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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
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grades seven, eignt aim 'i
; The Senior High acnooi .m -
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,