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M f MEDFORDfeJitii Weather Usa The Mail Trlbuna Want Ad Way Quick Rtiultt At Small Cost Tribune FORECAST: Partly eloudT to nifht and tomorrow. Slightly cooler tonifhc Temp. Highlit yesterday . ftft Lowest thli morning il United Press Full Laaied Wit United Pri Full Leased Wlia Fortieth Year MEDFORD, ' fc' 30N, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1945 NO. 131. S ; 1 E D WE I Initial Landings Set For Tuesday Advance Party Due Sunday. Manila, Aug. 25 (U.R) A ty phoon which delayed Japanese arrangements for the arrival of U. S. occupation troops today raised a possibility there might be a slight hitch in carrying out Gen. Douglas MacArthur' sur render program. It was noted here that Mac Arthur had specified that the in itial landings Tuesday were de pendent upon weather condi tions The Japanese advised the al lied supreme commander today that the Atsugi airfields where MacArthur and U. S. airborne forces will land have been left in very muddy condition due to rainfall accompanying the ty phoon. Whether the fields will dry out in time to allow the landings to proceed as planned was not yet known. San Francisco, Aug. 24 U.R) The Nippon Chugia San go, influential Japanese finan cial newspaper, called upon the Japanese people to change their attitude in regard to reckless disregard of life. "We must forge a new des tiny for our country by con centrating all our effort at home instead of abroad . . . in transforming our warlike spirit into a tranquil peaceful one," said the paper in its ar ticle broadcast by Tokyo radio and heard by United Press. "There are many points In which we must change our at titude, the major one of them is the lack of love for our lives," the article continued. "The Japanese people, too. love their lives but their love of life was not what it ought to be. The Japanese reported that the allies would follow up their occupation of the Tokyo area with new air and sea landings on southern Kyushu beginning Sept. 1, the day after the sched uled sijfhing of the Japanese sur render. ' MacArthur advised the Japa nese today in an official com v Juunicatlon that he desired Jap anese communications officials to meet his advance party Aug. 26, prepared to set up telegraph and radio communications. He said he wished direct wire facilities between the supreme commander's headquarters and the Japanese government and imperial headquarters and also direct channels to the Japanese broadcasting facilities. The official Japanese Domei gency reported that Japanese authorities had completed all "necessary preparations" re quired by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur for the mass allied air and sea-borne landings in the Tokyo area starting next Tues day. An advance party was scheduled to land Sunday. The withdrawal of Japanese army and navy forces from the sections of Tokyo, Chiba, Kan agawa. Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures 'marked for occupa tion will be concluded tomor row, Dome! said. !TE San Ouentin Aug 24 (UP) Escapes yesterday of the third ! and fourth San Qucntin convicts in fne days today focused at tenti.ei of prison officials on the Institution's 'honor'' system. Donald Bndlc 27 serving 10 years fnr Sun Francisco check and 'oohery charges was the last inmate to flee His absence was discovered ,at night during a check of prisoners at the Hungry Creen harvest camp near Yrc-ka. Siskivnu county. St. Louis, Aug. 24 jUR) Ne i Satiations In the carrier strike at the three St. Louts newspapers j frrcarcd deadlocked today. ' Awaits Wainwright's Liberation r i Mrs. Jonathan Walnwngnt tun), wife of Lt. Oen. Jonathan Wainwright and Mrs. John N. Greely of Washington. D. O. family friend and wifl ol Brig. Gen Greely. noted Army linguist, stand before portrait of Gen. Wainwrlght, INWRIGHT CHUNGKING SAYS Chungking. Aug. 24 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain wright's evacuation from Man churia has been postponed for another three or four days pond ing the restoration of railway service under Russian military guard, it was announced today. U. S. army headquarters in Chungking announced the new delay in Wainwright's final re lease. An American officer who vis ited Sian, where Wainwright had been imprisoned by the Jap anese, returned to Chungking with word that a Russian army guard must accompanv the res- . . 1 cue train that will Be sent to bring Wainwright to Mukden. (There was no immediate ex planation as to whether the Rus sians or Americans had insisted on the armed guard provision.) The officer reported that train service between Mukden and Sian was not expected to resume for throe or four days. He said an army Liberator bomber had been standing by in Mukden since last Monday to fly Wainwright bark to Chungking. Meanwhile It also was dis closed officially that an Ameri can rescue team had landed at Hanoi. French Indo-China. and at Shanghai to contact allied prisoners of war and civilian in ternees held by the Japanese there. London, Aug. 24 (U.R) The Soviet war communique tonight reported that 1 700 allied prison- ers ui whf iiu-iiiumik kl-hi -i : i no ...I . nave cecn iiDcraica irom Jap anese prison camps in the Muk den area. BRIDGES DENIES El L San Francisco. Aug. 24 (UP.) I 1nrnvm fnr Mr. Harrv Bridges sought unsuccessfully to day to bring from the CIO west coast labor leader an admission ; hat he was involved in a love ; ffnir with a New York dancer! and fathered her two-year-old child. Bridges denied any romance Hnd h's attorney, Richard Glad-1 stein, shut off questions about the paternity of the child daugh- ter of Mrs. Nancy Berdico of :scw oric. aiso Known as rancy; Feinstein and Nancy Fenton. The stormy divorce trial was recesM'd at' noon for the week end after A. L. Crawford, coun sel for Mrs. Bridges, opened her side nf the story by calling Mrs. ivun Dollmi New York room mate of Bridges' daughter, to the stand. j I A TI 1. . FREE ENTERPRISE HELD MAIN BASE - FULL WORK BILL Washington, Aug. 24 (U.R) Beardsley Ruml told the Senate Banking committee today that additional "basic legislation" would be necessary to make the full employment bill work. At the same time, he ques tioned the advisability of enact ing a declaration of federal policy that citizens have the "right" to work. He said he objected to the phrase because it "weakens the dignity" of fun damental human rights. Instead, he said, congress might better declare that "in- """" ' ipuij meiu on in nnrt nf nnv C1I17P11 im o matter , " " I of national concern . . . (which) menaces the institutions jnd: foundations of a free democratic I state." I Earlier, Attorney General Tom C. Clark endorsed the bill's ob- jecuves out asserted that "the real bulwark of our society Is, and must continue to be, a free and vital competitive economy " Ruml, the New York business man who helped to make "pay-as-jou-go" part of the nation': income tax system, said "jnbs-for-all" legislation would have to be implemented by: 1. A reform of social se curity financing to "take the de flation out of social security." 2. A federal policy In public works and conservation pro grams aimed at stabilization of the construction Industry. 3. A taxation program stimu- jating full employment. 4. Federal lending activities at home and abroad "associated harmoniously" with federal fis cal policy. I S. A program to maintain a "prosperous" agriculture. Ruml said he doubted the wis-: dom of using the phrase "as-' sure" employment in the bill . a point already raised by Sen., Warren Austin. R., Vt. I I " 1 . . F IT-- - t Arrested in South Robert Ben Merrill, who escaped from the Jackson county jail bv sawing his way through bars of his cell and lowering t himself to the groimd by means; !0f a rope, has been captured in! Los Angeles, according to word 1 received by the sheriff's office.! Sheriff Howard Gault said he: will be returned here as soon as ; Governor Earl Snell signs the necessary papers of extradition. BAR GIRL HELP Washington, Aug. 24 'UP.) Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbaeh today banned employment of girls under 18 on government contracts awarded after next Sept. 4. FULL FACTS TOLD SOON OF TRAGEDY Army - Navy Recommenda tions Before Truman, Who Promises Publicity. Washington, Aug. 24 (U.R) The nation may learn soon the inside story of the disaster at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Army and navy recommenda tions for the next step in the long-secret investigation are ex pected to be on President Tru man's desk in a short time. When they come, Mr. Truman promised yesterday, they will be made public. The President gave no infor mation of what would be in the recommendations to be made to him by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of Navy James Forrestal. But the fact that they will be made pub lic indicates that the entire story of Pearl Harbor soon will be an open book. What really caused Pearl Harbor to be wide open to Jap an's sneak attack has been bot tled up tightly on grounds of mil itary security. There have been three reports on inquiries but they have been sparse and far from revealing. . However, since the Japanese surrender congressional leaders have demanded that the full story now be told. And many ob servers felt that Mr. Truman senses the political inadvisubility of withholding the facts for long. The first hint that the Dec. 7 mystery might soon be unfolded came Monday when former Su preme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes conferred with the President at the White House. Roberts headed a special presidential board of Inquiry which first investigated the Pearl Harbor attack and report ed to late President Roosevelt early in 1942. Mr. Truman disclosed yester day that he and Byrnes were at tempting to get Roberts' consent to take a new "international as signment." He gave no hint of the nature of the post, but it pos sibly concerns proseeution of Pa cific war criminals. Mr. Truman said Roberts had tentatively re fused the assignment, but that he and Byrnes hoped to make him change his mind. The Roberts Pearl Harbor board found that there had been dereliction of duty on the part of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, army and navy commanders at the Pacific base when the attack came. GET BIGGER CUT Washington. Aug. 24 (U R) Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson saic today that as a result of military food cut- backs civilians will get nearly 40,000.000 more cases of canned vegetables and nearly 14.000 UiiO more cases of canned fruits and Juices from the 1945 pack than j they had coming to them bcfoie Japan surrendered. j The civilian share of the 1945 fruit packs will now be about 42.400.000 cases, it was said. Last year civilians got 34.000, 000. Their share of the 1945 vegetable pack will be about 158.000.000 cbscs as compared with 128.300.000 In 1944. It was In anticipation of the military cutbacks that canned fruits and vegetables were re- i moved from rationing last week. The War deparlmcnt said 'he military cutback In canned vege tables would be 44 per cent. In canned fruits it will be 46 per ; cent. TREATY SIGNED Chungking, Aug. 24 'UR) The Supreme National Defense Council and legislative Yuan to day unanimously ratified the Chinese Soviet Uei'.y, BRITISH BEWAIL LEND LEASE END; Churchill and Premier Attlee Say Action Hampers the Empire. Washington. Aug. 24 (U.R) Lend-lease Administrator Leo T. Crowley today made public a six-point transitional economic aid piogram offered to allied countries in place of lend-lease. He also made it plain that there will be no change in President Trumnn's decision to end lend- lease. Crowley called a special press conference after British officials revealed they were shocked at the abruptness of Mr. Truman's decision to shut off lend-lease assistance without prior consul tation. London, Aug. 24 (U.R) Win ston Churchill joined Prime Minister Clement Attlee In conv mons today in sharply criticizing the United States for its abrupt termination of the lend-lease pro gram. Churchill, former prime min ister and now opposition leader said hi- could not believe "this is the last word of the United States " "I cannot believe," Churchill said, "that so great a nation whose lend lease policy was characterized by me as the most unsordid act in the history of the world would proceed In such a rough and harsh manner as to hamper a faithful ally who held the fort while their own Amerj. can armaments were prepared.' Churchill urged commons members to exercise the utmost restraint in commenting on the situation lest they hamper the effor's of British negotiators. Attlee. in announcing to the house the end of the lend lease program, said the sudden termi nation has put Great Britain in a "very serious financial posi tion." "We had not anticipated that operations under the lend lease act would continue for any length of time after the defeat of J:ipan," Attlee said, "but we had lrpe that the sudden cessa tion of this great mutual effort would not have been effected without consultation and prior discussions." DE GAULLEURGES WEST RHINE BANK Washington, Xug. 24 (U.R) Gen. Charles DcUaulle today VAnn,,MH nnv desire for annexa tion of German territory, but he called for international cotittm of the Ruhr valley and French control of the western bank of the Rhine. At a press conference at the French embassy, DcGaulle also praised the economic assistance which the United States already is giving France. Ho added that it would be necessary to draw up a long-range program for re construction of his country. The French chief of state re marked in a Jovial manner that the United States press had not been too kind in the past in the ir articles about French policy. This was a rejoinder to Pres ident Truman's charge to a group of French Journalists yes terday that the United States was not getting a square deal In the French press. DcGaulle, who has been con ferring here with Mr. Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, said his mission was to discuss with American official "the immense problems that lie ahead now that we are at peace." He said there were two ma n sets of questions those concern ing Europe, which has been de vastated by war, and those in the Far East whose Importance and potential repercussions arc just now beginning to be tt.-lued. T FOR NEW AUTOS Civilian Cars Limited Only By Plant Capacity, Under New Order Washington, Aug. 24 (U.R) The War Production Board to day removed all quotas on new automobile production, but ruled that new cars cannot be equipped with spare tires. "In other words, producers I can now proceed to make as many cars as their capacity per mits," WPB said. Unlil today the agency had ruled that the automobile indus try could make only 250.000 new cars In the rest of this year. Now the industry's ability is the only limit. The OPA will announce ceil ing prices for the new cars next week. They will be somewhat higher than the 1941 prices. WPB said that further consid eration of the spare tire question would be given by the OPA. This apparently indicated that the spare tires might be permit ted by the time the new cars reach the public in any volume. In the meantime, however, no spare tires can be put on the new cars by producers. Availability of new automo biles for civilian use,' WPB ex plained, now will depend solely upon the "capacity of the indus try." Certain materials, such as tin, will continue to be scarce, but the industry has Indicated a willingness to use substitutes, it said. The lifting of the quota limits applies to taxicabs, ambulances and hearses as woll as to the or dinary passenger car. SEIZE NAVY BASE, RICE PORT TOWN Chungking, Aug. 24 (U.R) The Chinese communist war communique today reported that communist forces have seized the Welhaiwel naval base on Shan tung peninsula, the Tientsin rail road slation and the big rice port town of Wuhu above Nanking. The communique said that communist forces operating southeast of Peiping have cut the Tient.un-Peining railroad. Other communist forces were credited with capturing Ltiho op posite Nanking and to have en tered Hweisui in Sulyan pro vince which the communique of the Chungking government claimed had been captured by Its forces. The communist exploits were repor.ed as the communist re gime jeeepted Gen Chiang Kai Shek's bid for a conference at Chungking The communist lend er. Mao Tze-Tung advised Chiang he was sending a repre sentative to Chungking In re sponse to Chiang's Invitation. VALID ON SEPT. 1 Washington, Aug. 24 (UR Five new red ration stamps LI, Ml, Nl. PI and Ql become valid on Sept. 1 for purchase of meats and fats, the OPA an nounced today. The stamps arc worth 10 points each. Housewives will find that their red points will go much! further beginning with the Sep tember ration period since lower ration values for most meats go into effect Sept. 2. The five new stamps will be good through Dec. 31. The ful-j lowing red stamps, validated previously, will also be good during September: j V2. W2. X2, Y2. 7., Al. Bl. CI, Dl, El, Fl. Gl, 111, Jl and Kl. Not valid after Sepi. X ic Q2, R2, S2, 12 tad W2. j WAR BULLETINS Berlin. Aug. 24 (U.R) Lao Borchard, conductor of tha Berlin philharmonic orchet tra. was shot to death by American sentries, it was an nounced today, whan the auto mobile In which ha was riding failed to halt at an outpost. Tha accident occurred yesterday, Chungking. Aug. 24 (U.R) Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek signed the United Na tions' ' charter today and stamped the document with the Chinese national teal. The ceremony was witnessed by foreign and Chinese news cor respondents. Chungking, Aug. 24 (U.R) Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tie-Tung telegraphed Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek today that he was send a representative to Chung king In response to Chiang's urgent request for a confer- HITS FEAR WILL BE Scare Propaganda Blamed For Panic Talk 100 At tend C. of C. Talk. America Is being propagan dized with threats of Immediate unemployment where there is absolutely no proof that we are going to be faced with large numbers of Idle returning serv icemen, according to Representa tive Harris Ellsworth who ad dressed 100 persons at a Jackson county chamber of commerce forum luncheon meeting Friday noon nt the Hotel Holland. The congressman, who stop ped here en route from his home In Ro.scburg to Washington, D. C, where the congress will re convene Sept. 5. said that he sees no justification for fear of Immediate unemployment prob lems, though Increased unem ployment may develop when Im mediate needs are filled. In three to seven years Mtny Jobs await returning Inbor, he added, and Industry is accomplishing recon version from war production to peacetime manufacturing with ama.ing rapidity, absorbing workers. In describing some of the legis lative and development work rarrle.l on by the nation's con gress, Ellsworth, who has repre sented the seven southwest roun ties of Oregon for nenrly three years cited the work of a com mittee of California Oregon and Washington congressmen who work together In west coast pro motion. The proposal of building a series of dams on Rogue river to Increase production and area of irrigated acreage in this territory has been surveyed by army en gineers and rcclamtniition men, Ellsworth said and a recommen dation will be made to the con gress soon. Some interests In the valley feel the dams would threaten to destroy the river as a mii!iatry fishing strenm. spe cifically steelhe.-id salmon, and the speaker added that before ap r.rnnri.itions are mude or any ac tion taken, everyone concerned will be heard. BULLETIN Los Angeles, Aug. 24 U.R) Brendn Helser, of the Portland, Ore., Multnomah Athletic club, today tied the nntiotinl women s AAU record for the 100-meter freestyle In a qualifying neat that preceded the three day women's national AAU swim ming and diving championships opening tonight. Winning the second heat In 1:08 flat, Miss Helser tied a rec ord set In 1027 by Elizabeth Ryan of the Women's Swimming association in New York. Chicago. Aug. 24 (UR Mrs. Hube Didriksen Zuharias, Los Angeles, shooting two-under par golf, grabbed a two-up lead over defending champion Dorothy Germain of Philadelphia today at the end of nine holes In their 18 hole semi-final match of the women's western amateur fiuK IvtuuamcnU E FREE MANCHURIA Regain Port Arthur Tokyo Says Russia Prepares To Land On Hokkaido. London, Aug. 24 (U.R) Sov iet flying columns raced down the Korean peninsula opposita the main Japanese home island of Honshu today after complet ing the liberation of Manchuria. Radio Khabarovsk, voice of the Soviet far eastern command, said Marshal Rodion Y. Malinov sky's trans-Baikal army was roll ing toward the port of Fusan at the southern tip of Korea, 110 miles across the Tsushima strait from Honshu. The liberation of Manchuria, Including Russia's long lost port! of Port Arthur and Dairen, wai proclaimed officially by Gen eralissimo Stalin last night In hi first order of the day of the two week eastern war. Thi triumphant order also an nounced the liberation of tha Japanese-held half of Sakhalin island and Soviet occupation of the Japanese air and naval base of Paramushlro and Shumuaho In the Kurile Islands, 700 mile west of American-owned Attu In the Aleutians. ' Manila, Aug: 24 U.PJ Tokyo charged today that a submarina "presumably" Russian sank three and possibly four ships oft northern Japan Wednesday and -urgently appealed to Gen. Doug las MucArthur to halt such at tacks. A formal message from Jap anese general headquarters said one of the four ships, the 4.487 tnn Taito Maru. went down off the coast of northwest Hokkaido with 533 casualties. San Francisco, Aug. 24 (U.R) The Japanese Imperial head quarters said today Moscow radio reported that Soviet air borne troops are preparing to oc cupy Hokkaido, northernmost ol the Japanese home Islands. A message to Gen. Dougla MacArthur, recorded by United Press in San Francisco, said that if the report were true, "it would be greatly regretted by the Jap anese government who Is doing Its best In order to fulfill all your requirements by placing the army and navy forces and civil ians under strict control." (The report of Soviet prepara tions for a landing on Hokkaido was nnt confirmed or heard else where. It was possible the report was a strategy devised by Tokyo to divide the allies. Recent Tokyo broadcasts have devoted much time to reports of "loot ing" nnd "violence" by Soviet troops.) STILWlLNRED TO SOOTHE CHIANG f n. Anrteiet Alltf. 24 (U.R) Gen. Joseph Stilwcll blamed hi removal from his tninese com mand because he complained to Chiang Kai-Shek that American guns were used to kill Chlnesa instead of Japs, Rep. Ellis Pat terson. D., Cal., revealed. Patterson, member of a con gressional committee which visited the Far East, told the Democratic Luncheon club yes terday that Stllwell made tha statement about the arms to group of which Patterson was a member. "Ho told us that Chiang com plained to Mr. Roosevelt and tha late president did not want any trouble with Chiang and so Stilwcll was transferred," Pat terson said. He added that what Stllwell said about Chlar.f "wouldn't go in the newspapers." BASEBALL National St. Louis ... . 1 J Chicago - 0 4 0 Brcchen and Odea; Borowy mid LiviufstQa, t
