gov ernments of the halt in lend lease were mailed yesterday by the Foreign Economic Adminis tration to foreign embassies and missions here, Ross said. Most eovernments. therefore, were no. tified of the move yesterday af ternoon or this morning, he said. The halt In lenH-lpnA (Mo menta heenme effeetivo fnr eneh country when its mission here received ine notincaiion. 6 AUTOS COLLIDE T. Six persons were Injured about 10:20 o'clock last night when cars driven by Walter M. Barker, 18, route 1, box 430-D, Mcdford, and A. A. Dixon, who operates the Agate Shop on high way DO near Rogue River, col lided Just north of Central Point on Ihe Pacific hfghway, Dixon's left arm was ampu. talrd In the crash, which Barker told state police was caused when he was blinded by lighta of an oncoming car. The Barker machine, headed south, struck the left front fender of the pick up truck driven by Dixon, swerved to the left shoulder of the highway, and turned over. Juanila Parlon. 17. Trail; Belly Lou Cook, 17, TBlent. and Richard Babb, 17. 344 Norlh Central avenue, all passenger! in (lie Barker car which is own ed by the youth's father, to gether with Barker, suffered minor injuries and were taken to Sacred Heart hospital In a private auto. Mrs. Dixon was not seriously injured but Is confined to Sacred Heart hospital. Deputy Coroner Carlos Mor rls. who was called to the sccna of the accident, said Dixon'a life was apparently saved by an un identified man who used a hand krrchief and a screw driver to apply a liirniquet. MEAT PRODUCTION DROPS Chicago, Aug. 21 cU.Ri Fed erally Inspected meat production totaled 208.000.000 pounds last week, an 18 per cent decrease from Ihe preceding week's 255. 000,000 pound output, the war meat board said today. MEETS POPE PIUS Vatican City, Aug. 21 (UP.) Pope Plus XII gave a private audience today to Edward D. McKim, special assistant to Pres ident Truman. McKim talked with the fope lor bali an hour.