a -. fill vm mm ' hi r ' China' situation Ir serious. The 'Japanese- forces are pressing hard - in the' north and gaining impor , tant cities and communication lines. .Their adventure' into India, white 'failing to reach objectives, impedes allied progress ' and dia t heartens the Chinese. ' There is J r t ill i j- ; -intrrat nnrii ih Inn trnirt tt ' Japanese occupation - and block- , ade. ; tr.'V ' 'I v Inflation la fantastic; supplies of " essentials : are almost at the . vanishing point save for a mini mum of foodstuffs; there Is wide- v tnrssii - riiwrairncrmpnt thnt not ? even the! optimism of , the ffw I cial representatives of the Chinese r government can discount It is nearly a year since Madame ; Chiang Kai-Shek- made her. tri 'umphal tour of " America,' but it f has broughtvlittle in the way of : tangible aid to the weary Chinese ! people or to the Chinese armies.' , - No wonder then that Vice Pre i ident Wallace is being dispatched to Chungking.: No wonder mat ine : three admirals: King, Nimitz and Halsey met in San Francisco over ; the weekend to plan new and vital blows at Japan.' Swift . action clearly is needed to sustain China in the fight : ;r. .. . . The plan of action has been made clear both by Adm." Nimitz and by the direction of our, at ' tack. We are pointing toward the Philippine islands from two direc tions: across the central Pacific v through the Marshall and Caro line . islands, and up from the southeast through New Guinea and New Britain. Adm. Halsey having completed his assignment in the Solomons is being con tinued on Editorial Page) ... USO Club To Close Doors June 1 Salem's" downtown USO club will be closed June 1, according to official announcement . made here ' Wednesday.- ; '- Reduction in attendance at the two Salem clubs and the serious need ' for USO workers in' other . locations to which .the military load has been -shifted were given as reasons . for' the closure when C. Scott of San Francisco, repre-; sen ting regional USO headquar ters, : met with the Salem USO - council - Wednesday afternoon at the Chemeketa street club. Adj. Bram Giaeser, Ma). Jessie Miller and Capt. Lucy Upton, Sal vation Army-USO staff in charge of the downtown club, will be transferred to new locations as ; soon after the closing date as pos sible, it was said. R. R. Boardman continues as director of the Unit ed Service Organizations club for servicemen at 693 Chemeketa street,, with H. R. Anthony; and Mrs. O. K. DeWitt as assistants. Downtown USO club enlarged quarters at Commercial and Court streets were opened only a month ;go. ' ; ' , ' ' - ; . ion j Resumes Contempt Fine WASHINGTON, May 10 -B) Trial .of 29 persons accused of seditious conspiracy was resumed after a defense lawyer was fined $150 for contempt, j "The attorney, James J. Laugh lin, counsel for Defendants Ed ward James Sraythe and Robert Noble, was accused by govern i ment prosecutors of acting in bad faith in a petition for disqualifi - cation of Justice Edward C. Elcher, 'and is asking that widely known persons be summoned as witnes ses. ,.- - c' Laughlin's petition was based : on an affidavit from Noble assert " ing.; that President Roosevelt ' picked Judge Eicher for the sedi- tion trial ' and promised him ap- . pointment to a higher court if the defendants were convicted. Justice Jennings Bailey, who heard the contempt case, ruled that motions filed by Laughlin amounted to an effort to embar rass the court by causing delay nd to affect prospective jurors' opinions through publicity.': The only verification offered for 'No- blei affidavit, Judged Bailey said, were reports "from parties f who themselves had not access to the i facts." '--'. ' V: ' i"? ; Laughlin gave notice of appeal. Lyman Gris wold Dies i - In Gty Yesterday v PORTLAND, Ore May 10 Funeral services will be held here ; Friday for Lyman Griswold, , 64, pioneer northwest engineer who helped build the Columbia River hiehway and other ; roads, , rail routes, and dams. Survivors include his ' widow, here: mother, Mrs. Zura Griswold, Seattle: brother, Lt James Gris v.-di. in the army, and a sister, JTrs. Laura Doolin, Walla Walla . - , , 'I v ' te ' . - v. , . IJTTvETY-TinHD YEAH ' ' Stillwell V 5u7fiv ftvpi Voet v : WW J- " W MO-' A-mm. aasM -bl m. a, a 'v a SOUTHEAST- ASIA F Jr QUARTERS, Kandy, rt 4 Stilwell's land invasion -. rces and allied air-borne comman dos, or "Chindits," 'are' ; closing a gigantic trap in northern Bur ma on the crack Japanese 18th division, it was disclosed today. , , Already the veteran army j unit which captured Singapore early In the war is becoming disorganized as' the allied ceils constrict s about the - virtually Isolated Japanese bases of Mo taunt and Myltkyina, 240 miles north ef -Mandalay, according to advices reaching here. : . ' Fanning out from their origin- al landing points behind the ene my's lines, the, American, British and Indian "ChindUs now hold sway over a vasi territory south of. Mogaung and have disrupted Japanese ! supply lines ' both to Mandalay and to Bhamo, the lat-1 ter 80 miles south of Myitkyina. Today's . communiqae - - from Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat ten's headquarters reported the -ChindlU- had inflicted heavy casualties en the enemy both south and . southwest of Me gaung, in the vicinity of Mawln. Yesterday's bulletin said the Myltkyina'; - Bhamo road had been so badly torn up by the air-borne Jungle troops that the Japanese probably could not re pair it before the monsoon rains ' begin in about a week. . From the north Stilwell's two mixed columns of Chinese, Ameri cans and Burmese Levies pressed steadily down the Mogaung and FDR Appoints Forrestal New Naval Chief WASHINGTON,, May 10"" -( Undersecretary of Navy James V. Forrestal, a democrat and big navy advocate, was nominated today by President Roosevelt for the navy's No. 1 job as secretary to succeed the late Frank Knox. Forrestal, one-time New York investment banker and neighbor of the president in Dutchess coun ty, New York, has been under secretary for four years and since Knox's death on April 28 has been acting secretary. His appointment, urged by many democratic and republican congressmen, climaxes the Wash ington career he started in 1940 when he gave up the presidency of a Wall Street investment firm to serve as a presidential assistant As the navy's No. 2 man he was Knox's right hand in building the world's - biggest navy, goings fre quently to Capitol Hill to testify before committees considering navy appropriations. On many occasions he has urged the maintenance of this giant fleet in peacetime, declaring that peace which is not backed by power "is only a dream" . ; At 52, 18 years Knox's junior. he will be one of the youngest men in the president's cabinet. His appointment breaks up the policy President Roosevelt .estab lished In 1940 by naming repub licans, Knox and Secretary of .War Stimson, to head the navy 'and war departments, a move interp reted at the time as a gesture for war unity. h I Glosingt Jap Trap Roosevelt Backers Win In West Virginia, Ohio . By D. HAROLD OLIVER Associated Press Staff Writer - Candidates leaning toward a fourth .term for President Roos evelt won handily the democratic governorship nominations in West Virginia and 'Ohio In Tuesday's primaries. l;'':-V'---?'uv'V-'1 '1- The winners were Circuit Judge Clarence W. Meadows of Beckley in the mountain state and Mayor Frank J. Lausche of Cleveland in Ohio.. In November they will op pose Mayor D. Boone Dawson of Charleston and - Mayor - James Garfield Stewart of Cincinnati,' respectively, : ; ' As the returns were tabulated, Sidney IlUlman, chairman cf the CIO political . action committee, drew cheers hi Cleveland when he told the Steelworkers' convention that President Roosevelt must be w in .12 PAGES f 2nd US Ace I Cv; Capt. Robert S. Johnson of Lawton, over Germany to boost his total in the European theatre of "war W . it ' '1 ' '- r Ilillillsi:"- St.. World war L Captain Johnson Is pictured being carried aloft on his buddies' shoulders at his fighter Station In England. Johnson is a former cabinet maker. Be tied the record set la the southwest Pacific by MaJ. Richard L Bong, 23, of Jap Atrocities Made When 707 By MURLIN SPENCER ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Thurs day, May lliT-Japanese atrocities, including nailing Chinese to 'palm trees by driving iron spikes through their! foreheads, were made public today simultaneously with the release of a headquarters report that American invaders of Hollandia and Aiipe freed 707 enemy prisoners. ., ; Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said that ,462 "of the 7071 were Sikhs who are natives of India. ;; At the same time, the Austral iae department ef ' Information announced that the liberated Sikhs strongly Indicted Japan ese treatment of them. JSpmerof thC;SikhiWefj quoted by 'the department as saying: . "On an 18 days march from Singapore; to Kuala Lumpur (in Malaya) we were herded along a road like cattle. At one place we saw' a number of Chinese who had been: nailed to palm trees with iron spikes driven through their foreheads.- f Fifteen Sikhs who had be come 111 were put to death at Rabaul (New Britain). I "On a ship which took us to the Admiralty islands, we were herded below decks like cattle 2000 of us." "fne men were frequently beat en with sticks and rifle butts. ' "At Manus (in the Admiralty islands since captured by MacAr thuf), we. had to dig slit trenches for the Japanese but were left en tirely unprotected ourselves. , I witnessed the liberation of (Turn to Page 2 Story B) VSSLcinsdcde Sunk by Nazis Washington, May io The US destroyer Lansdale was sunk by a torpedo in the Medi terranean last month and Lt. Ro bert M. Morgenthau, 24-year-old son I of the secretary of the trea sury, was one of the last persons to leave the broken vessel, the na vy disclosed today. ?- ; Morgenthau jumped over, the side and landed on the tin-hatted head of fellow officer who, how ever was not hurt Both men sur vived the ordeal including a leng thy swim - in the Mediterranean. ipe Lansdale, 1630 tons, was successfully attacked by German torpedo planes at dusk on April 9(1 ' i'f'aciialtla mm fniumta the iuvy said. renominated and reelected. He added the rank and file of the American Federation of . Labor and; Independent Railroad Broth erhoods are cooperating with his Lcommittee. - , ; Hlllman said an early victory, a lasting peace and postwar home security, depend on the president's reelection. He spoke critically of Gov Thomas E. Dewey , of New VcrvVfv;;;.,,:l;:. In; the; west "Virginia voting. Judge Meadows, a New Deal sup porter, beat 38-year-old Rush D. Holt, former "baby , senator who bitterly; opposed Roosevelt poll ciesvwhile in Washington. ; . i Mayor Lausche - of Cleveland, while not openly advocating fourth term, said in his campaign (Turn to Page 2 Story A) PCUNDDD J65 Solemn Oregon. Thundcrr Morning. May" U, 1944. Beats Rick's Combat Record s 4 OkUk, a Thunderbolt to Z7 all shot down In to break Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's Poplar. Wis. (International Soundpboto) Prisoners 1 ; : ' ' Men iway Will Conduct urvey PORTLAND,' May 10-(P)- The state highway commission today agreed to make a survey to de termine if a new bridge is need ed across the Willamette river at Salem. Cost of the survey will be about $6000. " f j Delegates from the Salem cham ber of commerce also asked the commission to take over the high way between ; Niagara and I De troit, which Marion; county : is maintaining under a state con tract I -' Arrangements have already been made for the US engineers to build a new road when the army engineering dam project on the North Santiam river is built, because it will flood out the pre sent road. i j Roseburg petitioners were as sured by the commission that steps will be taken to eliminate a traffic bottleneck at the intersection of the North Umpqua and Pacific highway intersection.! M. C Linininger & Sons of Sa lem submitted low bid of $38,750 on a rock production project on the " Klamath Falls 4 Lakeview and Fremont highways, and the Western Rock Co. received a $21, 983 contract for rock on the old Oregon Trail in Umatilla and Un ion counties. ' . " - Low, bidder on construction of an access road to the Lakeview airfield in Lake county was' the Portland firm of Babler & Conley with an. $37,816 offer.! FDR Slashes WASHINGTON, May 10 President Roosevelt slashed over $3,000,000,000 off preliminary timates in submitting to congress today a $49,283,916,500 budget for the army in the fiscal year be ginning next July V ! He asked $13,676,652,700 in appropriations : and ' said $33,607,- 263,800 would, be availavle in un obligated balances from 1944. I "This "carryover of , 1944 ' funds has largely been made possible," the White House said, fby the duction in the. projected strength of the army, substantial reduction in unit costs resulting from vol ume production, and reduction in shipping losses.". The new . budget figure com pares with preliminary estimates of $52,300,000,000 made last Janu 9,733,651 Bibles Distributed in Year. NEW; YORK, May l(P)-The American Bible society, today re ported a record breaking distribu tion of 9,733,631 copies of the Scriptures throurhout the world during the past year. -4 , . Bridgets Army Budget - pilot, who barged two more enemy planes the air and became the first American ace combat record ef 2S kills in Public Freed Special Units In Britain Set Go D-Day LONDON, May 10-flV Emer gency u nits are poised and ready to go , into . action on . D-day to evacuate and care for non-combatants In British coastal towns, it was disclosed today as the gird' ine of Def might made the fourth anniversary ,ot HItlef s" victorious lunge against the low countries one of somber, fear for Germans. Details about the units were kept secret, but all have been as signed to their posts at coastal invasion bases. Some coastar re gions have already been closed to civilians moved out to make room for troops practising for the in vasion. The airways over, nazi Europe, reverbrated to allied bombs and nazi : propaganda broadcasts. Germans throughout Europe speculated as to the hour and place of, the mighty attack,, while mes- sages of hope and caution were going out from the exiled gov ernments of the little nations (Turn to Page 2Story K) Japs Attacking On Northwest Of Rail Centen CHUNGKING, Thursday, May 11-iJfy-A Japanese force from Shansl province forced a cros sing to the . south bank of the Yellow rfver Tuesday night and is attacking heavily northwest of Loyangv in an apparent at tempt te put a pincers on that strategic railway city In Honan province, the Chinese command disclosed today. -'-' -; Another Japanese forte al ready was attackinr southeast ef Loyang in the three weeks eld: Honan provlaee campaign; bet latest Chinese dispatches said that army had been checked east of the Tt river after hav ing approached within six miles of Loyang. , - The new force coming down from the north forced the riv er crossing from the vicinity f Taaneha province town 45 miles northwest ef Leyang, and se ere fighting new is In progress. a Chinese cotnmen to.ee said. Jersey Shows On Schedule v Meeting in . Salem Wednesday afternoon, directors of the Oregon state Jersey Cattle club formulat ed plans for the spring Jersey shows. ' - . . ; First of these, that for Clacka mas county, will be held Satur day, June 3, at Canby. 'Plans for the. Tillamook show June 4 and for - the June 5 show in Clatsop county are incomplete.- . Marion county's show will be held Tuesday,'' June 6, at Salem: the Linn-Benton show will be coo ducted at Corvallis : on -June Plans for the ; Washington county show ; June Sand for the Coos Curry show June 9 have not been completed. ; To i - i v ...... ir - 7. ;..' .1 Ayeryf Ward tChief Says Firm Deprived Of Court Riding : CHIC AG f, May KHTV Board Chairman" Sewell Avery came! .back to j his - Montgomery Ward-; and "company headquar-r ters today and aecUred the bas ic issues in the controversy that ed to government seizure of the firm's r Chicago properties "still must be determined in the courts.' j I ' Twenty hours after federal authorities had ( relinquished . control of the plants and 13 days aftef he was carried out by sol diers, Avery returned to his of fice jand Issued a 'statement. He asserted the war labor board has "thus far been successful in depriving Ward's of a judicial de termination of ithe legality of the board's orders affecting the con cern, j and because of the govern ments action in turning back the facilities to ithe management, Ward's has once again been1 de nied the right to a decision by the courts," Avery added: r ', .s "When Ward's refused to sur render its plait and business en April 28, 1944, because It be lieved the demand to be illegal, the attorney general ef the Unit ed $tates did not submit: the matter to the courts. Ward's; was deprived ef j Its property by force and bayonets! j 1 "When public opinion forced the attorney general toi turn to the courts he sought and obtained an extraordinary order in the night Without notice to Ward's and in a (Turn to Page 2-Ustory C) - Men Over 30 May Be Safe From Draft WASHINGTON, May 10 HJt)- Selective service was reported to night! to have adopted a liberal ized policy of deferments for men over 30, with! employment in an essential industry the only yard stick. I v. " ' J - J'.'. Draft officials, prepared to an nounce details'of a broad new pro gram j Thursday evening, declined to discuss reports that, men; over 30 in preferred occupations will be eligible for deferment regard less of whether they are consid ered actually ('necessary' men. Fori the 26 through 29 age group. it was understood the present pol icy of defering necessary men in essential activities Will be con tinued. However. Maior General Lewis B. ; Hebhey recently t said that these men probably will not be called before early fall, when the pool of registrants under 26 is expected to be exhausted. : ,. Liberalization along: the lines re ported probably would halt calls of men over 29 for the rest of this year and possibly eliminate them from consideration altogether, de pending upon the course of the war. : ' ''-' j" : ';'j '-a-Z With the army already at. peak strength and the navy expected to reach that point iri September, induction: calls thereafter will be for replacement withj quotas de termined by the number of 'cas ualties.' : j r i . Selective ' sendee estimates re placements at about 150,000 men a month after peak j strength is attained. Of this number, approx imately 60,000 a month are ex pected , to 1 come front the ranks of those becoming 18 years old. . Still aatisfied Presbyterians to Open Birthdatv JubileeTonish 1 - 7 Salem's First Presbyterian church; and its friends itonight will retrace the pathway through the years to the May day in 1869 when 19 men and women of the pioneer town gathered in an "upper room" above the book store of J. K. Gill at 354 State street toi welcome a yout missionary and his bride and td organize a United Presby terian Home Mission church; Tonights 75th' a n li i v e r s ary, which ; opens at 70 o'clock, will include music of praise and sup plication; and will cettter around a presentation of the history of the church from its j missionary fouadinj to date ' and - reminis- ences by MrS. A. O. Condit and Dr. Burt Brown! Barker, Mrs., Condit has held one of the longest con tinuous memberships. Dr. Barker, , whose boyhood "and early youth Price Sc Rommel Studies Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel confers at his Atlantic headquarters on German plans to defeat the coming allied in vasion of Europe, according te the caption this, German photo reaching New York via neutral Portugal. (AP Wlrepboto). ' Nazis Retreat Again on 8th Front in Italy -; : " : I ' . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 10 -OPH The Ger mans have retreated across the Little Aventino river in a second day of i withdrawal on the Bri tish eighth army front and allied forces moving up behind ihem have occupied three villages and are continuing to press the pur suit, allied ' headquarters an nounced today. '. I . i - The German retreat has ranged from seven- to 11 H miles from their line as last announced sev eral weeks ago, although some al lied forces- have been t well be yond it more recently. " ' In their advance behind the withdrawing foe the eighth army occupied Palena, Falascoso and San Anegol and at last report was moving directly toward the' im portant German base of Sumona, which is 11 miles beyond Palena and aobut 33 miles from the Adri atic coast. Allied troops also seized high ground near the ham let - of -1 Gamberale, two miles northwest of San Angek on the road to Palena. L 1 : Competent - military quarters' declared the nazi withdrawal ap-. peared to be without significance beyond the enemy's natural desire to straighten his line, and elimin ate a salient in the rugged moun tains where lack of communica tions made large-scale operations impossible.- The Germans, Whose radio late ly has speculated on. the possibil ity of a renewed allied offensive in Italy,' also were digging in and strengthening their defenses on the west bank of the Rapido river just south of the Cassino on the (Turn to Page 2 Story G) 1 Harry-Jlopkini Leave. Hospital Recovered V ROCHESTER, Minn, May 1065s) Harry ; Hopkins, confidante " i of President Roosevelt left here to day for his home, for further rest before resuming his duties. Mayo clinic physicians said that his re covery . from abdominal surgery was "excellent" and that a. nutri tional ; disturbance has responded "encouragingly to medical treat ment.' A. '. clinic statement said "physicians now feel that after an additional short rest, Mr. Hopkins will be able to return to his duties at Washington.", ; i . , I were tied in with the growth of the church, has as ' a hobby the history of this . section of the country. - ' " ' V .:- , ' Glenn L. Adams, who probably has more years of service on the session, 1 ruling board v of the church, than any other man, will serve as general chairman for the service, which will be followed, by a public reception. Tonight's service f marks ; the opening of a weekend of celebra tion of the church's diamond jubilee, " ; Sunday . morning, the church will hold an assembly at 9:43 in stead of the usual class periods. From the junior department to adult Bible classes, members will participate in the program, with Supt J. J; Fitsimons leadlr.r; the (Turn to Pace 2 Story L) p''--c, ''-J mxi " -3 irr mm t "i ir "i " T 1 Wcailicr '" " Max I hib temperature' Wednesday SZ degrees; min imam .25; precipitation: .81 Inch; river 3 ft. . -Partly elendy Thursday " and Friday with few UxM scattered showers. Net much. . .cluuige tm tenperatvre. " No. 342 Relentless Air War British Out Last Night After 3500 Plane Day Raids - By W. W. HERCHER ' LONDON, Thursday, May; 11 (JFh More than 3500 allied war planes from bases in I both Bri tain 'and Italy loosed approxi- terday on European targets and the RAF followed up this as sault' last night "with another . slashing attack on western Eu rope. 'J:AJ.:- - - I : ..r There was ne Immediate in dicaUon of the objective ef the overnight raids, a preliminary . British . announcement -r saying merely that the RAF was "ever occupied territory," but it pre- -sumably was directed against military ' faculties in France. The daylight assault was spear headed by American heavy bomb ers based in .Italy with attacks on Wiener Neustadt in old Austria and Knin in Yugoslavia. American and British med ium, light and fighter-bombers from Britain spent the day in . methodical blows at rail centers and an air field in France and Belgium. . ' ,' I-;: " ' The continuing onslaught quick ly followed overnight ; and pre dawn, attacks by 750 RAF planes on 10 high-priority ; targets that included the channel coast and the Paris and Berlin areas. German installations along the 'French coast received probably their (Turn to Page 2 Story K) , Dewey Asked : To Step In and Stop Filibuster WASHINGTON, May 10 -J (if5) An 8ppeal to Gov. Thomas XL Dewey of New York to use his "strategic position"; to help break i a f threatened senate filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill was made today by Waiter White, sec- ; retary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ;''-"" "( ' tXl As the senate debated the meas ure,1 bitterly opposed by southern democrats, White made public telegram to Dewey asserting' that 23 republican senators have either refused I to agree to vote for a limitation of debate or declined to mj uvw uicjr wiu vuic w itcii uw test comes Monday on a cloture petition. , .- i "v ? Saying that Dewey s voice "would be decisive," he asked the governor "to make .your voice 1 heard."- ; " ' Dewey'a views on poll - taxes crept into the senate debate when Senator Mead (D-NY) asserted the governor had an anti-poll tax plank in his gubernatorial cam- , paign two years ago. -i Sen. Hatch - (D-NM) inquired how that happened since New York has no such levy. . "I can't explain why it was there, but It was there," Mead re plied. . :A:: .: -vi-; -1'."' :; Senator McKellar (D-Tenn.) remarked that.usually candidates for governor confine themselves -to matters in their own states , Mr, Dewey was taking in a lot of -territory ;;r:,;:,:'-i:. -H'-'Y' ;. v Canatn Dai1 fT-1lir AmlmmA that the bill is unconstitutional and that "left wing" labor lead- : (Turn to Page 2 Story I) .. British Heads Work Secretly LONDON, Wednesday, May 11 (P)- British Commonwealth prime ministers - at the httl way mark of their conference are hold ing sectet sessions - but ' sideline opinion is pretty well agreed that they are doinf two things: ! 1. Devoting considerable ' time to details of armistice terms to be submitted to Germany. 2. Building a framework for a new league of nations. 1 , The armistice terms are be lieved to include--aside from un conditional surrender personal trrnrfr nt the chief of the Ger man army; complete disarmament de-industrialization of the reich in- rearmament is - concerned, and possibly a ban on tvea j civilian aircraft.; . , , , ,;;; . ; -'. . The, league of nations plan Is understood to-be modeled along the old . league,.- with the United Nations as a core but with smal ler nations and" eventually enemy, countries to have a full voice. ' A Continues