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MEDFORD, ' fc' 30N, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1945
NO. 131.
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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
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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
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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."
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