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Japan's GHQ Brain Trust For War Formally Abolished T 1 r3 Weather FORECAST: Fair tonight and Friday with increasing cloudi ness and cooler. Temp. Blghest Yesterday 100 Lowest this Mornlni ........... M Fortieth Year GRADE SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDAY Senior High Delays Opening To October 1 Teachers Listed For New Year Medford's four public elemen tary schools and the Junior High school will open Monday, Sep tember 17. Opening of the sen ior high school has been post poned until October 1 on ac count of the labor situation. High School teachers will report for special assignment work be ginning September 17. Pupils for grades one to six. will report for registration at 8:50 a.m. Monday, September 17, at their respective schools. An urgent appeal for hom ing for - Medford's school teachers was made today by E. H. Hedrick. city school superintendent. There Is dan ger of losing three or fcur teachers, who have come to Medford from the mid-West and who feel they must leave because of the housing short age, according to the superin tendent. Needed immediately are an apartment, a house, and several rooms, or double apartments, which should be at least partly furnished, Hed rick said. Persons with avail able housing should call at the school office in the city hall. All pupils are eligible to enter school if they are six years of age on or before October 29. 1945. Pupils who are younger, but who will be six on or before January 26, 1946, may enter if thev can pass a test showing them to have a mental age of six and a half years. Mental age AvomintinnQ fnr vnung Pupils are being given on appointment during the week of September 10 to 14 at me junior School by Mrs. Blanche Canode, phone 4616. Entering of under age pupils Is generally discour aged by school authorities who say it has seldom proved the wise thing to do. Handicapped Aided The Medford City Schools pro vide several forms of special education to serve the needs of the handicapped pupils in the district. Parents having chil dren who are physically handi capped, or who need any form of special education should get In touch with the city school of fices (phone 2157), so that pro vision mav be made for them be fore opening of school on Sep tember 17. The following elementary schools of the city house grades one to six: Roosevelt. Lincoln. Jackson, and Washington Roosevelt school serves all ter ritory east of the center line of the Pacific Highway. Lincoln school serves that portion of the citv west of the Pacific High way and east of tne am.. ...... Pacific railroad tracks. Jackson school serves the northwest part of the city, being that portion which lies west of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and ... . i;nn nf CSl north ot tnc ten..-. ... Mnin Mrcei a - , XI,rhlVV YVrlNIHIIUllM' ,M" . .u. serves the southwest pari v.- . . . . .....t city, of that lermu.j ornini v n "n " oi me """-":-:.. Main of the comer i. , " ,.iBn. ; c:. . .Inrksonville mir n.Miio Hieh-I Z ri report' w w MondLVl SfniS hv theiV l w n V All minils ' 4l.nl,. nwn SChOOl ! tormined by the , . residence. Jin. i -School serves me vuu.c y. -- grades seven, eignt aim 'i ; The Senior High acnooi .m - S serves the entire cu ten, eleven, ana oi.n Transportation t-:.. Unn1arV SChOOl tricts will transport their chil dren to Medford. Districts 29 TDewevl and 24 (North Phoenix) will deliver their e omentary pupils to the Roosevelt Scool. Districts 15 (Independence 6 (AcatC and 102 (Kenwood) will deliver to the Jackson scnuu. All elementary textbooks arc. furnished according to law to , pupils of the first eight These will be distributed at tnc; tim, of their registration in me several schools of the city. As already announced the Senior High School will not open until October 1. Superin tendent E. H. Hedrick urged ihat oil students from the High School who are employed in the fruit harvest, or in other worK,. United Press 'Made It Says 'Pappy' Arriving Home "if I Acme iciepnoioi Lieut. Col. Gregory Boyington. famous Murine corps ace who wouldn t stay missing, arrives "home" at Oakland Airport to receive a tumultuous welcome from former members of his famed Block Sheep Squadron. He was shot down off Rabaul and spent 20 months in a Japanese orison camo. stay on their jobs at least until that time. Students of the Jun ior High School who desire to remain on their jobs a week or so after school opens will be encouraged to do so, and may enter late without any serious injury to their work. Teachers To Meet A general teachers meeting for all teachers, principals, and supervisors will be held in the Junior High School, September 15, at 9 a. m. when general plans for the year will be dis cussed. This meeting will be followed by principals' meetings in the several buildings. A meeting of all elemeniary principals will be held in the superintendent's office at 2 p.m. Friday, September 14. Following is a list of the elementary teachers and princi pals by schools: Jackson School: H. W. Gustin, principal, Ruth Bolton, Nina Carlon, Eunice Gray, Anna Laura Honts, Precia Medley, Flora Merriken. Ivan D. Mur ray. Ruth Stewart, i,oueiia gcrmeider. Dena Weber. Roosevelt School: Sara Van Meter, principal, Anna B. Car ter, Mary Coffin, Esther Flieel, Eleanor Hamilton, Roberta Hill, Alliean Maxwell. Louise Mogle, Elizabeth Rice, Kathleen Silver, Frances Weaver. Lincoln School: Ora Cox, prin cipal, Ethel Boggs, Margaret Ruth Bolton, Ethel Chastain, Ruby Clark, Norma Ebnother, Thelma Halverson. Mary Nor vell. Loma S. Smedsrud. Washington School: Frank F. Honts. principal, Marian Bee son, Blanche Canode, Leona Crane. Georgia Davis, Lysle Gregory. Amy Harding. Kath ryn Larison, Alice Lynch, Fran ces McNeil, Myrtle Patterson, Dora Mae Shepard, Emnice Smith, Gertrude Watzling, Laura York. Pupils who are new to the Junior High School should reg ister. Friday, September 14, if possible. Announcements re snectlne Senior High registra tion will be made later. Teachers Listed Following is a list of the teachers of the Senior High and Junior High schools: Senior High School: Lester D. Harris, principal. Josephine Kirtley. vice principal. Louis Basford. George Barnum. Scott E. Brill. Mary Busch. EHe Eut- ,Pr. Olivia Clavpool. Barbara rnmntnn H. F. Cone. Joan Cunnineham. Olive Curry Mnr. i i nun i ill . w nc -ui'j. ...... . . . aret Fisher. Gertrude Fredrick- son. Gladys Herron, Verna Johnson Jonnson. c. i. j.n..r., . nuoise Kirtley. Alberta Loil; L. A. Mentzer. 1. A. Mirick. 1 Dhie Mvers. Mabel Nan: E. M. Kirtley, Jac- Loiland. Del- sen. Laura Phillips. Constance B. , Schaucr Ruth Scther, Lluaocm J. W. Shelton. Al. Simp- Jo Anne Smith. Johnnie , Smj j c Tuckcr Dclie Whis- , cnant Dorothy Wilson, Mrs ; Rvtier Berg. Eva Aamodt. Junior High School: Glenn L Linn, principal. Ethel bcott vice principal. William Conney. Marie Considine, Agnes Deaver Ruth Ella Dickerson. Lois Dor land I.avina Franck. Annette Gray. Virginia Hammond Ray Henderson. Gertrude H-.lmes. Zoo Hubbs. Maybellc Klemm. rem ice Kmizman. Harriet MarfotlUtor Jean. McA1i;,cr Ccce!ia McCorkle.i Florcnce Mosthaf. Mabel Nit7d.j e Cov Robinson. William I - Thnmr,if,n Mar. jorie Votaw. Virginia Wait.'.""w k Ruth Woods. Marvel Yung. I D,",rk' J'''" "' j Tresh; Zuber, Turner (10) Washington, Scot. 13 U P) , Robinson. Federal wartime controls overj Detroit 2 9 oil oroduction in California will Philadelphia 3 7 end Oct 1, it was announced today DFORD Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, iieiipiai.Sira COLLEGE PUPILS GRANTED DELAY FOR FRUIT WORK Oregon college students con sidered essential to the harvest ing of fruit crops in the Rogue River valley and other parts of the state will be permitted to register late for the fall terms, according to a statement from the Oregon Board of Education received in Medford today. Local fruit producers and pack ers a few weeks ago made a re quest, through the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, that the opening dates of the schools be set back since great numbers of students were aid ing in the harvest of a record fruit crop. The statement refcds in full: "Under authority of the State Board of Higher Education, the University of Oregon, Oregon State College and the Oregon Colleges of Education, desiring to be of assistance in the har vesting and processing of the Rogue River Valley fruit crop and other fruit crops of the state, have announced that es sential students will be permit ted to register late, or to receive time off after being registered. "The presidents of the institu tions mentioned prefer that the students register by October 6. However, students who feel that they are capable of satisfactorily making up the work are to be permitted to register October 13. "All students desirous of tak ing advantage of this plan should ask their respective em ployers for a statement that thov are essential workers. "This announcement is author-' ized by the central administra - five office of the State Board of Highed Education. Frederick M. Hunter, Chancellor." EVICTIONS HERE The new Rent Control Regula tion regarding the eviction of tenants where a house has bet sold, giving the tenant six months in which to vacate (to become effective September 15) will not become effective in this area according to Marvin Hlxon, local Area Rent Representative. A new owner may gain pos session in ninety days after fil ing e"iction papers in the local Rent Office. BASEBALL National 1st game: Boston .'. 3 9 2 Pittsburgh 4 4 2 Singleton, Logan (R) and Masi Gerhcauser and Salkeld. American St. Louis 2 o I S 2 Johnson Boston 1 Potter and Mancuso; n Ptlak. Chicago 7 (10 innings) 0 and and 1 0 i Tobin and Swift, Florcs, Kncrr i .9; acd Rotar. J&sITRIBUNE AY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1945. disrupt service BY Walkout of 400 Comes Less Than Hour After Network Officials Given Notice By United Press A walkout by vital techni cians of two of the nation's ma jor radio networks today boost ed to nearly . 120.000 tho num ber of workers idle in labor management disputes. Approximately 400 engineers and other technicians left their jobs at 6 P.M. yesterday as the National Broadcasting Company and American Broadcasting Company swung into their heavy Wednesday evening net work programs, many of which were disrupted.. On Short Notice The strikers, members of the National Association of Broad cast Engineers and Technicians, walked out less than an hour after network officials had been handed a 30-day strike notice. Union leaders said the walkout was unauthorized. The men charged the net works with refusing to nego tiate a new contract to replace the one that expired in June, 1944. A strike of 10.000 New York painters and decorators was ex pected momentarily. National war labor board of ficials, meeting with union lead ers In Washington, reported little progress in attempts to settle a strike of 12.000 West inghouse Electric Corp. white collar workers. In Windsor. Ontario, across the border from the Detroit production center, 10.000 Ford Motor Co. employes struck over company refusal, to initiate a 32 hour work week to avoid lay offs. Some 7.400 Ford workers in Detroit remained idle as a re sult of a strike of 4.500 at the Kelsey-Hayes WheePCo., a Ford supplier. Six thousand were out at the Hudson Motor Co., i nnn nt (he Murray Corp.. and some 3,500 affected Dy Detroit strikes. other PT. ELECTS OFFICERS Central Point, Sept. 13 At a meeting Wednesday evening, members of the newly chartered Central Point Post 4310, Veter ans ot Foreign Wars elected two combat veterans of World War l I to office, Marshall M. Day was chosen post commander, and Wayman Warner post adjustant- quartermaster. H. B. Wales, or ganizer of the post, acted as chairman of the meeting. Commander - e 1 e c t Day an nounced other offices will be filled at next meeting of the post in October. He will confer with district VFW officers during the district meeting in the local arm ory Friday evening, and arrange a date for institution of the new post by department officers. BOAT TRAVEL EASED Washington, Sept. 1 3 'UP) The state department and the war shipping administration to day abolished priority restric tions for steamship travel tc all foreign ports, effective Satur day. Villification Of Americans Continues In Jap Broadcasts San Francisco, Sept. 13 (U.R) Domel (Japanese) News agency today broadcast villifying allega tions against American and Sov iet troops, charging them with "Looting, assaults on women and other atrocious acts." A domestic dispatch broadcast from Tokyo and reported by the federal communications commis sion claimed that American sol diers in Tokyo committed 17 cases of looting and robbery on Sept. 12. A Domei dispatch quoting the Japanese newspaper Asahl charg ed Russian soldiers In Sakhalin island off the eastern coast ul THANJXPECTED Senate Committee Told Dis charges From Army 400, 000 Month To Be More Washington, Sept. 13 (U.R) The war department reported today that the army is being demobilized twice as fast as was anticipated on the day that Japan collapsed. Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, chief of army personnel, told the senate military affairs commit tee that discharges have reached the rate of 400,000 a month. To Speed Up He promised that it would be stepped up as additional separa tion centers become available. Henry testified at a committee hearing prompted by a flood of congressional mail since the end of the war demanding faster dis charge of combat veterans. Henry said the V-E day plan provided for cutting the army from 8,300,000 to 6.960,000 ill a year. It was promptly revised when Japan suddenly collapsed in August. The V-J plan, he said, now proposes the release ot 6,050,000 men and women by next July. Home By February "By next February, barring complications, all the veterans in Europe except those in the oc cupation forces and the limited number of supporting units will be returned to the United States," he said. Still others will be withdrawn from Europe by next June. The lack of separation centers has been the bottleneck 'in the demobilization program. Henry said 22 centers were in opera tion on V-E day. Four more will be opened Nov. 1, he said, at Monmouth, N. J., Faning, Tex., Ft. Knox, Ky and Camp Grant, 111. ETO 'S Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris said today he has been unable to locate the parents of Oral W. Pollard, manager of the Forester Jewelry store here, who died suddenly yesterday The parents Mr. nrd Mrs. L. L. Pollard of Portland, were here Friday en route to San Francisco, Morris said, but efforts to locate them have been unsuccessful. Portland police have been asked to secure information on their where abou'.s An announcement on whether cr not an inquest will be held is pending a report from Dr Jo seph Beeman, of Portland, state criminologist Pollard's stomach was sent to Dr. Ercman in an attempt to determine cause of death. ASHLAND SCHOOLS SET OPENING FOR SEPT. 17 Ashland, Sept. 13 All schools in the city, with excep tion of the high school, will open Mond iy morning. City Superin tendent Leland Linn has an nounced. Classes at the high school will get underway Sept. 24. The school board completed Its teaching staff when they award ed the remainder of the contracts at a meeting Tuesday. Siberia, said Soviet atrocities there were daily occurrences." "At the time of the entry of the Soviet fleets," Domel said, "Odomari city contained 12.000 Japanese women and children seeking to return to the Japanese mainland, but they were driven back to the interior on Aug. 28 and Aug. 29. "The Soviet garrison is often replaced and each time replace ments arrive, they invade civil ian homes and ask for women, drinks and various articles. "Owing to these Soviet atroc ities, some women cut their hair and painted their faces black in uriicr to esc a ye Soviet aijauiu." United Preii Full Tojo Rests, but Not ( Arm RfUiiO'l vlefmoto) Shortly ftftor he attempted suicide In his homo nenr Tokyo nnd wna given an American blood transfusion, Japan's ex-premier Ilideki Tojo rallies and rests in a chair In a semt-conscious condition, In the back ground, an American otficer is holding the gun Tojo used to shoot himself. U, S. Navy Radiophoto. WAKE ISLE HERO, FOUND SAFE, WELL Tokyo, Sept. 13 (U.R) Major James P. Devereux, gallant com mander of the heroic U. S. ma rine garrison on Wake island, has been found safe and well in a prisoner of war camp on Hok kaido, northernmost of the Japa nese home islands, and Is awaiU ing evacuation by planes. Thinner and grayer but still trimly alert and military, Dev ereux and other survivors of the Wake island garrison which was overcome by the Japanese in December, 1941. were found at Utashinai in north central Hok kaido. Americans of an air evacua tion group reached the camp at 1 a. m. Tuesday and found Dev ereux and the entire camp per sonnel awaiting them. "The first thing I'd like to get on the record is that we did not send that radio message saying, 'Send us more Japs'," he told the pvapuat inn tnnm i "vc had all and more than we could handle right then and there. There were Just too I manv of them to hold off anv longer. But I did have to give my boys the cense firing order three limes GROUP FOOD USE Institutional food users of this district were reminded today by the local war price and ration board that applications for the next period's allotment and daily record sheets must be in the hands of board clerks tomorrow if they are to be processed locally. Anything received later than Friday will be forwarded to the Portland district office with a consequent delay in handling, it was said. Beginning Monday. Sept. 17, no details of food allotments for instill, tirinnl .-,.. ...it. ln handled in the local office, it was pointed out, and all appli cations and other data arc to be sent directly to the Portland of fice. JOBLESS BENEFIT Washington. Sept. 1 1 (U.R) j The aenatc Finance Committee today began consideration of a compromise Jobless Pay Hill which would toss aside President : Trurrrin's proposed S25-f'.r-2(i- I weeks maximum and substitute instead a simple extension of j preset. I state state benefits to 26 , weeks Chr.irman Walter F. George,! D., Ga., told reporters after a two-hour session that the com mittee had reached no decision on anv section of the bill. He said the committee "might get through reading the bill" this afternoon but held out small hope that it might complete work ) on it allugctUvr, Leased Wiri NO. 143. Too Well, ThankYou Readers Hasten To Take Advantage Of M-T Bargain Rate Subscriptions taken by the Mail Tribune during the first days of the 1945 Bargain Days drive totaled 51 .per cent more than the snme period last year according to Gerald T. Latham, circulation manager. During the Bargain Days subscribers mav renew old subscriptions or start new ones at a special yearly rate. Latham today urged everyone to take advantage of the offer early in order to avoid crowding the final days of the campaign. He also urged everyone to be sure that their checks are made out for the proper amount and that they give their complete, correct address with both new subscriptions and renewals. In addition to these common errors, in past years the paper has some times received duplicate sub scriptions from more than one member of the same family, re sulting in much confusion. For the convenience of custo mers, the business office Is now open until 6 o'clock each eve ning. Washington, Sept. 13 (U.R) The office of Democratic Chair man Hubert E. llannegan said to day he had received a letter from C'ella Gavin, vice chairman of the Democratic central commit tee for Oregon, protesting Presi dent Truman's nomination of Henry L. Hess to be U. S. attor ney at Portland. llannegan declined to com ment on the letter, however, and persons connected with Demo cratic national headquarters in dicated they considered it "a local situation'' which should be resolved within the Oregon Democratic organization, llanne gan, it was said, does not intend to become Involved in the mat ter. Tokyo Rose Trial Sought For Los A. Los Angeles, Sept. 13 .'U.Ri U. S. Attorney Charles II. C'arr today said he would seek extra dition of "Tokyo Hose" to try her here on a charge of treason. Born here in 1916 as Iva Toguri, the dulcet voice of the Japanese radio went through public schools and the Univer sity of California here before go ing to Japan shortly before the outbreak of war. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS E. E. Schlotz, Knife and Fork club organizer, aghast upon re turning to his hotel dinner table from a telephone call, to find his seat taken. Tribune Carrier Charles Han- sen greeting a former customer and reminiscing with her over the time the family dog bit him on the leg while he was attempt ing to deliver the paper. Fred Strang In to fork over his bargain day subscriutiun - 1 check. I LIST SUPPLANTED Defeated Nation Moves To' Comply With MacArthur's Orders Tojo Improving Tokyo, Sept. 13 (U.R) Japan ousted Taketora Ogata, first and so far the only member of th present cabinet to be numed a war criminal, as propaganda minister today and formally dis solved imperial general head quarters. The action came less than 24 hours after Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur listed Ogata as one of seven leaders of the notorious, militaristic Black Dragon so ciety wanted for trial. Japanese sources said two other leaders listed were dead. Diplomat Successor Named to succeed him as pro paganda minister also known as president of the information board was Tatsuo Kawai, a career diplomat who was min ister to Australia at the outbreak of the war. The Japanese obvi ously hoped he would be mor acceptable to the Allies than Ogata. Other developments included: 1. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu called on MacArthur at 3 p. m., perhaps to notify him of Kawai's appoint ment. 2. Former Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan's No. 1 war criminal, appeared well on tha road to recovery from his botch ed suicilo attempt Tuesday. 11a no longer pleaded with doctor to let him die and his condition was described as "very satisfac tory." 3. American military polica halted their roundup of war criminals named by MacArthur and granted a Japanese request for permission to deliver men m "good health." Togo Said 111 4. Shigenori Togo. Tolo'a foreign minister at the time,o Pearl Harbor and No. 2 on tha list of 4war criminals, was re vealed to have gone to tha northern Honshu resort of Kuiz ara because Qf "poor health." 5. Lt. Gen. Shigemori Kur oda, Japanese commander In the Philippines in 1942-44 and No. 13 on the list, told a United Press correspondent he did not know why ho was accused of war crimes, but was ready to sur render. . 6. Radio Tokyo said MacAr thur gave permission for Japa nese airways to resume service on four lines Friday to expedite the Allied occupation of Japan. 7. The Japanese government notified MacArthur that all 17.. 000 students at naval colleges and intendance schools, now on summer vacaticn, had been dis missed, . Brain Trust Out The official Japanese Domel agency said imperial general headquarters the brain trust in Japan's prosecution of the Paci fic war was abolished formally as of noon today (10 p. m. Tues day, CWT) in accordance with MacArthur's orders. Filipinos on the war criminal list, however, probably will be taken into custody by the Amer icans at Nana within a day or two. The Filipinos include Jose P. Laurel, who headed the Japa nese puppet government at Manila, The only two Japanese so far in custody were Tojo and Ad miral Shigetaro Shipinda, navy minister at the time of Pearl Harbor. UERO'SJELCOME New York. Sept. 13 (U.R) Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, his leathery face set with a bright grin, rode through a Jun gle of ticker tape and confetti among the skyscrapers of New York today and told cheering thousands at City Hall that the sacrifice of the men of Bataan "will have been in vain if we ever allow this nation to grow indifferent to danger again." standing before a huge map of the tadpole-shaped Isle of Cor regidor, Wainwright acc e p t e d the city's honorary citizenship from Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, who summed up the thoughts of 350 000 persons massed in City Hall plaza when he said: "Whenever the good Lord will want to make a better man, he'll use General Wainwright as a model, lie typifies the strength of our country, the endurance of our people, and the courage of the American soldier." Washington, Sept. 13 (U.R) Manufacturers now can make any size tiro they want, but they must stick to a single quality i.i each size, the war production board announced today,
