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SMEW MINI tlMUM UJlMlgiPl O United Press Fortieth Year Whsn U. S. Took Over Its Share of Korea; MS (Acme Radio-Telephota) High ranking Army and Navy officers look on as Lt. Gen John Hodge, commanding general of the 24th Corps, signs the documents at the formal surrender of all Japanese In the zone during a ceremony In Keljo, Korea. Troops of the 24th Corps will serve as the American occupying forces. Signal Corps radio-photo from Acme. PAPPY" RECEIVES ATOi Oak'and, Calif., Sept. 12 U.R) Wearing the shiny new silver oak leaves of a lieutenant rolonol on his uniform, Gregory Boyington, the marine ace who couldn't stay missing, came homa to a roaring welcome from his fellow "black sheep" today. A four-motored R5D the navy equivalent of the army's C 54 transports bringing "PapDy" and 21 navy enlisted V men, landed at the NATS base at Oakland at 5:48 a. m. (PWT). Twenty'onc original members of the "black sheep" squadron which Boyington welded from a group of green replacements in to one of the fightingest outfits in the Pacific grabbed him on their shoulders. Wonderful for Pappy "This is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me," Boyington yelled. The 21 Black Sheep 17 flying officers and four ground crew men had been waiting at the terminal more than two hours to meet Boyington, long missing flier with at least 26 Japanese planes to his credit. Thcv wanted to collect a round of drii'ks thcv said he had prom ised them "when this war is ever." Shortly after his arrival Boy ington reviewed his last flight before being shot down and his experiences during his 19 months imprisonment. "If we give Japan a soft peace, the Japs would think we're even greater suckers than they al ready believe we are," he said. Army authorities, he said. l;new the names and descriptions of all brutal guards at Honshu prisoner of war camps. "The Nips will turn them over.' he said. "It's no trouble for them to double-cross a pal." ( Bud Nutting Struck By Passing J ruck Bud Nutting, son of Mr. and j Mrs. B. L. Nutting. 31 Glen Oak , court, was taken to Community i hospital yesterday following an accident at the corner of Main , and Front streets where he was struck by the corner of a truck ; bed according to city police. The Nutting family could not bc'i reached but hospital reports ! state he was released this morn- j ing and injuries'were not seri-j ous. Nutting, who was waiting on the corner, w a s reportedly ; knocked down as the truck . turned the corner. Identity of the truck or driver was noi known. Pet Grizzly Bear Turns On Humans Seattle. Sept. 12 U.R Run-1 nine amok after an eight-year-: old Seattle schoolboy apparently tumbled aenmst him. a ha!f-j grown 50-pound pet Russian grizzly bear, killed the boy and severely bit a wpman who drag ged the dying lad from the ani- j mal's clutches. The boy. Richard Strand, died i in Doctor's Hospital, four hours' after he was clawed and bitten : by the animal. Mrs. Vera Guinn, j V a neighbor who risked her life , in an attempt to save the child, was bitten on the back of the leg. FORD Full Leased Wire JSi. Asphalt Refinery Plan in Portland Portland, Ore., Sept. 11 (U.R) An asphalt refinery costing more than $1,000,000 will be built in Portland by the Calif ornia Asphalt Corporation, a newly formed subsidiary ' of Standard of California, President H. D. Collier of the oil company announced today. Construction of the plant, the only asphalt refinery on the northwest Pacific coast, will start within 30 or 40 days. SOUR-FACED JAP IN EASTERN ASIA Singapore, Sept. 12 (U R Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, using the official seal of absent field mar shal Count Juichr Terauehi, to day formally surrendered near ly 500.000 Japanese troops in the southeast Asia area to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. The Hitler-mustached. sour faced Itagaki applied Terauchi's seal to the first eleven copies of the surrender document at 11:15 a. m. in the conference room of Singapore's municipal building. Itagaki was flanked by three Japanese officers on either side. He faced Mountbatten, who stood across the table with Brit ish Maj. Gen. W. R. C. Penney. Penney handed the stamped doc uments to the stfpreme com mander after Itagaki had placed the official seal on them. ORAL t POLLARD DEATH IS PROBED Oral W. Pollard. 36, manager of the Forester Jewelry store. 109 East Main street, since op ening of the establishment in May, died during the lunch hour today in his room at a local hotel under circumstances which are being investigated by local au thorities, according to Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris. Ihe stomach of the dead man will be sent to Portland for analysis, Morris stated. Pollard is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Pol lard, of Portland. The remains are at the Conger Morris chapel. Pollard came to Medford from I Eugene, where he was connected with a Forester store. He had recently been divorced, a spokes man at the Medford store said this afternoon. The spokesman added that Pollard seemed in high spirits when he talked to j him last night. No note has been I found, Morris said. I Two-Way Stretch Still Far Away New York. Sept. 12 U R; : The Corset and Brassiere Asso-' ciation of America warned thej American woman today that she would have "no such early re-! lief from her girdle problems' as the war production board has promised. i The association made a "flat denial " of a WPB promise that there would be two-way stretch es for all women by November. RMJit1 ; If , MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, Russ Control, Too BIDDLE TO JUDGE C IS Washington, fept. 12 (U.R) President Trumun today an nounced a series of changes in Federal, District and Appeals Court benches and disclosed that he had appointed former Attor ney General Francis Biddle to be the American judge on the Inter national Military Tribunal to try Axis war criminals. Mr. Truman also announced the resignation of Elmer Davis as director of the Office of War In formation, which is now in the process of liquidation. Neil Dal- ton, Louisville, Ky., who has been next to Davis in the OWI setup, will serve as acting direc tor to preside over liquidation of the agency. The liquidation must be completed by the end of this year. At the same time the president announced (hat John J. Parker of Charlotte, N C judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, will ?rve as alternate to Biddle on the International Tribunal. This seemed to remove Parker from consideration for a United States Supreme Court vacancy. When asked whether Parker was under consideration for the high court, as had been persistently reported, the president would not answer. T Applications for building per mits continue at a high rate at the office of the city superinten dent, the applications being for construction and repair of both business buildings and residenc es. Yesterday permits were issued to Flynn Electric company, 131 West Main street, to demolish an old warehouse and erect a new concrete structure at a cost of $2500 and to Fred Powers, 421 North Columbus avenue, to erect a $5,000 residence. Other permits issued were to Leslie Shaw, 531 Fairmount street, S400, erect garage and j apanmem; nay unerry, ao North Bartlett street, $800. gen eral repair to residence; G. C. Wimer, 41 Quince street, $3,000, residence and garage. No Radio Activity Left At Hiroshima Tokyo. Sept. 12 U.R Brig. Gen. T. F. Farrcll, chief of the atomic bomb mission to Hiro shima, announced today that, "no measurable radioactivity" was found in the devastated city although American doctors found a number of patients whose symptoms were similar to those caused by radiation. "The actual number and pro portions (of casualties) probably will never be known. Farrcll told a press conference upon his ! return from the city, first to be! attacked by an atomic bomb. Sta'e geologists estimate that there are 620.000.000.000 tons .f coal in the state of Wy oming They estimated that such an amount would be enough to run the world for 1,000 years. BOAST THEY WILL TO RULE Passive Resistance To Allied Occupation P I a n To Influence First Elections Seoul, Korea, Sept. 12 (U.R) Japanese Nationals in Korea are conducting a three-way "passive resistance" to the allied occupa tion, including plans to influence the first elections, and openly boast that they will return with in 20 years, well-informed Ko reans said today. The Japanese attempted to "buy" a number of Korean na tional leaders before American occupation troopes arrived and now have gone underground to maintain their political activi ties. Strong Underground They already have organized a strong underground political group, well-financed for the at tempt to win control with a pro Nippon ticket at the first elec tion. Koreans, indignant that Jap anese officials still remain in of fice, say that Japanese Nationals openly have told them: "We'll be back in 20 years." Their "passive resistance" campaign not only includes a powerful political movement but a program to store guns and am munition throughout Korea, ac cording to the best-informed Koreans. The third phase of the re sistance movement, the Koreans said, is that the Japanese hope to disrupt Korea's economic status during the occupation. Shortly after the peace, the Japanese-held Chosen bank flooded the market with paper money. Many of the military stores were destroyed. Rice was dump ed into rivers and sugar was mixed with sand. While the Koreans protested that they still must receive or ders irom Japanese police and civil government authorities, an American military government was being set up to gradually replace the Japanese administra tion that has held Korea in bond age. The Japanese government of Governor-General N o b o y u k i Abe, although remaining in of fice for the present, will not be permitted to take any independ ent action. Critical Koreans have stressed the fact that Russian forces across the 38th parallel imme diately disarmed all Japanese and removed them from public office, but the large forces com manded by the soviet army greatly facilitated the task. James L, Liles Held On Check Charges James L. Liles is being held in cotinjy jail today under $1,000 bail following his arrest by city police last night charged with obtaining money under false pretenses through check manip ulations. Also being held at the jail are Robert Eric Rose, arrested by county officers in Ashland and charged with larceny of rings, and Bob Rose, who was taken into custody yesterday by city police for drunken driving. Both are to be arraigned in Justice court. COUNTY DIVORCE MILL SETS RECORD FOR WEEK Twelve divorce decrees were signed by Circuit Judge H. D. Hanna the first of the week. At Grants Pass last Saturday he signed seven decrees. The even dozen was a record for one day's rigning in this county. Many di vorce suits arc still pending in the local court. Records of the county clerk for th past three months show marrijge licenses and divorces filed or granted as running neck and reck with the monthly aver age for each approximately 40. TO HOUSE LOYAL JAPS San Francisco, Sept. 12 'U.R) The San Francisco housing au thority today announced plans to arrange living quarters in an army cantonment near Ft. Funs ton for approximately 500 loyal Japanese Americans released from relocation ceuteii. Tribune United Press Full 19-15. BASEBALL National Philadelphia 0 9 0 Chicago 4 7 0 Barrett and Scminick; Wyse and Gillespie. American Detroit 7 13 2 Philadelphia 4 9 1 Benton, Caster (8) and Rich ards; riewsom, Bowles (9) and Rosar. Chicago 16 1 New York 3 6 0 Grove and Tresh; Ruffing and Robinson. St. Louis 9 9 0 Boston 2 4 3 Muncrief and Mnncuso; Ryba, Hausmann (5) and Pytlak. T IN LOCAL STORES Junior will be going to school next week either wearing his old clothes or some cut down from father's wardrobe. Med ford mothers tramping from clothing store to clothing store the last two weeks are met with the same word everywhere no cords, no jeans, no overalls, no pajamas and in many cases the clerks add. no sbirts, no under wear, no socks and only a few shoes. Last full mothers, and store managers, thought the situation had reached an ail-time low but this fall appears to be as bud or worse, the managers sadly re port, with little hope for relief until after the first of January. Those everlasting stand-bys for school boys, cords and jeans, are practically non-existent and sub stitutes are few. A shipment of jeans in one store last week lasted 35 minutes. One store is hopeful of receiving a few pants of khaki cloth within the next few days. Easier For Sister Sister will be a little better clothed than the boys, the stores report. Sweaters and skirts, practically a uniform for the American schoolgirl, are fairly plentiful and shipments of cot ton and rayon dresses are some what larger than last year. Any thing made of knitted material, such as underwear and socks, is still pretty scarce. The shoe situation is slowly improving but is still far from satisfactory, the managers re port, and children wearing non average sizes are apt to be out of luck. Infants and pre-school cloth ing supplies are considerably improved over a year ago, man agers state. One manager explained the discrepency between boys' and girls' clothing supplies by point ing out that factories tooled for girls' clothing never quit manu facturing these articles while those making boys and men's clothing were turned almost en tirely to production of clothing used for men In the armed forces. A miners' meeting excluded Chinese from the town of Pana mint in 1875. Zamperini Tells Of 47 Days Adrift On Life Raft After Bomber Crash Okinawa. Sept. 12 (U.R) Lt. Louis Zamperini, University of Southern California track star liberated from a Japanese pris on camp, said today he drifted 47 days on a life raft, subsisting on rainwater and sea birds, after his Liberator bomber crashed off Palmyra Island in May, 1943. The raft drifted Into the Japanese-held Marshall Islands where Zamperini was picked up by Japanese boatmen. Zamperini had been officially listed missing in action and un officially given up for dead. Rescued from the Niigita pris oner of war camp on the north western coast of Honshu, Zam perini arrived here last week. One of America's greatest collegiate runners, Zamperini abandoned his track career to serve as an army air force bom bardier in the mid-Pacific. He participated in raids against several targets, including Wake and Nauru. During a tUike against fiauru, tic ipcul Leased Wlr NO. 147. EARL FEHL LOSES SUIT TO COLLECT SALARYAS JUDGE High Court Upholds Circuit Judge Hanna in Ruling Against Ousted Official An opinion by Justice George Rossman of the state supreme court gave an adverse decision in the suit of Earl 11. Fehl, for mer Jackson county judge, to collect $12,000 for six year's salary, according to a news re port from Salem. The high court upheld Circuit Judge H.K. Hanna of Jackson county in the suit. The suit stems back to the election of Fehl in 1932, who was subsequently removed from office by the governor because he had been convicted of ballot theft. The former judge was sent to prison and later to the state hospital. The decision held that Fehl was removed legally and that he performed no services to the county. Fehl contended he was duly elected and therefore should have been paid for his full term. Among several petitions for rehearing which the court de nied was that of the Pierce Auto Freight Lines vs. Public Utilities Commissioner George Flagg and McDonough vs. the Southern Oregon Mining company. PEAOEATIES London, Sept. 12 (U.R) The Foreign ministers of the Big Five and their deputies began consideration of peace treaties for Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland today be hind a wall of secrecy. Italy was believed first on the agenda, and a communique re porting that yesterday's prelim inary meeting was harmonious indicated that Russia had drop ped her earlier demund for simultaneous consideration of the touchy Balkan situation. Official British sources point ed out that If Russia had intend ed to raise her demand, the logi cal time would have been at the organizational session yesterday. There was nothing to indicate that Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov had pressed the point. HUCKLEBERRY HARVEST ABOUT ENDED FOR YEAR The huckleberry orop of this season has been pretty well pick ed out, according to forest serv ice rangers. Lifting of the gaso line ban caused a rush of pick ers to the Blue Canyon and Huckleberry Mt. area, favorite spots. The wild blackberry crop did not attract many pickers this summer, though the fruit was plentiful In the Applegate and other sections. five hours administering emer gency treatment to five wound ed companions while their Liberator limped back to the nearest base. But his flying career ended when the bomber plunged into the ocean off Palmyra;. Seven members of the plane crew were killed. Three survived. Zamperini got aboard the life raft. The tall gunner, one of the survivors, died. Zamperini read a brief service and buried him at sea. Then started the long battle for existence as the raft drifted into enemy waters. He drank rain water, and cap tured albatross and terns by hid ing under a tarpaulin and snntshing them when they land ed on the raft. When the raft eventually drifted to the Marshall group. I Zamperini was taken into cus , tody by Japanese boatmen and ! taken to Kwajaleln. From there he was transferred to Japan and I interned in Uic Niigata camp. Mac Ordains Additional Shackles For Warlords; Ex-Navy Head Arrested .Tokyo, Sept. 12 (UP) Field Marshal Gen. Sup yama, one of the.top Japanese war lords who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor, shot and killed himself today, and a suicidal purge appeared to be sweeping through Nippon's discredited high command. Sugiyama was the third of Japan's hunted mili tarists to kill himself within the last 24 hours to escape trial and punishment as war criminals. His suicide came as American army doctors bat tled to save the flickering life of Ex-Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo, who fired a badly-aimed bullet into his own body late yesterday. Sugiyama was a member of the Japanese high command which ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tokyo, Sept. 12 1U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today order ed the abolition of the notorious Black Dragon society in his sweeping campaign against Japanese war criminals which netted another prize catch, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, former navy minister who planned the Pearl Harbor attack. Shimada was arrested at his Tokyo home while American doc tors fought an apparently winning battle to save the life of the suicide-bent premier under whom he served, Gen. Hideki Tojo, Tojo was reported "resting comfortably" at a Yokohama military hospital. SEVEN BLACK DRAGON LEADERS ARRESTED MacArthur, in another of the swift series of moves to shackle Japan's former warlords, ordered the eradication of the Black Dragon society and the arrest of seven of its leaders. The imme diate dissolution of the society, long one of the most influential groups in Japan, was demanded. Coincident with the arrest of Shimada and four other war criminals by American military police, supreme headquarters or dered the seizure of the Black Dragon leaders. They were listed as Rychel Uchida, Col. Kingoro Hashimoto, Seigo Nakano, Toya saburo Kikuchi, Kokl Horta, Oketora Ogato and Prof. Genchi Kato. The Black Dragon society was a semi-official secret group organized in 1901 with strong assistance from the army, navy and government, many leaders of which were members. DRAGON MEMBERS USED TERRORIST TACTICS It was represented in all occupied territory and operated with "strong-arm" squads and assassins which used terrorist tactics against Japanese officials who displeased the society. The society fostered fascist tendencies and was believed in strumental in fomenting the China Incident and arranging the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The most widely-known member was Mitsuru Toyama, who was called the "unofficial premier" of Japan because of the power he was supposed to wield. He is reported to have died In 1044 at the age of go. Black Dragon society leaders ordered arrested today include some of Japan's most influential powers. Ilirola was premier from March 9, 1938, to Feb. 1, 1937, and served as foreign minister in 1935. Kikuchi was vice minister of education in the Tojo cabinet, resigning with Tojo In 1944. Ogata was appointed minister of information In the present Higaslil-Kuni cabinet and was named by Emperor Hirohito to the house of peers at the same time. Ho also held the post of vice president of the Imperial Rule Assistance association, and for a time directed Japan's youth corps. HASHIMOTO AMONG CLIQUE DEMANDING WAR Hashimoto is a prominent Japanese nationalist leader and was the leader of the pre-war "Young Officers" clique which demand ed war with the U. S. He was involved in Ihe Feb., 1935, revolt and was dismissed from the army, being restored with the rank of colonel at the outbreak of the China war. Hashimoto was reported to have ordered the attack on the American gunboat Panay in 1937. (Nakano was a leading Nazi-Fascist political theorist. In 1943 he was reported to have committed hara-kiri when he realized Japan's hopeless position in the far east.) FRUITGROWERS TO HEAR DISCUSSION OF There will be a meeting of fruit growers in the courthouse auditorium, at 8 p.m., Friday, to discuss Oriental Fruit Moth, an nounces C. B. Cordy, assistant county agent. The appearance of this pest In Oregon has Just been announc ed by state officials represent ing the Oregon state college and state department of agriculture. These officials will be present at the meeting Friday night to discuss the moth's life history and control measures. Just how widespread the in festation is at the present time Is not known. An intensive sur vey is being made now and the extent of the infestation will soon be determined. This pest is particularly severe on peaches but also attacks pears and other fruits. All interested fruit growers are invited to attend. MORSE HALEY, 53, DIES WHILE BATTLING BLAZE Morse Haley, 53, former Med ford resident, died suddenly at Roscburg yesterday while fight ing a forest fire near his home, according to word received by cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Victor I Burscll, route 2. Haley lived licre lor itf years, moving w Roscburg two years ago. Survivors are the widow, Opal: a son, Dale, who recently was discharged from the army after three years service and is now living at Rupert, Ida., a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Reich nd two grandchildren, Marcia and Michael, Roscburg. Four Navy Men Die From Food Poison Bremerton, Wash., Sept. 12 UR) Four navy enlisted men have died and seven others are undergoing treatment because of suspected poisoning from an "unknown agent," Ihe Pugct Sound navy yard announced to day. The first of the victims died Sunday, the second on Monday, and two yesterday. Seven others were taken to the navy hospital at the yard for treatment and doctors said today they would recover. MARINES OVER 35 MAY GET RELEASE Washington, Sept. 12 (U.R) The Marine Corps announced to day that, effective immediately, all male officers and men over 35 or with. 70 or more discharge points will be eligible for re lease. The critical score for women marines remains at 25, however. But til personnel, women as well as men who are 35 or older will be cbgible for discharge, the Marin Corps said. The new conditions for dis charge eligibility apply to per sonnel whether they are serving within the United States or over seas. Trumans To Spend Week End At Home Wa-.hlngton. Sept. 12 (U.R) President and Mrs. Truman will : pond the next week end at their home in Independence, Mo., the White House announced today. 1
