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United Press
Fortieth Year
CHEESE CONTROL
ERASED TONIGHT.
Point Free Sale Will Give
Customer More Points
For Use In Meat Purchase
Washington, Sept. 11 (U.R)
Point values on cheese will be
' reduced to zero at midnight to
night, the office of price admin
istration announced today.
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles said this action could be
taken now because the agricul
ture department has removed all
controls on cheese.
Bowles said elimination of
cheese point value will "make
available a small increase in the
amount of meat and butter peo
ple can buy with their red
points."
It was also learned from
agriculture department sources
that lower grades of beef will
become ration free before Oct.
1. That is the date on which the
United Press was told all meat
rationing will end.
These sources said the depart
ment is carefully watching the
marketing of cattle and that the
end of meat rationing will de
pend largely on the number of
cattle shipped to market in the
next few weeks.
The department of agriculture
and the office of price adminis
tration have denied officially
that there is enough meat avail-
able now to lift rationing entire
ly at this time.
Meat Supply Growing
However, an OPA spokesman
said the meat supply is rapidly
approaching the supply on hand
in May, 1944, when meat points
were very low. According to
the department of agriculture
meat rationing can be ended
when the supply is enough to
give civilians 140 pounds per
capita annually. A department
survey shows that 145 pounds
per capita will be available dur
ing the last three months of this
year.
It was thought possible the of
ficial denial might refer speci
fically to pork. Pork still will
be very scarce this winter
although there will be plenty of
other meats.
However, pork soon will be In
the making again in large quan
tities, and so will Bourbon
whiskey, if the forecast of a
bumper corn crop this year
proves to be accurate.
Republicans Fight
Airport Pork Bill
Washington, Sept. 11 (U.R)
Republican senators battled to
day to eliminate what they con
sidered to be "pork barrel' pro
visions in a $1,000,000,000 air
port construction program.
The program would be author
ized by bill written and sponsor
ed by Sen. Pat McCarran, D.,
Nev., who said proposed republi
can amendents would be "ruin
ous." BACK TO WORK MOVE
GOES INTO REVERSE
(By United Press)
A back-to-work movement of
Westinghouse Electric Corp of
fice workers went into reverse
today as the white-collar em
ployes renewed their strike.
The walkout that started yes-
day, ended in the afternoon and
broke out again today threw
12.000 workers into idleness at
six offices of Westinghouse.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
John Mann giving a glowing
account of his summer vacation
spent playing with his grand
children. Irene Manno wondering why
she always chooses the slowest
moving line when on business
at the bank.
Tarney Steward and Jim Col
lins settling the problems of the
world while leaning against the
bank wall for an afternoon rest.
Francis H. Wenham, English
k engineer and scientist, patented j
the firt idea of the bipiane and
triplanc in 1866.
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Four and a half years of anguished waiting, worrying about her famous
husband are over for Mrs. Jonathan M. Walnwrlght as sne throws her
arms about Gen. Walnwrlght as he steps off plane at Washington Na
tional Airport. Just in from San Francisco, Calif., where he was given a
hero's tremendous welcoroa.
Acclaim Exhausts Gen. Wainwright;
New York Welcome Slated Thursday
Washington, Sept. 11 (U.R)
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright,
who endured 39 months of Jap
anese captivity, was resting up
today from a new ordeal too
much accla'im from a grateful
nation. ..
America's newest idol, the
man whose gallant defense of
Bataan and Corregidor gave his
country time to plan its come
back, expects to spend today and
tomorrow resting and having an
LT.CQL FARBER
AT CAMP WHITE
Camp White, Sept. 11 I.t.
Col. Lou J. Farber today as
sumed command of Service Com
mand Unit 1913 and Camp
White, succeeding Col. John R.
Young, who has been transferred
to Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Before this assignment, the
new Camp White commander
had been commanding officer of
the post's prisoner-of-war camp
since August, 1944.
A veteran of the Mexican
border disputes in 1916 as a
National Guard infantryman, he
later saw action in 18 months of
overseas service during World
War I with the 146th Machine
Gun Battalion of the 41st "Sun
set" Division.
Native of Idaho
. In 1923 Col. Farber. a native
of Weiser, Ida., entered the Ida
ho National Guard as a first
lieutenant, was promoted to cap
tain in 1925 and attained his
majority in 1929.
Colonel Farber advanced to
his present rank in October. 1940
while commanding the 1st Bat
talion of the 183rd Regiment, a
National Guard cavalry unit
which was subsequently changed
to field artillery.
On April 1, 1941 Colonel Far
ber was called to active duty
and took command of the 2nd
Battalion of the 183rd Field Ar
tillery Regiment at Boise, Ida.
In September, - 1942, he was
named to head the 773rd Military
Police Battalion at Ft. Ord. Cal.,
and remained its commander un
til January. 1944. In the last
two years the colonel has had
tours of duty at army posts near
Ogdcn and Salt Lake City and at
Camp Beale, Calif.
The new Camp White com
mander, who numbers fishing
and among his hobbies, is also
an accomplished horseman and
is well known in Medford eques
trian circles.
CIO MEET
Pittsburgh Sept. 11 (U.R)
Some 175 leaders of the CIO
United Steelworkers of America
are meeting nere today to "kick
the little steel formula out the
window " as it was put by their
president, rhilip Murray.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUES7
Welcomer Is Wife
abscessed tooth treated before
flying to New York for the ova
tion he will receive there Thurs
day. Walking with a cane, Wain
wright was visibly fatigued after
the four-hour public reception
accorded him yesterday by hun
dreds of thousands of Washing
tonians. The left side of his face
appeared to be badly swollen.
Immediately after the Pentagon
press conference which wound
up yesterday's ceremonies he
and Mrs. Wainwright left for
their Shorcham hotel suite.
'There is no doubt in my mind
that this day marks the high
light of my whole life," he said
yesterday.
"In the first place, as I stepped
from my plane this morning at
the National Airport the first
person to greet me was my be
loved wife. I have waited for
many long months, nearly four
and a half years, to see her. I
have waited for this moment."
Big Oil Fire Rages
In Houston Refinery
Houston, Tex., Sept. 11 (U.R)
One of the largest oil fires In
the history of the city raged un
controlled today at the Eastern
States Refinery near the out
skirts. Fire Chief Homer Lyles re
ported, firemen were fighting
desperately to keep the flames
from spreading to nearby indus
trial and chemical plants.
STRAUSOrISUICIDE
Baltimore, Sept. 11 (U.R)
Walter Straus, 32, son of the
noted composer, Oscar Straus,
was found dead in a hotel room
here today. Police said Straus
died from an overdose of sleep
ing tablets and left suicide notes
to his wife and parents.
Handful of U. S. Airmen Bluffed Japanese
Into Keeping Big Force On Kurile Guard
11th AAF Headquarters, Aleu
tians, Sept. 11 U.R) A handful
of Aleutian - based American
planes, two army bombing squad
sons and a small force of navy
wing planes tied up approxi
mately one-tenth of the Japa
nese air force since August, 1943,
it was officially disclosed today.
Lifting the lid on Amercan
aerial strength in the Aleutians,
one of the wars top secrets,
11th AAF headquarters disclosed
that since the conclusion of the
Attu and Kiska campaigns, the
Japanese were bluffed into de
ploying one-tenth of their badly
strained air strength for fear of
massed raids from Aleutians
bases.
Actually, it was disclosed, all
but the United States 404th
heavy bombardment squadron,
the 77th medium bomber squad
ron and navy bombers of Flf-et
Air Wing lour, were quietly
, SEPTEMBER 11, 1945.
MINISTERS MEET
TO SEAL PEACE;
Molotov Guarded On Arrival
At Conference Spot; Pre
ceded by Flying Wedge
London, Sept. 11 (U.R) For
eign ministers of the world's five
major powers met behind closed
doors in London's Lancaster
House today to seal across the
conference table the peace won
by force of arms.
All correspond tuts were
barred from the opening session,
but it was expected the meeting
would be brief and limited prin
cipally to establishing the order
of business.
The original agenda was un
derstood to be headed by the
problem of drafting a peace
treaty for Italy, first of the ma
jor axis powers to capitulate.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov put in an appearance
about a minute before the con
ference was scheduled to begin
at 3:30 p. m.
Molotov drove up In a long,
black automobile flying the red
flag with a golden hammer and
sickle. As soon as his car halt
ed, eight guards or detectives in
plainclothes leaped from a con
voy of automobiles behind him
and formed a flying wedge
around the Soviet commissar.
HONG KONG JAPS
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Hong Kong, Sept. 11 U.R)
Rrlfish hliiniackets nut the Japa
nese garrison of Hong Kong
through a sweat marcn oi
their own todav. oarading thous
ands of enemy troops through
the same streets where the de
feated English and Canadians
were massacred more than three
years ago.
The formal surrender of the
prnuin rnlnnv was nostnoned an
other 24 hours until tomorrow
morning, pending arrival of the
Japanese delegate, but the round
un of Japanese troops continued
without incident.
rinlnnels and other ranklnc
Japanese officers also were
searched, even to the point of
having to drop their pants be
fore the grinning British seamen.
Camp Callin Named
Separation Center
Ft. Douglas, Utah The
Ninth Service Command re
vealed today that Camp Callin,
Calif., has been designated as a
separation point by the War
Department.
The camp will have all the
functions of separation center
but, according to the Ninth Serv
ice Command, It is only a tem
porary expedient within the
overall policy of the War Depart
ment to take care of separatees.
withdrawn from the Aleutian
theater after mid-1943. This
small aerial task force, however,
because of tight security, was
affectively able to maintain
threat o fan aerial "pincers."
with attacks on Japan's Kurile
islands.
Flying for two years under,
fantastically difficult conditions'
winds that often reached 130
miles an hour, ever-present fog.
swarms of enemy fighters, no
fighter escort, strong enemy anli- j
aircraft, and operating over hun
dreds of miles of open ocean so
cold that Immersion meant death I
i in 25 minutes the handful of
i planes ran up an imposing war !
record.
The 77th medium bomber
squadron, first to attack the Ja;i j
homeland since the Doolittle
' raid, and also the first to opcr
i ate against Jap home islands
from land bases, was identified!
as the squadron which flew out.
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SLOW DISCHARGE
FOR EXPLANATION
Chief of Staff Marshall
Summoned Before Senate
Military Affairs Com.
Washington, Sept. 11 (U.R)
The Senate Military Affairs
committee today summoned Gen.
George C. Marshall, army chief
of staff, to appear tomorrow
morning and explain the army's
demobilization plan to the com
mittee. Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson and Secretary of Navy
James Forrostal also will bo in
vited to attend the open hearing,
but Committee Chairman Elbert
D. Thomas, D., Utah, said they
probably would not be asked to
testify.
To Eye Navy Alio
Personnel heads of the army
and navy will be invited to the
same hearing. The navy's de
mobilization program also will
be investigated thoroughly,
Thomas said.
The committee ordered the
hearings after a two-hour ses
sion which followed sharp con
gressional criticism of what con
gress considers to be the slow
ness of the demobilization pro
grams. Thomas said the hearings
might continue for some time,
and the committee meanwhile
would hold up approval of pro
posed promotion of a long list of
army officers to temporary
ranks.
Circulation Gain
Of Tribune Shown
In Window Display
Sample numbers of the
Mail-Tribune for the years
1910, '15, '20, '25, '30 and 40,
along with a chart listing the
circulation for each year are
now on display in the window
of the Tribune office, 27 iVo.
Fir street.
Of special interest is the
6.903 increase in circulation
during th 35-year period and
the change in the general set
up and style of advertising and
news of the paper. A change
from a seven column page to
an eight page issue took place
in 1926. Greatest increase in
circulation for any five-year
period was made this year
with 9,430 in comparison with
5,988 in 1940.
Earth From Oregon
On 'Homesick Hill'
Salem, Ore., Sept. 11 (U.R)
A bit of earth from the Oregon
State Capitol grounds forms
part of a small mound in the
Philippine Islands fondly called
"Homesick Hill" by navy and
coast guardsmen stationed near
by. The Oregon dirt was sent to
the Philippines by Gov. Earl
Snell at the request of the ser
vicemen. It is combined with
soil from the other 47 states the
governor said.
of then-secret Aleutian bases, lo
cated, surprised and helped turn
back a Japanese carrier task
force attacking Dutch Harbor on
June 3-4, 1943.
Taking off in Marauders with
improvised racks which gave
their torpedoes only four inches
clearance from the steel matting
of their improvised runways,
the 77th squadron sank at least
one heavy Jap cruiser and .lam
aged other enemy task force
units.
Later reverting to sweeps
against Jap canneries, and ship
ping running food from the
Kuriles to Japun, the medium
bombers sank 21 cargo vessels,
transports and warships, prob
ably sank seven more and dam
aged 30. "
The attacks were so effective
the airmen were credited with
crippling one of Japan's main
sources of food the Kurile liih
traffic.
Leased Wiri
NO. 146.
Hideki Tojo
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OTHER CRIMINALS
Tokyo, Sept. 11 (U.R) A gen
eral arrest order went out today
for the entire Tojo cabinet that
led Japan into war and 28 other
Japanese war criminals, includ
ing the infamous I.t. Gen. Mas
aliaru Homma. perpetrator of
the Bataan death march.
Homma took Gen. Jonathan
M. Wainwright's surrender on
Corregidor and was directly re
sponsible for the march from
Bataan to Fort O'Donncll.
MncArthur's list also included:
Lt. Gen. Shigcmorl Kuroda,. Jap
anese commander In the Philip
pines in 1943; Shozo Murata,
Japanese ambassador to the Phil
ippines during the occupation;
Col. Akira Nagahama, command
er at Kempei in the Philippines
and the man rcsponsiblo for the
torture of American prisoners at
Ft. Santiago; Lt. Col. Sciichi
Ohtn, author of the Manila atro
cities; Capt. (Dr.) Tokuda, re
sponsible for the barbaric medi
cal experiments that killed many
American captives at Shingawa
hospital camp in Tokyo, and Col.
Suzuki, commander of the
Shingawa camp.
The list also included four
non-Japanese charged with
broadcasting Japanese propa
ganda over Tokyo radio during
the war: Lt. Gen. Charles Kovln
and John Hqlland. both Austral
ians; Josiah Van Dljk, n Dutch
man, and Dr. C. Han Maw, a
Thai.
LEGION TO SEAT
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SEPT. 26 MEETING
Walter Rclnklng, Walter Dun
lap, Earl York and W. J. Look
er, delegates to the state Ameri
can Legion convention held in
Portland last week, have return
ed to Medford. The delegation
succeeded in having Medford
named as the 1946 convention
city, informing the state meeting
that all posts of this vicinity had
expressed a desire to aid with
staging of the meeting and ask
ing that It be termed a southern
Oregon convention held In Med
ford. Reinking stated today that no
date had been set for the meet
ing since the committee for time
and place of the convention, of
which he was chairman, had
asked that the date be set next
spring by joint action of the ex
ecutive committee of the Oregon
department of the legion and the
Medford post. This will be done
after the approximate dates of
the pear harvest can be determ
ined since it is desired to avoid
the rush of the harvest season.
No meeting of the Medford
post will be held tomorrow even
ing and installation of new of
ficers has been set for Sept. 26.
Dick Baize will be installed com
mander of the post, succeeding
Hurry A. Young, and as part of
his year's program will plan the
1946 state meeting.
2.824 RETURNING
Boston, Sept. 11 U R) Two
transports bring 2.624 returning
auldiers from Europe today.
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Top Jap War Criminal
Pistols Self As Yank
Arresting Party Waits
Tokyo, Sept. 11 (U.R) Former Premier Hldeko Tojo, master
mind of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, shot himself below
the heart today and late tonight his life flickered low as ha wai
taken to a U. S. army hospital in Yokohama.
Tojo, admitting responsibility for the Pacific war, tried to
kill himself by firing a bullet clean through his body when th
U. S. army sent a detail to his villa in suburban Tokyo to arrest
him as Japan's top war criminal.
Sustained by plasma injections and semi-conscious, the littl
brown man who plunged more than half the population of tht
world into war was loaded into an American ambulance and taken
by way of a first aid station near the Meijl shrine to the 98th
Evacuation hospital at Yokohama.
FORMER PREMIER SURE HE WILL DIE
(Mutual Broadcasting Correspondent Jack Mahon reported
that Tojo said to doctors, "Don't go to any trouble for me, I am
going to die anyway.")
Hours after the shooting at 4:21 p. m. (3:21 a. m. EWT) it was
learned that Tojo had made elaborate preparations for his death.
The Japanese code virtually demanded that he kill himself when
Emperor Hirohito issued his rescript ending the war.
Capt. James Johnson, U. S. army doctor who stitched up
Tojo's gaping wound and said he had a chance to live, said he be
lieved it was a .32-caliber bullet that ripped through his body
while American troops waited to arrest him.
SUICIDE TRY IN SWORD-BEDECKED ROOM
Tojo shot himself in a room bedecked with swords, a crystal
cigaret holder, various gee-gaws of his harsh military career, and
a bound copy of the emperor's rescript proclaming Japan's defeat.
un tne tirst leg of his trip to the Yokohama hospital Tojo was
taken to the First Medical Squadron's first aid station near the
Maiji shrine.
Tojo was barely conscious when he was taken into the aid
lent. His eyes flickered several times when a plasma needle was
jabbed Into his arm.
Some American military quarters speculated that Tojo had
been instructed not to kill himself, presumably by the emperor.
They took this as a possible indication that Tojo was marked
Japan's "fall guy" when the war guilt was fixed.
His son-in-law. Major Koga, an army staff officer, committed
suicide after Japan's surrender.
Tojo's suicide attempt came only four hours after Gen. Doug,
las MacArthur, moving swiftly to smash Japanese militarism,
ordered his arrest as the start of a general roundup of Japanese
war criminals.
The little, one-time premier who became symbol In the
United States for Japanese deceit and barbarity shot himself Just
as American military policemen pulled up at the door of his home.
He tried from a window to stall off MaJ. Paul Kraus of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's counter-intelligence corps, who had papers
for the former premier's arrest.
TOJO TOLD TO QUIT STALLING ARREST ORDER
"Tell him to quit this damn fooling around and let's get go
ing, Kraus told on interpreter. "Tell him to open the front door
so I can present my credentials. Tell him to prepare himself for
a trip to General MacArthur's headquartors at Yokohama."
Tojo disappeared from the window and a few minutes later '
the revolver shot rang out.
Kraus and his aides broke In the locked front door and the
locked door of Tojo's study and found the former premier uncon
scious, blood oozing from his wound. A son knelt in prayer In an
adjoining room.
A Japanese newsman said Tojo's associates four times previ
ously had urged him that hara-kiri was the only honorable course
left him.
Though he used a revolver instead of the ceremonial dagger,
Tojo fired the bullet into the spot below his heart where the dagger
normally is plunged In the traditional suicide by disembowelment
Subsequent arrests were expected to go right down through
the Japanese military structure from the imperial general staff to
privates who as prison guards tortured American and other Allied
prisoners.
A four-man commission which wilt handle matters Involving
war crimes already has begun functioning at MacArthur's head
quarters in Yokohama.
BASEBALL
American
Detroit 5 9 1
Boston 0 2 0
Trout and Richards; Woods,
Hausmann (7) Barrett (9) and
Holm.
National
First Game
Philadelphia 4 9 2
(10 innings)
Pittsburgh 5 9 1
Scr.anz and Semlnick; Gables,
Rcsclgno (10) and Salkeld.
Brooklyn
4 10
(10 innings)
Cincinnati 9 10 2
Herring. Buker (8) and Sand
lock; bowman and Lakeman.
GOP Parity Demand
Defeated in House
Washington, Sept. 11 U.R
The House today rejected, 168
to 136 a Republican demand for
equal party representation on a
congressional committee to In
vestigate the Pearl Harbor dis
aster. Rescued Doolittle
Turn Other Cheek
Salem. Ore., Sept. 11 (U.R)
Because he sincerely believed
"that It must not happen again
to any man," Staff Sgt. Jacoo D.
Dcshazer, 32-year-old Doolittle
flier, wrote his mother today
that he was prepared to return
to Japan as a "missionary for
Christ."
Forty-one months of starva
tion and mistreatment in a J'ip
prison camp had physical effect
on the Tokyo flier. But as lor
his spirit, he worte his mother,
Mrs. H. M. Andrus of Salem. "It
was well kept with the firm
knowledge that Jesus would see
me through."
Dcshazer. in a "deplorable"
condition alter his rescue from a
ON SEPTEMBER 30
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Washington, Sept. 11 (U.R)
The House Interstate Commerce
committee today approved a bill
to turn the nation's clocks back
an hour to prewar standard time.
Under terms of the measure,
Introduced by Rep. Lyle H.
Boren, D., Okla., war time would
be abolished at 2 a.m. on Sunday,
Sept. 30. War time one hour
later than standard time has
been in effect since early Febru
ary, 1942.
Acting Chairman Alfred L.
Bulwinkle. D., N. C, said he will
try to have the house act on the
Boren bill tomorrow. He said
he expects speedy passage.
War time was initiated as a
daylight saving device during
the emergency.
Flier Planning
To Tormenters
I Jap prison camp three week
ago, said that God had spoken
' in him Hurintf his solitary con
finement in a Jap prison.
Quoting the Biblical words
of Christ, "Love your enemies;
bless them that persecute you; do
good unto them that hate you
and pray for them that spite
fully use and persecite you,"
Deshazer Informed his mother
that he would return to J'ipaii
just as soon as he could com
plete a four-year course at a re
ligious college.
Deshazer has been recuperat
ing In the Walter Reed hospital
in Washington. He is scheduled
to arrive by air In Portland to
day and motor to Salem.
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