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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1945.
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SPEAK BRIEFLY
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Formal Surrender, Coming
Week-end, Also Broad
cast To Nation
The United Press reported the
formal signing of surrender
terms was expected after 5 p. m.,
Pacific war time, Saturday.
Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R)
President Truman will make his
V-J day proclamation In a brief
radio speech to the American
i people immediately after the
formal signing of the Pacific
surrender terms aboard the U.
S. S. Missouri off Tokyo. '
Mr. Truman's proclamation
will riot signal the formal end
to World War II hostilities. That
will come later, either in an
other proclamation by the pres
ident or in a joint resolution of
congress..
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said today that
no final official word had been
received from Tokyo as to when
the surrender would be signed,
but that this tentative plan had
been worked out.
The actual signing ceremony
will be broadcast to the Amer
ican people from the ship, and
ns the ceremony ends, the broad
cast will be shifted to the While
House where the president will
make a one-or-nine minute
V speech. Then the broadcast, to
be carried by all networks, will
shift back to the Missouri where
the public probably will hear
the voices of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur and Fleet Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz.
Ross said he hoped the broad
cast would go on about 10 or
11 p. m. (EWT) but he was not
In a position to name the day.
The signing is expected some
time this week-end.
Under questioning Ross ex
plained that Mr. Truman's pro
clamation of V-J day will have
no legal significance. The fact
that the president proclaims the
formal defeat of Japan does not
mean an end to the legal war
emergency. In other words, the
'duration" will continue. Mr.
Truman has urged congress to
guard against a too-early formal
ending of the war emergency.
. General MacArthur's Head-
7 quarters, Yokohama, Aug. 31
(U.R) U. S. air and sea forces
mounted armed guard over
strategic points within a 200-mile-square
sector of the Tokyo
plain today and Gen. Douglas
MacArthur prepared to receive
Japan's surrender.
In light drizzling rain and
under grey skies armed units of
the 11th Airborne division
fanned out over the metropoli
tan Atsugi-Yokosuka-Yokohama
areas.
They set up guard posts at
the main intersections,- bridges,
strategic points, and around the
buildings which have been taken
over by the American forces.
More than 40,000 American
army and navy men were
ashore and thousands . more
were pouring in. But as they
fanned out over the metropolitan
region their numbers still seem
ed small.
MacArthur in his new head
quarters at the New Grand
hotel was busy arranging for the
surrender ceremony Sundav. I.t.
Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, his 1
companion of Corregidor, ar-
rived to witness the surrender.
No untoward Incidents of any !
nature with the Japanese were
reported and it was said that;
they continued to cooperate I
fully. I
Tokyo itself was off limits to !
American forces but correspon
dents who inspected the Japa
nese capital said it was the
"worst beaten up city" they had
ever seen. Japanese informants
placed destruction at "about 60
per cent."
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War-long ambition of Marines to
Peninsula without a shot fired.
Marines who will oocuoy the
LT.
JOINS FORCES IN
JAP OCCUPATION
Aboard the Hospital Ship Be
nevolence in Tokyo Bay, Aug. 31
UH) Things moved so fast-tor
Lt., (jg Donald C. Stanley- of
Mcdford, Ore., that he could
hardly catch his breath today. .
Stanley, who was shot down
while flying his navy hellcat
over Formosa last Oct. 12, was
brought aboard late yesterday.
When he looked out over the
side he spotted his own carrier,
the Cowpens, the only flattop in
Tokyo Bay.
Then when he looked at the
nurse assigned to him, he saw
Lt. Diana Joseph of Waterville,
Me. She had nursed him In the
Elizabeth City, N. C, naval air
hospital in 1942 when he had an
appendectomy.
Lt. Stanley is the son of Lt.
Commander and Mrs. Harry A.
Stanley, now in San Francisco,
and is well known in Medford
where he has many friends and
relatives. He was graduated
from Medford high school in
1939, and attended the Univer-
- ,. , . m. .
UI& lllC lid J. l.t-puilVM
n action last October, Lt. Stan
ley's parents learned only last
week that he has been held as a
Japanese prisoner.
1945 CONTRACTS
FOR SALEM PACK
Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R)
The army quartermaster corps
today announced new contract
terminations affecting procure
ment of dehydrated potatoes,
jams, peanut butter, canned sal
mon and California pilchards.
Cancellations covered about
10,000,000 pounds of jelly, 27,
000.000 pounds of marmalade,
and 29,000,000 pounds of jam.
Con tracts f o r 18,500,000
pounds of peanut butter have
been cancelled. And the army's
salmon procurement from the
1945 pack was cut to 40.000.000 !
! nounris. lpss than nnn-half thp
! June estimate. Portland, ile., Aug. 31 VP.)
California pilchards require-. The empty main cargo tank of,
! mcnts have been reduced to the Norwegian oil tanker Hcr
' about 32.500.000 pounds for nine brand exploded early todav in
months ending next March 31. J Portland harbor and three mem-
Previous estimates for the six
months ending next December
were 45,000.000 pounds.
Also terminated were co v
tracts for 12.505.000 pounds j(
dehydrated sweet potatoes and
62.640.000 pounds of dehydrated
white potatoes.
Hollywood Aug 31 (U.R)
Comedian Bob Hope was home
today trom a 10-week USO camp
show tour in Europe on
which,
ibi eulcru-acd.
tAcmt Radio-Telephotot
hit Japan soil is satisfied as Leathernecks wade through surl at Futtu Said
This landing precedes a major occupational "Invasion" by almost 10,000
Yokosuku Naval Base. O. a Navy radlo-telephoto from D. 6. S. Iowa.
PROBE OF PEARL
Boise, Ida., Aug. 31 (U.R)
Sen Wayne Morse, R., Oregon,
today -afided his voice to those
urging a"c6urt martial to de
termine the reason for the army
and navy's unpreparedness at
Pearl Harbor.
- "The statement of President
Truman that we all are respon
sible," said Morse in a talk be
fore Idaho Republican leaders
here this noon, "in no way ful
fills our responsibility to the
men who lay dead at Pearl Har
bor." .
Morse, who stopped off in
Boise en route to Washington,
said the Pearl Harbor reports of
the army and navy boards "con
tain no evidence, but they do
contain charges."
. "Men have been accused and
they should be found guilty or
acquitted." he said.
He added that the people of
the nation were not kept inform
ed of the international situation.
"The administration failed to
take the people into its confi
dence from 1333 to Dee. 7, 1941,"
said Morse. "Had it done so the
peop'.o would have risen to any
duty or obligation. As long as
the pjople are not given tacts,
we can expect to remain unpre
pared. "That was the lesson that
should make us fight to keep
open the channels of world infor
mation. Keeping the people in
formed is the test of our demo
cracy." ideaTTabor oay
Washington. Aug. 31 (U.R)
Go ahead and plan that Labor
day outing, the weather bureau
suggested today. The entire na
tion can expect mostly good
weather over the three-day
Labor day holiday.
Except for a few showers in
most parts of the country some
time during the long weekend,
the weather will be "just about
as favorable ... as the most ar
dent outdoor enthusiast could
hope for," the bureau predicted.
It will be generally hot and
sunny on Saturday. Sunday and
Monday, the U. S. forecasters
said.
bcrs of the crew of 40 were re
ported missing.
CHARGE CONSPIRACY
Chicago, Aug. 31 (U P) A
federal grand jury returned an
indictment today against the
Quartz Laboratories, Inc., Kan
sas City, Mo., and three of its of
ficials on charges of making
false statement in renegotiating
contracts with the war depart -
ment and conspiracy to defraud
i ibe U. S. govetucnt el $33,113.
Sacred Soil
L CEASE
AT HOI SEPT. 15,
.31
Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R)
President Truman today order
ed abolition of the office of war
information and asked Secretary
of State James F. Brynes to pre
pare a program to put' American
foreign information needs on a
continuing basis.
Effective immediately, the
foreign functions of OWI and
the informational operations of
the office of Inter-American af
fairs were consolidated in a new
interim international informa
tion service within the state de
partment. Effective Sept. IS, the domes
tic functions of OWI will be
abolished Byrnes was directed
to abolish the interim interna
tional information service by
Dec. 31.
The president pointed out in a
statement accompanying his ex
ecutive order that while it is
possible now to curtail wartime
governmental information serv
ices, 'some of our foreign in
formation operations will con
tinue to be necessary."
DRINKING TABOO
San Francisco, Aug. 31 (U.R)
Consumption after midnight
of intoxicating liquor purchased
before midnight is a clear viola
tion of state law. Attorney Gen.
Robert Kenny ruled today.
The opinion was requested by
State Senator Earl Desmond of
Sacramento.
"The present law which con
trols the selling hours of liquor
would be defeated if it were le
gally possible to procure a suf
ficient supply to enable patrons
to continue the consumption
within the licensed premises be
yond the permitted hour of
sale," the opinion said.
Oslo. Aug. 31 U.PJ The gov
ernment demanded the death
penalty for Vidkun Quisling to
day in the final summation of its
treason charge against the form
er Norwegian puppet premier
Quisling listened impassively
as the prosecutor branded him
an arch-traitor. He glared male
volently at photographers who
crowded about hiin.
Chief Prosecutor A n n a e u s
Schjoedt summed up his mam
charges against Quisling: That
Quisling conspired with the Ger-
i mans long before the invasion of
Norway and actually helped
; them invade his country, and
, that his puppet police forces ucr-
jccu'.ci Xurwc&i&u patriots.
NAVY WILL SEEK
VOLUNTEERS, LIFT
Men 17 to 30 Sought To
Speed Discharge of Vets
With Long Service
Washington, Aug. 31 U.R)
The navy announced today that
it is opening a voluntary recruit
ing drive among men 17 to 30
in order to speed demobilization
of mc-n with long-time war rec
ords. The navy said that President
Truman enabled the recruiting
program to get underway yes
terday by lifting the ban on vol
untary enlistments by men of
draft age.
In August, the navy reported
that lecruitments totaled more
than 6.300 from among 17-year-olds
for the regular navy and
approximately 10,000 for the
naval reserve.
The navy said it hoped to
triple the August totals in com
ing months by means of the new
drive.
The navy pointed out that
larger enlistments on a voluntary
basis would help reduce its se
lective service requirements. The
navy seeks to enlist men who
have not seen service as well as
men discharged recently through
army and navy demobilization
programs. Already, navy spokes
men said, a number of World
War 11 veterans have signed for
the regular navy and it is ex
pected that this number will in
crease greatly as demobilization
accelerates.
In some sections of the coun
try, it has been reported that re
cruitments under the navy s new
four-vear enlistment term are
running higher than recruiting
early in the war.
The navy pointed out that fur
ther service is purely a voluntary
action on the part of men who
prefer the navy as a peacetime
career.
The picking of Bartlctts Is
past the peak and many growers
have completed their harvest.
There are still a lot of Bartletts
to be handled, however, so grow
ers should not start harvesting
their winter pears until these
Bartletts are out of the way,
suggests C. B. Cordy, assistant
county agent.
The Anjous are only now ap
proaching the top of the range
which allows another three
weeks to pick them at best ma
turity. If picked before the
Bartletts are out of the way. they
may have to stand on the plat
form for several days. Each day
on the platform takes two weeks
off the storage life so it Is es
sential to get them to cold stor
age quickly after picking. It
may be well to consult your
packing house before picking to
be sure they are ready for
winter pears.
T
Chungking. Sept. 1 (Satur
day. (U.R) The National gov
ernrient announced today the
diviiion of Manchuria into nine
provinces.
The announcement also said
that Hsiung Shih Hu, formerly
head of the Chinese military
mission in Washington, had been
appointed director of Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-Shek's head
quarters in Manchuria and
would supervise administration
of all nine provinces.
The provinces into which
Manchuria will be divided are
Liaoning. Antung, Lianpei, Kir
in, Sungkiang. Hokiang. Keil
ungkiang, Lunkiang and Hsin
gan. In Hockley County. Texas,
there is not a creek, river, gul
iSi' QJ cUtcil, Uxucigre no bridges
DISTRICT OFFICE
WILL TAKE OVER
Hotels, Cafes, Hospitals Af
fected After Next Period
Ends Will Rule Rents
. Washington, Aug. 3 1 (U.R)
District offices of the office of
price administration will take
over taiioning of food to hotels,
restaurants, and hospitals after
the allotments for the Septem
ber-October period are issued,
OPA said today.
Notices will be sent to insti
tutional users so they will know
the locations of the district of
fices. Washington, Aug. 31 (URW
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles said today the OPA
"hasn't the slightest intention of
surrendering its responsibility to
protect tenants" against rent in
creases. Bowles lashed out at the Na
tional Association of Real Estate
boards, because of a recent attack
on OPA's intentions to continue
rent controls.
"During the war, some leaders
of the National Association of
Real Estate boards constantly
sniped at rent controls," Bowles
said.
"Now that the war is over
however, and millions of work
ers and veterans find themselves
looking for new jobs and new
homes. I am surprised to nnu
these same men apparently ad
vocating that OPA rent control
be eliminated and rents allowed
to rise willy-nilly throughout the
country. ,
"Needless to say, OPA hasn t
the slightest intention of surren
derina its responsibility- to pro
tect tenants against any unne
cessary rent increases in this dif
ficult period."
SHIPlHG ON
TO BE EXCELLENT
Oakland, Cal., Aug. 31 (U.R)
Shipbuilding prospects on the
west coast will continue to be
"excellent" in peace time, R. L.
Sanford, recently appointed na
tional director of the U. S. Mari
time commission, assured ship
builders today.
At a press conference at which
the resignation of Carl W.
Flescher, regional Maritime com
mission director, was announced,
Sanford said that England's
plans to compete with the U. S.
merchant fleet would make
many American vessels obsolete
and necessitate continued ship
construction.
He cited the elimination of
Germany and Japan and major
shipbuilding nations as an added
advantage to west coast con
struction. Air travel will never be a
serious competitor to ship. San
ford said, pointing out that a
man who wants a leisurely vaca
tion will prefer maritime travel.
He said the government would
give present owners priority in
taking over ship and shipbuild
ing facilities and added that the
Bland ship sales bill would "leg
ally open the floodgates" of ship
construction.
STORElfFTCES
Many Medford residents are
i expected to leave the city this
. weekend as most business estab
lishments and public offices will
be closed Monday, Labor Day,
giving a double holiday. Recent
lifting of gasoline rationing will
allow several to travel to coast
j and mountain points.
Most of the retail stores, along
with banks, county courthouse
i offices and the post office, will
I be closed in recognition of the
national holiday. The Mail Tri
bune will publish an early
I edition. .
WAR BULLETINS
Guam. Aug. 31 (U.R) Mar
cus island. Japanese bastion
1,400 miles southeast of Tokyo,
was formally surrendered with
itt garrison of 2.445 army and
navy personnel in a ceremony
today aboard the destroyer U.
S. S. Bagley.
Chungking, Aug. 31 (U.R)
The Chinese military council
announced today Chinese
forces in Indo-China have lib
erated Lakay, 160 air miles
northwest of Hanoi.
San Francisco, Aug. 31
(U.R) Radio Tokyo said today
that the main strength of the
American Eighth army will
land at Yokohama Sunday and
at Toyama, 200 miles to the
northwest, Monday.
The broadcast quoted a
Japanese government an
nouncement that both landings
had been postponed from Sat
urday. IRKS CIO CHIEF
M ea n s Every Non - Vet
Worker Must Be Fired,
. Says Abruzzo .
. Washington, Aug. ,31 U.R)
Every non-veteran shipyard
worker in the country must be
fired to make room for veterans
if Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo's
super-seniority ruling in Brook
lyn federal court is allowed to
stand, the CIO ShipyardWorkers'
union said today.
Even then, said John Green,
president of the Industrial Union
of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers,- there will not be
enough jobs in the dwindling in
dustry for all ex-servicemen who
might want to return.
' Ceen told a news conference
he took this problem up today
with President Truman who said,
according to Oreen that the ques
tion ivas one that would have
to be handled in a common-sense
manner.
Abruzzo ruled. In a suit
brought by a laid-off ex-serviceman
welder Abraham Flshgold,
that 'he veteran under the draft
act gets his job back regardless
of who must be fired. The CIO
will appeal the decision and seek
a supreme court test.
Grceri said all shipyard unions
had agreed to credit returning
servictmen. with seniority for
time spent in the service. After
that, he said, the servicemen
would take their place in the
seniority scale.
. Abruzzo's ruling hailed by se
lective service as a complete vic
tory lor Director Lew B. Her
shey's famous memorandum 190
A, got a chilly reception from
two of the three major veterans'
organizations.
SAYS SHE FOOLED
New York, Aug. 31 (U.R)
William N. Davey charged today
in supreme court that his wife
Gloria Swanson, former movie
actress, defrauded him on their
wedding day with an over esti
mate of her health and an under
estimate of her debts.
Miss Swanson. who now runs
a business firm, filed suit
against Davey, her fifth husband,
several weeks ago charging that
he abandoned her three months
after their marriage in January,
1945. Sjhe asked $1,000 week
alimony, and $25,000 for legal
fees.
. Davey in his answer, filed to
uay. said that Miss Swanson nad
"practiced a fraud" upon him
by failing to reveal she was 'not
in perfect health" when she mar
ried him, and that she had told
him she had debts of only $12 -000
while they actually amount
ed to $60,000. He sought an
annulment of their marriage
baied oa deception. . - ---.J
PAYFULL PRICE.
Foreign Office Spokesman
Expects Firm, Fair Treat
ment; Peace Move Told
Tokyo, Aug. 31 OJ.R) T.
Kase, Harvard-educated spokes
man for the Japanese foreign of
fice, said today Japan was ready
to pay the price of defeat but he.
asked for American friendship
while his country carries out
provisions of what he termed the
"stringent" Potsdam surrender
declaration.
In the first official statement
of Japanese policy to the Ameri
can press, Kase described the
war criminal problem as "very,
very delicate the greatest that
faces us."
"Stevenson said It takes two
to make a kiss," said Kase. "It
also takes two to mil. frij.
ship Japan is ready on her part."
WAR CRIMINALS PROBLEM
He said America should be
firm but fair in dealing with con
quered Japan. Kase reflects the
views of Japanese Foreign Min
ister Mamoru Shlgemltsu, with
whom he has been closely asso
ciated for ten years.
"Japan is anxious to do every
thing possible to start on the long
road to shall I say friendship?
"The question of war crimi
nals is the erentpt thai fo. ...
Again it dependu on you."
Asked what would happen If
the Japanese government was
asked to turn over former Pre
mier Hidekl (The Razor) Tojo,
Kase said:
"If the Japanese people can
be convinced that any man des
ignated as war criminals should
be brought to Justice, they will
not object."
He said that the case of the
Japanese military men accused
of specific atrocities was differ
ent because thev had vlnlnterf (n.
ternational law.
Kase said the Japanese expect
ed to be treated firmly because
"we know we are the vanquish
ed." "But we hope that you will
continue to be fair. We hope you
won't be harsh with us. If you
are fair to us and we know
we will have to pay the full
price of defeat our future
friendship will be assured."
He was asked whether he
thought Japan would want to
make another try at world dom
ination in perhaps 50 years from
now. He shrugged and looked
through the window at the pan
orama of bombed Tokyo.
"We are paying a very great
price for our attempt. However,
if your treatment is too severe,
the Japanese people will react."
"Y'iu must remember that one
day we were fightnig furiously
and everybody in the country
expected to die on the field of
battle. The next day, It was over
and Japan had lost. Now Japan
faces a serious material, moral
and nhysological adjustment.
"The government had for
long time been seeking a way
out of the war. We asked Russia
to act as liaison in making our
wishes known and Stalin pre
sumably told the allied powers
at Potsdam that we wanted to
end the war "
Kase claimed that neither the
atom!'- bomb nor Russia's entry
into the war caused defeat.
"If vou look at the calendar,
you will realize that we had al
ready shown in our approach to
Moscow that we were determin
ed to end the war. However, it
must be said those two factors
helped convince the people the
government was right in seeking
peace."
Bulletin
I Nashville. Tenn.. Aug. 31
(UR) Little Ben Hogan, great
money winner before entering
the army, clipped seven strokes
off par today to take the lead
among early finishers of the
first 18-hole round in the
13,3:;3 Nashville open golf
tournament.
NOTICE
The Mail Tribune will issue
an early edition next Monday
(Labor Dayi.
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