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Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Friday and warmir tonight. Cooler Friday. Few ratiered thunder storms In hither mountains. Tamp. Use The Mail Trlbuae Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Coit MEDFORD Tribune Highest Yesterday ... Lowest this Morning . 7 12 United Pr.i Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wlt Fortieth Year -."EDFOED, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1945 NO. 136. I fo)M n il is, erans IDA AS MS MARINES OCCUPY Mm FIRED Nips Eager To Obey, Wear " White Thousands De ploy Around Bases Yokosuka. Japan, Aug. 30 (U.R) Thousands of grim-faced marines, supported by American and British naval landing parties, took over the great Yokosuka navy yards today and deployed around the shores of Tokyo bay without firing a shot. Yokosuka itself was bedecked 1 with white flags the Japanese had tied to their gun positions in compliance with Gen. Douglas MacArthur's orders. The few re maining Japanese civilians in the navy yard watched in sullen sil ence as the marines swarmed ashore. All the Japanese wore white armbands to signify their acceptance of Emperor Hiro hito's surrender order. At Yokohama and Atsugi, where MacArthur's airborne army troops had taken over, the atory was the same. Japanese sol diers and civilians were eager to carry out the orders of the occupation forces. Brig. Gen. William T. Clement, Richmond. Va., marine com mander, stepped ashore with his veteran fourth regiment and an nounced he would "tolerate no resistance" from the Japanese. His men fanned out quickly across Sagami and Miura penin sulas, setting up a defensive perimeter against the-possibility of a "banzai" attack by rebel lious enemy troops. But by late evening there were no signs of trouble. The Japanese did not lift so much as an eye brow at the invaders and Ameri can commanders reported the oc cupation was going ahead imoothly. Adms. Chester W. NimiU and William F. Halscy went ashore early this afternoon and drove in a Japanese limousine through cheering lanes of marines drawn up in the Yokosuka naval base. A handful of Japanese guards itood at attention as American naval leaders inspected the de serted and badly battered naval station. From daybreak until long aft er nightfall a steady stream of marines, soldiers and bluejackets poured into Yokosuka and At rlugi. Both towns rapidly were taking on the appearance of an American base. United Press correspondents who landed with the troops found the Japanese courteous but Impassive. The GI's got their big gest kick out of the midget Jap anese cars they found at Atsugi. By mid-afternoon, they were de serting their own jeeps and whizzing delightedly about the field in the tiny cars. General MacArthur Head quarters. Yokohama, Japan. Aug. 30 (U.Ri General Douglas MacArthur set up head quarters in Yokohama today as the first 40 000 troops of his oc cupation army raised the Stars and Stripes over Japan's larg est naval base, two airfields and a big slice of the Tokyo plain. A half dozen or more Japan ese towns, some within a few miles of the southern outskirts of Tokyo, were occupied by Al-j lied air and sea borne forces in, y their first few hours ashore. j MacArthur, supreme occupa-j tion commander, established his i headquarters in Yokohama's! new Grand Hotel with other top, American officers less than an hour after landing at Atsugi air field from Okinawa. Yokosuka Naval Base. Aug. 30 (U.R) Formal control of one of Japan's greatest naval bases pased into American hand at 11:20 a. m. today when Rearl Adm. Michitara Tozuka, a fat-j faced little man with baggy! eyes, handed a plain, white en- velope to Rear Adm. Robert Carney. USN. j The transfer of command took i place on the side of a dock in the shadow of Rear Adm Os-j car W. Badger's flagshio. the San Dieso the first ' Invading1 ship to tic up at this newest U S naval base. Humbolt County is at the tJkict tenter ef UiC rul.s tOiiU Tokyo J (Acme Itaato-I elepnolo) As plans for Allied occupation of Japan progress, the once-proud Imperial city of Japanese empire, lies In devastation. Heart of Tokyo Is shown revealing palace moat (left), War Department and Imperial doneral 6taff .headquarter! (top right), and Imperial Army Air Force headquarters (lower right), all burned out U. S. Navy Rardio-Telephoto. PAPPY'BOYINGTON FOUND ALIVE IN Okanogan Marine Ace Shot Down In 1944 Survives Months of Torture Aboard the Mercy Ship Reeves off Omori Prison Camp, Tokyo Bay, Aug. 30 (U.R) Sur viving 20 months of secret im prisonment and torture with a baseball bat, MaJ. Gregory Pap py) Boyington, 32-year-old ace from Okanogan, Wash., was res cued by an expedition command ed by Commodore Roger Simp son, he told me today. boyington was reported dead when he was shot down over Rabaul in 1944. He had 28 Jap anese planes and a congressional medal of honor to his credit. His mother, Mrs. Grace Hal lenbeck, of Okanogan, never gave up hope. She frequently ex pressed to newspapermen her be lief that her son would return, although she had never heard from him directly or Indirectly. Boyington said he was shot down during the morning of Jan. 3, 1044. He had 22 mm. wounds on his head, neck, arms and ear and his ankle was broken. The main gas tank on his Corsair blew up. Aboard Adm. Badger's Flag ship at Yokosuka. Aug. 30 (U.R) Five hundred allied prisoners, many of them stark naked and all starving, danced and cried with joy when an American res cue mission liberated them from the Omorl prison camp, the "blackest hellhole" of the war. Commodore Roger Simpson, leader of the rescue party, re counted today. Simpson, exhausted from his all-night mission which he car ried out with Cmdr. Harold Stas sen, former governor of Minne sota, told a pitiable tale of mal treatment and neglect. His state ments were borne out by navy doctors who found most of the 500 were suffering from injuries, concussion, burns or' malnutri tion. SUB COMMANDER SAFE San Francisco Calif , Aug. 30 UP) Cmdr. Richard H. O'Kt.ie, submarine commander listed in dispatches from Tokyo Bay a being rescued and aboard the hospital ship Reeves, was identified today by navy friends as the famed skipper of the miss ing juDmat me, Taag, Is Bleak Record of . ;i..-v... , vUr'-lWV. '-,?-,) GJ JOB PRIORITY . OVER COLLECTIVE New York, Aug. 30 (U.R) Federal Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo ruled today that the Se lective Service act supersedes collective bargaining agreements In determining job seniority rights of war veterans. Ho made his decision in a test case brought by Abraham Fish gold, former serviceman, against the Sullivan Dry Dock and Re pair corporation of Brooklyn. The case involved Intcrpreta- tion of veterans' seniority rights under the Selective Service act Answering arguments of the company's counsel, Abruzzo de clared "there was no ambiguity about the act that took the vet eran into the army forces." "This act now saves the veter an his pension, his insurance and his social security," Abruzzo said. "In my opinion, congress In tended to give the veteran all the rights he left when he was called into service and the statute passed by congress super sedes collective bargaining con tracts." BRITISH TO TAKE Chungking. Aug. 30 (U.R) British naval units will enter Hong Kong harbor today to take over the British crown colony j from Japanese occupation fore-! es, Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedcmey er announced. Wcdemeycr said that the Brit-1 ish units were detached froml Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser's Pa-j cific command to make the lightning run to re-assume con trol of one of Great Britain's most famous out posts. TO PRISON FOR RUM Sacramento, Aug. 30 (U R) Curtis E. Kcilman. Stockton rail road employe, today was sentenc ed to five years in a federal pri son on his plea of guilty to steal ing 10 cases of whisky from a box car in interstate commerce. BASEBALL MEET SET Los Angeles, Aug. 30 U R A special meeting of directors of the Pacific Coast baseball league will be held in Oakland Satur day. Sept. 8. "resident Clarence .Rowland announced today. Defeat CAUSED BY FIRE Six New Ships Burn At Kai ser Yard Welding Spark Held Cause Portland. Ore., Aug. 30 (U.R) A major fire in the outfitting docks of the Kaiser Oregon ship yard in Portland today burned six newly-completed ships, with damage estimated in excess of $25,000,000. Hundreds of workers dived into the mooring basin to escape the flames and scores suffered minor Injuries. A cabin painter drowned when he dived from a flaming ship into the mooring basin. An as bestos operator is unaccounted for. Flames raced from one ship to another as they were tied at the dock of the Willamette river shipyard, one of the largest In the world. The Victory ships and troop transports had been launched and needed only final outfitting before going into service. Between 2,500 and 3.00 workers were in the immediate area. Firemen were driven from the outfitting dock by the terrific heat of the flames, led by fresh paint and other In flammables. The fire broke out as the graveyard shift was leaving. It is believed to have started when sparks from a welder's outfit ignited oil being piped Into a generator on the Bexar Victory, a completed ship. The oil had dripped on some wood and the fire spread rapidly. The flames Jumped to the U. S. S. Glynn, a troopship moored near it, and It was only seconds before the Glynn was completely afire. Then the outfitting dock I'self caught fire and the flames swept under the main deck, weakening the piling underneath. Four 15 ton Whirley cranes waved and yard officials were fearful they might topple over. Since there were three ships tied to the dock and three more alongside them, the fire sprrod over all the craft. Manager Al bert Bauer said the Victory itiips cost about S't 500.000 each end the troopships $4,000 000. Yard fire apparatus answered the first alarm, then two addi tional alarms brought three ftie boats and all availablo Tortljild umU- TOKYO IN RUINS Japs Glad War Is Over Children Wave But Adults ' Only Stare By James F. McGUncy (United Press Correspondent) Tokyo, Aug. 30 (U.P.1 Today we reached the end of the long road to Tokyo and found what must surely be the world's worst bombed city. The Japanese capital or the part of it which is still standing received its first Americans today almost with apathy. There were no incidents as this correspondent and a few other Americans entered the city in the early afternoon. If the Japanese had any feel ings at all about our appearance lt seemed to be one of gratitude gratitude that the war is over at long last. The Japanese capital Is a fan tastic monument to the shatter ing power of the American air forces a monument erected in the rubble and dust of thous ands of buildings. Yet, despite the death and de solation which we have Inflicted upon the citizens of Tokyo, they showed little reaction to the first Americans they saw. Most of the Japanese to whom I have talked seemed glad that the war was over. They took their defeat with dignity and that can not be denied. They did not fawn on us but they were polite and helpful when the need arose. But there were some excep tions to this a few who dis played warmer feeling. Another exception were the Japanese children who waved and cheered at us as we drove along the dusty roads in the out skirts of Tokyo. The adult Japanese did not cheer. They stared without ex pression and, once in a while, you could detect a flicker of hate in the eyes of these people who were our enemy until a few days ago. By Leslie Nakashlma (United Press Correspondent) Tokyo. Aug. 30 (U.R) Hiro shima was destroyed at one strike by a single atomic bomb dropped by a Supcrfort on the morning of Aug. 6. There is not a single building standing intact In the city, which had a population of 300,000. E Greeley, Colo., Aug. 30 (U.R). Harold Hogsctt, executive' secretary of the National Beet Growers Federation, declared today that New York's Mayor, Fiorcllo LaGuardia had shown "his ignorance on a subject of which he knows very little," when he testified In Washington! that the United States "should not grow a pound of beet sugar." ; LaGuardia's statement before1 the senate banking committec that the nation could Import enough sugar from Islands out-, side the United States was hit, by Hoggsctt. One-Man Army Alive, Wife Told Home Soon Traverse City. Mich., Aug. 30 'UP) Capt. Arthur W. Wer-j muth, 35-year-old "one man army" of Bataan, has been found at a Manchurian prison camp and will be released for early transfer home, his wife Mrs. Jean Wcrmuth, nurse at Munson hospital, said she had been notified by the war detart-l ment that Wermuth was located : at Camp Mukden in Manchuria. recently taken by the Russian army. i Wermuth, of Chicago, was one of the war's early heroes He was credited with killing, 118 Japanese personally in the bitter hand to- hand fighting on OPA CUTS POINT CHEESESJTTER Lard, Oils, Shortening Un changed for September Bowles Tells Reason Washington, Aug. 30 (U.R) The OPA today slashed Septem ber ration point values on meat, hno.n. kiillup ntiH ma rmirinp. j No points will be needed for j canned milk, the office of price j administration announced. ' From Sept. 2 to 29. Inclusive, the red point reduction on all , meats will average 28 per cent. Points on cheeses will De cut in half. Butter will drop four points and margarine will be cut by two so that both will have the same ration value 12 points. Blue point rationing was stop ped earlier this month. Now points will be cut on the whole red point list except for lard, cooking oils and shortening. Beef steaks and roasts will be from two to three points less a pound. Hamburger values will be cut In half to two points a pound. Lamb and veal will drop one to three points. Pork steaks, chops and roasts will be down one and two points. All bpcon will be reduced by two oolnts and sparcrlbs will be cut three points. rrir. administrator Chester Bowles said the reductions re sult from "marked Improvement in the last few weeks" in supply and distribution. "When the fighting stopped, it was possible for the military to reduce the buying of meats and other foods for the armed services," he stated. Fals and oils, he added, are the only red point food items that will be "tighter" next month. The end of meat rationing Is not yet in sight, Bowles declar ed, although other sources have predicted it would last only a couple of months more. He said the agriculture de partment estimated that civil ians would get 338.000,000 pounds of meat a week during the September rationing period compared with 280.420.000 pounds in August, an increase of 20'i per cent. There will be more beef. veal, lamb, mutton and pork, he said. T TO BE USED BY NAVY FLEET BASE Tongue Point, Astoria, Ore., Ailff. ;iu lu.r.; rvn -.- -i $6,000,000 will be spent for faci lities in connection with the navy's plan to berth reserve) fleet vessels at the naval air station hero. In announcing the decision to use Tongue Point, the navy re vealed that over 500 ships would bo moored here, including in fantry and tank landing ships, patrol boats, mine sweepers and i some hospital ships. 1 Originally designed as a sea plane base, the $13 OOO.OOU-air ; station at the mouth of the Col-l umbla river has many facilities which the navy probably will j continue to use. Plans call for stationing 1.R00 enlisted men and 200 officers with the fleet ; section. Approximately !00 ci-i vilians will be employed. Construction at the base was i begun following congressional t action In 1030 providing for a seaplane banc at Tongue Point. The war meant rapid expansion into a full naval base for the pro cessing of men assigned to escort carriers and attack trans ports and the training of air squadrons. Decision to base the shins at the Astoria base ended a long controversy among northwest areas. Seattle Interests pro tested berthing the ships in Lake Washington while the site was sought by Portland, Van couver and T a c o in a among uUieu. WAR BULLETINS Washington, Aug. 30 (U.R) President Truman today r Yoked a wartim order which In 1943 established a mini mum work week of 48 hours. Washington, Aug. 30 (U.R) U. S. submarines operating in far eastern waters in the last three months of the war tank 69 enemy vessels, the navy announced today. PRESIDENT SAYS E AT PEARL HARBOR No Preparedness Policy Held Basic Cause Defends Hull Critics Active Washington, Aug. 30 (U.R) President Truman said today that he thought the army and navy Pearl Harbor reports show ed that the disaster resulted fun damentally from "the policy which the country itself pur sued" In 1941 a policy of non preparedness. The president expressed his views at a press conference while numerous congressmen were de manding further investigations and public courts martial on top officers who drew part of the blame. The president also sided again with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson In challenging portions of the army board report, this time In defense of former Sec retary of State Cordcll Hull. The president said today that he wanted to agree wholely and completely with what Stimson had said yesterday In challeng ing criticism of Hull. Mr. Truman yesterday had associated himself with Stimson In denouncing criticism of the army chief of staff, Gen. George C. Marshall. Discussing the reports under rapid fire questioning by a pack ed news conference, the presi dent said he had read the re ports carefully and come to this conclusion: "The whole thing was the re sult of the policy which the country itself pursued. The coun try was not ready for prepared ness." He went on to say that every time the late President Roosevelt tried to get a preparedness pro gram through congress. It was "stifled." And every time Mr. Roosevelt In statements tried to arouse the country to the need for preparedness, he was "vili fied," Mr. Truman said. And thus, the president added, his primary thought was the country as a whole, more than any individuals, was to blame for the Pearl Harbor disaster. The president took sharp issue with Rep. Andrew J. May, D., Ky., chairman of the house mili tary affairs committee, who ex pressed fear that the army and navy reports on Pearl Harbor might constitute a "white wash." The president said he did not Bgree. Furthermore, he said, he did not think May had read the reports because in his, the presi dent's opinion, there was no white wash. Many congressional critics In sisted that the administration still had not told all. MRS. BRIDGES SICK San Francisco, Aug. 30 (U.R) Mrs. Agnes Bridges, sick in San Francisco hospital "because of a complete collapse and a pain In her head," failed to ap pear in superior court today as the Harry Bridges divorce trial continued. New York, Aug. 30 (U.R) Cotton futures opened 2 to 4 points higher today. BASEBALL AMERICAN Boston 110 New York 7 7 1 Ferriss and Holm, Stcincr (8); Revens and Robinson, Cleveland 4 10 0 Chicago 4 11 0 Center, Salveson (5) Klleman 7) and Hayes; Grove, Papish (9) a. id Trcsh. The Territory of Wyoming came into existence by an act of Coogece oa July 28, 1868. MOST LEND LEASE Collection Would Help Sow Seeds of New World War Is View Washington, Aug. 30(U.R President Truman indicated to day that the "overwhelming portion" of Allied obligations for $42,000,000,000 worth of American lend-lease aid will be cancelled. To add $42,000,000,000 to the already enormous financial obli gations of our Allies, the presi- ' dent said In the 20th lend-lease report to congress, would treat en to disrupt political stability and "help sow the seeds of a new world conflagration." This Is not a new policy. The administration, and congress through its own reports on lend lease, have never contemplated a dnllar-for-dollar settlement. Mr. Truman pointed out that lend-lease was not conceived as a commercial program. He re iterated that war cost settle ments should avoid the World War I debt debacle by being based on the "rule of quality of sacrifice and equality In effort." Today's report said that since 1942 the relative financial costs of war contribution! by the United States and its principal allies were approximately equal. "Such a distribution of the fi nancial costs of the war means that no nation can grow rich, or benefit unfairly, from the war efforts of its allies," the re port said. The 20th lend-lease report covers only the period through June 30. There will have to be a 21st report to cover the prriod from July 1 through V-J Day probably next week, on which date President Truman has or dered all lend-lease to halt. Through June 30, the total tend-leasc aid furnished by the United States was $42,020,779. 000 plus $788,603,000 worth of goods consigned to military com manders for transfer In the field to lend-lease countries. This is approximately 15 per cent of the $300,000,000,000 spent by the U. S. for war. The British Empire was by far largest recipient of lend-lease with more than $29,000,000,000 on the books against her. Lend lease exports of goods not in cluding services show that 42 per cent or $13,498,748,000, went to the United Kingdom. Twenty-eight per cent of the ex ports went to Russia. LAND TO RESUME FINN RELATIONS Washinnton. Aug. 30 fll.Rl . The state department announced today that diplomatic relations between the United Slates and Finland will be resumed at mid night tomorrow. The United States broke diplo matic relations with Finland on June 30, 1944, on grounds that the Finnish government had be come a military partner of Ger many. Secretary of States James F. Byrnes announced on Aug. 21 that the American representative in Helsinki had been Instructed to propose re-establishment of diplomatic relations. FEDERAL COURT ENDS U. S. District court in Mcd ford was closed "sine die" at 10 a.m. today by Judge James A. Fee who left with his court group about noon to return to Portland. The Judge spent the last two days here writing opin ions on cases which had come before him earlier this year. Closure of the court session was declared without a date set for reopening. ORECONIANS HURT Woodland. Calif., Aug. 30 (U.R) Two Oiegon men were in jured today when the transport truck In which thev were riding crashed Into parked truck here, police said. They were Edward Mnnaiihan, Salem and Alfred McCiure, FojUand. 7
