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The 02SG0N,STATES?IAN SaleaW Oreqron, ThuMdayiMoroiag. May 10. IMS f AGE TV0 17 1 i am Samal Island - . i ; ' . 'Off Mindanao -frit i-. - , - - : By Fred Hampsen MANILA, Thursday, May 10-(JP)-Samal island, in Davao gulf was invaded and virtually, cleared by the 24th infantry division Tues day while on the Mindanao main land the Japanese near Davao City fought hitteriyr'aipafently uV 'tent on bloody stand.;, .: ' The invasion of Tarakan island, pit Borneo, neared completion as Australian and Dutch troops seiz ed Api hill and closed in on the Djoeata oil field. - ' - ' , ' ! .Tarakan City, in the middle of i the rich Pamoesiari oil field was totally in Allied hands. Derricks .had been destroyed but the wells appeared salvagable. . Elements of , Maj. . Gen- Roscoe : Woodruffs 24th division occupied ' Samal island to protect the flank tduring the drive up the' western f 1 X M St l, was unoppostru ina w, u ,"! Japanese were believed on the isl 'and. Medium bombers and lighter air r craft dropped 100 tons, of explo- ! sives in close support. i On Tarakan island, off Borneo, ; Australian and Dutch forces se- cured Api hill, north of the cap- it ured airfield, and advanced on the Djoeats oil field, second largest on -the Island. Bombers and lighters hit Judat airdrome and important installs tions at Brunei bay, Miri and Bandjermasin on the Borneo main land. Three costal ships were sunk , and there was widespread destruc tion to shipyards and runways. a The entire waterfront at Labaun island, offshore, was left ablaze. 'Labaun is off the northwest. coast :of Borneo. U. S. Chamber Of G)mmerce Gives Views ' WASHINGTON, May 9 -(&)-The United States Chamber" of Commerce gave' congress its views ' today on pending international legislation, endorsing the admin istration's proposal for additiona tariff -cutting power but approving - only a part of the Bretton Woods -agreements. Representatives of the chamber appeared simultaneously before the house ways and means com- "rnittee, on tariff, and the banking committee, on Bretton Woods. Clark H. Minor of New "York City, speaking for Chamber Pres ident Eric Johnston who is ill, said the business organization's , direc tors had approved unanimously the bill extending the reciprocal trade act for three years with an amend , ment giving the president broad new authority to cut duties in trade agreements with other na tions. A representative of the CIO also endorsed the proposal. John J. Rowe, Cincinnati, O., banker, told the banking commit tee the chamber approves the Bret ton Woods proposal for a $10,000, 000,000 world bank .for reconstruc tion and development loans, but recomends deferment of action on a separate international currency stabilization fund. America Must Know What Germans Are ! . ' - : : : - :' NEW YORK, May 9-(Jt)- Two wounded officers,7, sons of widely ; known fathers, said today that Americans must become acquaint ed wtih Nazi atrocities to under- ; stand the German people and j "avoid a repetition of this war in another 20 years." i I v. i. They were First Lt Richard K. j Patch, son of Maj. Gen. Joseph Patch of Ft Lewis, Wash, and nephew of Lt Gen. Alexander M. : Patch, jr, and First Lt Stephen T. Early, jr, son of Steve Early, press i secretary the late President Roosevelt and now is serving tem porarily as an assistant to Presi dent Truman. ' f : ; Lt Patch; who arrived; at Mitchel Field for treatment, said he favored American soldiers, once prisoners of the Nazis, being made guards of the Germans. That's the way it ought to be," he said. "Those boys will know how to handle German prisoners." -Lt Early, also under treatment said: "I don't know whether I'm realist or a pessimist but I "think we're going to be in the same mess we're in now in another 20 Tears unless the American people real ize what the Germans are." j i Too Late to Classifr PRTVXTX Party wants Ice box, any n. Ptt KA alter P.M. , lz. 2 Opening . Tonight! See a Surprise Ending? Bob' Hope. ;, r Virginia Mayo ; Sam Galdwyn's Technicolor .Success AIH) TIE mATTi '' i .r-.KAis- ri : J ;ltsst3 Cayfiea Sadies end &ttlruahm Salem C of C Authorizes Committees on State Building, Wild, Life Committees on veterans housing, on the campaign lot- the state building program measure to be submitted to voters in June and on conservation to work in conjunction with the Izaak: Walton league were authorized by Salem Chamber of Commerce directors .at their Wednesday night meeting. Many of the 5800 men who en tered the service through Salem and , Stayton selective service boards do not .have . established homes here either; because, their families have followed them . to training camp areas ; or because they left as boys from parents res- dences and will return as 1 men married or ready to marry and set iip living establishments of their own. This was the conten tion of B: E. (Kelly) Owens, chair man' of the special committee from veterans' organizations, who de clared that housing is the No, 1 problem facing the city and its re turning veterans. Ask for Committee With .Col. Elmer V. Wooton, state selective service director, and Lt Col. George E. Sande, chief, of the personnel division of the state selective service office, Owens ap peared before the chamber's direc tors to ask for appointment of a committee to deal first with the housing question and probably lat er with other programs undertak en for veterans' welfare. Wooton reported on facts gath ered on his recent trip to Washing ton, DC. Ten per cent of the re turning veterans will utilize edu cational benefits offered to them, while others are interested in the home, business or agricultural loans which have been made avail able, he said. Fifteen per cent will want their own jobs back, early surveys indicate, while many will return with better ' skills than when they left Wallace Bonesteele explained the methods used in presenting to residents of the area immediately north of Salem the question of an nexation. Presentation of all the facts, relative to taxes and bene fits brought 100 per cent response from the owners of 85 acres along the Portland highway and Silver- ton road, he said. Salem's Stake Told Salem's stake in' the proposed state building program was dis cussed by State Budget Director George Aiken and G. F. (Ted) Chambers, president of Oregon State College Alumni. Aiken said passage of the proposal which is to be presented at the June 22 special election would mean that the state hospital would receive '$2,000,000 worth of new buildings; the peni- ienuary,.ouu,uuu; tairview Home $370,000; the tuberculosis hospital, $183,000; the Woodburn boys' training school $160,000; HUlcr est lachool, $226,000; the school for the deaf,. $434,000 and the school for the blind $200,000. A committee of five was author ized to work on conservation prob lems in this area with the Wal tonians Of the $65000 sought to finance the city's long range planning pro gram, $45,405 has been pledged, with renewable pledges Of $10,125 bringing the actual total to $55,530, Of this sum $10,455 has been col lected. Pledges have averaged $247, Carl Hogg, chairman of the campaign committee reported. Four persons have Indicated their interest in the planning engi neer's job attached to the program! but selection will wait for another 60 to 90 days, C. B. McCullough, chairman of the planning commis sion, reported, Wes Gallagher Succeeds Ed Kennedy in Paris NEW YORK, May 9 -Pi- Gallagher was this morning pointed acting chief of the dated Press' bureau in Pari; succession to Edward Kenned Kent Cooper, executive diifec xor or tne AP, in announcing Gal lagher sr appointment said: "This action was taken entirely wixnout prejudice to Kennedy, pending lull determination of mat tersr Boy Seoul Circus - and Camporce Sponsored by j Sales Lions Club 1 Fri. & Sal. May 1M2 Stale Fairgronacls 46 Scout Troops 16 Cub Packs 1400 Performers Friday Caiaporw Sat. 1:30 Circus Parade, Downtown Sat. S P. M. Circus i. at Horseshow PariKon Sun. 1030 Al Mv Court 'of Honor. Fairsrotmds Tickets Sale at Booth , Liberty 8t between Ceart and State Stadenis . . ... . . ibe General Admiiitea . . toe ttesenred Box Seats $L2 - Federal Tax Incloded Vet Housing Thumbnail War! By tb Associated "Press Bynkyns - Tenth army- edges slowly ahead i on Okinawa as American casualties i reach 16, 425.1 : k ill I Philippines - Eighth army elements invade small island in Davao gulf. -. r; j ' . -.-i ; Borneo Australian and Dutch 1 troops seize Apt hill on Tarakan, close in on Djoeata oil field. KM $-I ' " ! , Banna Retreating Japs of fer! stiff opposition to pursuing British, forces. 1 1 j China Chinese break through Japanese lines ' at several points in fresh general counteroff ensive in Hunan province, f Northwest, South Have Bright Future By Howard W. BUkeslee Associated Press i Science Editor CHAPEL HILL, NC, May The south and the Pacific north west were pictured here tonight leading peaceful America through science to a new era of industrial riches. The forecast was made by Dr. Wilson r Compton, president of Washington-State college at the University of North Carolina s celebration of its 150th birthday. He spoke at the opening of a con ferencelon research and regional welfare. ; 111' In the last half century, he said. more ithan half of the United States new national! wealth has come from new ideas which either were not known 50 years ago, or not-i applied to j production. But for the south as a whole and the ! Pacific northwest the wealth from new ideas has been less than one-tenth -that of the rest of the country. Both sections. he -predicted, because of their great resources, will set the pace for ; probably the fastest progress in our i times. H I - Trades & Labor Counci Favor! Pasture Purchase Salem Trades & Labor council has! gone on record as favoring the Bush; pasture purchase plan and the state building program which will be put before .voters at a special 1 election Jun 22. Salem residents; will consider both ques tions, while voters outside the city limits will not; vote ion the park purchase. MOURNING ENDS MAT 14 WASHINGTON. May 9 -(JP) - Byi order of President Truman, Actings Secretary of State Grew today fixed the end of the period of official mourning for President Roosevelt at sundown, Monday May. 14. Flags will remain at half staff until then. I They Used to s 1 it ' ' - ' ' I ' If i j I t - : ' . y I I 1 5 i ' J I I !- - v n f ' ' . ' VX' - 'O i f IK 4yy i'y-ti,-- i.- ;!.,v.h;iV.:.-.J,---; - ;! ipE nnaiT GiJism ! Made Me An "F'fficiencr Worker Eyestrain produces tiredness and irritability that make it Impossible to do your best at your Job. But wearing set- ".entiGcally prescribed and " .cause of eyestrain and with -greater comfort Dn jwilj. gladly examine and U.S. Casualties Total 16,425, ; Okinawa Isle i - GUAM, Thursday May 10.-(JP) American casualties on Okinawa total 16.425 through Monday, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said t) day. v: . ' - -': t' Japanese casualties for the same April 1 on Okinawa and a week period beginning with D-day earlier in the Kerama Island group nearby were ' 38,535, Nimitz an nounced earlier. 1 American casualties were 2,107 soldiers and 577 marines killed; 10,402 soldiers and 2.800 marines wounded, and 501 soldiers and 38 marines missing. ; J: Nimitz's last figure on Ameri can casualties, as of May 3, was 2337 killed, 11,432 wounded and 514 missing a total of 14,283. That figure was not broken . down into army and marine casualties. Two unidentified units of! the British Pacific fleet suffered "ml nor damage" yesterday in a Japa nese retaliatory air attack after the British sent carrier planes! to assault Miyako and Isigaki Islands in the Sakishima group, of the southern Ryukyu chain. British pilots destroyed two planes in the air and one on the ground as they attacked airfield installations. ! : Supported by heavy naval and aerial bombardment, doughboys on Okinawa "continued to move south' yesterday., Nimitz said without any details, after having been held to' no gains Tuesday because of adverse weather. As sociated Press Correspondent Vera Haugland reported from Okinawa that heavy rains had bogged down vehicles. I Japan Shoics Concern Over Nazi CoUapsel SAN FRANCISCO, May Mff)- Japan announced today that Ger many's surrender would not bring the "slightest change" to thejna tion's war objective and simuUan eously the government was urged to seek imperial authority to trans form the country into "one Sbig war camp." These and other indications of rising concern over the collapse of Japan's last axis partner came from Tokyo radio broadcasts re corded by the FCC. A full session of the cabinet, convoked by Premier Kantaro Su zuki, concluded that there would be no change in the war objee tlve and Emperor Hirohito sanc tioned the decision. ' j From Iichiro ("Soho") Tokjuto mi, one of Japan's most promin ent journalists, came the appeal that the Suzuki government seek authority to "proclaim a state of emergency" that would transform the nation "into one. big war camp and all the population of 100,000,- 000 into an armed force." Firemen Answer Calf Firemen responded to a i call from residents near Mill and Cap itol streets late Wednesday night, to investigate sparks from a j tree in that neighborhood. They found a fallen power line and (wet branches causing a short circuit in the line, and called the PGE to repair the damage. j Call Me a Shirker iitied eyeglasses corrects the frees you for. greater efficient Boring, Registered Optometrist prescribe.for:your eyes. it- --. n liiiematibnal Tfuhte , Regional Security NowBig Problems of Meet V .' 'f i: By DoBgUfrB. CorneU ' V ; - -SAN FRANCISCO, May MKnotty issues involving" in ternational trusteeships and regional security systems became the big hurdles before the United Nations conference tonight as a Polish problem shifted toward Moscow, London and Washington. A British-American-Russian Poland's government still is going San- Francisco scene with' the de-1 parture for Moscow; of Soviet For eign Commissar Molotov. . - Here at the Golden Gate, British and American delegations at aeon-, ference trying to draft a charter for keeping the world at peace are having their differences over in ternational guardianships for areas seized from the enemy . in this war and the last one But dozens of nations are jump ing into an even broader dispute over whether a world organization should have complete power to set tle localized threats to peace or whether regional groups of nations should handle them. On that, the American delega tion may have to seek guidance from President " Truman. What worries the Americans is that the United States Is committed to the act of Chapul tepee, under which the "American republics say they will take care of any threats to peace in 'this hemisphere-with armed force, if necessary. Yet they are reluctant to see a whole series of such regional peace-enforcement agencies set up on a basis that would weaken the effectiveness of a world agency in dealing- with conditions jeopardiz ing peace. ij American delegates were toying tentatively tonight j with compro mise. One of them .was along lines of an Australian proposal to cancel the power of a single big nation to block regional efforts to adjust international disputes. Censorship Restrictions On President Removed H - WASHINGTON, May -JFj Wartime censorship restrictions on the whereabouts of the president were removed tonight by Censor ship Director Byron Pri6e as i consequence of victory in Europe. Editors and broadcasters were notified that the only remaining restrictions will be on advance in formation on routes, times and methods of travel used by the president. Similar restrictions were requested hi; pre-war times by the secret service, charged with guarding the chief executive's safety. ij : VX ten Igfcf .V ff i.'W; tern ' W.' y) ' controversy over revamping full-tilt. But it faded from the British Press ; Rates Doenitz War Criminal LONDON, I May k -UP)- The British Press association said today that; although; Adm. Karl Doenitz, successor to Hitler, implied that he might have a finger in the future government of Germany, he is not likely to be recognized by us as anything better than one 6f the war criminals. "There is a conviction that the root of German militarism which has been responsible for recur ring wars is i the long-established general staff, that through the years it has done more damage to civilization than the upstart nasi party, and that - the general staff is to be placed beyond fur ther mischief,' the agency said. While the ! British government accepts the report that Hitler Is dead, the British agency's parlia mentary lobby, correspondent said that there was a possibility mat Heinrich Himmler, notorious ges- tapo chief,, isl in Sweden. . Pershing's Condition No Cause for Concern WASHINGTON, May -(ff)-The condition of 84-year-old Gen. John J. Pershing was described by his physician tonight as offering no cause for concern. Pershing is at Walter Reed hospital where he lives. He was reported yesterday to be ill, but his health tonight was termed ! "very good for his age." ..-. LAST TIMES TODAY ROSALIND RUSSELL and Jack Corson In Warner 'a "ROUGHLY SPEAKING" i PLUS TT HAPPENED IN SPRINGFIELD" Starts (Cvrm THAN ANV luw!eij FROM w WA Xl f J W JkfXP C mm G3HION -; CORNEL WILDE HHA FOCH CLORGE COULOUIS m4 H SMiwy tocamaWe4 a CHAIUS VtDOt asw - ' - 9 ; - 1: 'JI No Advanc in Prices . I t A P t MO T OMeHOMOllT V By ISABEL CHILDS Next time a fez,' turban; jsom- brero or any similar bit of foreign masculine headgear bobs up in a rummage sale it should forthwith be sent to Salem's leading radio station owner-manager. There's a man who knows how to use his head. This same Glenn Mjor mick probably was able to get as many . dgarets as Mister. Molotov the first week of the San Fran cisco conference. He. simply left his hat with MrSj Mc, walked up to the stands in hotel lobbies and said ."Trkish,.repeating ; over and over again, when there seemed some doubt as to what he wanted. It was apparent he knew no; other English words, and hospiUble San Franciscans handed him two packs at a time . ... only one. hotel failed to come , through,; There he was asked bis room number and he mentioned one in the hundreds, learning too late that all in that particular establishment are num. rbered in the thousands. . . i 1 j Nazis Had 200 or 300 Subs When Ther Quit LONDON, May MJP)-Th Ger mans had between zoo ana sua operational submarines- when they surrendered to the Allies, accord ing to the best estimates here to day, and some-of them are (likely to be used against Japan. ' The admiralty has given no hint of the actual number of subma rines which have, surrendered but presumably it- is not large- yet. 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