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Weather Use The Mill Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Coil MEDFORD Tribune PORKCABT: Clear to wittered cloudi tonight and Thuridajr with showen In higher moun ts Int. Continued warm. Temperaiura Hifheit Yeiterday , twi Lowest this Morntnf.MWMHW.ftS United Tint Full Leased Wire Unlt.d Press Full Leased WIr Fortieth Year MEDFOF XEGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1945. NO. 129. (ft Ml M Tn fo) 0lfo)fo)f?Mfn1 -'ARTHUR GIVES . DETAILED PLAN Ft niPHIOH Jo Fly To Atsugi Tuesday With Airborne Force; Sig natories In Tokyo Bay. ' Manila, Aug. 23 (Thursday) (U.PJ Gen. Douglas iviacrtr- thur announced early today that the surrender of Japan win De signed aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay on Aug. MacArthur announced the de tailed plans for the occupation 9 of Japan, following in general the outline already broadcast by Tokyo radio. He revealed that all Japanese ihipping had been ordered to re main at its present location in preparation for surrender to the allies. Japanese submarines were ordered to remain surfaced and fly a black flag. The announcement said Mac- Arthur would accompany air borne forces which will land at the Atsugi airdrome in the Tokyo area Aug. 28. Simultan eously naval and marine forces will land in the vicinity of the Yokusuka naval base. The Tokyo announcements previously had said the airborne landings would begin Sunday, GEN. WAINWRIGHT WANTED Portland, Or., Aug. 22 , U.R) Tha Oregon Journal to ff day editorially expressed the nope mai 1.1. vien, uonainan Wainwright, captured with the surrender of Corregldor, could be present at the allied surrender signing with Em . peror Hirohiio. "The Japanese hold It sac rilege for anyone to look upon the face of the sun god em peror, end it is going to be hard to take, for the sun god emperor to hare to look upon the face of the man (MacAr thur) who licked his armies and henceforth will give or ders to him," the editorial mid in part, "Perhaps' It's too much to hope for, but one may be for given If he wishes that Gen eral Wainwright may be flown back and taken to. the meet ing, to be the man through whom the Mikado will have to talk to reach the supreme commander who will now gor- era Japan." ORDERS GIVEN MacArthur had ordered all Japanese military, naval and civil aircraft grounded but In response to a special appeal from Tokyo gave his permission for a minimum number of flights on urgent missions. The outline of the occupation planes was given as huge fleets of C-54 transports and other large aircraft, hastily mobilized from army airlines and combat regions all over the world and assembled on the Okinawa air strips ready to carry the occupa tion troops to Japan. "Weather permitting," MacAr thur's announcement said, 'air borne forces accompanying the supreme commander for the al lied powers will land at Atsugi airdrome in the vicinity of Tokyo and naval and marine forces will land in the vicinity of Yokusuka naval base on Aug. 28. 1945. The instrument of sur render will be signed in the Tokyo area on Aug. 31." The Japanese warships and merchant fleet were ordered to report their positions immedia'e ly to the nearest American, Brit ish or Soviet radio station The Japanese were particular ly instructed to look to the safety and welfare of allied war. prisoners, providing shelter, clothing and medical care until the allirs can take over. The Japanese were ordered to rrotect supplies dropped by air to prisoner of war and civilian internment camps. They also were ordered to re move all mine, minefields and other obstacles and to mark safety lines clearly. New York, Aug. 22 (J P Four transports debark 2.841 troops today for processing at Cmn Shnnkf V nnH famn Truman's Gun Replaced by Plowshare 1 - , f si . I S ( Acmn Telephoto) Indicative of a post-war world, President Truman substitutes a model of a plow for the model gun that formerly occupied a place on his desk. The President called attention to the change when members of the Re conversion Advisory Board walked Into his office. ' AS PATRIOT. HAS HYSTERICAL FIT Alienists Find Traitor Sane Not Aware Nazis Tor tured Norwegians. Oslo. Aug. 22 (U.PJ Vidkun Quisling became hysterical at his treason trial today when the court repeatedly demanded whether he worked for Nor way's inclusion in the greater German reich. After evading direct answers to a series of questions regarding a letter he sent Adolf Hitler and a memorandum he had drafted on Norwegian-German collabora tion, the former puppet premier of Norway cried hysterically: I did it to save my counlryl The last four years have been a nightmare for me because I had to fight both sides!" The third day of Quisling's trial opened with disclosure that court psychiatrists had examin ed the defendant on June 18 and had found "no signs that he is mad and nothing to show that he is a person with under-developed or weakened mental power." Quisling showed Increasing signs of strain under the prose cution's hammering. And he re peatedly broke into Schjoedt's questioning with loud objections. Schjoedt asked whether Quis ling knew about the concentra tion camps in Germany, to which the accused man retorted he had "heard very little" of them. Then the prosecutor switched to nazl terrorism in Norway dur ing Quisling's regime, demand ing to know whether he was aware that Norwegians had been tortured In German prison camps. "I never was able to pin down one example of torture," Quis ling answered. ENSIGN KILLS SELF Oakland, Cal.. Aug. 22 'U.PJ Ens. David Brock. Whiting. Ind . committed suicide aboard his nip the CSS Lindenwald. the coroner's office reported to day "HAMS" CAN RETURN Washington. Aug. 22 'U.B Amateur radio operators with li censes paid to date may return to the air at once, the Federal Communications Commission an nounced. . People who live in glass houses shouldn t throw stones. No one should throw lighted ma trnal on forest" t rangeiandl. Keep OiCJ-n Gfu.U, M 1 SUPERVISION OF LIBERATED VOTE Soviet Organ Tells of Split Between Allies and Own Policy In Europe. Washington, Aug. 22 CUR) King Michael, 24-year-old ruler of Romania, has appealed to the Big Three to aid his country In forming a new government after Romanian Prime Minister Peter Goria declined royal Invitation to resign. London, Aug. 22 (U.R) The Soviet government organ Izves tia said today that Russia has flatly refused proposals by the western allies for allied super vision of elections in liberated countries. Such supervision, Izvestia said, would constitute unwar ranted interference with the sovereignty of the liberated states. "No matter what form the so called supervision would take, essentially it cannot but boil down to establishment of control over the internal policy of an other state which cannot be sub jected to control from outside," Izvestia said. The Izvestia dispatch was re layed from Moscow as the United States, Britain and France prepared to supervise elections in Greece. Britain and the United States also had pro tested to Bulgaria against her ar rangements for elections next Monday. The dispatch marked the first authoritative disclosure nf Rn-I I sian policy on the matter and j disclosed a serious split between the eastern and western allies on ! the njethods of restoring democ racy in lands freed from the Ger mans. A British note handed the Soviet-supported Bulgarian gov ernment yesterday said flatly that Britain would be "unable to 1 recognize as democratic any Bui-1 I garian government formed as re-1 j suit of the elections" In that I country. U. S. Secretary of Stale James j Byrnes said Monday that the United States also was not "sat isfied" that the Bulgarian elec tion arrangements would permit all democratic elements to par ticipate "free from force and In timidation." COAST GUARD REDUCES Pittsburgh Aug. 22 'U.Rl The U. S. Coast Guard has be gun a discharge program which is exorctev to return the service ' to its peace time basis within 10 OF HALF LEND-LEASE DEBTS FORECAST Reports To Congress So Indicate; Russia and Brit ish Seek Credit Loans. Washington, Aug. 22 (URI AH authoritative evidence indi cated today that the United States may cancel well over half of the obligations incurred by allied nations under the lend lease program. That is supported by state ments of the late President Roosevelt and President Truman in their quarterly lend-lease re ports to congress, and by the statements of the senate and house foreign relations commit tees in renewing the lend-lease act. President Truman's order halting lend-lease immediately focussed attention on one of the most difficult postwar Jobs a final lend-lease settlement. Pro curement of supplies for allies under lend-lease already has stopped; actual transfers will cease on the official V-J day. The major problem now is to work out interim agreements so that allied nations can continue to receive lend-lease materials now in stockpiles, in the transit "pipeline," or on order. Those nations will have to pay cash or make arrangements for credit if they still wish such equipment and materials. : Foreign Economic Administra tor Leo T. Crowley pointed out that the export-import bank was ready to consider applications for loans from any allied nations that still wants lend-lease sup plies that arc still in the works. Russia reportedly has been seeking a $6,000,000,000 credit loan and Britain one of a similar amount. PUPPET RULER OF MANCHURIA HELD BY SOVIET ARMY London, Aug. 22 (U.R) Rus sia announced the capture of Emperor Kang Teh, Japan's pup pet ruler of Manchuria, and his imperial suite today. Marshal Alexander M. Vasl levsky, Soviet far eastern rom mander, radioed the chief of staff of Japan's Kwantung army that the emperor was "safe In my hands." The one-time "Boy Emperor" formerly known as Henry P'u Yi was considered an internee and was being held with his suite In "proper surroundings," Vasilevsky said In his message. Vasilevsky'j announce m e n t was broadcast by Radio Kha barovsk, voice of the Soviet far eastern command, as red armies captured 92,000 more Japanese officers and men, including four generals and the entire Japanese fifth Kwantung army. Kang Teh was the former Hsuan Tung, last emperor of the Manchu dynasty In China. De posed In 1911. he took the name of Henry P'u YI. The Japanese recalled him to power In 1DI12 and made him chief executive of what they called the Inde pendent state of Manchukuo, seized from China in 1931. The Khabarovsk broadcast gave no details of the emperor s capture or whereabouts. How ever, Changchun (Hsinking), nominal capital of Manchuria, was captured by the red army over the week end. It was possible that China would demand custody of the emperor as a war criminal be cause of his service to Japan, BULLETIN ! Chicago. Aug 22 'UP) De-i fendir.g Champion Dorothy Ger-, main of Philadelphia and hcrj No. 1 challenger Mrs Babe Did rikson Zaharlas of Los Angeles.: squeezed Into the quarter-finals of the women's western amateur! golf turnament today with hard-1 Ju'ilti valine. . ,,t Bolo Slayer fe.:vr " 1 numimLui mil SITUATION DARK, LxJU 3 TOWNS IN PATH V ! (A 1 ntm 1 rlrphato) Earl Victor Hartley, 47, veteran of two wars, smokes calmly and jokes In a Seattle jail cell after admitting that he beheaded his wife with a bolo knife during a drunken quarrel E WILL TALK HERE THURSDAY, FRIDAY The last stop In Oregon be fore loaving for urgent post war legislative sessions at the na tion's capitol will be made in Medford Thursday night and Fri day by Congressman Harris Ells worth, who is slated to address a members' forum of the' Jack son County Chamber of Com merce Friday noon. Ellsworth will meet local people who wish to confer with him Thursday night at the Hotel Medford. National and state matters of vital Importance in the transi tion from war to peace will be rislcus.icd at the luncheon cham ber forum in the Blue Room of the Hotel Holland. The meeting will begin at 12:15 noon and members and friends arc invited. Reservations should be made in advance by phoning the cham ber otfices, 2294. Among the guests at the cham ber forum Friday will be Col. John R. Young commanding of ficer of Camp White and Capt. H. B. LcFavrc, USN, commander of the Navy general hospital at Camp White. Guests from Ash land and other southern Oregon communities will also attend. Ellsworth, who was active in the chamber's movement to In terest the Navv in the Camp White hospital facilities and who is a leader in national legislation dealing with lumber and agricul ture, will discuss the problems of reconversion and matters im portant to this area. deverTsays its too early m to tell army need U'ochinfftnn Aug. 22 (UP) Gen. Jacob L. Devcrs, command- j cr of the army ground forces, I said today that the army's ultl-l mate size cannot be determined j now because, at the moment, j "we're not sure the Japs have . quit." ! Not until "we know what the Jap reaction will be" to Gen. , Douglas MacArthur's occupation forces, he said, will It be pos-, siblc to say what the army's j strength should be or how much , the point discharge systems critical score of 85 should be lowered. Devcrs. speaking at a National Press Club luncheon, said the first demobilization objective is to get the army down to 2.500, 000 men. . Washington, Aug. 22 (UK- Barring unforeseen develop-i m e n t s, American occupation forces in Japiin will not have to do any fighting, but Gen. Doug- i las MacArthur is expected to move ashore with forces capaole ' of dealing with any situation, j Best estimates available indl-j cate he has 16 or 17 American j divisions ready to go Into Japan j wa Uuijf aliui l nviit. - i MnDTUwrQT nor Wilson River Blaze Worse New Outbreaks In Idaho and Washington. Portland, Ore., Aug. 22 (U.R) Bail fire weather closed down logging operations in western Oregon and Washington today as the Pacific northwest faced a new outbreak of forest fires. A thousand soldiers and sev eral hundred loggers rushed new defense lines at the west and south of the revived Wilson river fire on the Tillamook burn in Oregon a fire brought under control n week aeo after five weeks of battling. Low humid ity and high tcmperamrcs brousht two new major out breaks. . Washington fire fighters hop ed to keen smaller fires under control, although air moisture dropped to B per cent yesterday. and Monciay one 01 me mwcai recorded points In history. Other fires were out of con trol In northern Idaho. In Oregon, the 175.000-acre Tillamook blaze, which had been quiet for some time, Drone inngg nonin in a westerly diree- tion toward the coast. It threat ened three Oregon coast towns and destroyed several million feet of felled and bucked logs. Nels S. Rogers. Oregon state forester, said weather conditions were the worst on record with no apparent let-up in sight. He expressed concern oer the sltu: ation as the conflagration was reported to be raging in green timber. Thn mncl HlinDPrOllS blaZC WBS In western Oregon in the Tilla mook burn along the Nehalem and Miami rivers. There it was threading its vay to sea, im perilling the towns of Nehalem, Wheeler and Mohler, together with other smaller communities. IKADO'S T IN CHINA DUE TO Chungking, Aug. 22 U.R Japan's formal surrender of 1, 090.000 troops ill China appeared noe ihl within 48 hours, as a Chinese government spokesman announced today tnat tne aRree ment presumably would be sign ed at Nanking. Thi snnkesman said Gen. Ho Ying Chin, commandcr-ln-clilcf of the Chinese army, probably would aisn for the Chiang Kai- Shek government with Gen. Yasuja Okamura, commanncr in chlef of Japanese forces In China, signing for Tokyo. r.r.n. Ho announced that his deputy chief of staff, Lt. Gen. I..im Chin, aecomnanled by Jap anese delegates returning from yesterday's preliminary surren der conference at Chiliklang air field, was going to Nanking to establish an advance headquar ters for the final ceremony. At yesterday's preliminary meeting, it was reported, China told the Japanrse that her troops would take over Formosa and the northern half of Indo China. The Immediate release of all allied prisoners now held In Japanese-occupied China, also was demanded by the Chinese. New York, Aug. 22 'U.R' Stocks on the New York curb exchange advanced moderately in quiet dealings today. WAR BULLETINS San Francisco, Aug. 22 (URiThe world's firtt atomic bomb dropped elmott linger ingly through the sky over Hiroshima and exploded more than a quarter ol a mile high, releaiing terrilic whirlpools of energy whose Immediate effects were felt for 10 min utes, a Japanese ttchnician aid today. QUIT IN 48 HOURS Vet Chief Talks n Mm mm. . Mil 1 LI f . fat. JJUfT" A (Acmt Tflfpholo) General Omar N. Bradley, nation new Ve tenuis' administrator, shown before a Senate banking committee In Washington where he was first of SO witnesses to testify In "Jobs for AH" legislation. FOR SIAN AFTER OF Lt. Gen. Wainwright and 1700 Other Prisoners Are Freed By Rescue Teams. Chungking. Aug. 22 (U.R) American parachute teams re ported the liberation of 1,700 or more Allied war prisoners and civilian Internees from Japanese camps in China and Manchuria today , From Mukden came word that an American bomber had taken off from that Manchtirian city yesterday for Sian, approxi mately 100 miles to the north, to bring out the most famous pris oner Lt. Gen. Jonathan, M. Wainwright, hero of Bataan and Correzidor. The Mukden team said Rus sian f.irces took over the Muk den camp on their arrival there, disarmed the Japanese guard and placed MaJ. Gen. G. M. Par ker, an American officer, In charge. (The officer presumably was MaJ. Gen. Georse M. Parker, Jr.. of Portland. Ore., who served under Wainwright in the Philip pines.) Altogether, the Mukden team said, 1,321 prisoners were liber ated -.t the Mukden camp. Most were British, but the prisoners also included 44 Americans, 67 Dutch, a Canadian and a French man. Kight Americans and Brit ish and 10 Dutch were liberated at Sian, the team said. Paratroops who dropped at Pelping, China, radioed back that they had obtained the re lease of 317 Allied prisoners and Internees, Including 117 Amer icans. HERE FOR TALKS Washington, Aug. 22 (U.R' Cell. Charles De Gaulle, presi dent of the provisional French republic, arrived today for a three-day state visit and his first personal meeting with President Trnmr.n. The plane bringing the French leader to WashinKton ar rived at National Airport short ly ad.-r 4 p in. F.WT. His first statement after leav ing the plane was that the Unit ed S'lites must play the leading part in organizing the world to conform to the principles for which the Allirs fought. SIX HOUR DAY ASKED Vancouver Aug. 2 'U R) Im mediate establishment of a six hour day throughout Canada and Hie United States, without a cut in wages was urged by the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (AFL) today. John Ridwell's wagon train euteied Caliiuruia in 1811, BEEF POINTS CUT 20 PCT. SEPT. 3; Little Hope for Early End of Pork, Ham, Bacon Con trolCafes Aided. Washington. Aue. 22 (1IP1 Red point values on beef will be reduced "substantinllv" on Senl. 3 but It will be "at least 30 days" before any meats can be mad ration-free, lt was learned today. . Food officials said the govern ment was not coins to remnva ration controls on meat until the potential supply and non-civilian demands have been thoroughly clarified. Beef ration values, however, will be cut by about 20 per cent at the beginning of the new ra. tlon period Sept. 3. After that, lt will be several weeks at tha earliest before beef, lamb and veal, which are in thn hrst mn. ply, can be made ration free. mil mere is little nope for an early end to rationing of pork, hams or bacon hwnne nt th low 1945 hog production. Washington, Aug. 22 (U.PJ Hotels, restaurants and other ln- stitutinnnl iiora will I,. .M. get red point loans from their local ration boards beginning to. day If they haven't enough to a:i umu me next allotment per iod. OPA said applicants with lesi than 25 per cent of their net point Inventory were eligible for loans of up to 25 per cent of their red point meat allotment for the July-August period. The loans are to be repaid In four equal Installments begin, nlng with the September-October period. SUGAW OIL LAST ITEMS OFF Washington, Aug. 22 UP . Sugar, fats and oils probablr will be the last Item to go off rationing, the senate small busi. ncss complaints subcommittee was told today. Price Administrator Chester Bowlrs and Secretnrv nt Api culture Clinton P. Andreson tes tified at a hearing on the sugar shortage as lt affects small bottling firms and bakers. "Suuar is tieht mil ( nln to stay tlcht through 1946." An. derson said. And Bowles added: Fats and oils and sugar are nrnbahlv enine in h th two Items on the rationing pro gram. Washington. Aug. 22 nj.R) CIO President Philip Murray, calliiiu on congress to "match its performance to the atomio age," today demanded passage of the full employment bill In time) for President Truman to submit the first "national production and employment budget to con gress next January. "IdKht now. while I speak to you," Muray told the senate banking committee, "millions of wage earners heads of families arc being dismissed from their jobs." Murray said the nation must be "mobilized for an attack up on poverty ignorance and fear' that will compare to Its war ef fort. New York, Aug. 22 (U.PJ Cotton futures opened 2 to points higher today. BASEBALL' " American Washington 3 11 8 Clew-iand 0 5 1 Wolff and Ferrell; Harder, center Sklln and Hayes. Philadelphia 17 1 Detroit 4 6 d Connelly. Knerr (2nd) and Ro- Mi, Xfuul uwi Richard.
