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r7 i r- , s -, mmmh r n ii7.- rv ni o (Story in Column 4) i : I HaiCTT-1'HTH: YEAH 24 PAGES Salem, OvqazC Sunday Mornin7 May I3 1345 Pr!c 5a No, 41 .t - v. :mt mm -.--v.. ..... -V'i-1 ' j I II I I I I I I II i II III I t - 1 J illiiil - . '' 4 'I , . ' ' ri : OTP SCKKDOS TO HPS President Truman in his procla . nation of Tuesday fixed today, May 13, as day for , solemn anksgiving for victory in Eu rope. This special event thus dou bles with Mothers' day to make this day one of universal signifi cance. - . " ' If today we are sincere in our expressions of gratitude that the war in Europe is over and that peace is returning to that vener able seat of human progress, and culture, we will prove that sin cerity tomorrow and In the suc ceeding day; by generous subscrip tion to the bonds of the Seventh War Loan. Millions of men offer ed their lives as sacrifice to rid the world of a mad gangster. In trib ute to their sacrifice, in gratitude for the deliverance of the world from the grip Of this evil genius we citizens should pour out our dollars readily to make the Sev enth War Loan ; a success. It will be easy, I know, to rea son that "the war is over", that "now I'm goini to look after No. 1" and dodge the bond salesman. Well, the war is over for several hundred thousand' Americans be . cause Life for them is over that we might have peace and comfort. A feeling of gratitude that is, genu ine will prompt a sharing of the sacrifice, although in this case there really is no burden but an Investment ;ia ; iprimg security! No true American except the few who are impoverished or incapaci tated will fail to have his name down on the rolls as purchasers of bonds of this loan.-If he has the right spirit he ! will thrill as he makes his purchase, thrill to be an American, thrill to the feeling of having part in forging this victory.' ir The requirements of this loan re : -J':"- ; ::r (Continued on Editorial page) Lend-Lease Aid to Russia Partially Ends WASHINGTON, May 12 -(ff) Lend-lease to Russia through Eu rope Is being suspended now that war there is oyer. V - A statement pt Leo T. Crowley, foreign economic administrator. said , tonight the government Is reviewing its lend-lease programs. It is necessary, he said, "so that American resources will be dis tributed in such; a way to make the utmost possible contribution to victory in th major war which we have still to win." . Mein while, -new shipments to Europe are being held up except to countries at war with Japan or through ; which . redeployment of our troops now in Europe can be facilitated thereby. . j V Lend-lease to Russia by Other routes apparently is not affected. An informed source said substan tial amounts are going by ways which had not been disclosed. ; Buy War Bon4 Big 3 Meet In LONDON, May 12-(ffH5ections of the British pressed today the next JEwetinc of the "Big Three" President. Truman Prime Min . lster Churchill land Premier Mar ' shal Stalin might be on German aoH, and possibly in some Prus ; tian country house hear Berlin. - " The I London j Sunday Chronicle aid Stalin had rejected London as the site, of the' important confer ' ence on vital problems arising . from victory in Europe, while the Sunday Times expressed the be- lief the meetiiig would be in Ger many. The Times suggested that Churchill has traveled more than the other leaders and "should not again be asked to undertake a lengthy Journey." 4 - Weather V j i - aa maclsce Uoreat ttaltm portlaad . Max. W -.7 Kate St M 4J S AZ Vuiaaactta rtvarjS ft. .:'. rOEICAST: (from V. f . wether u.ik.rw ft!d. Salem) Kali :tr. today. Maximum teFratr irermany mm s Gap4aflire ?, By Romney LONDON, Sunday, May 13 - tured more than 700,000 enemy troops jand 63 Nazi generals n mopping up scattered resistance on the 'eastern front since .Ger many's unconditional surrender Tuesday, Moscow said last night. Thousands of these troops were being moved eastward by the Red army, they were bound for ruined Soviet cities, villages and factories; "Before them now is no role of idle gentlemen," the Soviet newspaper Izvestia said. The only area on the eastern front where some German troops still ; resisted waa in Czechoslo vakia and Austria. But three Rus sian armies - had t closed a- ring around the last remnants of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner's "middle army group" in Czecho slovakia and the trapped Germans were being rounded up in a 1200 square mile pocket. Iii Austria, another Soviet army was 'clearing dispersed ..units of Nazi - CoL-Gen. Otto Woehler's army from Jiideouts in the Aus trian Alps, but the last enemy sur-render-resisters in the two coun tries were giving up the fight and surrendering. - - v In Czechoslovakia and Austria, a total of 475,000 German captives had been seized. Along with the prisoner haul taken from Latvia to Czechoslovakia, the Russians bagged quantities of -equipment and supplies, ' v " Moscow's nightly war bulletin gave no fresh news of fighting ad vances but reported that the Ger man surrender jji the Baltic pock etsmst andnortj5et0fptyzi and Gdynia,Ind Vi thej6a is land of Bornholm,"" off Sweden's southeastern tip had been- "conl- pleted. A total of 60,846 captives including 12 generals were check ed. into cages. Buy War Bondf . Lard, Gookiiig Oil Point Value Goes Up to 10 WASHINGTON, May 12 -(P) Price Administrator Chester Bowles tonight v ordered higher ration point values for lard. shortening, cooking and salad oils, effective at 12:01 ajn. Sun day. They will be increased to 10 points a pound from the pres ent value of 6 points. This action, Bowles noted, was forecast two weeks ago when the inter-agency ; committee on for eign shipments reported that "the free world's needs for this basic nutrient and industrial raw. ma terial, including the needs of lib erated Europe, exceed prospective supplies by nearly 500,000 long tons." i V . . By War Baia-'r .' CLARK'S FORCES PRAISED ROME, May 12-iF)-Undersec- retary Of War Robert P. Patterson, touring the 15th army group area, paid high tribute today to the American and British troops under Gen. Mark W. Clark's command for causing the first mass surren der of Germans in the war. Seven Salem; in First FORT LEWIS, May 12-ay-The army's new demobilization point plan brought delight, -bewilder ment and amuse ment to 23 over-1 seas veteran: who formed th first croup to tx discharged undei the plan ai thi: war department personnel center today. All of the men young . bronzed many with two o three rows o service ribbons,Sfi McClanghry were at Fort . Lewis when the glad news came.j They were being processed for furloughs at home after service overseas or had just returned to the fort after furloughs and were waiting port call. , There were 13 men from Wash ington, seven from Oregon, ",. one from Idaho, one-from Minnesota and one from New York. ; The men may wear their uni forms for 90 days en route home but must- doff them within ; 48 hours of reaching their final des tination. Each receives $300 mus tering out pay, $100 of which; is Oregb iMsizds Wheeler ffV - Russian armies have feap- Russia for the work of restoring CBS SaysjIIimmler Turned Over to 1 Allies by poeniL: j I NEW YORK, May 12 CBS re ported from Paris today that HeiH- rich Bimmler "U now reported to be in ixr hands.". : . f "Hinunleris understood to, have been held by;. Admiral Doenlts In the Flensburt area' under house arrest; and Doenlts Is now believed to have turned him over to Brit ish forces in that area," the broad- east said. t ; j i ' 1 i Bay War Bond Of f icials Rate 7th War Loan Most Important ' 1 Ii V'. f ' -5.5- u WASHINGTON, May 12-A)- The Seventh ;War Loan drive will open Monday and treasury -offi cials said today it's .the most im portant todaie.? ':v i 4 SUrting only a week after: the surrender xfii Germany, the ' drive will run seven weeks thpough ihe end 6t! JuneJ -Ft" r' -j The quota: is. 14 billion dollars. That's f not a. new record .but itbe crucial 7-billion-dollar goal for in dividuals is the; highest of all the drives. The individual quota is what the bond drive is all about. The 7 bil lions to come from corporations are important, too, nut it doesn't taxe a great, nation-wide, whirlwind sales campaign to get that money. Secretary bf the Treasury Hen ry Morgenthau 'will officially give the starting signal Sunday; night with 4 talkpto be broadcast over the four major networks. The net works! will all put on different programs except for the secre tary's talk, which will close each one.;' The broadcasts will su 8:30 p. m eastern war time. t t J L -Ml t i ne fKia w"f r ? " 1; Boy War Bna ; War Prisoners to Stay As. Long as Needed Here w AsHINQTON, May 13 (ff) - Senator Wiley (R-Wis) said today the war deparUnent had informed him the return of prisoners of war to Europe fwill be governed by the need tot labor in the United States," I 1 j ! I The department advised him, Wiley said in a statement that the army- service . forces expects l to take prisoners out of employment in agricultural iood processing and industrv onlv as ranidlv as civilian labor including discharged soldiers becomes available to perform? the work. .. : j ?!'.': I J Demobilization given' at once, the remainder in monthly checks, and five cents a mile for travel home. , ! ! Those from Oregon included: TSgt Edward J. McClaughry of rwtte 7,1 bo 280, Salem; T5 Paul F. Walruff, Portland; SSgt Kerma J. Lacy, Newberg; T5 Glenn K. jtacnor, uayi u-f Freeman -Nash; Portland; Sgt,llteport 7&J LeopOIQ tO Clyde J. Brown, Kerby. 1 t i mancang tne separauon cemer.i said he expects' men will be dis - charged on f the point plan every day here and fin two or- toree weeks 100 a day will be a regular thing." : TSgt Edward McClaughry, Sa- lem s Iirst serviceman cuscnaxgeu under the iew mobilization point lough-honeymoon and returned to Fort Lewis expecting to.be reas - signed when notification of. his discharge reached him. Saturday, H -warn married to Thelma Anon- by, daughter , of Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Anonbv at Woodburn.! at the First Presbyterian church In Sa - lem May 23. I He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. OT G. llcOaughry. route seven, Salem, , 1 Kickoff I Scheduled At E. CSammbn8 to ... ...... . - j . -. f Be Main Speaker; Broadcast Ready With county war bond commit tees all over Oregon listening in over a radio hook-up of 18 Mutual network stations, the Seventh War loan drive will be given, the of ficial kickoff here Moiiday noon at a Chamber of Commerce lunch eon:' : - ."'. ' ' ij ,-' Gov. Earl Snell will introduce the main speaker, E. C; Sammons of Portland, chairman of the. State War Finance organization. Pre siding during the luncheon will be Douglas Yeater, Marion county chairman, who has been! in charge bf arrangements for the official opening ceremonies here. $ j,; Leonard s supper club through Manager Mike Steinbock will pro vide the band for the occasion. Committee workers from all over the county- will be in Salem. ( r j The meeting will be jthe open ing gun in the seven-week cam paign, that is expected to result in the purchase of well oyer the state quota of 110 millions and Marion county's allotment of $4,4 320,000 . worth of bonds. Special Stress is being laid on E bonds with higher quotas than for any previous drive. Marion county is expected to purchase $2,270,000 worth5 of ta -1 Q-year bonds and $1,060,000 addiUonal by otheft in-, dividuals .Corporations and banks have a county quota of j $990,000. Later; Monday will come the of ficial opening on the national lev el with Secretary Henry Morgen- thau speaking over ' a - coast-to-coast radio hook-up of the major networks at 5:30 Pacific: war time More on page ). i. Bay War Bond-- Bids Will Open On Relocation Of Highway Bids on the Steiwer hill j Albany relocation of the Pacific highway east are' among those represent' ing approximately $1,750,000 to "J be. considered by the state high way commission at a meeting May 29 in Portland, R. H. T&1- dock, state highway engineer, an nounced Saturday. Th TMYHitintf of nnrtinn of the Pacific highway betweerf-Sa- lem ana Albany wui involve miles of grading and paving in Linn county which may be ibid I in combination with the Mariott county unit of 3.92 miles of grad ing and paving. .1 Bridges In the proect are j tte Jefferson Junction over-crossing, 395 lineal feet of concrete bridge o v e r ; aouinern aciiic ixacss, I which may be bid in conjunction with the 810 foot concrete bridge over : the .Santiam nvr and 10 pile trestles. At the same meeting bids jwill be opened on a crushed gravel stockpile on the Central Oregon highway in Deschutes county; five miles of -grading, 4.4 miles of sur facing and .45 miles of oiling of forest service and county roads and two state highways, in j the Crater lake park area las part of the Fort Klamath timber access road project Bids have been called to be opened the same day; for 11X5 miles surfacing and crushed rock stockpiles on the Root; Creek-Si let section of the Siletz! secondary 1 highway. ; - 1 I i. ;. y war Benos 7 , IflWm fThwnm t RintYii- TimviV Rimdar Ma jA T,.pr- disnatch from Brus- today ibzt Leopold lm Belrium had written to the m,t. wtv,-- -prints rhkrfea uut ,1111. ucuui wuuiu iiw him to resume the throne and ask Lj the prince to carry on s re- i jgjj - , - . , By War I I Sfft Kenneth JIcDonald U.., , xzr- Amiati Killed in War AcUOn j MILL CITY, May 12-r-SgtTKen- neth G. CDutch) McDonald, Zl USMC, son of L. C McDonald Loneview. Wash, was killed in ac- 1 tion March 19. He was stationed aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. His wife, Betty Barrett McDonald, lives at Valsetz. Lunch Traomiain) MpppdDOU WASHINGTON, May lz-(AV The army and navy jownal said today that President Truman had "opened the door to a Japanese request for peace" by giving as surances that the people are net to be destroyed. . Bat the uofflcial aerviee pub lication said that It did net follow that Mr. Truman's remarks made in his victory in Europe procla- . tnation. indicated any deviation' from the purpose of his prede cessor. Franklin. Roosevelt "to . require Japan to evacuate China ' and surrender j all the territory she acquired from that country, t and to restore- independence to Korea.,, i J r1 , The journal! also saw algnlfi- : Peace-Keeping Be Centered in 11 Nations U. So OElS Regional Security - By Douglas B. Cornell . .'SAN FRANCISCO. May 12-(55)-The United NaUons confer ence drove forward tonight under the dual impetus of a vote to concentrate peace-keeping power in the hands of 11 nations and an American delegation agreement on the hot issue of regional security' systems. ; . ? . - . ' V- , Each decision has a long way into the charter of a world or ganization for preserving peace. But the basic pattern for keep- ng peace, drafted at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington last fall by China, Russia, Britain and the United ' States, had: survived two stiff tesfsT '! . For the big 1 powers had been insistent that the major instru mentality for jriddlng'the , world of war should be a security coun cil of 11' members . with broad powers to "step 'into any threaten ing situation threatening peace. A conference committee voted today to restrict the council membership to'ii. : -ii V And the American delegation worked out a formula for giving regional blocs of nations the right to take emergency action to keep peace without depriving the coun cil of over-all powers. The action in the committee and in the delegation were . separate. Yet they were! laced strongly to gether. And the attitude of Latin American nations posed a big question mark over both decisions. For Cuba withdrew a motion to increase the! security council's membership tq i 15, only after at taching a major reservation. Cuban -delegate Guy Cisneros said his country "withdraws its proposal on condition that inte gration bf the Inter-American (se curity) system within the world organization be approved with necessary autonomy." -" - Representatives of the L a 1 1 n American countries ' tentatively agreed ' later in the day on the principles worked out by the US delegation. ' !'-.' ' i Buy War Bd Frencn Want To Fight Japs But Refused PARIS, May 12-ff)-Adm. Pier re Barjot of the French general staff said today that the French wanted to fight the Japanese "and we don't care where but that re peated . requests by the govern ment to send troops to the far east for combat duty had been turned down by the Allied : combined chiefs of staff4 -,:;': -;--.."- ."We cani understand the rea son," the admiral added. Barjot said France had four di visions ready to go to the Pacific but there was no Indication au thorization would be given for the units to be shipped out. , v The j admiral f said the French completed the arming of a battal- Lion of commandos over a year ago and formally requested last ' No vember that it be sent to the Pa cific. iThe unit' was specially equipped and trained for jungle fighting. Boy War Bond New Carrier, Launched PORTSMOUTH, VaL, May 12-(5-Hailed; as "a living symbol of America's determination ; to see this war through to a- successful end.0 -the aircraft carrier Tarawa was launched! Into the Elizabeth river today from her building ways at the Norfolk navy yard. p;emi Peace ' eanee In; the omiaslen from the . president's statement of any de mand for eating of Japan's em peror, Blrohito. . . The - Journal commented that it was unlikely the president , would have pledged that the ' Japanese people would not be destreyed. "without the .prior : knowledge (of that pledge) . of , Great Britain." Moscow also cer-' tainly wis advised of Truman'a : intention, the Journal said. , ' "Mr. Tnuoan in his lnterpre taiiea of unconditional surrender for the Japanese, stated that.lt . meant for them the end of the war, termination of the influence of military leaders, provision for Power Will to go befpre it is written finally Large Crowd On Hand ion Scout Circus Enthusiastic parents and friends filled more than two-thirds of the state fair horse show pavilion Sat urday night to watch 1000 Boy Scouts, 'dubs, Sea Scouts and Pio neers stage a Scout circus. From the massing of the participants, an impressive feature at the begin ning audi the end of the show, to the clown acts and the raising of towers and construction of bridges the performance went off .-like clockwork. Salem Saddle club rid ers drilled to add a varied touch. A highlight was the presenta tion by Qov. Earl Snell of Eagle Scout awards to Don and Jim Bowman,: Falls City; Donald Dunn Dallas;) Richard Easton and Bob Schotsick, Stayton, and Wallace Hall, deaf school Salem. Mothers of the boys who had earned the highest rank in scoutdom stood with them. V Rain clouds parted a few min utes before the scouts, who had camped Friday night at the fair grounds paraded down Salem bus iness streets Saturday noon, closed again to shower departing circus goers, but did not dampen camp fires which glowed as boys and scoutmasters returned to their camporee." Salem lions sponsor ed the camporee and circus. : " Buy War Bona ; . ; , . Nazi Sub to Surrender At New Jersey Harbor NEW YORK, May li-(P)-The first enemy vessel to surrender in American home waters since the outbreak of the war the Ger man submarine U-858 is now en route to Cape May, NJ, where it is due Monday, the navy said to night ' , ' .-: J Earlier the submarine had been expected to arrive at Cape May tomorrow but the navy 'said it had been delayed by storms at sea. Tax Research Firm Dl0me o M?""fag that "HB 403, or chapter 460, Oregon Laws J945, as signed and as about to be In cluded r In the published session laws is not the same law-. . . that the - legislature enacted,". F. H. Young, manager of Oregon Busi ness tt , Tax Research, Inc, an nounced Saturday that his organi zation bid retained an attorney to commence action in Marion county circuit court to declare the 'law null arfi Void. The first law of : the 1845 legis lature to be contesied as to its va lidity, HB 403 is not being attack ed as to purpose or the constitu tionality of any of its provisions, Young, declared. Because It car ries the emergency clause it is now law. Its purpose Is to permit tax- levying bodies to set up "cash working accounts' principally" to IT T . ! the return ef soldiers and sailors to their families, their farms and their Jobs, and the Independence ef their country. f j' "Significantly emitted was the expression ef any Intention to oust the emperor or to, abolish .the throne, an omlsalon which .will appeal to .the eonserrative palace entourage which never wanted the .war, and which is anxious to terminate lit even though the cost be loss 'of terri tory,' abandonment of 'the 'War lords' east Asia co-prosperity sphere, and denial of the power to possess a navy, a military air force and armies and the indus try to provide and support them." Only Way to Maintain Arniy WASHINGTON, May It-(a5) - Congressional advocates of peacetime draft said today army leaders are Convinced the draft is the only way a postwar military force of 4,500,000 availables"! can be maintained.' .- . -, V:Q , - .j While the army has insisted that it'has no definite plans fori the size of the postwar, nulitary estab lishment. It submitted to the house military committee - this week a written1 statement containing' these words: . ? X'-i'"?V' wThe active reserve trill be com; posed of those . individuals jand units sufficient in types and num bers which "will, togethet with the other components, . constitute' an over-all balanced force in the army of the United States of four and one-half million (4,300,000) men. . ' : - ; -: j r' -That figure, an amy spokesman said, is strictly "a planning figure" and ; represents the "availables" who could be called upon in a fu ture emergency or 4,M-day.'! There are other figures based (on other sets of assumed conditions, j Bay War Boad .j GhurchiU Ma TeU General j Election Date LONDON, May 12-iP)-Brttoin anticipates that Primes Minister Churchill may give a hint during his anniversary broadcast Sunday night (noon, PWT) of when it can expect its first : general election in 10 years, the longest stretch this country has gone in modern times without choosing a parliament.; ; There is almost unanimous opin ion the election will be j this year, probably either in July jor in Oc tober. August and September gen erally are ruled out for! voting as that is the time for gathering the harvest , ' - !'--!,'. A hot fight aside from party platforms' appears - developing a round Churchill's dual position as both leader, of the conservative party, a post he ' accepted 1 five months after becoming prime min ister, and leader of the nation's war. effort' ,. : I .- '.. I . j-4 ..'. t . ir. to maintain such .bodies .over the pe riod between the time; the 'new budget becomes effective and tax monies begin to roll In. I . v :i ; -t : A clerical error in house bill 403 aa signed, Is responsible for the fact that a certain conference committee report adopted by the senate and house March. 17 is not included. Young said, Saturday. i The" question for - the- courts,' according- to his statement, "is whether a bQl signed by the gov ernor and presiding officers of two legislative branches is the law, of Oregon or whether the measure as enacted, as shown by the legisla tures journal, Is the law of this state. - ' .. - : ' The attorney retained by the tax organization is Wilber Henderson, Portland, who served as legal ad viser to Gov. Earl Snell during the j -jegisiauve session, Through Draft 165 Jap Aircraft Unit Damaged by " Enemy Assaults By Leif Erickson ; GUAM, " Sunday, May 13 - (JP)' Leathernecks of the Sixth marine division drove into a suburb cf Naha, about 500 yards front Nana ' itself, as troops of the 10th UJ5. army made a general, slow," bit- , terly-fought ' advance ' along t h f southern Okinawa front yesterday, i Lt Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck- ners lotn army xanas baruea ahead doggedly on. the second daj . of their new- full-strength drive despite . strong '. Japanese . air at tacks. : - : ;?.;.' These attacks, made in strength Destro Thursday and Friday, damaged one major -'fleet unit probably a - -battleship or large carrier and several other smaller ships, Fleet Adm. . Chester W. Nimitz said in today's communique," -- irl Destroyer Baas ; " " ' Paced by . one destroyer Which alone shot down 19 Japanese air craft,' carrier pilots and ships de stroyed 165 of the attackers. The destroyer's 19-plane record probably is an all-time "mark for a ship bfrthaf'slzeV one air attack. tvV . " The Firs marine; division and -the 77th army- division. Ja thexto ter. of .the southern -Okinawa lin made progress against Japanese ' cave and ridge positions. "" . On the east coast, the 86th, di vision captured important strong points and ; straightened : its. line," which; flanks Yonabaru airstrip. The 96th troops hold positions mile and. a half : beyond the southern 'end of the" airstrip, : but the Japanese have prevented cap ture of the field because they still hold commanding positions from which they can pour artillery onto the runway. . Island Bombarded 1 In operations presumably in- ' tended , to deny islands flanking the Okinawa area to any Japa nese use,, cruisers and destroyers bombarded -Minaml ; Daito island ' about 200 miles east of Okinawa Thursday.'.., . - Yesterday, troops : of the 10th. army .invaded small Tori island, about 55 miles west of Okinawa. The isalnd was, occupied without opposition. Both Tori and Minaml Daito were valuable to the Japa nese for observation positions. . All four Yank divisions on the southern line are employing tanks. The 77th division effectively em ployed flame throwing tanks against Japanese caves. 1 There is this disadvantage how ever to using tanks. 'After a tank led advance half a f day, often is required to mop up bypassed Jap- anese to the ; rear, One officer cf the nth division explained. r Bay War Boaes- , Paint Proves Fatal J VALLEJO, Calif,' May 13 -UP) Three: Mare Island "navy yard workers died from drinking com mercial . paint thinner. Coroner Gertrude . Klotx announced to night after an autopsy. - Police said the men, John C Dafley 60, George M. Ilarnes, 35, and Edgar Johnson, 53 scooped the thinner, containing wood alco- . heL out of a half-EIled 65-galloa : keg on a shipyard parking lot Two other men, one of whom "-. has lost his tight , from miaffing the thinner, are i under a physi cian's, care, , Coroner Klotz re-: ported. . . ; ' - ' ' Police are fearful others may ' have taken, th fatal .liquid home and have broadcast a warning to the .community. . ! ; , .-. - - . ;By War Bo ad Top Allied Commanders Confer in Qiungkirig r CHUNGKING, May 12.-ff)-0. Gen.- Raymond A.. Wheeler " of Washington, D. CX, deputy su preme ' conunander, In the south east. Asia theater arrived in Chungking "trvfry for conferences with Lt Geu. . ' it Wedemeyer, U, S. comnu.4. . .' i -China and Generalissimo Cl, z Kai-shek on, carrying on the' war-with Japan. " Presumably the talks will center on closer cooperation in the two theaters.- - -'...r , . . ucctc4 aeac 7. eureea.