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.Mail Tribune Subscription Bargain Days Will Open Saturday Weather rORFICAST: Oar tonight and Saturday. Slowly rising tem peratures. Temp. Hljrhul vMterdir 84 lowest this morning 44 Fortieth Year Jap Diet A Japanese Diet sits In first session since surrender at Toicyo. In Rouse or Representatives, one memoer is matt ing: speech, thanking Emperor for rescripts of the morning. Prince Konoye sits left of speaker of House, with new premier to sneaker's left. On dias also are seated heads of War and Navy Departments of Japa nese Government Mac Arthur Will Raise Stars and "Stripes Over Bomb-Ravaged Tokyo Early Saturday General MacArthur's Head ouarlers. Yokohama, Sept. -7 U.R) Plans were completed to day lor Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's triumphal entry into bomb ravaged Tokyo tomorrow morning. The supreme commander is ex pected to raise the stars and stripes over the American em bassy across the street from Em . pcror Hirohito's palace at 10:30 ' a m. (9:30 p. m. today, EWT). Final Act Symbol The ceremony will symbolize FEAR 11 KILLED OF Florence, S. C, Sept. 7 OJ.P) Twenty -two persons were killed today when an Eastern Airlines plane, seeking des perately to make an emerg ency landing, crashed and burned on a plantation pecan grove, 14 miles east of here. Florence, S. C, Sept. 7 U.R) A giant Eastern Airlines plane en route from Miami to New York with 22 persons aboard crashed a few miles west of here near the Pee Dee river today. It could not be determined immediately whether any of the 19 passengers and three crew mnmhni-c ciirvivpH Hilt an armv pilot who sighted the wreckage shortly before 10:30 a. m. EWT said the ship was "totally de molished." Before it was sighted in tangl ed wreckage, the plane had been missing more than 10 hours. Rescue parties from Florence set out to find the wreckage af ter the army pilot's report had been received here. Airline officials were mysti fied as to the cause of the dis aster, one of the few crashes on Eastern Airlines in recent years. Eastern has one of the best safe ty records of any American air line. The crash occurred in level 'country, dotted by woods and farms. The weather was clear, with a ceiling of more than 6,000 feet and visibility was clear. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Karl Janouch expressing won derment at the way the Univer sal film company workers con- i structed an 30-year-old cabin in three days. Maurinc Conger forgetting all about a proposed diet when con fronted with an array of tempt ing food at a Garden club luncheon. Dr. George Dean sighing over the silversides he at one time caught in Four-Mile lake. Bill C of Gates needling fellow C members over their j ' United Press Meets in First Peacetime Session Mac Returning Soon is Report San Francisco, Sept. 7 (U.R) Unofficial rumors circulated here today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur would return to the United States by way of San Francisco shortly after his triumphal weekend entry into Tokyo. Although there was no con firmation of the reports, -an army spokesman said unoffici ally that MacArthur "it ex pected within two weeks." the final act of Japan's capitula tion. The flag is the same one which flew from the capitol on Washington on Pearl Harbor day in 1941 and since has flown over Berlin and Rome and from the masthead of the Missouri dur ing the signing of Japan's sur render last Sunday. MacArthur will return to his Yokohama headquarters after the fiag-raising. He ultimately will establish his headquarters in the Tokyo embassy building. The seventh and eighth regi ments of the first cavalry divi sion,, chosen by MacArthur to spearhead the occupation of Tokyo, will roll into Tokyo in trucks and other vehicles about breakfast time tomorrow. Assemble At Depot They will assemble at the main Tokyo railway station by 10 a. m. and then march 10 blocks to the embassy for the flag-raising ceremony. The first cavalry band and the seventh regiment, once com manded by Custer at Little Big horn, will lead the parade with "F" troops of the second battal ion providing a special honor guard for MacArthur. Admiral William F. Halsey, meantime, d s c 1 o s e d that an American prize crew has taken over the Japanese battleship Fuji, presumably in Japan's in land sea. He also reported that five ' Japanese destroyers, two minelayers, two picket boa t s. four submarine chasers, six BERLIN ALLIES IN V-J Berlin. Sept. 7 The j Allies staged a V-J victory par- ade of massed infantry and i armor today with Gen. George I S. Patton and Marshal Gregory i K. Zhukov in the reviewing ! stand. ! It marked the first time that American Soviet, British and French troops have marched to gether in a parade. Tanks, armored cars, artillery and infantry of the four nations proceeded from the Branden burg gate west through the Tier garten and aleng the Chariot tenburg Chausec. where the re viewing stand had been built. A considerable crowd of Ger mans gathered at the western end of the parade route, altho many omers continued tunuuvi ing nonchalantly oiacx marKei activity in tie Tiergartea uuu Full Leased Wire j f Aetna Unilm-l elenhato) minesweepers, four submarines and 180 midget submarines have been seized. Land On Korea Fle;t dispatches said first units of Lt Gen. John R. Hodge's U. S. 25lh corps will land at Jinsen on (he west coast of Korea about 2:30 p. m. tomorrow (1:30 a. m. EWT). Japanese Governor - General Abe. Lt. Gen. Yoshio Kozukl. commanding the Japanese 17th army group, and Vice-Admiral Gizaburo Yamaguchi, command er of naval forces in Korea, will surrender the southern Korean garrison of 1 "5,000 troops Sun day. American occupation of Keijo, capital of Korea and 25 miles inlana from Jinsen, will follow the surrender ceremony. An ad vance party of 25 men flew into 'he Keijo area yesterday. COL J. R. T TO CA Col John R. Young, post com mander at Camp White for the past 14 months, will leave for Camp San Luis Obispo. Cal., Tuesday. Sept. 11, to assume his new duties there as commanding officer of that post it was an nounced by the Camp White pub lic relations office today. A veteran of administration of army posts, he came to Medford and Camp White in February of 1944 from Vancouver Barracks. where he was commanding of- then newly activated Western, wiUiam p Lawless, 29. of Personnel Reassignment Center. Cambridg6i laboratory technl At the WPRC he concentrated on cjan and part.tjmc art studnt) OUUUMIK lip INC U,S IM.M nepoi one in iiiil-c ui us rvmu n the United States, for the ef- ' ficier.t. deployment of returned j overseas veterans. Col. Young I held that assignment until June 20. 1944, when he sticceded Brig. Gen. Amos O. Thomas as com manding officer at Camp White 3nd Service Command unit 1913. i The former Camp White com j mandcr is a regular army of j ficer. Serving in World War I I he advanced to the rank of cap ' tain in the infantry. After the . u-ar he wis transferred to the field .Ttiiiery and in 1940 ac-, quired the permanent rank prepared to maintain the closest lieutnant-colonel of the army of mjitary pressure against Japan the United States in February of ; for years and perhaps genera 1942. . ; tions to come in order to avoid Leaving with him for San Luis future war, jn the Pacific. Rear nhislWi are his wife. Mrs. Lisa B Young and riauqmer, ci. Col Young's successor at the camp has not been announced. RAILROAD AUCTIONED San Francisco, Sept. 7 'U.R. The Yosemitc Valley railroad, the colorful and once luxurious line running from Merced into the national park, was auctioned todav on the steps of the San Francisco City hall for S585 000 to A. R. Perlman, Denver engi- n.w,r u-Hn tairt hp ine won n oe unxea unless a sunaun: jjui- llia ftUu rnade, MEDFORD, ORE' FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 47 U ). Sub Survivors Liberated In Japan Home With Scars From Sadistic Treatment KLAMATH STRIKE T AFL Machinists Will Go Through CIO Picket Lines If Parley Attempt Failure Klamath Falls, Ore, Sept. 7 (U.R) The International Wood workers of America (CIO) strike in the Klamath Falls mill of the Weyerhauser Timber Company, throwing 2200 men idle in the company's four mills in this area, headed for negotia tion today. Members of the union were on strike in a demand for a union shop throughout the plant, IWA holding bargaining rights for production employees only. AFL machinists union mem' bers are not on strike and are ready to go to work, according to a company spokesman. The machinists have attempted to go through the CIO picket line but turned back after a conference with CIO officials, stating they would return if an attempt to negotiate failed. The company spokesman was not sure when negotiations would be held. Labor disputes today Idled more than 90,000 workers while brewing trouble in other plants indicated the number of strikers might pass the 100,000 mark. Labor - management disputes over many reconversion prob lems constituted the principal cause for most of the stoppages. The Detroit industrial area re mained the sore spot in the nation's labor strike. More than 42,500 workers were Idled by strikes that crippled the "arsenal city's" automobile production. Strikers Rebuked The regional war labor board rebuked the 4,500 Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. employes who voted to continue a 15-day stoppage that has stopped production of 1946 Ford cars. The Ford Motor Co. laid off approximately 25, 000 workers in two plants and said 4,2000 more would be laid off late today at Buffalo, Ches ter, Pa., Richmond, Calif., Edge water, N. J., Dallas, Tex., and Louiseville, Ky. Automobile production also was paralyzed at the Hudson Motor Car Co., where a strike of 500 foremen Idled 6,000 produc tion workers. WINCHELL'S DAUGHTER IS SUED FOR ALIMONY Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 7 i (U.R) Walda Winchell Lawless, , 18-year-old actress daughter of j Gossip Columnist Walter Win Ichell, is being sued for divorce ":by her husband, who seeks all- sa,d ,ney n(,ver had ,jved t0. gether as man and wife since their surprise elopement June 5. last No Spiritual Reform Seen For Japs; Yanks Must Maintain Close Watch By Richard W. Johnston (United Press Correspondent) Aboard Adm. Halsey's Flag ship, Yokosuka, Sept. 7 (U.R) 'rne American people must be Adm. Robert B. Carney said to- day. Carney, chief of staff to Adm. William F. Halsey, commander of the Third fleet, also believes there Is no indication that Japan is undergoing or contemplating any spiritual reform, he told n,c today. Didn't Kill the Ret "The terriers have got to stay at the rathol ince we didn t kill the rat," Carney said ,-v must hi-A mi I arv nrt'S. sure cioe at nann ana .t-oniniu- uUy mrtt, Inc pwyig tniuk I CONGRESS FAVORS DRAFT UNTIL Members Feel Voluntary En listments Will Fill Occu pation Needs After May Washington, Sept. 7 (U.R) Congress appeared virtually cer tain today to let the draft con tinue at least until the present selective service act expires next May 15. By that time, many members feel, measures taken to spur vol untary enlistments will have be gun to make themselves felt and it will be possible to estimate whether enlistments alone will fill occupation needs. Act Next Week The house expects to act next week on legislation to speed re cruitment by extending veterans' benefits and offering a 90-day furlough with pay and transpor tation to men eligible for dis charge who wish to reenlist. Meanwhile the war depart ment iinnoimccd a new point dis charge system for commissioned officers in the army which will make some 200.000 of its 800.000 officers eligible for Immediate discharge. The "critical" scores, comput ed tirr-the-sainc basis as scores for enlisted men, are: colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors, 100; captains and 1st and 2nd lieutenants, 85; warrant and flight officers, 80; nurses, 65; Wac officers (all grades) 44; phy sical therapists and .dietians, 41. HITS NEW HIGH New York Sept. 7 U.R Church membership in this coun try reached an all time high of 72.492 U69 persons, more than 52 per cent of the population, according to the 1945 edition of the yearbook of American churches published today. The 11)45 membership in 256 rcligi-ius bodies represent1- an In crease of 3.991,483 in two years. Dr. Benson Y. Landis, editor of the yej-rbook said. Thirteen groups reported more than a million members each. Roman Catholic church member ship totaled 23.419,701. Twenty three Baptist denominations re ported membership of 14.208, 193; 20 Methodist denominations reported 9,924.842 members and 20 Lutheran denominations re ported 5 129 147 members. Others reporting Included: Jcwisn congregations 4,641,184: Protectant Episcopal church 2, 227,524; Presbyterian church In the U S A., 2.040 399; Disciples of Christ. 1 672.354. and Con- grossional Christian churches 1,- 075.401. In terms of their grandchildren. And so must we." He indicated that "mainten ance of military pressure" should take the form either of garrisoning the Japanese main land with Allied forces for an. extended period or a tight air and sea encirclement. Asked to comment on the "new domocracy" now being hailed by the Japanese press Carney said: 'The people who arc going through this new process arc ex actly the same people who were guilty of atrocities during the last four years. There Is no rea son to think that under the same circumstances they wouldn't do it again. j "There is no reason to accept i them until they have demons-1 St. Louis, Sept. 7 (U.R) The trated over a long period of St. Louis Browns announced to years their fitness to restore ! day they will do their spring jrtjwn iu ine tuiuniuuuy or ria- Una." Tribune United Pieis Full 1945. 1,200 Prisoners 1,200 Prisoners Are Rescued From Hell Camps of Formosa By John Grorer (Representing Combined Allied Press) (Distributed by United Press) Aboard Seventh Fleet Flagship, Sept. 7 (U.R) Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid today announced the rescue of approximately 1.200 American and British prisoners of war from Formosa "hell camps" by a carrier task force that ran a gauntlet of mine fields to land liberation teams of murines and medical experts. READERS OFFERED SPECIAL RATE BY YEARLY PAYMENT Official opening of the Mail Tribune annual "bargain days" subscription drive will be tomor row, Sept. 8. From then through Monday, Sept. 17, subscribers may renew old subscriptions or start new ones at the special yearly rate offering savings of 17 per cent over monthly pay ment rates, it was stated today by Circulation Manager Gerald T. Latham. For the convenience of office workers and others who find it inconvenient to call at the Tribune office earlier In the day, the office will be open until 6 p. m. tomorrow. Where carrier service Is main tained the Mail Tribune will be delivered for a full year for only $7.50 if paid In advance during the birgain days period. Regular rates of 75 cents per month would amount to $9 for a year. Special Rale Subscribers in Jackson, Jose phine and Siskiyou counties who receive the Mail Tribune by mail may take advantage of the spec ial yearly rate of $6, represent ing ,i similar $1.50 saving over the regular $7.50 as determined by the 75 cents a month rate. Mail subscriptions outside those counties take the $7.50 yearly rate. Many people have already tak en advantage of the savings of-! fercd in bargain days subserip-j 1. .u..L Z. IIT UUMIJKM MIC lllltll (It lilt wr fke. or through carriers, who are authorized to accent orders.'" reporieo, prc- Latham today urged subscribers to renew orders or place new subscriptions early In the bar gain days period if possible. In addition to the saving of $1.50 per year on cither carrier or ma1! subscriptions, the circu lation manager added that read ers subscribing on the yearly basis eliminate necessity of car riers making personal calls each month to collect for the paper. This saves time for the boys, and interruptions tor subscribers who arc often not at home the first or scennd time the boy calls. To be eligible for the bargain day special rates, subscribers should be paid to Sept. 1, 1945. Those whose subscriptions expir ed before that date may pay the regulai rate to the first of this month, and order the Tribune on the early subscription from Sept.'l, 1945. to Sept. 1, 1940. BASEBALL American Chicago 3 Philadelphia 4 Lopat and Trcsh; Connelly (3) and Rosar. Cleveland 0 Boston 1 A 2 10 0; Bowles, ' 3 0 1 7 0 ; Harder and Hayworth and Holm. Ryba i Detroit New York : Newhouser and Btvins and Drcscher. National j (First game) ! Philadelphia '. Cincinnati 5 110 0 4 2 Richards; 7 10 i Sproull, Mulcahy 6) Chapman i (8) and Mnncuso; Bowman, Mo ' dak (9) and Lakeman. ! Now York 2 6 0 Chicago 0 6 2 I Maglic and Lombardi; Wyse id Livingston. training 1.121 at Anaheim, Calif, In Leeied Wlis Are Rescued The carriers reported back to this flagship that the prisoners had been evacuated from three Internment centers In the Tai hoku area of northern Formosa. The liberces will be rushed to Manila for hospitalization and repatriation as soon as possible. Toughest Camps Incomplete reports reaching the flagship indicated the For mosan camps were among the toughest operated by the Japa nese. Seventy-nine prisoners were too 111 to be moved. Two doctors and 10 hospital corpsmen were flown In to care for them until they are sufficiently re covered to be transported. "We are observing darkened shlp regulations, but the glow from within the souls of these men who were Japanese prison ers for almost four years lights up our whole horlzori," messaged Rear Adm. Dlxwell Ketcham, commander of the rescue force. All the prisoners rescued from Formosa were military person nel. Approximately 200 of the group were Americans, and the remainder British. Run Mine Fields The warships steamed through two mine fields guarding Kllrun harbor. A marine binding party splashed ashore, located the camps, and liberated 1he weak but gleeful, tearfully-happy prisoners. Later, planes from the escort carriers ianded at Matsuynma airport and unloaded OSO pounds of supplies and medical stores. Adm. Kinkaid also announced that first direct contact has been established with a group of 1,017 newly-located Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees In the Mukden area of Manchuria. Lt. Col. J. E. Donovan re ported by radio that, In addi tion to these, the U. S. armv air borne rescue team which has been operating in the Mukden ! district has assembled 1.721 , , , P"nf" "f V?ra m,lcl' ,!,r'or viously. TRAL PT. TO VOTE ON BONDS A special water Improvement bond election has been set for Saturday Sept. 22, for voters of Central Point. The bonds will be for not more than $80,000 for a new water distribution pipe system The Medford water commis sion has agreed to furnish water as soon as the new reservoir now under construction is completed, next December. On the same day. a community auction will be held at Central Point, the funds secured to be used for the new American Le gion post hall. Mining Association Will Meet Sept. 19 Next meeting of the newly organized mining association for Jackson county will be held Sept. 19 at the Chamber of Commerce building in Medford according to an announcement chairman of the group. The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. First organization meeting of the new group was held In July. At the coming session the mem bers plan to further perfect the organization, adopt by-laws and discuss future activities. Seattle, Sept. 7 aR) Mes sages, coded for brevity, may now be transmitted to the Alas kan area, the Seattle chamber of commerce said today, Dublin, Sept. 7 (U.R) An American paratrooper Identified as Staff Sgt. Charles F. Noonan of Los Angeles today faced trial In a Cork police court charged with passing a $1,000 worthless J fiieU ia a t.vf k kaufc ua Aug. 12. Use The Mill Tribune Want Ad Way Ouick Reiulti At Small Cost NO. 143. TORTURE CAMP TELL JAP BRUTALITY Broken Teeth, Head Wounds Bruises Received in Beat Ings Met By Relatives Oakland, Cal., Sept. 7 (U.R) Forty-seven emaciated, weary navy and marine officers and enlisted men, liberated from Japanese prison camps but still bearing the marks of sadistia brutality, were back in th United States today to tell for the first time the story of th submarine Tang, 'which sank Japanese ships off Formosa be fore being blown up by one ot her own torpedoes. Most of the men had broken teeth, head wounds, bruises and scars left by the clubs of Japa nese guards. Dressed In motley uniforms and tired from theip Journey, they were taken im mediately to the Oak Knoll Naval hospital after a few re ceived brief greetings from re Iatives. Tang Story Told The Tang's story was told bf MM 2c Clayton O. Decker. 143 Second avenue, Oakland, Calif, who said Cmdr. Richard O'Kane, San Rafael, Calif., and thre other officers who were on tin bridge when the torpedo hit, were washed overboard, A Japanese destroyer picked up three officers and six enlisted men, Decker said, and announc ing that "it Is well known that submarine men don't get enough sunshine," tied them to the deck of the destroyer for hours until all were blistered by the hot sun, Beaien For Hours 4 "The Nips would stick lighted cigarettes Into our nostrils, beat us nnd push us around for hours," Decker said. "After the, destroyer landed us at a port un Formosa, we were blindfolded, handcuffed and led through th streets. "Later we were taken trx Nagasaki, then to the 'tortura camp' at Ofuna, where we were) questioned closely by five Kng-lish-speaking Jap navy officers. Two of , them said they had graduated from Stanford univer sity, three from the University of California. They pretended to be much Interested in Amer ican football and one of them wanted to know what became of Ernie Ncvers." Decker, who was met by his) wife, Lucille, and his four-year-old son, Harry Leroy, whom h had never seen, said he saw an American sailor beaten to death at the camp and once had been "terribly" beaten himself with out cause. The guard who b?ut him later handed him a cigarette, he related, but a second guard beat the first for violating regu lations. Saw Boylngton He also told of sawing wood In camp with Maj. Gregory "Pap py" Boyington, marine corps ace expected to arrive here this week. Boyington, he said told him and other prisoners "When we get back to the States, fel. low' I,'m Koin,! t0 bl,y out th8 and we'll have one swell party." Mrs. Decker became so faint when her husband described Japanese brutalities that a Red Cross worker administered smell ing salts. Aviation MM 1c John Lever ton, Greeley, Colo., who was greeted at the Oakland naval air station by relatives, said he was forced to work as a sweeper In a Yokohama shipyard turning out Japanese tankers. "We had to watch ourselves when we worked under sea It folding," he said. "Jap workers always were 'accidentally' drop ping heavy objects on us. I was hit by a piece of pipe one day and they had to take six stitches In my hand." 13-Hour Trip The prisoners arrived in three navy air transport planes, big Skymaster Douglas R5Ds, which flew from the Honolulu naval air station to Oakland in lest 1 Uiau 13 bwi. tltf uvy mL
