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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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