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jaSl MEDFORDTRIBUNE RE" United Press- O ,ed Wire i- V United Preti Full Leued Wira Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGOUESDAYTaUGUST 2811945. i i NO. 134. jam mism - JAPS COOPERATE t&fi , SHANGHAI TAKEN CAROLINES WAIT J22gs ARMY TO REDUCE, I i3 , JTrL, J M Two thousand Allied prlion- 7 WITH ARMY, NAVY bfSsf' 1 ! BY YANK FORCE MIKADO'S ORDER irHrS CUT POINTS TO 80, f Ll" f fr 1 row' NBC correspondent Joe ' ADVANCE FORCES KlSCq. ,.: ' I FOR GEN. CHIANG ERE THEY GIVE UP WHEN MAC READY Lfc ' 4 .V ISWikK1? k . .1 . by. ready to take aboard pns- E K tJtr'l' lL vv.' - - A ' . oners or internees in need of And Tokyofoy If ".'r J - ' Manila, Aug. 28 U.R The occupation of Japan began smoothly today with the estab lishment of American advance headquarters 20 miles from To kyo and the anchoring in Tokyo Bay of a nine-ship task force with 10,000 marines and blue Jackets. An advance party of 150 tech nicians the first occupation troops to land on Japan radio ed back from Atsugi airfield to night that all 48 planes in the initial air-borne force had land ed safely this morning. Radio communications were set up and preparations begun to ready the airfield for the mass air-borne landings sched uled to begin Thursday morning. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su preme occupation commander, will be among the early arrivals Thursday. An NBC correspondent on Okinawa quoted the Atsugi par ty as savine that the Japanese garrison served some of the Americans a six-course dinner on a white tablecloth while other pilots guarded the planes. Curious Japanese soldiers and civilians had to be pushed away from the planes. 4 Main Plane Crashes The main communications plane for the advance party crashed on its takeoff from an Okinawa airfield early this morning and all 19 occupants were killed. Some valuable . equipment was lost, but a sub stitute plane was sent imme diately to Atsugi in its place. Rear Admiral Oscar C. Bad ger's flagship, the Cruiser San Diego, led a troop-laden trans port, four destroyers, and three seaplane tenders through nar row Uraga Strait into Tokyo Bav without incident. The Armada dropped anchor et 1:30 p.m. (12:30 a. m. EWT) 300 yards off Yokosuka naval base, 20 miles south of Tokyo and 20 miles southeast of Atsugi. American naval commanoeio handed the Japanese a final memorandum directing them to keep the Yokosuka base operat ing until American forces land 7 there Thursday. The Japanese were told to keep skeleton crews guarding ail installations. Word reached fleet units offshore that the Japanese were stripping shore defenses, disarming guns and sweeping mined channels. A ranking American officer said: , . , , "The Japanese are completely cooperative and it looks like the marines and bluejackets will simply march ashore." Some 10,000 American mar ines and bluejackets and British marines were poised aboard the transport Gossclin in Tokyo Bay to go ashore Thursday at three points around Yokosuka simul taneously with the airborne landings at Atsugi. (An NBC boardcast from the fleet said a Japanese mine ex ploded in Tokyo Bay few points off the port side of the transport Gossclin, but caused r,iiw riamnce nor casualties. y. r Find Bomber, Fate Of Crew in Doubt Walla Walla. Wash., Aug. 28 OI.Ri The wreckage of a B-24 Liberator bomber, missing inre Saturday night, has been found seven miles north of Tollgate, Ore., but the fate of the 15 men aboard was undetermined, the army reported today. The announcement said the plane was spoiled from the air in the rtigscd mountainous re-1 gmn of northeastern Oregon and that word was being awaited : from a ground party. j The bomber disappeared on a ; training flight from Sioux Falls, ! ft. I)., to the army air field here. plantTo CLOSE San Diego, Aug. 28 (UP.) The Louisville. Kv.. division of Con solidated Vultce Aircraft Corp. will shut down Sept. 7. company tiUxuli announced today. L '.,,:! ! i.mi. (Acme '1 clephoto) Bluejacket landing detail lines up aboard Iowa-class battleship off Japan In preparation for naval occupation of Tokyo Bay. Adm. Halseys mighty U. S. 3rd Fleet lies In water off Japan homeland, Including battleship Missouri, aboard which the historic surrender ceremonies will take place. U. s. Navy radiotelephoto direct to Ban Francisco trom 3rd Fleet via Guam, E F TO FULL FORCE Houston, Tex., Aug. 28 (U.R) The latest U. S. weather bureau's advisory today reported the tropical hurricane now has struck Sealy, Tex., 50 miles west-northwest of Houston but was decreasing in intensity. The storm was reported mov ing slowly north "With gales of about 40 to 50 miles per hour around the center and possibly winds up to 70 miles over a small area at the center. It now was believed that, with the -course the hurricane had taken, Houston might miss the full force of the blow. Missouri Pacific Railroad of ficials reported two of the com pany's trains were missing. Communications were down, but it was believed they had reached the small town of Franeitas, near Bay City, where sufficient track age would be found to support them. YANK-JAP GOES San Francisco. Aug. 28 (U.R) Takeo M y a m a, Japanese American machinist, today re turned to his job at the Munici pal Railway Bus Repair shop de spite threats of 100 AFL union repairmen to "escort him out," stage d sit-down strike or a walk out. Mivama came to the shop shortly after 8 a. m. and was sent to repair a bus standing in the y:rd outside the shops. When the other workers heard the Nisei had returned they ceased work In small groups to discuss the maltcr. Police and plain clothesmen guarded the repair shop in an ticipation of violence. A ?an Francisco hero of the Aircraft Carrier Franklin ap-proa-hed Miyama while he worked on the bus, to offer en couragement. "Good lurk and I hope you get your chanca to work here." Chief Radio Technician Harold Stone said to Miyama. "I think you have the risht to." Stone noldi the silver star for gallan try In ac tion against the Japan ese. Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) j President Truman will hold a i news conference at 10 am., Thursday, the White House an uounccci today. 1 Bin-linn hf-frnVr-- a'r"vll BULLETIN Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) Lt. Col. Nicol Smith of the Office of Strategic Service re vealed today that about 300 survivors of the cruiser Hous ton, sunk early in the war, are interned in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand, Oakmont, Pa., Aug. 28 (U.R) Sammy Snead, of White Sulphur Springs, Va., shot a one-over-par 73 today to take an early lead in the 72-hole $10,000 war bond tournament at the Oakmont Country club. Snead's score was one stroke better than Byron Nelson, who turned in a 74 for the first 18 holes. Veteran Gene Sarazen had to be content with a 79, while Harold (Jug) McSpaden, away off his game, shot a poor 81. HETJC TIME SHE SAYS WITH HARRY San Francisco, Aug. 28 (U.R) Mrs. Agnes Bridges today was expected to resume the sland at the divorce hearing of Harry R. Bridges, west coast CIO labor leader, who she said pushed her nut a window be cause he didn't want to take her to a party. Mrs. Bridges yesterday denied in detail earlier testimony by Bridges that she was an habitual drunkard and had entertained men unclothed In their home. In fact, shp said, one time the labor leader lay drunk on his bed while Magnus Carson, a long shoreman, chased her around the bedroom and pinched her. "When I told Harry about it. he aid the stevedore didn't mean any harm," she said. "But I didn't think it was very nice." Mrs Bridges said she suffered a broken leg and head and back injuries from the fall after her husband assertedly pushed her from a window of their apart ment after a quarrel telling her '(he next time I push you out, you go for good." Bridges didn't like taking her to parties, his wife said on the stand because he was too much interested in other women, in cluding Mrs Nancy Feinstcin Beredico a New York dancer. Mrs Bridges charged In I cross-complaint that Mrs. Bere dico was the mother of a child by B-idges. She said she first heard of Mrs. Beredico's baby from her daughter. Betty Jacque line, last spring. AIR POST WAR PROBLEMS Portland, Ore., Aug. 28 (UP.) Mayors of at least seven major Pacific coast cities will discuss mutual postwar problems at a conference in San Francisco September 20. Mayor Karl Riley of TortUm! gnuounccd today. TO ATTEND E Washington, Aug, 28 (U.R) LI. Gen. Jonathan Wain wright will leave Chungking Aug. 30 for Manila to go to Tokyo for the Japanese sur render, the War Department was advised today. Brig, Gen. Lewis C. Beebe, who also was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines, will accomoany him. Beebe's home is in Faribault. Minn. Chungking, Aug. 28 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Waln wright returned from a Man churian prison camp today and in his first public statement paid homage to the troops who shared his bitter defeat on Bataan and Corregidor. Weather-beaten and lean after more than three and a quarter years of imprisonment, Wain wright brushed aside his own ordeal to speak of the American and Filipino troops who died In the last stand on Luzon or who survived with him the death march from Bataan. He also offered his thanks to the American people for stand ing by him through his defeat and capture. That experience of popular support, he said humbly, was "perhaps unique In the experi ence of a defeated commander." Wainwrlght held his first press conference since his libera tion from the Sian prison camp 100 miles north of Mukden last week after a "briefing" confer ence with U. S. army comrades at which he was brought un to dale with events since his cap ture. Japs Throw Party For First Yankees With the Third Fleet. Japan. Aug. 28 (U.R) Japanese threw a veritable tea party, complete with easy chairs and white jacketed orderlies, for Ihcir American conquerors at Atsugi today. The welcoming group consist ed of Japanese members of the Atsugi liaison committee, head ed bv the General Chairman, Lt. Gen. Selzo Ariuye. At the ede of the field, a pa vilion tent had been set up. In side were easy chairs and lunch eon tobies wth white linen. Or dcrliei scooted around efficient ly, serving mostly cold drinks. PAY BOOST ORDERED San Francisco, Aug. 28 iURi The National War Labor Board today announced a gen eral wage increase of five cents an hour under the little steel formula, retroactive to Oct. 1, and a paid vacation of one week lor 10,000 tuail luufrkuuacu. Chungking, Aug. 28 (U.R) Chinese and American para troopers have dropped into Shanghai and taken over con trol of China's largest citv for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, it was learned today. The sky-fighters swept down into the teeming city of 3,489, 098 persons with their auto matic weapons ready, but they were confident that they would meet with no opposition, Chinese underground reports as early as last week had indicated that Shanghai's Japanese garrison was ready to quit. The great seaport practically fell of .its own weight when the Kuomintang underground units swarmed from their hiding places to take over, and by the time the paratroopers arrived Shanghai had already taken on a holiday appearance with crowds yelling and cheering as they raced through the streets ready to seize any luckless Japa nese soldier. Chinese newspapers In Chung king today splashed the story all over their front pages while Chiang sat In the Chinese capi tal awaiting the arrival of Com munist Leader Mao Tze' Tung and prepared for discussions aimed at peacefully solving China's Internal situation. Official amity between the Communists and the Central government was apparently only hours away as the Communist party's central committee Issued a manifesto Saying: "We are willing to conclude a compro mlsory agreement with the Kuo mintang and other democratic parties to facilitate a speedy set tlement of various problems and to become united on a long term basis." ELLIOTT TO TELL Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) The House Ways and. Means committee will devote its next session on Elliott Roosevelt's loan transactions to studying the testimony of Elliott himself. It spent three hours yesterday reading testimony about a $200, 000 loan made to Roosevelt In 1939 by John A. Hartford, pres ident of the Atlantic A Pacific Tea Comnanv. It ronA Hor,ni. tions from Hartford, A. & P. Counsel Robert Ewing and for mer Commerce Snrretnrv .Tran Jones who settled the loan for 4,()00. Committee members said the testimony showed that lha ini President Roosevelt had approv ed the loan and later had asked Jones to try to settle It. the committee adjourned without setting a date for re suming consideration of the case. GIVEN 3 YEARS San Francisco, Aug. 28 (U.R) Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure has sentenced Lionel A. Berrv 30-1 year-old waiter AWOL from the! Canadian army to three years In federal prison for failure to reg ister for the United States draft. Berry came here on a IS day pass from the Canadian army In ' 1941 and obtained a job is a waiter in a local restaurant He Is wanted by the Royal Canadian police for violation of draft regulations and by U. S. Immigration authorities for de portation when he finishes his prison term. New York Aug 28 (U P) Cnttnn futures opened 4 to 9 iiowls higher today. Guam, Aug. 28 (U.R) By passed Japanese in the Carolines Islands today were awaiting an official order from Emperor HirohiU- before surrender, as the navy revealed that a Liberator crewman forced down May 4 was killed in cold blood by an enemy officer. The army flier, who was not identified, made a safe para chute landing on Koro in the Palaus May 4. He was subse quently taken prisoner and kill ed by a Japanese officer, the navy said. The Japanese said the killing was under investiga tion and that it had not been an execution carrying out a court martial sentence. Questioned about the murder of the unidentified crewman in violation of international law, the Japanese chief of staff, a Col. Tada, said coldly: "While the incident Is regret table it Is Insignificant by com parison of the loss of innocent women's and children's lives by the atomic bomb." Tada also claimed that what he said were 44,000 soldiers and 6,000 civilians under his com mand would "resist any attempt at a premature American land ing to the point of hara-kiri." JOBS FORALL OR Fl Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace said today the oniy alternative to the administra tion's "jobs-for-all" bill is a planned economy which "obvi ously would mean the end of the free enterprise system." Wallace appeared before the Senate Banking committee as It began the second week of hear ings on the measure, designed to set up machinery for govern ment action against depression and unemployment. Wallace said the full employ ment bill "embodies the only known means by which the right of workers, the businessman and the farmer to prosper In a cli mate of full opportunity can be assured within the framework of tho free enterprise system." President Ira Mosher of the National Manufacturers associa tion and two labor leaders also were summoned to testify today. LIST TOLD SOON London, Aug. 23 (U.R) The Four-power representative In London have drafted Indict ments against the major Euro pean war criminals and In the next two or three days will an nounce the names of perhaps 25 top Nazi leaders scheduled to go on trial for their lives in Nuern berg The United Press learned that the list of major war criminals will be made public this week in simultaneous announce m c n t s from Washington, London, Paris and Moscow. That step will fulfill the first directive by the big three at Potsdam calling for issuance of the first list of .war criminals before Sept. 1. BASEBALL National Phlla-ielphla 1 8 4 Brooklyn 7 9 2 Kraus, Muntoagudo (5) Bnd Andrews. Suindrl (5i; Herring, Webber (3) aud Ueutouio, Paris, Aug. 28 (U.R) From 70.000 to 80,000 American troops are scheduled to sail from Marseille to the United Statos during the first two weeks of September, mostly high-score soldiers ready for discharge, it was announced today. San Francisco, Aug. 28 (U.R) A total of 38 members of ' ultra-patriotic" societies have committed suicide since Aug. 15. radio Tokyo said to day. London, Aug. 28 (U.R) A Soviet broadcast said today that Red army troops have reached the southern tip of Sakhalin island, only 24 miles across a narrow strait from the Japanese home island of Hokkaido. The broadcast said other tasks still lay ahead of the army, but did not specify whether these Include a land ing on Hokkaido. A Tokyo broadcast several days ago ex pressed fears that the Russians would force the channel. BUTTER REDUCED TO 1 2 PTS. SEPT. 2; Amount On Hand or Order Remains Military Secret To Public Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) The ration point value of butter will be reduced from 18 to 12 red points a pound for the pe riod beginning Sept. 2, an Office of Price Administration spokes man said today. The reduction will hold good for both household and Institu tional users. This will be the second cut In butter point values this summer. In mid-July It was reduced to 16 from 24 points. Washington, Aug 28 (U.R) The war seems to be over for all practical purposes, and the Office of Censorship has ceased operations, but the army still won't reveal such erstwhile mili tary recrets as: 1. I he Bmount of butter lt has on hand. 2. The amount of butter It Is currently buying. Once the size of the army was a secet. and a shrewd enemy might have been able to figure out its strength from statistics on butter stocks and purchase. But while the army's size is no longer a secret it Is 8,050, 000 and will be reduced to 2. 500 000 by July 1 its butter facts are. An Inquiry brought the re sponse, "sorry, but we can't give them out." Nips' Act Neither Guilty or Ashamed By United Press Japanese at Atsugi seemed to show "no guilt or shame In their defeat," two U. S. army air to :c officers reported Tuesday after their return to Okinawa. merican Broadcasting Com pany Correspondent Jack Hool ey Interviewed Major Stanley B. Rusi'h, Houston, Texas, and Capt. Robert P. Spot. Walnut Cr.-ek, Calif., pilots of two air transport command aircraft that landed with the occupational spearhead 14 miles southwest of Tokyo. Both Ru.sch and Spot said the Japanese at the Atsugi airstrip 'seemed to want to be friends," and that they "bent over back wards trying to be helpful." Reno, Nev., Aug. 28 (U.R) Arthur Adelard (French) Du pout, Reno's marrying barber, today planned to marry his 1 2th wife at his dude ranch "lloueyiuoun Lodge.", . . Draft Hearing Brings Cut Plan First May Not Go To Pacific Washington, Aug. 28 U.R) The Army disclosed today that lt would reduce the point discharge, scoro from 85 to 80 as soon as Gen Douglas MacArthur gives the word, and that it plans to cut its size from 8,050,000 to 2,500. 000 by July 1. Additional demobilization plans and the projected point re vision were submitted to the House Military Affairs commit tee as It began an Inquiry into the administration plan to con-' tinue drafting young men. Un der the plan, such men would be; drafted for two years only. Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, assistant chief of staff for the army's personal division, said a new point plan reducing the re quired number of points from 85 to 80 would go into effect only after MacArthur finds that his Pacific manpower needs are pro vided for and discharges can be accelerated. Earlier, Maj. Gen. I. W. . Ed wards, assistant chief of staff for army planning, told the commit tee the army plans to whittle its strength down to 2,500,000 men by next July. Henry said that when Mae Arthui's signal comes, no men with 80 or more points will be sent overseas. At present the army is screening out 75-point men from outfits headed for the Pacific. . Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) Gen. Douglcut MacArthur's three armies which carried the war to Japan's back door before she surrendered may furnish all the American occupation forces needed and eliminate the need of sending the U. S. First Army to the Pacific, lt was believed to day. Assignment of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichclberger's 8th Army to occupy the Tokyo area helped round out the occupation picture and suggested there would be little left for Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First Army to do In the Pacific. The First Army was ear marked to proceed to the Pacific shortly after Germany capitu lated, the only entire European army specifically named for re deployment. Hodges brought hit headquarters over to tnis coun try and established It at Fort Jackson, S. C. The headquarter is still there though Hodges per sonally Is not present. These circumstances suggest that Ihe First Army's orders may be changed and It may never b redeployed. ALLIESSOONTO RULE SINGAPORE Rangoon. Aug. 28 (U.R) Pav ing the way toward a rapid Al lied entry Into Singapore. Japa nese surrender envoys signed preliminary peace agreement! for southeast Asia at 1 a. m. to day In the brilliantly lighted grand ballroom of Government House The BBC, monitored by the NBC in New York, reported last night that the British East In dies fleet, led by H. M. S. Nel son, was already steaming to ward the Straits of Malacca for the British navy's triumphal re entry Into Singapore. Cowboy Groom Of Heiress is Chilled Reno, Aug. 28 (U.R) Don Valentine, cowboy musician who married New York Heiress Anne Gould Aug. 23, wanted to get back to his fiddling today after wearying of "the fresh air" at his bride's camp near Lake Ta hoe. W. M. Wells, Valentine's em ployer, said the cowboy told him his honeymoon was featured by numbed fingers and loss of his tent to Mrs. Valentine's child bood nurse,
