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Mm HE PNI o)fnlMo)Rf5)($- ffll 'JAe War Today By DeWITT MaeKENZIE Associated Pre War Analyst IS It nccessury for tlie allies to nnfnriM liiifiniiHItlminl ; stir. render on JupanT That question naturally arises from tho statemont by Nippon'! Admiral Klchlsnburo Nomura that our policy of unconditional surrender la only costing in hinder casualties. Nomura (who Incidentally seem to bo one of the few Jim ndmlrul that haven t committed hura-klrl for the honor of the mikado) presum ably la fishing for easier peaco conditions that, and trying to vauso discord among the allies. It's a aufo bet that Japan would leap at terms which would per . nilt her to rnlvago any of her war-loot. A PnOPOS of this great prob lem there has boon running through my mind Ilka theme snng a phrase which came out of Berlin a week ago in a news dispatch. Daniel De Luce, an Associated Press correspondent, In reporting tho entrance of American troops into tho Ger man capital, wrote this graphic line: "There were tears of Joy and cries of 'God be thanked' from some Berllners, but other were silent and sullen." Let's not forget that "but others were silent and sullen." It means that these "others" aren't repenlent. They would provide fertile soil for tillage by another Hitler. If we hadn't com pelled unconditional surrender and thereby made sure that we could complete the task of knocking militarism out ot Oar many. PRUSSIAN militarism Is a ter- rible evil, but It probably Isn't so deeply Inbred a is the Japanese brand. Nippon's lav age glorification of war rum persistently through the long centuries of her history. The soldier always has been the hero of the Island empire. But there's another and even more Important aspect of tlie situation. This Japanese war of aggression Is founded on more than 4hf mnnl rilrit in Inprease the mikado's domains and .. In fluence. Underlying It Is the devilish design of forming . a powerful Asiatlo bloc of nations which would be pitted In con flict against the western world. There we have the makings of the racial conflict which even the 'militaristic ol"d kaiser of Germany warned the world to beware as It would the devil. THERE Is evidence that ' even recently the Japanese militar ists, realizing that they are losing the war, have been plotting an other assault twenty-five years henyWere they permitted to carry out this scheme, they would be a far more formidable enemy next time than they are now. Jnpnn has learned much about modern war from her disastrous contact with the western powers. Her operations In many respects have been cmde as compared with the methods which have been carried against her from out of tho west. But they won't be crude next time. THUS If thero li any lesson which stands out in our war aaalnst Jnnon. it la that she must be rendored Impotent to do further damage She must be trlDoed of every weapon, and must be deprived of the where withal with which to create fresh war materiel. What then Is thorc for us to do but to exact unconditional surrender? Thero Is no- al (Continued on Pago Threo) Lumber Union To Demand Pay Hike Of NLRB SEATTLE, July 11 (IP) John (jnrisienscn, president or tnc Northwestern Council of Lum ber and Sawmill Workers (AFL) said the union will meet at Port land July 18 to present the na tional labor relations board a formal strike vote if action has not been taken on the union's demand for a 20-cent-pcr-hour wage Increase, A six-man division of the NLRB will arrive in Portland Saturday, Chrlstenscn said, The council hopes to sec the strike averted, he said, and was hold ing itself in readiness "to go down earlier (to Portland) In case the national board men wish to confer with us," The 30-dav wait rcaulrcd after notification of Intent to strike will have expired by July Approximately 60.000 logger and millworkcrs In Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington and northern California are mem bers of tho union's Pacific Nn'thwest council, Chrlstenscn laid. : . WEATHER (July 11) Max. (July 10) 84 Mln. ... 60 Precipitation last 24 hours .01 Stream year to date , 13.25 Normal... 11.07 Last ye r.. . 8. 80 Forecast: Scattered a-'ernoon showers. PRICE riVK CENTS a . mi iiia Asi Stripped to the waist, Australian gunners of the 4th .field rtglment, 7th division, tire 25 pound ailUlerr shells at dug-ln Japs at Balikpapan, Borneo, a little more than three miles distant. Black smoke (oils upward In background. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto). ... r ussies oecure oai Bay Area By Shore Tactics v By SPENCER DAVIS - MANILA. July 11 W) Australians by a new shore-to-shore movement In southeast Borneo have completed the capture of the Balikpapan Bay area. Including terrain commanding all of the fine bread harbor and also have forested the fiercely defended Pandansarl refinery area, head quartets reported today. ... , With the enemy still in control of all major fields which formerly supplied the port l!Jv puie bunker fuel and the refinery machinery a mass ot twisted wreckage, the capture ot th port baa no Immediate military significance. Beyond Balikpapan.: onee- the greatest oil . refining and shipping port of Borneo, other Australians of the seventh' division .smashed against, a Japanese slope !, MU Batochampwr, alu .miles- to the, north.-'-"' .:-'.-w , ' - v. Mortbeatt or-the-bay-w the xoed to the great salt" marsh" "oIlfloIdir'Auuieir adrandng llowly beyoaid Monggar airfield trush two Japanese lnfllUation attempU Saturday night. The Auesles gained a thousand yarda along highway ilve, which the esjmy ha attempted to block with drum of biasing oil. The highway swerves inland over rolling forested hill at Tarltlp, about five miles beyond Menggar. but the lighting thus far is still In the flatlands under native cultivation along the coast. Final control of the area around the big Beilkpapan anchorage, which will handle unlimited hipping, was affected by a (mail-boat landing of MaJ. Gen. Mllford' Australians at Djinabora, foui mllce north of previous position at Cap Penadjam on the west shore of the bay. Just IN BABY THEFT MARION. O., July 11 (A) Even the close friends of Mrs. Phyllis Lanman believed ' she was irnlnff In have a baby. was related today after an In fant In her possession was re vealed as the missing J can tiiccn Crevlstnn. The-' .elght-day-old girl, who had been taken from a hospital crib Sunday night, was restored lata yesterday to her mother, Mrs. John L. Crcviston, Marlon .socialite. In Hospital Mrs. Lanman, the 2B-year-old childless wife of a Mansfield candy salosman, is in a hospital, recovering from a scml-hystor- leal shock that accompanied her confession to taking the cnuci, Police Chief William E. Marks said. A medical examination which showed she had not exnerlenced childbirth recently and a study of the baby s footprints oroKc down Mrs, Lanman's story that blue-eyed, dark-haired Jean was hers, . - Before that, her friends were lionunuea on fage xnrec; ; Crumbling Bones Found At Center TULELAKE Crumbling bones of a Human being, be lieved to bo of Indian origin, were found recently by a Japa nese resident of the Tulelake center while he was excavating for an irrigation ditch. The bones were 16 inches below the surface of the earth. Dr. Marvin Onler. Nowell. an anthropologist,' formerly of the leacning staff at the university of Colorado and of Reed col lege, described the bones as those of an immature male. Liquor Wrapping Charge Proposed PORTLAND. July 11 (IP) A S cent wrapping charge on state liquor was proposed today by a Multnomah county state repre sentative as a means ot earning ine state spuo.ouo a year, Joseph E. Harvey made the suggestion to Judge Carl W. Chambers, Pendleton, chairman of a committee seeking ' new sources of stnto revenue. - ill t k. a 'cvfy niiiiffinn av n w" a n held Cape Teloktebang. - Thirteenth alrforce Liberators and Mitchells continued to close ly support ground operations by blasting enemy gun positions, transport and buildings. In northwest Borneo, Aussie ninth division patrols were ac tive but failed to find any Jap anese south of the Mirl oil field area. Supporting aircraft aank three enemy freighters off Kuchlng, a major Borneo air field which Is slightly more than 400 miles east of Singapore. Transport Sunk By Nip Bombers WASKiNGTON, July 11 (P) The navy told how three Japa nese fighter-bombers damaged the transport Dlckerson so bad ly off Okinawa April 2 she had to do sunk tho next day. - Lees of the 29-year-old Dlck erson, with SI killed or missing and is wounded, had been an nounced previously. The craft, a nign-speed converted destroy er, carried a crow ot approxi mately ISO. Tho trio of two-engined Japa nese planes attacked at 6:30 p. m. and within 2a hours tho Dlckerson was a charred, use less hull. While one ot the ene my planes loosed its bombs from overhead, another sped on from the stern, clipped the No. 1 stack, tore a gaping hole in the No. 2 stack and crashed Into tho brldsc. killing all the men In the forecastle and knocking but tho forward guns. hi UKpapan Warship Carries Truman To Big Three Meet By ERNEST B. VACCARO ABOARD CRUISER AUGUS TA, July 11 (IP) Bristling with guns, this historic warshlD ear ned f resident Truman steadily closer today to his first Bis Three meeting on the outskirts oi unriin. Mr. Truman holds high hones his Potsdam talks with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin not only will chart the courso of lasting European peace but speed an allied victory over Japan as well. ' ,, Task Force A two-cruiser task force Is carrying the chief executive and his party across the Atlantic. As tlie ships reached mid- ocean yesterday, 1 Mr. Truman approved the first direct ship board report on his voyage, which up to that point had been . a - . e phone till TH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11. IMS jlikpapon - resistance - point on the low CHARTER OPPONENTS HEARD BY GROUP WASHINGTON, July 11 (IP) Opponents of tlie United Na tions charter trooped before the senate foreign relations com- mlttse today as Chairman Con nallv (D-Tcx.) exDresscd confi dence that any restrictive amendments would be- beaten down..;, ... .- . ... .. - ,- . t The-first opposition witness Mrs. Agnes Waters of Washing ton. . C. was escorted from the committee table -by police men when she attempted to con tinue after her allotted time had expired. "What we need Is a good old lasnionea American revoiu (Contlnucd on Page Three) , Huff on Heiress j Fiies Divorce y LOS ANGELES. July 11 Another filmland romance' )s reached an unhappy ending with the filing of a divorce action by wealthy Barbara i Fibs) Hution Grant against handsome Cary Grant. The thrlce-marrlcd heiress of a great dime-store fortune filed a brief complaint yesterday al leging simply and without de tail that mental cruelty on the part of the actor caused her "great mental anguish' and was detrimental to her health., . through waters as calm as' the Missouri river. Correspondents of the three news services and a representative of the radio networks are making the trip witn tne presidential party. Enjoys Self Up no later than 6 a. m every day, Mr. Truman wears a sporty cap cocked on the side of his head and obviously is en joying himself. He Is suntanned and looks as fit as an athlete. On Monday the president con ducted his newsmen companions on a tour of .the battle-tested ship. It led from the boiler rooms to the highest control towers and took in everything the giant engines, kitchen facil ities, living quarters of officers and crewmen and the air-conditioned sick bay. ! - ' Leaving Washington last Fri Violent Takes Tvo Here Jeep Accident Kills Navy Officer Lt. (Jg) William Ziegler Price Jr., 23, of the Klamath naval air station, was Instantly killed last night when the navy jeep he was driving overturned as an after math of a navy plane accident. Price was alone in a jeep on the way back from Bly, where he had gone with a ground crash crew after two navy bombers locked wings and crashed. The pilots, Ens. Joseph L. Ulman and Ens. Carl C. Wunschel, para chuted to safety. East of Dairy The Jeep accident occurred five miles east of Dairy about 10:40 o'clock last night. Price was driving and In swerving to avoid a porcupine which was crossing the highway, he lost control of the jeep and it turned over.. Price's head was split open and he died Instantly. Price was a pilot in a bomber fighter squadron' of the Pacific fleet and had been stationed here two months. . His wife, Jeanne, has been living here with him and his mother, Mrs. Gertrude M. Price lives in Pittsburgh, Pa. Both have been notified of the accident. The body is at Ward's. Supplies To Be Parachuted i To Mountain Lookout Post ' Due to lightning-caused forest Jlres reauivlng the' services of l? U.-Sr forest service plane at Medford, parachuting equip ment to "the 'Brown . mountain lookout Dost has been postponed - The plane had been . assigned to drop supplies this morning to the one-man-, camp on top-of uvuu-ioot urown mountain in the Rogue River national forest district. , Stsep. Rocky Trail The steep rocky face of the mountain prevents taking equip ment up the trail, and the forest service has arranged to drop an necessary equipment - and ' sup plies by parachute. ' A radio will be among the first articles dropped,- and will be the only means of communi cation between the lone lookout and the forestry office. Tent frame, tent, sleeping bags, stove, and fire-finding instru ments will follow the radio by parachute. . Food supplies will" also be dropped and water for the camp in tin cans and canvas bags. Three loaded parachutes -will be dropped every time the plane passes the target. Man Hikes In Eugene Pueatt, who will man the station, will hike in early the morning of operations, with Ansil Pearce, district guard, and Dave Henthorne. who will assist in landing the chutes and set up the camo. The plane will be flown ' by civilian pilot, Maurice Tedrow, Slot Machine Hearings Set i -Preliir.lnary hearings for Mary Wells, Llllie Pretari, and Gino Carninl, charged with possession of games of chance, will be held in justice court Thursday at 2:30 p. m. Each took time to plead in court yesterday and posted $100 bail. Don R. Newbury, ' prominent Medford attorney, will represent them at the hearing. - The three were -arrested bv state police early Tuesday night in raids on the Buffalo lunch, Lucca cafe, and Tlk-Tok drive-in, in -which eight slot machines were confiscated. '- s ' day night, the party sailed Sat urday from Newport News, Va. In the group smallest staff ever to accompany a president to such a meeting are Secre tary of State James F. Byrnes, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, the president's personal chief of staff, and his military and navai aides. . Brig. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, and Capt. James K. Vardaman. From the port ot debarkation the -party will fly to Potsdam, where it is understood they wll.1 be met by Army Chief of Stuff George C. Marshall, Fleet Ad miral Ernest J. King, chief of naval operations, and possibly Gen. Henry H, Arnold, chief of the army's air forces. Josepi E. Da vies, a special presidential emissary, and other state, war and navy department officials Number 10563 Death Man Missing In Lake O' Woods Waters Richard "Bob" Hollingsworth. 25, was apparently drowned at Lake o' the Woods and three Medford girls and Merle Brad ley of Talent. Ore., were rescued last night when the boat in which they were all riding over turned. Members of the sher iffs office here and volunteer workers were dragging the lake for Hollingsworth's body this morning. - Hollingsworth was in the com pany of Bradley. Bfllie Stewart, Georgie Weight and Shirley De Moss when the : accident oc curred. - Electrical Storm - The five people took a boat onto the lake last night and were in. the middle about 10 D. m. when an electrical storm came up with a stiff wind. The wind lashed the water into waves and the boat overturned. Hollingsworth assisted the girls to get hold of the boat and then disappeared from sight. - Ed Miller, logger working near the Lake o the Woods, heard the shouts for help from me overturned o o a i. ne (Continued on Page Three) and Bob Mercer., construction superintendent on forests will handle thn ehtite drarralnff. t - Seven forest -fires were start ed by lightning last-night, and the forestry plane has been- as signed to drop paratroopers to fight fire near Grants Pass. - - As soon as the plane Is again available preparations will, be made for setting up the Brown mountain, lookout, , it was learned. . .; - .- Passenger Car Rationing To End WASHINGTON. Julv 11 OP1 The war production board, pre dicting the end of passenger car rationing in January, today con sidered an automobile industry request for permission to under take luii-scaie plant expansion immediately.' Henry P." Nelson. WPB's co ordinator of automotive recon version, told a meeting of the automobile industry advisory committee here that WPB would decide "within a - few weeks," on the proposal for a multi-million dollar factory expansion. No. priority aid will be granted, however, he said.- . Gl Bill Gets Committee Okay WASHINGTON, July 11 (IP) The house veterans committee today approved a revised GI bill of rights after discarding a bonus provision for all service men. ' - It makes no major changes in the loan, education, and job pro visions of the original over-all veterans benefits measure but is intended to overcome difficul ties, that have developed during the bill's first year of . oper ation. Stricken out by a one-sided committee vote was Chairman Rankin's proposal to pay every veteran with 90 or - more days of honorable service an outright bonus of $1040. This is the same amount provided in the GI bill for ex-servicemen unable to ob tain jobs. ' also will join the group in Ger many. Mr.- Truman will make the flight in his C-54 luxury liner in which he crossed the conti nent last month to address the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Aboavd ship, the president spends several hours daily with Byrnes and others going over conference matters and Pacific war reports. High speed radio transmitters keep Mr. Truman in constant . touch with- the White House. -' The guns aboard this and the accompanying cruiser are a con stant reminder of the war still being fought on the other side of the globe. Gunnery practice was held yesterday, and Mr. Truman watched the firing. mm Mrs. Fae Burns, IS (above), and Mrs. Lenora Hodgson, 26 Uci t r 1 a 1 at Seattle, Wash;, where they are charged with ailing escape of Italian prison eril of war. They say they lova. tfii will marry the man aftu they axe -divorced. Mrs. Burns, whose husband is in the Pacific, is the mother of two children. (AP Wirephoto). LIGHTNING SPARKS FOREST BLAZES '" Lightning stftrins Tuesday night . started ' dozens ' of v new brush, and "forest fires in the surrounding areas with weather forecasters predicting more elec trical storms lor mountain areas. .. Npne of the many, fires is serious so far, but forest crews are out on all fronts in an ef fort to keep them all under con trol. - 11 Spot Fires" ' Klamath Forest Protective as sociation crews are now out on 11 spot fires started by Tuesday night's storm scattered through out the' county. One new one was reported in the Bly area, two near Penny Springs, four in the Kings cabin country, one In the Aspen lake area and sev en.! more in scattered areas. 1 . On the Klamath Indian res ervation, crews are out on seven spot fires so far, all of which are under control. . . Rogue River Blase ' In -the Rogue - River area. 18 fires .were started last night and were all brought under control today by Rogue River national forest and state forest patrol crews. - None of -the blazes was serious. - - - - . ; : . The fire camp at the "Black mountain - fire nine- miles - south of Tionesta was being broken up this afternoon and only a few watchers are being kept there. The fire started by llgm (C'ontinued oii;Page' Three) . Deaf Mute Boxer Kills Wife, Baby PEABODY. Mass.. July 11 (IP) A weeping . deaf mute sboxer came into- police headquarters today and wrote out before Desk Officer William J. Callahan, "I have just killed my wife-and baby." Police hurried to the home of the man, David Horblit, 26, and found the bodies of his young wife and infant, beaten to death. The medical examiner, Dr. J. W. P. Murphy, who accompan ied Police Chief James Murphy, said the wife, Katherine, 22, also a deaf mute, and baby Carolyn, 22 months, had been struck re peatedly with a hammer found on the scene and that any one of the blows could have caused death. . - . Brazilian Ship Sunk With Yanks RECIFE, Brazil, July 11 (IP) Four United States navy sound technicians were among the missing aboard the Brazilian cruiser Bahia, which went down a week ago today in a series of explosions near the middle of the South Atlantic. - The missing men of the U. S. navy are Emmette Peter Bale, William Joseph Eustau, Andrew Jackson Pendleton and Frank Benjamin Sparks (home ad dresses unavailable). The loss of the 3 ISO-ton cruis er was the greatest disaster in Brazilian naval hMory, Of Its 366 officers and men, only 31 had been landed here. ,:- PLANES BUTTER SUIGIDEDROMES Sincheng Occupied Byj; Chinese; Airmen f. Regroup -. By LEONARD MILLIMAN ' Associated Press War Editor " ' Enemy broadcasts said today the mighty U. S. third fleet withi drew from Japanese home waters after sending 1200 car rier planes swarming over Tokyo airdromes for . 12 hours yester day, but warned that the raiders might return at any moment. ' Tokyo said "about 150" Okl-nawa-based fighters carried on the unremitting, air attack to day, sweeping suicide airdromes on Kyushu island of southern Japan.-. Japs Send Interceptors : The mikado's air force made' no announced attack on the third fleet's task force 38 but for the first time, in months; hurled a handful of interceptors against the U. S. 14th air force hanging over Asia. , . Chinese troops making the only substantial ground gainst of the war occuDied Sincheng. former 14th USAAF base rough ly 200 miles north of Canton and drove toward Kansien, an other former-American air base, Five airdromes have now been. retaken , by the, resurgent Cluv nese..-. " ;' vi;- . , n --'-- Himits Silent ''',- -While" Adm. - ChesteB1 W. Nlmltx .was silent on today' operations - of - task force 38,i Tokyo.:: reports' said America n warshios withdrew "for soma distance-to the south." . But the Japanese admitted the "task, force is still in the seas in the vicinity of our homeland" and defenders were on the alert against, a. ..possible . follow-up raid." - . ; ;. v Nipponese propagandists claimed 26 carrier aircraft wena shot down by interceptors and asserted "almost no damages'.', were inflicted on the more than. 70 - airdromes f .-b o m b e d an straf etL-i. . . -' 154 .Planes. Down Preliminary reports from the task force-said the attack -accounted for at' least 154 pianes, including - 72 definitely de stroyed. This covered only the first - six hours of the attack. Only two of the enemy planes were in the air, both reconnais sance planes -scouting the daring American fleet. ' Other American air unite 'hit 41 small NiDoonese ocean going vessels' from Japan to Java, and 23 rivercraf t. in Java.: The bulk of these 64 vessels.-were dam aged.' ' ; .. - Continuation promised . Admiral Nimitz promised that 'strong United States air forces' based - on.' conquered islands (Continued on Page Three , WeyerAaeuse ? Union Election -Deadline Set WASHINGTON. Julv 11 m-i A collective bargaining election to decide whether employes or the Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany, Klamath Falls, Ore., wish: to be reDresented bv the - AFi, Lumber . and Sawmill Workeft union, or the CIO International Woodworkers of America must be held by August 5, the nation al labor relations board said to-day.- -'': .- J; v : - ,, The board ruled that' mill- workers at the plant may con stitute a separate bargaining unit apart from other employes including the -woods workers. The two groups are "functional ly different," the board said, but they "may be combined in a single unit" if the employe so desire. - The company had argued that all its Klamath Falls -employes ' should comprise a single bar gaining unit. - - i . Production workers at the Weyerhaeuser Timber company here have been represented b" the IWA-CIO since, the faU 6 194" ..... Weed Clearing ; Tests Scheduled - Demonstrations 'and tests to adapt Benoqlor 3C for - use - In clearing canals of water weeds and moss in the local project area will be made Thursday at 10 a. m.j reclamation bureau au thorities announced today. - r Agronomist R. B. Balcom 61 the Washington D. C. office 61 the U. S. bureau of reclamation, and Burleigh B.' Boyer, field re search engineer, will conduct the demonstration. -. , Paul S. Jones from the re gional office at Sacramento ret alnn. 2. will witness the demon. . stration with Dr. Richard Bond of Portland, -biologist for- sol; conservation service of the Pat clfic coast region. Chester Otii from the extension service a) -Corvallis, representatives of thj bureau of reclamation, Klamatt Falls office, and interested farm ers also plan to bo present; -v
