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Weather Use The Mall Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Result! At Small Cost EDFORD FORECAST: Clear tonfcht and partly cloudy Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday. Temp. Htchet Vesterdar gft Lowest this .Morning it United Pre Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wir Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943. NO. 139. 1 M 1 T Half Million More Affected Mac's Word Is Key New Credit System Washington, Sept. 3 (U.P.) Demobilization of America's 8,-000,000-man World War II army moved into high gear today as the formal surrender of Japan made it evident that the fighting was at last really over. The war department, in con formity with its announced in tention last week, lowered the critical point discharge score to 80, allowed credit for points ac cumulated between V-E day and V-J day and permitted immed diate release of men 35 years of age and over with at least two years honorable service. Point scores for Wacs were low ered to 41. At least 500,000 more army personnel than were heretofore eligible to point discharge are expected to be eligible under the new plan. Point scores will have to be lowered still further, how ever, before enough men and women can be released to bring the army down to the 2.500.000 level it expects to reach by next July 1. As the army opened the de mobilization gates wide, Presi dent Truman, promising to re turn soldiers and sailors to their homes "as soon as the ships and planes can -get here," warned that for many service must con tinue for some time "to wipe out Japanese militarism just as we are cleaning out the militarism of Germany." (Pacific dispatches said an oc cupation army of 1,500,000 men would move into Japan follow ing the formal surrender. The army listed occupation needs in the Pacific on next July 1 as 900.000.) Army officials told the house military affairs committee last week that they would reduce the critical score from 85 to 80 and lower the automatic dis charge age as soon as word was received from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur that the bloodless occu pation of Japan was assured. While the war department did not say so apparently had re ceived the necessary word from MacArthur. Washington, Sept. 3 (U.R) Soldiers receive points under the army discharge plan for length of service, overseas service, com bat decorations and parenthood. All points earned before Sept. 2, 1945, now may be counted. Here are the point credits: 1. One point for each month of army service since Sept. 16, 1940. 2. One point for each month served overseas since Sept. 16, 1940. 3. Five points for the first and each additional award since Sept. 16, 1940, of the distinguished service cross, legion of merit, silver star, distinguished flying cross, soldier's medal, bronze star medal, air medal, purple heart and bronze service stars for battle participation. Similar point credit is allowed for navy combat decorations awarded to army men and for awards and decorations of a foreign country which may be accepted and worn j under war department rcgula-1 tions. I 4. Twelve points for each child under 18 years up to a limit of throe children. NE Los Anseles, Sept. 3 UP' Watson Jones. 25. lisht heavy weight boxer, was jailed today for putting on an exhibition bo'jt at the home of a girl friend. Vivian Gilloy, 17. charged the colored fighter threatened her with his fists and then with a gun. Police who found the pistol hidden under a mattress said the serial number? were filed off, a felony under California law "It was just a family affair," Jones explained. , ..Sit . . $ tUST"- x A Final moment of triumph ing about peace with Japan and end of war in the Pacific. Aboard U. S. S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay MacArthur signs his name, with Gen. Wainwright directly in the rear. Lt. Gen. Sir Arlhur Percival of Singapore stands to right of Wainwright, with entire Allied delegation in background witnessing historic occasion. (Acme-NEA Telephoto from navy; photo transmitted by Acme trans ceiver from U. S. S. Iowa via Radio-Telephoto). STALIN REPORTS RUSSIA TO KEEP AS Also South Sakhalin, Lost In 1904 Ends Military Threat In Far East London. Sept. 3 ftl.R) The Soviet Union will keep the Ku hile Inlands north of Japan for her own. Generalissimo Stalin said last night in a victory speech hailing the return of peace. Russia had announced occupa tion of the last of the Kuriles, which stretch 700 miles north east from the Japanese home is land of Hokkaido of Russia's Kamcnatka Peninsula, only 24 hours earlier. It had been assumed that the southern hall of Sakhalin Island would revert to Russia, but there had been no authoritative word on the fate of the Kuriles before Stalin's speech. Russia lost both the Kuriles and the lower half of Sakhalin to Japan in the war of 1904-5. "Today, Japan has acknowl edged her defeat and signed the act of unconditional surrender." Stalin said in his speech over the Moscow radio. "This means that southern Siikhalin and the Kurilc Islands will pass to the Soviet Union and from now on will rot serve as a means for isolating the Soviet Union from the ocean and as a base for Japanese attacks on our Far K.vt. "Thf'v will serve instead a a means of communication of the Soviet Union with the (Pacific) ocean and as a base for the de fense uf our .-ountry against Jap anese aggression . . . "From now on. we can con sider rur country saved from the threat of German invasion in thei wet and of Japanese invasion the ea-t. The long-awaited neace 1 for "'e nations of the whole r world has come " j Staiin likened the Japanese, attack on the Russian Naval Base , at Port Arthur in February. 1904 to th-'ir later sneak attack on Prarl Harbor in 1941. Russia's .!.. iirc.rt!, warshiDs were disabled m d in 1904 attack, he re- called andrews'girls back Hollywood. Sept. 3 lU R' The Andrews sisters, film arid radio trio just back from an overseas entertainment tcur. to day urged Americans to donate food to liberated Kuror?m coun tries to feed their staiving people. . MacArthur Signs Final Peace Treaty arrives for Gen. Douqlas MacArthur at he siqns document bring CHURCHILL PAYS VISIT TO GRAVE E Rome. Sept. 3 (U.R) We can't tell you his pseudonym, but a chubby-cheeked, cigar - smoking personality looking very much like the famous Winston Church ill is wandering around nortnern Italy on a 10-day rest. Churchill, who arrived in Italy on Sept. 1 as the guest of Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, will spend his time golfing, painting and smoking at a villa in the Lake Como region. The reason for the pseudonym, which the United Press is not at liberty to reveal, is to avoid any touching on official business as leader of his majesty's opposi tion. The pseudonym is some thing that only Churchill could have thought of. (The Daily Telegraph reported in London that Churchill would be known as "Colonel Warden" while visiting in Italy.) Churchill arrived at Milan on Saturday in an American Flying Fortress. He made a sight-seeing tour of the city's bombed areas and was instantly recognized by the surprised Milan citizens who cheered wildly. I Climbing into a swanky Rolls Royce. he rode off to the gaso line station where the bodies of Benito Mussolini and his fascist cronies had been strung i i by the partisans last April. Britain's famous war leader got a first hand look at the girder which bore the weight of the man who oricc asked Hitler for permission to send Italian bombers against England. Then he visited "Maggiore" cemetery where Mussolini's re mains lie buried in a pauper's grave. DR. HAYESlID VICE PRESIDENT , Portland. Ore, Sept. 3 U.R) Dr. Stanley Lamb. Portland was named pre.-ident-elect of the 1 )t e- son Mate nicnicai fociciy dur- ing its two-day session which ended here Sunday, Other officers elected were Dr. James C. Hayes, Medfotd, first vice president; Dr. Burton A. Meyers. Salem, second vice president; Dr. Raymond M Mc Keown. Coos Bay, third vice president: Dr. Thomas S. Saur.d ers. Portland, secretary, and Cecil J. Run, Portland, treasurer. V;AV05;- v.T-Ji- .W.'-.'M' .'- 6 FLIERS CLAIM THEY WAXED FAT Held At Bangkok They Had Plenty To Eat and Read, Unusual Word Calcutta, Sept. 3 (U.R) Six U. S. army fliers, who arrived in Calcutta via Rangoon from a Bangkok internment camp, told one of the most unusual stories of the Japanese war today. They were prisoners and well treated. Their Thai captors fed them rice porridge, curried rice, beef, chicken, vegetables and eggs. They never worked and there were always excellent books to read. They came back looking better than when they went away or so they claimed. Aboard U. S. S. Benevolence Off Tokyo, Sept. 3 (U.R) Jap anese civilians occasionally sneaked food to American air men held prisoners of war in Japan, 2nd Lt. Ray Halloran, a former prisoner, said today. Halloran (address unavailable) said that prisoners who were sent to Japanese homes to col lect refuse to fertilize the Omori prison camp gardens often were given a bit of rice, tea or boiled potatoes. "This was a filthy job. but there were many volunteers," Halloran said, "because it was a chance to get some food. One old lady was swell to us and in vited us to her house for tea. potatoes or soybeans out of her small ration." Two other ex-prisoners. Ens James A. McCann, New Castle. Pa., and Sgt. Harold T. Hedges. Oklahoma City, said they often were beaten with rifle butts when their captors wanted mili tary information. Thcv said American fliers were confined in "special." unregistered ramps, having first priority on filth, dis ease, torture and starvation. NATURE TAKES OVER San Francisco, Sept. 3 'U Ri Plants have begun growing fgain in Nagasaki amidst the deva .ttion caused by the atomic bomh on Aug. 9, ncientists from the Kvinhu imperial University reported today. IDLE BLUE PENCILS Re.-lin Kent. 3 'U.R) Cen sorship is still officially in force! in the Berlin Press camp but 1 the censors admit they haven't' :my i.lea what til" "hi blue-: j)enc;i now that the war ii over.j SEES 'BUTCHER OE GIVE UP Yamashita Signs Philippine Terms. Eats Steaks, Goes To Prison Bagnio, the Philippines, Sept. 3 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yninnshita, bullet-headed "h.itch er of Bataan," was in Manila's Bilibid prison today after sur rendering the last Japanese forces in the Philippines in a brief 11-minutc ceremony. Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain wright and Lt. Gen. A. E. Perci val. Great Britain's last-ditch de fender of Singapore, watched grimly as the 59-year-old Yama shita affixed his signature to the eight-paragraph surrender docu ment in a room of the high com missioner's building in Baguio, summer capital of the Philip pines. Yamashita, once called the "Tiger of Malaya" by his swag gering countrymen, probably faces charges as a war criminal. American military police escort ed him from the room and im mediately after the ceremony, and he was led away to join 10. 000 of his countrymen behind bars. The surrender ceremony had been delayed several hours awaiting the arrival of Wain wright and Pcrcivnl in a special plane that carried them from Tokyo, where only 27 houri ear lier they had watched Japan's formal surrender aboard the U. S. S. Missouri. Yamashita, who enjoyed a steak washed down with hcer last night, gave himself up to the American 32nd division yes terday and he was brought to Baguio by plane and jeep. He called off all fighting for ap proximately 40.000 Japanese troops which are haphazardly scattered through the wilds of northern Luzon, Mindanao, and a few other islands. After the ceremony, Wain wright said: "I'm without words I to express the thrills I felt at being present yesterday morning at Yokohama when Gen. Mac Arthur accepted the surrender of the Japanese Imperial govern ment through its foreign minis ter. I was equally thrilled just now at having seen the chief of the imperial Japanese forces in the Philippines bend his knee and bow his neck to the Ameri cans. "And as you know I was forced to surrender to Gen. Hom ma on May 6. 1942. Today the shoe is on the other foot. Yes terday and today have been the two greatest days in my life." When he arrived at Baguio, Yamashita, responsible for the deaths of thousands of allied prisoners, had been asked if he would commit hara kiri. He gave a belly-chuckle and shook his close-cropped head, saying: "Hara kiri? No no hara kiri." BETTY IS BRIDE AND SO NERVOUS Chicago. Sept. 3 (U.R) Betty , Hutton, Hollywood's incendiaiy blonde, was meekly a bride to-1 day after a quiet Drake notel ceremony in which she wed Manufacturer ted Briskin of Chicago without even one exu- j berant shout. ! Boisterous Bombshell Betty i exchanged marriage vows witn the tall handsome Briskin in a whisper, in startling contrast to her lusty contralto yells on screen. Miss Hutton appeared as r.erv-1 ous as any other bride when Federal Judge Philip L. Sulliv:-n read the marriage ceremony in the wank Camellia house at the hotel. She wore a gold wool suit and a hat made of real yel low orchids. CROSSING TRAGEDY Brookville, O., Sept. 3--U Pl One woman was killed and at least live persons were injured today when the Spirit of St Louis, Pennsylvania double-header pasenger train, collided with a car at a crossing. I Jap Delegates Arrive for Signing f - . ' - - - i .-k at $ . I i v nix Jf .W tot . j??ir ti As Japanese delegation arrives aboard U. S. S. Missouri for final signing of peace documents to end war in Pacific. United States army representatives from MacArthur's staff directs Jap Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (left) to correct place on deck of the warship. (Acme-NEA Telephoto from navy; photo transmitted by Acme transceiver from U. S. S. Iowa via Radio-Telephoto). AFTER EALL INTO HOOD CREVASSE Vancouver. Wash., Sept. 3 (U.R) Pvt. diaries C. Porter, 30. San Luis Obispo. Calif., was in Barnes General Hospital here to day for treatment of injuries suf fered in rolling 50 feet into a ercv.tsse while climbing Mt. Hood. Porter began the climb early yesterday. A member of the par ty mi-sed Porter and reported to a lookout station on the moun tain The soldier, helpless with a crushed leg was found about sun down by Everett A. Darr, Port land, and Harry Parker, govern ment .'amp. After help was sum moned. Porter was placed on a stretcher to start the descent on the mountain, completed about midnight. He was taken to Barnes Hospital, where he is sta tioned as a medical detachment man. Porter fell into a crevasse 9, 000 fret up the mountain slope, about 2000 feet below the sum mit. Parker and Darr heard his cries for help and at first be lieved he had fallen into a gla cier. U took lliem an hour to lo cate the victim in the maze of crevi ises. PRICE, SCHEFEICK, IN GOLF FINALS i Pete Schefeick. Crimp White soldier, will clash with lii-bart I'rire, Medford, In a ;i6-hole; match toflay for the champion-1 ship of the Southern Oregon Amateur golf tournament it the Unfile Valley golf course. Sclie feick bested Chuck Gillanriers. Eugene, 2 and 1, yesterday to gi.in the finals of the champion ship flight, while Price was licit-: ing Phil Cannon, Eugene, 2 up. ! Other finals today: First flight,' Lee Skaggs. Medford, vs. Roy j Pederson, McCloud. Second flight: Roy Morgan, Eugene, vs.! Ray Hopp, Coos i Hay. Third flight. Gale Jake), Corvallis, vs., Rud Simmons, Medford. Fourth flight: Vern Martin, Corvallis.; vs. Bill Johnson, Corvallis. Fifth flight: Everett C'arkin, Medford. I vs. Reese Braley. Medford. ! Second consolation: Allen Hall. Eugene, vs. Dom Provost, Jr., A.shland. Third consolation: Ted Schwarz, Coos Hay, vs. 'j'ony Milosevich, Coos Bay. Fourth consolation: Harry Watson. Med ford, vs. Ed Nichols. Medlord Fifth consolation: J. C. Skaggs, Medford, vs. Hob Downer, Cor vallis. I T PEACEFUL LABOR DAY SEES CIO STRIKE VOTE Washington, Sept. 3 (U.R) Government leaders today held forth the hope of a prosperous era of jobs for all workers at high wages, but labor leaders saw "tragic signs that selfish privilege and governmental in ertia are obstructing the fulfill ment of this promise." The nation's first peaceful La bor Day since 1941, labor won praise for its part In the two Iront victory. Spokesmen for both labor nnd government as serted that the nation must speedily turn its energies to pro viding a new high standard of living for ita workers lest un employment and depression re turn to rob the peace of its promise. Windsor. Ont., Sept. 3 (U.R) Roy G. England, president of lo cal 200, United Automobile Workers (CIO), said today that 12.0U0 Ford Motor company em ployes had voted to strike, but that no action would be taken for at least 411 hours. MILLION JAPS IN PACIFIC GIVE UP Guam, Sept. 3 (U R) The sur render of 1,000.000 or more .Innanese troons from the Bonin ! islands to New Guinen and from I Pcming to Wake was either un der way or definitely in t lie , works today as result of Japan's t formal capitulation, The only Japanese troops still fighting on the vast Pacific bat tlcfronts were 10.000 holding out In the Shwegyin area of Bur- j ma. Cut off from radio com-1 inuiiication with the outside world and unaware that Japan j nas capituiatca, tney raiaeu a village 35 miles north of Han goon Saturday night, PROBE ESCAPES Eldora. la., Sept. 3 (U.R) A grand jury investigation will open tomorrow Into the escape of 219 boys in three outbreaks in four days at the Iowa state training school. JURIST PASSES Pas.dena, Calif., Sept. 3 UR Walton J. Wood. 67, Asso ciate Justice of the District Court of Apucals in Los Angeles, died last night at his home here after a shot illness. London, Sept. 3 (U.R) Sign of the times: British press cen sorship ended officially yesterday. JAP L Airborne Troops Arrive At 'Suicide' Base Early To day General MacArthur's Head quarters, Yokohama, Sept. 3 (U.R) The vanguard of a new occupation army flew into south ern Japan today as American irOOp5 111 WlC lUlvyu tjv- panded their foothold to more than 700 square miles. Under an occupation program that ultimately will put l.i00, 000 Allied troops in Japan, 20 American technicians landed in two transport planes at 1:30 p. m. (12:30 a. m. EVVT) at Kanoya airfield on the southern tip of Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home islands. They will set up communica tions facilities and otherwise prepare for large-scale American landings by air at Kanoya and by sea at Takasu, four miles southeast of Kanoya, beginning tomorrow. The sea-borne forces will be landed under cover of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth fleet. Kanoya, site of the air borne landings, formerly was a Japanese suicide-plane base for attacks on Okinawa. (Radio Tokyo said 6,000 American troops also would be transferred from Atsugi airfield, 18 miles south of Tokyo, to Hiratsuka in northern Kyushu. The broadcast, reported by the FCC, said American authorities already had begun negotiations for the transfer of the police chief and mayor of Hiratsuka). ' Japanese radio broadcasts said 3,000 troops of the Eighth army began landing at the Tateyama naval and air base on the Chiba peninsula at the southeastern entrance to Tokyo Bay at 9:20 a. m. (8:20 p. in. Sunday, EWT). They will take over occupa tion of the area from an advance landing party of marines. Radio Tokyo also said 15 American soldiers arrived at the city of Chiba, 20 miles east across Tokyo Bay from Tokyo, to make preliminary arrange ments for American occupation of the city. END DEATH TOLL By United Press The nation's motorists flocked to the country and seashore dur ing the Labor Day wrfek-end in the first peacetime holiday cele bration since Pearl Harbor. At least 105 persons lost their lives in accidents, a United Press survey showed. Seventy-five of the fatalities resulted from auto mobile accidents. There were 14 drownings and 16 deaths from other causes. The National Safety Council predicted there would be at least 300 traffic deaths during the three-day period unless motor ists exerted extra care in handl ing their aged automobiles. New York state reported the highest number of deaths 12. of which 10 were in traffic acci dents. Three members of one family were killed at Mattituck. N. Y., when their car collided with a Long Island railroad train. Indiana had nine deaths, eight in traffic accidents. California and Michigan each reported eight fatalities. r! 1UI T San Francisco, Sept. 3 (U.R) Radio Tokyo said today that Vice Admiral Matsuo Morizumi, superintendent of shipbuilding and ordnance in the Osaka naval defense district, committed hara kiri last night, presumably in a fit of despondency ovef Japan's surrender.
