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Scdenx, Oregon, Friday Morning, May 4, 1945,
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Price 5c
No. 33
From Homer's "Iliad" to Tenny
son's "Charge of the light Brig
ade" poets and prose-writers have
told the story of great battles.
Some one ought to tell the story
of the battle of Berlin. The seige
of Troy, which was the theme for
the "Iliad,1 lasted for 10 years;
the capture of Berlin was a matter
only of 12 cays. Its fate was al
ready sealed. The continuous
pounding from the skies. (77,000
tons of bombs were dropped on
ings and disorganized it traffic
..tnuio. viva n ft r
hot tvhittlml nwn it defending
force. The occupation of surround-
ling cities and country had cut off
its supplies. 1 The battle was the
dying gasp of a dying regime..
The Russians ' were fully con-
Kcious of the drama of the event
and of the fact that they were
making history. They sent the
famed Cossacks to surround the
eity. They gave to the survivors
of the siege of Leningrad the hon-
or of firing the "first batteries ml
shelling Berlin. They gave to the
heroes of Stalingrad the glory of
making tne final assaults. Ana
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reports felting for theGer-
, 8 k ., V Wisnar and Wittenberge on the
continent of Europe, fourth larg- so r,. ,
ij r,- Jbe rlver 62 miles northwest of
est, in the .world. But from the
accounts received the battle must
have been strange as well as bit-
ter The ruins of the buildings
made ready forts - ;
(Continued on Editorial page)
Toll at Okinawa
- I'' . ;.v - - - :
Reaches 5551
j By, KErickso
GUAM," Friday, May. 4H&) I
Artencan naval casualties 01-5551
- -j including 1131 kilted -. were
reporieu wxwy vy vara. uv
w.ixsimiiz ior roe uiunawa cam-
palgn as the ground fighting
reacnea anr vicious nexT
Two "light units" of the Pacific
fleet off the strategic Ryukyu is-
lands were sunk to an attack last
night by four flights of enemy
warplanes, the communique an
nounced.
Nimitt gave the naval casualty
toll, through Wednesday, as 1131 1
mg. TliscVnoe; cauaiues
from the start of the Okinawa op
eration on March 18 when carrier J
in . supporting move. Okinawa
it.if .-,.7nvri Anrii 1. :
The figures, preliminary and
still Incomplete, brought . the to-
tal announced American , casual
ties, counting soldiers and ma
rines, to 16,964 - - including 2978
dead.
Japanese ground casualties alone
exceed 21,000.
Truman Wins
His Veto on i
Farm Draft
WASHINGTON, May S. - iP) -
. j . rri - J -
today as the house sustained his
veto Of a resorption givmg almost
ironciaa ara aeieraena w
ers.
. -liic ure&wcui, u itjEvuu
measure earlier in the day, de -
clared hat "no group should have
any special privileges " iie saia
the legislation would violate the
nou-discriminaUon principles of
the selective service act
On the showdown in the house,
185 members voted to override
the veto and 177 voted to sustain!
It Since it takes a two third vote
of both houses to over-ride, the
legislation thereby died.
Rumor Says Monty Met
With Doenitz at Kiel
. STOCKHOLM, Friday, May I.
-AVThe Central News agency
i
Naval Casualty
said today Danish sources in wai-Russlan complaint, that Sov
rno believed -there most likely is ,et citizeM from German
I some' basis" in reports from Den-
mark that haVJ
gomery met Adm. Karl Doenitz,
self-proclaimed German fuehrer,
last night In, Kiel.
J - They added their, opinion that,
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uut cipilUiauuii luuiu uaw umi
discGssed.'
tOUl May. Honor Jf UU
WASHINGTON, May a.rtAT-
Coining of a 10-cent piece bearing
a likeness of the late President
Roosevelt was proposed today in a
bill introduced by RepI Morrison
rLa),
Hir54os!hi mil Wide IFtioM
Soviets Wipe
Out Another
h iifm7 rAPlTPf'
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B Romney Wheeler
LONDON, Friday, May i-VP)
Russian troops collapsed the last
German resistance in north-cen
tral Germany yesterday, linking
with British forces on a 65-mile
front south of the Baltic in a 30
mile surge that wiped out a huge
enemy pocket between i Rostock
and Hamburg,
jeast three enemy divisions
surrendered to the combined Rus
gian British forces in the
clean - up of Mecklenburg province.
More lQfi0Q
nazi soldiers surrendered to the
red "army alone as Marshal Kon
stantin K. Rokossovsky's Second
White Russian, army and Field
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgonv-
ery's troops joined fpr the first
port of
Berlin.
Join with U.S. 9th
At the same time, forces of Mar
shal Gregory ! K. Zhukov's First
White Russian army, co-conquer
ors of Berlin, joined up with the
TJ.S. Ninth army on a 33-mile
front west of the nazi capital's
smoking ruins. ' -
The, junction of American, Brit
ish and Russian forces now ex
tends across northern and central
Germany ,on an almost solid 200-
mile front from Wiswar south to
the Elbe northwest of Dresden.
In Berlin, another. 64,000
stunned and battle-weary German
trooDS emereed from the subwavs
and sewers of the rubbled city to
hajld over thirwearjontalmQst
doublinsr the hnffe ha of German
prisoners herded into red army
cages since the surrender of the
capital.
134000 NjwU Taken
Mor than 134 000 German
U - rnv - Mih,ia5rtn . rA
Wednesday, and Moscow 'dial
patches stm more were join.
ing the long ranks of prisoners
being marched away. By Mos-
UTl" TZZTZLl CZ
.VI ""J?.
As the hush of a dead nation
settled over the once-proud capi
tal of Adolf Hitler's continental
"P. tt red army seti sullen
German troops to work clearing
U1C -PPa
Italian War
Costs America
21,577 Dead
WASHINGTON, May 3-(-The
20-months-long battle for Italy,
ended victoriously by the surren
der of German forces there, took
the lives of at least 21,577 Amer
ican, soldiers.
I - CMf a UTq C4!meAn mrA
L . w tVa M. tlim.tft flW t,.
1 " v "
nv T ,jjAn n79ia
wounded 10f338 were miss
m-vintf th total rasnaltiM
109.183
i SimiiltjnoiiI'r. Ktimsnn' an.
1 nouneed that armv casualties In
theatres since the beginning
o the War haVe reached 848,089
on ; the basis of names reported
here through April 21. Added to
the navy's losses of 102.383. this
I placed casualties of both services
t 950.472. This was an increase
of 11.099 since the report of last
I week.
U. S. Denies Holding Russians
Liberated From
J WASHINGTON. Ma 3
United States flatly denied to-,
prisons are being held by this
country without notice to Russia,
The state department 1 comment
was issued simultaneously' with an
outburst I protest in 'Congres:
against the attitude taken by th
U.S.R. on Poland.
"It is as heartening as It is com--mendable,
Mr. Speaker, Rep
"that President Harry S. TTumani
having a run grasp ana unaeM
I standing of the situation, haaidef-f
initely served notice upon Russdaj
Mr. (Premier) Stalin, Mr. For
I eign Ctornmissax) Molotov, and up4
I on the entire world, that he stands
Bearer of Peace Terms
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Count Folke Bernadotte (left), Swedish Red Cross official who acted
as intermediary:! between the allied governments and Nazi Chief
Heinrich Himmler ever terms for Germany's surrender, is shown
conferring with Sweden's fWeign Minister , Gaenther (rirht). At
this same conference French -Foreign Minister to Sweden Bohman,
also was present Count Bernadotte returned to Stockholm from
Denmark wherejj purportedly, he conferred with nazi chiefs. (In
ternational radiosoundphoto) i
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Surrender May
By ALEX
'SI
LONDON, May S.-OTVGermany's new fuehrer, Grand Ad
miral Doenitz, was reported to have fled to the naval base of
Kiel today as British forces swept, through capitulated Hamburg,
50 miles to the south, and victorious Russian troops searched
for Hitler body fin the ruins of Berlin. j
sk s wui was,' me aisiniegraiion ox uennan resistance ana
Ickes Seizes
Nation'siHard
Coal Mines r
WASHINGTON! Mav 3.-1-
The government tonight seized tSe
nation's anthracite! mines, strike
bound in a contract dispute.
' Acting oft orders from President
Truman Secretary b of - Interior
Ickes proclaimed that he had tak
en formal possession; of the mines
and breakers owned by 363 com
panies, - all located! in Pennsyl
vania. 1 !
"A breakdown: in wage negotia
tions threatened a 'fuel crisis that
would ' impair public health and
impede the progress of the war
next winter," said! a' statement
issued by the solid fuels adminis
tration, headed byi ickes.
Ickes ordered j the flag of the
United States railed above , these
mines and breakerf and mine
whistles blown for Work Monday
morning. j - -
Salem IWan Picks Poor
Spot to Take a Nap ,
OREGON CITyMay j -m A
state highway r department grass
mower cut the jcidthing and one
hand of Andrew I J Huggins, 20,
Salem, while he ! dozed in the
shade along a nearby highway.
Huggins explained it was so
warm he stretched out in the deep
grass. -. S "
S
Prison Camps
Si' iir 1 . .,. -
uncompromisingly : for the fulfill
ment of the understanding entered
into under the Yalta agreement"
The Bisj Three agreed at Yalta
that the Warsaw" provisional gov
eminent be broadened to include
other Polish elements but this lias
not been accomplished and Russia
has been seeking to get the War
saw regime admitted to the. San
Francisco United Nations confer
ence,
" While the house observed Polish
Constitution day j other speakers
demanded "Justice' for Poland" and
in the senate Senator Ferguson (R
Mich.) asserted that the Russian
government should -open occupied
areas of eastern Europe to Amer
lean newsmen "so : that mistrust
and suspicion can
be eliminated.'
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Be F org0tten
SINGLETON
so chaotic the general situation
inside the reich that it appeared
tonight , there might be no neces
sity . to negotiate . a formal sur
render. . I
Albert Speef, nazi minister of
armaments and production, told
the German people in a broadcast
tonight that Germany was de
feated and gave instructions that
Germans should get busy on re
construction to the fullest extent,
permitted by the allies. He spoke
over the German-controlled Dan
ish radio. ' "
A Stockholm dispatch said Doe
nitz and his new foreign minister,
Count . Ludwig Schwerin von JCro-
rick, were conferring at Kiel with
Josef Terboven, nazi commission-
er for Norway, and Werner Best,'
German minister to Denmark, on
the possibility, of making a final
stand in those Scandinavian coun
tries. j !
The chief obstacle standing in
the way of a declared peace was
believed to be the German force
in Norway, estimated by respons
ible s quarters at j 150,000 troops,
who have been strengthened in
recent, months by aerial delivery
of weapons and supplies.
Stockholm heard that negotia
tions were in progress to bring
about the surrender of the Nor?
way nazis without bloodshed. Norj
wegian patriots in an order ; of
the day called upon - the people
to offer no provocation to the
Germans : which might diminish
prospects of an orderly end to the
occupation.
Marion's ARC
Quota passed :
' Marion .county's Red Cross war
fund quota of $80,500, raised in
a period of three weeks, was ex
ceeded by approximately $36,000
before the campaign had closed,
Judge t George Rossman pointed
out Thursday at a luncheon hon
oring division leader In the re
cently completed drive. .
Framed certificates were pre
sented by the judge, who is chair
man of Marion county chapter of
the Red Cross, to F. G. Lesejer,
general campaign chairman
W. M. . Kimsey. Mrs. James T.
Brand, Mrs. f Walter Spaulding,
Harry ' Johnson, Ralph . Johnson,
Dr. E. Boring and Frank Doer
fler. Other division leaders were
unable to attend the luncheon,
held at the Marion hotel.
Nazi Broadcast v
In Copeiihagen j
, LONDON,' Thursday; May! 4
(JP)-A German 1 language broad
cast, attributed by monitors to the
allied-controlled Luxembourg ra
dio station, declared today that
Germany's new fuehrer. Grand
Admiral Karl Doenitz hbd ar.
nvea in Copenhagen yesterday.
The announcement was at first
erroneously attributed to the Bre
men radio, but monitors later
Identified the station as Luxero
bourg, saying it apparently had
taken over the Hamburg and Bre
men wave-lengths.' V
lneste,(jorizia
In Istria Area'
Fall to Allies!
, ROME, May S-ifVAlUed head-
quarters announced today Jthat I
New Zealand troops, joining for-
ces with the Yugoslavs had cap-
puted Istria, only' nazi-held slice
X; noi LOViarnaea oy pen-
Heinnch von Vietinghoff-Scheel
wno surrendered, ms milhon-man
army in north Italy and western
-m.. r.-.j . P ;
Viuc xeigraae ramo proaqcasx
a Yugoslav headquarters state-
ment denying the a 1 lie d J an-
nwu,. -na Mjmguiai fug'
osiav forcnotKewZealanders,
c-pvurea inesie ana uonzia , ana
that the situation "might have un-
wished-for consequences" if! not
cleared up at once. The , federal
communications commission heard
the broadcast.) ' i'
At the same time it wasl an
nounced that Nazi Gen. Schlem
mer, who had defied Vietinghoff s
unconditional surrender, or der,
had surrendered his army Jorps
of 40,000 troops pocketed fa!g!
uria at the other end of the Ital
ian .front jnd that "fighting has
ceased in northern Italy west of
the Isonzo nver" on the Istrian
boundary. '1'
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45 Delegatesl
At Convention
Stricken Sicki
uiLU.mGHAM. Wash, May 3
HTV-A sudden illness blamed bvlmerce aided ikilliar and Keller in
Dr. C. L. Longstreth to food' poi-
soning nospixauzea at estimated
aeiegates to a church confer-
ence today and 38 remained ih the
hospital tonight, with the cbndi -
tion of some described as serious.
na aiienaea aiitaipn vJampDcii, ana unn smith,
luncheon meeting - opening! the both directors! as! well as the local
North Pacific Missionary confer -
(DM Of 'KrilnffAllKsl lUrintnn IPnnL
enant Churches of America, said
...wnuu -.WW
vr. Longstreth, city health physi-
cian. He said a bacterial toxin
was suspected and samples of the!
iooa were taken to Seattle for
testing. - - , : t . , 1
: Delegates expressed fears for the
safety of the Rev. T. W. Ander-
w vuitago uauonai presi-
dent, who spoke at the luncheon
and left a short' time later for
Vancouver, B. C, by motor coach.
Merchant to
Lay Plans for
7th War Loan
While retail merchants of Sa -
lem meet to lay plans for the
downtown portion of the Seventh
War Loan campaighi ; indiistrial
workers in th navmii division
are already "going to town" Chair-
man 'Ilnilg M ..YtfltW riorlarPri
Thursdav ! i
failed together bv S. Biiw Mil-
ler, chairman of the; Salem Re-
tail .Trade bureau, merchants will
moot thi.- nnon t;ttt Mm
Pheasant to hear John Hodgkins.
Portland, assistant manager for
the state war finance committee.
At Keith Brown Building Sup
ply company plant, where the pay
roll campaign, is well started, two
of 10 teams have reported, one
bringing in pledges to buy from
paychecks during the Seventh War
Loan period an average of $262
worth of bonds per capita. ;
uAnr-
War Loan campaign ! will be set
up this weekend at 477 . Court st,
behind the Oiunart realState
offices, but banners will not com
mence to fly for , another week.
The campaign opens 'May 14.
Weather
Max. Mini suia
8 in Frmacisee
Cnstm .
Btltm
Pvrtiamd
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14 4t i jq
u s
Sis'
Sestu
wuutt rtrr s ft. law-.? .
' rosECAST: rfrMt v. t wuflin tn.
rea, McNry hew, sim Gerniy
flr today. Mixinnni teniMrtUur x -
pecto aut l csrea. i -
Textile
dfALUtVi
ri
Company Chief-
tain Says Plant
To Be Expanded
Bx Wendell Webb .
(Managing Kditor, The Statesman)
The Salem area's postwar future,
already one of promise, held in
creasing assurance of realization
today following ' a i visit here of
Jack R. Miliary president of Na
tional Automotive Fibres, Califor
nia Cotton Mill and Oregon Tex
! tiles, Inc. i !
Millar, who was accompanied by
I Sam T. Keller of Detroit, declar
ed there were "good things in
i prospect for Salem and for us," in
connection witHf the Oretron Tex.
tiles clant established last year on
the Portland toad, ! and nodded
readv assentfthen ! asked if con
Uiderable expansion was planned.
ithA manawmntt of Ovde num-tt.
had been regarded; as a "pilot
plant-very few ' of . which ever
make money," imd added that the
Salem enterprise had proven the
""""""
a tn, u yina m9 ..n
after plans are presented to our
boa of directors! we will know in
more detail what to exoecf he
declared. piIot plant here
now haf! 31 Unloves.
Both Millar! and Keller highly
commended the Salem airport, the
city itself, the surrounding terri
t6ry and adjacent facilities,
Keller, who lis district manager
of the Aetna BU and Bouer Bear
ing company If Chicago and dis
,,77 T
Towne Manufjhing company of
Jf?
met sales . manager of Yale
terest in a bief tour which in
cluded visits o fhe Oregon Tex
tile plant, the $alem Flax mill and
the flax department of the state
prison. -! I . j , ,'.,"
The men vlere travelling in a
twin-engined, 1 five-place Cessna
plane one of uie few private ships
to land here since the war began.
The plane fras-given special clear
ance by the -army. The men left
for Seattle yesterday afternoon,
and will fly (to Oakland, Calif.,
Sundav. ? i i I
Leaders of the Chamber of com
their few-hour survey. With the
men at thai airport to wave them
off were Loyal Warner, chamber
president; Cart Hogg, director and
1 immedate hast President: Clav
I Cochran. 1 gerieral manager, and
1 textile plant manager, Clyde Ev
.U i I i i
; S I
lar J head of the Dol
lar St
lines, was to have
been with
f visitors but was de-
lay ed at
dfo4
Colon V Kiirrn's
V10.f ff 8
l.rnfiS ilTirOnifk
W"811""1?:
1Q44 T c -.ft2
J Af paijOO
Gross income ion the 400 acres
of the Col&ny farm In Polk coun
ry, wmcn ,as -ownea oy tne state
and operated byi the state hospit
al, amounted to $5182. for 1944,
according to -figures compiled by
Roy H. Mills, secretary of the
board of qbntroL The largest item
nf Ineomeawfla S18JS3S from honx.
I hop-field being on part of the
land that wai acquired. Next most
valuable crop was beans, income
wwen ajuunvw w
The farm also produces vegeta
M'or institution use, and feed
nwnaia.
i5 income ior lutz, tne
t year ths state owned it, was
J2W14. That for -1943 was S41
1 , , M . . .
"u lunw
I & Wf
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Assured
XV or Mtort Ready tor w earing
Thousands of Salem VE-day
tags were ! In the hands of dis
tribution agencies today ready for
the word which the VE-day corn-
?ui!e.fnope! wiU lead Ak
"J? er
to raUon of a victory sull
far from final.
. The lapel . tags constitute . a
promise to aid in the "unfinish
ed task" by donating blood, buy
ing more, bonds or aiding in vital
salvage. They win be given away
on vc-aay to everyone, ana weir
I acceptance ..constitutes . a promise
m of further effort.
The "honor system method of
I distribution was decided on, in
preference to giving the tags only
J " .TV " . wL.-..!!
'after they d been earned, because
PARIS, Friday, May 4
through German armies of the)
of Hamburg sounded the knell
great part and the enemy high
famed naval base of Kiel an open city, v j' ' -
i t More than 150,000 Germans laid down their arms to
the British Second and UJ5. Ninth armies along: the Elbe
by t noon Thursday and thousands of others were giving up :
or being driven to their deaths as they tried to flee by sea.
i British tanks slashed on northeast within '20 miles of
Denmark, churning over roads
of 800 vehicles "caught in a tor
nado of aerial bombardment. ,
j The British last were reported
beyond Neitmuenster, 16 miles
south of Kiel, running roughshod
through an the debris of a broken
and beaten army,
i The Luxembourg radio said the
British had crossed the Kiel ca
nal, and ' wholly: unconfirmed
Stockholm broadcasts recorded by
the federal communications com
mission said " the 'British had
reached Eckenforerde, on the Kiel
bay IS miles northwest of the city. 1
" (In Stockholm the newspaper I
Dagens-JNyheter : saia it naa re
ceived 'an unconfirmable report
that the British already had ad
vanced into the southern Jutland
province of Denmark almost to a
point level with Copenhagen.
There were other reports that the
Jutland rail network had been
completely disrupted and of fight
ing and plundering.)
Write Off Opposition
Allied commanders wrote
off
all enemy opposition in the north
as the British and the Americans
joined up with the Russians on a
solid 65 - mile front stretching
southward from Wismar xn the
Baltic
There was chaos in the Baltic
as German ships quit Kiel for
Oslo and other Norweeian refu-
gees under a raking fire from al -
lied fighter-bombera which., sank
or damaged 64 careo-slzed vessels.
i Kiel bay wasZ lighted through I goon. Strong allied armored for
the nisht bv burnin vessels, and I ces driving Vlown from Mandalay
on soutneasz. as iar as LueDecK
British' troops with guns ready
waited to fish German troops ei -
ther swmunmg 6r trying to reach
shore by boat. - '
A field disoatch said a German
Dunkerque was in progress on
both the east and west coasts of
Schleswig-Holstein as the Ger
mans shoved off in anything that
would float, apparently' heading
m 1 A X 1 " -- T
ior a jasi siana in xorway,
Dane City Open
The German communique also
made an open city of Flensburg
on the Danish frontier,, indicating
that the enemy intended to make
no stand short of the border.
Resistance also was breaking up
in what is left .of the southern re
doubt, with the US army hammer
ing 21 miles deep into Austria to
within seven miles of the big com
munications center of-Linz.
(The Linz -radio' was -heard
LeW
eritans state th Rujtsians Vfrnn
Vi cast etill wr m vincif ArsKIa
distance awsr.1 ;
In concert with, the Seventh
" . - , .
was shredding . what remains of
h nari roHmiht in Ravaria
Hiakiny Inns- iinonnnd on .
superhighway east of Munich, the
Kir-ntVi armv latt wa rmnrtoH
25 milra west of both Salzhur
an1 nrrWraHAn hartinn. unth-
in th rprfm.ht vhii th Third
army was the same distance from
Salzburgon the north.
SSgi. Jtolin WilUams
Killed in War Action
Staff Sgt John Williams was
kUled.in action April. 17 on Xu-
son, liis wife, the former IJariene
i ",C
, Cm.iii Will oin. rnt,l1 Kin
been 29 years old May 17. He had
been in the service more than four
fo w rnnnth.
A daughter. Gay, a brother and
sister in Iowa and two brothers
in the service are among his sur
vivors.
r,
k urther
r! r
. ..
14.
was believed tneir wiae ana
more effective attention
to still-urgent needs of war.
.The tags will be available in
schools, business houses, Willam
commerce, and at all booths which
will be set up at the Victory cen
ter (on High between ' State and
Court) to register for blood dona-
Uons, seU bonds and V&3?
and tin for salvage. '
bi ii vui sua soil s. .
. m,- th. .u.l integration of the German army.
has received nationwide publicity !
through the medium of the Asso
ciated Press and the radio.
- "Business as Usual" and "The
War Isnt Over Yet" remain the
themes of the VE-day observance.
for Salem. . -
(AP) Mass surrenders swept
north yesterday as the fall
of all resistance east of the
command itself declared the
strewn with the burned hulks
British Enter
Burma Capital
City, Rangoon
CALCUTTA, May 3.-(tf)-Brit-
ish and Indian troops In their
greatest victory of the three-year-
old 'Burma campaign today en-
tered Rangoon, capital and chief
port of Burma,, and began speed
ily wiping out Japanese resistance
in the city only a day: after mak-
ing a powerful seaborne landing
at the mouth of the Rangoon river.
There were indications that Ran
goon already"' was in British hands.
Allied prisoners liberated by the
assaulting forces said the Japan
ese began evacuating ' Rangoon
I three weeks ago both by land and
sea, and only light opposition was
anticipated. Airmen iiflying low
over the capital saw m large sign
I on one Duuamg saying - J aps
gone." The Japanese are believed
I to have blown up ;port -installa-
I tions, ..:rv . i-'
Whatever; Japanese -remained in
the vicinityiwere hopelessly trap-
IPed 7 yesjrday's landings froni
the Bay cf Bengal at the nbuth of
"e river zu miies souin oi ttan-
i ruuwu auyiuatuiiiit
1 capital from the j north after !
1 canturing Pegu and prdbabiy' en-
te"d the aty with the seaborne i
iorces toaay. me seizure or yega
l-cu w vxsx escap routes toto i
Thailand for perhaps 1 30,000. Jap-
I anese.
Log Towboat
Upsets, Sinks
Near Island
When the towboat Ramona No.
3 struck a gravel bar near th
island in the Willamette river at
6 pjn. Thursday, overturned and
sank, it started chain of events
wmcn in a lew minutes sent a
at the Salem Boathouse.
I ' T11 Ramona No. 3, piloted by
Clarence Smith, Albany, was fol-
lowing and helping guide a 75x80 t
J.ll J ' -a
uown nver ana was at-
j tempting to slip the! logs under
Marion-Polk bridge when it
IWOll mm snauow Waier. IsmiUl
W SWlTtt OUV Bill Carter.
r Vest Salm rivermu, was'
puouna W DOB( Al me neaa Vt
when the accident oc
I CUITed And Sped his VCSSel back
attempt to stop the raft
I When the front end of the raft
I was caught in the eddy, which
carried it back upstream forming'
an awkward ' crescent, it swiped
into the boathouse moorage. Three
motorboats and two rowboats and
the floats were damaged. Frank
fttw -.wi kI
,rttrt 'XTrtZT rS.
I smith and the men I on the raft
ove th logs. out of the current.
! uiliOKTVl tuwuwk W Via-
le m water and Presents lit- :
r Wi vVfolr "lZ
men said. It is part of the fleet
e Ramona Towboat company
?' u,u",u-
Winnie Gone,
A-
Rumors Grow
Ajvisuvrt, May .jtjxo9 diiw.
'.lish nrMi ictnrbtlon kaiil vfaf
, 'ITT - " T7.:cr,; :
J.0 1
mons had raised speculation and
added: TS-v:', .: -iyi
"There were even Queries as to
gone to Germany ; to be at the
surrender ceremony or; at som
meeting with President Truman.",
There was no information else-
statement except the1 obvious dis-
the absence of Foreign SecreUry
Sden at San Francisco, Churchill
jras expected to announce next
reek's calendar but Sir John An
lerson chancellor of the exeche-
quer, deputised, for him. - . -.