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isi fib mm KB Eli J . U U L-Z3 m V Established 1873 Bombing Matches Further Devastating Sweeps From Jap Homeland to Solomons ( By the Associated Prets I Ruling the skies from Tokyo to the Solomons, allied air forces struck with increasing fury today, with Shanghai, greatest port in China, suffering the heaviest blow. They bombed and strafed five airfields and the waterfront around Shanghai, starting "many ,.. large fires" and meeting no opposition. This assault on Nipponese defenses, for the second successive day, duplicated further devas tating blows at Japan's homeland and matched the lengthened grasp on the east China coast, 400 miles south of Shanghai, by Chinese troops. . Meanwhile the Navy department at Washington announced that United States submarines have sunk I I more enemy vessels, Including four small combat ships inungKing reported "consider able casualties" were inflicted in frontal engagements with Japan ese withdrawing southward from Amoy toward Swatow. Other Chinese harried the flanks of the retreating Nipponese. The Mikado's troops apparent ly reopened an escape route from Kweiling, former U. S. air base In southeast China. But the Chin ese claimed they had beaten back counterattacks on three columns closing In on Kweilin. Homeland Centers Blasted. Mustang fighters sweeping in from both Okinawa . and Iwo Jima delivered the strongest an nounced blow yesterday against Honshu, main island of Japan. Eighty mustangs from Iwo raked (Continued on page 6) , Fluke Japs' Last A Hope of Tide Turn Nipponese Battling for Time in Final Attempt To Stave Off Knockout ' By DeWITT MaeKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Admiral Takahashi, retired JaDanese naval commander-in-chief, says his country's sea and air forces will go into action soon and that the "day of victory" is ranidly approaching. It perhaps has no special sig nificance that this survivor of the Mikado's hara-kiri club doesn't say whose dav of victory is ap proaching whether it belongs to Nippon or the allies but he needn't elaborate on that point. We already know that Japan is walking the last mile. The onlv thing in doubt is when we shall administer the coup de grace. The Japanese sea and air fleets presumably will come into action, provided our air bombard ment doesn't compel surrender. But they will be fighting defen sively to try to delay our am phibious invasion of the home land. They are following the Hitlerian strategy of battling for time in hope that some fluke will save them. Great things depend on what Stalin is saying to President Tru man and Prime Minister Church ill in Potsdam right now. Ob servers on the scene believe that both America and England are ,." pressing for the quickest possible j action to end the Japanese war. "F."lf that is so, it presumably means that they are using their best arguments to bring mighty Rus sia into the conflict for a speedy Continued on Page 6 Power-Saw Wage Rate Cut In Wesf Lumber Industry is Decided on by National Board PORTLAND, Ore., July 21. (AP) Decision of a six-man divi sion of the National War Labor board to slash the power-saw rate In the western lumber Industry by 35 cents an hour was announced today. The ruling set. aside the $1.75 hourly rate established by the West Coast Lumber commission, leaving in effect the $1.40 guide rate, with some area differentials. Labor members of the board dissented. , The power-saw Issue had come ud In the Willamette valley and Oregon coast operators' cases, the Lumbermen's Industrial Re lations committee case, Involving Douglas Fir operators, and six cases involving northwest pine operators. The decision rejected an appeal of the J. Neils Lumber comoan", Klickitat, Wash., for a $1,671 hourly rate. West Coast Lumber commission action In three other disnute cases ' was uoheld by the NWLB as fol lows: v IDA ruling In the Willamette in far eastern waters, Hon. Foe Supplies Scrap Iron From B-29s, Japs Say (By The Associated Press It's the queerest thing, the way these Superforts are giving a boost to the Japanese war effort. The last anyone heard the Jap anese needed more room in their more commodious cities, and the Superforts provided some. Now, by current Japanese ac counts, recorded by the Federal Communications commission, the hon. enemy was on the verge of running out of scrap iron. And at this crucial moment, said the Tokyo newspaper Ashi, why along came the Superforts and did the Japanese the .follow ing favor: "At the beglning of this war, scrap - Iron' was not Importable, so it was gathered from among the common people. . : "Recently, however, due to the fact that our technical skill has progressed and to the fact that the amount of scrap iron has increased considerably in the war damaged areas, we have been able to get all the scrap iron we want and need." , Now if any Japanese Junk deal ers runs shy on metal, just send word to the B-29s and a cargo of scrap fresh fror the finest war plant a yen can buy will be de livered smack on his doorstep.- Postwar Disarmament Opposed by Rep. Mott PORTLAND, July 21 (AP) If America disarms after the war she will throw away "the very best chance we have of keeping the peace,' Rep. Mott(R.-Ore.) declared here. He said the house naval affairs committee would fight any at tempt to weaken the navy's strength after victory. He is rank ing minority member of the com mittee. "The naval affairs committee," he said, "is of the opinion if we need (postwar) bases in New Zealand, New Caledonia or any where In the Pacific, we should get them and no monkey busi ness." Costly Forgetfulness PORTLAND, July 21. (AP) Robert I. Hoffman forgot furni ture movers were coming when he hid $200 under a bedroom rug for safe-keeping. Today botli rug and cash had been carried away. vallev and Oregon coast operatovs cases was endorsed ordering that employers require contractors and sub-contractors to comply with a collective bargaining con tract with the CIO-IWA. (2) A request of the Cascade Lumber company and the AFL lumber and sawmill workers union for a sick-leave plan was affirmed. (3) Rat es for occupational classifications as set in the Wll lapa area operators cases involv ing 17 lumber firms were approved. SEBURS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 2 1, u AMNESIA FAKE FAILS Karl Horst Max Wackef, 20, arrested by the FBI, is shown above pos ing with the Swastika while claiming to be Pvt. William Walker. USA, amnesia victim. A trained nan espionage agent, he gained nationwide publicity when he arrived in Boston June 19 aboard the SS Wakefield, and returned to this country a "casualty." Truman Believed Trying for Russian Aid Against Japan POTSDAM, . July 21 (AP) Tne Big mree held their fifth meeting today, the American del egation announced, and "much serious business has been done. Both President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill were understood, however, to be an xious to speed up deliberations. President Truman may pos sibly be insisting that bargaining on conference proposals be pre- aicaieo. upon Kussian participa tion, at least to some extent, in the war against Japan. It is re garded as obvious that he is pre senting the American position as stemming irrevocably from the premise of saving American lives. ine negotiations here still are clouded by official secrecy, and it is difficult to determine the extent of agreement reached tnus far. (In London, diplomatic observ. ers said that from the Potsdam meeting may emerge a United States foreign policy free from favoritism, yet friendly toward all nations of good will. Smaller nations' representatives were said to be counting heavily on the hope that President Truman would translate such a policy in to a role for the United States as impartial arbiter in Europe's problems.) The best information emanat ing from the conference area Is that the genial president Is mak ing a hit with both Stalin and Churchill because of his inform ality and his aversion to pretense ana nattering phraseology. Girl Larcenist, 19, Given Jail Term of Thirty Days A sentence of 30 days in the county jail was Imposed by Jus tice or tne h-eace red M. Wright ar Keedsport Thursday upon Glenda Lenora Robertson, 19, charged with petty larceny. Tne young woman was reported to have stolen a small sum of money together with several ration books while on a party at Sawyer itaoias, juage wngnt reported. Unless federal prosecution for theft of ration books is Invoked, the defendant will be admitted to parole, Judge Wright said. Presbyterians Oppose U. S. Envoy at Vatican PORTLAND, July 21 (AP) The Presbyterian synod of Ore gon was on record today as ob jecting to the United StatPs' send ing a representative to the Vati can. Calling the practice "a viola tion of our national principle of separation oi cnurcn and state," the group sent a petition to the president and to Oregon congres- men. 1 . - i U. S. Control Of War-Won WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) -President -Truman's statement that the United States is not seek ing .' "one' piece of territory" prompted congressional demands today that tills country retain complete control of strategic Pa- cinc lsianas. Senator George, foreign rela tions committeeman, told a re porter he thinks there are areas taken from the Japanese at a high cost In lives where United States control should not be ham pered even with the technical re straints of a proposed interna tional trusteeship system. ' George's declaration was echoed In part by some other senators. All expressed the opinion that Mr. Truman was not talking about the Pacific when he said at a flag raising in Berlin : "There is not one piece of ter ritory or one thing of a monetary nature that we want out of this war." I Dissent Expressed Nobody argued with the presi dent s further contention that the United States Is not fighting for conouest, although Senator Ellen der said he thought Mr. Truman was being "too liberal." "I think we must retain the Is lands we have conquered in the Pacific, as well as some bases we have built in other parts of the world," Ellender said. "Moreover, I think that some of our allies should agree to make available to us some of the natural resources we have dissipated in the war, such as oil." Senator Austin said he didn't think the. 'president intended to "cut across the bow of army and navy policy which calls for re tention of Pacific areas this coun try needs for future defense pur poses. Exceptions Recognized Austin and George egreed that some of the non-strategic islands the Japanese held under mandate from the last war well may go under the trusteeship system pro posed as a part of the united na tions peace-keeping organization. Under this system the United States could specify in an agree ment with the proposed trustee ship council the terms under (Continued on page 6) Three Aides Held in Hospital Deaths WASHINGTON, July 21--(AP) Three hospital attendants are in custody today awaiting grand jury action In the death of a sailor mental patient at St. Eliza beths' hospital. A coroner's Jury ordered the at tendants bound over to the grand jury yesterday after hearing testimony they struck and kicked the sailor, seaman 2-c Clark J. Leepcr, 22, formerly of Phoenix, Ariz. Leeper died Wednesday of a ruptured liver. . Three atlendants held under $1,500 bonds are Fred A. Brown, 40; Lloyd L. Lacy, 50, and Samuel H. Seigel, 38. - Meanwhile,'-- an Investigation continued into the death 1 of a second patient, Howard J. Cvan dall, 21, of San Diego, Calif., A discharged sailor. Dr. Winfred Overholser, hos pital superintendent, said cran dall died from peritonitis after a stomach injury received In a struggle June 30 when ho es caped temporarily from the government-operated hospital. ' . Attorney Ends Illness By Five-Story Plunge SEATTLE. July 21 (AP) A man identified as Atty. Aubrey Levy, about 55, plunged to his death today from a fifth floor room of a downtown hotel, cor oner C. L. Harris reported. A note left for his physician read: "anything that happened Is due to my innocent extreme careless ness. No one else is at fault." He had been ill and under a nurses care and asked her to leave the room momentarily, a police patrolman said. His brother left yesterday for Alaska. Bull Gores Veterinarian While Undergoing Test MED FORD, Ore.. July 21 (A P) Gored when a bull he was testing suddenly turned on him. Dr. Kenneth C. Farley, govern ment veterinarian, was recover ing from his injuries today. The furious animal broke four of Farley's ribs and left head and cnest lacerations. I945 'K ' ; FILLS DIES POST-Rep. John S. Wood, above, democrat, of Georgia, is the new chairman of the House Committee on Un American Activities, made fam ous by Rep. Martin Dies. Geo. Crenshaw Dies After Heart Attack, Fall into Mill Pond George Crenshaw, 64, ' slip feeder at the Young's Bay Lum ber company mill, died Suddenly Friday afternoon while engaged at His work. Death was reported to have resuled from a heart at tack and drowning. Apparently overcome by a heart attack, Crenshaw fell from the slip dock into the mill pond. Coy4Short, resting nearby, during his lunch period, heard the splash and pulled Crenshaw from the ponu, wnue the mills first aid crew, hurrldely summoned, imme diately began artificial respira tion, being aided by the Roseburg fire department's inhalator. Re suscitation efforts were continued until a physician reported further eforts to be useless. Mr. Crenshaw was born Dec. 25, 1880, In Springfield, Mo., and had made his home in Roseburg for 26 years. Surviving are his wife, Flor ence Belle Crenshaw; three sons, Richard S., a prisoner of war, taken at Wake Island and held at Shanghai, China; Staff Sgt. Dale Crenshaw, Lowerly field, Denver, Colo., and George E., Jr., Roseburg, and a daughter, Rita Crenshaw, Roseburg. He also leaves three brothers, Claude and Ernest Crenshaw, Ozark, Mo., and Albert Crenshaw, Texas. Funeral services will be held In the chapel of the Roseburg Fu neral home at 10 A. M. Tuesday, conducted by Rev. J. B. Needham. Interment will follow In the I. O. O. F. cemetery. Gasoline Coupon Theft Confessed by Youths PORTLAND, July 21. (AP) One of four youths charged with illegal possession of gasoline cou pons, 17-year-old Andy Joe Adam sie of Eugene, was free today after his acquittal ' In federal court. His attorney had contended Adamsie carried the coupons from Salem to Oregon City only as a favor to his friend, Douglas Gone Hardy, 1G, Salem. Adamsie pleaded Innocent, hut Hardy changed his pica yesterday to guilty. Guilty pleas also were entered by John H. Cook, 20, Salem, ac cused of stealing the coupons from his mother, proprietress of a bus company, and Samuel Clt ronovlch, Jr., Oregon City. Feeder Air Line Service for Roseburg Recommended by CAB Examiners in Report Roseburg Is recommended for feeder air line service by the Southwest Airways in a report filed by examiners for the Civil Aeronautics board at Washington. The recommendation was made following prolonged study and hearings to determine the most feasible and efficient method of inaugurating commercial freight and passenger service. The Southwest Airways is recommended by the examiners to set up a service to Include Oregon City, McMlnnville. Salem, Dallas, Albany Corvallls, Eusene, Cottage Grove. Coos Bay, Rose bur?, Grants Pass, Medford, Ash land and Klamath Falls as a part of the Portland-San Francisco operation. It also would provide pickup service at Hillsboro. For est Grove, Newberg, Woodburn, Sllverton, Independence, Junc tion Cty and Reedsport On its 45-169 House Session Ended After Notable Work 1 WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) -AVith a lot of work behind it and some tough jobs ahead, the house cleared up legislative odds and ends today in a rush to start Its longest vacation since 1938. i 'At the end of today's session, house members the few still In Washington will begin an 11 weeks holiday that will last until October 8 unless an emergency arises to recall them sooner. They will leave Capitol Hill to the senators, who won't call it quits until sometime next month after ratification of the united nations charter drafted at San Francisco. Then the senate, too, will fold up until October 8. Most house members left Wash ington last week-end, leaving to a faithful handful the job of com pleting legislative action on the Bretton Woods monetary pro gram and a corporation tax re- net measure. Both skimmed through the house yesterday in record time. An estimated 100 house mem bers will spend their vacation tmvelng abroad on Investiga tions. Some already have depart ed for foreign shores; others are waiting for boats. Besides appropriating some (Continued on page 6) Paper Salvage in Douglas Started The Douglas County Shrine club today .started, its . weekend waste paper collection as a beni fit for the Oregon Shrlners' hos pital for crippled children. Pick us were in progress this after noon from receiving depots from Drain to Glendale. A door-to-door canvas will be made In Roseburg Sunday. As work will start at 9 A. M., all Roseburg householders are urged to have their paper bundles, se curely tied, on curbllnes by the apointed hour. - Volunteer workers are needed to assist with the task of picking up paper and loading cars. Men and older boys willing to give a few hours of volunteer help- are asked to be at the city hall be fore 9 A. M. Another Minesweeper Lost to Japs off Borneo WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) The motor mine sweeper YMS 84 has been lost In the Borneo area from enemy action, the navy announced today. Casualties included ten enlisted men wounded out of the vessel's normal complement of 35 officers and men. The loss raised to 325 the total naval vessels lost from all causes since the start of the war. The vessel was under command of Lt. James V. Barton, whose wife, Mrs. Alice Barton, lives at Detroit, Mich. Governor Spurs Drive on Portland Slot Machines PORTLAND, July 21. (AP) City police today launched a drive to ferret out slot machines here under the impetus of a warning from Governor Snell that the state may take over unless local authorities get results. District Attorney Thomas B. Handlev and Sheriff Martin T. Pratt had urged the Immediate arrest of every person operating a slot machine. Portland-Seattle operation, South west would touch at Astoria, with pick-up service at St. Helens. Other Plant Listed United Airlines would be al lowed to serve Bend as an In termediate stop between Portland and San Francisco, and The Dal les on the Pendleton-Portland run. It also would receive a permanent! certificate to fly non- .(Continued on Page 6). Vilson River Blaze Scurries O ver 10,000 More Acres, Hew Fires Break on Salmonberry PORTLAND, Ore., July 21. (AP) A drinle of rain fni northwest Oregon gave new hope today to the 2000 men fighting a losing battle against a 70-square mile forest firs. In the timber town of Glenwood, partly evacuated Thursday night when firs licked 1000 feet away, rain was falling so heavily that smouldering embers were extinguished. Loggers and soldiers worked double time to trail the fire before a new hot spell comes. Rain was drizzling over most of the burning area, which ex tends from coastal mountains 20 miles from the Pacific to hills and lumber towns 50 miles northwest of here. But precipitation expected by the weather bureau to continue until Tuesday was far too light to quench the blaze. Florida-Voted Anti-Closed Shop Snagged WASHINGTON. Jnlv 21--(AP) Dorllon was awaited tortav on n u"'nn request for a clowd shop In Florida, after two WLB de cisions upholding maintenance of union membership clauses rtr-snlto Fioidn's a"H-cloed amendment. The War Tabor bonrd confirmed today" it hart denied a second pe tition of intervention bv J. Tom Watson. Florida attorney Gener al, and a comnanv apneal from an Atlanta regional wi.H deci sion ordering maintenance of membership In , contract be tween the AFL carpenters union and three Tampa box manufact urers. The board vesterdav upheld Its Atlanta reglonnl board In order Inc a voluntary maintenance of union membership clause In th? contract between three AFL un ions and the St. Joe Paper Co., of Port St. Joe, Fla. Federal Govt. Superior. It denied n petition of Inter vention by Watson. The board said Watson cited the Constitu tional amendment adopted by the people of Florida last November asserting the right of persons to work shall not be denied because of membership or non-member-shin In a labor union.' " Watson denied the question ot superiority of federal law over the F lorida consiuution nan recn raised in the neper case. Informed of this, board officials said In un holding the Alanla reglonnl WLB the national board acted on art- (Continued on Page 61 Three Grades of Lamb Ration-Free WASHINGTON, July 21. (AP) The OPA today ord ered three grades of lamb removed from rationing In western Oregon fiom next Monday through September 1. Commercial, utility and oull grades are being made free, OPA explained, "to prevent the loss of meat which might result If the 'soft' lamb crop In the Wllamette valley of Oregon were not slaughtered . and consumed rapidly." This was a victory for Sen ator Morse of Oregon... It re lieved him of the self-assigned task of talking daily at 5 P. M. In the senate about removing such lamb from ra tioning. Morse had said he would continue until the OPA aoted. PORTLAND, Ore., July 21. (AP) Meat Dealers here were jubilant today over the secretary of agriculture's ration-free lamb suggestion, but the district OPA heart didn't like it. "Oregon peoplo have long en joyed more meat than the rest of the nation has," said MeDan nell Brown. "I do not think the points should bo removed to give local people more meat than the rest of the country, and especially when the armv needs the meat." Livestock officials have claimed that the army can not take oil lambs because of Its high require ments, and because Oregon docs not have enough federally-Inspected plants to kill all the peak lamb supply. Truman Takes to Huddle Jap Surrender Terms WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) The Army and Navv Journal said today that President Tru man carried to the Big Three conference a draft of Japanese surrender terms as favored by the state, war and navy depart ments. Thes? terms, the Unofficial ser vice publication said, call for the tolnl loss to Japan of what re mains of her fleet and alf forces, as well as for other military dis armament: the loss of territory outside the home Islands; thp de struction of her war industries: the complete control of her econ omy bv the united nations and the surrender of destignatcd war criminals. The Journal said that Interest In the Potsdam conference re volves around the, Question of whether Emperor HIrohito will be declared a war criminal and punished accordingly. On the eastern end of the fire, between the lumber towns of Glenwood and Timber, flumes were advancing over Roundtop mountain. The. blaze passed beyond the Wilson river hlghwav so hot this week that fire-fighting trucks were scorched and the route was renoened to public traffic. Snot fires continued breaking out In new sections, but were ex pected to be lessened bv the rain. Fire fighting cheeked the blaze on one sector and started to moo their brows, onlv to find flaming embers blown in another direc tion. The huee Wilson river blaze scurried across 10 000 more acres In 48 hours to Wacken more than 4R.OO0 acres. To the north, the Salmonberrv f!re crackled In half a dozen new sections under a heavy layer of smoke. Near the Tillamook-Washington countv line, soot fires from both Mazes threatened to meet, and fire crews -redoubled their efforts. Forestry officials shook their heads at weather bureau forecasts of litrht showers today and said the fire might be con trolled If it rained buckets. Wind Vers Oftfn Workers at Glenwood, however, appeared a little more hopeful, re porting snot fires extinguished nromntlv. A wind which changed its mind to one tn two-hour inter vals kept soldier and civilian crews hard at work all day put- 'Continued on .Pairp ft Kelsev Area Fire Controlled: Heb Sent North Fight A crew of fire fighters was re ported today tn have brought un der control a "sleeper" fire dis covered Friday evening In the Kelsev vallev area of the Dia mond lake district on the Urn noua national forest, Rav B. Hampton, fire control officer, re ported. The flrp apparently wis started bv llohtnlng storm a "w' ago .remaining dormant until Fri day when ft broke Into a bla'O. Ooorrre Churchill Diamond like district ranger, reported the fire probablv would cover between two and three acres. Responding to a nlea for ex nerlenced men to aid in directing flrp crews battling the Willamette Valley l umber comnany blaze near ' Dallas, the UmDaua Nation- forest today furnished three men to act as overseers, Hampton slated. Albert Hall from the South Umpoua district, Gene Slocum, Myrtle Creek, and Earl Elliott, Bohemia, all exparienced fire fighters, were dispatched to Dallas to join the force being used to battle the large blaze in tnar area. Strikes tn Nation Still Keep . About 50,000 Idle Strikes and walkouts, some new, others of long duration, kept the number of Idle across the country around the 50,000 mark again today. In the past 24 hours two strikes ended and a truce was called in the controversy which had tied up milk deliveries in Kansas City. But frer.h disputes cropped up along the labor front, adding more than 10,000 to the list of-, idle. Roseburg "Cenchie" Denied Reclassification DENVER, July 21 (AP) George B1erg, 24, Roseburg, Ore., who sought reclassification as a minister Instead of a conscient ious objector, under a writ of habeas corpus, was back In the Mancos, Colo, conscientious ob jectors' camp today. Federal district court denied his nlea for a 4-D status instead of 4 E. evity pact Rant By L. T. Reizenstein Don't be too quick with criticism or saremm toward the oversees nunt of 11 congress men. Tb'r annoupeed purpose of "studying conditions" to guide them in future related legislation may merely be camouflage far the possible In tention of locating the vaunted Japanese "secret weapon." f v J ' i' I
