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Newspaper Page TextMacArthur Says Japs Facing rLong and Bitter Punishment; War Criminals to Trial Soon By Hugh Baillit President of United Press (World Copyright, 1945 by United Press) Tokvo, Sept. 21 (U.R) Japan will never again become a world power. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today in an interview with the United Press. "Japan, industrially, commercially, militarily and every other way, is in astate of complete collapse," MacArthur declared. "Her food supplies are scarce and she faces conditions in this emergency that may well become catastrophic. Her punishment for her sins, which is just beginning, will be long and bitter." The supreme commander told me that war criminal trials will commence verv shortly. Japan's army will be absolutely abolished by Oct. 15. The remnants of Japan's navy are doomed to destruc tion, except "minor specimens which may be retainable for scien tific or museum purposes." ALL MUNITIONS TO BE DESTROYED y All Japanese munitions and all munitions plants which survived the war will be destroyed, MacArthur said. Japan will be kept on an austerity basis regarding sports, entertainment, and luxuries. The Japanese are not being treated brutally but the surrender terms, no matter how harsh, are being rigidly enforced, MacArthur emphasized. Furthermore, he said, Japan can expect no relief, no food, clothing or supplies from the allied powers this winter. MacArthur pointed out complete execution of the terms imposed by the allies is expected to take many years. The man who pursued the Japanese from Australia to Tokyo, plans to remain personally on the scene enforcing, directing, and administering allied rule over the Japanese. Reiterating that he has no political aspirations, MacArthur said that he started as a soldier and intends to finish as one. MacARTHUR ON LAST ASSIGNMENT "I'm on my last public assignment, which, when concluded, will mark th Hpfinitp pnri nf mv service." he said. I MacArthur received me in his new headquarters in Tokyo. His paneled office is in one of the few large buildings which survived the bombings. Oil paintings hang on the walls. From the room where a Japanese insurance magnate once operated, the general directs operations throughout the Japanese empire and the regions which Japan once seized. The general is keen, magnetic, decisive, and intolerant of de lavs anri inefficiencies. He radiates enercy and driving force. My own observations are certainly in accord with his estimate Dt Japan s condition as lar as visidie eviueni-i-s an; iuimi. The nation's cities and industries are pulverized and paralyzed Lacking outside assistance, recovery will be extremely difficult. , Vast areas, many square miles of which were once teeming business districts and extensive residence areas, are now niaeous ruins aim seemingly endless jungles of weeds-and rubble. MASSES STUPIFIED BY WAR DEVASTATION The masses of people appear stupified by this devastation and defeat which has been visited upon them, although some leaders obviously are attempting the first steps toward reconstruction and rehabilitation. But anything they do seems almost futile in face of the massive job confronting them. The dominant feeling among the masses appears to be relief that the war has ended before all were killed, but death will stalk the land this winter for lack of food and sneiter. With her cities, factories, navy, and airforce mostly gone, Ja- nan's onlv weaDon at the finish which was prepared to fight American landings to the death 13. .4 ,U; ie iWta naru arrnv tirVtih nnul is lavint? UMIIdWd aiJIL. Ulll lino 10 nib down its arms in droves. Latest ficures show now that MacArthur told me how 150,000 American troops went ashore without loss of a single life. The American armed total will soon exceed the Japanese, after which landings will be continued until 500,000 Americans are on Nipponese son. EMPEROR HELPED BLOODLESS DISARMAMENT MacArthur said this bloodless occupation was impossible with out retention of the emperor for surrender purposes and he de clared that maintenance of the emperor during the disarmament poceedings had resulted in an "untold saving of American lives, I money and time. Durine the interview MacArthur vigorously batted down va rious reports regarding the occupation, such as that the Japanese were hiding arms, that Japanese soldiers were sneaking into the gendarmerie, that the Japanese fail to realize they are thoroughly licked, or that the Americans nave not yet come into actual posses sion of surrendered Japanese arms and munitions. He revealed that the Japanese military and secret police were being abolished, that no permanent Japanese army for policing pur poses will be maintained, that nothing will be done regarding the employment of 3,000.000 Japanese soldiers who must exist or die as members of a civilian population which is already without houses, underfed, and heavily unemployed. MacArthur pointed out that the Japanese diet vttis permitted to meet briefly only to transmit capitulation instructions to the populace. POTSDAM DECLARATION BEING ENFORCED MacArthur greeted me with a smiling but penetrating gaze. We got down to business at once. . My first question: "In the occupation of Japan are the terms of the Potsdam declaration being enforced to the letter?" "Absolutely, yes." "There seems to be an impression in the United States that you are going to tolerate the existence of a standing army of Japanese who will do most of the policing of Japan," I said. "Would you care to comment on this?'.' This query evoked an emphatic reply. . "There is no fabric of truth in this statement," MacArthur said. 7 "The Japanese army is being completely demobolized by Oct. 15 and absolutely abolished." I then asked what would be done with the remnants of the Japanese navy. He replied decisively. "All of it will be destroyed except minor specimens which may be retained for scientific or museum pur poses." Asked how long the occupation of Japan would be continued, MacArthur answered, "I am sure it will take many years to fulfill the terms of the surrender." Asked if he had any authenticated reports of concealment of weapons by Japanese soldiers or civilians. MacArthur said, "None. I have no douht that in the beginning in small isolated cases indi viduals have attempted to conceal arms, but it would be'impossible In anv degree." There have been many reports regarding the numerical strength of the American army at present in Japan and the future maximum which will be required for the occupation, so asked IrfacArthur for a statement on this. 150.000 TROOPS NOW IN OCCUPATION "At the present time there are approximately 150.000 troops in Japan." he said. "The maximum figure will reach approximately 500.000." He said it was not planned to use American troops for any con struction of housing for the Japanese and that there is no plan for importing food, clothing, or supplies for the use of the Japanese population this winter. "Will the demobolized Japanese-army in Japan be put to work under the supervision of American authorities?" I asked. "Thev will be a responsibility of the Japanese themselves." he .said. "They will be absorbed into the normal Japanese civil popu lation." Asked if there was any deterioration in the attitude of respect and cooperation shown by Japanese soldiers and civilians toward the occupation forces. MacArthur replied: "None whatsoever." ' Is retention of the emperor serving a useful purpose." I asked. MacArthur: "His retention during the surrender and demoboliz ing steps is serving its full purpose. An untold saving in Ameri can lives, money, and time has resulted." U. S. Casualties 1,071,266 Washington, Sept. 21 (U P) U. S. combat casualties of World War II were counted at 1,071,266 today, an Increase of 536 over the computation of a week ago. The total included 259,637 killed, 651.934 wounded, 35,328 missing and 124.367 prisoners. The box score: Army Navy Total Killed 205.569 54.068 259.637 Wounded 571.698 80.236 551.934 Mining 24.131 11 197 35.328 Prisoners 120.988 3,379 124,367 Total 922.386 148.880 1.071.266 Of the army wounded. 360.878 have returned to duty. Of the l'risoncrs 98,378 have been liberated. I consisted of a big, formidable army " ....-. J ---o 73 per cent are demobolized. Fortieth Year Ma' Orders Arrest of Jap First Army Heads; Ten Rigid Rules Laid Down For Newspapers REFffitRY STRIKE CUTS PRODUCTION AT STEEL PLANT Over 200,000 Workers Now Idle Over Nation New Trouble Flares in Detroit. By United Press Dwindling oil supplies from the strike-hit Calumet River basin refinery center in north western Indiana forced the gi gantic Carnegie -Illinois steel plant in Gary. Ind.,' to curtail production today. Mure than 20 000 refinery and pipeline workers nad left their jobs in six states to enforce the Oil Workers International un ion (CIO) demand for a 30 per cent hourly pay increase.. The OWIU served notice it was ready to fight to the finish to ob tain the same pay for working a peacetime 40-hour weeklhat (he workers had received in working a wartime 48 hours with time and one-half for the extra eight hours. 200.000 Now Idle More than 200.000 workers were idled by strikes through out the nation. In Detroit, more trouble flar ed when 800 CIO automobile workers closed Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge truck plant in a new dis pute. Compaiw officials said the strikn had developed from the temoorary lay-off of 2,200 em ployes as result of lack of truck parts from st-lke-bound plants. Some 85,000 men were idled by labor disputes in Detroit, where a corps of seven labor de partment conciliators were at work in an effort to iron out the trouble. Hearings were ordered immediately in the strike of 4, 500 Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. workers that had forced the lay off of 50,000 Ford Motor Co. employes. TWO PARK GATES CLOSED BY SNOW Snow which fell in Crater Lake National park last night and this morning drifted In the north and east entrances, forc ing closure of these and erection of barriers according to a tele phone call from park headquar ters this morning. From four to six inches had fallen, park of ficial", reported, and light snow was still falling shortly before noon. South and west entrances are still open, the report said, and it was thought that travel from these points to the lake rim by way of Annie Springs would still be possible tomorrow and Sundav. Staff members will move the end of next week from park headquarters to the Medford of fice and the park will then be closed it was stated. Weather Bureau Employes Leave Charles Wright and family, who have resided at 526 West 10th street since coming to the city in February, left Medford this week for Seattle. Mr. Wright resigned from his position as weather observer with the local bureau and plans to enter busi ness in Washington. Also leaving the weather bu reau this week was Saul Mai mark, who received a permanent transfer to Spokane, Wash. Mai mark has served as an observer with the local station since Nov. 1944. Black Marketing Charges on File Washington, Sept. 21 (U.R) The justice department today charged 12 companies and 23 in dividuals with meat and poultry black market operations in six cities. It said that criminal informa tion or complaints involving a total of several hundred thou sand dollars in over-charges have been filed in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago. Los Angeles, Wilmington, Del., and Montgom J cry, Ala. United Press Full Leased Wire Baby in Woodbox Answer to Prayer Of Childless Wife Seattle, Sept. 21 (U.R) Mrs. Fred Kuhn, of Renton, Wash., found the answer to her prayers last night when she returned home and discovered a tiny baby tucked safely in a woodbox on her back porch. The wife of a jitney driver at a local car and foundry com pany, who said she could never have a child of her own, had made several adoption offers and today she received a very tangi ble reply. The infant girl was dressed in a diaper, nightie and pink sweat er and carefully wrapped with a blue blanket. Attached to the blanket was a note giving the baby's date of birth and formula. "I read your story in a local paper," the note read, "and I know you will see that the baby has a good home." PICTURE WORK AT DIAMOND LAKE IS HALTED BY SNOW Snow at Diamond Lake has rendered filming by Universal Pictures impossible for Satur day, according to word received by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. A request has been issued by Universal of ficials for local people scheduled to appear in "Canyon Passage" to stand by until weather clears. It is hoped that production may be resumed Sunday but that will depend upon weather conditions. If extras are needed Sunday word will be rushed to the iotiil chamber and those who have signed to take part in the pic ture may secure last-minute word Saturday. Everything is ready for immediate camera work when the sky clears, ac cording to Henry Spitz, in charge of Universal Pictures operaiions at Diamond Lake. More than 80 people were in terviewed by Spitz at the cham ber's office Thursday and this community will be well repre sented in the cabin raising se quence of the widely heralded technicolor picture of southern Oregon and Jacksonville. Brian Donlevy, one of the stars of the picture, arrived in Medford this afternoon from Hollywood after a brief trip to the motion picture capital, FIVE (MATED Rccdsport, Ore., Sept. 21 (U.R) Mrs. Martha Doyle and her four children, ranging from one to fiv"! years, were burned to death early today when their farm house was levelled by fire. The woman and children were trapped when the stairway burned and they could not get down from the second story. Mrs. Doyle's mother, asleep on the first floor, managed to escape from the house ad Mrs. Doyle's sister and small child leaped from a first floor window to safe ty. from the house and Mrs. Doyle's in tne army overseas. The farm is located seven miles from Rccdsport on the Smith river. Would Eliminate Year Enlistment! Washington. Sept. 21 (UP) The senate military affairs com-; mittce today endorsed a house-' approved bill to encourage vol-1 untary army enlistments but! eliminated one-year enlistments for men already in service. As amended by the senate committee, the bill would pro vide that those already in ser vice may re-enlist for 18 months. Others would be offered a choice of a two-year or three-year en listment. SUCAR KING DIES Ogdcn, Utah, Sept. 21 -U.R Funeral services will be con ducted t morrow for Joseph Mer rill Eccles, sugar, mining and lumber executive, who died yes terday of a cerebral hemorrhage. Bishop David S. Romney of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) church will conduct the services. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, TO LOW COST AUTOS AT WILL Huge Bomber Plant Leased For Five Years; $10 Stock Will Be Offered Public. New York, Sept. 21 (U.R) The Kaiscr-Frazicr corporation announced today it has leased the $100,000,000 Willow Run bomber plant for five years for the manufacture of a new low cost automobile called the Kais er. Frazcr said that the designs for the Frazer car to be produced by Graham-Paige "have been frozen" while the designs for the Kaiser car, to be produced by the new corporation, are being de veloped. Full Sited Cars . Both cars will be full-sized, six passenger automobiles with the Kaiser selling in the law-priced field and the Frazer in the medium-priced field, the announce ment said. The announcement indicated that under the company's opera tions plan, the new corporation will begin manufacture with cap ital and surplus of approximate ly $20,000,000 and a veteran au tomobile management, engineer ing, production and sales staff. An underwriting syndicate, headed by Otis & Co., Cleveland, and including the First Califor nia Co., San Francisco, and Allen & Co., New York, had agreed to underwrite an offering 'to' the public of 1,700,000 shares of Common Stock at $10 a share, the announcement said. Kaiser and Graham-Paige Motors Cor poration each have purchased 250,000 shares at the $10 price, representing an investment of $5,000,000 in the new company. ATTENTION CALLED TO L IN C. P. ELECTION Central Point, Sept. 21 At tention of Central Point resi dents has been called to Oregon voting laws in connection with the special bond election set for Saturday, Sept. 22, when voters will act on two propositions con cerning the city water system. According to a statement by City Attorney Skyrman, any resident of the city of Central Point who is a citizen of the United States and who has lived in the city for at least 30 days prior to the election and who will take an oath that he or she is registered in some precinct within the state, may be allowed to vote at a special city election, even if their name does not appear on the poll list as prepared by of ficials. Most residents will be eligible under the provision of residence in ihe city for at least 30 days and registration in a Central Point precinct. One proposition provides for bonding the city for $35,000 for mains to connect with the Med ford water system and the other for a bond issue of $80,000 for "repairs, additions, betterments and extensions" to the present Central Point system. The United States leads In orange production with 41 per cent of the estimated world crop of over 212 million boxes. SIDE GLANCES Br f RIBUNE REPORTERS City Supe Frank Rogers play ing the part of Interested on looker and giving a lot of hefvy directions while a fellow em ployee hung a plaque on the of fice wall. Floyd House calling friends to say goodbye before the (predict ed) 7:30 a. m. end of the world. Don Fabcr of Central Point explaining that the city's-present water supply depended on John Cupp'i irrigation. SEPTEMBER 21, 1945. War His Headache From Now On T.i i uii.i.iiiiIii imiimiii mi. je.y.-l il urn n iJ 1) 'JUL--- s i T - r t mMr t ... j h -iriiSSwinw Tit ! ! (Acmt Teleplioto) Newv nominated Secy, of War Robert Patterson confers with President Hurry S. Truman at White House concerning peacetime lob of war chief BRUTES AT TRIAL Lucncburg, Sept. 21 (U.R) A woman victim of a nazi prison camp stood before a British mil itary tribunal today and pointed out among the 45 Germans stand ing trial those she charged with responsibility for murdering her entire family. Mrs. Ada Dimko, a Polish Jew, slowly walked across the tense courtroom and coldly designated the defendants who had shoved her parents, husband, brother, and smnll son into trucks and taken them to tho gas chambers at Oswlccim! ' ' " Sh. estimated that 4,000,000 othens had died in the same man ner tit the notorious concentra tion camp. She said that she too had been bundled Into the truck, but for some reason they had al lowed her to live. The 45 prisoners 19 of them women are charged with com mitting atrocities both at Belscn and Oswiecim. They stood with flushed faces as Mrs. Dimko spoke. Mrs. Dimko, the first witness today, said that she and other Jews were rounded up in a Pol ish town and sent in a single batch to Oswiecim. RAIN AND SNOW END FOREST FIRE DANGER All lookouts of tho Hoguc Riv er National Forest service have been temporarily called in since the general snow and rain which fell over the district last night and this morning, it was stated at tho Medford headquarters of fice today. Some may be return ed later if conditions warrant. Five inches of snow fell al Lake o' Woods, the service re ports, but only rain fell in the Union Creek district. Areas of the forest closed to travel because of fire conditions are now open, the service eli tes, but caknpfire permits arc still re quired. Sacramento, Sept. 21 'U.R) The department of agriculture lias been enjoined from enforc ing a law preventing the sale of cream from other than grade A milk, pending an Oct. 1 hearing Director A. A. Brock announced today. Doomsday Forecast In Error; Wrong Calendar Used Is Word Pasadena, Cal., Sept. 21 U.Ri I The deadline for the world's end pascl at- 7:33 today- without comment from its forecaster, the Rev. Charles G. Long. His son, Frank, appeared at the door at 7:34. "The world hasn't ended," he said to reporters and photogra phers He invited them to stuy until 5:33 p. m., then went buck into the house. Earlier Rev. Long had said the earth might not explode Into va por at exactly 7:33 a. m., but might linger on for another nine days. The founder and leader of the Remnant Church of God said the Lord told him that he might keep that cosmic bomb behind the pearly gates and not drop it on the world at all "if the peo ples repent of their wrongs." nn RIBUNE United Presi F( E Detroit, Sept. 21 (U.R) Henry Ford II, today succeeded his grandfather as president of the Ford Motor Company and head of one of the world's greatest pri vate fortunes. Henry Ford, the 82-year-old founder of the sprawling automo tive empire, and vast other hold ings, resigned the presidency for the second time. He turned over the presidency to his son, Edsel in 1918, but returned to the helm in June, 1943; shortly after Ed sol's death. . . ' . ... .... Facing New Era - "" - The elder Ford increasingly had withdrawn from responsibil itics of management in the last year after piloting the company through most of its war produc tion. His grandson and name sake became executive vice pres ident on April 28, 1944. In retiring at last from direc tion of the business, the gcruus of-f the Model T left the automobile industry he helped pioneer as 11 was entering a new era of un matched production and engi neering advances. "I feel free to tak-3 this step at this time," Ford's letter of resig nation said, "because the critical period during which I again as sumed office has passed." Ford Motor Company .was founded in 11)03, after Ford had built his first automobile In 1093. , Fire Razes Home Near Jacksonville Fire totally destroyed the home of Mr and Mrs. II. M. von Stein on the' Old Sterling Road near Jacksonville about 3 a. m. today. Neither Mr; or Mrs. von Stein or their two sons were home at the' time the men of the family all being on duty for the Rogue River National For est sc-vice while Mrs. von Stein had left to spend the night with friends. Mr. von Stein . stated this morning that he expected to drive down from Star Ranger station to visit the scene. Loss is covered partly by insurance, he said. Tho family had resided on the property, known as the Moulton place, for the past four vears. Rev. Long was feeling pretty vexed too, because he just re membered that in that vision back in 11)38 a moving hand ne glected to tell him whether an ancient or modern calendar was to be used in figuring out the be ginning of all eternity. Long had worked out his date with doom on a modern latest model calendar and, as he gloom ily pointed out, if the Lord meant for him to use thc.pld bib lical calendar his present calcu lations were bound to be way off base. Last night, after a week of prayers and 24 hours of fasting I Long, his 32-year-old son Rich ' ard, and their 50 followers turned the lights and went to bed I just as on any other night. Most j of the 50 were back at Long's I house this morning. Full Leased Wlra NO. 155. L FACE TRIAL AS WAR CRIMINAL News Writers Must Stick to Truth; False Criticism of Allies Also Forbidden. Tokvo, Sept. 21 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today order ed the immediate arrest of Gen. Kenji Doihara, commander of the Japanese first general armv. and imposed 10 rigid restrictions on the Japanese press. The arrest order went out only 48 hours after Doihara was named to succeed Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, who committed filicide Sept. 12. U. S. army au thorities were understood to be considering war criminal charges against Doihara on the basis of his record as a com mander In China. As commander of the first Japanese general army, Doi hara's principal task was to sup ervise the disarming and de mobilization of more than 1, 000, 0CO Japanese troops in cen tral Japan. He also retained command of Japanese eastern army district headquarters. ' Tan Commandments MacArthur said his 10 com mandments for Japanese news papers and other publications were designed to educate them in the meaning of a free press. The restrictions applied to news, editorials and advertisements. Thry were: 1. Newspapers must adhere, strictly to the truth. 2. Nothing shall be printed which might directly or indirect ly disturb public tranquility. 3. No newspoper or other periodical shall falsely or. de structively criticize the allied powers. 4. They shall not Invite mis trust or resentment against al lied occupation troops. 5. They shall not mention or discuss allied troop movements unless these have been officially released. 6. Stories must be factually written, completely devoid of any editorial opinion. 7. Stories shall not be colored to conform to any editorial, line. 8. Minor details of a news story must not be ovcr-cmphasiz-cd to stress or develop any pro paganda line. 9. No story shall be disturbed through omission of pertinent facts or details. 10. The makeup of a news paper shall not give prominence to any story for the purposes of establishing or developing any propaganda line. Follows Suspensions MacArthur formulated hij code after suspending the Jap anese Domci Agency and two Tokyo newspapers for varied lengths of time for coloring news and publishing items which he said tended to disturb public tranquility. The order for Doihara's ar rest followed by two days his first call on Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelhergcr, commander of the Anv-riean eighth army and the man to whom ho was to report on the progress of demobiliza tion of Japanese forces. At that time. Doihara pledged his every effort to facilitate the American occupation. Eichelber ger naid later that Doihara ap peared "courteous and coopera tive." Doihara 61, successively com manded the Japanese army air force, was inspector-general of military education and a su preme war councilor during tho Pacitie war before he was given his pr-.'scnt commands. Two other aecmsed war crim inals, both of them already on MacArthur's list of those wanted for trial, were taken in custody by the eighth army todoy. Thev were Lily Abcgg. a Swiss German propaganda broadcaster on the Tokyo radio, and John Holland, an Australian radio announcer who broadcast Japanese propaganda from Shanghai. Holland was appre hended on Hokkaido Island, northern Japan. Survey of food retailers dis closed that women shoppers who pinch various Items of pro duce while shopping spoil enough In one year to supply 143 I divisions of troops for a week.