U.S., Britain To Keep Atomic Bomb Know-How Secret
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudy to
cloudy with rain ihowen In
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Free, to S A. M. Today- 7
Fortieth Year
SOLD TO GREENS;
1 mm CASH
150-Acre Property To Be
Devoted To Raising Super
Fruit for Gift Box Trade.
The entire capital stock In
Wing Orchards, Inc.. owned by
Charles A. Wing, Elizabeth S.
Wing, and daughters Acacia
Jean and Charlotte Ann Wing
has recently been sold to Gordon
R. Green and brother, George
Green. Announcement of the
sale today placed the total con
sideration at approx 1 m a t e I y
$100,000.
This is said to be the largest
single cash orchard transaction
in some 15 years in the Rogue
River valley. The sale of Wing
Orchard, Inc., includes approxi
mately 100 acres in apples, pears
and alfalfa and 50 acres of tim
ber land, also a beautiful and
modern country home, fully
equipped packing plant, all orch
ard equipment and modern
barns and extensive stock cor
rals. Productive Place
The orchards and farm which
originally consisted of 450 acres
were purchased by Wing in
1929 from Mr. and Mrs. Howard
C. Bare. Immediately upon pur
chase the new owners set out
to improve, remodel and rebuild
the property. Gradually it be
came known as one of the most
beautiful as well as productive
properties in the valley. Fruit
grown and packed on the prop
erty has, over the past 10 years,
under "Wing-Caw" and "Old
State Road" brands, become fav
orably known in all markets of
this and foreign countries. Be
cause of the high quality and ex
tremely large sizes of Wing
Orchard fruit, many blue rib
bons were taken at fairs. On one
occasion first prizes were won
at the Western States Exposition
in Phoenix, Ariz.
Later the Cloverhill Dairy was
started by Mr. Wing and was
developed as Wing's Cloverhill
Golden Guernsey dairy the
dairy having been operated in
conjunction with Wing Orch
ards. In 1942 some 250 acres of
dairy and pasture land together
with 90 registered Guernsey cat
tle were sold to Barney Roycc
of Portland, Ore.
Wings to South
A little over a year ago Mr.
'and Mrs. Wing purchased prop
erty in Burlingame Hills on San
I Francisco peninsula and took up
i residence there while Acacia
Jean completes her courses at
Mills college and Charlotte Ann
studies cello with Herman Rine
berg of San Francisco symphony.
Mr. Wing contemplates divid
ing his time between Medford
and Burlingame having other
extensive property interests in
southern Oregon.
According to Gordon Green,
the Wing Orchard property will
be devoted primarily to the rais
ing of top quality, large size gift
fruit, both pears and double red
delicious apples. In addition, he
plans as a hobby the raising of a
sizeable herd of thoroughbred
riding horses.
Buys G. P. Property .Too
Mr. Green also purchased the
Amos W. Mitchell orchard and
property near Grants Pass for a
reported cash consideration of
S25.000. Thus is a beautiful 42
acre orchard and vineyard conv
plete with attractive furnished;
home and barns and located j
I close to me Appicgaie i
seven miles out of Grants Pass.
In addition to growing high
quality fruit the Grants Pass
property has extensive barons,
pasture and corral facilities all
of which wil be used to further
Mr. Green's hobby of raising
thoroughbred horses.
Extensive improvements are
already underway to further
beautify both properties, the
new owner said.
A Roosevelt Memorial Bond
W being offered for sale in the
Vlctorv drive. This bond sells
for $150.00 and matures at
$200.00.
Victory Loan Drive
"E" Quota $525,000
"E" Sales to DM.
$104,994
Remainder to tell ... $420, 00S
MEDFGRDjr
United Press
Valentino's Wife
(Acme Telephoto)
Revealed by relatives as original
"Lady in Black," who yearly placed
flowers at the tomb of screen lover
Rudolph Valentino, Marlon E. Wil
son is in Santa Monica, Calif., hos
pital receiving treatment for over
dose of sleeping tablets in suicide at
tempt. A one-time Follies beauty, she
kept secret for 20 years her marriage
In France to Valentino and the birth
of their daughter.
BODIES' OF IRE
AMERICAN PILOTS
Yokohama, Nov. 15 U.R)
The bodies of seven American
fliers, six of whom apparently
were strangled by the Japanese,
have been recovered from hid
den graves, the 8th army an
nounced today.
Five of the seven bodies were
found with ropes or wires tied
around their necks in the grave
yard of a Buddhist temple. Two
more were recovered in unmark
ed graves along a lonely road
near the Tokyo canal.
The Eighth army's announce
ment followed by less than a
week the discovery of the re
mains of 14 airmen who were
executed and tortured by the
Japanese after parachuting over
Osaka,
Girl Points Grave
A Japanese girl pointed out
the first grave site where two of
the bodies dressed in flying
jackets and coveralls were dis
covered by a recovery team un
der SSgt. Julius H. Waters,
Huntington, Ark.
There was no mound to indi
cate a grave, Waters said. The
bodies were merely wrapped in
straw matting and buried three
feet deep.
A Japanese workman at a
nearby foundry had told investi
gators he saw the two fliers
taken into custody by Japanese
police after parachuting salely.
He later retracted his state
ment. The wrists' of one of the men
were bound together by a rope
which was wound around his
neck.
The shallow graves of the
other men covered with loose
boards and marked by a simple
wood plank inscribed as follows:
"May 24th died in action B-29
crew grave."
BRITISH PUT DOWN
ZIONIST RIOTING
Jerusalem, Nov. 15 (U.R)
Zionist rioting broke out in Tel
Aviv again this morning, but
British troops went into action
swiftly and prevented a repeti
tion of the wild street brawl in
which two Jewish youths were
killed last night.
Dispatches from the Jewish
coastal settlement said small
groups of extremists started
fresh disorders early today but
were dispersed quickly by Brit
ish infantrymen.
Two Jews were injured seri
ously enough to require hospi
talization after this morning's
clash, but there was no word of
other casualties.
HEAR FINAL ARGUMENTS
IN BEN MERRILL TRIAL
Closing arguments in the cir
cuit court trial of Robert Ben
Merrill, charged with assault and
robbery, were underway bciore
a jury today, following the nil
ing of the final witnesses Ihis
morning. It was expected the
case would be in the hands of
the jury tat" today. The case
started lat Tuesday.
Full L.u.d Wli.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1945
AMERON4ANNED TANKS REPORTED
RACING TOWARD MANCHURIA BORDER
TO HELPJGHIANG
Reds Claim Two Shiploads
of U.S. Munitions and Ar
tillery Landed at Tientsin
Chungking, Nov. 15 (U.R)
Communist sources said today
that 100 American-manned tanks
had moved out of the U. S.
marine beachhead at Tientsin
and were racing north and west
toward the embattled Man
churian border.
The American armored col
umns were said to be heading
for Shanhaikwan and Chahar
province, where Chinese Nation
alist armies have been fighting
for weeks to dislodge the com
munists from the Great Wall
passes leading into Manchuria.
Reds Hint Aim
There was no immediate word
from the communists as to the
purpose of the alleged American
thrust. They hinted, however,
that the tanks were to be turned
over to Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek's forces for use against
the communists.
The report was -published by
the New China daily, mouthpiece
o the communist party, and re
peated later by tha communist
office in Chungking.
The communists also charged
that two shiploads of American
muntions, tanks and heavy ar
tillery had been landed at Tient
sin and were being rushed to
the Nationalist stronghold at
Peiping.
They said 13.000 American
military trucks already had bt-cn
moved from India to Chinese
government bases in southern
China and that another 1,000
tanks were on the way there.
Fliers Accused
The New China daily also ac
cused American fliers from
Tsingtao of machine-gunning the
communist lines on Shantung
peninsula on Nov. 2, "killing one
child."
The reported American inter
vention in the north coincided
with word from Chungking mili
tary sources that thousands of
communist reserves were land
ing in Russian-held Dauen and
Port Arthur to take over .ne
Manchurian areas now being
evacuated by the Red army.
Government spokesmen inti
mated that the struggle for pos
session of Manchuria was tipping
rapidly toward the communists.
They admitted that communist
troops already were entrenched
around the Changchun airfield
in position to block any airborne
landing of Nationalist forces,
and that no government planes
had landed there since Nov. 9.
MEDFORD PLANES
HELP IN SEARCH
Yreka. Cal., Nov. 15 (U.R)
The coast guard and the army
today were searching for a Hell
cat plane missing on a flight;
irom Medford, Ore., to Red
Bluff, Calif.
The plane was one of a flight
of nine. Bad weather yesterday
forced four of them to land at
Klamath Falls, Eureka anc" Mc
Clellan Field. Three landed at
Red Bluff. One plane crash-landed
2'-4 miles east of Etna, Calif.,
but it was relatively undamaged.
The pilot was unhurt.
Col. Haynie McCormick. com
mandant of the army air base
here, stated this noon that
planes from the Medford bac
were joining in the search, which
was being hampered somewhat
by the weather. No additional in
formation had been received at
the base.
WEATHER
Northern California: Showers
today and tonight with snow in
the mountains probably clearing
Friday. Little temperature
change. Fresh to strong south
west wind off rna.-l shifting to
northwest tonight i
Ns LWHtHtt1 Lmnrr mS
Butcher of Warsaw
Reaches U. 5. Shore
On Trip From J apart
Hamilton Field, Cal.. Nov. 15
(U.R) Col. Joseph Albert Mel-
sinecr. notorious "butcher of
Warsaw" captured in Japan, ar
rived here today aboard a C-54
transport en route to Washing
ton. D. C. '
The disheveled Gestapo offic
ial, who reportedly directed
Nazi espionage in the Orient,
was lodged in the Hamilton
field guardhouse while awaiting
a plane to Washington, army of
ficials reported.
Although he had denied de
sponsibility for the slaughter of
more than 100,000 Jews in
Poland, Meisinger has been
named by the Polish govern
ment as the Nazi war criminal
who carried out the destruction
of the Warsaw ghetto.
He surrendered to American
reporters in the Fuji-View Hotel
at Kawaguchi on Sept. 7 after
announcing that he intended to
commit suicide if captured by
the Russians because he under
stood he stood "high on their
list of war criminals."
AIRPORT RELEASE
IS NEWS TO CITY
AND ARMY CHIEF
City and army air base offici
als stated this morning that no
information had been received
here relative to a statement by
Leo G. Dcvaney, state director
of aeronautics, that the Med
ford base was one of 11 in the
state to be declared surplus by
the federal government and
would be returned to civilian
status.
Frank Rogers, city superinten
dent, stated that city officials
had had no word of such a move.
The army's lease with the city
is for the "duration of the emer
gency and six months," Rogers
said. At the base Co. Haynie
McCormick stated that he had
not been informed of any change
in status for the field.
Prior to the war the army nad
"servicing detachment" ar
rangement for the field.
Other army, navy and coast
guard fields declared surplus ac
cording to Devaney were Salem,
Redmond, Corvallis, Klamatn
Falls, L a k e v 1 e w , Pendleton,
North Bend, Newport, Tillamook
and Port Orford.
E
Batavia, Nov. 15 (U.R) Rein
forced British troops stormed
and captured the main Indone
sian strong points in the center
of Soerabaja today after beating
off a scries of heavy Nationalist
counterattacks.
Spearheads of the 5th Indhn
division thrust across the rail
road line bisecting Soerabaja
from east to west and advanced
into the southern end of the city
under fierce mortar and machine
gun fire.
They dislodged the National
ists from the government build
ings south of the railroad where
the main Indonesian resistance
had centered.
Late dispatches from the east
Java naval base city said the
Nationalists still were fighting
back furiously, but the brcak
through seriously threatened
their remaining hold in the
southern half of the town.
FOOTBALL SCORE
Valley football fans may
obtain half-time and end of
the gam. scores for the Med-ford-North
Bend district two
championship game Friday
afternoon by telephoning the
Mail Tribune. Hall-time score
if expected to be available
about 3:45 p.m. and the final
tcore ebmjt 4-45 p.m.
JAP WAR INTENT
KEPT HIDDEN IS
Intercepted Messages Car
ried Instructions to Dip
lomats to Continue Farce
Washington, Nov. 15 U.R)
The Pearl Harbor investigation
revealed today that the govern
ment on Nov. 28, 1941, inter
cepted a message from Tokyo
advising Japanese diplomats
here that negotiations with the
United States would be broken
off for all practical purposes in
two or three days.
This and other Japanese dip
lomatic messages were made
public at the outset of the con
gressional hearing which will
attempt to fix responsibility for
the success of the. Japanese at
tack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7,
1941.
Wind-up Nov. 29
The mesasges showed that on
Nov. 22 the Japanese govern
ment instructed Its diplomats
here to try to wind up negotia
tions by Nov. 29.
"After that things are auto
matically going to happen," the
Nov. 22 message said.
This message was Intercepted
and translated byi the United
States the same day It was trans
mitted.
There was no Indication In the
opening day's evidence and tes
timony as to which branch of
the U. S. government intercept
ed the messages or what govern
ment officials were informed of
their content.
The Nov. 28 message from
Tokyo to Japanese envoys in
Washington promised that an
other note to the United States
government would be forthcom
ing in "two or three days."
This was to be a Jap reply to
the 10-point proposal offered by
former secretary of state Cor
dell Hull to solve Jap-U. S. dif
ferences in the Pacific.
To End Negotiations
The message said that when
this reply is received 'the ne
gotiations will be de facto rup
tured." But it warned the Jap envoys
not to give any impression that
the negotiations were ended.
They were Instructed to say
merely that they were awaiting
further instructions from Tokyo.
They carried out their Instruc
tions. The reply finally was de
livered by them to Hull on Dec.
7 as Japanese bombs began fall
ing on the American fleet an
chored in Pearl Harbor.
The intercepted diplo m a 1 1 c
messages were included in a 253
page document containing some
of the messages sent by the Jap
anese government between July
1 and Dec. 8, 1941.
Another set of Japanese mes
sages showed that the Japanese
had sent extensive reports from
Hawaii to Tokyo listing fleet
movements and ship dispositions
of the U. S. forces.
These documents and a num
ber of others were introduced at
the outset of public hearings by
the 10-man congressional com
mittee. They were introduced as
exhibits and made available to
reporters, but were not read or
explained at today's hearing.
SAWYER ELECTED ON
RECLAMATION BOARD
Denver, Nov. 15 (U.R) Direc
tors of the 17 reclamation states
elected at the 14th annual na
tional Reclamation Association
convention for the ensuing year
included:
Oregon Robert W. Sawyer of
Bend.
JUICE GRAPES LOWER
Washington, Nov. 15 (U.R)
The OPA today cut the retail
price on Juice grapes about 15
per cent. The reduction was
made possible by an OPA order
reducing the retail markup for
juice grapes from 40 to 15 per
cent over net costs. OPA said
the 40 por cent markup as "ex
cessive." The retail markup and
retail price on table grapci re
main the tame.
United Pi
ill
Many See "Vision"
On 16th Night As
Bronx Boy Prays
New York, Nov. 15 (U.R)
Young Joseph Vitnlo's reported
vision of the Virgin Mary in a
Bronx lot and what she told hiin
remained the nine-year-old boy's
secret today.
"I won't tell you what she
told me," he shouted at report
ers last night. "She told me not
to tell."
It was the 16th night since he
claimed to have seen a vision
of the virgin. Approximately
30,000 people stood in a Grizzling
rain in the streets, surrounding
the rock-littered vacant lot to
watch him pray.
Many left the scene, convinc
ed that they had witnessed a
miracle.
James Sheridan, 44, of the
Bronx, said, "I'm hard to con
vince, see. But I saw it. It was
there on the side of the build1
ing. I saw the virgin's figure,
just as plain as anything."
CAMP HOSPITAL
ON NAVY'S LIST
TO BE ABANDONED
Thirty naval facilities In the
northwest, Including the Camp
White naval hospital, are to be
abandoned by the navy and
turned over to the surplus prop
erty administration for disposal
according to a release from
Washington quoting a report by
Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal.
Dr. Harry LnFavre, captain In
the navy medical corps and com
manding officer of the Camp
White hospital, stated today that
he had not been Informed of
any change in plans for the hos
pital and added "there Is no rea
son to think it will be imme
diate." The officer said patients
and officers continued to ar
rive at the hospital, and that
343 patients were now listed.
Chamber of Commerce offic
ials of Medford point out that
it had been known for some time
that the naval hospital could not
be considered In the nature of
a permanent installation and
that efforts were being n.adc to
Interest the Veterans' Admini
stration in its disposition.
Elks Roll Call
Session Tonight
The local Elks' lodge will con
duct its annual roll call at the
regular lodge meeting tonight.
All members of 1 108 are request
ed to be present. A lunch will
be served after lodge.
Eisenhower Declares U. S. Military Power
Greatest Force For Peace In World Today
Washington, Nov. 15 (U.R)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower de
clared today that this country's
military power is the "greatest
single motivating force for world
peace. "i
Testifying before the house
military affairs committee In
support of universal training
legislation, he added:
"This is our greatest assurance
of keeping the peace for which
we fought.
"Far from being contrary to
the purposes and intent of the
United Nations organization, I
consider It to be essential to the
success of that organization."
No Time To Prepare Again
Eisenhower, the allied com
mander whose forces smashed
Germany In the west, flew to
this country from his occupa
tional headquarters at Frankfurt
to present his views to congress
on universal training, merger of
the armed forces, and operations
of the United Nations relief and
rehabilitation administration.
He told the military affairs
committee that such "astound
ing advances" in the science of
destruction as the atomic bomb
and electronic warfare will
make It impossible for the Unit
UNE
Leased Wii
NO. 202.
GJ. OFFERS FLAT
10 PER CENT HIKE
Offer Made as Talks Re
sumed; We sting house
Workers May Strike.
By United Prett
General Motors offered 330,
000 employes a flat 10 per cent
increase in hourly pay today, as
the Ford Motor Company told
the CIO United Automobile
Workers that this was not the
time to settle the wage issue.
The offer was made by GM
Vice President H. W. Anderson
as the company and Union re
sumed their wage talks.
Plan 45 Hour Week
Anderson said the offer was
based on the company's inten
tion to work production em-
ployes 45 hours weekly assur
ing them of minimum overtime
of five hours a week.
The proposed boost would give
workers six per cent more "take-
home" pay for 45 hours than
they received during the war
for 48 hours' work.
Meanwhile 16,000 Westln
house Electric Corp. production
workers voted to strike if neces
sary to enforce wage demands.
275.000 Idle
Ford's first official statement
on the UAW's demand for a 30
per cent pay hike came at strikes
and shutdowns Idled more than
275,000 American workers.
The company advocated delay
In settlement of the wage Issue
because pay boosts "would have
to be based on guesses of what
our volume of production and
our costs are going to be and
on guesses as to what earnings
if any we should be able to
make."
The CIO electrical union re
ported that Pittsburgh General
Electric employes had voted
"overwhelmingly" to use the
walkout weapon If necessary.
The union seeks a $2 a day wage
increase.
The balloting was held to com
ply with a requirement In the
local union's constitution. The
national labor relations board al
ready had scheduled a strike
vote for Dec. 8.
FREDERICK GRAY RITES
SET FOR 3 P. M. FRIDAY
Funeral, services for Frede
rick William Gray, who passed
away Tuesday, will be held at
3 p. m. Fridny at the Congcr
Morrls chnpel with the Rev. Dcl
bcrt Daniels officiating. Inter
ment will follow in IOOF ceme
tery. ed States to prepare for World
War III after the fact.
"If war comes to us again," he
stld, "the fact seems Inescapable
that we will not have time to
train units before we are faced
with the final issue of defeat or
victory.
"We must be prepared on M
day the day the enemy strikes
or we may never be prepared
tc avert defeat at the hands of
any aggressor who uses against
us the weapons of the future.
Prepare First
"The only difference now, and
the great lesson of World War
II, is that It must be done be
fore, not after, the first shot is
fired."
Elsenhower said he was sure
"no true American would be
willing to take on his own shoul
ders the awful responsibility tor
actively prohibiting all trailing
and thus leavng our country de
fenseless and naked before a
future enemy armed with wea
pons of today."
The proposed bill calls for one
year of military training for all
able bodied youth starting when
they are 18 or upon graduation
from high school, whichever i
later.
TO
USE ADVOCATED
Truman, Attlee and Mac
kenzie for Sharing Indus
trial Application of Power
London, Nov. 15 U.R) Dr.
M. L. E. Oliphant, British
scientist who cooperated in
atomic research, said today
that it it poiiible to produce a
to-called atomic "poison gar"
which would kill every living
thing within 1,000 mile.
Washington, Nov. 15 U.R)
Prc-sident Truman and the prima
ministers of Great Britain and
Canada concluded their atomic
bomb control talks today with
an announcement lhat the me
canlcal know-how of bomb pro
duction would continue to be
kept secret.
They recommended the estab
lishment of a commission under
the United Nations organiza
tion. This commission, they
said, would work toward "en
tirely eliminating the use of
atomic energy for destructive
purposes and promoting its wid
est use for industrial and hu
manitarian purposes."
Fear Secret Spread
The statement of policy draft
ed by the three leaders advocat
ed the widest exchange of basic
scientific knowledge, but ex
pressed the belief "that the
spreading of the specialized in
formation regarding the practi
cal application of atomic ener
gy" for military purposes would
not contribute to a constructive
solution of the problem of the
atomic bomb,
"We are not convinced," the
statement signed by the three
leaders said, "that the spreading:
of the specialized information
regarding the practical applica
tion of atomic energy before it
is possible to devise effective,
reciprocal and enforceable safe
guards acceptable - to all na
tions, would contribute to a con
structive solution of the prob
lem of the atomic bomb.
"On the contrary we think it
might have the opposite effect.
We are, however, prepared to
share, on a reciprocal basis with
others of the United Nations,
detailed information concerning
the practical industrial applica
tion of atomic energy just as
soon as effective enforceable
safeguards against its use for de
structive purposes can be de
vised." The commission, according to
the plan outlined in the com
munique,, should be instructed
to proceed immediately to pre
p a r e recommendations. The
commission would be called
upon to make specific proposals:
1. For extending between all
nations the exchange of basic
scientific information for peace
ful ends.
2. For control of atomic ener
gy to the extent necessary to
ensure its use only for peaceful
purposes.
3. For the elimination from
national armaments of atomic
weapons and of all other major
weapons adaptable to mass de
struction. 4. For effective safeguards by
way of Inspection and other
means to protect complying
states against the hazards of vio
lations and evasions.
Thus, it was left to the United
Nations to adopt recommenda
tions on these subjects as hand
ed to UNO by the commission.
In this connection, Eisenhower
said the nation's fate in a future
war will depend on Its younger
men.
"They are more readily adapt
able to combat conditions and
possess more vigor and dash,"
he said. "Certainly, the techni
cal services must comprehend a
high proportion of younger men
who are capable of mastering
the radically new techniques of
future warfare."
Alternative Told
The alternative to universal '
military training, Eisenhower
said, is the "criminal sacrifice
of untrained young men, or call
ing on unfair proportions of otd
er men who have already done
their duty."
Declaring that the "facts o(
today must be faced," he added:
"The preservation of our way
of life in a world which twice
within a single generation has
fought to virtual exhaustion de
pends squarely upon the nation
al security.
"That is a truism. I sincerely
believe that the only practicable
way to assure the national se
curity is by peacetime military
training and that this must be
universal."
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